Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice

Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice

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AssembleGames-Whitman  [開發人員] 2020 年 8 月 8 日 上午 2:23
Statement: Why there will ne no nudity in the game
Hello,

A lot of fans asked why there will be no nudity in the sequel (as there was no in Wet Dreams Don't Dry as well).

We had this discussion for our previous Larry game and our opinion has not changed.
We have not developed the older Larry titles before WDDD but Wet Dreams Don't Dry and Wet Dreams Dry Twice are Larry games we wanted to make and we do not want to have nudity in the game. That would be not our approach, not what we wanted to achieve. Yes, some or many fans do not like it. But we think we have proven that we handled the Larry IP (which we do not own; we have licensed it) very good, that we have listened to the fans and implemented in WDDD a lot of things from the older Larry titles. But to make a Larry game with nudity, that is not our Larry title, sorry.

PLUS it would be a problem with age rating, especially for possible console versions (We have not yet decided about console versions but we had a PS4 and Switch version for Wet Dreams Don't Dry). IF we had nudity in the PC version we would have to delete it completely from a console version. Otherwise we would get an Adult Only rating for the consoles and no Adult Only games are allowed on consoles so we would not be able to sell it.
So, the only solution would be to censor our own game, to cut out all the nudity to get a Mature rating (like WDDD received) to be allowed to distribute our game on consoles.
That would be A. very unfair to the console gamers because they would play a less content and censored version of the game and B. also quite a lot of additional work because we would need to edit and port new versions especially for consoles.

To be honest, it is not about the extra work (which would also be extra costs), we just don't want to have two different versions of the same game, that would be absolutely unfair to possible console customers.

BUT the main (and only) reason is - as mentioned above - that we do not want to make a Larry game with nudity.

Cheers,
Stefan Marcinek
Founder & CEO
Assemble Entertainment
最後修改者:AssembleGames-Whitman; 2020 年 8 月 8 日 上午 2:33
引用自 Assemble_Xer0:
Hi everybody,
thank you for joining and clarifying once again.
As already mentioned, there is quite some nudity in there, just imagine the paintings in the hotel lobby, not to spoil too much.
However, if you are looking for explicit content over the course of the whole game with detailed/explicit sex-scenes, this is something this game has not to offer and we wanted to make sure, players do not get the impression this is in the game, as it would be an Adult Only game, which Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice is not and was never supposed to be, neither in terms of all Larry games (minor exceptions) and our approach to Larry, which is the reason of this thread. :)

-cheers
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( 🦈Warp Zone🦈 ) 2021 年 5 月 16 日 下午 4:37 
引用自 Marcelo Sampaio
While I wouldn't mind seeing some nudity here and there, I see people talking about how the original Larry games had nudity and... it makes me wonder if those people only played 6 and 7.

Larry 1, 2, 3 and 5 have no nudity (other than basic background stuff). 6 has one, maybe 2 scenes with nudity. 7 has a few more scenes with nudity as easter eggs.

I am pretty sure the people talking about the "original" games are the ones who have only played MCL, which aren't even Al Lowe games (literally what Wet Dreams Don't Dry 1 and 2 are based off of from the start). Even LSL 1 had the bare minimum nudity with like. A tiddy here and there sprinkled. It was the jokes that really made the game what it was.
BokandThecollective 2021 年 7 月 2 日 下午 7:22 
I have a lil side note on that um.. the Leisure Suit Larry magna ♥♥♥ Laude on the Ps2. has a lot of nudity...why this game not? isnt Ps2 a console?
最後修改者:BokandThecollective; 2021 年 7 月 2 日 下午 7:22
( 🦈Warp Zone🦈 ) 2021 年 7 月 2 日 下午 8:19 
引用自 chasing231
I have a lil side note on that um.. the Leisure Suit Larry magna ♥♥♥ Laude on the Ps2. has a lot of nudity...why this game not? isnt Ps2 a console?

