Ren'Py The DeLuca Family [Season 1] [HopesGaming]

[Lord Verminaard]

I am literally backtracking the thread now Is it weird?

Reluctant Archon & Ataegina are both more on the mythical side.
As is Rebirth, although more horror associated.
All 3 have excellent stories. As do Sorcerer & Tales From The Unending Void, plus a couple more sci-fi types.

I didnt play rebirth yet but others have my full support (not that it would mean anyone to anything, but I wanted to support anyway )

Yeah, I do like mythology, crime, horror & sci-fi.
Think most of my books and films are in these genres, too!
lol will send you a PM with a couple more, in line with TFTUV.

If there are additions to your old list, I would gladly try them to If there are anyone who knows a game with good story and want to suggest I would gladly try them to

Well, it's been over 30 years since I wrote any games in BASIC, so I guess I'm a bit rusty.

It does amuse me when people pretend to be professional game developers when they can't even use punctuation or provide a simple example of their work. I understand that NDA's prevent details being disclosed, but no game developer would ever refuse to point at a game and say "I made part of that". Even if it was an extremely bad game in their opinion, it could be used to show how much they have improved by pointing at a game they made and liked later on to show how they have improved.

I've never worked on a commercial piece of software, but I've coded, debugged, sworn at and threatened to murder the family of many millions of lines of code in many languages over the last 40 years, (yes I'm a old man), more than enough to know that although I could debug the volume of code in a project the size of this game in a few hours once I was familiar with it, I wouldn't have a clue where to start with the creative side of things.

Writing code is very easy, writing good code is harder, but having a reason to write the code in the first place is very hard. HopesGaming has infinitely more creativity than I do, and has quite openly admitted to having a limited skillset as far as that side of things is concerned. The creative side of things is by far the most important component in a game, code monkeys are 10-a-penny but people with a vision for a good game are not.

Anyone who thinks that 2 bug release in 2 weeks working on code that several other people wrote, (or getting the writers to debug their own sections of the code), has quite obviously never worked with code, (or code monkeys), before and can be happily ignored or made fun of by people with more than two brain cells.

Anyway, can we have a scene where one of the Dragons rides Floaty into battle next update please?

Words worth to respect and request is even better

 

[luwinkle]

Probably referring to the

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during the rescue mission and

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in the aftermath with the 0.7.0 update.

Aye. While I enjoyed both they felt out of pace with the game as a whole. Felt like a "Here you horny bastards, now shush" kinda thing.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Well, you know, if they're going to say they know of a bunch of games with better story, I have to ask what they are.
Didn't get an answer. Unsurprising, yet still sad.

A couple of more games with stories worth to read would be great but a man cant have everything.

Honestly, when I see a comment "with better story" I read the rest sceptically. I never read a story from an adult game before playing this game and regret instantly after trying to read it. DeLuca family was the game shows me there are stories worth to read in this site. No other game even come close to this games story except those 3-4 games you wrote before. So a criteria like "with better story" than DeLuca is an obvious lie in my eyes.

 

[JJJ84]

You know, this is just me thinking, but I'd actually love it if our MC gets to experience going on missions under command of each of the 4 Serpents (perhaps for some of them like "Serpent", more than once, to build relationship).

MC in mission under Gottardo:
Luna was pretty peeved off she couldn't join the Ombra mission, so perhaps she'll force Cordia and Wilfred's hand somehow to get herself to join with MC on this mission.
Of course, with Gottardo in command, things are way less organized and prepared (I have a feeling Gottardo just normally does things on a whim, without much preparation) resulting in huge chaos

Gottardo entering a room: (seeing Luna and MC with blood on their clothes and their faces, with enemies dead on the floor) "Little Lulu! Hope! How could both of you make such a beautiful mess without me being present! My heart is broken!! (feigns pain motion)"

Luna: "Oh come on, uncle Gottardo, you've already slaughtered twice as many as this number in the other rooms! Stop being so greedy!"

Gottardo: (Coughs pretending ignorance) "This wonderful picture without me being present. Such a tragedy!"



