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

[Dashxp4k]

Ocean funny asf

 

[Soundgfx]

I just started playing this novel/game whatever these are called and Im just having a hard time.

1) The child girls face looks like an adult face.
2) The facial reactions of people are just terrible.

I deleted the game after about 15 mins in because it got a bit cringe too. 2 days later, today, I un-deleted it and started back up. I want to give it a chance. Need a good read and story. I see renders of pretty chics but ingame so far its just bad facial reactions that your bff and few others make. I hope it gets better. Gonna tread thru this.

To each his own. But I REALLY do not get how ANYONE could get that impression from Summers gone.
If you are not trolling I feel sorry for you, like you really missing what most other people here get.

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Man the lighting in this VN is amazing, I can't imagine not burning your pc to the ground rendering these.



Some models look awkward with their poses and some have weird uncanny level smiles but that's understandable the lighting more than makes up for everything.

I did wrote about this a couple of pages ago, He does have make a good point , character models sometimes have awkward poses, their asses bent outwards looking like they had terrible implants and at times have awkward smiles and sometimes - kid summer's face looks like a doll plastered on a kid's body - reaches uncanny valley



But ocean does hit it right more often than not with good camera angles and lighting but the thing is most of those beautiful scenes happen later in the game.

 

[I_Only_Support_Real_Onez]

Ocean turned marla into charlize theron smh

Get glasses Marla doesnt look like this

 

[Soundgfx]

Get glasses Marla doesnt look like this

I needed to squint my eyes a bit to see a small resemblance

 

[Matt2012021]

after playing all paths bella still number 1 for me but a few are gaining ground still like all the girls

 

[Fortuna ღ]

Nothing I have said was out of line, nor was I complaining. I just said, personally, that my enthusiasm is dampened for a VN that only releases at most once per year, no matter how high quality, and I suspect most fans aren't willing to either wait 15-20 years nor pay $5 to $10 or more a month for 180 to 240 months for Summer's Gone to be completed. If others are happy to do so, that is great for them. I have applauded Oceanslab a number of times, in this very thread, so I think he does great work, and if he was consistent or reasonable in his release frequency, Summer's Gone would be up there with the top games here. But in my opinion, one short section of game-play, released as an update per year, is not successful game development, no matter how high quality it is.

Also, if you have read Oceanlab's many posts here, you can see that hardware is not the major reason that he only releases one update per year. Instead, he cites personal motivation, day to day enthusiasm for the project, and other things he rather do with his time each day. Fair enough. I applaud Oceanlab's honesty. That is more than I see from many devs here.

I think you are influenced by your fandom for Summer's Gone to see anything else as comparable. Just like fans of (pick any pop singer), who think that nobody else can compare. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but to say that none of the 6 games I mentioned are even in the same category? That is quite an exaggeration. Perhaps you are thinking of render quality and overall polish. However, as far as quality of the story, the sophistication of the characters, and complexity and realism of the dialog, they are very much in the same category.

But, I want to be fair and open-minded. Since you are a writer, and make the claim that the writing of Summer's Gone is head and shoulders above all other games here, and in its own category of greatness, with the possible exception of 2 other games you mentioned, please go ahead and quote a section of text from Summer's Gone and let us all judge. What section of text or dialog impresses you the most for its sophistication? I would like to see what strikes you so much, and we can all judge for ourselves and see if your point stands.

Do you think complex or poetic writing is what makes great dialogue? I'm sorry but I challenge you to do the same for the AVN's you've listed. I admit that I've played all but 2 of your mentioned AVN's, so I myself am curious as to what puts them on level with Summer's Gone.

The main reason I have placed the dialogue of Summer's Gone above the aforementioned AVN's was not due to any complexities or poetic prowess. I favor it due to the natural flow and progression of it throughout the story. Unlike for example, Bad Memories, the dialogue displayed in Summer's Gone is much more natural and believable. What makes dialogue great is not the memorable lines or seamless poetry involved. After all, I'm not sure how many actual conversations you'd see people make these sophisticated lines you wanted me to search for. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present." Sure that sounds great and it's an excellent display of poetry in writing, however... who is going to say that in an everyday conversation? Summer's Gone does not have the best dialogue of what you've mentioned due to any memorable quotes or sophisticated, complex, examples of character voice. It has the best dialogue because you're more likely to find real people speaking as they did in Summer's Gone, as opposed to any other AVN you've mentioned. You're not going to find a college student speaking like yoda or uncle iroh. Not every character is meant or is going to speak with depth and layer. That's just not realistic and almost laughable to expect. This is to clear up why I claimed Summer's Gone to have the best dialogue. I apologize if my english here seems a bit aggressive or rude.

