Welcome !!I don't know how to communicate here at all and so on, so I'm sorry, this is the first time here
This was fun! The English issues are a bit distracting, but it has everything VNs tend to avoid like the plague: deception, manipulation and betrayal, both sexual and otherwise. The story is a bit cliché, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. OP has been updated.Edit: just finished The Rest of Our Lives. It's a phenomenal read if anyone is interested
I gave this a go and shared some thoughts on the game thread. Using The Sims for renders is an interesting choice. I can see it bothering some, but I was fine with it. I like the characters and the prose, but have misgivings about the sexual stuff.Get yourself over to https://f95zone.to/threads/scent-of-liberty-v0-2-unchaste-acts.176307/ and try out Scent of Liberty. It's the story of Laura Palamino who is a clinical psychologist, members of her family and her clients. I'm not going to give anything more away but the story is well written and beginning to get very interesting. I'm a big fan of psychological stories but this is a lot more than that. It takes a while to get going but hang in there and enjoy the ride.
Just finished the update: _New Antioch_ is a fun, impressively produced game that does a number of things exceptionally well. I enjoyed playing and will look out for updates. But it is not a story-first game, certainly not according to jufot's criteria.I just played chapter 3 of New Antioch (I'm sure chapter 3 will be available here in a matter of days), and I'm really impressed by the amount of world building and character development that Red Myst has managed to insert into his AVN.
Who doesn't? Wait, you are talking about the original with Arnold and James Earl Jones, right? Not the miserable attempt of a remake...when ever that came out and who ever with.If you like _Conan the Barbarian_ this game will appeal.
What is best in life?If you like _Conan the Barbarian_ this game will appeal.
But his fastastic prowess makes him quite boring to play, IMO.
I've been created to save the world
I think the consensus on this thread is that the latter is also a porn-first game... but, intriguingly, one of its eight or so routes is actually powerfully story-first. If you play through it in exactly the right way you get a rather moving, story-first easter egg in an otherwise porny game.
The many fabulous acclaimed movies always have heroes that strive to overcome and succceed in the most contrived ways, the many differences between vilains and heroes get blurred in a well crafted plot, but the plot armored vilains will have a hard time with a well written hero who actually gets the character development to win, as opposed to vilains getting stuff dropped on them from a great height with little to no buildup or reason - sure many gamers seem to adore the vialins that are very much plot armored brain dead the entire game until the hero painstakingly manages to toppel them - but sure, keep crying for your drama ridden game where you have no agency because .. reasons most of the people filling the movie theaters for blockbuster hero driven blockbuster action movies will have all the hard time accepting as any indication of a good game or a good story for that matter.If you like _Conan the Barbarian_ this game will appeal.
Definitely! I wasn't even aware they tried to remake the film... which is just a stupid idea. The 1982 version was essentially the perfect form of what it was going for, in terms of its cheesiness and its creepiness (the witch sex scene, all those snakes).Who doesn't? Wait, you are talking about the original with Arnold and James Earl Jones, right? Not the miserable attempt of a remake...when ever that came out and who ever with.
ps. Are you saying that Conan isn't a story first movie?
I found there's a lot of potential with New Antioch for story.Definitely! I wasn't even aware they tried to remake the film... which is just a stupid idea. The 1982 version was essentially a perfect version of what it was going for, in terms of its cheesiness and its creepiness (the witch sex scene, all those snakes).
But I might also be referring to the Howard stories. In fact, you can probably link my interest in choice-based games to those stories: I have a vague memory of reading an illustrated choose-your-own-adventure Conan book as a little kid, circa 1988.
BTW -- nice product placement, Rocket. You guys are going all Hollywood.
Bottom line: there's nothing at all wrong with creating a cheesy, porny, adventure story set in an interesting world/alternative universe. _New Antioch_ is absolutely worth playing. It's fun! But it doesn't fit on jufot's list. (To be clear: a straight-up Conan adaptation probably would qualify for the list.)
Thanks for showing us how to search these forums. I was not at all aware that one could search in this way. Could you please explain how you were able to put the icons for VN, Renpy and Completed in the Prefix field of the filter? The part you have circled in your post. Thank you.
ThanksBTW -- nice product placement, Rocket. You guys are going all Hollywood.
Hmmmm....wasn´t so easy to find this again, not sure any more how I found this yesterday.Thanks for showing us how to search these forums. I was not at all aware that one could search in this way. Could you please explain how you were able to put the icons for VN, Renpy and Completed in the Prefix field of the filter? The part you have circled in your post. Thank you.
That's a good point: it's a bit baffling that devs haven't tried a Conan game, or at least a Conan homage... it seems rather perfect for this genre.About the Conan the Barbarian mentions, it's curious i haven't seen any adaptation of Howard's Conan stories in a renpy visual novel format
I think you are exactly right. If Daz had a drive with a muscle bound man sitting on a stone throne resting himself on a giant sword...we'd see some Conan inspired gamesI think part of the problem is a general lack of Fantasy themed 3D assets to buy.
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