Stories that left you disappointed for a reason

[Vamp-kun]

You know i just love your posts and the subtle intelligent sarcasm in them.

Thank you dear Sokrates.
My Diogenese rambles probably come from the Greek side of my ancestry, none of them, of course, helped me in ousting the "nerd" label I was handed when people started listening to me during fourth grade.

Lol, I saw this WIP on not-anymore-Dashingdon site and got excited at the word 'rock star', **** yeah new musical IF.... and in a moment it turned out that MC is only a partner of the singer.

I left immediately,

I'm smelling another Infamous-style fame appearing, however I am unsure if that game ever gets released within the current year.

I mean how many other IFs do that?
Didn't Fallen Hero start off as a psychotic-villain-with-redemption-arc story, only to immediately derail the plot with the Rangers romantic scenes?
And didn't these add more pressure to evolve romances into the next books, therefore extending the time they took to get written?
If I remember correctly, the first one came out at 2017. Add the next coming years and it'll be a freaking decade for just a four book series to finish.

Come on Malyn! The indie 12-book paranormal romance series of Amazon take less than a year to get written. You can do it too!

 

[Gone_Dead]

I was scrolling through Tumblr hoping to stumble upon a good IF and guess what comes up. I had a sift through the profile and she answered like tons of asks about how different the MC and the RO can cheat on each other, but she can't handle pregnancy asks and apparently doesn't want to answer domestic abuse asks lmao. You create a mentally unhinged IF, you attract mentally unhinged people.

 

[seneya]

Some people really do be out there mixing up their IFs and AVNs

 

[clover]

Lol, I saw this WIP on not-anymore-Dashingdon site and got excited at the word 'rock star', **** yeah new musical IF.... and in a moment it turned out that MC is only a partner of the singer.

I left immediately,

Thank God. I thought I was the only one who felt like it was false advertising. Even the Tumblr Blog is 'untitledrockstar-if' what else are you supposed to think?

 

[Hitoshura_tdn]

Thank you dear Sokrates.
My Diogenese rambles probably come from the Greek side of my ancestry, none of them, of course, helped me in ousting the "nerd" label I was handed when people started listening to me during fourth grade.



I'm smelling another Infamous-style fame appearing, however I am unsure if that game ever gets released within the current year.

I mean how many other IFs do that?
Didn't Fallen Hero start off as a psychotic-villain-with-redemption-arc story, only to immediately derail the plot with the Rangers romantic scenes?
And didn't these add more pressure to evolve romances into the next books, therefore extending the time they took to get written?
If I remember correctly, the first one came out at 2017. Add the next coming years and it'll be a freaking decade for just a four book series to finish.

Come on Malyn! The indie 12-book paranormal romance series of Amazon take less than a year to get written. You can do it too!

To be fair with interactive books, the variables and choices needed to consider does make it significantly harder for them to write, couple that with writer's block and external factors it would make sense why it would take a few years for books to be completed. As long as it is complete.


But then again 8 years with just 2 books is insane. The third one might just come out by 2030 lmao.

 

[realman]

Thank you dear Sokrates.
My Diogenese rambles probably come from the Greek side of my ancestry, none of them, of course, helped me in ousting the "nerd" label I was handed when people started listening to me during fourth grade.



I'm smelling another Infamous-style fame appearing, however I am unsure if that game ever gets released within the current year.

I mean how many other IFs do that?
Didn't Fallen Hero start off as a psychotic-villain-with-redemption-arc story, only to immediately derail the plot with the Rangers romantic scenes?
And didn't these add more pressure to evolve romances into the next books, therefore extending the time they took to get written?
If I remember correctly, the first one came out at 2017. Add the next coming years and it'll be a freaking decade for just a four book series to finish.

Come on Malyn! The indie 12-book paranormal romance series of Amazon take less than a year to get written. You can do it too!

Lol you're talking about infamous coming up this year or that other wip?

If you're talking about infamous then relax, author said she wants 20 or so chapters, its been 2 years and we're still on chapter 3 lmao

Even that one wip has no chance of releasing this year since im assuming author has "remember you will die" in their focus.