Now that that's out of the way, you were right when you said that I basically let my own favor of Summer's Gone cloud my judgement. I do see other AVN's as comparable. Just not the ones you've listed. AVN's like BADIK, Tales from the Unending Void, Become a Rock Star, and Our Red String are all AVN's that objectively have comparable dialogue to Summer's Gone. Our Red String actually has even better dialogue than Summer's Gone. There are few AVN's out there with better flowing dialogue than Summer's Gone, and besides COBD, the AVN's you've listed just don't cut it. I'm sorry but that's just an objective fact. Hillside does not flow as well(there's actually far more I can say about this particular AVN), Bad Memories is definitely not as realistic, Single Again is decent but still not on par, and The Deluca Family(actually the best dialogue here after Summer's Gone) is great but still not on the level of Summer's Gone. I have not completed Halfway House nor have I begun WTHI due to them not being the kinds of stories I look for on this site. So I cannot say anything about them as I am ignorant to the dialogue of those AVN's.

Now in terms of character writing, the only comparable AVN, objectively, would be The Deluca Family(barring the other two AVN's as I am ignorant to their content). Cordia, Luna, MC, and even Allyssa are all well-written. The Deluca Family can definitely contend with Summer's Gone when it comes to character writing, however The Deluca Family is also much further along in their story than Summer's Gone. Despite this, I'm actually confident in it being relative to Summer's Gone in that category well into the future.

I actually agree with the first part of your reply, and I understand where you were coming from now. I must apologize for the misunderstanding. I was too quick to antagonize you for your comments and that was rude of me. I'm not fluent in english as yet, so it is a bit hard to tell the tone of someone when it is written as opposed to spoken. This is not to excuse my comment or behavior, but I hope it explains a bit.

 

[Hornybear]

Summer's Gone [Ch.3.5 Beta] [Compressed]

Original Game Size Win: 3.9 GB

Compressed Game Size Win: 653 MB - MEGA
Compressed Game Size Mac: 636 MB - MEGA

Win Compression Fixed, Redownload pls

more mirrors on request
leave a like , Support the Developer if you enjoyed the game
This compression is unofficial. Compressing process reduces image/audio/video quality and can break the game, be aware of that.

Thanks for the Mac Compression.

 

[Hornybear]

You thank the wrong person, you should thank ᴘsʏᴄʜᴇᴅᴇʟɪᴄ

Ma Bad

 

[I_Only_Support_Real_Onez]

I needed to squint my eyes a bit to see a small resemblance
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same color hair but marla dont look like a rottweiler

 

[Dark Tribe Gamer]

I have this problem and it is not only error. most of mila choices like this.

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Same To Me

How To Fix It

 

[FalconLover420]

how many saves recommended as of right now? Because all the girls are interesting including Bella who might kill me over a fork.

 

[D3xzalias]

how many saves recommended as of right now?

1 for Bella 1 for Victoria 1 for Mila and 1 for Nami

 

[NotTheReal16]

my save file is gone when i load new mac verison 3.5. How do I fix it?

 

[NotTheReal16]

How do I transfer my old Summer's gone 3.4 save file on mac to the 3.5 new version? for some reason the old data is not automatically showing up on the new 3.5 version.

 

[MaviusJones]

I hate to say it but at this point I really do think Ocean would be better off putting one game on hold and finishing the other. Having his focus split between the two is obviously slowing both down considerably.

I've been a paying Patreon since December and I've never questioned my support. $5 a month is nothing when it comes to quality of this level, but after the last update I'm teetering on ending my support. At the first of the year his intention was to switch to half chapters to push them out faster, but if 9 months is 'faster', we won't be getting anywhere for literal years.

I'm sure working on both keeps him from getting burned out doing the same thing everyday but with 30 chapters planned, for each game...

I didn't hesitate to join his patreon immediately after playing for the first time in December, my hope was he'd get a groundswell of support and be able to have an actual studio and employees, to do this full time, so we'd start getting updates every 3 or 4 months. That hasn't happened and now I'm reluctantly shifting this into the 'we'll play it as we can' category instead of my #1 most anticipated release. I'll probably keep paying until December as I feel he deserves a full year of support from me but beyond that is up in the air.

 

[drooopy]

odd thing than none of all those hot girls have official boyfriend, or girlfriend. not even a rumor about that. it will be weird that they're waiting for mc's cock to get functional again, so they can jump on him. or it might be that i missed something ?

mila is not a virgin
nia is not a virgin
nami is a virgin cause she's in love with the mc
bella is a virgin cause she hates everyone
the rest are a mystery

 

[LostGhost]

Personally I think the game needs fewer animations, they add very little but cost a lot in development time, I would rather have the story progress then watch hair waving around.

