I'm glad to know I'm not alone in that! Also, he makes me think of Futurama's Hyper Chicken, which makes for an amusing mental image.
The ol' Legion in New Vegas problem. I dunno. I'd love to see/personally design a true Federation city, but a) it's not going to happen, and b) how relevant is it, really? A culture is at its most revealing when it is busy occupying somebody else's. Kressia says all that really needs to be said about the Reds - and if they ever get in, Anzhela and Ehstraffe will say rather more.
We've been over this before. Although Fen might have envisaged it as one, it really is not a magic bullet, for reasons that should be obvious if you think about it for more than a second. Aside from anything else, it's amoral beyond anything the Golds and Reds themselves have ever done.
It is, which I think is one of the reasons why many of the content creators are eager to move on. For a smut game it's... a bit too interesting.
I always find that excuse to be lacking. I get it, smut game so smut should be focus, but that doesn't mean there can't be other things in it.
This is the same as make all the black, white, red and yellow people the hybrids.
After reading that big ol' post he made, I may or may not have started poking at the Red potion of the Myrellion resolution, which I've decided will involve going to the Federation capitol. It'll require some serious shit to unlock -- probably thoroughly convincing the Diplomatic corps (Juro and Nehz both) that you can do some good there, or following through with Sellera's eventual questings.
Neat.
I didn't add any Codex blurbs, but I put some clues in the Codex's log in the latest pull request (#490) if that helps contextualize things. It's up to the writers to make probe reclamation urgent though. Story seems a lot more sandboxy than linear, all things considered--as in the main story is saturated by all the subplots and individual characters, making the main drive of the probe hunting a bit secondary to the secondary content. Whether or not that's a good thing is subjective though, but it's just something I've noticed.
Do you remember early CoC? There wasn't a plot besides you're the champion, here's this horribly corrupted world, Figure it out! That was basically it all you could do as hit 'explore' and beat on whatever popped up there weren't even dungeons or much in the way of quests...hell there wasn't even a city and things were changed more than once to make more sense or fit better. I'm sure in time TiTs will have a number of side planets and the means of finding the probes will get refined a bit to make more sense by the time we have the 9 or so main planets plus whatever other side planets might be added.There'll probably be more reasons to wander around too. But putting that aside isn't the point of the game being sort of 'open world' (or open galaxy in this case) that you not feel compelled to just follow the main plot? It seemed to me more of an intentional design to allow the player to screw around on each planet instead of feeling like you need to hurry on to the next place and miss out on whatever else might be going on,people to meet(and sleep with),items to get etcQuote said:
Have you ever played Monster girl quest? it starts out really light hearted and the main char at times seems to be accomplishing nothing but gradually it handles some really dark/heavy subject matter with discrimination, and corruption and turns the concept of good and evil on it's head....but it's just a smut game where you get raped by monstergirls if you lose. Adventures sometimes go to dark places....and myrellion isn't even that dark. it could be much much worse. Hell if New texas had a plotline....THAT would probably go to some dark places. You have essentially a dynastic rule over a place that mandates the use of mind altering drugs that have permanent effects, add in a couple of shady tidbits here and there and NT has the potential to be a case of fridge horror waiting to happen probably won't since i doubt there'll ever be a plot for that planet and given people are all bothered by myrellions story i doubt we'll get another 'heavy' story for awhile if ever.Quote said:
There is no such thing as a game that is too interesting.Quote said:
I had a doc for that somewhere, but it was a bar encounter. Thought it was a stupid idea after a bit so I stopped :#
But you see, that's perfect. In all of two or three paragraphs, you've told the reader - who's got their dick in their hand, remember - everything they need to know, and you've hooked their attention. There are sex demons and you are lost alone in a strange world, away you go. Five seconds later you can be fucking a goblin. TiTS meanwhile has a long, fairly tedious and contrived introduction which serves to tell us the main character isn't the PC, but Victor. A great deal of time later we're introduced to the main villain, who's just this random asshole who has the audacity to maybe ruin your perfect life. S/he's not SEX DEMONS. Again and again I run into discussions elsewhere about TiTS that straight up complain that it does not hold their attention in comparison to CoC - this is one (not all) of the things they're talking about. Longer and more complicated =/= Better.
No, but there is such a thing as tone. I would not expect to see a socio-economic breakdown of giant culture in Jack and the Beanstalk. I would not expect to see endless joking asides and silly pictures in a financial study of France in the 18th century. And I would probably not expect to see a meditation on ethnic cleansing and playing God in a porn game. It's fine packing such information behind dialogue options and codex entries for the player that wants to go chasing after it - it's when you start requiring the fapping reader to engage with such material that you have a problem. Myrellion is fine... but it sails pretty close to the wind, in my view. Particularly as, as Ted and Couch allude to, nothing that comes before really prepares the reader for it.
Well I don't know about you, but I personally at least specifically like the story and exploring and quests most, and am not really all that interested about the porn part. Which is also why I didn't really like CoC that much, because the actual main story part of it was really small, (like three dungeons and thats about it, and even from those, the final boss encounter isn't in), rest was just random stuff which you could fully ignore if you wanted. TiTS instead seems to have quite a lot more interesting story and more quests and things to discover. Although I do agree with the earlier poster that something like a quest log that would actually tell you where to go would be nice, as for main quests you pretty much are just told that the probe is on this planet, go fetch! And some of the side quests are very easy to miss unless you like talk to every npc for every topic they have available. And even then, for some quests you need to talk to them again after doing some other thing first. On my first character, I missed most of the side quests, and even on my second one I still missed a few, because they are not that obvious.
I like TiTS more!
A mad max styled planet. That's all we really know so far.
