VN Ren'Py The Blackout [v0.5.2] [AfterLust]

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NakkiMuki

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riMaec said:
Good point, you forgot the NTR+- though and I’d be glad to point it out for the dev too as I’d love to see it in the game (my opinion of course).
The NTR+- is nothing else than the mix of the two above and I think it could be quite entertaining in an adult game.
Let me give you an example:
when the game starts I meet -more or less- many girls but nothing forces me to be interested in all of them. I pick my favorites and push the others into a side-role, completely free to live their lives and meet new people. And that’s exactly where my attention could be triggered and I could be willing to have them back (a kind of challenge if you want).

I’ve never understood why all devs completely renounce to this pov as it could be an interesting part of the whole plot and make it a bit more realistic.
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The fact that giving the whole woman right away to the MC is easier to write than giving the MC a choice. Then if the player gets to choose who is LI and the rest is on the sidelines, then the script is a spider web. A certain in your mind may give one a chance and the rest “reject”, but the story goes on forcing you to like it or not. If you give the player a choice, then the amount of variation in it is completely pointless and the amount of work as well.

That NTR +/- is mostly practical for the NTR hater, when many devs can't see everything through the hater's eyes. It gets the forum on fire again. With this current version, there will be too many wars when dev always doesn't know what falls under NTR. There +/- it would be easy right away if there is a third party, then tick the minus tag in the box and otherwise just use the + sign. The current version also often goes untagged, perhaps for that very reason. Then again, it is the worst option.
 
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HHTG said:
That is just straight up weird and way too much unnecessary work for the dev, doing those kinda of stuff make you seem like those small kids that only is interested on is toys if someone else is playing with them :KEK:
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Poor comment. At this point I could ask you: doesn’t go the same even for an harem approach? “I want them all and only for me. I’m gonna rule the world with my giant shaft otherwise fya!!”
NakkiMuki said:
A certain in your mind may give one a chance and the rest “reject”, but the story goes on forcing you to like it or not. If you give the player a choice, then the amount of variation in it is completely pointless and the amount of work as well.
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I could agree with you in these terms: if the choice you’re talking about is a big one then ok, I’m with you, but what if I’m only talking about all the story -before- that big choice?!
I reject some of the girls in the beginning but that doesn’t mean they have to disappear. Maybe my “love at first sight” wasn’t the person for me, the person I thought she’d be. Is this so uncommon for you?
The thing I’m trying to say is that the girls -in the beginning- don’t have to disappear just because I’m not so convinced about them. Let me see them even outside my perimeter. Let me see their personalities even with other people and even if that involves having sex.
 
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riMaec said:
Poor comment. At this point I could ask you: doesn’t go the same even for an harem approach? “I want them all and only for me. I’m gonna rule the world with my giant shaft otherwise fya!!”
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Not the same, since most games when you reject a LI you never have to interact with them again, otherwise is just bad setting, what you were asking were for the dev to give you one more chance to go after someone that you didn't want and even after the story got developed without them in the story, that would only make the dev do another route besides the accept them and reject them, there would have to be a route that they were outside of interacting with you and then you needed to bring them in without breaking the story, so in conclusion way too much unnecessary work for a dev just because you only want her because someone else has her now.
 
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riMaec

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HHTG said:
... what you were asking were for the dev to give you one more chance to go after someone that you didn't want ...
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that I didn’t want -in the beginning- That’s the point.
You’re talking about an LI but I’m not.
The LI related choice is something big and really able to break the current path. Completely understandable why, starting from that point, all the girls I didn’t pursue anyhow will be out of the game. But, exactly as I said before, I’m talking about what happens -before- that choice.
It’s a moment where I still have to know all of them better. There hasn’t been any real big choice by my side yet so, in my opinion of course, I’d completely understand and even enjoy, in a moment like that, an “NTR- then +” kind of game. My opinion.

Cheers to you all. Good game dev.
 
GrannyJuices

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Honestly the models in this game are really beautiful but I just can't get over the fact that every girl in this game (aside from one) is a literal slut, and this is coming from someone that loves the slutty personalities. First it was the elder sister - the webcam shit is irritating af but it's bearable. Then there's the Store chick, imo the storyline with her was hot af until the scene where the Yoga Instructor's Boyfriend comes in. We're getting told that she's essentially craving for the MC's dick yet we're being forced to watch her seduce other guys for more profit, not only as the player but also as the character. Now we're finding out that the Mother & Yoga Chick were lingerie models, which in itself isn't too big of a deal until you realise the way that all of the other girls are being portrayed. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they were involved in some type of giant orgy in their past.

Anyways this game just isn't for me and I felt like ranting but I'm sure there's many people that love it so good luck :)
 
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Cernunnos.

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ptahn said:
I believe the cam girl in Big City's Pleasures was a roommate and not MC's sister. It has also been out for 3.5 years and has 189 patrons. You can't call that successful.
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Big City's Pleasures had far bigger issues than a camgirl roommate but that's neither here nor there.

I can stomach that (camgirling) as well as their pasts up to a point (The Inheritance showed me where my limit was) but the story is pretty lackluster thus far. Kylie probably annoys me more thus far as I'm not into the bimbo aesthetic; in regards to her the game assumes you said yes for the nightmare scene in the story mode.

Hopefully the game comes together a bit more in the future and adds some variety to possible love interests.
 
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I see great potential in this game. Especially in the story. At the moment there are so many ways it can continue. Loved the art work. Keep up the great work!
 
Allan Wolf

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the game has a lot of potential to grow congratulations to the developer that he continues the brilliant work
 
RhazzesDarkk

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Mhh, i liked the VN sofar and i hope it turns around at some point.

I stoped playing after the second cam scene. I don't know, but this scene was just
dumb and didn't fit.

It was not because any NTR stuff or any of that. There is NO NTR in any of the 2 cam scenes.

She was manipulated into doing porn (masturbation, squirting). The first scene was already shown to
others and they liked it. And the second will too. The people fom the "Agency" want more picture and videos.

I could have somewhat lived, with her beeing so low on braincells, that she didn't realized that she is being
manipulated into doing porn. Though not realizing sending porn vids of yourself is not the typical way to start
a model cariere... i mean, i don't know... But the MC's reaction made no sense.
He was portrait as this nice guy who cares so much for his family and seemed to have realized was is happening,
yet he just let her dig her own grave by giving them even more stuff.

If i would care about someone and i would stumble across this scene, i would go out shut the cam down
and asking her if she is realizing what just happend to her. Even if she would be pissed at me.
That scene didnt fit the MC's carring personality. Instead he is going more like: I will deal later with this, while
they get enough (potential blackmail) material from her.
 
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