They are "Patreon-ware" games. The longer the dev takes to make the game, the more money they make, because it's all crowd funded.
Dr Pinkcake, for example, has 12k members. Patreon has an option to show the actual income but he smartly hides it because I would conservatively estimate that he's pulling in $100k per month.
Agreed. For such a stupid story, the comedic timing and dramatic stakes are surprisingly excellent. Not to mention his eye for good shot composition, constructing scenes, sight gags, etc.
Talents are being wasted on an otherwise average pron game.
Huniepop is one of the few games in the porn genre that is worth playing without the NSFW patch installed and just enjoying the actual writing of it. While a bunch of characters are quite bland unless they fit your fetish, and the gameplay is basic match 3, there are quite a few characters that are incredibly written to be meme machines that'll keep you playing for a bit. Including lines you'll never see written anymore
And if you can find the vocaroo files from when the dev made a bunch of the VA girls go on 4chan and do requests in character, its great. Including making Brittney Lauda bully herself in character for being a fucking weeb who spends money on Pokemon gacha games.
Both Sequels are trash and actual gooner bait, though his other game (Spiral Scouts) is also really good and an underrated puzzle game.
As pozzed as CD Projekt might be, stuff like this is a huge part of why I think GOG is one of the most important players in the industry today. The simple principle of "we think people should be able to play their games decades from now" alone is huge and it's great to see them taking a public stance on the recent payment processor bullshit.
The reason it's important is because GOG is to Steam what Discover is to MasterCard.
Absolute corporate hegemony so totalizing it destroyed other methods of transaction, countered by someone making any indent at all on the scene is a good thing. MasterCard is actively seeking to destroy cash. Steam fucking destroyed the physical medium (though i don't think that was their goal). Truth is, without Valve being simply reasonable, the whole games industry probably already would have collapsed and burst into flames.
Just please remember. Steam had to bend the knee to MasterCard. That's how much of a final boss they really are.
Agreed. Not being able to select the version of the game I want is a glaring oversight. Still, they offer more of what I want in a digital storefront than most, so I opt to buy from them when I can in order to get a copy of the game that will outlast the company selling it to me.
I'll copy my listing of the free games from the c/gaming post. Spoiler: It's Postal 2, Agony, and a bunch of porn games.
Postal 2 is on there. That game is FUCKING JANKY AS SHIT GREAT, and Rick Hunter's buttery smooth voice, the now-outdated references, and the comedic sociopathy make the entire game.
For anyone wonder what the list is:
POSTAL 2: See my above comment about jank and enjoyment.
Agony + Agony UNRATED: Was popular/caused a ruckus for a brief moment due to Hell-tiddies. Bodyhorror, I've seen it described as a walking sim. I might be wrong but I'll describe the art as Hellraiser meets Doom 4 with a bit of HR Geiger (non-xenomorph) art thrown in.
Leap of Love: No idea. Looks like some 2D H VN with marriage themes.
Being a DIK - Season 1: Dunno, but I know it's popular in some circles. Presumably something college related, looks to be a VN using 3D prerendered lewds.
Leap of Faith: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
House Party: 3D porn jank. Known for being jank and a meme. IIRC it has Ethan Klein or some other Youtube weirdo in it. Someone fact check me on that.
HuniePop: 2D H match-3 "dating" game. Was a meme for a while. Voice acting's atrocious from what I remember.
Lust Theory: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Treasure of Nadia: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture. Pirate themed, maybe?
Summer's Gone - Season 1: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Fetish Locator Week One: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Sapphire Safari: Dunno. 3d furry porn slop, based on the picture.
Helping the Hotties: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
These are mostly Renpy engine games, it's a very simple VN engine combined with still scene CG. Most of the authors don't even construct their own assets but purchase them from somewhere.
This. Gooner is also thrown at every dude who likes to look at sexy women. It is leftist shaming language updated for modern times. It is a terminology that just came about the last couple years as gamers started getting some sexiness back.
