- Thread starter The Naughty Three
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Oh, of course, I wasnt saying that this was AI just that AI would be good for a game like "a spell for all" since it uses real porn. AI would greatly improve what they could do in such a game since they can create the scenes rather than trying to find the right scene somewhere on the net that usually doesnt come close to what the scene actually is lol. But darn, thats a lot of work, appreciate the dedication, props to you!
The Naughty Three I started a new game and found the game still uses the default name for the MC's thoughts in the scene with Mom/Mysterious Woman (which it still refers to her as at times even after establishing it's your mom) and the ones at Stella's office. I think it's supposed to be Mira saying she's cumming in the second screenshot. It also says "[persistent.mcname]" in the replay gallery options.
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Do people seriously prefer VNs to actual RPGs/dating sims? Man, I worry for the future of gaming at times...
Do people seriously think that an entire genre doesn't deserve to exist just because they like another genre better? Oh, right, that's actually a thing that's actively destroying gaming right now.
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rpgs take time and investment and are often intentionaly convoluted without it adding anything to the game; talking fetch quests, backtracking and all that crap thats just there to stretch playtime here.
dating sims... long time since i last touched one that interested me. most are extremely formularic and simply based on point accumulation that gates the story because programing an actual story tree is too much work with all the cross-checking to avoid deadlocking players in branches.
There's just three types of quest really. Go somewhere, get something, kill something. The amount of iterations you can do there are quite limited not by design, but by simple logic. Everything else enters the realm of mini game within a game that becomes an entirely different discussion.
Backtracking though, is something that entirely depends on the framing. Some of the best games of all time feature a lot of backtracking and in that case it usually depends on the content density. Symphony of the Night comes to mind as major contender in that regard and also as an easily RPG-fiable formular.
Good backtracking, like good storytelling, uses foreshadowing to prime a reaction. Bad backtracking always feels arbitrary.
That's just most games. It entirely depends on the layer of abstraction and obfuscation. But that's a very fine line to tread between 'unreadable mess' and your criticism. Sadly, this genre specifically has been around for so long that we have a lot of data on what generally works. And people prefer readability.