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All that is fine and would be fine, IF, it was NOT mixed and supported and encouraged on the same thread.I missed quoting you but your two posts are a part of what I'm looking forward to read on the Second Half of Friends in Need. So I guess starting from 2 years or now or so.
My read of Neon Ghosts posts is that there will be consequences to being an asshole. That means there would be even more consequences of being a criminal. I'm looking forward to seeing the Asshole path consequences.
But since it's still in the future, that's for later. I don't even have an Asshole-specific save path currently at the moment. And I don't want to spend time replaying the game now to go through Asshole path from the beginning. I'd be more inclined to do that route when the Consequences Second Half has already been here.
Cuz who knows how long it takes to develop. Bare Witness took more than a year to flesh out it's endings.
There's a context that is missed there. At this point, (or more accurately, at some time in the past by the last time I checked), there's three path of Friends in Need in 2 versions.
Friends InDeed is created for Patreon, that's true. But Nice Guy path is not at all created for Patreon. It existed from the beginning.
The default game that is called Friends in Need always has Nice guy path and Asshole path.
That is the game that exist from the beginning and what became "the Subscribestar version".
Taboo Patch adds another option to this Default game, the Criminal path. The one you hate and the morally repugnant one is this optional version.
The patch can only be installed on Subscribestar Version not on patreon version.
Friends InDeed was created later on long after the game initially released. It's created to comply with Patreon and it also has a different name.
One thing of note I've wrote above is that Taboo Patch doesn't work for Friends InDeed.
And I think there is a difference in choices between the default Friends In Need and Friends InDeed even without putting in the taboo patch. As in I'm not really sure all the Asshole choices in Default all existed in Friends InDeed.
Though I'm not gonna spend time to play InDeed and In Need side by side to test that view.
So anyway that InDeed version is the game that is created for Patreon like you said. The Nice Guy path version and my baseless guess that maybe it doesn't contain all the Asshole path choices.
Criminal Route is the optional version. Everyone can play without the patch and if you don't go out of your way to install it and only download off of f95, no Criminal path is the default version.
I can not and will not even bother to go there to try and understand these minutiae, the thread is abhorrent. Or was, I have no idea how it is right now. I suspect only, that by having a Moderator that is a staunch protector of the Criminal path and Asshole path, it must be heaven to them.
So, a game that can be played to extremes, attracts people that are on the extreme hardcore. Not a place I would recommend to anyone. Does this color the game itself? To me, Yes it does.
From what I remember of the gameplay, you were always, at every decision, exposed to the asshole options. It's very tiring. Exhausting really. I found the experience innervating.
I often compared this to one of those NTR (optional) games that you have to keep constant vigilance on your LI's so you don't encourage them to go cock hunting.
I can't relax and enjoy a story, when I am at every step on the verge of going into the dark.
I'm sorry for disagreeing as vehemently as I do, but FiN may have nice stories inside, but, it is absolutely NOT, story first or even story oriented, in my opinion.
Peace