Ugly women, self hating men, conservatives and older women who want to control men, etc. It is an attack on male nature while trying for humiliation. Same as always.
It's not bizarre at all. It's perfectly on brand. GOG has been about being able to own things even after some third party decides "nuh uh you can't have that" you still have the offline installer. Their preservation efforts are also in this vein. They'll sell anything and there's a reason Alicesoft games like Sengoju Rance and Evenicle 2 are on GOG but not Steam. Evenicle is on both but Valve denied Evenicle 2. GOG being against rugpulling customers isn't an unusual turn of events at all.
Were some of these games the ones that Steam took down in the original batch? That's what I assumed based on the sheer degeneracy on display with the choices, so make a stance against the very specific censorship instead of pure porn bait.
And then Postal and Huniepop thrown in for good measure to make it actually worth getting. And likely their historical legacy for being banned/cancelled due to outrage mobs and then turning it around.
Also forgot to add that gog and cdpr seem to be riddled with sjws and changed their terms to essentially delete your account and thus games you haven't downloaded for SJW reasons.
Maybe it was because of the political financing they are like that.
I haven't played any of them (really), but HuniePop is generally well regarded, and House Party is pretty big too.
House Party for free is actually a dang good deal. Just looked it up, historical best was $5...like seven years ago.
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/house-party/info/
And you have Postal 2, and Agony, for those not into NSFW sex stuff.
HuniePop is pretty unique. It was one of the west's only solid nsfw GAMES before the troon madness ruined everyone.
Being a dik isn’t bad either. Same with nadia
Being a Dik is great, way better than it has any right to be.
Too bad the dev is a fucking weirdo. Season 2 was what... 3 years ago? Still over a year away from season 3
They are "Patreon-ware" games. The longer the dev takes to make the game, the more money they make, because it's all crowd funded.
Dr Pinkcake, for example, has 12k members. Patreon has an option to show the actual income but he smartly hides it because I would conservatively estimate that he's pulling in $100k per month.
Still, less of a scam than Star Citizen...
Standard for patreon devs. They take forever. I’m also not a fan of the whole season system
Agreed. For such a stupid story, the comedic timing and dramatic stakes are surprisingly excellent. Not to mention his eye for good shot composition, constructing scenes, sight gags, etc.
Talents are being wasted on an otherwise average pron game.
Huniepop is one of the few games in the porn genre that is worth playing without the NSFW patch installed and just enjoying the actual writing of it. While a bunch of characters are quite bland unless they fit your fetish, and the gameplay is basic match 3, there are quite a few characters that are incredibly written to be meme machines that'll keep you playing for a bit. Including lines you'll never see written anymore
And if you can find the vocaroo files from when the dev made a bunch of the VA girls go on 4chan and do requests in character, its great. Including making Brittney Lauda bully herself in character for being a fucking weeb who spends money on Pokemon gacha games.
Both Sequels are trash and actual gooner bait, though his other game (Spiral Scouts) is also really good and an underrated puzzle game.
As pozzed as CD Projekt might be, stuff like this is a huge part of why I think GOG is one of the most important players in the industry today. The simple principle of "we think people should be able to play their games decades from now" alone is huge and it's great to see them taking a public stance on the recent payment processor bullshit.
The reason it's important is because GOG is to Steam what Discover is to MasterCard.
Absolute corporate hegemony so totalizing it destroyed other methods of transaction, countered by someone making any indent at all on the scene is a good thing. MasterCard is actively seeking to destroy cash. Steam fucking destroyed the physical medium (though i don't think that was their goal). Truth is, without Valve being simply reasonable, the whole games industry probably already would have collapsed and burst into flames.
Just please remember. Steam had to bend the knee to MasterCard. That's how much of a final boss they really are.
If that was the case then they would have rollback patches but they don't.
Agreed. Not being able to select the version of the game I want is a glaring oversight. Still, they offer more of what I want in a digital storefront than most, so I opt to buy from them when I can in order to get a copy of the game that will outlast the company selling it to me.
