- Feb 25, 2022
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You are right, there are really very interesting situations in the game which doesnt have logic consequences and character behavior currently.Exactly. Here, the husband is well-endowed (not Marcus-level, but still) and, according to everyone other than Anne, a highly competent lover, which already makes the game unusual. So if there's going to be narrative tension — what does all this fucking around mean for their marriage? — it has to come from elsewhere.
Several times, this story has presented potential sources of tension — Martin, Ryan, Mike, Dre, the woman who claims the husband got her pregnant, screwing his coworkers when Anne specifically asked him not to — and yet, at every stage, the player is allowed to just wave them away by saying, "yeah, go ahead and have sex." One could argue that the dev simply doesn't want tension in this story, but that can't be true; he keeps introducing sources of tension, plus relationship tension and failure to correctly navigate their behavior can be game-ending events.
In the end, it's just bad writing. Anne's obviously fucking Martin on a regular basis, Martin took Emma away from the husband the very same way, and yet this is...no big deal anymore? Not even worth arguing about? Emma tries to steal the husband back by outing Anne & Martin, and yet she's obviously still fucking Martin as well. Not worth mentioning? No, let's find another fifteen previously unknown dicks for Anne to enjoy!
I would also like to have control in Anns decissions because somehow i cant understand why she goes rouge and fucks really everyone from old guys til young boys without giving the gamer a choice. Since the game is still not completed i want to believe that the writer and dev is just putting these tension points to finish and connect them hopefully in a later version of the game when he has defined different endings.
Such unfinished and unlogic situations where you expect more outcome are also present in nowadays triple A games. But i must confess that TAC has great potential and if done and finished right it could be gorgous.