Sex and Glory - Roommates

[xravensfan]

I don't see anything...
Any opinions?

[TheGreatJoeGargery]

The game is fine I guess. It's not horrible. It's not spectacular. It's just average. The game play is nothing new with statistic grinding and needing to make money to buy things to progress the game. I did enjoy the sequence puzzles at the weekend parties, where you have to pick the right events in the right sequences to unlock achievements. More interactions with different characters would have been nice, especially the teachers and students at the university and people at the parties. The protagonist confused me. She was supposed to be an introverted geek who never went out but also an extroverted bisexual dominatrix who almost immediately blackmails her roommate for sexual favors at the same time? It seems to me like there should have been a progression from bookworm to party girl in the game.

I think what would have made it better is if your character started off as introverted and shy. You agree to help your party girl roommate do well on her mid term exam which she does. She then proceeds to take you to see her friend that works at the salon for an ugly duckling to beautiful swan makeover taken right out of an 80's John Hughes movie. She also takes you out to a rave with one of her friends on the weekend. The game could have centered around some kind of confidence mechanic, where she needs to reach a certain level of confidence to progress in the game. There could also be a skill building mechanic for things like dancing, socializing, sex, and other things (much like the three star mechanic already used in the game for progression of skills). So being a good dancer allows you to meet someone on the dance floor, socializing will allow you to meet someone at the bar, and so on and so forth.

From here you can choose to interact with different people at the club, where she could eventually become predator or prey. She could go on the dance floor and find out she can't dance (then during the week ask her roommate to help her out for a minor Dirty Dancing plot line). She could meet a shady photographer who convinces her to be more and more of an exhibitionist (and takes her back to his studio, then perhaps end up in an escort type plot line). Meet up with a dominatrix who teaches her "the ropes" for the dominatrix ending. At school she could also have a geeky friend who will notice her changes (which could be a romance option where she could start taking her friend to the parties and "corrupt" her as well). There could also be a teacher she has a crush on and will eventually get the confidence to seduce (or allow to be seduced by). She could eventually work up to blackmailing her roommate for sexual favors in order to help her pass the final exam.

The point would be to have your character build up the confidence to do these things on her own initiative rather than have most of the major events of the game just kind of happen to her when she triggers the right sequence of events.

If you want to be extra cruel you could have her Skype with her high school boyfriend (who attends a different university) every Sunday (the night after she goes out partying). Since she was always a good girl they of course agreed to not have sex before marriage (which they plan to do after they graduate). Then you could have her either lie to him or use him as incentive to try for the "good girl" ending which would be an option.

[yahoo]

The premise is definitely not believable.

I'd argue that it goes even further than that. Lina is bisexual. I don't think Vivian knew about that when she moved in. How would a girl feel if she moved in with a heterosexual guy? I don't think she would like that. But move in with a lesbian or with a bisexual girl and everything's fine?
The blackmail (sex for tutoring) is also a major turn off. I mean, seriously, if it was a guy offering, he would get laughed at and probably arrested for that. But if it's a girl, it's suddenly okay? Ok, so a girl can't have penetrative sex with another girl (without the use of toys). Would you agree for a guy to finger your girlfriend or give her oral sex? Why would you agree for a girl to do that?
Not only that, but think about what favors Vivian agrees to as a price. The lengths she goes to -- totally unbelievable. And once Lina and Vivian start falling for each other, why does having sex require favor points?

And the final matter: There was opportunity to make the game more tricky by adding a motivation factor for Vivian. At the beginning, she only needs 3 intelligence points to pass. Why would she agree to tutoring beyond, say, 6? She must realize how much material there is to cover, but unless she understands why it's important to keep up the pace (it's mentioned in the third star for comprehensive teaching, IIRC) and study for the future, there's no motivation for her. I mean, when you start, Vivian should become bored quickly, and she should realize that once she studied enough (say, twice the level required to pass, but +10 minimum so you don't flunk because of the night out partying right before the exam, or maybe you'd get a free pass for the first one or two exams to prevent intelligence loss), she doesn't care for learning anymore. And only once you achieve the third star for a given tutoring category is when you can convince her to study despite already being at a level high enough to pass.

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Oh, and once again, we're in this subforum:
All sexy games
You found a free sexy game on the Web, share it with the buddies

Roommates is hardly free. I think there should be another subforum dedicated to commercial games (including demo versions), but limited only to developers who either:
- release free games as well (in at least 1:1 ratio of free:commercial);
- release free games in 1:2 ratio of free:commercial, but release a reasonable demo version of each of their commercial game;
- are sponsored by a forum regular (one sponsored thread per regular user per year, and regular means they're beyond suspicions of being a paid shill), or:
- pay for the advertising (on a per thread basis).

Putting commercial games here, next to the free ones, is an insult to those developers who release their games for free. I'm okay with having crowdfunded games here, assuming funding is not required to obtain a full version of their games.

