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Eh... are they?
Quality wise, I'd say they aren't bad, just that they have no progression or pacing.

If you add a textbox, dialogue, insertion and creampie animations to all of the scenes, you'd do the whole context thing and be done.

LI? I don't get it.
The scenes in pandora is a reward you get for unlock them with points you make play the game. If you just extract the scenes and don't play the game at all, they equal to the same as just extract any images/anims from any games on this site without actually play the game/story at all.

Would you want someone to rate your game based on the lewd animations in "Sex Machine" alone and disregard anything else that make the game?
 

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The scenes in pandora is a reward you get for unlock them with points you make play the game. If you just extract the scenes and don't play the game at all, they equal to the same as just extract any images/anims from any games on this site without actually play the game/story at all.

Would you want someone to rate your game based on the lewd animations in "Sex Machine" alone and disregard anything else that make the game?
That statement would hold weight if Pandora wasn't a separate existence from the main game.

For most other games, there's context for the scenes.

Example:
In Evenicle, the first scene with Ramius is one in which she's drugged with a poison called Adam and is about to be gangraped by miscreants. The drug stimulates her sexually and makes it hard for her to resist even though she would normally never lose to a bunch of thugs.

That scene is an emotional scene, because in that world, once you have sex with a person, the goddess of that world gives you a magical ring meaning you're married. If you have sex with more than one person your ring turns black and you lose the goddesses favor. Plants you plant don't grow. You have bad luck. Monsters will attack you more often and you lose your place in society.

Getting gangraped is actually a terrible thing to happen to a person. Even more so in that world.

But she's drugged with Adam and at this rate she either has sex to cure the poison, or have sex with a random stranger. Protagonist is her first time after he saves her from this precarious position. He takes it easy on her, understanding her emotional state, and makes sure she knows he'll take care of her, and is generally emotionally supportive throughout the scene.

The scene overall ties in to the overall narrative, has a strong character moment for the heroine and the hero, and shapes the nature of their relationship at it's start so that more growth happens later.

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Regarding my game, if people just wanted to see the sex scenes they'd be doing themselves a disservice. But that's because the sex scenes are the actual battles. There's interactivity going on around it, where the scene's speed changes based on actions either party takes or the protagonist cums based on certain values.

Viewing the scenes as a gif doesn't give you the exact same experience you'd get viewing the scene as a battle while playing the game.

It's not comparable.
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Just gonna add that what I said was:
" If you add a textbox, dialogue, insertion and creampie animations to all of the scenes, you'd do the whole context thing and be done. "

Whether or not the developer's want context is an entirely separate discussion. Personally I think context improves the eroticism of the scenario and if they wanted to do it, I outlined a simple method.
 
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Just gonna add that what I said was:
" If you add a textbox, dialogue, insertion and creampie animations to all of the scenes, you'd do the whole context thing and be done. "

Whether or not the developer's want context is an entirely separate discussion. Personally I think context improves the eroticism of the scenario and if they wanted to do it, I outlined a simple method.

It's not comparable.
You can play through Subverse without unlock any scenes in Pandora. . It just give you a option to unlock scenes that tickle your fancy. There is no need for a larger story around, or context to these scenes, they just there for you to get excited about (or not).
 

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There is no need for a larger story around, or context to these scenes, they just there for you to get excited about (or not).
I hear your opinion and I respect it. People are different.
I respectfully disagree though :)

Context in a scene surprisingly has multiple uses.

1) It can naturally improve the eroticism of a scene type. If one day your character wakes up from bed, and your girlfriend character is giving you a blowjob, the scene has the context of, "I woke up to a blowjob."

If you just unlock a blowjob animation on a bed, it's just a blowjob animation on a bed.

Even if you don't add any dialogue to, "I woke up to a blowjob," I believe the, "I woke up to a blowjob" scenario is much hotter than just the blowjob animation on a bed. The scenes can even be the same and have no dialogue but one would be innately hotter in my opinion than the other just from the context.

One is a blowjob you're getting for whatever reason. The other is the girl being so horny and desiring your body so strongly, she decides to give you a small present as you wake up.

2) Context is a vessel for character dynamics.

Characters don't stop having personalities as soon as they get bedded. If a scene is missionary, you can make the context of that scene, "woman's first experience." Maybe that scene is more about the man getting the woman wet, seeing her breathe heavily in excitement and nervousness as he slowly inches in, waits for her to calm down as he presses onwards pushing her initial fear and feeling of pain slowly but surely into pleasure.

