>>3990825 Yeah. >basically a filler episode >no Masami >one Junko scene >yet another cliffhanger ending >book 7 probably not coming this decade Big "eh" from me.
>>3991044 just finished it and it's definitely filler, very fun filler, but filler nonetheless it literally ends with you exiting the academy still in Masami's body even so I really liked the new characters and even if the author said the Masami romance is not happening, it definitely feels like he's trying to justify it actually she only looked like a child because her magic blood made her age slower and now that you've possessed her she starts aging rapidly and your body starts to de-age also the shit about theyellow eyed demons waiting to destroy the world makes me feel like the final book may be either long as hell or split in two
>>3991139 >actually she only looked like a child because her magic blood made her age slower and now that you've possessed her she starts aging rapidly and your body starts to de-age What da...
>>3991238 there's also a scene where a busty underaged blind miku is put in shibari while you take her hostage and she enjoys it , also the ronin straight up says that you and junko fucked while you were kids, and you threaten junko with replacing her with masami when she accept that she belongs in hell
I have no idea how cog allowed the game to be published.
>>3991492 You'd love Pathfinder:Kingmaker. Once you get to Act 3 you get access to so much citybuilding autism ans it only expands, you get more and more buildings with stranger bonuses the longer the game goes on
After losing out on Fang's Quest yet again, I began to truly see the depths of the sickness of this world with my own eyes. People licking the boots of patreon merchants that crush dreams under foot. I will tear down this rotten empire and give the people the full measure of terror they so desperately need.
>>3991825 >>3991828 >>3991832 >>3991833 There are other standout ones like Parliament of Knives and even Hoboslop is of relatively decent quality. I was promised more premises and more opportunities for decent writers to make me WoDslop and WoDslop I demand. Also I saw that the Hollywood one lets you fuck the werewolf again, so that's a plus. There is the capacity for kino in the hands of a good writer, and there are way too many CoG games for me to possibly entertain them all
>>3991841 >even Hoboslop is of relatively decent quality Just admit to being a white wolf employee, it'd be less embarrassing >there is the capacity of kino in the hands of a good writer The theoretical game would have even more potential if it wasn't tied to a shambling corpse of an IP Pon Para 3 when
>>3991841 does the hollywood one have a demo out? last I checked it didn't even have a release date on steam even tho it was announced together with the hobogame
> V6 was just confirmed. Unreleased vtmslop is going to be subjected to mandatory rewrites and delays just to comply with the new ruleset. You know what this means? No new vampire games till 2028. It's over.
>>3992878 You cut off the date, it's from May 6th and judging by the one comment he got under this post it's been radio silence since despite the "next friday" estimate The post before this on patreon is a poll asking whether people want monthly updates regardless of progress or only released when when the episode is done (monthly won) kek You can't convince me this isn't an elaborate shitpost
I don't come here as often as I used too but it looks like the sequel to Arcadie is finally coming out. I don't actually remember much other then really wishing my sister didn't die and instead wanting to working with her. I should probably replay the game before the second one comes out.
>>3991938 From what I'm aware no, either it's a slow writer or I guess it's more linear like Glenkildove and a demo wouldn't be enough >>3992617 This is both a blessing and a curse, but V6 is mostly going to suck anyway because White Wolf doesn't hire anyone of talent and the sufficient autism and conspiracy-theorist brain (like me). Also it's too safe, all the edge of the setting has been gone
>>3993380 I am just imagining the most frustrating scenario that is not 'too busy snorting drugs to write' or 'I am reworking the entire system, also everyone not named Desdemona is no longer a romance'
>>3994229 Not a lot I am afraid, in fact not a single one comes to mind. It's a damn shame too since spite is a fantastic motivator and is vastly underrepresented in the cyoa format.
