I find that to be entirely unreasonable, each AVN has its strengths and weaknesses, goals and plans. They each strive to do different things. For example, Divine Dawn and Genex Love, they're both very different styles of games to Eternum. They set out to do completely different things, I don't play AVN's to play an RPG, I don't play them to customize characters. I play them for a good story, and well written attractive characters. That's effectively all I look for. I find Eternum, for what I'm looking for, does that best. Now you may not personally enjoy that as much, and I understand the point behind plot not having many meaningful choices. But how long do you suppose that would take one guy to do? Each update takes around 6 months as you've said, with Caribdis working tirelessly (I find it ridiculous that people judge AVN devs on how long each update takes, I've found some of your comments on that quite distasteful) but I digress on that front. Lets suppose Eternum had choices like that scattered about, that would add so much unnecessary time to the development cycle. The choice in Eternum is limited, yes. But it has to be for the level of quality that it is. Lets say Nova did reset, what needs to happen now? Well every time she shows up, or it's brought up, their now needs to be separate dialogue EVERY time that it's even mentioned, do you realize how ridiculous that would be to manage? Eternum has a good story because of what it does with the borrowed concept, and how it's portrayed, nobody is saying that the concept itself is unique. The worlds within the concept, the places you go, how it's presented, the characters within it. That is what gives Eternum a good story, a twist on a classic. I'm not going to continue this argument further, because I can immediately tell what kind of individual you are, and how that would go. "But then a lot of people ate tide pods too... " do you hear yourself? Do you realize how asinine this sounds? There are people who've played 100's of AVN's, and have done so for years, and they to this day make posts about how Eternum is still the best they've played. How do you rationalize this? Are they stupid for thinking Eternum was the best they've played?
You were the one that said Eternum is the best AVN currently available, not me.
But you're right, we should stop talking.
But in the future please keep in mind that not everyone likes the things you like or thinks the way you do.
Then keep your preferences to yourself.
Or you can accept that when you comment on something you open yourself for criticism. Thats what I do.
And yet you're the one who chose to reply to me. "But in the future please keep in mind that not everyone likes the things you like or thinks the way you do." That was a point I made in what I had just said. "Then keep your preferences to yourself." What an absolutely ridiculous thing to say, lol. Anyways, you like what you like, I like what I like, as long as you acknowledge you're in the minority, I was honestly surprised to see someone say something negative about Eternum. You don't really see that often.
"Or you can accept that when you comment on something you open yourself for criticism. Thats what I do." When did I complain about criticism? Lol, we had a disagreement, I don't agree with your opinion, you don't agree with mine. Anyways, that's the last thing I wanted to comment on, have a nice day. Try and maybe be a little less of an a-hole in the future friend.
"Lost the *argument"
Fuck, that's sad.
I don't care about this spat, but I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy. OP merely voiced his opinion and then you jumped on him and told him to 'keep your preferences to yourself' all the while writing essays about which is the better porn.
Maybe you should have taken your own advice and 'keep your preferences to yourself'
It is indeed really sad that your criteria to an AVN being "that bad" is having no rpg elements or some plot hole, disregarding absolutely everything else the game does right.
Me and a lot of other people for example couldn't give two fcks about character creation or combat in a story driven game, like dude
Do you realize how subjectively nitpicky that statement is?
Do you realize you are saying people lost the discussion by insulting you, when the first thing you did on the thread (a positive thread, btw), was insulting the hard work of someone?
Im not even taking into account how many people on this site love the work u insulted btw, just the mere disrespect of thinking it would be worth to degrade something that someone obviously like in their own appreciation thread.
I wont even going to go on about how wtfcky your arguments/criteria were in terms of defining "good" art, just pointing how objectively wrong u made yourself along all this
Also, if you really do think you were "criticising", you should check what that means, because everything you pointed was subjective bs.
If you are going to criticise something at least be constructive with objective arguments.
Saying something is bad because it doesnt have your own random specific needs and tastes that no one else in the world cares is not critising, is being irrational.