Or... it could be the 900th time you've had missionary sex.

Instead of her going to bed, she grabs you by the neck and pulls you into bed. Her feet are clutched around your back saying she doesn't want you to pull back, and as you press in, she needed a lot less preperation and is wet in anticipation for the sexual pleasure that she knows is coming.

Same scene. Different context.

The character dynamic in this instance, is how comfortable the characters are with each other physically.

3) It's useful for establishing relationship dynamics and changes.

A scene where Killi's being pounded by a mantic from behind changes based on context.

Did Killi get frustrated by the lack of battle going on and decide to ask Lily to cook her up a mantic battle opponent and then lose? The mantic beat Killi, and Lily approaches saying, that she made this specific mantic's battlelust also affect his actual lust. Killi tired and exhausted from fighting at full strength has no power to resist as the hulking mantic pins her to the ground and makes use of her body.

Or....

Killi got frustrated sexually. She keeps buying bigger and bigger dildos and nothing is bringing her the pleasure she wants. She's extremely horny, so she goes and asks Lily to cook her up something special. Lily's mantic is brought to life, and Killi gets near the bed and puts her ass up. The mantic sees this and drives into her as Killi is finally getting what she wants.

Exact same visual imagery.
Killi doggystyled by mantic.

Context of the scene decided who was leading, and could be the deciding factor of erotic preference for some people.

The relationship dynamic here is who is leading the scene?
 

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I hear your opinion and I respect it. People are different.
I respectfully disagree though :)

Context in a scene surprisingly has multiple uses.

1) It can naturally improve the eroticism of a scene type. If one day your character wakes up from bed, and your girlfriend character is giving you a blowjob, the scene has the context of, "I woke up to a blowjob."

If you just unlock a blowjob animation on a bed, it's just a blowjob animation on a bed.

Even if you don't add any dialogue to, "I woke up to a blowjob," I believe the, "I woke up to a blowjob" scenario is much hotter than just the blowjob animation on a bed. The scenes can even be the same and have no dialogue but one would be innately hotter in my opinion than the other.

2) Context is a vessel for character dynamics.

Characters don't stop having personalities as soon as they get bedded. If a scene is missionary, you can make the context of that scene, "woman's first experience." Maybe that scene is more about the man getting the woman wet, seeing her breathe heavily in excitement and nervousness as he slowly inches in, waits for her to calm down as he presses onwards pushing her initial fear and feeling of pain slowly but surely into pleasure.

Or... it could be the 900th time you've had missionary sex.

Instead of her going to bed, she grabs you by the neck and pulls you into bed. Her feet are clutched around your back saying she doesn't want you to pull back, and as you press in, she needed a lot less preperation and is wet in anticipation for the sexual pleasure that she knows is coming.

Same scene. Different context.

3) It's useful for establishing relationship dynamics and changes.

A scene where Killi's being pounded by a mantic from behind changes based on context.

Did Killi get frustrated by the lack of battle going on and decide to ask Lily to cook her up a mantic battle opponent and then lose? The mantic beat Killi, and Lily approaches saying, that she made this specific mantic's battlelust also affect his actual lust. Killi tired and exhausted from fighting at full strength has no power to resist as the hulking mantic pins her to the ground and makes use of her body.

Or....

Killi got frustrated sexually. She keeps buying bigger and bigger dildos and nothing is bringing her the pleasure she wants. She's extremely horny, so she goes and asks Lily to cook her up something special. Lily's mantic is brought to life, and Killi gets near the bed and puts her ass up. The mantic sees this and drives into her as Killi is finally getting what she wants.

Exact same visual imagery.
Killi doggystyled by mantic.

Context of the scene decided who was leading, and could be the deciding factor of erotic preference for some people.
When something become optional at that level, it loose any context what so ever. It doesn't need a larger story. It's like watch the center fold in some lewd magazine. It doesn't need a larger story to go with it, it's just there to get you excited (or not).
What Pandora does is make you pick your fetish or poison if you so desire.

You can play through the game and ignore pandora what so ever. Some games on this site have mechanics where you solve puzzles and what not to unlock extra images. Do they need a whole story around them or are they just there to get you excited about?

If you watch some random porn clip on pornhub or whatever site you prefer. Do you need a larger context to what going on in that scene as well?
 

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When something become optional at that level, it loose any context what so ever.
No it doesn't. Each optional scene can have context on their own.

