VN Ren'Py Abandoned Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

[yossa999]

There is no need for hostility. My comments were not a complaint or hating on the DEV. I didn't dislike either one of the stories. I just would like to see these to completion. Summer's Gone touched a place in my heart that rarely sees the light of day. WIAB has not done that yet but I think it is because the story is way more complex. As I have stated in other comments, The love for the MC that is held by Nami, makes me want to follow her path despite the lack of anything overtly sexual with her.

I see that the DEV has put Summer's Gone on steam now, so I expect that means he plans to continue. As to the choice of messages I reply to, that is just a symptom of my own brand of ADD...I just start reading comments until one moves me to make my own comment. I hope that this self therapy helps the DEV reach his goals. I know we all have our demons, and there definitely are worse ways to deal with them. Either way, as somewhat of a failure in the writing department, I respect the effort.

No real hostility, bro. Just annoyance of the daily stream of the same kind of comments like "We'll die before the game is finished", "I don't like the MC and he can't get his dick hard", "Sex when?", "Is this game abandoned?", "It was better with Regium", "I have to inform everyone that I'm playing this game no more. Do you all hear me? I said no more!" and others from their regular daily list of complaints.

And reading these comments every day, it’s easy to not distinguish posts of those who is sincerely interested in the game and raises topics that concern them, and the usual background whining for the sake of whining.

Pax always tries to offer discussion to the new people who come with criticism of the game. Amen to that.
I've been ignoring these posts since Ocean left this site. Because there is nothing in this criticism that has not already been chewed, digested and dumped out many times over the few years that I have been following this thread.

You say it would be nice of the dev to finish one game and then start another. But why don't you take the trouble to find out for yourself why he continues to work on two games, although it seems obvious to everyone that this will take longer to update for each of the games? Maybe there is some reason for this?

You don't want to support an unfinished project. Absolutely fair, although I don’t quite understand what support has to do with what you're asking for? You're talking about buying a finished product, not supporting the developer during the development process. Well, if we're lucky and nothing happens, then hopefully Steam will offer "Summer's Gone: Season 1" for sale within a month. Something complete that you can buy and get your money back if you are not satisfied with the product.

You say, "This is a porn story after all." I can’t even count how many arguments there were in this thread regarding this statement. You know, the author defines his game slightly differently: "This isn't a porn game! This is a story-focused game with adult elements." You can believe what you want, of course, but not taking the author's definition into account is a way to the false expectations and disappointment of the game that was never what you thought it should be. (To be fair, the developer has mentioned many times that only the first season will be non-adult, and adult content will appear in the subsequent seasons)

Not admitting that SG is a very ambitious idea, and will obviously take a very long time to complete, means lying to yourself. So, I can only quote you the Deleted Member:

Don't see the game as one movie but as 8-10 movies.

I guess he meant seasons there.

And yeah, Nami is awesome

 

[Flynn95]

This moment has emotionally wrecked me
I'm looking forward to season 2.
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When in the game do you that scene?

 

[hermit_tr]

When in the game do you that scene?

at the end of ch 5, before MC calls Bella, if you go the Nami route (kiss Nami at the end of Ch 4.5).

 

[PaxHadrian17]

I just saw this on another thread and Summers Gone won in a few categories:

The 2024 AVN Award Winners are...









This was sponsored on Reddit and a number of well-known (and some not so well known) AVNs got one or more awards.

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Cheers!!

 

[Don Sucio]

I just saw this on another thread and Summers Gone won in a few categories:

The 2024 AVN Award Winners are...

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This was sponsored on Reddit and a number of well-known (and some not so well known) AVNs got one or more awards.

You must be registered to see the links

Cheers!!

Wow, i don´t know why i didn´t hear about this but it is a nice idea . I would like to participe in the next one if is possible, is nice being in contact with this things.

 

[SearingFive]

I just saw this on another thread and Summers Gone won in a few categories:

The 2024 AVN Award Winners are...

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This was sponsored on Reddit and a number of well-known (and some not so well known) AVNs got one or more awards.