Don't know much about Cynthia all that much nor the 4th Serpent yet, but still, I admit they would be pretty darn awesome.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Of course, with Gottardo in command, things are way less organized and prepared (I have a feeling Gottardo just normally does things on a whim, without much preparation) resulting in huge chaos

If there would be any organization in the first place. My image for Gottardo is like a more talented Luna. Look at the field, assume the beginning of a plan than just dash into the combat guns blazing (or maybe "flail" blazing? in his case) like Luna did in the warehouse.

And if this one comes in the future, please let there be Joey to. It would make all of ours day

 

[JJJ84]

If there would be any organization in the first place. My image for Gottardo is like a more talented Luna. Look at the field, assume the beginning of a plan than just dash into the combat guns blazing (or maybe "flail" blazing? in his case) like Luna did in the warehouse.

And if this one comes in the future, please let there be Joey to. It would make all of ours day

Yeah, A lot of headache for Wilfred, who likes to have preparations for everything
Considering Gottardo and Joey's appearances together in Blizzard Princess event, I actually wouldn't dismiss that possibility of Joey being in Gottardo's team along with MC and Luna.

Gottardo: "Ahhhaahahahaha!"
Joey: "Ahahahaha!"
Gottardo: "Ahahahahahahahha!!!"
Luna: (Shaking her head) Not this again.


Come to think of it, Hopes said an event may happen in the future where Family members introduce where they are from for apparently no reason (Inspired by real-life event; the "Be nice to everyone on DeLuca Thread" day! ), and it will feature Gottardo and Joey,.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Inspired by true events; the "Be nice to everyone on DeLuca Thread" day!

I am stil sad to miss it. I remember I backtracked to that day too and it was hilarious. Suprisingly not just regulars but also newcomers commented same way. How was beeing present at that day?

Yeah, A lot of headache for Wilfred, who likes to have preparations for everything
Considering Gottardo and Joey's appearances together in Blizzard Princess event, I actually wouldn't dismiss that possibility of Joey being in Gottardo's team along with MC and Luna.

Gottardo: "Ahhhaahahahaha!"
Joey: "Ahahahaha!"
Gottardo: "Ahahahahahahahha!!!"
Luna: (Shaking her head) Not this again.


Come to think of it, Hopes said an event may happen in the future where Family members introduce where they are from for apparently no reason and it will feature Gottardo and Joey,.

I geniunely hope that event happens. Just before a mission would be great fun. I dont think it would happen when Wilfred or Serpent present but a sight of Wilfred looking everyone with his eyes clearly saying "unbelievable" would be priceless.

 

[ravendarklock]

I worked my ass off, got everything done, alot of money stored away. Then, my computer crashed. Now having to rebuild, and it is a bit of a bitch, as I don't remember half of the things that I need to do.
So, yes, I did ask for it as I figured that maybe someone here would be kind enough to help.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

I worked my ass off, got everything done, alot of money stored away. Then, my computer crashed. Now having to rebuild, and it is a bit of a bitch, as I don't remember half of the things that I need to do.
So, yes, I did ask for it as I figured that maybe someone here would be kind enough to help.

Please keep cool, if there were an answer to your question someone would reply. There are no known console commands for the game, so we cant help in that aspect. There were a save file in the older replies which just before Burn Down the Ombras contract. If you want to play game from start and cheat to just avoid money problems that kind of impossible right know (as far as I know)

 

[Spideyknight]

Me too! I feel really bad, he's been really nice to us & we're working on banging his wife, his sisters, his Mum, all the while waiting for him to get removed from the picture so we can have free play with Isabel & take over the criminal enterprise...
It's not right, but it's too late for moral objections.
Antonio must die.

The game gives you pretty solid evidence that he bats for the other team. So really just doing him a favor so he can be true to himself.

Plus technically, we've only banged his wife. Had some lewdness with the two sisters, but that's about it. Bit of a slow burn, but all good things in time.

 

[JJJ84]

I worked my ass off, got everything done, alot of money stored away. Then, my computer crashed. Now having to rebuild, and it is a bit of a bitch, as I don't remember half of the things that I need to do.
So, yes, I did ask for it as I figured that maybe someone here would be kind enough to help.

Well, you didn't state that your PC crashed in your original post, so from your original post, it was really impossible to know why you need the money in the first place.

