What are some games where I can be a murderous lunatic?
>>3895266Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven had some funny murder options.
>mfw LunaRICH kiihAFFLUENT
IG Test = passed
>>3895266The Hobbit
menopause
>>3895266slay the princess
IFs with muscle girls?
>Shadow of the Eagles writing pace is like that because Wang actually started taking medsNeidan is too powerful...
>>3895434>2500 words in a day is difficult (lol)>yet I still relate to this nigga with adhdCursed
>>3895434Works for OrcGOD, works for Zaper. Surprised it took him this long, really.
>>3895434This will make his landlord very happy. No more late payments.
>>3895445I dont take meds, I enjoy rawdogging life
>>3895477Cocaine was originally a medicine, you know.
Which route to go with>(M)ature>(N)urture>(A)ngst>(F)un
>>3895482none of them. shit "game" with 0 player agency
>>3895483filtered
>>3895482NatFarahAvaMorgan
>>3895482Am I the only one who feels sad when none of the women wears a skirt/dress?
>>3895503a skirt seems detrimental to the physical demands of an agency agent
>>3895482Canonical heights?
>>3895482>>3895518>Morgan - 5’7”>Nat - 6’>Ava - 5’8”>Farah - 5’4”
>>3895434will he revise some of his writing now that he's no longer autistic?
>>3895525for their male counterparts >Mason - 6’>Nate - 6’3”>Adam - 6’1”>Felix - 5’6”
>>3895482>>3895525Handholding with Ava!Held gazes with Ava!
>>3895538on my knees crying as Ava walks out the room, having just explained why we cannot be together
Stop playing moralfag games.
>>3895572No
Grand Theft Auto
>>3895434Even a triple dose of ADHD medication won't make him stop wasting his time on the forum.
>>3895503plenty or skirts & dresses in book 4 with the masquerade ball
>>3895575Holy fucking hot.
I noticed an anon mentioned A Shriek of Ash and Fire on the last thread. Just a casual comment, but it does make me happy that it is not completely unnoticed by the IF horde. Always appreciate the love some anons showed my Green, even if this is now the naughty corner of the IF world. Merry Christmas to all ye faithful, and Merry Krogmas to all ye not.
there's a possible chance for a release this year
>>3895732Hey orcGOD that was me, I didn't have time to actually read your game yet, but I will. Keep grinding Green DLC when?
>>3895732Merry Christmas, orcbro. But seriously, for your own wellbeing, stop visiting this place while on trip.
>>3895737Cheers! I think it is a fun time – but I would. Very choice-heavy, like Green, though tonally quite different. Once I have sent Ash and Fire to HG I'll start work on a Green DLC (maybe after a week or so break from writing anything). I plan for it to be around 250K, so I *should* be able to get it done quickly. I hope I can get the final product off to HG before the end of next year, maybe sooner, depending on how things go with the WIP. It will be nice to focus on a single path and not drown in a huge project. Any preference for the DLC?
>>3895738Yeah, you are right. I won't do it often. I don't think I can be punished for spreading season's greetings in the non-political spirit of peace and joy to all men and women.... I'll probably scarper until I actually have a product to shill... To be fair, I have enjoyed a few threads of actual good talk about IF games here; I think the market needs it. But I bow to your advice.
It's that time of year again
>>3895742Don't care not reading that garbage again.
>>3895743filtered again anon
>>3895732Merry Christmas, buddy. Best of luck with everything in the new year.
>>3895732>naughty corneryes its very dastardly I wan to hold a moment-longer-than-appropriate smoldering gaze with fitzie
I wish people would actually write more urban fantasy stories, vampire games are shit, and I am solely sustained bythe Keeper series.
>>3895756I feel like the Urban Fantasy genre peaked with stuff like Wayhaven & Keeper Series. Then you had authors that cashed in on the craze with books like Blackstone Academy, The Fernweh Saga, Witchcraft U & The Shadow Society and it kind of oversaturated the genre.Then The Superhero craze hit with Heroes Rise & Fallen Hero and the same happened with others cashing in and flooding the genre with superhero stuff. Community College Hero, Hero or Villain, Grand Academy for Future Villains.Is it Eastern stuff now with Samurai of Hyuga into Path of the Martial Arts or is it World of Darkness stuff (already had some before the Paradox collab with Choice of Vampire, Blood Moon & Werevolves Trilogy)
>>3895761>books like Blackstone Academy, The Fernweh Saga, Witchcraft UAll shit>The Shadow Societyhad the potential to theoretically be fun but it never released a continuationIt truly is suffering to like urban fantasy
>>3895761>>3895764>The Shadow Societyhave I got news for you retards
>>3895766>remake instead of continuationIt is going to be shit
>>3895764definitely all underwhelming, both in terms of quality and what the managed to achieve in terms of success. I thought Fernweh & Shadow Society always felt like reskinned Wayhaven, especially when it came to the love interests you had:>the all business one>the arrogant one >the non-serious one>the wholesome one
>>3895761Worst one was Golden. Stop me if it seems familiar>By birth, and association, you are one of the most famous people in the big city of Lehsa. Your father’s the mayor, and you’re from a bright, vibrant, bustling city… and yet, until recently, you didn’t realise all the secrets yourself and the city held.>Humans amongst supernaturals, humans amongst half-supernaturals, all whilst the latter live in hiding.>Then, you find yourself, and your birthmark, at the centre of a high-profile mystery. A double homicide.>You’re not a killer. The group of supernaturals you’ve been pushed to join forces with aren’t the killers either, yet here you are with no choice but to fight and clear your names.>You’ll be side by side with a bunch of supernaturals, and whilst discovering yourself, you’ll discover a whole lot more… or you’ll lose everything you know in the blink of an eye.>Go on a crazy adventure with an unlikely group: solve a mystery or two, learn from one another, create your little found family.>Romance any of the four (supernatural) romantic options; The ros are: >the demigod/dess: Their heart is under lock and key, but they wouldn’t mind it being opened>the werewolf: They stayed soft in a world so hard.>the vampire: It’s all just bravado to keep them safe. Be their safety net.>the witch/warlock: They’re pure magic, darling.
>>3895764>>3895770people hated the original though? i could’ve sworn one of the original complaints about the book were it’s grammar and punctuation errors, how unoriginal the story itself was, the bland characters, romances and main character, or how it was a wayhaven clone yeah people were absolutely giving this game crap after it released, I thought you guys would’ve been excited for a remake instead of a continuation
>>3895756slop genre
We should have more wizard power trip games.
>>3895778>how unoriginal the story itself was, the bland characters, romancesI ve never really seen that myself. I liked the characters way more than the Wayhaeavan characters. I liked the secret romance with the Father. And the story had just enough potential to become an interesting political mystery, if the continuation developed the actual shadow society further.
>>3895785true, we need more of those too
>>3895791what's this image from?
>>3895792Dead Mount Death Play
>>3895815thank you friend
>>3895266I’m not sure what it was called, but I remember playing a really creative text-adventure game during the pandemic. It started with you stuck on some kind of spaceship. If anyone knows the name of this game, let me know!
>>3895756>>3895785I wish we had more of both of these. The only real major IPs I know for them though are /fate (never happening) and WoD with Mage, but that's likely not going to happen anytime soon. I also wonder if that anon who was going to play BoHN ever got to finish? I know the game is probably a bit on the length side of things.
>>3895827Type Moon magecraft isn't very strong though
>>3895821There was an early 90s text adventure where you were on a spaceshipThere was a timer and eventually you had to pee, getting>***YOU HAVE TO GO POTTY***Eventually if you ignored it, your bladder ruptured and you got a game overHope this helps
>>3895835This helps me on a spiritual and emotional level.
sister love
>>3895831Yeah but it is a wizard power trip in a way given the absurd amount of ways Mages attempt to approach the root or expand their power. Like the one dude doing tons of human child sacrifices, or the guy milking dudes into crystals, or the CIA turning a city into a warzone. It's an alternative form of wizard power tripping.
>>3895831>>3895843I suppose I should give some examples but like Kiritsugu's dad was basically on the cusp of having complete control over time at no consequence, for instance. Aoko gets raw fuck huge mana beams, there's a lot of cool shit. It helps that it has no actual rules though, because Nasu is just like "wow that's cool" but he has some raw autism over not letting Wizards be main characters.
>>3895434>person takes focus drugs that work on anyone at all>"This means I have ADHD!"Aderall addicts always giving excuses. That being said, performance enhancing drugs are good. It's performance reducing drugs that are bad. He should stay on it.
>>3895853>Aoko gets raw fuck huge mana beamsthis is magic and you need to reach the root or inherit it.> Kiritsugu's dad was basically on the cusp of having complete control over time at no consequenceit fucked up his body and that's why his dad was trying to become immortal, so he could use the crest without consequences. in the fight vs kirei he only does so well because he has avalon inside of him. we dont see him in fate stay night because he put avalon inside shirou and the stress from the time magecraft had lowered his lifespan
>>3895863>the stress from the time magecraft had lowered his lifespanDidn't the mud give him a gigacancer?