Leisure Suit Larry 1-7 - Made by Sierra Entertainment via Al Lowe
Leisure Suit Larry Magna ♥♥♥ Laude - Made by High Voltage Software without Al Lowe
Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust - Made by Team17 without Al Lowe
Leisure Suit Larry Wet Dreams Don't Dry + Wet Dreams Dry Twice - Made by CrazyBunch without Al Lowe

Different developers, different ways to do it
NoAgenda 2021 年 8 月 2 日 下午 5:42 
引用自 Assemble_Xer0
Hi sunglare77,
thank you for sharing your feedback.
However, we really appreciate all kind of feedback, spamming it across different threads does not make any sense, nor changes our decision in any kind of way.

Maybe you simply have to stick to those games, that have the M rating and/or nudity all over the place, if this is what you are looking for.

-cheers

So you lied about censoring it to get it on consoles, when console games not only have nudity but realistic nudity, not cartoon nudity.

You aren't being transparent if you are lying.
Assemble_Xer0 2021 年 8 月 2 日 下午 11:30 
Hello No Agenda,
could you please elaborate your post, as currently with the quote from myself, it makes no sense.

If you want explicit nudity in a game, set your steam filters to "show adult games/content", if you are old enough and enjoy.

Right from the start we made clear that Leisure Suit Larry is true to the series and an Adventure game at first, not a game full of nudity, or whatever some players want to see and get, what has never been part of Leisure Suit Larry.

-cheers
NoAgenda 2021 年 8 月 4 日 下午 5:02 
引用自 Assemble_Xer0
Hello No Agenda,
could you please elaborate your post, as currently with the quote from myself, it makes no sense.

If you want explicit nudity in a game, set your steam filters to "show adult games/content", if you are old enough and enjoy.

Right from the start we made clear that Leisure Suit Larry is true to the series and an Adventure game at first, not a game full of nudity, or whatever some players want to see and get, what has never been part of Leisure Suit Larry.

-cheers


"To be honest, it is not about the extra work (which would also be extra costs), we just don't want to have two different versions of the same game, that would be absolutely unfair to possible console customers."

This is a lie. You don't have to make two versions, Consoles allow nudity, Have you played GTAV, Witcher with realistic nudity?

If you want another lie, No you aren't being faithful to the Leisure suit franchise, The character design is not faithful, Leiisure Suit larry Reloaded was faithful. The game doesn't even follow what happens in 7.

Then you insult previous fans by telling them to play other games. They are playing other games and they have more sales because they don't insult the fans by telling them to play other games..

Why did you license this franchise? You're not making the sales to justify the license. You insult the original fans and you insult the original creator.

Who are these geniuses who take old franchises, insult the original fans, change it to something else and then cry when they lose money. With 150,000 thousand in sales most of which bought in a steam sale for less than ten dollars, how do you pay 50+ employees, with license fees, Steam fees?

How are you even getting paid?
最後修改者:NoAgenda; 2021 年 8 月 4 日 下午 5:23
Assemble_Xer0 2021 年 8 月 4 日 下午 11:32 
Hi NoAgenda,
you have read all statements from our side, reasonings and alike.
Therefore, there is nothing more to add, what has not been shared, discussed or brought up already and can be read in this community hub.

In the end, as you seem quite experienced how the gaming industry works, feel free licensing a franchise and working on it. We would be happy, if you would share your results afterwards.

-cheers
TheLightningYu | Mike 2021 年 8 月 15 日 上午 4:18 
It is nice to see how people react..."NO nudity, no buy". I mean, if for a lot of people a Larry game is about nudity and not about the actual gameplay and the quality of the game...well...
Y'know what is bothering me about this post, besides that it sound a bit "passive agressive", it's that stuff like this is coming from German People. Where i want to get with this statement? As Germans you should know thanks to the whole "Killerspiele"(Killergames) , small little things like this can impact a game and can be "important" too. As "example" as one of your Neighbors from Austria, which generally hadn't to deal with "censorship" that much, i bought a few years ago when Wii was still the actual gen a Game called "No more Heroes!". Norally i would've checked beforehand and than go into local stores to grab a uncensored Austrian-Copy, but sadly if you don't live in big cities with stores like Saturn or MediaMarkt it was hard to get copys of niche Games which are very japanese. That's why i ordered on Amazon on Copy and got a "censored" German Copy.