The thing is, this game itself is pretty straight forward for most part(as long as you follow the Journal's instructions), only things that are tricky are the contracts, and the guide for them already exists on the OP.

Use them to get through the contracts again, and use ctrl fast skip to finish these contracts faster and faster.

With DeLuca, it only takes a little grind in contracts to get through all events. It's when you try to store away money for the future (after maxing everything out) where quite a lot of grinding is required.
So for the money gathering, only advice I can give you is use control fast skip, and master the contracts as much as you can so you can complete them as quick as possible with repetition, cause there is no console code for money.
It really sucks that you lost your data, but it's the only way.

Well, it seems like I spoke too soon, with someone uploading a cheat mode down below, so I guess you can use that.

 

[AK Khan]

How I increase my 'states'?

 

[c3p0]

Yeah, A lot of headache for Wilfred, who likes to have preparations for everything

I think the Mission description would be:
Go to place A and return with B. Gottorda is leading this mission, so good luck with it.

After it I await a slight annoyed Wilfred whose "discipline" Gottardo. As well as Joey who disappeared in the middle of the mission, the usual Joey Gottardo Luna banter and perhaps another female soldier or capo (Lelianna) who arrive at the gathering and then turn on her heels after seeing Gottardo.

 

[MacAdGames]

That's a good call, Serpent level being one time only special missions. Yeah, that's definitely fitting!

Well, you know, if they're going to say they know of a bunch of games with better story, I have to ask what they are.
Didn't get an answer. Unsurprising, yet still sad.

Being a DIK
Our Red String
Acting Lessons
Summer's Gone
Where it all began
I don't say they are better or worse but definitely, they are amazing in their own ways, some with great twists, emotion, action, and of course scenes.
There could be more depending upon the genre preferred.

 

[realfoodman]

why cant we rollback when doing missions...its sorta annoying to restart a mission cause i clicked something else by accident or in case of the rescue mission i clicked too fast and missed some of the dialogue

 

[Mortarion]

Nah, Cordia is waaaaaaaaaaay too precious to be killed off. I thought perhaps she would advice both MC (Don) and Gracie (Consigliere), and of course Luna (Serpent) like a Queen mother as an unofficial advisor behind the scenes, but having her as a consigliere works too - kinda reminds me of Vito coaching Michael in Godfather 1 (though I do wonder where that leaves Wilfred haha).

I couldn't even remotely imagine the shitstorm that would go on here if Cordia was promoted from life to death. I mean, we would shrug and grit our teeth at Antonio's death, but Cordia? Believe me, we could watch the world burn.

 

[JJJ84]

I couldn't even remotely imagine the shitstorm that would go on here if Cordia was promoted from life to death. I mean, we would shrug and grit our teeth at Antonio's death, but Cordia? Believe me, we could watch the world burn.

If Cordia got killed, I'd imagine substantial number of DeLuca fandom would go marching at Hopes house with pitchforks in riot.
Antonio on the other hand, well that's a whole different story

 

[Aweful]

Yeah... I'm not a fan of the new changes to the missions. They were fine before. Kudos for cleaning it up though. Would of been worth the 8 or 9 month wait for a large update to the story than something, I think, most people don't really care for.

 

[LexArma]

why cant we rollback when doing missions...its sorta annoying to restart a mission cause i clicked something else by accident or in case of the rescue mission i clicked too fast and missed some of the dialogue

You can, just get yourself some shades first
Honestly, I've been enjoying the contracts having some level of replayability and challenge to them.

 

[Lord Verminaard]

Nah, Cordia is waaaaaaaaaaay too precious to be killed off. I thought perhaps she would advice both MC (Don) and Gracie (Consigliere), and of course Luna (Serpent) like a Queen mother as an unofficial advisor behind the scenes, but having her as a consigliere works too - kinda reminds me of Vito coaching Michael in Godfather 1 (though I do wonder where that leaves Wilfred haha).

Why we have to usurp the throne in the first place? Wouldnt a situation like this work?;
Cordia as Don
MC as Underboss
Gracie as Consigliere
Luna as a serpent - Or both Luna and MC as serpents-
Willfred is still scheming from shadows or continuing to train Gracie -Though a part of me wants him to be a part of Mysterious Six and kill Antonio, die in the hands of DeLucas as a revenge-