 

[Parallax]

Thank you dear Sokrates.
My Diogenese rambles probably come from the Greek side of my ancestry, none of them, of course, helped me in ousting the "nerd" label I was handed when people started listening to me during fourth grade.



I'm smelling another Infamous-style fame appearing, however I am unsure if that game ever gets released within the current year.

I mean how many other IFs do that?
Didn't Fallen Hero start off as a psychotic-villain-with-redemption-arc story, only to immediately derail the plot with the Rangers romantic scenes?
And didn't these add more pressure to evolve romances into the next books, therefore extending the time they took to get written?
If I remember correctly, the first one came out at 2017. Add the next coming years and it'll be a freaking decade for just a four book series to finish.

Come on Malyn! The indie 12-book paranormal romance series of Amazon take less than a year to get written. You can do it too!

To be fair, it's not the romances that are taking up so much of writing these days, it's the crazy amount of endings in Retri. Which are great, but yeah....

Hmm, okay, those damn poly routes I don't even know how many there are...I guess it could be some problem in Revelations (plus two new ROs). But I still think Ryden is a great writer, better author than 99% of current WIP authors and he will finish this series.

So far I haven't had the impression that romance has become a dominant topic, although various relationships are an important part of the story.

I'm smelling another Infamous-style fame appearing,

At least in Infamous we had our own band and we weren't forced to be in a relationship with someone who overshadows us

 

[Raijin_01]

You create a mentally unhinged IF, you attract mentally unhinged people.

Truer words have never been spoken

 

[Fuffff]

I was scrolling through Tumblr hoping to stumble upon a good IF and guess what comes up. I had a sift through the profile and she answered like tons of asks about how different the MC and the RO can cheat on each other, but she can't handle pregnancy asks and apparently doesn't want to answer domestic abuse asks lmao. You create a mentally unhinged IF, you attract mentally unhinged people.

This whole IF and its writer's tumblr are SO weird. The author gives me vibes of the type of person who only watches a show for the shipping between characters (cough cough most Rings of Power fans).

 

[seneya]

only watches a show for the shipping between characters

Isn't that like 90% of the IF readers in general
A story might not have romance as the main point, but ppl will still be concentrating on ROs

 

[LosLorento]

Isn't that like 90% of the IF readers in general
A story might not have romance as the main point, but ppl will still be concentrating on ROs

Honestly, I think most of the focus being on ROs for readers is due to most WIPs being perpetually stuck in prologues or their first chapter for months-to-years on end and the only thing of substance to talk about just happens to be the characters.

It's also easier, imo, to fill in the blanks for characters than it is for an entire narrative they barely delved into.

 

[yourstalkeroutside]

Honestly, I think most of the focus being on ROs for readers is due to most WIPs being perpetually stuck in prologues or their first chapter for months-to-years on end and the only thing of substance to talk about just happens to be the characters.

It's also easier, imo, to fill in the blanks for characters than it is for an entire narrative they barely delved into.

Pretty much this. The only exception I could think of and even then it has quite a few asks about the RO is Court of the Gilded Roses which has most asks centering around the future kids or about the MC, which makes sense because no one reads harem/concubine stories for the romance.

 

[niro]

Hello. Finally, somewhere I can discuss(vent). My dislike towards an IF mainly stems from ROs not being held properly accountable for their actions

1. Infamous-everything said here against infamous, I agree. I lost interest in infamous and I don't think this IF is the best for my mental peace, I hate it in IFs when my MC is treated like a doormat unless my mc is given the options to be a complete menace in retaliation