Yeah his cinematics where good but wastes too much of render time for 10 sec of nothing

 

[sungoesdown ♡]

There're always other top tier (for me) games waiting to be played between updates. Probably too many--I realized today I have 313gb of hdd space invested in these games--some of which have already been updated but I've yet to get back to them.

damn youre crazy, my "usual" games(like CoD) don't take up that much space

 

[Damien8d]

mila is not a virgin
nia is not a virgin
nami is a virgin cause she's in love with the mc
bella is a virgin cause she hates everyone
the rest are a mystery

Where was it mentioned that Mila's not a virgin?
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't she just state experimenting with anal-masturbation during her time with MC at the gym?

 

[LostGhost]

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It's really hard to predict what's going to happen with the plot in the future as this is no typical VN and no typical MC.
However as the MC reminds me a lot of Hachiman Hikigaya from My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (as I've already written) It's safe to at least predict some plotlines.
so here are my predictions:

(at least the way I played it) The MC has a ruff exterior but a heart of gold so he will try to help as many of his friends as possible and inadvertenly will have a ton of girls wanting to get into his pants.
I'm not sure if Nia will try to include him in a cam show on this sunday as I think she just want's to be a friend to the MC and learn more about him - and even if she considers including him in a cam show than she has to fully trust him and trust can only be created if you know each other better.
The MC doesn't really care about his reputation but I don't think he will let this assault slide.
He will use this in some way to get his revenge at least against Zara and Nadja or at the very least will hold this as leverage against them in some way shape or form. (at least if you have the dominant points otherwise those points would be entirely useless)
Robin too will have to take quite some time to make amends to the MC (at least if I have the possibility to have a say in this)
My guess would be that she will take the MCs side with the photo of the reporter and will deeply apologize to him.
(Sasha will be quite dissapointed in her friend and will take the MCs side)
That was a low blow for the MC as Nami right now is the most important person in his life.
My prediction in case of Nadja would be that she completely misjudges the MC and thinks the MC won't retaliate.
She was just along for the ride with the assault and maybe wanted to get revenge on the MC for this phonecall where she had to talk with Sonyas parents.
They will definitly meet at this Game night and everything will seem normal at first but when the MC is alone with Nadja he will confront her in a quite threatening way which will trigger her submissive side in the future.
Zara on the other hand will at first try to assert dominace over MC (with the way she acted it's quite obvious).
She too has it bad for the MC as she is thirsty for his body (with the way she perved on his pants) and is impressed with his mindgames.
However she will continue to underestimate the MC and will trap herself in a situation where the MC has the advantage over her. (again see dominance points)
Victoria is definitly head over heals for the MC but has her own insecurities to deal with.
The way I judge her is she will want to include Maja and/or Mila in her relationship with MC.
The MC on the other hand will definitly help her in any way he can and will probably (hopefully) be the deciding factor in making her able to walk again.
Maja will definitly develope feelings for the MC when she sees the way MC cares about Victoria.
She will feel bad about it but the bubbly Victoria will want to include her in her relationship with the MC due to her own insecurities but also due to her open personality.
Basically the same goes for Mila but she has her own plotline with her bad parents and her own insecurities to deal with but the way I judge her she would be open to a menage a trois/quatre (if no drama somehow happens which will strain her relationship with MC but I doubt it)
Plus she dropped a lot of hints for the MC to get intimate with her. (still not sure if she, Nancy or the girls in the toilet are supposed to be trans (or someone else entirely) - I mean maybe there are multible versions of the game where she (or whoever is trans) is either trans or not depending on weither or not you enabled it.)
Nami will continue her quest to be the best wingwoman in the world to somehow worm her way into a menage a trois herself.
She definitly has it bad for MC but after the bad experience with Summer (whatever that was) where she felt left behind, she will want to be in MCs life as much as possible even if she has to share the MC.
Her prefered 3rd party is Nia i guess but I guess she would be fine with Mila and Victoria.
Right now only Bella (and most likely the assault trio) are no goes for her but even in Bellas case she may be able to compromise in the future if Bella apologizes to her.
Bella is apparently out for the next updates so ther's not much to predict there...
My guess would be that either MC is together with someone else by the time she comes back or she will assume that due to a misunderstanding, which would create more drama depending on which girl that could be.
Amber (Bellas mother) already sees MC as her son in law - either that or she too has the hots for the MC together with her sister (Bellas aunt).
Ayua could either develope into another wingwoman or there is some submissive/dominance play there depending on how you play it.
I still believe that Sonya is Summer but assuming she's not as someone brought up convincing arguments against that with her not having freckles like Summer then I believe she too will develope a crush on MC as he tries to help her out of that religious household.
Sasha is definitly involved in whatever happened to Summer.
They will meet again during Yoga-lessons where she will open up to MC and will give MC clues to what happened to summer (if she's not dead that is)
My guess would be that she was also there while an accident occured which either killed Summer or caused her to go missing.
Summer received a head trauma which caused her to have amnesia and she is one of the girls already in the story. (again my guess would be Sonya as Sasha was already ruled out by Ocean)

Sasha is better for summer than Sonya when I first played I thought she's the transgender one