For instance, you can make it so the wake up blowjob never happens, and it'll still have context when it happens.

It's like watch the center fold in some lewd magazine. It doesn't need a larger story to go with it, it's just there to get you excited (or not).
The erotic design of a lewd magazine and an erotic video game are different.

Games are interactive so they should play to their strengths of being interactive when it comes to how things are designed around it.

What Pandora does is make you pick your fetish or poison if you so desire.
I think this is a good mentality, but again that doesn't mean you need to sacrifice all context to do it. That idea with Killi and the mantics I stated before can work even with a Pandora, "pick your fetish" system.

In fact, you cannot unlock some Pandora scenes right now without making certain mantics so there's a small understanding of this.

You can play through the game and ignore pandora what so ever.
Almost.
The sexual content that happens in Pandora is all canon. You cannot avoid the sexual proclivities of the female heroines in the main story since they talk about their sexual escapades in the main narrative.

Even if you never unlock a single scene of Lily fucking a mantic, she still fucks mantics.

Some games on this site have mechanics where you solve puzzles and what not to unlock extra images. Do they need a whole story around them or are they just there to get you excited about?
This whole time it's been a discussion right?

I'm not saying I'm objectively right on this, and that you're objectively wrong. I'm just saying I disagree with your opinion and believe context can improve eroticism.
Those simple puzzle games where you unlock extra images, would indeed be more erotic if after you got the full image, it was a full scene with something happening in my opinion.

If you watch some random porn clip on pornhub or whatever site you prefer. Do you need a larger context to what going on in that scene as well?
There's a difference between what porn videos can do, and what porn video games can do. The two should have different expectations because they're different media.

Just like how expectations for books and 2 hour movies are completely different on a character writing standpoint.
 

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Sorry if I couldn't see this here, but, has the new game update been posted here or will they still post it? Just to know
 

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There's a difference between what porn videos can do, and what porn video games can do. The two should have different expectations because they're different media.

Just like how expectations for books and 2 hour movies are completely different on a character writing standpoint.
When someone upload the pandora scenes to pornhub, and some rando dude click on the clips... what does that person care about context other than what's going when watching? People in this thread that just do the same, watch the scenes from pandora and ignoring the game else, what do they care about context?

You wish for Pandora to be something greater than it is. That's fine, but it is what it is. Extra optional lewdness you can unlock to get excited about. With the huge amount of scenes in Pandora when the game is completed, to expect a story around each scene and context wouldn't really be possible. Nor tie the scenes individually into the game as a part of the story as some people want. You have to look at it realistic.
 

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Sorry if I couldn't see this here, but, has the new game update been posted here or will they still post it? Just to know
It get posted when and if it get available. Just make room for a 25gb download and be patient :p
 

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When someone upload the pandora scenes to pornhub, and some rando dude click on the clips... what does that person care about context other than what's going when watching? People in this thread that just do the same, watch the scenes from pandora and ignoring the game else, what do they care about context?

You wish for Pandora to be something greater than it is. That's fine, but it is what it is. Extra optional lewdness you can unlock to get excited about. With the huge amount of scenes in Pandora when the game is completed, to expect a story around each scene and context wouldn't really be possible. Nor tie the scenes individually into the game as a part of the story as some people want. You have to look at it realistic.
Is it really that much harder to add a one sentence line to give context to something? I mean realistically, you don’t play this game because you like asteroids or Xcom, because you’d play superior versions of them.
you play this game because of the characters and the sex, preferably together.
The issue here being, the Pandora scenes mean about as much to me as someone separately using the SFM to make porn. That’s all fine and great, but it feels like they aren’t playing to their strengths. I honestly agree with what one person said earlier, I’d have been much happier with a movie version of this, especially since they wouldn’t have to waste so many resources on a budget version of better games. That’s not what we are here for.
 

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Is it really that much harder to add a one sentence line to give context to something? I mean realistically, you don’t play this game because you like asteroids or Xcom, because you’d play superior versions of them.
you play this game because of the characters and the sex, preferably together.
The issue here being, the Pandora scenes mean about as much to me as someone separately using the SFM to make porn. That’s all fine and great, but it feels like they aren’t playing to their strengths. I honestly agree with what one person said earlier, I’d have been much happier with a movie version of this, especially since they wouldn’t have to waste so many resources on a budget version of better games. That’s not what we are here for.
I want Fortnite to be full of lewd models, sex and nudity, but hey, that wont happen either. What people want a game to be and what it is, is two different things. Why someone play a game is highly individual. If you some completely random guy on steam picking up Subverse without any idea what the creators been into and done before. They would have other expectations to the game than someone who knew. FOW wanted to make a game, so they are making a game. It doesn't matter what you, me or anyone else think about that. If you don't like a game don't play it. Very simple really.