You must be registered to see the links

Cheers!!

Got damn I love that Zara's look.

 

[zenkYmefistO]

at the end of ch 5, before MC calls Bella, if you go the Nami route (kiss Nami at the end of Ch 4.5).

Best route btw

 

[AlexFXR]

But I'll make you a deal - if you can tell me the name of a perfect game, I'll consider bothering to look for something in SG to constructively criticize

Take "DEPRAVED AWAKENING" for example. If you compare them, this game had the best image at the time of the game's release. It has an interesting plot, which SG does not yet have and it is not known whether it will exist at all. And there is also no large number of meaningless dialogues like in SG, which only drag out the chapters. And of course, a variable ending to the game depending on the player’s choice.

 

[White cat6]

Take "DEPRAVED AWAKENING" for example. If you compare them, this game had the best image at the time of the game's release. It has an interesting plot, which SG does not yet have and it is not known whether it will exist at all. And there is also no large number of meaningless dialogues like in SG, which only drag out the chapters. And of course, a variable ending to the game depending on the player’s choice.

Interesting opinion. Can you give me an example of meaningless dialogue?

 

[Tairnel]

Interesting opinion. Can you give me an example of meaningless dialogue?

Considering the abundance of unfinished story arcs in the first season, due to setup and worldbuilding, any plot-relevant dialogue will inevitably be seen as meaningless by those uninterested in the overarching story

 

[AlexFXR]

Interesting opinion. Can you give me an example of meaningless dialogue?

For example, let's take chapter 4, most of it is occupied by a board game. This is one big useless dialogue that could have been fit into several pictures or removed altogether.

Moving on, chapter 4.5 is one big pointless conversation. In it we learn about a new social network and the fact that Maya will work in the place where Nika studies. Everything else was known before and nothing new was added. Oh yes, I completely forgot, Maya uses toys for adults (maybe this information will seem important to someone).

Let's continue, in chapter 5 everything connected with Bella also makes no sense, there is nothing new there. I also didn’t learn anything new in my meeting with Nia. I would even say that from the beginning of the chapter until the police arrived there was nothing new there.

To summarize, it turns out that at least half of each chapter has meaningless dialogues. For example, BaD is also full of such dialogues, but due to the fact that his chapter is 3 times larger than that of SG, this is not so noticeable.

 

[Krytax123]

For example, let's take chapter 4, most of it is occupied by a board game. This is one big useless dialogue that could have been fit into several pictures or removed altogether.

Moving on, chapter 4.5 is one big pointless conversation. In it we learn about a new social network and the fact that Maya will work in the place where Nika studies. Everything else was known before and nothing new was added. Oh yes, I completely forgot, Maya uses toys for adults (maybe this information will seem important to someone).

Let's continue, in chapter 5 everything connected with Bella also makes no sense, there is nothing new there. I also didn’t learn anything new in my meeting with Nia. I would even say that from the beginning of the chapter until the police arrived there was nothing new there.

To summarize, it turns out that at least half of each chapter has meaningless dialogues. For example, BaD is also full of such dialogues, but due to the fact that his chapter is 3 times larger than that of SG, this is not so noticeable.

I dont get why you keep wasting your time posting here nonstop if you dislike the avn so much. Its probably just not your taste but why not just move on in this case?

The whole stuff you wrote is kinda dense imo and you just keep going. I for example think depraved awakening and cobd suck. Im still dont spamming these threads about the whys. Are you a attention whore or whats wrong with you?

 

[Den1mo]

Let's continue, in chapter 5 everything connected with Bella also makes no sense, there is nothing new there. I also didn’t learn anything new in my meeting with Nia. I would even say that from the beginning of the chapter until the police arrived there was nothing new there.

Actually it all makes sense. Even the scene with Nia was quite important and you found out a lot of new information

The problem is obviously in you when you are not able to absorb new information and perceive the story. This usually happens when you hold your pipi with your left hand and click with your right until you see something that satisfies you. Such a person is usually not very interested in the story

Maybe you should try playing another game. SG is obviously quite complicated for your brain capacity

 

[Ray_D]

I dont get why you keep wasting your time posting here nonstop if you dislike the avn so much. Its probably just not your taste but why not just move on in this case?

