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

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RNasc4444

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dorleans said:
Wow, people really just do not get the fun of this whole thing, do they? It's like watching a Cathedral getting built, or a Monk illuminating a manuscript. Yeah you'll be dead for it's finished, but you get to witness something magnificent come into being.

If you want timely mediocrity, well, there's literally the entire rest of modernity.
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Jesus Christ y'all are fucking weird... Just so you know, back when I called Ocean's "fandom" a cult, I was doing so in jest. Then I come here and read shit like this...

Someone fetch me the holy water.
 
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RNasc4444 said:
Jesus Christ y'all are fucking weird... Just so you know, back when I called Ocean's "fandom" a cult, I was doing so in jest. Then I come here and read shit like this...

Someone fetch me the holy water.
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Hahaha, I didn't even know you said that, that's awesome.

Though in this case I'm afraid it's nothing to do with the rest of the fandom. It's just that I'm a Medievalist, and these are my all-purpose reference points. (I thought about comparing it to Ikon crafting, but I didn't know if people here would be familiar enough with Eastern Orthodoxy's traditions of holy art.)

Side note - I'd be happy to fetch you the holy water, but... you do realize the implication of that is you're requesting to be baptized into the faith, right?
 
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dorleans said:
Hahaha, I didn't even know you said that, that's awesome.

Though in this case I'm afraid it's nothing to do with the rest of the fandom. It's just that I'm a Medievalist, and these are my all-purpose reference points. (I thought about comparing it to Ikon crafting, but I didn't know if people here would be familiar enough with Eastern Orthodoxy's traditions of holy art.)

Side note - I'd be happy to fetch you the holy water, but... you do realize the implication of that is you're requesting to be baptized into the faith, right?
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Haha you're right. Don't take my comments too seriously though I'm just fucking around most of the time.

Though in all seriousness, it kinda bothers me when people idolize or put Ocean's work in a pedestal. This game isn't perfect. Far from it. Even if you love it and every update fills you with excitement, it's important to hold the dev's feet to the fire. Praise the good but don't leave out the bad. You aren't doing Ocean, yourself, the game and all other players any favors otherwise. And for years this thread was a circlejerk of blind praise. Nowadays its more even but a lot of valid criticism is still dismissed as hate by many.

I'm also eager for the update to come out so I can finally leave a damn review for season 1.
 
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Haha you're right. Don't take my comments too seriously though I'm just fucking around most of the time.

Though in all seriousness, it kinda bothers me when people idolize or put Ocean's work in a pedestal. This game isn't perfect. Far from it. Even if you love it and every update fills you with excitement, it's important to hold the dev's feet to the fire. Praise the good but don't leave out the bad. You aren't doing Ocean, yourself, the game and all other players any favors otherwise. And for years this thread was a circlejerk of blind praise. Nowadays its more even but a lot of valid criticism is still dismissed as hate by many.

I'm also eager for the update to come out so I can finally leave a damn review for season 1.
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It's not about idolization. He's just doing something new and delightful in a visual medium we'd all kind of given up on hoping for either from. (I was trying to describe the SG sensibility/aesthetic to someone the other day, and came up with "It's like if Wagner wrote Dawson's Creek". I'm pretty proud of that one, but let me know what you think.)

It's something beautiful and weird when it's so, so hard to find anything that's either. I guess people just want to marvel at this lovely thing they stumbled across. Maybe your best bet would be a more direct line of communication, or at least a forum he pops in on more often.

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. (Note - must be a VN. MoO2 is obviously the perfection of 4x strategy, but that gets us nowhere.) Aside from anything else, I genuinely do not understand this medium well enough to form a basis of literary judgement. If I had a like, some generally acknowledged pinnacle of the form I'd at least have somewhere to start.

Oh, but don't post it here or they'll delete this whole little interaction. These accounts have some kind of dm function right? Feel free to do that.

(Post-Script -none of the above is a critique of other adult VNs, my intended target was the state of contemporary mainstream visual/narrative arts in general. The last thing from those that took me off guard in the same way was... wait, are we allowed to mention, like, normal books? Nevermind, I'll just play it safe and let this trail off...)
 
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mansy5mans said:
How many chapters will sg and wiab have
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WIAB will feature 3 seasons with ~ 10 Chapters. (~ 30 Chapters in total. It can be a bit more or less, it depends on how good my equipment gets and how much stuff I can put into one update in a reasonable amount of time.)

SG will have around 3 seasons, too. I can't really tell yet bc it's not written that far.
SG takes place after WIAB. I won't say how much time has passed but it will be revealed over the course of SG.
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Mad_Andy said:
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.
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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. :HideThePain:

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. :HideThePain:
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.
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I guess he meant seasons there.

And yeah, Nami is awesome :love:
 
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PaxHadrian17 said:
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.

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Cheers!! :coffee:
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Wow, i don´t know why i didn´t hear about this but it is a nice idea (y) . I would like to participe in the next one if is possible, is nice being in contact with this things.
 
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dorleans said:
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
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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.
 
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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.
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Interesting opinion. Can you give me an example of meaningless dialogue?
 
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