>>3895863A little bit of both, but you wanted Wizard Power Fantasy. Fate is very much that, but only for the winners. Also I think it's important to note that Kirei was also cheating quite hard as well using Crest mana to produce knives instead of his own so that he could avoid Kiritsugu's boner bullet. I kind of find it a bit fascinating that Urobutcher had more of an understanding and autism for the application of a Fate character's Origin than Nasu himself. The last time it was relevant was maybe Kara no Kyokai I think? And even then, it was mere character personality outside of the blonde dude.>>3895866Yes, it gave Shirou more gigacancer though which is why justice-fag Emiya decided to give Shirou Avalon.
>>3895732Based and wholesomepilled. Merry Christmas based Orcbro
>>3895866 I read it years ago but I think in the light novel it said that it made the damage he had prior permanent and fucked up his magic circuits >>3895871>Yes, it gave Shirou more gigacancer though which is why justice-fag Emiya decided to give Shirou Avalon.Shirou didn't get fucked up by the grail mud since he wasnt literally in it like Kiritsugu so Avalon purified lingering stuff. Kiritsugu was too corrupted.>I think it's important to note that Kirei was also cheating quite hard as well using Crest mana to produce knives instead of his own so that he could avoid Kiritsugu's boner bullet Yeah Kirei did cheat with command seals but can you blame him? Avalon kept bailing Kiritsugu out the entire fight. >Urobutcher had more of an understanding and autism for the application of a Fate character's Origin than Nasu himself.Origins dont really matter that much unless you awaken them. We don't see them mentioned in Mahou no Yoru, Tsukihime, or FSN. >A little bit of both, but you wanted Wizard Power Fantasy. That wasn't me lol.
>>3895879You're right my bad, replied that wizard power fantasy to the wrong guy. Yeah origins aren't a big deal but we see how they can matter a lot more with /Fate: Zero than we do with Nasu's work. Granted, it can be pure Urobuchi conjecture for how the setting works. Yeah though, you bring up good points for the rest of the stuff. Zero was a pretty fucked situation though for everyone involved.>Shirou didn't get fucked up by the Grail mudSupplementary material in HA and Ilya sort of show that bad mana leaks into the air, and Shirou being a child probably makes him more susceptible I think.
>>3895266Still seeking more power customization/development slop. Doesn't need to be asian martials arts shit like AC, I'm equally fine with western fantasy, sci-fi, capeshit, etc.
>>3895882sorcerery!
>>3895766>>3895770>>3895778I read the remake, its god awful and is an absolute downgrade to the originaldon't read it and cope with what the original could have been if it continued like The Keeper series
>remake worse than the original Superstition and Rhivenia sisters… it’s not looking good for us…
I think it’s time for me to try and play lords of infinity. However i’m not familiar with much of 18th century history, what should I engage with so I can get a primer to fully enjoy wangs supposed masterpiece.
>>3896046nothing because wang's politics is its own special brand of stupid. I really wish I could have told the queen and wulfram to fuck off and be buddy buddy with cunaris, fuck everyone else their on their own WE are gonna breed horses and could totally make do our own without the other duchies
>>3896049wrong they're
>>3896046>>3896049So Wang has always been kind of a weirdo pushing for unpopular scenarios and politics?
>>3896046Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together"
>>3896104He is genuinely autistic.
>>3896104he has been fully consumed by the current age brain rot
>>3896046Master and Commander: The Far Side of the WorldSharpe (tv series)Barry Lyndon
>>3895815That's the one with the qt twink, right?
>>3896046I've never gotten the Infinity series. I read the first book, but I always give up 2-3 chapters into the second one.
>>3896039Rhivenia is better now THOUGH.
>>3896248From what I've seen it still has the same issues as before, because author fundamentally doesnt understand how feudalism and monarchy work.,
>>3896318>woman doesn't understand how things workAny other revelations you'd like to share?
>>3896046It doesn't exactly map to any concrete historical analogue like that. The conflict the series will be going into is kinda like the English Civil War, but then the actual political make-up is more like Late Middle Ages than anything, and there's a whole additional layer of Tierra being essentially a South American country...And then there are also the unwashed masses slowly becoming class-conscious... And then the main conflict of the first two conflict is even more divorced from any historical reality simply because Antar isn't actually like any of the Eastern Euro countries at the time.If you feel a pressing need to read up on something, it can be the emergence of the modern state in broad strokes. Maybe brush up on Latin American politics in 19th century. If we're really stretching it, maybe throw in some Bakumatsu in there. It's not really needed desu.
>>3896104its a situation where you are just the third world country used as a proxy for the real big boy country's conflicts. it doesn't really matter in the end which side you pick, it will just be trading one master for another
>>3896355They're making wargames about Tierra in 821 OIE so who's to say who's the historical winner...
>>3896364>Filthy capitalistic Eru'venne of the Spiele-Werkstatt added 20th expansion to their laughable counterfeited game of Quie! This time about a failed state that used to exist centuries ago, where today's province Qióng Xiāng Pì Rǎng is. These degenerate white devils will be freed from this exploitation when the embers of our revolution reach them, comrades!
>>3895482I go with Nat just to put Ava where she belongs. In the cuckquean corner.>>3896046It's overrated trash like most of Wang's work. Only people who have an autistic fascination with Napoleonic-era Europe will find it interesting. His best book still remains Mecha Ace and that came out over 10 years ago
>>3896398>otomeshitter>batting for a game that isn't Wang's worst only because Kendrickstone series is a thing
>>3896399Only the first Infinity book was good; everything afterwards was a decline into slop. It doesn't even come close to actual being as interesting as the Napoleonic era.
>>3896398>I go with Nat just to put Ava where she belongs. In the cuckquean corner.very based anon
wayhaven sucks.
they seethe at the successful
>>3896499it's successful for sure but shit at the same time like McDonalds
I couldn't get into Wayhaven because it felt like no matter how I played, my character, whatever, I was just reading the story of a teenage girl surrounded by her dream chad harem.
>>3896564Yes, otome tend to be enjoyed only by women and faggots.
>>3896564Because it's literal garbage written by a woman for women who love having no agency.
What do I read next, /vrpg/? I read Lords of Infinity which I liked, and I read the VTM games. I liked Parliament of Knives and kinda the werewolf one even though it was wacky. I know the author of Lords has a new WoD game but I have less than zero interest in playing as a hobo in vancouver and everything I've heard about hunter V5 makes me not want to play it. I liked the "vibe" in Sabers/Guns as well with how you play as a nobleman out to make his career, and the more courtly drama of Lords too, and I suppose the game goes for Parliament of Knives which is similar in that sense. But really I'm pretty open to anything as long as it's got a proper story progression. I don't care too much about romance but it's nice when it's there. I liked the thing with the countess in Lords even though I'll have to wait probably as long as the actual characters in universe to see that whole thing get resolved. Winning over a high class lady is always cook
>>3896688lords of aswick
>>3896688Have you played the classics? If not try games like:Choice of the DeathlessChoice of MagicsChoice of Romance: Affairs of the CourtChoice of RobotsHeroes Rise seriesLost Heir Trilogy
>>3896716I have not. Any particular order I should play them in?
>>3896564The biggest mistake Wayhaven author made was to make MC gender selectable, its clearly meant to be a female>>3896716>Heroes Rise serieslmao, stay away from that trash
>>3896721doesn't matter, just bee yourself
>>3896731No, the mistake was not writing the MC differently based on the gender.
>>3896785no CoG/HG game does this. Mistake was not being genderlocked when the mc is clearly written as a female
>>3896788>just because other games dont do something, you shouldn't eitherYou are a normalfag
>>3896794name me a game where the writing is different based on the gender of the MC
>>3896795Some scenes but Aura Clash
>>3896807>game constantly getting glazed by /vrpg/ getting glazed againsay it aint so
>>3896866>people like a game that's goodA novel concept, I know.
>>3896866There are very few games that differentiate between sexes though.
>>3896795Life of Wizard, Choice of Vampire, Fallen Hero
>>3896866I wish there was more games like AC because then I could play them. POMA is all I've got lately though I heard good things about Undying Fortress. PS - Chapter 9 finally got started in November and is at 62k words.
>>3896688>Proper story progressionGlenkildove (H5) actually has real structure and it's good, assuming you meant the WtA novel as the werewolf game. Some anons here had some good suggestions though.so hope you find something.
>>3896795hyuga
>>3896870Truth is people only glaze it because its a channer who's writing it
I liked unsupervised
>>3896914I would've liked it more if it wasn't unfinished
>>3896908>glazezoom zoom
>>3896928pipe down unc
>>3896926same. its been 20 years and I'm still waiting for that call from telltale to do the heist
>>3896890>Chapter 9 finally got started in November and is at 62k words.Any rough estimation of the full length of Chapter 9?
We love our jannies.
>>3897040...said nobody!
>>3897066I just did though.......
>>3897067...because you're a nobody!
>>3897074That's rude ya know?
>>3897074nobody?
>>3896908>channeryou're a faggot
>>3896994>Any rough estimation of the full length of Chapter 9?at least 62k words
Why aren’t there more IFs inspired by ASOIAF, The Witcher, or Star Wars?
>>3897156cause those IPs are boring
>>3897156A Star Wars ripoff would be awesome if it was KoToR styled
>>3896795Slammed.You get special enmity from Prototype
>>3897156I have only ever read the first chapter of Asoiaf
Merry Christmas!
>>3897425To you too, friend!
>>3897425Merry Christmas anons
>>3897425Merry Christmas!!!!!!!
>>3897425Merry Christmas!
>>3897425Merry Christmas anon
>>3897425Happy Hannukah!