The whole stuff you wrote is kinda dense imo and you just keep going. I for example think depraved awakening and cobd suck. Im still dont spamming these threads about the whys. Are you a attention whore or whats wrong with you?

Well there is an explanation for that and it is the following :

 

[BobTheDuck]

Considering the abundance of unfinished story arcs in the first season, due to setup and worldbuilding, any plot-relevant dialogue will inevitably be seen as meaningless by those uninterested in the overarching story

If you don't know what words mean, they are meaningless I guess It's hard for someone to read when they spend their whole time holding control looking for lewds because it's the only plot they understand.

 

[AlexFXR]

Actually it all makes sense. Even the scene with Nia was quite important and you found out a lot of new information

The problem is obviously in you when you are not able to absorb new information and perceive the story. This usually happens when you hold your pipi with your left hand and click with your right until you see something that satisfies you. Such a person is usually not very interested in the story

Maybe you should try playing another game. SG is obviously quite complicated for your brain capacity

If I missed some important information, then why didn't you tell me what exactly I missed? What moment did you find important in your conversation with Nia?

 

[neglection]

The next update will be the end of the reworks? Or there will be new content?

 

[BobTheDuck]

The next update will be the end of the reworks? Or there will be new content?

The reworks will have new content - some scenes that have been reworked are expanded, and there have been a few extra scenes added. It will be worth playing from the start.

 

[Den1mo]

If I missed some important information, then why didn't you tell me what exactly I missed?

What exactly did you miss? Hm, let me think about it...

I remembered: the whole god damn scene

Nia is one of the characters we meet but we didn't know anything about her. The purpose of that scene is to get to know her and that's exactly what happened since she is also one of the lis. We found out what Nia is like, we found out something about her part of the story, we found out that she is important to our story as well, we found out many things

If you don't consider any of this important then what are you doing here? You are in a thread with a game that prioritizes story, building relationships, and healing from some trauma. What did you expect? That you meet a character for the first time buy her coffee in the cafeteria and at the end of the first chapter she gives birth to 12 kids? You are a joke

 

[Fun Shaundi]

Take "DEPRAVED AWAKENING" for example. If you compare them, this game had the best image at the time of the game's release. It has an interesting plot, which SG does not yet have and it is not known whether it will exist at all. And there is also no large number of meaningless dialogues like in SG, which only drag out the chapters. And of course, a variable ending to the game depending on the player’s choice.

Uff, Depraved Awakening is simply amazing. For those who don't know it, it's from the same creator of City of Broken Dreamers, both chef's kiss.
But to be completely fair, Depraved Awakening was finished ages ago, so anyone who wants to play it can do so in one sitting and without having to wait for updates. Also, this VN never went under a rework. As much as I liked it, certain models (like the blonde girl's whose name I can't remember right now) could look veeeeery veeery odd and outdated in certain scenes (Her nose looked as if it was made of smooth plastic, with no shadows on the sides of the nostrils).

Also, Depraved Awakening was very very short. Even CoBD is a shorter AVN as well (the next update will be the last one, if I'm not mistaken). While this can have de advantage of completing a game faster, it also means the story and your interactions with the LIs will be shorter.

Summer's Gone not only is going to have a longer main story, but your personal stories with each LI/friends have the potential to have more depth as well, precisely because of the length of the VN.

So far I haven't seen meaningless dialogue. Small talk can be pretty meh sometimes in any VN, but it also helps you to add friendly banter and friendly interactions with others. For example: In BaDIK, Bella shares her story as member of the sorority OMG, and then it's never mentioned again in the future. It might be consider pretty meh, meaningless and irrelevant, but her having this dialogue helps you know another side of her, and helps her build her relationship (whether is romance or friendship) with MC. Filling dialogues with only 'important' stuff or Chekhov's guns would get old pretty fast, imo.