KickStarter Studio FOW's Subverse - Explore a wacky galaxy full of hot alien babes!

[Dexter]

How do you know? We know next to nothing about the SHMUP or the tacticool combat section, not to mention the loot or level up systems. If you listen to that interview they say that the game will be casul. It might very well be on the level of a flash title. They'll probably release some more details and a gameplay trailer soon. I could be pleasantly surprised but I'm not holding my breath.

Btw. they'd probably be open to an interview if anyone wants to press them out about Turn-based mechanics and Star Control 2-like features, where they're trying to get their inspiration for the gameplay, how much of an "RPG" it is or whatever: http://thegg.net/interviews/subvers...movies-censorship-and-the-tim-pool-aftermath/

 

[catfood]

Just did a quick search and find out that not only you can't choose your protagonist's gender, you can't even create you own character and have to wear a mask all time.

What a fucking waste.

You can't make your own character in Gothic or TWitcher either. So?

 

[Curratum]

This is not an RPG anyway, it's a mixed genre space game with a lot of porn thrown in it.

Who cares what the main char is like? You will get your porn and your shmup and XCom superlite, all for 10 pounds. Dev already commented that they won't be unmasking the captain so they can save a lot of money and animation effort from more complex facial expressoins and mouth animations / lipsync.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Just did a quick search and find out that not only you can't choose your protagonist's gender, you can't even create you own character and have to wear a mask all time.

What a fucking waste.

You can express your character individuality by choosing what wifu to sex.

 

[Luka-boy]

Basically Thor if he were 1/3rd the size, female and a raging alcoholic, this black sheep of the teelee royal family is a pint-sized princess that spends her days competing in the deathmatch arena in hopes of becoming the grand champion. Though she is stacked shorter than her competition, Sova's unbelievable strength and decades of experience in combat makes her a fierce opponent.

Though she is stacked shorter than her competition

 

[Incendax]

You can't make your own character in Gothic or TWitcher either. So?

Speak for yourself. My Geralt has much better hair than your Geralt!

 

[Simple Simon]

I guess it is a good thing that their final stretch goal is just polish rather than promising to add more stuff to the game. Seems more realistic. One concern anyone should have with a kickstarter game is whether promises of content can reasonably fulfilled. This might be setting the bar a little too low though because it seems like there is nothing tangible that will be changed if this stretch goal is met. "The game will be better" is kind of a hard metric for the consumer to evaluate as true or false after the fact.

 

[ArchAngel]

I guess it is a good thing that their final stretch goal is just polish rather than promising to add more stuff to the game. Seems more realistic. One concern anyone should have with a kickstarter game is whether promises of content can reasonably fulfilled. This might be setting the bar a little too low though because it seems like there is nothing tangible that will be changed if this stretch goal is met. "The game will be better" is kind of a hard metric for the consumer to evaluate as true or false after the fact.

Did you expect they would promise free dick enlargement for all backers?

 

[Simple Simon]

Did you expect they would promise free dick enlargement for all backers?

Well, honestly I was thinking of something like hiring a recognized name as the composer for the soundtrack or something but I like your idea too.

 

[catfood]

Did you expect they would promise free dick enlargement for all backers?

Well, honestly I was thinking of something like hiring a recognized name as the composer for the soundtrack or something but I like your idea too.

Yeah, I was disappointed about that as well. They said that they wanted to give some unknown composers a chance to shine but that's most likely just an euphemism for "we don't want to waste money on that when we could do it cheaper". I was hoping for Alexander Brandon or Michiel van den Bos. They do kickass electronic stuff.

 

[Werdna's Revenge]

Got drunk last night and yolo'd $40 into the Codex fundraiser. The Codex's degenerate reputation is at stake here, let's get it done boys.

 

[Efe]

there needs to be an alternative to paypal for this shit..
its not letting me use it

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Yeah, I agree. Traditional would be something more akin to

nsfw

Spoiler

 

[jf8350143]

Just did a quick search and find out that not only you can't choose your protagonist's gender, you can't even create you own character and have to wear a mask all time.

What a fucking waste.

You can't make your own character in Gothic or TWitcher either. So?

In Witcher 3 you play as someone who has a personality and background. Here you play as someone who has none of those things, yet you still can't customise it.

 

[Incendax]

In Witcher 3 you play as someone who has a personality and background. Here you play as someone who has none of those things, yet you still can't customise it.

Oh! You mean like Gordon Freeman.

 

[Reinhardt]

Just did a quick search and find out that not only you can't choose your protagonist's gender, you can't even create you own character and have to wear a mask all time.

What a fucking waste.

You can't make your own character in Gothic or TWitcher either. So?

And they are both shit.

 

[Spectacle]

Just did a quick search and find out that not only you can't choose your protagonist's gender, you can't even create you own character and have to wear a mask all time.

What a fucking waste.

You can't make your own character in Gothic or TWitcher either. So?

In Witcher 3 you play as someone who has a personality and background. Here you play as someone who has none of those things, yet you still can't customise it.

I suppose a customizable main character wouldn't hurt, but despite the kickstarter success Subverse is still an indie game and they have to prioritize. I bet 95% of their users would prefer that the studio spends the time polishing the waifus rather than making the main character customizable.

 

[eXalted]

I want my main waifu customizable.

 

[Reinhardt]

I want my main waifu customizable.

 

[Efe]

you can adjust your dick size..
does your witcher allow you that?

 

[catfood]

you can adjust your dick size..
does your witcher allow you that?

Actually you can't.

 

[Efe]

actually its not out yet.

 

[Lithium Flower]

Bah, its like you guys haven't even put hours into contemplating erotic game design. What's wrong with you? Are you some sort of degenerates?

There are two reasons for why the protag is the way he is. One was stated by the developers, the other I can infer based on my uh friend's thorough experience with the genre.

According to the devs, introducing facial features exponentially increases the amount of work required to produce an animation. If the choice is between being able to see your dude's face and having more animated sex scenes in the game, I suspect that the majority of people will go for the latter every time.

Based on the pre-release voice reels and character bios we can see that the protagonist does indeed have a personality and a backstory that connects him to other characters (he also has a very particular accent and we all know what that means.) He also seems to be a pretty generic and humorous character. In my...informed opinion, this type of character suits the game for the same reason why the male part of black-tie dress code is, well, black - it allows the ladies to stand out. But moreover, the more developed the protagonist of an eroge game is, the narrower its target demographic will be. If the protagonist was an assertive douchebag ala Rance, then that would scare off people looking for femdom. If the character was a submissive pushover, that would frustrate people looking for maledom, and so on (not that you can't subvert this dynamic by having a dominant person in a submissive position or a submissive person in a dominant position ((see: Sanguine Rose)) but again this would make for a rather particular story that won't appeal to as many people.) So if Studio FOW is trying to hit as many people as possible with their first game, they probably want to go for a relatively generic protagonist.

I do understand the concerns that gay and bisexual Codexers such as jf8350143 have brought to this discussion and for them I suggest only that they investigate this thread for they may find it to be of great interest.

 

[Melcar]

I want my main waifu customizable.

That would be awesome actually.

 

[Razor]

Based on the pre-release voice reels and character bios we can see that the protagonist does indeed have a personality and a backstory that connects him to other characters (he also has a very particular accent and we all know what that means.)...

Yup, I sure do!



MCA goal post when?