>>3897425Happy kwanzaa
>>3897539AWOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>3897539why are they 7 feet tall
>>3897553why aren't you 7 feet tall?
The captchas are weird, posting on my phone I get 5 images of some weird dominos with barely any differences between them, then I have to do 2 more after, and on PC I get 2 squares and a moon and them I'm done.
>>3895862Normalfags take super low dosages like 10 mg and feel like they're on cocaine. Actual ADHD dumbasses take like 40 mg and feel normal.
>>3895344You can try to be one but it doesn't work out so well...
Adderall constantly made me feel like I was gonna have a heart attack
>>3897689you're just out of shape
Is this high school revenge wip as cringe as it seems?
>>3897694yes
>>3897617Anon, you might be a bit color blind. It is a weird captcha though. The diamonds sometimes have shit where it's like 4 for all and one has 1 tucked away in a white corner.>>3897631How does a potential undiagnosed adhd dumbass get adderall?
>>3897744>How does a potential undiagnosed adhd dumbass get adderall?Adderal is a super common street drug anon.
>>3895266The necromancer's tale It a bit of a slow crawl at first, the combat is shit and whatever engine they are using is shit, like we talking eurojank level of shit engine but the goal of the game is to become a necromancer, a lich and you can kill most people you meet, as you going to need to get bodies from somewhere
>>3897933Seems lonely to play an RPG with just zombies for bros.
>>3897933This is impossible to pirate so sadly it's unplayable.
Just finished Zombie Exodus. Man, Tom's such a petty bitch.
>>3897933I bought this recently too, so far I nerd maxed, dumped the red skills, went to one of the bars and got hit on by drunk sailors. patiently waiting through the introduction chapters till I can get my bone crew/10
>>3897953Who is that, the leader that sabotages you? If so yeah, although I never got a confession out of him
>>3897933>is to become a necromancer, a lich Which one is it then? Because those are not the same thing. Necromancer focuses on controlling the undead hordes. Lich is all about strengthening yourself alone in body, mind, and spirit.
are people in this community as obsessed with romance as they are in owlcats circle?
>>3898002you will find no refuge here
>>3898002on the forums they love romance
>>3897997Yeah that's him. I ended up pressing him on it and he just gave a nebulous "Well, you see, life is about balance" spiel.Also, imagine feeling threatened by a guy that does everything you ask, supports you and who your sister thinks highly of. Like jesus christ I was his top guy with 0 reason to fuck him over.
>>3898002yes. I prefer romance books
>>3898000They are not mutually exclusive even though they are not the same thing>>3898002It's pretty much expected for books to give you love interests even if they're not romance books, and people like them quite a bit
>>3898000Many liches are also negromancers
>>3898002>>3898049Would you rather play a game with absolutely no romance interests? I would really say that if you were to skip an RPG genre convention like that you'd need some exemplary writing. Even some of the games considered to be some of the best, like Planescape, had two romance choices. Some didn't, granted. Just seems harder to move away from now, on top of other people being coomers.
>>3898075>negromancerI'd play that game...
>>3898079I'm not against romance, and I'm not gonna pretend I haven't partaken in my fair share of best girl conversations across dozens of games, but it does feel quite forced at points. Like sometimes you see a character or a dialogue option and it's "Here's your state-mandated romance option" I think it's kind of funny they've become a staple of the genre given it's something I feel people tend to avoid in tabletop RPGs.
I don't really enjoy IF "romance". "ROs" have almost always felt like a burden, filler, to me. Existing merely as a complication and interruption to the greater story, and not an actual contribution to the MC's life other than a relationship meter that rewards the MC with highly truncated, abbreviated, and unsatisfying implied sex for managing it properly.
>>3898167I like the push and pull with fitzie and the uperhand stat reflecting how lax you might be with her (its me I always have like -10 uperhand because I can't say no to fitzer)
>>3898184>its me I always have like -10 uperhand because I can't say no to fitzerHoly based
>>3898089Fair point anon, fair point. I do think at some point RO's kind of filter into state-mandated sympathy pet or a wild gremlin that incidentally got written to get gooned over. Sometimes, like in the case of dispatch, it's written with romance in mind like something from Eva and you actually get something more natural. Ultimately, it's all going to be dev approved, though I suppose the feeling is alleviated when it's well written.>>3898167Some are just inoffensive coom bait there for you to feel like your character is in the world rather than to feel like you're actually developing a relationship. Some sex scenes are alright, I've read better smut but I've also read worse smut.
>>3895503I can't think of the last time I saw a women in a skirt IRL.
Jinlai is better than PoMA.
>>3898278that's because only landwhales wear skirts in order to hide their obese legs
>>3898282True, but mostly because Nicky hasn't had enough time to ruin it yet. Hopefully(tm) he's learmed some lessons from PoMA.I do think the investments mechanic is interesting and should be a lot easier to implement and balance than combat, if Nicky isn't terminally retarded about it.
>>3897617If anything, it’s improved the quality of the siteHadn’t seen a single Indian flag on /pol/ for awhile now
>>3898400I can agree with that, I guess it filters out phoneposters now as well then (which is also not bad).>>3897744Nah my memory is pretty bad though that I can admit. But I've just never seen the weird dice captcha where you have to count the dots and see the difference on 5 images on PC. Also I meant dice on my first post, not dominos, whoops.
>>3898400>Hadn’t seen a single Indian flag on /pol/ for awhile nowEvery Canadian, half of the American and a quarter of Western European flags are actually Indians doing a whiteface.
>>3898405Damn, never had that captcha before. Just been shapes and occasionally the diamonds.
>>3898405>count the dotsIt's asking for the image with the most empty boxes.
>>3898523Darn, I must be retarded then. It's over......... (I did get it on my first try but apparently only by chance.....)
>>3898400Considering /pol/tards like you still infest boards, not working well enough
>>3898273>like in the case of dispatchGames cover image is a nigger race cuck humiliation picture, but this anon actually bought and played it.Opinion discarded.
>>3898592Robert (the white male protagonist) blows everyone out of the water and he's a TRVE superhero, you didn't play the game.
>DispatchJust wish Waterboy were a romance option, invisagal sucks
>>3898600Based, Robert is a great MC.>>3898613No gay sex for you.
>>3898600I was shocked that they let Robert be based and just disregard everyone's dumb bullshit. Also that they let me choke my father's killer to death in front of everyone
>>3898600it was a really fun game
>>3898600Jesser...
dispatch was an okay flick of a game, theres not a ton of substantial depth (it is a telltale type game after all) but it was flashy and entertaining enough for when I played through it that I wouldn't mind playing it again to turn my brain off and watch aaron paul be a moral saint redeeming a bunch of youtuber voice acted villains. it could have been more interesting if the heros with powers where corrupt/the buisness angle was pushed more, like only helping people that signed up for their hero protection service, and have that clash with robert being a normal human dude who was a paragon vigilante before he signed up for the corporate hero office job so they'd fix his suit. the blonde chick felt too perfect, phenomaman was kinda a dick when first introduced but just becomes depressed when the blonde chick dumps him for the rest of the game. its got a tinge of satarizing the genre with the tutorial for the dispatch minigame and the advert phenomaman was in but it doesn't go full venture bros with it. Is the Phoenix program a corporation trying to find a new avenue of income by employing the absolute dregs of society to cut costs or is it like a court ruling community service and these villians where faced with this or indefinite imprisonment? we don't get a real explanation for why these guys signed up in the first place, what changed with flambae that made him suddenly want to start from the bottom and work for the good guys?
>>3895482Your choices are:>Lesbian>Lesbian (top)>Millennial burger joint owner>Black nursing science major (sith edition)
>>3898613Faggot
>>3898613fujo...
You guys ever play King of Dragon Pass, or does that not count?
It’s okay to bee gay…
>>3898592Dispatch's romance and MC are both pretty good. You have a based semi-sarcastic competent white chad who either gets his brand of I can fix her or She can fix me for a love interest. Certainly pretty good in that department.>>3898665I agree with this assessment, but honestly it's best not to think too deeply about it. This is, refreshingly mind you, not a deep lore type of game and you're just supposed to experience the plot and the premise as is. At least until season 2 ruined everything.>Why is Flambae suddenly trying to be a real heroBetter retirement, consistent pay, for half of them they go from a lifetime + sentence to essentially paid community service. The real question should be what type of crappy world San Francisco is that they need multiple divisions of superheroes to manage?
>>3895525>>3895482What is this?>>3898613>Not even /ourfag/ FlambaeAnon...
>>3898730I have, I like the core tribe/clan management thing and reacting to events but didn't like the overarching main plot which leaves only a boring railroad path if you want to actually win the game.
>>3898730TOTAL DUCK DEATH
>>3895482what game> are the choices for straight males?
>>3898771Ryoyfuy Setsujin???
>>3898771Say that to my face and not in the tula, longshanks
I'm in a terribly bad/misanthropic mood now so I can't concentrate on or enjoy all this fantasy/romance slop on offer. IFs where you can wipe out lots enemies, horribly cripple rivals, and generally be an asshole?
>>3898837I, the Forgotten OneThe ExileFallen Hero series
>>3898771Based.
>>3898529I've noticed they have a second condition for the boxes and dots now which is find the set with the exact given number of empty boxes.