2. This one is a case of "hear me out". Apartment 502. I love, LOVE the writing but Rainn doesn't get enough backlash; rather from the Tumblr asks(I haven't read the recent ones), I feel like they are a bit coddled by both the author and fans, given the gravity of what they did. I will explain. In my playthrough, my mc didn't do relationships or romance or even hookups before Rainn took the initiative. Rainn made effort, took actions which made them seem like a partner on whom mc could depend and rely. My foreign mc chose the option along the lines they weren't sure or this seemed like a bad idea about moving but still decided to move because Rainn convinced her and mc trusted Rainn. But to pull the rug out from under mc when it counted the most is some diabolical ****. I completely respect the breakup reason but I was like-maybe don't convince your partner to move the world for you just to breakup with her after she moved? Before anyone says mc surprised them, Rainn had plenty of opportunities to end things off but no, they were being negligent or avoiding communication (for example, when they still actually wanted to be in a relationship, they made time for mc but before the breakup, when mc texted them, they didn't respond but Rainn responded to their mutual friend, if it was a mistake or a case of not noticing mc's text or being actually busy, that would have been ok but they were intentionally avoiding mc's text. The humiliation I would have felt if my partner did that in front of my friend...) Primarily I don't care that they broke up with mc, but I care about my mc becoming almost homeless and being humiliated publicly. It is cruel and unforgivable for me no matter how intentional or "unintentional" it was. I have no interest in Rainn, they can suffer or burn in hell(yes, I'm vindictive and protective of my mc) but it is the writing style and Atlas for whom I will be reading this IF. I know it is too early to tell but after infamous, i kinda get the ick whenever authors coddle particular character... If i pretend i didn't read the tumblr asks, this WIP is fine so far and I have hope for this one unlike infamous

 

[Raijin_01]

but I care about my mc becoming almost homeless and being humiliated publicly. It is cruel and unforgivable for me no matter how intentional or "unintentional" it was. I have no interest in Rainn, they can suffer or burn in hell(yes, I'm vindictive and protective of my mc) but it is the writing style and Atlas for whom I will be reading this IF.

I thought I am the only one who thought Rainn was crazy. Glad to see that some of other people's MC also have actual common sense in this route

 

[clover]

Hello. Finally, somewhere I can discuss(vent). My dislike towards an IF mainly stems from ROs not being held properly accountable for their actions

1. Infamous-everything said here against infamous, I agree. I lost interest in infamous and I don't think this IF is the best for my mental peace, I hate it in IFs when my MC is treated like a doormat unless my mc is given the options to be a complete menace in retaliation


2. This one is a case of "hear me out". Apartment 502. I love, LOVE the writing but Rainn doesn't get enough backlash; rather from the Tumblr asks(I haven't read the recent ones), I feel like they are a bit coddled by both the author and fans, given the gravity of what they did. I will explain. In my playthrough, my mc didn't do relationships or romance or even hookups before Rainn took the initiative. Rainn made effort, took actions which made them seem like a partner on whom mc could depend and rely. My foreign mc chose the option along the lines they weren't sure or this seemed like a bad idea about moving but still decided to move because Rainn convinced her and mc trusted Rainn. But to pull the rug out from under mc when it counted the most is some diabolical ****. I completely respect the breakup reason but I was like-maybe don't convince your partner to move the world for you just to breakup with her after she moved? Before anyone says mc surprised them, Rainn had plenty of opportunities to end things off but no, they were being negligent or avoiding communication (for example, when they still actually wanted to be in a relationship, they made time for mc but before the breakup, when mc texted them, they didn't respond but Rainn responded to their mutual friend, if it was a mistake or a case of not noticing mc's text or being actually busy, that would have been ok but they were intentionally avoiding mc's text. The humiliation I would have felt if my partner did that in front of my friend...) Primarily I don't care that they broke up with mc, but I care about my mc becoming almost homeless and being humiliated publicly. It is cruel and unforgivable for me no matter how intentional or "unintentional" it was. I have no interest in Rainn, they can suffer or burn in hell(yes, I'm vindictive and protective of my mc) but it is the writing style and Atlas for whom I will be reading this IF. I know it is too early to tell but after infamous, i kinda get the ick whenever authors coddle particular character... If i pretend i didn't read the tumblr asks, this WIP is fine so far and I have hope for this one unlike infamous

Omggggggg literally EXACTLY what you said abt rainn. Still, everything else about 502 is perfect so I can ignore allat. But my god, I agree! I was so baffled to see so many people thirsting over rainn and the author actively defending them because what they did was DIABOLICAL imo. THE HUMILIATION, HELLO?? I still don't have anywhere near as much complains about the IF as much as infamous cuz the writing style and story is juiiiiicy as hell. Like I am okay with a character doing the mc wrong since that is what people are like but I don't understand why said character needs to be coddled and have their actions justified by the author. Like "ohhh yeahh they hurt you but hey!! They could have done much worse so it's really not that bad!!" (How people and the author defend 7 and rainn— like, hey seven went out and deliberately slept around with people you know only shortly after the breakup but at least they didn't cheat right??)