Well, after playing through the Game it's not like it was "bad" because of censorship, BUT after i got my hand later on, on a uncensored version, the small stuff made a difference like day and night. It simply sets a different tone, if you attack someone and when you beat him he ends up as black dust, or if you actually kill somebody and it "splatters" blood. It makes the whole Game more immersive and mature, and esp. believable that you actually play an Assassins who kill other assassins to rank up. So disregard, talk down or whatever the importancy of such details, and discredit people for it is kinda meh, because i'd argue Details like this are part of the "overall Quality". It might not be the "only" Vital or Mainselling Point of Games, but it can be "part" of it and cutting/censoring stuff like this can impact the overall Experience for Players.

So, to go back to your Games that's my major gripe about this whole "Topic", i don't see you as bad Developers as all, actually quite the oposite, unlike others "I'm overall" pleased with your iterations of LSL... i find the Artstyle fitting, i enjoyed the story and the Humor (which is obviously very subjective) was fun too... !HOWEVER! for me personally these Games kinda miss something for "true greatness" and esp. now after reading this topic it made me realize, your "Vision" is simply too tame for a Game like LSL, I mean imagine cut all gore, blood etc from Mortal Kombat, while still a good game, it can't unleash its full potential, and the some goes kinda for this. And that's why i can understand !why! some fans are frustrated with your Decision.

That's my personal view on this Topic. Not saying your Games are bad at all or whatever, i quite enjoyed them (and got even two copies of each entry, one for pc and one for console, so if it wouldn't be the case that i enjoy them, i wouldn't have doen that), but i'd argue they could've been even better games if you might have been a bit less tame, esp. about "nudity". But you do you, it's "your" Game etc. i simply wanted to share my opinion or "senf".
Assemble_Xer0 2021 年 8 月 16 日 上午 5:16 
Hi TheLightningYu | Mike,
thank you for your feedback and definitely a huge thank you for your support and kind words.
There is nothing much I can add, besides that statment that includes already all that needed to be said.
Maybe, in addition, that in general the Leisure Suit Larry games were not about nudity at all.
Actually, there was just one Larry-game with more or less explicit nudity -> Magna ♥♥♥ Laude, which had totally different developers and publisher working on it.
Even Al Lowe, who has been mentioned quite often around here (as creator of Larry Laffer) did not enjoy that game for several reasons as he has mentioned in a "recent" interview.

Summed up: We got our reasons, among others, besides providing the game to a broader audience on consoles as well, staying as true as possible to the previous titles as well as surely establishing our own approach of Larry Laffer together with CrazyBunch, which overall was received more than well.

-cheers
Orange Guise 2021 年 8 月 31 日 上午 7:33 
Let me chime in with the others in saying you've lost the original soul of Larry... I won't be playing this one. It's not the lack of nudity. It's the lack of secrets, Easter eggs and cheats. They've always been a part of the game, and you didn't only decide they were irrelevant - you were so out of touch with the main series you didn't even know they were a thing.

You'll never get Larry's original audience back, the 36 of us are gonna find some other game.

You'll just have to be content with the dozens of thousands of sales from your console editions and so on. Enjoy your 73 percent metacritic, you... ... You lukewarm toast soaked in water with margarine.


It's still better than Box Office Bust was, though
Orange Guise 2021 年 8 月 31 日 上午 7:39 
引用自 Assemble_Xer0
There is nothing much I can add, besides that statment that includes already all that needed to be said.
Maybe, in addition, that in general the Leisure Suit Larry games were not about nudity at all.
Actually, there was just one Larry-game with more or less explicit nudity -> Magna ♥♥♥ Laude, which had totally different developers and publisher working on it.

See, this is exactly my point.
You have no idea.

Almost all the original LSL games have included nudity as cheating. In Leisure Suit Larry 6 you can be persistent. In Leisure Suit Larry 7 there are more cheats and codes than you can shake a stick at.