>>3896321Now that's just slander, that one fem gooner writing the smut story were the MC is being molested and groomed by their uncle and/or their father clearly gets it
It's you chuds' fault that Wang's hobo game turned out to be so shitty and cringe. Apparently some people just didn't get some "subtleties" in Lords, so he had no choice but to make his next game super extra preachy. And something something about people thinking the Imperium of Man is LE GOOD even tho it's LE BAD, or however the dog gets eaten.
>>3898954I simply don't care about powerless unskilled and untrained "hunters", the homeless, canadians, or modern leftist causes. A game about all four is a no-buy even if the writing is good, which it wasn't.
He Fags, we are so back!
>>3898864I dont know why people wank that quote so much? If yu actually agree with it then you should just go become one with the AI in a big singularity. It is only natural to have an ego. Fox was a retard.
>>3898988Fox was based because instead of saying that a villain should get egotistical over his villainy, he should just accept he's a crook and move on rather than mope over some grand plan. He was legitimately a psychopath pretending to be a normal person, so he was immune to getting ducked. Essentially he was just a repudiation of Duck's goals and it's funny to see Duck making everything worse for the 2nd time. Mind you this was after the incredible SPK movie, where Duck ducked an entire martial arts school.
>>3898937Sauce?
>>3898984That's not He Gang, it's the guy that swapped souls with him.
>>3898997https://cogdemos.ink/play/locria/to-crown-a-king/mygameAuthor is utterly shameless with her gooning with how the MC is extremely fucked because every male in her vicinity besides like one is a shameless gooner asshole figure of authority, while she's just a hapless bastard child turned nun
>>3898937>that one fem gooner writing the smut story were the MC is being molested and groomed by their uncle and/or their father clearly gets itIt makes as much sense as A Song of Ice and Fire does (this is not a compliment).If you're going to play garbage smut at least be honest with yourself about it.
>>3899004I know.
>>3898984>yet anothe mechanic for Nicky to rebalance a dozen timesPOMAbros we are SO back
>>3899013literally every single thing uploaded by this person to dashingdon 2.0 is pure smut of the titular hopeless femc being raped by the western equivalent of ugly bastards. I'm kinda impressed by the audacity honestly
>>3899013>>3899051Where is the monster fucker one if this guy is such an ugly bastard gooner?
>>3898984Possessed He Gang is the worst idea Nicky ever cooked up and I keep hoping he'll realize this and walk back on it.Seriously, who asked for this? Gang is the kind of guy that makes you want to maul him to death slowly and painfully, letting him get possessed is like punishing a serial killer with a few hours of community service. And making him friendly and a possible RO at that? Fuck off, what a complete waste of words, if I was giving him money on patreon I'd be incensed.
>>3899063I think he wants to keep He Gang as a book 2 villain, get the guy that possessed him to lose control and he'll take over again.
>>3899063He Gang in general was kinda just a retarded addition to begin with
>>3899067A childhood rival is fine, we just need ways to fucking murded him already.
cathrine or kathrine
>>3899089*murder
>>3899090Catherine for sure.
>>3899089>A childhood rival is fine, we just need ways to fucking murded him already.you will be ze jobber and will be happy
>>3899090Erica
>we'll be able to kill He Gang>we'll not be able to kill JackWe all know which game is the superior one.
>>3899231he gang shouldn't even be a credible threat to you instead he just asspulled qi cultivation out of nowhere while ruo is still struggling with it
>>3899231ehh idk. i am a strong believer that if you kill your enemies you win, but mentally breaking jack to the point he can't imagine life without you has a certain appeal..or maybe all i really want is just more frens
>>3899231I want to kill He Gang mostly because he's basically responsible for the death of your aunt, who was the only family member around who genuinely liked you.Jack? Eh, he bullies your siblings/hobo friend and you beat him up on the spot to assert dominance. It's almost funny at this point and I consider us even.By now Mao is the one you still have some getting back at to do since he had some nasty designs for you and your family before the magistrate saved you.
What's the user and password of the last Aura Clash demo, anyway?
I was hoping for a total amazon with midorikatai but it's just a kemono girl.
>>3898730KoDP is easily one of the best CYOAs and a loveletter to both fantasy and cultural studies. Six Ages is also a worthy sequel despite being inferior in certain aspects, and it ends in a pretty high note with LGO too (the entire endgame is an extended version, and also the origin, of the Elmal Guards the Stead quest from the original game). Now
>>3897156There's a fair amount of games inspired by GoT, too many perhaps. The real problem is that your average author doesn't knows enough about the middle ages to understand dynastic politicking and imitate GRRM, let alone create a game that is both respectful to the player's intelligence and the setting it's trying to imitate. Most examples are, indeed, otome nightmares that drink more from highschool dramas than either GoT or its medieval inspirations, making a ton of wrong assumptions in the process.
>>3899373patronkeiko
>>3895266I've been playing way of the samurai 3 recently and its pretty gud, its got a lot of different endings, with the premise having 2 warring factions with a village stuck in the middle, and you can do anything ranging from protecting the villagers, siding with one side or another, double crossing a side, killing one of the faction leaders for his mistress (who is now your mistress) killing everyone important and leaving, killing every single npc and the final boss for another ending where your character becomes a folk demonic legend due to the fact he killed literally everyone. gear, skills and money all transfer over to a new game if you use a save at the end of one so its open to a lot of experimentation, and some weapon you can only get by killing major story figures and taking it from them. if you kill 1,000 people (theres a method to speed it up by killing a villager and then speaking to the mission giver, they will always give you a mission to fight 100 dudes so do that 10 times) you can title your weapon as bloodthirsty and earn a massive permanent attack bonus. I would reccomend it
I wasn't aware these guys were even making a sequel. I loved the life and suffering of Sir Brante. But there is no way I am going to spoil myself by playing a playtest. What path did (you)'r Sir Brante take /vrpg/?
>>3899495Noble lot and tried to make things better, convinced the Twins to forgive people.
>>3899508Who knew that your complete loser of a brother would end up being good for something?
>>3899495First time I played I went Lotless. I managed to calm to calm the bitch down but the province became kind of a shithole. Still a comparatively good ending.
>>3899090qatherine
>>3899495Priest. Being able to cast supportive magic like I was a FFTA Judge was badass.Used my position to spare and help those that were magically gifted. Watched my mentor reach for godhood and fail and was short 2 or 3 stats from being able to succeed in my own attempt.Had a tryst with the qt nunfu.
>>3899495Total *rk*nian death
>>3899518Wait, when did they add a Lukako?I guess I'm going to have to buy this game now.
>>3899495TOTAL DEATH OF ALL
>>3898766Wayhaven
>>3899510Always had faith.
>>3899495Is the Sir Brante game good? Sell me on it. It does have good reviews.
>>3899736Lots of choices, a very interesting world, good characters, the big con is that you really need to follow a guide if you want to get the best results.
>>3899744Maybe I'll pick it up now that it's on sale. Does seem interesting.
Hey, mostly, this place seems to have gotten better! As in, talking about worthwhile stuff. What happened? Did the new captcha give a load of anons brain embolisms?
>>3899752>jeets and blacks can't solve a simple IQ test Likely not the issue, rather it just being higher effort You tell me.This has always been one of the best threads on the website though, as far as I've been in it.
>>3899756>This has always been one of the best threads on the website though, as far as I've been in it.How grim. I remember when these threads were just starting, they were amazing. It has gone much worse since then.
>>3899752Don't question it.(One schizo can ruin a thread and he seems to be getting banned constantly now.)
>>3899762I remember Pol and fit being better pre-election, but otherwise thread quality has only changed in that less anons make OC now as far as I've seen. I haven't been a /pol/ack for a long time because of it. Maybe I'm a newfag or something, but I hear that /b/ used to be great but even since I've been on it's been non-stop porn. This thread, even if it's horny goonershit sometimes, is at least pretty engaging.
>>3899773The porn is especially bad... I'm trying to quit, how does porn somehow get brought up in just about any topic?
Any games with blonde twink romances? Already played All world: Pro wrestling and Wayhaven (for Adam), any other recommendations?
>>3899795whats with fujos and blondes?
>>3899796Who in the hell wants to fuck a shitskin?
>>3899798me
>>3899800But she’s Irish? The Gaelic folk are white…
What's the best capeslop CYOA, WIP or otherwise?
>>3899818Unsupervised if text only. Dispatch otherwise.
>>3899818unsupervised doesn't have youtuber and celebrity voice actors so thats already a point in its favor
>>3899801As a pure blooded english aristocrat, the MC inherently sees all irish as the darkest, swarthiest black people to ever exist.
>>3899801she's an orphan
>>3899818did honeypot ever deliver
>>3899867Did you really think he ever would?!?!
>>3899818dispatch
>>3899818The x-men immersive sim I see in my dreams at night
changling the dreaming cyoa when
>>3899961WoD only licenses games to v5 content and there is no Changeling or Mage or Wraith book for v5, so don't expect any of them even being possible until that happens.
>>3900001worst timeline
>>3899961>>3900001>>3900014You guys have to remember some whacko made a bootleg hunter game using V5, so it's not entirely outside of the realm of belief. The only problem is, the game was shit and the guy was just autistic for Hunter. So it's not impossible for H5 with Numina supplements to be used for a Changeling or Mage game. The main issue of course is that a majority of CoG WoD game authors are just in it for the money/contract and aren't actually autistic about the setting the same way the Out for Blood and Kyle are.