THE BAR IS IN HELL.

 

[Parallax]

Omggggggg literally EXACTLY what you said abt rainn. Still, everything else about 502 is perfect so I can ignore allat. But my god, I agree! I was so baffled to see so many people thirsting over rainn and the author actively defending them because what they did was DIABOLICAL imo. THE HUMILIATION, HELLO?? I still don't have anywhere near as much complains about the IF as much as infamous cuz the writing style and story is juiiiiicy as hell. Like I am okay with a character doing the mc wrong since that is what people are like but I don't understand why said character needs to be coddled and have their actions justified by the author. Like "ohhh yeahh they hurt you but hey!! They could have done much worse so it's really not that bad!!" (How people and the author defend 7 and rainn— like, hey seven went out and deliberately slept around with people you know only shortly after the breakup but at least they didn't cheat right??)

THE BAR IS IN HELL.

I kind of want to go back to this IF and see how it develops, but I think I will stick to my rule - don't play games where author favors one character.

 

[clover]

I kind of want to go back to this IF and see how it develops, but I think I will stick to my rule - don't play games where author favors one character.

Go back to the if and stay away from the Tumblr

At least 502 has the option to flip rainn off. You don't get to retaliate in infamous.

 

[niro]

Omggggggg literally EXACTLY what you said abt rainn. Still, everything else about 502 is perfect so I can ignore allat. But my god, I agree! I was so baffled to see so many people thirsting over rainn and the author actively defending them because what they did was DIABOLICAL imo. THE HUMILIATION, HELLO?? I still don't have anywhere near as much complains about the IF as much as infamous cuz the writing style and story is juiiiiicy as hell. Like I am okay with a character doing the mc wrong since that is what people are like but I don't understand why said character needs to be coddled and have their actions justified by the author. Like "ohhh yeahh they hurt you but hey!! They could have done much worse so it's really not that bad!!" (How people and the author defend 7 and rainn— like, hey seven went out and deliberately slept around with people you know only shortly after the breakup but at least they didn't cheat right??)

THE BAR IS IN HELL.

omggg! YES! THANK YOU for mentioning that about 7 towards the end, i wanted to vent about that too but didn't remember the exact details but also i didn't want to waste my energy searching that tumblr post. like, my mc could been mourning for what they had and for what they will never have with 7, but after the ghosting before breakup and then sleeping with mutuals(with some intentions to affect mc if my memory serves me right) after the breakup made me so disgusted, not because they slept with others but due to their intentions and toxicity. that post helped me to come to conclusion that i never want to play 7's route back then(now, i just gave up on that IF overall) and helped my mc to get over 7 and only mourn the time and energy she wasted over someone like 7

 

[Parallax]

Go back to the if and stay away from the Tumblr

At least 502 has the option to flip rainn off. You don't get to retaliate in infamous.

Do you think playing it without romance is somehow less interesting (example Wayhaven - you lose a lot when you don't romance anyone)?
I looked through the ROs and there are all the tropes I don't like; rival, distant RO with a kid, boisterous and arrogant, RO with longtime partner, the one who is not interested in relationships and the cherry on top - the perfect ex who made a fool out of you.

Oh my god, I haven't seen a worse cast in a long time.

 

[Gone_Dead]

Do you think playing it without romance is somehow less interesting (example Wayhaven - you lose a lot when you don't romance anyone)?
I looked through the ROs and there are all the tropes I don't like; rival, distant RO with a kid, boisterous and arrogant, RO with longtime partner, the one who is not interested in relationships and the cherry on top - the perfect ex who made a fool out of you.

Oh my god, I haven't seen a worse cast in a long time.

Is it Apt 502? I don't remember the RO with a kid. Tbh, IF's with relationship drama ruin my mental peace. I just feel like there's drama just for the sake of drama. In Infamous, there's just drama after drama after drama and frankly I don't click with any of the our bandmates either. Even ITFO had light hearted moments which actually changed the tone of the story to give a breather. Or maybe I'm just biased against relationship dramas lmao.