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Mescal posted:Early access games that feel serialized--rather than unfinished--are cool. There should be a name for that so I know what they're going for. Episodic. Major publishers wanted to get into this maybe 5-10 years ago, and it never really took off for them. I think it can sometimes be a good business model for indie games, and also I would really love to see an episodic plot-driven game bring back the fun of speculation about what is upcoming that TV shows used to have.
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Mescal posted:In two cards or fewer, tell me what build to try in slay the spire Corruption + Dead Branch
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Mescal posted:Early access games that feel serialized--rather than unfinished--are cool. There should be a name for that so I know what they're going for. The king of this is Dark Dreams Don't Die that only got 2 episodes. K8.0 posted:Episodic. There was a moment in time when devs and studios probably pitched the episodic model as a solution to cost/time crunch. From memory, the most successful episodic release is The Walking Dead, which came after Telltale had been doing episodic games very several years to little fanfare, and then there was a big surge of similar attempts. Life Is Strange was another huge success but was also only episodic because they needed money so badly.
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Hitman 2016 was released episodically, as well, and did pretty well in sales despite how square treated it.
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They did go straight back to releasing the whole game at once for the sequels though
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Once Half-Life 2: Episode 3 comes out, episodic content will explode!
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repiv posted:They did go straight back to releasing the whole game at once for the sequels though Which sucked, IMO. The episodic release model worked wonders for Hitman. I played each level a ton of times in Hitman 2016, I wrung as much content as I could out of each map while waiting for the next. Hitman 2 & 3 I probably played less, would just finish a level and then go onto the next. And then go back to the levels I completed to unlock stuff, but not as much. There's probably a few maps I've only played a couple of times in 2 & 3
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Aug 17, 2022 22:49
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That sounds like a you issue
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Is there any reason you'd want to upgrade to Skyrim Anniversary edition if you already have special edition ?
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fit em all up in there posted:Is there any reason you'd want to upgrade to Skyrim Anniversary edition if you already have special edition ? It adds a curated set of mods of various quality. It’s not the worst but not a must grab either. Edit, more here: https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Anniversary_Edition Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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It hasn’t been confirmed yet but Valve apparently banned the latest SciAdv VN (Chaos Head Noah) and Spike Chunsoft’s response was just to stop acknowledging the PC release in their tweets might be the highest profile VN that Steam has banned to date? As steinsgate (same series) was pretty popular. no indication of why either, or what differentiates it from the myriad of straight up h-games that Steam allows. AFAIK the SciAdv series is pretty tame as far as sexual content goes but I’ve only played Steins;gate
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The 7th Guest posted:It hasn’t been confirmed yet but Valve apparently banned the latest SciAdv VN (Chaos Head Noah) and Spike Chunsoft’s response was just to stop acknowledging the PC release in their tweets From what I understand it was the violent content which banned it, but that's still silly because its sequel Chaos;Child is on Steam and is probably more violent.
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I didn’t know Valve did content reviews of games.
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chaos head noah has no sexual content in it at all, even in the original japanese pc release. it does have gore, but thats it. steam seems to have someone on their end who just arbitrarily bans any visual novel with school uniforms in it, even if there's no sexual content. a few yuri games have gotten hit despite no sexual content. likewise, outright porn games get through because they dont have school uniforms or arent visual novels.
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The 7th Guest posted:It hasn’t been confirmed yet but Valve apparently banned the latest SciAdv VN (Chaos Head Noah) and Spike Chunsoft’s response was just to stop acknowledging the PC release in their tweets I have no idea what any of this means. Which makes me scared to look it up because that usually means some genre of porn. I can use context, so assume “VN” and “h-game” are adult games? I’m not a prude or anything, just never thought of fapping to my Steam Library. I thought that stuff was all on itch.io, honestly.
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DerekSmartymans posted:I have no idea what any of this means. Which makes me scared to look it up because that usually means some genre of porn. VN is Visual Novel. They don't have to be about sex but they quite often are. h-game is 'hentai game' and hentai is a word for Japanese animated porn.
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your right about h-game but VN is just "visual novel" (e) damnit
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DerekSmartymans posted:I have no idea what any of this means. Which makes me scared to look it up because that usually means some genre of porn.
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DerekSmartymans posted:I thought that stuff was all on itch.io, honestly. like 90% of steam games are porn
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HopperUK posted:VN is Visual Novel. They don't have to be about sex but they quite often are. h-game is 'hentai game' and hentai is a word for Japanese animated porn. VN's are not mostly porn
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Gaius Marius posted:VN's are not mostly porn I didn't say they were. But they quite often are.