>>3899780Porn is a massive industry anon, can't help it. And I'm sorry, but I believe in you. Ganbatte anon!
>>3899843>youtuber and celebrity voice actorsThat didn't bother me since I didn't know any of them besides Laura Bailey.
>>3900037Thanks!
Games with melodrama?
>>3900163Infamous is THE melodrama WIP game.
>>3900165Infamous has so much melodrama that it turns around to being comedic instead.
>>3900244Just like real life!
You know, i started reading Reverend Insanity and i kinda hope we get the option to turn Jack into a woman, just like Bai Ning Bing. It would be peak.
>>3900299
>>3900299are you japenese by chance?
>>3900163Infamous and Apartment 502
>>3900320Turning your enemies (especially annoying rivals) into women and then making them fall in love with you is a peak trope in xianxia novels. But you wouln't know that since you're a Cradle tourist.
>>3899843It doesnt have an ending either(Im zaper but I had to make that joke, surprised no one else did)
>>3900371finish your game zaper
>>3900299Personally, I feel like Jack ain't that great as a rival. I mean, his fight was great, but it still feels...unearned? It just doesn't feel like he's a REAL rival. He's just some dude who has spent his entire life seething about the Thunderfaller and appears every now and then to try to kick his ass while screaming about how he's superior.
>>3900377> It just doesn't feel like he's a REAL rival.That was my stance on him before he tricked us into crippling ourselves. It was an absolute masterstroke that elevated his character from a shitstain I laughed at after suckerpunching him to someone I actually respect enough to want to ruin.
>>3900387See, that would have been cool, but the issue is that it didn't feel like it had enough build-up. It feels like I skipped two seasons worth of buildup to it, so to say.
>>3900372I’d rather he focus on wake of the wyrm desuI don’t want to be a 30-year-old boomer by the time he launches an open demo for the game
>>3900377I feel you. MC is much more of a rival to Jack than the other way around with how his deep rooted motivation to improve is because he can't actually beat you, where as your motivation is trying to survive + keep your family alive with the top 5 being just obstacles on the way to the top. I'm reserving my judgement for chapter 9, but I'm also of opinion that john auraclash doesn't really have a rival character.
>Reverend InsanityBeen hearing how Reverend Insanity is the apex of Chinese novels for years and finally got into it. I've read up till chapter 250 which is the part with gender bender which I felt like was some kinda fetish/fan sevice but it just feels unnecessary for this kinda novels atmosphere instead of just traveling with him as a male.First of all I really can't see where that special thing that makes people worship it, sure the world building is definitely top notch among the novels I've read specially with the Adam Eve story here and there which I really liked but for story pace? It's just straight boring and don't tell me it gets good at 500th 1000th chapter, if a book needs you to read a several hundred chapters of "setup" before it gets interesting that's just not it I'm not gonna lie. The plot so far is nothing special that I haven't seen before.Now the most important part the mc aka Fang Yuan, I get that he is an objectively evil guy and I'm fine with it but the author tries really fucking hard to get that point across to the point it was the top reason I just can't continue it. Everytime he does the baddy bad evil stuff mc has to formulate some kind of philosophic bullshit excuse, sure first several times I liked it as it was thought provoking but when you have to do it every time you do the baddy bad I kinda feel like he's just trying to justify himself to not feel guilty even though he is supposed be an ultimate detached cold mc maybe the author couldn't think of any other thing to make him think cause social interaction is zero in this novel. Sure he will do anything for his benefits I already got it 100 chapters ago so just do the deed cause the pacing is already bad as it is. So fellow readers let me see the Mount Tai that is Reverend Insanity cause it seems like I'm a frog in the well after seeing all those worshipping for this novel
>>3900417It really starts to pick up after the he leaves the southern continent, picks up in the next arc, slows down for the rest of the arc, next comes one of the kino arcs and after Fang Yuan becomes a zombie it becomes really good.If you don't like it read something else like A Regressor's Tale of Cultivation.
I know it's only sort of on topic but since we are talking about PoMA and AC, you guys should check out Ascend from Nine Mountains. It's in EA but there is already a lot of content. I clocked over 50 hours already and I am in the 5th realm from the currently available 6.
>>3899780>I'm trying to quitGood for you man.At the start of the year I was spending like 3 hours a day, on average, watching, collecting and sorting through my porn.Some days I was exhausted because I only had 3 hours sleep because I stayed up all night watching porn.Now it's been months since I've actually gone out of my way for it. Like don't get me wrong I've seen some porn just from scrolling through media and discord groups and stuff since. I've even stopped to watch some of it but going from 3 hours a day to 30 seconds a week is a pretty good improvement.I still think "I've got nothing else to do today, could just spend the next 6 hours jorkin it" and stuff like that but it's been a lot easier to just, not do that? Than I thought it would be.It's been pretty nice.This change didn't come out of thin air though. The catalyst was getting a boyfriend. We're not even doing it like rabbits or anything. Once a week or two? Hell I haven't even jerked off since our first date. It's just been nice to have someone I look forward to spending time with.I know it's not a solution for everyone but I didn't want to give the impression that it was a simple act of will to just go cold turkey one day.Anyway man I hope you manage to find a solution that works for you. You'll thank yourself once you do.
>>3900377>has spent his entire life seething about the Thunderfaller and appears every now and then to try to kick his ass while screaming about how he's superior.Vageta?
Happy new years to everyone here! I'm sure your favorite wip is getting finished in 2026.
>>3900826ExileGODs...Happy New Year, Nicky-san
>>3900826No it's not gonna happen. Wanna guess my favourite game?
This will be my year... i will finally start written my war cyoa.
>>3900882>start writtenSaar please redeem the war cyoa
>>3900882>writtenits over for anon before it even began
>>3900969As if ESL turbo gibberish didn't have any following.
>>3900826if tea and scones ever releases I can die happy
Happy new years lads
>>3901014Happy new year bro!
>>3900977Dao Ascension bros...
I'm writing my own IF now, tentatively titled "Choice of Pronouns".
>>3901067stellar social commentary
>>3901068Excellent line, with the right blend of deadpan and snark it will fit perfectly as something my superhero characters say while listening to the badguy monologue.
>>3901070no problem zaper
Would you be interested in an IF book based off the social life of an evil blonde twink and his social clique? It will be risqué and explicit There will be NO bara and no old fat crusty boomers, just twink and twunks
>>3901135No, I have no interest in being fucking gay dude.
>>3901135only if they look like THIS
put your trip back on, honeyfaggot
What is it with these IF artists and their inability to draw women? On the right is Julia apparently?
And wtf is this
>>3901164>what is it with these IF artists and their inability to drawFixed that for you
>>3901164usually it's due to decades of them drawing nothing but yaoi shitit's kind of like getting a furfag artist to draw a dog they just can't do it
>>3901164they seem to have a bad tendency of drawing the female (or very rarely its reversed) version of the character as the male one but with tits, and uh, that doesn't make an apleasing woman.
>>3901158he promised me a chuuni bee obsessed d-list villian retardfu and never delivered, I will never forgive him
>>3901156The protagonist will look similar to Nick Fuentes and one of the main romance interests will be your child hood friend that happens to be cat boy
>>3901325>The protagonist will look similar to Nick FuentesSo no character customization? assuming you actually start writing lmfao
KEK this nigga so mad he made his own framekit out of pure seethehttps://www.auraclash.com/#gamedev
>aura spics:/
>>3901367None whatsoever, there will be only white twinks and twunks in my story
>>3901376
Now that the dust has settled and the sun has set on 2025. Was there a single good CYOA/IF released in 2025?
>>3901743I liked Glenkidove.
>>3901743Orckino and though Unsupervised wasn't finishes it was properly a game and did have plot points and lore people wanted to be involved in.
>>3901743I will go with Glenkildove too. It was a pleasant surprise.Hoboslop, on the other hand, was an unpleasant one.
>>3901743Star Crystal Warriors was high key underrated
>>3901810>>3901750Based and same.It pretty much nailed the tone and 'power level' of what I would have wanted from a Hunter game.More early seasons of Supernatural and less The Secret World.
>>3901743no
>>3901743I don't know I fell off them for a few months because I was tired of the slop on dashingdon 2.0. unsupervised was fun for what there was.
>>3901750>>3901810>>3902153I do like Glenkildove for what it was. Very much your average H5 experience for what your character can get done in a semi-known paranormal mystery. I suppose straight up ignoring W5 and W20 is fine in the context of a hunter-centric game. I just wish H5 had potential for grander game types without the game shitting on you for being a jobber .
>>3901810I hope the next Hunter game, the Hollywood one. I'm fairly certain we're only getting Hunter and Vampire games for the foreseeable future sadly as far as WoD is concerned. I'm sure there's other games that aren't licensed though.
>>3901743I think I only played Glenkidove. I got Wang's hunter game but it didn't click with me immediately as Glenkidove did
>anons did not like wang’s hoboslopit was pretty kino, y'all are just haters
>>3902337Low effort, no love or soul in it.
>>3902337Playing as a Canadian hobo feels like some sort of Jewish fetishism for being a beaten down man, frankly. I also just don't think it does the Hunter thing particularly well compared to getting your own group of related and somewhat friendly schizophrenics the way Glenkildove does. The party dynamics sort of help the game feel less lonely and the prologue chapter in Glenkildove where you go from your current mystery to a backstory for the mystery with all your friends RIP Simon, based faggot is very kino. Wang could never. I also think Vampires are just overdone, they're in every one of these game and don't even get me started on Thinbloods.