>>3994975 she is though. she's selfish. she does what she wants for herself. that's textbook villain. just because she's nice to the player doesn't mean she's a good person. and just because she's not a good person doesn't mean you can't like her. I chose her ending for a reason. after all "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
>>3995016 >she is though. she's selfish. she does what she wants for herself. that's textbook villain Its funny that what you see as selfishness I see as self determination, it was planned for ranni to be the next puppet of the greater will, entirely out of her control. She murdered her half brother just to escape that fate, i can't really blame her when i would have done something similarly drastic if my choices where that or being dragged from my current life to be the next fucking marika
>>3995048 >Its funny that what you see as selfishness I see as self determination because it is one and the same. in the end, it's all about ego. but look at her from a wider perspective. her actions have brought upon so much suffering. is it all her fault? definitely not. did she know all of that would happen? of course not. but those things still happened. and she did all that for herself. not for the betterment of others. solely for herself. from a traditional point of view, she is evil. she doesn't even seem particularly guilty about it either. she's the complete opposite of the goody two shoes hero who sacrifices himself for The Greater Good^TM. you can see what I mean right?
aside from that, I think you're empathizing with her too much. you see her actions as good because you yourself would've done so. which is not a bad thing, but it does bias your perception.
What's up with Suzerain? I haven't paid attention in a while. Didn't they talk about 2 new DLcs and a new Disco Elysium clone? It seems they've done nothing in the last two years.
>>3995058 >aside from that, I think you're empathizing with her too much. you see her actions as good because you yourself would've done so. which is not a bad thing, but it does bias your perception. Yeah thats entirely fair, i know i've got personal bias for individualism and i could easily romantacize her but i understand how she could be viewed as a villian and how warrented it is, for me shes one of the contenders of least bad because frenzy flame exists as an allyable faction and are far more classic "destroy the world lmao" evil and i don't trust the golden order and the stagnation the've caused. [Spoiler] i wasn't even the anon that originally replied to your post, i'd guess first that it was in relation to the feed me eyeballs girl than ranni
>>3995073 >doing things for yourself is not evil yes, but that's not the whole story. she did things for herself and others had to pay the price. it's not like that was her only option. she could've plotted to assassinate Marika instead. or maybe killed off all the fingers. she could've collaborated with the other Empyreans. Malenia strikes me as the kind of person who would sacrifice herself for Miquella. they could've done the thing they did to Godwin on her in exchange for Radhan protecting Miquella or something, to remove all Empyreans and guaranteeing Miquella's ascension. or some other thing I'm not smart even to figure out. they've got magick, there could be other answers. >>3995084 yeah she's not pure evil like the frenzy flame. at best she's morally grey, but to have grey, you gotta have some black somewhere. >>3995433 but I do. it's why I picked her ending. it's why I quoted Nietzsche
I know cyoa's are all about choice and different actions leading to different results but sometimes I always cave in and play lawful good human warrior or its equivalent because being mean to characters makes me feel bad
>>3996062 That used to be me early on. In the last few years, with the characters they introduce to me, I enjoy fucking them over. Games of the monarch's eye was egrecious
>>3995073 >A man’s virtues are called good depending on their probable consequences not for him but for us and society: the praise of virtues has always been far from “selfless,” far from “unegoistic.” Otherwise one would have had to notice that virtues (like industriousness, obedience, chastity, filial piety, and justice) are usually harmful for those who possess them, being instincts that dominate them too violently and covetously and resist the efforts of reason to keep them in balance with their other instincts. When you have a virtue, a real, whole virtue (and not merely a mini-instinct for some virtue), you are its victim. But your neighbor praises your virtue precisely on that account. One praises the industrious even though they harm their eyesight or the spontaneity and freshness of their spirit. One honors and feels sorry for the youth who has worked himself into the ground because one thinks: “For society as a whole the loss of even the best individual is merely a small sacrifice. Too bad that such sacrifices are needed! But it would be far worse if the individual would think otherwise and considered his preservation and development more important than his work in the service of society.” Thus one feels sorry for the youth not for his own sake but because a devoted instrument, ruthless against itself—a so-called “good man”—has been lost to society by his death.
>>3996195 I think we're talking about different things here. if you read the quote above, you'd understand that what is good for the individual is usually bad for society. when people talk about "good" and "evil" they're usually talking about societal good, not individual good. I actually agree with you lmao
>>3996197 why is your first option to kill baby hitler? whatever happened to second chances? since you can kill hitler, than means you can change the past. is it not "good" to aim for the most favorable outcome?
with that said, let's try a different angle. what if killing baby hitler results in you not existing? like someone else more competent could've lead to germany winning and thus completely altering the course of history. or maybe a completely different war happens that results in even more deaths? does that not make their deaths your fault? what gives you the right to play god? your biased understanding of justice and virtue?