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everything is mostly porn
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My horizons are expanded  I didn’t know actual porn was on Steam…kinda like figured it was similar to Cinemax growing up. Like you may see tits on a title on Steam, but if you wanted true porn you had to find a different storefront, as I mentioned itch.io. Whelp, hello Wednesday night wishlist… 
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HopperUK posted:VN is Visual Novel. They don't have to be about sex but they quite often are. h-game is 'hentai game' and hentai is a word for Japanese animated porn.
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DerekSmartymans posted:I have no idea what any of this means. Which makes me scared to look it up because that usually means some genre of porn. SciAdv is short for Science Adventure, which is the series that includes Chaos;Head, Chaos;Child, Steins;Gate and Robotics;Note. None of them are porn, but Chaos;Head gets kinda horny because the main character is a creep. Steins;Gate is considered an all time classic, the rest your mileage may vary.
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victrix posted:It's genuinely great, it's the closest thing to an accessible 'pure' roguelike out there, with the variety of difficulty levels, and easy to understand builds and gameplay mechanics what the hell is the button to switch guns on controller, i can't find an option in the menu (e) oh the settings never mentioned RT so i didn't try it, that works
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visual novels are a genre of japanese game that are largely text and images. they were born out of the japanese adventure game genre. creators wanted to tell stories but increasingly found the need to include lame mysteries or puzzles an obstacle, so they made that stuff easier until it eventually got excised completely in favor of branching choices. that genre then eventually evolved into stuff like dating sims, like tokimeki memorial, or stuff that lightly reincorporates the adventure game elements, like phoenix wright. since it was mostly born out of the Japanese PC gaming scene a lot of that stuff was porn. DerekSmartymans posted:My horizons are expanded  im unsure which 'jigsaw pussy - hardcore explicit sex' is
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Endorph posted:most of the porn on steam is insanely low quality asset flips or obvious joke titles. You're neglecting "rpgmaker title that SEEMS maybe innocuous but oh no apparently there's an off-site adult patch and full on porn in the community tab".
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Endorph posted:im unsure which 'jigsaw pussy - hardcore explicit sex' is It's the tie-in game from the Saw movies.
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Endorph posted:
This is a pretty good avatar/post combo
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The Huge Manatee posted:It's the tie-in game from the Saw movies.  Like I said, I knew this stuff was available, just didn’t know it was on Steam. I figured you had to go to specific vendor sites or something kinda like ordering actual porn on physical DVDs or whatever. Maybe because I see games come up sometimes with an “adult confirmation” in my discovery queue. And even that is sometimes because of “smoking,” which trips me right the gently caress out of my chair. On the same launcher as “coin-flip killer healed by blood showers.”
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There's usually a person or two who wander into the thread when discussion of adult games on steam comes up and then posts about how bad the Steam store is because their frontpage is clogged with hentai and porn games. You have to opt in to be able to see them in the first place. The whole consumer culture of porn games is insane, because they're either some rock bottom match 3 or rpgmaker hentai game, or it's trying to be pushed out as a serious real game, just with hardcore porn, and after raising a ton of money ($3 million for Subverse, Patreon of like ~$40k a month for Breeding Season) they end up as truly mediocre products that can't even do the porn part of it right.
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you try coding a game with only one hand
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if you have a patreon of 40k a month your job becomes not 'putting out a good product' but 'stringing people along with promises of new features for long enough that they keep paying'
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im going to assume someone is talking with steam but it would be really funny if Spike Chunsoft's reaction to Steam rejecting their latest vn would be to just accept it
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i follow a yuri game curator on steam and they've recommended a game called "will die alone," which shows up on my front page constantly and reminds me that i am an unlovable loser. modern version of the memento mori guy
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moonmazed posted:i follow a yuri game curator on steam and they've recommended a game called "will die alone," which shows up on my front page constantly and reminds me that i am an unlovable loser. modern version of the memento mori guy There's someone out there for everyone
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Endorph posted:if you have a patreon of 40k a month your job becomes not 'putting out a good product' but 'stringing people along with promises of new features for long enough that they keep paying' the star citizen school of game development
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Endorph posted:if you have a patreon of 40k a month your job becomes not 'putting out a good product' but 'stringing people along with promises of new features for long enough that they keep paying' 40k a month doesn’t really pay for many devs. No idea the size of their company, but that doesn’t really seem to be enough to base the entire business around unless it’s an extremely small team.
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In Japan PC games are for weirdo perverts. Proper respectable people use consoles. So PC VNs have porn in them because otherwise there's no market. If it does well you now have some money and can take the porn out for the console release.
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