>>3902337>how DARE YOU demand quality!Next time tell your pet chinkoid to write a decent piece if he doesn't want to be shat on. Or refuse the commission if he can't even be bothered to give the minimum care and respect for the franchise he works on.
>>3902337wang doesn't really care about the setting and it shows. the vamps read more like a metaphor for the man TM and faux college intellectual revolutionaries respectively. the hobos are grass roots communes or something idk, protection rackets are good actually because it originated from the streets and does a better job than those corrupt coppers trust me
>>3901866What's so good about it?
>>3902575Yeah, he never gave a shit about vampires other than the dommy mommy horseshit, which he's way too proud of.He admitted that making a point about politics was the main point. Everything else, like telling a good story, was secondary. Mainly because some players didn't get the "subtleties" of Lords about the "progress" and "reaction" and whatnot. He's tilting at windmills.
>>3902554>I also think Vampires are just overdoneThe fuck? We've had 2 decent vampire games from 2020 to 2021 and none in the 4 years since. Vampires are UNDERDONE, they keep giving us homeless loser hunters or gay furries. There are millions of people with college degrees on this planet who hadn't started college yet when Parliament of Knives came out.
>>3901866it was pretty rated desu, generic sailor moon clone with the usual cogisms of having paper thin characters
>>3900377The problem is the story keeps wanking him as this great genius, but he doesn't do anything and jobs every time we fight.
>>3902622Being a rival has nothing to do with how many times you win. You can be a rival who loses every single time, and so long as you have a "cool" rivalry, people will still like you.
>>3902624There's nothing cool about Jack.
>>3902626Which is the issue, rather than him jobbing.
the best rivals are narrative foils to the protagonist
>>3902631Jack isn't really a foil, though. Sure, he's got an "opposite" situation to the Thunderfaller, but he's not really a foil.Then again, I guess you could say it's hard to make a foil when your character can't really have a set personality.
>>3902603Let me clarify, Vampires in terms of casual explorations into VtM or antagonists is overdone. Every game since the first one has featured vampires in some way. Hell even the WtA game had three vampires and a grand total of two Fomori. You unironically spend more time in Glenkildove dealing with the Asian Vampire's machinations than with the gay furries. I don't mind actual VtM games, but I want none VtM games to be less Vamp centric.
>>3902628They're both problems. He's not interesting as a character or a threat.
Good news everyone. Wang's not broke anymore.
>>3903073nobody cares give us WARS
>>3903073>not broke anymore.... For a week or so. Now that he has announced his balance, people will start jacking up the price.
>>3903073Do Patreon retards really think he'll use that money to finish the shit no one wants as quickly as possible, instead of getting convinced that people actually want the shit no one wants?
>>3902642He literally crippled the MC I think he's a threat.
>>3903188>Do Patreon retards really think
>>3903207Patreon retards are the most important since without them people just won't write.
>>3903289>Not writing for the sake of passionEww
>>3903293There are so few writers that write out of passion though the biggest writers don't
>>3903206nta there’s a difference between an interesting threat and a boring one. Jack is far from an interesting threat compared to the other antagonists in Aura Clash. Honestly, Aura Clash’s antagonists aren’t that interesting to me, the power-fantasy aspect of the writing makes any sense of threat feel empty.
>>3903346>Aura Clash’s antagonists aren’t that interesting to meI don't think they're suposed to be, they're basically retarded kids, all of them including the MC. Maybe in later books.>but TaioJobber/comedic antagonist like Bejita.
>aura spics :/
>stop talking about cyoas in the cyoa thread!>talk about homosexual sex!
>>3903355We were already talking about aura clash tho?
>>3903361>a game so straight the cog fellas have to remove it from their catalogue
I want to play these without paying
>>3903365choiceofmods.com
>>3903355in an ideal world we could do both... but the ":3" poster is an insufferable little bitch
The best (purely) homosexual CYOA is All World: Pro-wrestling :3All other IFs are purely bi-slop :/ (Bastard of Camelot is still a good game though)
>>3903369BoC is a never ever coming wip riddled with rewrites, it has way too much instrospection too. You spend too long on the why, if you're not roleplaying a crying mess half of the text is throwaway.
In an ideal world homosexuals wouldn't exist.
>>3903371I don’t mind the introspection too much, what annoys me is the filler No I don’t want to read or know about that non-binary healer, or Morgana’s best friends gay fathers, there was literally no point in adding any of those characters, they add nothing to the story :/ (other than word count bloat)
>>3903374I agree that stuff feels like pure word bloat, personally a lot of the content where you get to characterize your child self feels the same to me. 2 options to not cry and bitch and moan that amount to the same thing and 3 options to cry and bitch and moan that push sliders one way or another is what I remember last I played. Kinda corny, also the dragon stuff was weird, I don't remember if there's a way of posturing towards abusing your power to enslave them.
>>3903376>I don't remember if there's a way of posturing towards abusing your power to enslave them.i'm not sure if it was with morgana or your dragon teacher, but you can be open to the idea of mentally enslaving them if only to further your own goals
>>3903378That's like the only interesting thing I remember from my time with the game, I'm sorry but a chapter about how my dad was graped or the filler npcs get gratting fast. Does this thing have a release date or are we 3 rewrites off anyway?
>>3903380chapter 5 has been released on ko-fi and patreon and will be public soon! so seems like the re-write is done and finished!
its already like 2 million words wtf
>>3903293If you don't write 90% of the game only for your mom's uncle's friend's grandma's husband's brother's cat to get cancer so you have to delay the final release for 10 years milking your patrons all the while then you're NGMI.On an unrelated note I heard Mind Blind got an update.
stop doing personality bars. start tracking the dialogue the player actually says/picks and have the other characters and the world react to that. have a tracker for how many times the player is a dickish asshole but don't show it to them/have it displayed with a vague nice to asshole meter. I'm so tired of superfluous choices
>>3903376That's women writing in general. Way too much bitching and moaning about stupid shit. Looking at you ITFO.
>>3903442Crown of Exile is exactly like this as well.
If a game feels the need to list out their romance options in the description then 99% of the time it's boring shit padded with endless lines about how into you every character is.
New lore drop for the critically acclaimed hit game; Path of Martial Arts. Also I heard the next update is going to be in freaking April.
>>3903447I would be more excited if the game wasn't an unbalanced piece of crap already.
>>3903454Bwo PLEASE just play on the intended difficulty (story mode) and STOP giving a shit.
>>3903454Looking forward to another rework!
>>3903447i thought we were getting a jinlai update first
>>3903459I really wish the city visit with your cousin could still be done if you push the difficulty up a bit, but the % modifiers on the skillchecks just makes it almost impossible unless you plan your whole character around beating them.It's not like it's (currently) a very important story event or anything anyway.
>>3903447There's no fucking way he delayed it til april, he teased it might come out before the year ended. I never believed it even for a second but april is crazy.
>>3903579theres nobody thats going to hold him accountable, so who cares even if he pushes it to june kek
>>3903579It's going to be an entire chapter, or so I've heard.
>Caracas bombed >thread stalls I’m nooticing :3Speaking of spic dictatorships, wasn’t there supposed to be some new dlc for Suzerain?
I don't know how relevant it is to this thread but the developers of volcano princess are making another daughter raising sim in set in wuxia land.
>>3901866It's saved solely by the magical girl genre
>>3903863>DLC for SuzerainYeah, Qinal.
>>3903863The conformist?
>>3903968That's a whole different game.
I'm not enjoying anything right now. Maybe I should take a year off from reading any CYOAs.
>>3903864Yeah im waiting for ts
>>3903987You might just be depressed anon.
>>3903864>this>DRAPLINE>Valkyrie IterationWe're gonna feast this year, raisingCHADs.
>>3903864not really a daughter raising sim when (you) are the daughter
Anon where the fuck is the loredive?
>>3904242>Anon where the fuck is the loredive?
>>3903871>QinalDamn, I wanted a commie country.
>>3903871>>3903863Suzerain any good?
>>3904378Very good imo.
>>3904381I'll check it out then, thanks.
What's the point of making a DLC about another middle power? We already had two. I was hoping for something more on the extreme, so either one of the superpowers or some civil war-ridden ̶a̶f̶Rikan shithole.
I read the Pactbinder WIP and it seems promising, but with only a 70k word count and the story already meandering a bit I don't think I'd recommend it just yet. It's a very strong premise though and you can actually be pretty evil in it.
>>3904404Because playing as the ATO or the CSP will fuck up the world state too much.
>>3904404Also, Qinal has the highest living standards in the world so it's pretty important.
>>3904404>sordland>an economic powerhouse, a country can win a war against the 3rd most powerful country in the world by itself>rizia>incredibly rich, the biggest energy exporter in merkopa, creator of the intermerkopum and a country that can win a war against Lespia/ATO in Pales>middle powers
when I played suzerain I was disappointed that only the VP gets to do the politican classic of fucking his secretary and starting a massive sex scandal. I wanted a sex scandal and to crash and burn because my retarded president couldn't keep it in his pants
>>3904430You have rizia for that.
