The biggest complaint I have is the general lack of satisfaction and reward for playing.
Games provide the player with motivation by offering them rewards for their efforts. But I find that the rewards offered here fall short, and really kill my motivation. Considering each possibility individually:
- overcoming challenge: good at first, but quickly becomes unsatisfying when gameplay allows for effectively infinite money and max stats
- transformations/character customization: also good at first, but also becomes very unsatisfying when it becomes clear how little the changes are actually reflected in the content. In 90% of cases, the game will barely even acknowledge that extra rack of boobs you have or the cluster of equine cocks you grew. It's a real bummer to go through all that effort for nothing.
- new content: honestly, after the first literally 200 sex scenes you read in a row, it becomes a little difficult to care too much about #201
- narrative: not a great motivator, especially with the knowledge that the main story (such as it is) is incomplete
There comes a point where the game begins to feel like a chore. And honestly, I've played this game multiple times over the years but never actually made it all the way to the end.
Oh, and while I'm here, griping, there were also two other things that constantly bugged me:
2) Everyone is too "interesting." Primarily seen where characters were added through submissions or commissions, it always bothered me how it seemed like everyone in the Universe had some wild or tragic backstory. When a giant, super-mutated, genetically modified, nanotech-infused professional badass adventurer and heir to a megacorporation walks into a backwater bar, they should not be the least interesting person in the room.
3) Rodney Dangerfield syndrome - no respect. You could be the aforementioned giant professional badass, and yet every nobody you meet treats you like a little bitch. It's like, hey, do you not realize the person you're talking down to might remember this in a few years and literally destroy the planet you live on? I guess some people have an excuse, but most people you meet really should know better. I wish you had an option to Fight every person you meet, like in an actual open world game. Teach them some manners.