Sandbox "fuck everyone" games with something resembling a main plot are very hard to do at all, let alone well, and this one was better than 90% of the attempts out there. Hell, Summertime Saga STILL NOT FINISHED lol. Sorry to hear he's having IRL issues but hope he's able to deal with them and either continue this or start something new and interesting.
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I remember when I was younger and a guy hit me up for money in a gas station parking lot. Handed him $5 and he responded like "Are you kidding me?"
And my first thought was "Are you kidding me?"
That's why as soon as they walk up, you hit them with "Have you got a couple bucks?" It's like an instant stun spell.I remember when I was younger and a guy hit me up for money in a gas station parking lot. Handed him $5 and he responded like "Are you kidding me?"
And my first thought was "Are you kidding me?"
Shame it'll be five years before we see anything. I hope the dev gets whatever he has going on solved and things get better. It sucks when you're getting right to the best parts and it stops. I see a lot of things in the future that could be super awesome before this ties up:
1. Family Orgy or three: Ava hints that she wants a foursome with Aunt Kate and Mom. That would be awesome. Both older sisters would be great, since you've got both younger ones together. All of the moms would be cool (Step Mom, Mom, Sophia, and Ava). Also all of the mom level women would be great: Step Mom, Mom, and Neighbor Mom. Not to mention the TV scene in the step family house. Plus Aunt Kate, Mom, and both sisters would be fun.
2. School Stuff: New teacher has a ton left. Then you could have a threesome with PE Teacher and Principal. A foursome with Lit Teacher, PE Teacher, and Principal. Of course all the teachers together too. Not to mention any car rides to school with step mom in place of the garage. Not to mention the Art Teacher and Bridgette, plus modelling sessions with the PE Teacher, Step sister, and Principal. Not to mention sex with the Cheerleader and your Step Sister.
3. New characters: The cook and waitress at the diner. The stripper you don't know. Good add ons to do something with as quick stories. The Hotel Manager and her Daughter, not to mention adding in the Maid.
4. Court Quickies: You've had the Lawyer and Cop, the Lawyer and Ren. So, might as well get Ren in with them both as well.
So many things to finish. I hope he gets his problems solved, and decides to continue. I'm sure you all have more things you'd want to see ... no pregnancy please.
1. Family Orgy or three: Ava hints that she wants a foursome with Aunt Kate and Mom. That would be awesome. Both older sisters would be great, since you've got both younger ones together. All of the moms would be cool (Step Mom, Mom, Sophia, and Ava). Also all of the mom level women would be great: Step Mom, Mom, and Neighbor Mom. Not to mention the TV scene in the step family house. Plus Aunt Kate, Mom, and both sisters would be fun.
2. School Stuff: New teacher has a ton left. Then you could have a threesome with PE Teacher and Principal. A foursome with Lit Teacher, PE Teacher, and Principal. Of course all the teachers together too. Not to mention any car rides to school with step mom in place of the garage. Not to mention the Art Teacher and Bridgette, plus modelling sessions with the PE Teacher, Step sister, and Principal. Not to mention sex with the Cheerleader and your Step Sister.
3. New characters: The cook and waitress at the diner. The stripper you don't know. Good add ons to do something with as quick stories. The Hotel Manager and her Daughter, not to mention adding in the Maid.
4. Court Quickies: You've had the Lawyer and Cop, the Lawyer and Ren. So, might as well get Ren in with them both as well.
So many things to finish. I hope he gets his problems solved, and decides to continue. I'm sure you all have more things you'd want to see ... no pregnancy please.
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Don't forget Diya and Keshav daughter who should be in the same school
I'm new player help me to understand the game please
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sad to see the onhold tag...it's one of my favourite game around. hope to see it back and finished
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Just fix the save game which is really annoying that every time a new update is coming old saves are not working. l am also not fan of pregnancy and agree with what you said but a simple"last version save" issue is nonsense. and do not give me the "free roam" lecture because I am on free roam and the damn save is not working. non of them are working again... This is total BS. I can't believe we have to complain about simple and basic stuff with developers.
WELL SAID, SIR! I agree completely, and just to put thing into perspective in regards to the difficulty of creating a "game", I'll tell you this. When I first came across these games last March, some really bothered me. I'm not gay but I also don't dig uncut dicks. There's also other things that I don't dig or something I wanted. So I did a brief read and watched videos on how rendu works and all that shit... So say you have the programming and creative knowhow; awesome. Then comes the REAL fucking hard part. I downloaded DAZ and blender and gave things ago... even with tutorials, it seemed like an impossible task. Lets not forget the money one has to pay for models and clothes should they not want to make their own. It's a lot of work... too much work. I realized there's a reason why other people develop games and why I screen print shirts hahaha. So ya, for all those people with kinks... you do whatever makes you happy but also keeps you out of prisons. And if you think you could do better than this Dev, then please, do so and KINDLY fuck off. It's really simple. And if the Dev does read this, great work. Straitened Times was the first game I ever played in the adult visual novel/gaming realm. Whether it's ST or Treasure of Nad, I applaud every developer that's making these.
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I'm going to break this topic of discussion down a bit just because I find myself a bit bored this evening.
IMO, one of the biggest issues is that there's a very commonplace attitude a lot of people have of "The only kinks, fetishes, or preferences that aren't weird, sick, disgusting, stupid, offensive, or just a complete waste of time and resources are MINE!!!"
