VN Ren'Py Where It All Began [S1 Ch.4 Fix 1 Steam] [Oceanlab]

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sorco2003

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Yes, any connection will not affect at all to those who follow SG, in fact few people care at this point, but those who follow WIAB are going to have it very complicated with the amount of spoilers that we are going to swallow for free.
 

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I saw this and I was very discouraged.... WIAB 2.5... to lengthen the long road even further

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But I also saw this
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Obviously I'm not going to take it 100% seriously, but it gives you an idea of how confident he is of getting the 4.5 out of SG before the end of the year.... It could be a good sign.
 

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I saw this and I was very discouraged.... WIAB 2.5... to lengthen the long road even further

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But I also saw this
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Obviously I'm not going to take it 100% seriously, but it gives you an idea of how confident he is of getting the 4.5 out of SG before the end of the year.... It could be a good sign.
He invested quite a good no. Of months on creating environment for SG dnd , chap1 and chap4 scenarios and also for WIAB I think he's done setting up the town and should be good enough for a few chapters. And I think he'll slowly keep creating the environments for the chap 2 remake and future WIAB plans so as to maintain a good release schedule. And gone from here he just focus on dc I feel he's really happy from what I've noticed these days.

And yeah I think he way back mentioned that he'll follow the .5 chapter schedule after chapter 2
 
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Euron13

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I can't really take him at his word at this point and my guess is that even this next update that's supposedly around the corner is probably is still over a month away.

But if by some miracle Ocean's not being optimistic and updates do become more frequent, then great. I'll believe it when I see it, but great.
 

Razrback16

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If Ocean does indeed start cranking out updates every few months for SG, I'll definitely up my Patreon tier.
 

lipe2410

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I saw this and I was very discouraged.... WIAB 2.5... to lengthen the long road even further

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But I also saw this
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Obviously I'm not going to take it 100% seriously, but it gives you an idea of how confident he is of getting the 4.5 out of SG before the end of the year.... It could be a good sign.
Sweet, now the number of releases to finish WIAB went from 28 to 56 releases after ch. 2 :HideThePain:
 

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And every release takes like a minimum of 6 months so that equates to 336 months at least to finish the game, but don't forget in a few years he will wanna remake the game because it will be outdated again.
The question still remains, will we see an end to either VN's or will our light go out if we cross the threshold of death first. :unsure:
 
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muschi26

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I've no doubt that some people here would maintain an interest in this game for the next 28 years, but I highly doubt the dev will continue working on it into his 50s–60s.
 

jamdan

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The odds he manages to get SG out in October are slim to none. I'd guess we'll get WIAB sometime in late August or early/mid September. He has made posts before about getting updates out quicker, so I'll believe it when I see it. He wanted to get updates out every couple months a 1-2 years ago, and it obviously didn't happen.

His posts about outperforming his GPU (a 3090 or two?) are concerning to me. Because he still seems to not understand that he is part of the problem. It's the exact same thing I posted over a year ago. The issue isn't that he can outperform his hardware, therefor he should just get better hardware, it's that he'll always outperform his hardware because he can't help himself.

Looking back on the post I linked. It's exactly 1 year ago. And it still applies 100% to now. Down to the details about outperforming his hardware and even reworking SG, which he is doing...again.
 

Euron13

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I made the GRRM joke earlier, but I’m genuinely bracing for the same “plenty of great stories have gone unfinished” post that GRRM gave a few months back.

And to be honest, my feeling is that when WIAB does drop an update it really won’t be worth the wait. It’ll be pretty, probably spectacular in terms of visuals, but in terms of story progression and depth of choice it’s probably going to be a long montage of cinematics rather than an interactive experience.
 

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I made the GRRM joke earlier, but I’m genuinely bracing for the same “plenty of great stories have gone unfinished” post that GRRM gave a few months back.

And to be honest, my feeling is that when WIAB does drop an update it really won’t be worth the wait. It’ll be pretty, probably spectacular in terms of visuals, but in terms of story progression and depth of choice it’s probably going to be a long montage of cinematics rather than an interactive experience.
I kinda feel about this game like Gordon felt about that egg salad sandwich he set into the future in The Orville. If it ever shows up it will be a nice surprise.
 
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It would be interesting to know if developers when starting a VN have a whole story mapped out or they just make it up as they go along. I would have thought it would be better to do the former but I rarely see that here (or it's not obvious they have a plan!)

For me, unless there was some significant technical flaws in an earlier release, "reworking" is code for " I have ran out of ideas but want to keep milking my Patreons".

I absolutely get and appreciate that the vast majority of devs do this as a hobby and not as a career and very few people are in a position to work on a project for years and then release a final version in 1 go - you clearly get more income by releasing in stages (bit like early access games on Steam).

I just wish there was a bit more honesty about where the dev is at with their thinking - they earn so much good will over the months/years then some seem content to burn all that in a short space of time for a few $$.

Oceanlab is clearly a very talented artist and I do appreciate good visuals, but give me a compelling story over a shiny VN with no substance any day of the week.
 
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