I'll copy my listing of the free games from the c/gaming post. Spoiler: It's Postal 2, Agony, and a bunch of porn games.
Postal 2 is on there. That game is FUCKING
JANKY AS SHITGREAT, and Rick Hunter's buttery smooth voice, the now-outdated references, and the comedic sociopathy make the entire game.For anyone wonder what the list is:
POSTAL 2: See my above comment about jank and enjoyment.
Agony + Agony UNRATED: Was popular/caused a ruckus for a brief moment due to Hell-tiddies. Bodyhorror, I've seen it described as a walking sim. I might be wrong but I'll describe the art as Hellraiser meets Doom 4 with a bit of HR Geiger (non-xenomorph) art thrown in.
Leap of Love: No idea. Looks like some 2D H VN with marriage themes.
Being a DIK - Season 1: Dunno, but I know it's popular in some circles. Presumably something college related, looks to be a VN using 3D prerendered lewds.
Leap of Faith: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
House Party: 3D porn jank. Known for being jank and a meme. IIRC it has Ethan Klein or some other Youtube weirdo in it. Someone fact check me on that.
HuniePop: 2D H match-3 "dating" game. Was a meme for a while. Voice acting's atrocious from what I remember.
Lust Theory: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Treasure of Nadia: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture. Pirate themed, maybe?
Summer's Gone - Season 1: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Fetish Locator Week One: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
Sapphire Safari: Dunno. 3d furry porn slop, based on the picture.
Helping the Hotties: Dunno. 3d rendered Western porn slop, based on the picture.
These are mostly Renpy engine games, it's a very simple VN engine combined with still scene CG. Most of the authors don't even construct their own assets but purchase them from somewhere.
This. Gooner is also thrown at every dude who likes to look at sexy women. It is leftist shaming language updated for modern times. It is a terminology that just came about the last couple years as gamers started getting some sexiness back.
Ugly women, self hating men, conservatives and older women who want to control men, etc. It is an attack on male nature while trying for humiliation. Same as always.
Also, “goon” is an excellent word for a henchman, big lug, galoot, or thug. It shouldn’t be a masturbation euphemism.
I mean, that's basically interchangeable with golem, which they definitely are.
Postal 2 is a blast form the past, killin jihadists was awesome.
A game like that would never be made today.
Yeah, not yet anyway :P
Isn't Postal 4 pretty much the same? Released only a couple years ago.
Links:
Twitter archive - https://archive.is/vvMmF
Site link - https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html
Just to point out there are sites that have ripped GoG's entire library so even their stuff is free on the high seas.
Unless they are Russian? Or disagree with them politically?
Also, were any of these games actually removed from Steam? It was mainly incest and rape games iirc.
It's not bizarre at all. It's perfectly on brand. GOG has been about being able to own things even after some third party decides "nuh uh you can't have that" you still have the offline installer. Their preservation efforts are also in this vein. They'll sell anything and there's a reason Alicesoft games like Sengoju Rance and Evenicle 2 are on GOG but not Steam. Evenicle is on both but Valve denied Evenicle 2. GOG being against rugpulling customers isn't an unusual turn of events at all.
Well if I ever get the verification code email so I can login to my fucking account before this special ends I'll be sure to get them.
Tried last night and today & still nothing. "This appears to be a new device, browser, or location." No on all 3 accounts bud.
Were some of these games the ones that Steam took down in the original batch? That's what I assumed based on the sheer degeneracy on display with the choices, so make a stance against the very specific censorship instead of pure porn bait.
And then Postal and Huniepop thrown in for good measure to make it actually worth getting. And likely their historical legacy for being banned/cancelled due to outrage mobs and then turning it around.
Also forgot to add that gog and cdpr seem to be riddled with sjws and changed their terms to essentially delete your account and thus games you haven't downloaded for SJW reasons. Maybe it was because of the political financing they are like that.