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

[PaxHadrian17]

That's a big future assumption my dude. You don't really know 100% if you will be sticking with these two games til the very end. Who knows if the games will still be around, won't be abandoned, put on hold for future projects etc.

Dude needs to work on two games just to not burn out but is talking about future games and working on two future projects at the same time to not get burnt out. Idk. lots of "Gonna do this/that" let's just see how far it goes and what ends up happening.

I don't like seeing people stoked/hyped/in love with this game only to be let down or ditched before it even starts to lift off.

I'm planning on enjoying Summers Gone for as long as Ocean is willing to tell these stories.

If I get 5 chapters of SG, I'm good.

If I get 10 chapters of SG, I'm good.

If I get 20 chapters of SG, I'm good.

...

While I enjoy these stories, I also get adds to my SG music playlists that are, IMO, top tier.

I'm here to enjoy this story for the duration and every chapter and song adds to my enjoyment of the journey.

Heck - I am still waiting for a certain someone to complete the next book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series.

Patience has its rewards.

Sometimes it pans out and sometimes not - that is RL.

Even if that certain author never delivers on the next book, my enjoyment for everything he Did write is not diminished.

It is the same for Summers Gone.

The Steam rev will land when it lands.

We'll get S2 chapters when they are ready.

While I wait, I will continue to enjoy what I Do have of Summers Gone.

I can live with that!

Cheers!!

 

[Dessolos]

I'm planning on enjoying Summers Gone for as long as Ocean is willing to tell these stories.

If I get 5 chapters of SG, I'm good.

If I get 10 chapters of SG, I'm good.

If I get 20 chapters of SG, I'm good.

...

While I enjoy these stories, I also get adds to my SG music playlists that are, IMO, top tier.

I'm here to enjoy this story for the duration and every chapter and song adds to my enjoyment of the journey.

Heck - I am still waiting for a certain someone to complete the next book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series.

Patience has its rewards.

Sometimes it pans out and sometimes not - that is RL.

Even if that certain author never delivers on the next book, my enjoyment for everything he Did write is not diminished.

It is the same for Summers Gone.

The Steam rev will land when it lands.

We'll get S2 chapters when they are ready.

While I wait, I will continue to enjoy what I Do have of Summers Gone.

I can live with that!

Cheers!!

well said exactly exactly how I feel. life is to short to not enjoy what you have infront of you

 

[FunChaser]

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[yossa999]

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So, Nami's going to be decent and wear her bra?

 

[Dessolos]

So, Nami's going to be decent and wear her bra?

Nah she is gonna have a bra made out of rolls that she is gonna wear but then she is gonna get hungry and eat them then braless Nami again emerges again because of the rolls.

 

[minibaer12]

I'm planning on enjoying Summers Gone for as long as Ocean is willing to tell these stories.

If I get 5 chapters of SG, I'm good.

If I get 10 chapters of SG, I'm good.

If I get 20 chapters of SG, I'm good.

...

While I enjoy these stories, I also get adds to my SG music playlists that are, IMO, top tier.

I'm here to enjoy this story for the duration and every chapter and song adds to my enjoyment of the journey.

Heck - I am still waiting for a certain someone to complete the next book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series.

Patience has its rewards.

Sometimes it pans out and sometimes not - that is RL.

Even if that certain author never delivers on the next book, my enjoyment for everything he Did write is not diminished.

It is the same for Summers Gone.

The Steam rev will land when it lands.

We'll get S2 chapters when they are ready.

While I wait, I will continue to enjoy what I Do have of Summers Gone.

I can live with that!

Cheers!!

True words!!!

I would like to add my thoughts to your post.

What do we have here: a game of unprecedented quality. Start with the pictures. The debate as to whether the images are in 4k quality or Full HD is a mystery to me. To me they are just: WOW! It is a pleasure to look at them.

Now about the animated images: For me they have a cinematic quality that I have never seen in any VN I have played. The fact that I haven't swallowed a fly so far is nothing short of a miracle. Just crazy!!!

Finally, I come to the dialogues: They are so perfectly knitted that it seems to me that they are written in the best Alfred Hitchcock style. The developer and therefore Ocean only reveal as much information about the story as is absolutely necessary. This information is hidden so cleverly that at times I feel like Sherlock Holmes. It's impossible to capture everything in one sitting. One is forced to go through a particular path several times in order to understand even the smallest nuances.

Conclusion: It is too obvious what the developer and Ocean want with this: With this redesign they are setting the bar so high that all current and subsequent VNs with SG and/or WiaB have to be measured. No comparison to their predecessors (at least from what I saw here and in the sister thread). For me, these are not just worlds apart, but entire galaxies.

I'm still amazed at what I see here and am really looking forward to future updates.

 

[BobTheDuck]

So, Nami's going to be decent and wear her bra?

My gut tells me Ocean just wants it out at this point. I know, my gut's a weirdo

I mean, feasibly he could rerender ~200 images and get the ~1.5% nudity under control, but at this point, it would be gutting his intention without any guarantee that it'd still pass. Things like Vanessa's cinematic would make no sense for example. I think he's rolled the dice, made his play and will just push forward.