>>3904404Yeah, i agree. I want to play as the leader of a poor nation. Let me play as the South Sudan of Suzerain, a place i can genuinely improve through my policies. Give me the power to hang corrupt politicians from lampposts and drive out foreign mercenaries as i lift my people out of poverty.
sordland starts out in the shitter
>>3904290lol
zaper write more time travel shenanigans
>>3904916He should've made Time Manipulation the only superpower. Everything else is so lame compared to it.
>>3904916zaper was recently killed 3 days ago
>>3905148I killed him (I am a rock)
Cog should really set some sort of deadline for their mainline authors I get the coding takes long… but almost half a decade? Just to release your game? And I’d have to wait another decade or possibly even longer for the sequel? It’s actually getting ridiculous having to wait this long for, say a 230k word long book, something has to be done about this
>>3904916Did you actually enjoy it?I mean I'm a sucker for time travel but IDK if it resonates with others the way it does to me.
>>3905240Just pay for the patreon bro, they'll write faster!
>>3905240The coding in that engine does not take that long.
>jolly good>6 years since the first demolol it’s over
>>3905265yeah, it was easily the most interesting power and had the coolest scenes. atleast for me.
>>3905307tea and scone is at 2 million words right now
>>3905240They technically do have some internal ones. Beyond the advance only being given out in chunks per part of the game finished, they also seem to try tardwrangling some authors. Wang was told by Jason that he's not gonna let him when he wanted to start on Lords already when he hasn't finished Hallowford yet, Choice of Rebels 2 suddenly cutting down on coverage is an obvious attempt by the CoG editors to make that bloatmaxxer to actually ship something and the magical girl game was given for another writer to finish entirely. The main issue is that mainline authors have to be the already published ones so they usually aren't as financially pressured when they have other sources of income beyond CoG and the writing cycles are getting as bloated as the games do. Worst case scenario you get Emily Short with Platinum Package/Elite Status stuck in dev hell for a decade and them being unwilling to just cut it loose at that point.
>>3905433Isn't Lords on HG and not CoG? Shouldn't it be up to Wang, then?
>>3905462No lmao, HG doesn't actually mean no oversight. It means no free editor, no artwork support, and no 15k advance payment (which CoG authors have to pay back by getting nothing with their first 60k in sales). Multipke HG authors have commented on how CoG made then change shit. One guy wasn't even allowed to call the evil elves "Dark Elves" because that was too racist.
>>3905464Okay, thanks. It just sounds suspect, on their part, to tell him he can't write a work on HG until he finishes another work, unless he signed something. I thought HG was supposed to be for anyone, anytime? Not to mean that they are completely free of oversight. And Dark Elves... don't they usually live in dark places and are evil? You've confused and unsettled me.
>>3905462>>3905470Wang was under contract to write the two Kendrickstone games for CoG so Jason was just making fulfil it in time.In the end Wang had the last laugh when both of those ended up his speed writing and, coincidentally, some of his worst titles.
>>3905474Kendrickstone was a Wang title? Damn. I thought it was just one of those generic shitty games that CoG had by the bucketload. It was like, only *barely* above being worth playing for me. Comparing that to Mecha Ace and Infinity is crazy.
>>3905511>Kendrickstone was a Wang title?Yeah, and the sequel is even worse.
>>3905520Yeah, I remember i ended up clicking through it without barely even getting or caring about a thing. It was shite.
I really liked the latest Choice of Life, the Samosbor one. I like the concept of an unending building.Too bad I hate doing multiple runs of a game and settle when the ending is satisfying. So I got a very good ending in my opinion and I don't want to ruin it lol.I really like these series of CYOA, the text is sparse and gives me hope to one day to make my own CYOA as an ESL who hates writing...
>>3903987There just hasn't been anything good released in over a year.
>>3900417>>Reverend Insanity
>>3905464>One guy wasn't even allowed to call the evil elves "Dark Elves" because that was too racist.Hey, at least they're not being called High Elves
>>3905787RI is very good but not the best chink xianxia novel. LotM and RTOC are both better.
>>3903073He still is, since that money is for the commissions and he went on record saying he wants to pay them well.
>>3905849He'll barely make even with the game.
>>3901158Okay.Sorry for the delay, guys. Life's been a lot, but I'm back in the writer's chair as of last November, and have been drudging away daily.Anyways, Crawl is alive, and it has clawed its way to ~45k words. Chapter 1 is at 25k and growing. It is, right now, one full, linear run I've written to get a feel for the story. I'm expecting it's going to be double the size at release.After that, it's monthly updates until the story is done (or I am, whichever first).It took a lot, and I appreciate you still remembering about me. I will refrain from further posting, as I did in months before, since it reduces my productivity drastically. It also makes me feel bad to promise you stuff and not deliver.I will also not provide any synopsis for the story, but I will give you some disjointed info about what's it about as a treat:>world of superheroes and villains>your superpower is a grapnel and a grudge>prep time is a real stat>plot armor is a known, physically quantifiable thing in the universe (you don't have it)>honeypot can appear in ch1, and you get her POV as interlude>you can romance a cop who tries to catch youThanks again, everyone. You all a dear to me, both BEElievers and haters, and I strive to deliver you the CYOA which you deserve.Next time I'll post it going to be with a hard release date, and a synopsis. See you next month, hugs and kisses!holy fuck what the fuck is that captcha
>>3905872Well, that's what his already planned DLCs are for.Besides, it's not like mediocre gamebooks selling better than even the more popular CoG by the sheer virtue of having some presentation isn't the case.
>>3905891Two more years!
>>3905891>all that ideaguying about relationship mechanics and stats and whatnot>"It is, right now, one full, linear run I've written to get a feel for the story." Really nailing that Disco inspiration, vaşa.
>>3905536> gives me hope to one day to make my own CYOA as an ESL who hates writing...One day brother... one day...
Is the Sherlock Holmes game good? The romance one.
>>3905891Don't you dare show your face in this thread again unless you've got photos of a public demo, capiche?! I hope you're doing well anon
Anyone knows if Kyle Marquis is doing another wod slop game?
>>3905964I hope so. We've only ever had 2 good vampires games and yet they keep shoving "hunter" (Mortal NPC) down our throats.
Pon Para bros...
>>3905966I like hunter
>>3905975
>>3905964Last we heard iirc he's talking directly with paradox about his next project, so he's either writing directly for the Mage book or he's doing Mage (apparently, the only one he was interested in doing).>>3905966Likewise, I liked Glenkildove and the hollywood one seems pretty good but there's way too many hunter-centric releases, I'm aware anything but Vampire and (vigil-specifically, mind you) Hunter isn't all that popular but with an IP that has like 8 monster types it's just Hunter for 4 straight games after the 1 good werewolf game, and about 2 good vampire games before that in between a fake vampire game and two mediocre vampire games.
>>3905891How long does it take you to write 25k words? Or is it more on a problem that creative writing is hard to visualize?
>>3905975>>3905976I love Hunter too but it's a bit much to have three different groups to write about and we get like 4 Hunter games in a row. That was an issue back when Vampire was the only thing they were really allowed to write about so I can only assume Paradox or CoG was demanding WoDslop be a certain way.
>>3905977>Kyle Marquis writing Mage v5Don't give me hope like this.
>>3905964Probably not, though he also recently reposted a Requiem for Rome cover so it might just be an Eternal Senate game or some such.
>>3905989Wagie wagie get in cagey!
>>3905958It's romanceslop written by a woman so nothing is actually happening. Descriptions of the things you wear, emotional responses (are you sad, angry, indifferent, etc) for hundreds of thousands of pages. I like the reactivity if the MC is very attractive and the noble woman is the best girl.
How does Marquis manage to write the second highest grossing CoG title ever yet still find himself e-begging on lib twitter?
>>3905995>for hundreds of thousands of pagesWords I mean.
>>3905996cyoas aren't high profile and are niche in nature
>>3905989We can sort of hope, I'm not entirely sure what he is only that he was working and talking with Paradox about one of his next projects iirc. The default assumption is Mage (the splat he's interested in covering if he makes another WoD CoG and also his favorite) but it could be sometime in the future or plans change.>>3905990That's interesting, not sure how I feel about a historical after Night Road and BoHN. This IP is depressingly underserved for good content, but Kyle makes pretty good games so I'm sure it'll be alright.
> The throne of the demon realm calls for blood, and you’re next in line. As a half-angel heir scorned by your kin, you’re thrust into a brutal succession where only one of the Emperor’s children can survive. Outsmart your rivals, wield an ancient celestial power, and decide the fate of a realm that despises you.> Throne of Blood is a 295,000-word interactive novel by Kezia S. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.> Forge your legacy as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, bi, asexual, or poly.Tap into your celestial heritage to unleash powerful, dangerous magic.Shape the demon realm through reform, fear, or ruthless conquest.Recruit and rule alongside three loyal retainers: a fiery dragonkin knight, a doting childhood friend, and a charming but mysterious knight-mage.Pursue romance with one, two, or all three of your companions in a polyamorous court.Navigate political intrigue and ancient prejudice as demons, angels, and monsters close in.> Content Warning: This dark fantasy game was written for adults and centers on a demonic protagonist; as such, it contains descriptions of extreme violence as well as sexual encounters between consenting adults.
>>3905998Breakouts like Choice of Robots and Night Road are. For comparison, Wang-chama said the lump sum he got for Mecha Ace was enough to let him pay off his student debt fully and stop living with his sales and the sales he would've gotten if not for that were higher still and Mecha Ace isn't even on the list.
