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queeb posted:holy gently caress the 2nd boss in rhythm doctor is so loving good lmao Be sure to do the night shift miner stage if you haven’t, it’s my favorite level in the game.
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The current discussion made me curious about the status of Subverse, that bizarrely ambitious Mass Effect-like porn game? Getting ready to launch on March 26th. With a NSFW launch trailer. Which is kind of confusing, do people really want turn-based combat and space battles in their porn game?
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Rebel Blob posted:Which is kind of confusing, do people really want turn-based combat and space battles in their porn game? It raised $2.3 million on Kickstarter so... I guess? I don't see the appeal
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Rebel Blob posted:The current discussion made me curious about the status of Subverse, that bizarrely ambitious Mass Effect-like porn game? Getting ready to launch on March 26th. With a NSFW launch trailer. That is a weird combination. I'd honestly be more interested if it weren't a porn game 
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Rebel Blob posted:The current discussion made me curious about the status of Subverse, that bizarrely ambitious Mass Effect-like porn game? Getting ready to launch on March 26th. With a NSFW launch trailer. I dream of a day and age when nudity and sexual content are as common and usual in games as gratuitous violence is. No one blinks an eye at demons getting blown up and dismembered in Doom/Eternal, yet every ~normal~ game with "people not wearing clothes" always has them wearing underwear even in areas where it would be weird or unnatural.
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I dunno what kind of content they're putting in Subverse, but if it's anything like the studios prior work (which is pretty much all rape/torture themed) it's not going to do much to destigmatize adult games see https://kotaku.com/the-people-who-make-brutal-video-game-porn-1690892332 for background on the developers repiv fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Combining erotic content and "real" games is definitely nothing new overall, things have mostly just been limited by things like hardware, budgets, and the fact that you couldn't release something like that on most platforms. There are a lot of "real" strategy games with porn for example in Japan especially, likely stemming from the fact that they had more tools and platforms for making and releasing 'em already quite a while ago. Ultimately people tend to enjoy things they had to work towards more than things they were just handed for no effort, and they're also generally more attracted to people they feel they have some kind of connection with. A game provides both of those things, you have gameplay which has you work towards a reward and you can also have a story to provide context around the characters. It's a pretty natural combination, end of the day. Ambaire posted:I dream of a day and age when nudity and sexual content are as common and usual in games as gratuitous violence is. No one blinks an eye at demons getting blown up and dismembered in Doom/Eternal, yet every ~normal~ game with "people not wearing clothes" always has them wearing underwear even in areas where it would be weird or unnatural. I think it's a bit more complex a matter than that, like I have to imagine even the most open-minded of people would still rather watch a gory slasher movie than a porn movie with their parents even if they don't consider the latter "worse". But this kind of stuff has progressed a lot too, it's hard to imagine that stuff like San Andreas' Hot Coffee and Mass Effect 1 caused such a media shitshow back in the day. Kanfy fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Mar 6, 2021 21:16
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Kanfy posted:I think it's a bit more complex a matter than that, like I have to imagine even the most open-minded of people would still rather watch a gory slasher movie than a porn movie with their parents even if they don't consider the latter "worse". Not quite like that. I'm more interested in media that just has nudity as a natural part of being a human and living life rather than something to hide and / or be ashamed of or whatever. All those countless games that force underwear as a character model's base skin grind my gears.
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Ambaire posted:No one blinks an eye at demons getting blown up and dismembered in Doom/Eternal, yet every ~normal~ game with "people not wearing clothes" always has them wearing underwear even in areas where it would be weird or unnatural.  I know, right??
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Ambaire posted:Not quite like that. I'm more interested in media that just has nudity as a natural part of being a human and living life rather than something to hide and / or be ashamed of or whatever. All those countless games that force underwear as a character model's base skin grind my gears. These are tough issues since the cultural differences around sexual content tend to be steeper between places than those around violent content. But yeah, like I edited into that post, things have still progressed on that front as we no longer need Geoff Keighley to appear on Fox News to defend Mass Effect's gratuitous pornographic content corrupting our children. Maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0kdm7fg804
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this looks like that game long live the queen where you try to guide an anime princess through choices without killing her, but not anime https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/The_Life_and_Suffering_of_Sir_Brante/
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There's still plenty of reactionaries out there Utah passed a new bill that requires manufacturers of mobile devices to include a porn filter and Cyprus' Orthodox Church just demanded that the country's submission to Eurovision be cancelled because it promotes devil worship.