....I bet it was Nika's nipples that pushed the rating over, that darn pump!

 

[Mr_Mister]

My gut tells me Ocean just wants it out at this point. I know, my gut's a weirdo

I mean, feasibly he could rerender ~200 images and get the ~1.5% nudity under control, but at this point, it would be gutting his intention without any guarantee that it'd still pass. Things like Vanessa's cinematic would make no sense for example. I think he's rolled the dice, made his play and will just push forward.

....I bet it was Nika's nipples that pushed the rating over, that darn pump!

you know what's Ironic , Ocean took out a few scenes out of the game because of genitalia to avoid a 18+ rating and Oceans ended up getting the 18+ rating anyway , hindsight 20/20 , we could've avoid all the drama about those scenes being cut from the game if Oceans knew that 18+ rating wasn't avoidable .

 

[BobTheDuck]

you know what's Ironic , Ocean took out a few scenes out of the game because of genitalia to avoid a 18+ rating and Oceans ended up getting the 18+ rating anyway , hindsight 20/20 , we could've avoid all the drama about those scenes being cut from the game if Oceans knew that 18+ rating wasn't avoidable .
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This is the weird thing, it's still 16+, but they're treating it as 18+ on the basis of the number of renders of boobs. But it's not rated 18+. I think they're concerned he's going to upload a DLC of noodz

 

[John972]

you know what's Ironic , Ocean took out a few scenes out of the game because of genitalia to avoid a 18+ rating and Oceans ended up getting the 18+ rating anyway , hindsight 20/20 , we could've avoid all the drama about those scenes being cut from the game if Oceans knew that 18+ rating wasn't avoidable .
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It's more than just the rating. Ocean would've lost a bunch of licensed music already in the game had he kept the lewd stuff, regardless of the rating. For the sake of keeping the music, he ditched a couple of dick pics, a vagina pic, and some booby pics.

 

[BobTheDuck]

It's more than just the rating. Ocean would've lost a bunch of licensed music already in the game had he kept the lewd stuff, regardless of the rating. For the sake of keeping the music, he ditched a couple of dick pics, a vagina pic, and some booby pics.

This is probably the biggest issue really, keeping the music means he didn't have to rework the cinematics especially. I guess we hope that it's 16+ doesn't breach the terms they changed on him.

 

[duolaamm]

Yeah 2023 was a kinda "bumpy" ocean year, that might be true... but things are looking better now and he has still delivered way more content both games combined than most DEVs.
This could be a really nice Ocean-Games year. Doesnt hurt to be a little optimistic here...

unfortunately, you will be disappointed . because when steam version of SG got bad sell ,
there will have a long and torturous discarding process.

 

[AlexFXR]

It's more than just the rating. Ocean would've lost a bunch of licensed music already in the game had he kept the lewd stuff, regardless of the rating. For the sake of keeping the music, he ditched a couple of dick pics, a vagina pic, and some booby pics.

The funny thing is that in a few months the music license that Ocean took for 1 year will expire, and then none of this will make sense. Moreover, in season 2 there will be porn scenes, which means that he will lose this music in any case.

 

[Maviarab]

Imagine that you are the one who chose to wait for the full version of ch.5 and six months later you still waiting

I did...and?

My life is not so sad and pathetic that it revolves around VN release dates (or any media for that matter).. It releases when it releases and even then, I doubt I'll get around to it till the following weekend anyway.

 

[imagica]

How much will it cost on Steam? Does this kind of games have regional prices? Who decides them?

 

[Maviarab]

How much will it cost on Steam? Does this kind of games have regional prices? Who decides them?

Steam suggests a price I believe.
It is ultimately up to the dev
and yes, Steam does annoyingly have a regional price structure (one reason gog became so successful as it didn't used to).

 

[BobTheDuck]

How much will it cost on Steam? Does this kind of games have regional prices? Who decides them?

Ocean's said $15 in discord.

 

[Maviarab]

Then why are you so easily offended?

Who said I was offended?

 

[Winterstale]

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So, I heard back from Steam

Everything was alright but they want me to check the "Frequent Nudity" button in the content survey. I did so now and as it seems, the game keeps the lower Age rating with the frequent nudity enabled. (Not sure, I assume they bump it up to 18+ soon)

So all that's left for them to check is if I checked that checkmark on Monday.

So it's safe to assume, that SG gets the green light early next week.

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But it is apparently enough for the game not be available in Germany... So I guess bad luck for my German bros, including me.

The entire release situation feels like:



... the end is nigh

 

[Maviarab]

your statement that your life is not so sad and pathetic, it's not a defensive response. You just like to let people know that your life isn't sad and pathetic, that's good to know.

And you like to think you're funny calling out people who are still waiting.

Funny how when someone calls you out back you are the one getting defensive and offended. I was basically making the point that whether it comes out today, tomorrow, next month, next year or gets abandoned, is really no skin of my nose and doesn't affect me in the slightest, especially when I have no skin in the game anyway.