>>3906000samurai of hyuga 7 looking good
>>3906001>with his parents*
>>3905996>>3905998>2ndWhat's the first? Part of the problem too is he just doesn't quite get massive payouts because he isn't writing an indie IP so everyone's taking a cut.
>>3906001Kyle E-begging by choice like most artists running around with a Patreon despite making a somewhat decent living. Money also inspires making grander projects so we get bigger delays and the artist not really making a living while they work to push out content.
>>3906005Choice of Robots. It was a whole big thing on tumblr back in the day.
>>3906009That's interesting.
>>3905996>25% of sales from a game that stopped selling years ago>CoG doesnt take any store costs so your 25% becomes 17% when steam/appstore take a cut>taxes take another cut so down to 10%.Anon he makes less than a McDonald's frycook, a lot less.
>>3906056>stopped selling years ago...Do you think games only sell on release? All the games, even the ones barely anyone plays, still have sales tickling in years if not decades after the fact. That's one of the benefits of having a big catalogue.And even 10% off ~ a hundred thousand Night Road had is no small amount of money even without counting in the DLC and stuff.
>>3906070He's a full time writer, 100k over 6 years is very, very bad. The other game releases keep him afloat for the year they release but within 2 years these residuals do not pay rent and another is needed. Kyle does well because he keeps good releases coming but residuals will not pay his basic cost of life at all, hence him having to shill for more money elsewhere.
>>3905827>Lord of the asspulls>Lord of the spawning with a unique endgame item>good
>>3906089>>Lord of the asspullsName 3 asspulls.>>Lord of the spawning with a unique endgame itemYeah, so?>>goodYes.
>>3906070IFs are a very niche genre, especially those on CoG and itch. I would be surprised if non-WoD titles surpassed the 2,000 mark in sales
>>3906070>A hundred thousandIs that accurate? I wouldn't assume more than 50-60k given a general 100:1 ratio of sales to steam reviews. Yeah at a generous 25 dollars per sale total counting the DLC this is giving him maybe around 100k + whatever money he got paid for writing it. Also, Paradox takes like a 15-30% cut as well from profits.>>3906074It does make me curious too, as apparently he was given the go ahead to make something a lot bigger with the werewolf game so I would assume Night Road must have actually gone pretty well, possibly more than I assume.
>>3905891I look forward to your suicide note moreso than whatever slop CoG you write
>>3905958The beginning was interesting, but it fell into the pitfall of nothing fucking happening because the author only writes half a chapter a year
>>3906255Nah pretty much every cog games got an update on steam coming up.
>>3906261what happened?
>>3906262No idea. Maybe just patching out a bug in their engine? Security update?
>>3906261>anon posts his javascript engine>makes code visible for all to see>after 10 years CoG suddenly remembers something they have to change in their javascript codeI doubt it's actually the case but this has a chance be the funniest shit ever
>>3906262https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/you-can-now-choose-helvetica-or-opendyslexic-font-in-our-games/175066
>>3906284Whoa....
>>3906284What does the other font do? make every letter extra distinct so dyslexics don't mix them up as much?
The last time Suzerain got a DLC, all of the new story was readable in the code a year before release. I hope it happens again, although some faggot spoon-fed the computer-illiterate crowd on how to read the code, so they might wise up.
I wonder if we're going to get non-Hunter WoDslop again. I know there's slim pickings between Werewolf, Hunter, and Vampire, but personally Vampire and Werewolf are both a lot more interesting.
>>3906424i don't really like vamp because they're all soico to psychopathic bastards and its not really fun to play as one when everyone else is one too
>no games>everything is at the very least 4 months away
>>3906000I played this shit yesterday, and god, it sucked so much dick. I swear, they need to start raising the bar by vetting projects; there’s too much shit getting published.
>>3906471its okay I'm playing raidou 2 in the meantime
>>3906471I'm playing Pathologic 3.
>>3906432Fair point I just find Hunter relatively mundane. Glenkildove was fun, even if it was kind of all over the place on lore, but Vampire lets you play as a non-sociopathic bastard with a few non-sociopathic bastard friends. In Night Road, Julian and the Prince guy were both relatively not sociopathic, though this may be because they were simping for you quite hard.
>>3906471playing Rogue Trader atm
>>3906494Look, I liked my gaysian twink bf as much as the next guy but>non sociopathicis a bit of a stretch.
>>3906532What about him gave you sociopath vibes other than him getting the SI to hound you as a distraction?
>>3906560>I'm going to shape all of society to think the way I want>I'm going to vehemently lie to everyone I meet>I'm going to get pawns killed regularly because it benefits me>I am gay and also muslim
>>3906354Can you do it atm? I tried it on Rizia a while back back but couldn't figure out how.
>>3906580This is the Assamite way, to be fair. Making him an Assamite and a blatant Masquerade risk has to be possibly the weirdest choice about the character.
Out of curiosity, does the RIspammer from /lit/ shit up this thread regularly about his favorite ~insane~ book?
>>3907001I'm the guy that started these threads and I'm a RItard but I rarely talk about it.
>>3907013>brings xer up out of nowhere rent free
>>3907001Delegating those cultivationfags to /a/ would have spared hundreds of threads. The double standards for chinese novels is irrational.
Speaking of RI, where's the anon who said he was working on a cyoa fangame?Please tell us it's still coming along.
>>3905964if not kyle, then what's Jeffrey Dean up to? Parliament of Knives was easily the second best WoD slop
I have a confession to make. I have never read cultivation and I never plan too. I kinda just nod along with everything in going in one ear and out the other in poma and to a lesser extent auraclash which reads more like a shonen to me
>>3907081We know cultivator anon, we know.
>>3907081This man has eyes, yet he cannot see Mt. Tai...
ChoiceScript is an idiot language and I hate it. Why the fuck you can't have more than two conditional without parenthesis? Any other sane language in existence has this shit.I hate it. I hate myself. I will kill myself.>>3905978I write around 1 to 2k words per day, but I remove/rewrite around half during editing. What I have written now took me around a month to do, but I am using an outline and a draft which has been cooking for over a year.
>>3907079How long do these usually take to make anyway?
>>3907120I'm glad you're out of prison, fantasycopper-san
>>3907126Depends. >You've got someone like the Mind Blind author who's taken about 5 years to finish a book>The first three Samurai of Hyuga books released yearly. Then two years between book 3 and book 4. Three years went by until book 5 was released. And its been about three years and book 6 still isn't out.>The Wayhaven author seems to bring out a book in 2-3 years>Fallen Hero seems to be about 5 years
>>3907140Fallen Hero 3Whatever happened there
Everything is so shit. Stale CYOAs, stale vidya. Existence itself has become a stale chore. The world is a dilapidated stage populated by rotting corpses on puppet strings. Maybe I should write my own CYOA just for myself.
>>3907140Interesting, I wonder if slow authors or if they just couldn't be assed to develop a different type of indie game, 5 years seems to be a bit long for this type of game though I'm not very educated on the effort needed for that.
>>3907455Even a comparatively tiny CYOA is around 200k words long, which is basically 2-3 regular books. Some of the titles mentioned are well over 500k words, Fallen Hero: Retribution is 1,400k. That's more than the entire Harry Potter series combined, and that's just one book in a trilogy. Even very prolific full-time authors can manage 4k words per day, so just writing one CYOA can easily take years if you have a regular job.And that's just putting text on paper, I don't count coding, editing, rewriting, proof-reading, etc. you need to do to actually ship the game.
>>3907266Whatever happened there!?!?! Whatever happened there??! I'll tell you what fucking happened, this piece of shit author put 6 ending states in the game with no provocation whatsoever!
>>3907493they shouldn't even bothered, I mean what kind of retard doesn't get the "puppet crashed the car, still in control of your real body" ending
>>3907588>not going with your true bodyYou're a pussy or what?
>>3907266maybe he ack'd
>>3907596the entire point of the puppet is to be an expendable double you can do the dangerous shit in, why would I ever send my real fucking self to meet with the mob
God writing CYOAs is hard.
>>3907635nicky PLEASE
Start writing, right fucking NOW!
>jolly good >7 years in development It’s over
>>3907700>biggest game in cog history
>>3907700cakes and ale came out in 2020
>>3907730>cakes and ale came out in 2020
Do you prefer edgy stories with comfy moments or comfy stories with edgy moments?
>>3908291I prefer stories that actually are out unlike yours
Uhhh, womensisters?!?!?
>>3908383Incelchuds?!?!
>>3908386The age of the balding, sub5, manlet incel chud is upon us!
>>3908386>redpill guards
>>3908386>making fun of redpill chuds to get brownie points with the cog tranniesI see your game Nikolai, very cool!
>>3908386And this is why PoMA is the superior game, god bless that Russian bastard and his humor
>>3908386> Redpill guardsNicky funado in 3,2,1...
>>3908291I perfer good stories
>>3908448
Best capeslop CYOA that's not unsupervised?
>>3908814uhhhh heroes rise?? its really bad lol
Vgh...flashkino is back on the menu...
>>3908896>de MercyRuthlessbros...
>>3908814That's simple.
>>3908943I kneel.That was clean exposition too, you should give the AFK a shot. https://www.auraclash.com/#gamedev it would be an honor for you to bee the first author.
