Unreal Engine Wild Life [Patreon Build 2024.06.14] [Adeptus Steve]
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The reason Bethesda games tend to have a very long life is because of the modders. So if modders, somehow, keep this game alive a decade form now... That would be something to rejoice, not fear, surely?
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I still hope that the game will finally have a decent story that will be remembered for a long time.
It's because, to make it short and simple, how would you feel as a developer if you worked on a campaign for your story only to put only the bare minimum effort and leave all of your characters and settings not discussed outside of a sandbox or porn context? People mainly view Skyrim as a playground for mods specifically because Bethesda failed and continues to fail at hooking their audiences narratively or having any remotely decent character or quest writing. They're never remembered for their plots.
Half-arsing WL's story after years of development in the hopes everyone's standards are lowed because of porn would be cheating the investment of the story fans who hoped for more substance over style from a groundbreaking game in the porn genre
Why'd u even expect a story from a sandbox porngame which is mainly focused on poses and NSFW content?
Let me rephrase that question. Why would that be terrifying for us, the consumers?
Also one more thing the fact that mods have kept the game relevant for 10 years has allowed bethesda to re-release the game at least three times, two special editions and an N-Switch port. I don't know about you but that seems like a win to me.
What WL needs for modding is better character customization, like instead of choosing from skins you can select colors from a color wheel or a way to make custom skins, maybe adjust the size of stuff other than just boobs or balls size with a slider like a penis scale slider and maybe a slider for cumshots like is found on the cumshot effect in sandbox. Maybe as another more personal taste thing, they could add the option to change the head of human characters to something like the Kerpali heads, maybe add a tail, for more humanoid anthro characters than what the Kerpali are, because sometimes someone might not want a Kerpali when they're trying to make furry stuff (like me).
Coming back to check this game every several months to see how it's going. It sounds like the initial direction of gameplay/story is still abandoned, and it just kept going as a sandbox for poses and animations? Is that correct?
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I'd say you're half wrong.
The game is progressing judging by their Patreon Dev reports but yes the current of state of the game is just a gallery viewer. However, I can't think of any other game that has this many animations. At this point, I'm just thankful it exists.
Yeah I mean the thing has over 1000 freaking pages of comments, clearly it's successful in some regard. I'm not denying that. But it's just not what initially drew me into it so I'm waiting to see if it ever develops further in that aspect.
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I hope Serenia will finally get some glasses in the clothing update to go with her scientist outfits. And that all the Maya-based characters will be able to enjoy the new stuff.
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Most NSFW games don't have that big of a monthly budget either, so the comparison isn't entirely fair.
Does anyone know which hair option is used in these videos
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Your points are valid yes but at the same time, it's important to understand that we can't hold Adeptus to the standards of an AAA studio either. The project he's making for us is ambitious as hell and it requires a shit ton of work so I understand that we can't expect fast massive updates.Most NSFW games don't have that big of a monthly budget either, so the comparison isn't entirely fair.
I'm not saying you're wrong to expect more though, I guess I'm just looking at all the other games that were abandoned and just happy this one is still alive and progressing.
No. I actually hope they just cut the story stuff completely and focus 100% on making this the best adult sandbox out there.
In terms of story there are already dozens of great games, with way better worlds to do storytelling. But we don't have anything near Wild Life when it comes to creating your own custom porn scenes (with ease). They could be faster by dimensions if they focused only on the sandbox.
Sooo, long story short you just want a sandbox to make your own custom scenes without contributing (as far as I can guess) any money to the project?
Adeptus Steve said multiple times a story-driven open world was always the end goal of Wild Life from the start. The sandbox was always a means of attracting enough patrons to get the resources needed for their vision, and to build a company would be capable of shipping a project of that scope from the ground up. I dunno if they'd even have a sandbox mode had CVN been where it is now back in '17.
They've also told us they're wanting to avoid the porn game narrative traps Carnal Instinct, Subverse and co. fell into and have given a lot of insight on the lore and story they're putting in. The quest lines were implemented in the more recent builds for a reason - they're trying to get the best feedback possible to avoid a subpar product, and this includes writing and character development.
Many of you are brushing this off as "It's porn" and "there's better story-driven games" and "Nobody plays skyrim for the plot", but why should we let the devs just undercook a vital part of the game - you know, the core design goal Adeptus wanted to achieve since the start? This game is already fantastically made and has excellent porn, but the story has ONE shot of standing the test of time and not becoming the subject of some future negative retrospective.
EDIT: If Adeptus could share their thoughts on this, I'd appreciate seeing their perspectives^^
EDIT II: I write like some broken chatbot after going through my old posts
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