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Well, I certainly disagree with it...This looks designed to offend a few here though:![]()
Tlaero
Well, I certainly disagree with it...This looks designed to offend a few here though:![]()
Interesting, I haven't read into it like that. For me it worked rather well, as I saw it not as rage filled but rather borne out of the feeling of powerlessness and impotence and the inability to actually do anything. It helped that as you point out, nobody actually took it seriously. It sort of fits with his character as well, so it's not out of left field.What bothered me this time around was the MC. I'm not a fan of protagonists throwing petulant, rage-filled tantrums against innocent third parties. This episode has had a lot of that.
Then there was the whole juvenile nonsense with "Cranky" and "Baldie". If that's the level of humour on offer, I'd rather have the game stick to its stronger suits![]()
Well I must be a complete idiot.This looks designed to offend a few here though:![]()
Good point. At first, it looked like Ciara was going for a trade of some sort, but then out of nowhere she looked bored and just gave him what he wanted. It's out of character for her. And yes, "elder buffet" is definitely in the cards.A bigger concern for me is how things just sort of happen to fall into MCs lap. Ciara just gives him info he wants (and more) with 0 effort on his part, he gets showered with job opportunities at every turn, I'm afraid one of the future episode will be a buffet of feeding on random elder vampires to choose what power you want.
Yeah, I get that this is a Chosen One story, but nobody knows that yet. He is just supposed to be a random nobody at this point, and the power players have far too much interest in him and keep him on a generously loose leash.MC goes from quaking in his boots at mere thought of Runah to paling around with her like it's nobody's business. Like sure, she's an empath or something, she still cuts him way too much slack.
Well, I certainly disagree with it...
Tlaero
That's probably why the protagonist gets anonymous, emm.... "feedback" like this:Well I must be a complete idiot.
All this time I thought "Logic" meant something way different than it apparently does!
By this point, this game is pranking you with clues of a story b ut clearly decides to be mindless whore female MC game where you can pursue ugly assholes while they toy with you like you are nothing to them, like normal cheap villains.who'd be an ugly bastard and get sex the easy way in most games
They give them to him as the matters stand to escalate, MC in many situations might look suspicious to rather guiltyA bigger concern for me is how things just sort of happen to fall into MCs lap
Then again, maybe by "logic" she means "digital logic," like NAND and NOR gates. I agree that hardware design isn't particularly sexy. Though even that could change if you were writing a cyberpunk game that contained computerized body augmentation...That's probably why the protagonist gets anonymous, emm.... "feedback" like this:
It could be that it's just a regular ugly bastard plotline and the devs just dressed it up a bit more... maybe to fool players or just to play with the trope. But if it is a "prank" like that, it's one that could go the other way just as easily. Hey maybe it becomes a romance plot and they marry in the end! I personally doubt it's ending up that wholesome tho.Here you just prooved the point of him - asshole who gets sex dropped on him, from players who want to see ugly bastard getting sex handoffs by players who want to turn the game into nonsense sex but the plot armored bastard knows he already won because the blind and dumb whore offered herself already and villains like to twist the dagger into hapless brainless whores in most NTR games or whore Female MC games where she just offers herself with no rhyme no reason to absolute assholes. She gets lez sex and thus the whole narcissistic self agrandising thoughts to herself are moot.
By this point, this game is pranking you with clues of a story b ut clearly decides to be mindless whore female MC game where you can pursue ugly assholes while they toy with you like you are nothing to them, like normal cheap villains.
Don't know what digital logic is or how it differs from normal logic. But the protagonist looks like a trashy writer of mommy porn, if the titles are a clue, and used to be really impulsive, if a porny flashback is clue. So those thoughts tell us something about her character, and probably are a sign of the poor quality of her books. I certainly agree logic is important in adults stories or they quickly lose all stakes.Then again, maybe by "logic" she means "digital logic," like NAND and NOR gates. I agree that hardware design isn't particularly sexy. Though even that could change if you were writing a cyberpunk game that contained computerized body augmentation...
I'll mostly dissent from the sourpuss consensus view of the latest episode of _The Bite_: it was good, although overly abbreviated. I do agree with jufot's assessment of the humour... which was dopey and inappropriate, given the situation.I have some concerns about the latest The Bite: Revenant as well. I liked what little there was, though I agree it wasn't worth an episode.
I played the Simple Beginnings and Zia updates, enjoyed both... The Grey Dream. Thoughts?
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I don't think The Grey Dream is the worst culprit in that category... With some games I find myself torn between being bored by all the tropes of school games, and realizing that a lot of the creators probably don't have enough experience of a real job to be able to describe a work setting with any realism...It's not a school setting, so thats a big plus but the corp setting is just not believable enough for me.
Ack.I don't think The Grey Dream is the worst culprit in that category... With some games I find myself torn between being bored by all the tropes of school games, and realizing that a lot of the creators probably don't have enough experience of a real job to be able to describe a work setting with any realism...
Sometimes it is pure comedy though, and I just think to myself, "Just wait until you get a job, you poor sod. It's not going to be anything like that..."
My guess is that a corporate plot requires fairly mature characters with some life experience behind them. And they are much more complex and difficult to write than yesterday’s teenagers in college, with their teenage motivation and quite primitive logic.Ack.
I've got a conspiracy theory: what if the reason we don't see many corporate VNs is because they drain all the creativity from those that had the pleasure to experience them?
Oh my naive friend, you think that reality ever figure into any of the writing for AVNs? Maybe when it serves the AVN to be "slice of life" and go on a never ending conversation that has no place in entertainment, and would be dull in real life. Now, if we could just see people try. That would be my ask.My guess is that a corporate plot requires fairly mature characters with some life experience behind them. And they are much more complex and difficult to write than yesterday’s teenagers in college, with their teenage motivation and quite primitive logic.
I don't know, but when I see college professors acting like stupid, hormonal teenagers, I just smirk and say to myself, "What did you expect from a porn comedy?" But when I see characters who are over 40 and in management positions, but they behave the same way, my palm automatically meets my face.
I feel your pain. The number of AVNs with characters who actually have a clue is very, very short. It's difficult enough to find a protagonist that isn't yet another 18-19 year old kid cluelessly navigating the world, but is it too much to ask for a protagonist who isn't a complete moron? (Probably.)My guess is that a corporate plot requires fairly mature characters with some life experience behind them. And they are much more complex and difficult to write than yesterday’s teenagers in college, with their teenage motivation and quite primitive logic.
I don't know, but when I see college professors acting like stupid, hormonal teenagers, I just smirk and say to myself, "What did you expect from a porn comedy?" But when I see characters who are over 40 and in management positions, but they behave the same way, my palm automatically meets my face.