Ren'Py The Fixer [v0.3.3.21] [Sam_Tail]

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Amhran

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Gibberish666 said:
Or you can be an adult and drop the issue like I suggested, rather than pushing the matter like a child needing validation.
Excuse me for trying to be helpful and just happening to have a different opinion.

Labels can be mistakenly attached, even by their own creators.

The genre of a game is decided by the themes and mechanics that are its primary appealing points. Games like LifePlay and The Sims are driven primarily by their life-sim elements. Getting up, eating, shitting, working, etc. That is why they are life sims. LifePlay has some story parts in it, they just happen to be there, that doesn't make it a VN.
Likewise:
- Elder Scrolls games are action-adventure fantasy role-playing games. The life-sim elements, like having a home and eating food, and meeting people, just happen to be there. It's not a life sim.
- Doom has puzzle and platformer elements. They just happen to be there. It's a first person shooter, not a puzzle-platformer.

Fixer's main focus is not the daily life elements. It's the story-lines and sexual encounters. The life sim elements just happen to be there. That's why I don't consider it to be a life sim game. If you still disagree after considering my point of view, then w/e. I don't care. I'm done with this discussion.
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Different people get different things out of games, I can understand that...but the things you described as making a life-sim game are like...the exact things that take up a pretty good chunk of the player's time in managing? Tiredness, mood, confidence, education, and fitness are all mechanics that heavily influence what the player can and has to do, which are managed through sleeping, working (even more so once we have to actually start paying rent!), eating, having fun, going to school, and so on: if you don't properly manage those elements, you literally start to lose control over your character. I really can't understand how one could qualify DoL as a life-sim but not The Fixer here. If it's an issue of characters, sexual encounters, and storylines...DoL has those out the wazoo and I'm certain many people consider those to be the main draw of the game. To just flatly say NOT A LIFE-SIM kind of just comes across as satire: I really don't get it at all. It's like we're on a different planet here.
 
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So sexual encounters are an extremely important part of porn life sim games, so not sure why you used it as some kind of counter example.

That leaves story. Which is definitely not the majority the current gameplay at all. You have the intro, and Haven I guess? But Haven is mostly doing life sim stuff while waiting to investigate. And then you have the soccer team, which is just socializing and drinking (life sim), the dance club (which is an actual plot so far), and the photo club, which isnt much of anything aside some lewd images at this point. And a bit of the junkyard siblings. And while this is all great so far, the main gameplay loop is wake up, get ready, go to school or your job, maintain your stats, find opportunities to get fucked, experience some bits of story, get clean, go to sleep, then start all over. The majority of your time (after the intro) is not reading story beats. And I would like to point out that character stories you experience a bit at a time like the dance club and the junkyard siblings are a staple of the life sim genre anyway.

Also, read basically any of the changelogs and compare how much story has been added vs how many mechanics dealing with day to day living in this world have been added/tweaked. Maybe there's a reason it seems to be skewed completely towards one of those directions almost every update.

TL;DR: Story is not at all the main focus of this game, either development wise so far or in the current core gameplay loop. If it was, this would be a visual novel, which it isn't.
 
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iamnuff

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Honestly I'd prefer to just remove preg entirely.

I use cheats to disable it for my character since i'm not into that, but i'd prefer if we could disable it for npcs too.
Having people be clipping out of their clothes because they don't have preg-art is just annoying. It messes with the dancing quest and it doesn't seem like there's any actual content involving other people being pregnant in the first place.

*shrug*
Just get rid of it. That's my two cents.
 
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Amhran

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Counterpoint: no.

(But like DoL, it should probably be possible to disable it and/or modify a few settings around it.)
 
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yurilover8

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The fixer is a lite life sim visual novel open world game with storylines, why argue about this lol. Its a sex game who wants child raising wtf.

As for removing it, um no but you should have the option to disable it which you can use cheats to have.

But since it is a lite life sim then it makes sense.

Overall I want more sexual content in the game thats it.
 
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iamnuff said:
Honestly I'd prefer to just remove preg entirely.

I use cheats to disable it for my character since i'm not into that,
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I did too, but I think it disables vaginal sex if you do, or prevents your player from having a creampie fetish.

Same thing if you use the birth control pills I believe.
Correct me if I'm wrong though, cause I wasn't too sure.
 
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Mommysbuttslut

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Panonon said:
I did too, but I think it disables vaginal sex if you do, or prevents your player from having a creampie fetish.

Same thing if you use the birth control pills I believe.
Correct me if I'm wrong though, cause I wasn't too sure.
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Not at all, there's a metric shit tonne of reasons Sammy can refuse vaginal sex but the pregnancy disabled cheat isn't one of them. I've got a pregnancy disabled Sammy with both the creampie lover and the baby crazy perk. She'll even tell the guy fucking her to put a baby in her but nothing happens.
 
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Does anyone know how the beach works I saw that there is a sunbathing scene on the beach and about the tomby girl how can you access these scenes.
 
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Spidermax009 said:
as much for me I just put a generic comment to follow the news of the game, I marked "this game is good"
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If you want to follow a thread, you can do that without leaving a comment. There's a button at the top of the thread's page that says "Watch", click that and you get the thread alerts. If it says "Unwatch", clicking it stops alerts.
 
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