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Mar 6, 2021 22:23
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Ambaire posted:Wasn't exactly sure what I expected, but there is a bit of an actual action game in there. And in my ~30 minutes of playtime, I saw exactly zero sex stuff. Seems to be optional. I think we can all agree that the steam page makes it extremely clear what you should expect from the game Carnal Instinct
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Kanfy posted:These are tough issues since the cultural differences around sexual content tend to be steeper between places than those around violent content. But yeah, like I edited into that post, things have still progressed on that front as we no longer need Geoff Keighley to appear on Fox News to defend Mass Effect's gratuitous pornographic content corrupting our children. Maybe. simpler times
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Mar 6, 2021 22:50
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Was this before Keighley was crowned the Doritos Pope?
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ErrEff posted:Was this before Keighley was crowned the Doritos Pope? Looks like he was anointed in 2012 so...before???
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Ambaire posted:Not quite like that. I'm more interested in media that just has nudity as a natural part of being a human and living life rather than something to hide and / or be ashamed of or whatever. All those countless games that force underwear as a character model's base skin grind my gears.
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Rebel Blob posted:The current discussion made me curious about the status of Subverse, that bizarrely ambitious Mass Effect-like porn game? Getting ready to launch on March 26th. With a NSFW launch trailer. It's like no effort went into the Turn Based combat. Because if this was a turn based strategy game with dating your crew, then I'd be interested. Where's my XCOM dating sim?
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PowerBeard posted:It's like no effort went into the Turn Based combat. Because if this was a turn based strategy game with dating your crew, then I'd be interested. Where's my XCOM dating sim? I mean I don't think you can choose who to date, but my understanding is Troubleshooter has relationships form within your team?
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Play Everhood. The less you know going in, the better. Suffice it to say it has handcrafted battles, and you can also make your own battles, so this is bound to give the game some long legs.
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I just bought Nioh 2 and I don't have a lot of experience with this type of game but is the second enemy minotaur guy an indication of how the game plays or is he meant to be too much for me to beat right now? I'm still within the return window and he's got me thinking this just isn't a game for me.
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Spaseman posted:I just bought Nioh 2 and I don't have a lot of experience with this type of game but is the second enemy minotaur guy an indication of how the game plays or is he meant to be too much for me to beat right now? I'm still within the return window and he's got me thinking this just isn't a game for me. The guy who, when you start fighting him, has the game flash a tutorial message that says YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT EVERY ENEMY? I'd recommend not fighting him, myself. Just stay away from the huge murder-machine. (i mean i fought him but it was just for shits and giggles, and it was not worth it)
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Mar 7, 2021 01:16
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Spaseman posted:I just bought Nioh 2 and I don't have a lot of experience with this type of game but is the second enemy minotaur guy an indication of how the game plays or is he meant to be too much for me to beat right now? I'm still within the return window and he's got me thinking this just isn't a game for me. Ahaha, no, you're supposed to avoid that guy on your first time through, unless you're a souls-like expert. It's pretty easy, you can just kind around that big open field and sneak right by. He's very similar to the boss of the first level, and isn't a good indication of how hard the game is.
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PowerBeard posted:It's like no effort went into the Turn Based combat. Because if this was a turn based strategy game with dating your crew, then I'd be interested. Where's my XCOM dating sim? That's kind of the problem with these serious attempts at porn games. Making a extremely detailed porn scene is a few artists to render and a couple of takes for vocals. Making an actual game is months-years of coding and grinding out work, play testing and QA, and hopefully the finished product is fun and/or balanced somehow. Throwing in a rpg-maker esque "gameplay" portion basically cheapens the whole idea of a porn game because 90% of the effort is on the porn and minimal effort was spent to make a playable game. Bullet hell was a good idea for a start though. Touhou is basically the reigning and unbeaten goat of bullet hells and that's just one guy. The on planet tactics stuff looks like a 00s PC game and if it isn't a basic point-shoot-ability it'll probably be poo poo. The audio sync with the lip movement also looked weird as poo poo and the female characters are just too comically shaped to take seriously. People got plently horny for Mass Effect and Dragon Age characters and none of them had tits bigger then their heads. pentyne fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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John Lee posted:The guy who, when you start fighting him, has the game flash a tutorial message that says YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT EVERY ENEMY?
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pentyne posted:That's kind of the problem with these serious attempts at porn games. Making a extremely detailed porn scene is a few artists to render and a couple of takes for vocals. Making an actual game is months-years of coding and grinding out work, play testing and QA, and hopefully the finished product is fun and/or balanced somehow. Clearly, we need porn game makers to start integrating game mechanics into the sex scenes. The medium will never advance if they keep treating these as completely segregated elements! (I'm only half joking)
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Begemot posted:Clearly, we need porn game makers to start integrating game mechanics into the sex scenes. The medium will never advance if they keep treating these as completely segregated elements! (I'm only half joking) QTEs that require both hands.
