- Thread starter AtemX
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- Nov 1, 2021
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I don't understand galleries. Played many VN's and never, not once, looked at a gallery or installed a gallery unlocker. Just don't understand the purpose - if it's porn you're after, the internet is filled with it; if you want to peek at bad outcomes, what's stopping you from playing those through choices? If I don't want to take a certain route, I wouldn't want to look at what comes out of it either. Looking at scenes without engaging with the story seems to defeat the purpose of playing an interactive game, there's plenty of comics for that even here at F95. Having said that, though I don't understand the point, don't see anything wrong with having galleries for those who enjoy them, but you raise an important concern when it causes part audience to go off rails.
Good job here, good luck with Inanna.
- Jun 29, 2024
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That's the dumbest thing I've read all day...
What's there not to understand?
People want to fap to their games and maybe not load a save and jump directly to the sex scene they want to see.
It ain't rocket science.
1. Easy way to review a scene without having to keep saves for every individual event. Is that not obvious?
2. Sometimes you dont want the context. maybe i wake up on the wrong side of the pillow and want to see emelie get railed by 3 randos, that doesnt neccesarily mean i want to play through an entire game with a narrative centered around pimping her out. similarly, i might not like the storlyine for a character, for example the cosplay girl's sister, but i think the character is hot so i want to see the scenes,.
3. this might just be a me thing, but i do also use it to test one at random and preview the quality of the sex scenes before i realyl commit to a game, esp for such long VNs. nothing worse than getting edged for 3 hours, then you finally get a scene and it sucks donkey balls.
- Aug 28, 2017
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OnlyUsedForNever has given a good explanation already. point 1. is probably the de facto main reason for galleries.
however i would like to expand on point 3. :
if you have read my review of this game you might have seen that i listed scenes the game has, based on composition. for me an important part are for example moresomes. the most obvious ones are ffm (2 female 1 male), mmf (2 male 1 female), gangbangs, and reverse gangbangs. because for me if those scenes are part of the game, they tell me a lot about how the story handles jealousy.
this game is a harem game and you may have noticed that usually harem games are about 1 guy and 1 guy only, while there are a myriad of girls who play bigger or smaller roles in said harem. to quite a few people these haremgirls cannot be touched, interact or even looked at by other males, as they clearly pose a threat to the harem. sometimes even the haremgirls aren't allowed to sexually interact with each other.
or what i recently noticed, exhibitionistic girls who do dances or stream themselves, to give them a "slutty" vibe while still being virgins or at least extremely inexperienced, have to stop their activities once they join the harem.
this extreme jealousy is something that immediately makes a game boring for me.
the other way around can also be the case. you have a sharing/cuck game where the male protagonist almost never or actually never gets to have sex with their own partner/spouse, while she gets guy after guy with barely any consistency.
this too makes games incredibly boring for me, as i rather would have gone for a female protagonist and wouldn't care for the partner/spouse at all instead!
so while viewing a gallery of a game i haven't played, i can see if a harem game has sharing to extend i like (even exhibitionism in front of male onlookers suffices most of the time), or if a sharing game has a male protagonist who gets his fair share of girls as well! because i want both. i want guys who can have fun with multiple girls and girls who can have fun with multiple guys. extra bonus points if it isn't cheating in any way. therefore a game like AlwaysFan with both a main male character and a main female character, who both share in sex scenes with an additional partner both either male or female, or both male and female together (partner swap) are the games i am looking for.
but try to find that out by looking at the game's summary and tags! ntr is too broadly used, swinging might just be one-way and harem doesn't say anything about how jealous the protagonist is.
that's why sometimes i give the gallery a look to decide if the game is something for me.
- May 18, 2023
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That is a quite good explanation of one of the gallery uses and how you select what you like in AVNs. I'm honest I never play NTR/NTS/Sharing/Swinging in AVNs (maybe shows a bit of my possessive fantasy trait hehe IRL I'm not exactly like that but still a bit possessive) but people like you that openly speak what you like is refreshing, some or at least the ones that make more noise that are NTR enjoyers usually just enjoy to troll some game threads that clearly weren't planned to have those tags. My total respect for you. I have a slight "exception" that I don't consider NTR and some extreme "non-ntr" players consider it bad. And that is lesbian scenes, that makes my motor run and is extremely hot imo hehe I don't mind LIs/Side girls to have fun with each other and they don't need my "consent"
.I really enjoyed the only path I played in this game, the love harem path and it has the best ending in that genre of all the completed harem games I played, and AtemX new game is even better Inanna Revenge. One of the AVN developers on the rise and that show improvement with each update/release and that clearly is a sign that they hear the constructive feedback people give regardless of what kinks/tags they enjoy.
Again cheers and most respect.
- Mar 20, 2023
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I feel like I have to address a few points that take my comments and created misunderstandings, especially for the dev.