It's a pirate site for porn games, 99% of which are just made up of 3D/2D assets. Every day, people enjoy doing shit in video games that they would never do in real life. Someone having a fantasy breeding, incest, etc. kink, and someone who has it and wants to act on it in a "real life" sense, are nowhere even close to being the same thing. Same as enjoying killing in a game vs irl. People are allowed to get off on different things than you. If someone likes something that you don't, or vice versa, then that's okay. There's no need to be rude about it. Chill the fuck out.
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Regarding the whole pregnancy thing, there's actually bit of nuance there. Because a breeding kink and a pregnancy kink aren't necessarily always the same thing. A breeding kink might just be more focused on the impregnation aspect, while a pregnancy kink might be more focused on actual/visual pregnant bellies with or without accompanying sex scenes.
For example, I do have a breeding kink, but the actual/visual pregnancy part is just like icing on the cake for me. Nice but not essential.
A lot of the dialogue in Straitened Times teases things like impregnation (which personally I greatly enjoy, but to each their own). So of course anyone with either a breeding or pregnancy kink is going to sound off on it and ask about it. It makes 100% sense why they would.
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As far as actually implementing things like optional pregnancies (baby bumps, etc.) into games, it's obviously much easier mechanically to do in a branching VN. That being said, it's more difficult but still possible to do it in sandbox games. Summertime Saga, Simple Days, and The Tyrant are 3 just off the top of my head (yes, The Tyrant was Abandoned but the mechanics were still in place and functioning).
It does often require suspending your disbelief a bit, sure, but that's no different than 99/100 of every other aspect in all the games on here. So it's really just a question of whether or not the dev wants to. And if they just don't want to, then of course that's valid. They're the one putting in all the time and work. It's their game, it's their call.
Personally, if I had no plans to ever add actual pregnancy content (in a relevant game), I would be upfront about it just out of courtesy so that people at least wouldn't get their hopes up (I have no idea if HRelease has ever done that or not, btw, I'm just stating what I would do).
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With this game in particular, my understanding is that individual character endings have been added. I'm not even a dev and the "solution" to that seems rather simple to me.
After that ending is initiated, and things become linear, have a dialogue choice where the character asks the MC if he wants to knock her up or not. Based on that Yes/No the final scenes or "epilogue slides" before the credits could be different. It would involve more work if we're going for pregnant bellies, sure, but it's still not something that would be an elaborate maze of complication mechanically-speaking. So, again, it would just be up to the dev if they wanted to or not.
IMO, one of the biggest issues is that there's a very commonplace attitude a lot of people have of "The only kinks, fetishes, or preferences that aren't weird, sick, disgusting, stupid, offensive, or just a complete waste of time and resources are MINE!!!"
It's a pirate site for porn games, 99% of which are just made up of 3D/2D assets. Every day, people enjoy doing shit in video games that they would never do in real life. Someone having a fantasy breeding, incest, etc. kink, and someone who has it and wants to act on it in a "real life" sense, are nowhere even close to being the same thing. Same as enjoying killing in a game vs irl. People are allowed to get off on different things than you. If someone likes something that you don't, or vice versa, then that's okay. There's no need to be rude about it. Chill the fuck out.
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Regarding the whole pregnancy thing, there's actually bit of nuance there. Because a breeding kink and a pregnancy kink aren't necessarily always the same thing. A breeding kink might just be more focused on the impregnation aspect, while a pregnancy kink might be more focused on actual/visual pregnant bellies with or without accompanying sex scenes.
For example, I do have a breeding kink, but the actual/visual pregnancy part is just like icing on the cake for me. Nice but not essential.
A lot of the dialogue in Straitened Times teases things like impregnation (which personally I greatly enjoy, but to each their own). So of course anyone with either a breeding or pregnancy kink is going to sound off on it and ask about it. It makes 100% sense why they would.
~
As far as actually implementing things like optional pregnancies (baby bumps, etc.) into games, it's obviously much easier mechanically to do in a branching VN. That being said, it's more difficult but still possible to do it in sandbox games. Summertime Saga, Simple Days, and The Tyrant are 3 just off the top of my head (yes, The Tyrant was Abandoned but the mechanics were still in place and functioning).
It does often require suspending your disbelief a bit, sure, but that's no different than 99/100 of every other aspect in all the games on here
. So it's really just a question of whether or not the dev wants to. And if they just don't want to, then of course that's valid. They're the one putting in all the time and work. It's their game, it's their call.Personally, if I had no plans to ever add actual pregnancy content (in a relevant game), I would be upfront about it just out of courtesy so that people at least wouldn't get their hopes up (I have no idea if HRelease has ever done that or not, btw, I'm just stating what I would do).
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With this game in particular, my understanding is that individual character endings have been added. I'm not even a dev and the "solution" to that seems rather simple to me.
After that ending is initiated, and things become linear, have a dialogue choice where the character asks the MC if he wants to knock her up or not. Based on that Yes/No the final scenes or "epilogue slides" before the credits could be different. It would involve more work if we're going for pregnant bellies, sure, but it's still not something that would be an elaborate maze of complication mechanically-speaking. So, again, it would just be up to the dev if they wanted to or not.
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I like this game .....more or less....
I started it over some times now, but I ended quitting it each time because it´s too grindy for me.
I wish there was an easy mode with faster progress or at least a hint system to do things more efficiently to cut time.
So I´d say it´s one of the best games on F95 I don´t really like to play.
I started it over some times now, but I ended quitting it each time because it´s too grindy for me.
I wish there was an easy mode with faster progress or at least a hint system to do things more efficiently to cut time.
So I´d say it´s one of the best games on F95 I don´t really like to play.
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