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pentyne posted:Throwing in a rpg-maker esque "gameplay" portion basically cheapens the whole idea of a porn game because 90% of the effort is on the porn and minimal effort was spent to make a playable game. This is largely true, especially now, but there are at least some Japanese PC games that have been more successful at the whole "let's copy Fire Emblem / Nobunaga's Ambition / Wizardry, except with porn" angle...to the point they can then be ported over to consoles without the porn and don't lose too much in the process. wielder fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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wielder posted:This is largely true, especially now, but there are at least some Japanese PC games that have been more successful at the whole "let's copy Fire Emblem / Nobunaga's Ambition / Wizardry, except with porn" angle...to the point they can then be ported over to consoles without the porn and don't lose too much in the process. There's a famous one that's a franchise with multiple titles I can't quite remember the name of that's basically some rear end in a top hat knight conquering the surround lands and he bangs/rapes all the sexy anime women he encounters. Record of Agarest War kind of came off as a porn game but seemed more to be a weird srpg about making babies rather then some hardcore sex stuff.
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I think my favorite thing about Loop Hero so far is how well its story and gameplay integrate with each other. Our hero is remembering the world and everything in it. You start the game with only the bare basics - a barren road, yourself, slimes. You remember more and more - meadows, mountains, vampires - and as you defeat the first boss and rebuild and unlock more mechanics, the game deepens and offers so much stuff that by the third boss' loop you have so many cards and abilities and things to improve that you're spoiled for choice in strategies!
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Begemot posted:Clearly, we need porn game makers to start integrating game mechanics into the sex scenes. The medium will never advance if they keep treating these as completely segregated elements! (I'm only half joking) VR with Index controllers required, maybe? The possibilities are ~endless~.
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I really like how well things flow into each other. My favorite build at the moment is necromancer because I get magic hp and a gold card that gives me bonus hp based on how many things with a soul I kill, then I stack the deck with enemies that have souls and deserts that reduce the hp of everything. Put in some supplies to increase my healing, get lucky with level up choices and it becomes a ridiculous tank whose main failing so far has just been me playing too loose with chrono crystals and ruins.
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Rebel Blob posted:The current discussion made me curious about the status of Subverse, that bizarrely ambitious Mass Effect-like porn game? Getting ready to launch on March 26th. With a NSFW launch trailer. That trailer says it's launching onsomething called Streemster. Curious to find out what that was, I found the website. It consists of a single image saying they expect to launch Q2 2019.
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I'm playing The Invisible Hours (so far, very good even though the PC port is rather poor) and there's a dedication/easter egg to Elon Musk in a readable document in the late game. Very much a "wink and nod, please notice us, senpai" thing. Urrrrrghhhhhhh.
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Help, Rhythm Doctor 2-3 is kicking my rear end. I can't seem to get the timing for the fast Get Set and the (lack of) visual indicators are not helping. After trying yesterday and today I finally pulled myself up to the stage high ranking of D+.
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Mar 7, 2021 03:24
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Hey Xander was it you who wanted to check if he still had access to his cheap EA games around now? 
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Artelier posted:Help, Rhythm Doctor 2-3 is kicking my rear end. I can't seem to get the timing for the fast Get Set and the (lack of) visual indicators are not helping. After trying yesterday and today I finally pulled myself up to the stage high ranking of D+. You really have to listen to the rhythm of the music on this one. I actually found the "get, set" indicators too distracting, I had to mentally filter them out, and just listen to the beat. It takes a few tries, but eventually you remember how the song flows and can follow it more naturally when it kicks up. I went from a C, to a C+, to a B+, and I only did as badly on that last one because I slipped up on one of the transitions from fast to medium beat.
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Artelier posted:Help, Rhythm Doctor 2-3 is kicking my rear end. I can't seem to get the timing for the fast Get Set and the (lack of) visual indicators are not helping. After trying yesterday and today I finally pulled myself up to the stage high ranking of D+.
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Oh my god, I just started the 2-X boss immediately after that one. Yeah, forget tracking that visually at all. Get used to following the beat aurally. Edit: Actually, part of the issue that I thought was part of the boss initially is that (mechanical spoilers for 2-X) the game is forced into windowed mode, which for some reason is making it stutter really bad. Turning off vsync helped a little bit to make it faster, but it's still stuttering and going slow inconsistently. Strange. Sailor Dave fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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I just grabbed Titan Quest Anniversary, I played TQ way back in the day, does it still need loot table tweaking to ever see the fun weapons?
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