Recommending Story-first games

[kotte]

... the game needs conflict and soon. Otherwise, it risks becoming a series of street racing vignettes, and that'd be a shame.

Would you think this could be interesting for someone who is completely uninterested in street racing?
Or will there be nothing left if I fast-forward through anyting related to vehicles?

 

[jufot]

Would you think this could be interesting for someone who is completely uninterested in street racing?
Or will there be nothing left if I fast-forward through anyting related to vehicles?

I think there is enough interpersonal stuff to hold your interest. Most of the street racing are long, very well done animations, so if you just click through those, you'll skip the Fast & Furious bits.

 

[Vasin]

And another recommendation - Moonlight. It's a cyberpunk story that is sort of a cross between Blade Runner and Severance, set in a world where advances in neuroscience and AI allowed people to outsource their bodies to work under AI control while their consciousness chills in Virtual Reality.

This is a rather unique premise that I haven't actually seen anywhere before (I'm sure it has been done, I just never encountered it) so it was a pleasant surprise to find it in an AVN of all things.

I do think that the game is worth checking out, so I'm just going to to into things that I didn't like about it.

The protagonist and the plot are fairly generic, it's all dark and moody rough cop with a personal tragedy, corporate coverups, etc. Exactly what you would expect from this kind of story.

Secondly the mood of the story kind of shifts around and is inconsistent, one second we're discussing societal implications of renting out your body, next scene we're farting in an elevator.

And finally, the writing, while competent, doesn't feel finished, more like a 2nd draft. Characters appear with little to no introduction, given no time to impress on the reader, scenes are arranged in a chronological order but don't flow 100% naturally.

Sex scenes sometimes come on a bit too strong with some characters and feel a bit tacked on, but they are avoidable, so that a plus.

Overall for now it amounts to what is basically a prologue to the story, but is worth keeping an eye on.

 

[jufot]

The final chapter of Camp Klondike is out

 

[Finuee]

And another recommendation - Moonlight. It's a cyberpunk story that is sort of a cross between Blade Runner and Severance, set in a world where advances in neuroscience and AI allowed people to outsource their bodies to work under AI control while their consciousness chills in Virtual Reality.

This is a rather unique premise that I haven't actually seen anywhere before (I'm sure it has been done, I just never encountered it) so it was a pleasant surprise to find it in an AVN of all things.

I do think that the game is worth checking out, so I'm just going to to into things that I didn't like about it.

The protagonist and the plot are fairly generic, it's all dark and moody rough cop with a personal tragedy, corporate coverups, etc. Exactly what you would expect from this kind of story.

Secondly the mood of the story kind of shifts around and is inconsistent, one second we're discussing societal implications of renting out your body, next scene we're farting in an elevator.

And finally, the writing, while competent, doesn't feel finished, more like a 2nd draft. Characters appear with little to no introduction, given no time to impress on the reader, scenes are arranged in a chronological order but don't flow 100% naturally.

Sex scenes sometimes come on a bit too strong with some characters and feel a bit tacked on, but they are avoidable, so that a plus.

Overall for now it amounts to what is basically a prologue to the story, but is worth keeping an eye on.

That all sounds interesting. It's one of my favourite genres, so I think I'll give it a go. Thanks for the recommendation!