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MIkedante

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Ocean themselves will croak long before these projects finish.
In this case he must start learn, how to programed some kind of AI to correctly continued in his work after he passes. Now jokes aside... I bet he thinks that in close future will rendering and PC technology advance so much faster, that he will be able doing updates on much shorter base, than he can now. In this case there is some "But..." again. If technology advance, he clearly can do another rework of games, because of his vision of perfectionism, which he have fixed in his head. :unsure:
 

mommysboiii

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fewer chapters ISN'T ENOUGH PERFECT for him)
Its all about the depth and cheracter development ofc in most other games you basicly have no storys or heavy decissions only harem sex scenes than you can have 8 cheapters and end the game with no story you dont need time for cheracter development or skill in writting but if you want cheracter development and a deep and meaningful story there is no way that this is possible with 8 or 10 cheapters unless ocean has a full team behind him and the cheapters are way longer so yes if you want qualitiy with ocean as one man army it will be probably be over 20 cheapters
 

lipe2410

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Its all about the depth and cheracter development ofc in most other games you basicly have no storys or heavy decissions only harem sex scenes than you can have 8 cheapters and end the game with no story you dont need time for cheracter development or skill in writting but if you want cheracter development and a deep and meaningful story there is no way that this is possible with 8 or 10 cheapters unless ocean has a full team behind him and the cheapters are way longer so yes if you want qualitiy with ocean as one man army it will be probably be over 20 cheapters
Again, this your correlation of "short story = always bad story; long story = always good story" is completely wrong. Longer story can give you time and space to make everything you want and make it good, but also give the risk of things become boring and repetitive. In the same way, in shorter storys you can either have no space to develop things the way you want or you can be objective and concise and tell what you wanna tell without need much more.

Lenght is a factor but is not, by far, the main factor that determinate the quality of a story. Leap of Faith will finish with 8 chapters and no one can deny that it's already a story with deeper characters and meaningful emotional connection. Acting Lesson have 8 chapters in total as well and it's a story with depth and character development too, the backlash the last chpaters created were a proof of that, like it or not. And both are from one man armys too. I'm not saying WIAB shoud be shorter, i'm not demanding anything like that. I'm just saying that is not the lenght of the story that will make it good, It'll be the story itself and how the author tell it.
 

sorco2003

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Its all about the depth and cheracter development ofc in most other games you basicly have no storys or heavy decissions only harem sex scenes than you can have 8 cheapters and end the game with no story you dont need time for cheracter development or skill in writting but if you want cheracter development and a deep and meaningful story there is no way that this is possible with 8 or 10 cheapters unless ocean has a full team behind him and the cheapters are way longer so yes if you want qualitiy with ocean as one man army it will be probably be over 20 cheapters
yes and no, that is, I partially agree. We already see many vn with many chapters, as a basis for a more developed story, but I do not agree that it is a necessity for character development. Ocean himself teaches how to establish personality and characteristics in little space, here in the old WIAB with Katie, he only needed a flashback scene to show all the depth of a character that in principle only seemed the hollow harpy, in SG with only the old initial sequence (I read that he changed it) you already understood totally the world where the MC is buried, the darkness, the rain, the loneliness, the contempt for others and for life itself.
For my part, I think the mistake was to announce their idea of having 30 chapters, although if we see the old WIAB, the chapters were not so long, the story advanced in another manner and it was logical to need that amount, but if you see SG, each entire chapter is huge, and the more time passes, the more huge it will be, unless the characters disappear certain chapters and the arcs evolve individually through skipped chapters.
 
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