When I say it's tragic, I REALLY mean it's off the rails. Imagine coming across a hot busty girl like Emilie, who is willing to share you in a harem coz it was your fantasy (the entire premise is a fantasy, so please bear with me) and your only course of action to come out of poverty is to SHARE her like the town bicycle on rent? As much as I commend to dev to including the scenes and the storyline to cater to the wide audiences (and even the sick fucks who willingly go down the tragic ending NTR route - for reasons of my ABHORRENCE of NTR, see my signature) I am primarily playing this game coz I am a NEET with hopes to escape my boring loneliness; I am playing coz I want to see and experience the love of a woman instead of just reducing her to a "sLaMpIg" that most AVNs make out the women to be. Not saying all women should be portrayed that way, I have seen enough morally screwed up women on social media to know they WISH to be viewed that way, and yet be treated as a lady, but that's a different topic altogether.
My point is, as some of the users pointed out, adding a gallery unlocker or even a simple walkthrough is simply my way to seeing if the story has consequences I wish to avoid, coz I personally am not here to experiment what consequences my decisions in game may have 4 updates and 5 chapters down the line; my life is lonely and screwed up enough as it is to sap that amount of energy out of me. I am playing to escape that loneliness, to live that life I know I will never experience, and to see if the dev has come up with an engaging story apart from the sex scenes to get me hooked onto the game and eagerly await its updates, while NOT centering the storyline around hours of repeatable sex scenes that become boring after the first few thrusts.
Also, I'm pretty sure gallery unlockers are downloaded and used by a MAJORITY of the users here, heck almost all the games have official links to these unlockers or walkthroughs that others will have played to get the best possible outcomes, or the required outcomes preferred by the player. That is why its a preferrence, and not a requirement, and I am in no way shitting on the dev for including it, no matter how it is construed; if I gave spoilers to such plotlines using said unlockers, I profusely apologise for my gaffe.
So, genuine kudos to the dev for coming up with an amazing story, something I would really relate to (unlike shit AVNs who have the most unimaginable of plotlines centered around things like "Oops, I came out the bath in a lose towel, fell over a convenient puddle of water and accidentally slammed into my mom's pussy as she was cleaning the floor" - there is enough porn out there to fill entire server racks of these fantasies). I played this for the curiosity, and my ADHD brain is curious enough to see what could be the possible outcomes of the game, had I taken other decisions.
When I say it's tragic, I REALLY mean it's off the rails. Imagine coming across a hot busty girl like Emilie, who is willing to share you in a harem coz it was your fantasy (the entire premise is a fantasy, so please bear with me) and your only course of action to come out of poverty is to SHARE her like the town bicycle on rent? As much as I commend to dev to including the scenes and the storyline to cater to the wide audiences (and even the sick fucks who willingly go down the tragic ending NTR route - for reasons of my ABHORRENCE of NTR, see my signature) I am primarily playing this game coz I am a NEET with hopes to escape my boring loneliness; I am playing coz I want to see and experience the love of a woman instead of just reducing her to a "sLaMpIg" that most AVNs make out the women to be. Not saying all women should be portrayed that way, I have seen enough morally screwed up women on social media to know they WISH to be viewed that way, and yet be treated as a lady, but that's a different topic altogether.
My point is, as some of the users pointed out, adding a gallery unlocker or even a simple walkthrough is simply my way to seeing if the story has consequences I wish to avoid, coz I personally am not here to experiment what consequences my decisions in game may have 4 updates and 5 chapters down the line; my life is lonely and screwed up enough as it is to sap that amount of energy out of me. I am playing to escape that loneliness, to live that life I know I will never experience, and to see if the dev has come up with an engaging story apart from the sex scenes to get me hooked onto the game and eagerly await its updates, while NOT centering the storyline around hours of repeatable sex scenes that become boring after the first few thrusts.
Also, I'm pretty sure gallery unlockers are downloaded and used by a MAJORITY of the users here, heck almost all the games have official links to these unlockers or walkthroughs that others will have played to get the best possible outcomes, or the required outcomes preferred by the player. That is why its a preferrence, and not a requirement, and I am in no way shitting on the dev for including it, no matter how it is construed; if I gave spoilers to such plotlines using said unlockers, I profusely apologise for my gaffe.
So, genuine kudos to the dev for coming up with an amazing story, something I would really relate to (unlike shit AVNs who have the most unimaginable of plotlines centered around things like "Oops, I came out the bath in a lose towel, fell over a convenient puddle of water and accidentally slammed into my mom's pussy as she was cleaning the floor" - there is enough porn out there to fill entire server racks of these fantasies). I played this for the curiosity, and my ADHD brain is curious enough to see what could be the possible outcomes of the game, had I taken other decisions.