Btw. many games that been heavy into cut scenes and such have had fan made movies of them. Mass Effect, Dragons Age, and others. You could just as well get your movie after Subverse is completed.
 
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I want Fortnite to be full of lewd models, sex and nudity, but hey, that wont happen either. What people want a game to be and what it is, is two different things. Why someone play a game is highly individual. If you some completely random guy on steam picking up Subverse without any idea what the creators been into and done before. They would have other expectations to the game than someone who knew. FOW wanted to make a game, so they are making a game. It doesn't matter what you, me or anyone else think about that. If you don't like a game don't play it. Very simple really.
I’m not even sure what you’re arguing, but I agree with you, the game is what it is. Plenty of people have argued the same thing I did, and plenty disagree.
But just because a game is something, doesn’t mean people can’t criticize it for it to be better.
I still follow the game because I think it has a lot of potential and that the talent of the creators is there, but when I see people mention that the game’s characters could be showcased better, or that they’d rather have devotion quests instead of random side content with parody characters, or getting more context to Pandora scenes, or even more drastically just complaining about how milquetoast the gameplay is that they’d rather do away with it together, I understand it.
I don’t agree with everything, but I can understand that point of view. It’s fine to disagree but just because a game is something doesn’t mean it can’t be criticized or improved upon.
As we are lead to believe, they take feedback very seriously.
 

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complaining about the Pandora system still, despite it being stated that the revamp wouldn’t be coming til AFTER this update.
They haven't told us what they planned on revamping about the system. What are we to look forward to in a revamp if it could potentially miss all the marks people were criticizing it for? Why is it so impossible for them to say whether or not they intend to add dialogue or context for scenes? They were vague about how they'd improve the static camera system in their previous dev diaries. When they released their improvement in this patch, it ultimately boiled down to being able to move the camera 50 pixels in each direction. Don't you think most people would prefer knowing what the planned revamps for Pandora are, so they don't get hyped for what could be the equivalent of just moving the camera 50 pixels?

And of course the length discussion, despite there now being numerous scenes in the game. *and still only among 4 girls*. Think y’all are seriously underestimating how much there’s gonna be to view by the time they get to the end of it. I found out the devotion levels after 20 award 2 points per level, which already indicates there’s gonna be a toooon more scenes. If 30+ gives 3 points per level, the ceiling is gonna be really damn high.
And for many of us, having tons more 10-30 second long loops wouldn't solve the problem. Then again, telling you this for the 50th time is pointless. You'll still continue to strawman half the thread with disingenuous replies and use the most unreasonable arguments (the "anti-NTR" crowd) from tourist users to scapegoat the rest of our points.

When someone upload the pandora scenes to pornhub, and some rando dude click on the clips... what does that person care about context other than what's going when watching? People in this thread that just do the same, watch the scenes from pandora and ignoring the game else, what do they care about context?

You wish for Pandora to be something greater than it is. That's fine, but it is what it is. Extra optional lewdness you can unlock to get excited about. With the huge amount of scenes in Pandora when the game is completed, to expect a story around each scene and context wouldn't really be possible. Nor tie the scenes individually into the game as a part of the story as some people want. You have to look at it realistic.
I don't understand this logic. Shrugging off any form of critic on the porn scenes with "eh... they're just optional" is deflection.

Context in porn scenes have always been important. In doujins, Japanese porn games, hentai animations, and even western porn games know this. There's a reason why even slutty characters in games like The Legend of Queen Opala still have a lead up and context behind each random fuck they get into. Whether a scene is purely vanilla or filled with mantic mating, context is important to stimulating the idea behind them. Killi is a dominant kind of character and seeing her getting dominated by Mantics herself in Pandora scenes won't have the same charm if we don't get to see her acting smug and powerful before having her queen bitch complex broken in my Mantic dick. Have you evern seen the Makai Kishi Ingrid hentai animation? It's the idea. The Huntress is clearly one of those pompous ego girls about her skills and position as #1 huntress in the galaxy. Seeing her lose to a lowly mantic and then made to submit to it's cock is far better than just seeing a loop of her sucking off one of the weaker looking mantics without context.
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There's a clear reason why people prefer rape related porn over standard S&M stuff, even though it can visually look the same in hentai without context. The same goes for people preferring NTR or cheating porn and vice versa. The context and idea behind a scene help stimulate the senses.