Even in the Liar's Dice demo, when your opponent takes off her panties, she moves her drink first to block your view, there's a secret code that lets you look under her cup!

. . . Her DICE cup, of course! What did you think I was talking about?
Every real Larry game has included CHEATS, AND, SECRETS! Yours doesn't so it's not a real Larry game.
Again, dear developer. like Orange Guise said, it's NOT about nudity. But it's about the way you handle this topic (you opened, btw).
First of all, Magna ♥♥♥ Laude, The Laffer Utilities and Larry Casino were cheap ripoffs and not even adventure games at all, Al Lowe wasn't involved and is of course not happy with what they've done.
So you should not refer to these, as long you won't compare yourself with garbage.
The only thing worth mentioning about these is the fact that Larry Casino and The Laffer Utilities were sold a few hundred thousand times each, according to Al Lowe. You are proud to sell slightly above one hundred thousand copies, maybe you should thing about that statement when garbage with a Larry lable sells around twice as good. But that's not the point, it's about your way of dealing with critics.
You react in a narcistic, cocky way instead of listening to the fanbase. And even if you sold a f****** million copies, it's a pretty bad habit to ignore critics - and pretty dangerous for your "success" as well.
For example me, I will buy every average Adventure, because I like Adventures, but I also didn't like what you did to Larry in WDDT, even if it's not a really bad game, but it's just mainstream.

About your statements about nudity:
True, Larry was never explicit porn. But as I mentioned it's NOT about nudity here, but it's about "YOUR VISION". You can create a game based on your vision, but you cannot say the same time it's in line with what Larry stands for. Playing WDDT fells like watching a bloodless, teethless hollywood remake of a great 70's or 80's movie. It's high polished but without any soul, it's made for earning money instead of creating a controversy, that's something complete different. It's like Art and Reality TV Trash.

You say Larry never showed (explicit) nudity and try to reduce critics to that point. TRUE, but you cannot compare the 80's and early 90's to nowadays. (Ok, a porn on CGA or EGA graphics sounds funny :D)

Let me tell you some facts:

Al Lowe created Larry after he played a game from 1981. This game was named Softporn Adventure. Al Lowe wanted to create a similar but funny game.

Larry 1 was no commercial success, because it was never advertised.

According to Al Lowe Larry 2 wasn't that dirty, he wanted to create it dirtier, but it just not happened. He received a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for this and Part 3 was more explicit again. So even the big Al Lowe listened to the fanbase and reacted to their whishes...

And finally, you like to tell us about the tame spirit of the original Larry, but did you know that there was a draft bill from the goverment of California which was called the Leisure-Suit-Larry-Bill???
It said that it's not allowed to put violence, cigarettes, alcohol, cursing, sex "or anything else interesting"(Al Lowe) in a video game.
This law was luckily declined, but it shows that Larry stands for all the things you want to deny.

And again, this is what I call double standards. Al Lowe would have given a s**** about age rating and playstation platform. And that's the spirit that make games great, that create classics and you simply don't are the developers with that high caliber.
You just want to please everybody and make money out of that, and that's just average at it's best. And you are pretty cocky, you don't listen, you try to defend your point of view instead of growing with the community.
The humor of the last game is simply awfull. You try to be PC, you try not to hurt somebodies feelings and that's just awfull.
You reduced the humor and spirit of Larry literally to some penis scribblings on the wall and in the end of this discussion I come to the conclusion that you really don't know what you are talking about...
最後修改者:The Symbol formerly known as Bob; 2021 年 8 月 31 日 下午 1:48
Assemble_Xer0 2021 年 9 月 13 日 上午 7:12 
As this topic is once again derailed, new posts coming in without reading the many posts we made, where we have openly and as transparently as possibly explained what our reasoning were and are, I will close this thread.

Everything has been said quite often and with the initial statement starting this off.

Thank you for understanding and step away from opening new threads regarding this topic, as everything has been said and stated within this thread and many other threads before, during, and after the release and will not change our approach or the game in general.

-cheers
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