Legacy Content (not recommended)

[der.dida83]

Ok, I have to ask the devs, why exactly is switching on the legacy content (POV Sex) not recommended? This doesn't seem to mess up anything but only add the option to play out the sex scenes in POV instead of cutscenes, so what is the reason behind that?

[markiezz]

Hello,

The reason is that it still needs to be finished. Hence it is not recommended at the moment.

[der.dida83]

really? What will you add? More positions would be cool, but I'd say its already quite good. Sometimes it maybe looks a bit ackward, but that matches real life ;-)

[erasmus]

Correction to the previous statement: while we do not plan on deprecating Legacy/POV intimacy, it is not the direction we will be going for future intimacy sequences (custom stories aside, of course). *Edit/clarification: we will clean up a number of uses related to the system in our stories, but we don't have extensive plans to add to the system as a whole. It is therefore not recommended because it may suffer from gaps in functionality and will not be updated with the same priority that other aspects of the game will be.

We will be moving more and more towards cutscenes, and in the long-term (probably not for House Party, but for Office Party) will be adding some elements of interactivity to the cutscene system.

[der.dida83]

That sounds cool, thanks for the elaboration.

There is clearly a lot of effort put in the cutscenes and the shot composition makes this also supperior to POV scenes in my eyes, so I would say this is the right direction.

Great job there!

[Kriss]

That's quite some disappointing news...

[erasmus]

Originally posted by Kriss:

That's quite some disappointing news...

What would be your preference? We're open to feedback at all times.

[Red]

Originally posted by Eek! Games - Don:

Originally posted by Kriss:

That's quite some disappointing news...

What would be your preference? We're open to feedback at all times.

I am not trying to speak for them, but the option for both is my preference. I know that means there's a lot of work involved, but honestly there are pros and cons to each and having the option for both adds a lot of replayability and interaction to the game.

[der.dida83]

For the POV it would be cool to add a few more positions and maybe interactivity like grabbing other parts of their bodies.

Imo the cutscenes are already amazingly directed and executed. I wouldn't change much about their concept. Maybe you could build in some interactivity like deciding which position next or so but I don't think that adds a whole lot.

[Kriss]

Originally posted by Eek! Games - Don:

Originally posted by Kriss:

That's quite some disappointing news...

What would be your preference? We're open to feedback at all times.

The POV was what made the game stand out of the crowd...
I don't know what people prefere, but what the others suggested seems to be the best way.
If POV is the choice of a minority of players, I guess the game won't be for me anymore saddly.

[erasmus]

This is all good feedback. We don't collect that kind of telemetry so it helps to hear it from you all directly. Thanks!

[Amins]

Originally posted by Kriss:

The POV was what made the game stand out of the crowd...
I don't know what people prefere, but what the others suggested seems to be the best way.
If POV is the choice of a minority of players, I guess the game won't be for me anymore saddly.

I don't think POV is a minority preference. I think a lot of people just come to accept that they will not be supporting it any longer and are trying to embrace cutscenes.

Personally, I'm not much of a fan of the cinematics. It was fun to see the unique ones for the first time, but they really don't do much to reflect the personality of the characters. With POV, you could interact with them in different ways and get some additional amusing comments. My ideal game would have the sex scenes as interactive as possible and add to the character's development. Have different comments and outcomes depending on how your performance is. Maybe even give an option to let the NPC take control and see what their preferences are like. But I believe current engine limitations make this difficult, so it is what it is. Maybe that's something more for the next title.

[G Willikers]

Originally posted by Eek! Games - Don:

This is all good feedback. We don't collect that kind of telemetry so it helps to hear it from you all directly. Thanks!

The cutscenes are honestly kind of bland, it removed interactivity and to made made that entire aspect of the game less interesting.

Interactivity for cutscenes helps bring some of that back but the POV system worked really nicely with the first person gameplay perspective, the shift to cutscene didn't make sense to me. To me the focus should have been on refining the first person perspective (sliding over the shoulder during oral or kissing, for example) and adding transitions between positions and actions.

[BigKnight7979]

I don't understand why they are moving toward cutscenes and away from the legacy intimacy system. The legacy intimacy system was the best feature this game had, and the cutscenes are bland in comparison, especially since they aren't repeatable. Also, it's super obvious that most of the cutscenes use the exact same animations, so why even bother?

I tried the new Brittney female mc story and it sucks because you can't do basically anything with her after the cutscene. Whoever decided that cutscenes are the direction to go with is an idiot.

[kupah]

+1 for making it playable and not only cutscenes.

[dq_177]

Cutscenes get boring fast, sex scenes that are playable are more interesting.