I want Fortnite to be full of lewd models, sex and nudity, but hey, that wont happen either. What people want a game to be and what it is, is two different things.
Did you seriously just bring up your desire for Fortnite to have porn and not getting it as the same as what people are critical about Subverse? God, I know you're trying to hard to be an unpaid Subverse PR employee, but make your bogus deflections less obvious.

Why someone play a game is highly individual. If you some completely random guy on steam picking up Subverse without any idea what the creators been into and done before. They would have other expectations to the game than someone who knew. FOW wanted to make a game, so they are making a game. It doesn't matter what you, me or anyone else think about that. If you don't like a game don't play it. Very simple really.
The difference here is that we were promised a porn game and many of the features we were promised to encounter said in porn game was scrapped and edited off their steam page a month before EA went live. Not letting people know that they were going to change a lot of what people justifiably expected to be in the game before they let us pay for it was a big bad decision by itself. It's nobody's fault for expecting there to be context and lead-up to scenes if we were promised it. It's equally not an unreasonable request that hundreds/thousands of players are asking that some context be added to the Pandora system we got. Fow did not want to make just a game, they wanted to make a porn game, and promised us a porn game.

I'm seriously getting tired of this absolute bullshit "It's just a game that happens to have porn" excuse you and VValen have been throwing out. Even StudioFow and it's mods haven't been making this excuse within their own discord channel. They've referred to it as a porn game at every point in it's development and EA releases. They tease and emphasize the porn aspects and fuckability of it's characters at every turn. If you want to simp hard and delude your mind into thinking this was advertised as a video game that just happens to be porn, go ahead, but don't try to force that delusion on the rest of us.
 

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I’m not even sure what you’re arguing, but I agree with you, the game is what it is. Plenty of people have argued the same thing I did, and plenty disagree.
But just because a game is something, doesn’t mean people can’t criticize it for it to be better.
I still follow the game because I think it has a lot of potential and that the talent of the creators is there, but when I see people mention that the game’s characters could be showcased better, or that they’d rather have devotion quests instead of random side content with parody characters, or getting more context to Pandora scenes, or even more drastically just complaining about how milquetoast the gameplay is that they’d rather do away with it together, I understand it.
I don’t agree with everything, but I can understand that point of view. It’s fine to disagree but just because a game is something doesn’t mean it can’t be criticized or improved upon.
As we are lead to believe, they take feedback very seriously.
Devotion/loyality quests is content coming further on. Remember the game is a work in progress. We get it served piece meal. We won't have the "grand picture" before the game is completed.
 

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Which is it then? Is the game in progress and we should expect improvement, or is it a "game with porn" and we should accept that there will be things we won't get, like Fortnite not giving us porn? You swap between arguments whenever it's more convenient. You go turn into an absolute wall in one post and then try to act more reasonable about possible improvements in another.

You're completely disingenuous with your replies.
 

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The difference here is that we were promised a porn game and many of the features we were promised to encounter said in porn game was scrapped and edited off their steam page a month before EA went live. Not letting people know that they were going to change a lot of what people justifiably expected to be in the game before they let us pay for it was a big bad decision by itself. It's nobody's fault for expecting there to be context and lead-up to scenes if we were promised it. It's equally not an unreasonable request that hundreds/thousands of players are asking that some context be added to the Pandora system we got. Fow did not want to make just a game, they wanted to make a porn game, and promised us a porn game.
You where promised a PORN game? You got an actual source of they promise you a PORN game? Even looking back at their kickstarter page where does it say PORN game? There is even youtube clips with the creators stating they are NOT making a porn game. But yet they did promise you a PORN game?

As for the Fortnite comment. You didn't get it do you? I'll try with a smaller spoon then... Don't get a game expecting something else than what it deliver... What you wish for a game to be and what it actually is. Two different things...
 

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Which is it then? Is the game in progress and we should expect improvement, or is it a "game with porn" and we should accept that there will be things we won't get, like Fortnite not giving us porn? You swap between arguments whenever it's more convenient. You go turn into an absolute wall in one post and then try to act more reasonable about possible improvements in another.

You're completely disingenuous with your replies.
a early access game is work in progress. Just as with all the games on this site that doesn't carry a completed tag. Its work in progress. Hard to grasp right?
 
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