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Stories that left you disappointed for a reason

f8butterfly said:
From what I've heard CC has deals with them and there are barely any games from her that I'd call fully released.



Edit: She even has a Heart's Choice game that as usual is not finished yet iirc and that would be official and not hosted, right?
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Yeah, but she's publishing through them, as can be seen on Steam. And if she's publishing through them, she makes deals behind the scenes, hence why all of that looks like the way it does, but also, she does have some three ifs published already believe it or not, and I think all of those are through them
 
Serpent said:
Yeah, but she's publishing through them, as can be seen on Steam. And if she's publishing through them, she makes deals behind the scenes, hence why all of that looks like the way it does, but also, she does have some three ifs published already believe it or not, and I think all of those are through them
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Makes sense. I do think a lot of authors are given that deal and secretly have one. Some COG releases have gone months to a year without receiving any updates but the Patreon version does and I doubt authors would risk any punishment (there is no punishment) if they don't.
 
Coming up with a cool concept/idea is easier than bringing it to life.
But I'm more surprised at IFs like Virtue's End or The Eyes Of Shan disappearing. These weren't even unpopular.
Seeing smaller/unpopular works disappear is unfortunately nothing new. I'm not sure I remember any that are truly unpopular but still sticking around.
 
seneya said:
Coming up with a cool concept/idea is easier than bringing it to life.
But I'm more surprised at IFs like Virtue's End or The Eyes Of Shan disappearing. These weren't even unpopular.
Seeing smaller/unpopular works disappear is unfortunately nothing new. I'm not sure I remember any that are truly unpopular but still sticking around.
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Exactly. I actually think that I said it once somewhere here, but it's one thing to have a cool concept/idea, and a whole other thing to bring it to life
And to answer your second remark, I think that it's because they weren't popular that they disappeared
 
seneya said:
We must have different standards for popularity, then, because I would've never called those unpopular. They came up in recs, got tons of notes etc.
Unpopular, to me, are the games that are pretty much invisible... No mentions, little notes/comments and so on.
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There are some I follow that barely get mentioned if not at all online. I agree, those two IFs I've heard of and seen author's recommend so I doubt they stopped updating due to lack of exposure.
 
seneya said:
We must have different standards for popularity, then, because I would've never called those unpopular. They came up in recs, got tons of notes etc.
Unpopular, to me, are the games that are pretty much invisible... No mentions, little notes/comments and so on.
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Mb, my tired eyes thought that you wrote that they were unpopular 😂 Disregard my previous remark, mb
 
I sent them. Now I'm just waiting for a certain game called Date Everything to stop being mentioned online or in general. Just another gimmick VN game that only got popular because all the gimmick ones do and this one had popular VNs and actors attached. It did nothing new or groundbreaking and had bland characters and okay writing for...30$??! I know its a team who made it but I can't help but think I'm just helping a well off VA make even more money if I were to have bought this game which you can tell even without playing it that it is surface level if you are a fan of VNs.
 
f8butterfly said:
I sent them. Now I'm just waiting for a certain game called Date Everything to stop being mentioned online or in general. Just another gimmick VN game that only got popular because all the gimmick ones do and this one had popular VNs and actors attached. It did nothing new or groundbreaking and had bland characters and okay writing for...30$??! I know its a team who made it but I can't help but think I'm just helping a well off VA make even more money if I were to have bought this game which you can tell even without playing it that it is surface level if you are a fan of VNs.
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I keep hearing about this game and I legit can't understand the appeal. The gimmick of dating personified objects seems fun but the fact there's 100 of them and the snippets I've seen of the gameplay already makes me doubt each is going to amount to much more than a few jokes about the object + a stereotype associated with it repeated ad infinitum. Also I've heard there's absolutely nothing more to the characters after you get to max relationship, which just pushes you to do something else and forget about the one you just maxed. And if that's the case, I'd rather just go romance someone in Persona, since there I can at least blame my lack of visiting my girlfriend after getting her to Rank 10 on my year-long quest to kill the Demiurge.
 
685Zek said:
I keep hearing about this game and I legit can't understand the appeal. The gimmick of dating personified objects seems fun but the fact there's 100 of them and the snippets I've seen of the gameplay already makes me doubt each is going to amount to much more than a few jokes about the object + a stereotype associated with it repeated ad infinitum. Also I've heard there's absolutely nothing more to the characters after you get to max relationship, which just pushes you to do something else and forget about the one you just maxed. And if that's the case, I'd rather just go romance someone in Persona, since there I can at least blame my lack of visiting my girlfriend after getting her to Rank 10 on my year-long quest to kill the Demiurge.
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The appeal is that chronically single retards are yearning for a touch of anything, doesn't even have to be a human anymore apparently, so they'll rush at the first sight of anything that has any type of "date" word in it
 
yourstalkeroutside said:
This one is worse because it's more than a third of the story you're getting. Imagine you finally reach the climax of the story, a bunch of stuff is clearly happening at once and then nothing. The next scene is the bard character telling you everything that happened next before talking to all the main characters on the ship. Unsupervised was BS but it wasn't the equivalent of a ruined orgasm.
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I agree, I never played the first one so I was going in with no context, and I did enjoy it but, was just wrapping up loose ends so quickly. It felt like they didn't have the time to give the ending justice. Felt like all the work you
seneya said:
I'm only disappointed because they probably won't
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I just wish there was a way for Itchio to remove some of these IF which are dead. I mean it was SCOUT that go me into this. It's been dead for 5 years whats the point.
 
seneya said:
On the other hand, it's not a bad thing for these games to be preserved. They don't hurt anyone by existing, after all.
Scout returning would've been such a twist lmao
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I mean true but I guess but you get introduce to a new format (not sure thats correct or not) you've then start reading and investing in stories only to find out they'll never but updated kinda detrimental to the community. Or a kick in the teeth to me. I really started to **** me off the amount I see.
 
I've seen so much people say good things about a tale of crowns on tumblr, reddit and other if spaces, maybe it's on me and I came with too much expectations? Since the setting, not playing as a white American/European mc for once in royal settings sounded awesome........ But it was such a letdown, it suffers from the same bland mc, no choices, ros who are more into each other than mc in every other twine wip, I think it would have honestly worked better as a visual novel.
I understand the mc being naive, they are a fish out of water, buts it jarring to see this 25 year old acting like a child sometimes, I expected them to slowly get better, but they don't, I went with A because they seem cool, but I'm not a fan of slow burn so I restarted and went after X because I thought at least mc would be getting some(kind of like M from WH) ....but even in their route you don't... I mean X gets some mc just gets nothing (which is fair because they know each other for a week). I then decided to try the magician, but they are pretty boring so I came back to A, but it's been like 10 chapters and mc doesn't seen to mature and everyone dogpiles on them (even me in this comment sorry) you have people doing way worse things in the story, sorry if it's long, should I keep playing, do they(mc) get better? Anyone felt like this while playing?
 
BiscuitB said:
I just wish there was a way for Itchio to remove some of these IF which are dead. I mean it was SCOUT that go me into this. It's been dead for 5 years whats the point.
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If anything they should get labeled as abandoned after a length of time of no activity on the developer's part (if it's still listed as in development that is). That way no one is under any assumption that it's still being worked on but also leaves them there for posterity or for fans to revisit every so often.
 
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