[Dasati]

Oh, and once again, we're in this subforum:
All sexy games
You found a free sexy game on the Web, share it with the buddies

Roommates is hardly free. I think there should be another subforum dedicated to commercial games (including demo versions), but limited only to developers who either:
- release free games as well (in at least 1:1 ratio of free:commercial);
- release free games in 1:2 ratio of free:commercial, but release a reasonable demo version of each of their commercial game;
- are sponsored by a forum regular (one sponsored thread per regular user per year, and regular means they're beyond suspicions of being a paid shill), or:
- pay for the advertising (on a per thread basis).

Putting commercial games here, next to the free ones, is an insult to those developers who release their games for free. I'm okay with having crowdfunded games here, assuming funding is not required to obtain a full version of their games.

It definitely seems to be unclear in regards to LOP and S&G games, the original roommates thread for example was removed. Whereas several other ones are still up.

[Ripe]

Oh, and once again, we're in this subforum:
All sexy games
You found a free sexy game on the Web, share it with the buddies

Roommates is hardly free. I think there should be another subforum dedicated to commercial games (including demo versions), but limited only to developers who either:
- release free games as well (in at least 1:1 ratio of free:commercial);
- release free games in 1:2 ratio of free:commercial, but release a reasonable demo version of each of their commercial game;
- are sponsored by a forum regular (one sponsored thread per regular user per year, and regular means they're beyond suspicions of being a paid shill), or:
- pay for the advertising (on a per thread basis).

Putting commercial games here, next to the free ones, is an insult to those developers who release their games for free. I'm okay with having crowdfunded games here, assuming funding is not required to obtain a full version of their games.

It definitely seems to be unclear in regards to LOP and S&G games, the original roommates thread for example was removed. Whereas several other ones are still up.

I think LoP and S&G get a "pass" in part because Leo used to give a free one week pass to Lagoon users for LoP Gold... granted, I think last time he did it was when he released Hank Moody but still, he was giving us free pass for his site which is probably why he's pay site is only one allowed here.

[kessie8dn]

The usual fare - lot of repetition, but nothing you shouldn't expect
My biggest criticism is that I find it very annoying when the narrative has such glaring logical errors...
Massage her with oil or catch her touching herself in the toilet and she allows all kinds of intimacy..
but right after that it's just as if nothing happened, she's even shy about letting you see her with her top off..
Makes no sense at all..

[TheBrain]

@ exar

I counted 14 threads for premium games out of the 50 threads on the first page. 12 (!) of those threads were for LOP premium games. At the same time there are only 2 threads for free LOP games. Granted, most of these threads for premium games were not started by leonizer or his team, but this does seem to be a bit out of balance for a forum that claims to be about free games.

And those threads would not be killed if there was a "commercial games" forum, just moved to a place where people who are not interested in them can easily identify them.

[EscapeEvade]

I keep seeing this in threads.

What does "shortcuts" mean in this context? I don't get it.

[poisonjames]

Roommates is hardly free. I think there should be another subforum dedicated to commercial games (including demo versions), but limited only to developers who either:
- release free games as well (in at least 1:1 ratio of free:commercial);
- release free games in 1:2 ratio of free:commercial, but release a reasonable demo version of each of their commercial game;
- are sponsored by a forum regular (one sponsored thread per regular user per year, and regular means they're beyond suspicions of being a paid shill), or:
- pay for the advertising (on a per thread basis).

Putting commercial games here, next to the free ones, is an insult to those developers who release their games for free. I'm okay with having crowdfunded games here, assuming funding is not required to obtain a full version of their games.

Couple things I would contest here. First, it's melodramatic to suggest that it's "insulting" to allow "for-profit" games to be discussed here. It's not as if the free game developers are having their livelihoods infringed upon.

The stickied thread explains that the paid game policy doesn't necessarily apply to established members.

Personally, I think it would be detrimental to remove all of the threads you're identifying for a separate sub-forum. The first page is comprised of threads from many *years*. The last post goes back months. If you move away the paid threads, several of which clearly the most popular you're reducing eyeballs to those free developers. I can attest that I came here for the discussion on LOP games, and I've stayed for the rest. This sub-forum is hardly active enough to warrant splitting the content. I ran an extremely popular gaming site with very active forums, and my experience was that sort of niche splitting always resulted in less activity overall. Let's not get ourselves worked up about the little things. These threads bring more people to the table, and it's certainly a manageable volume of posts.

What does "shortcuts" mean in this context? I don't get it.

Like you, I do not know. Perhaps he means abbreviations? If that's it though I don't understand the visceral reaction.

[LucaNatoli]

People, please get back on topic or I will lock this thread and delete it, and I will start handing out warnings for abuse to all users involved.
This kind of behaviour IS NOT tolerated. Period.


The game, what I played, is okay. Not too bad, yet feels like something is missing. It is kind of a grind fest game (like usual) , animations are pretty decent though, and a tad harder to achieve all endings in my opinion.

[muttdoggy]

In your opinion, is the new roommates game worth getting a membership in Sex and Glory? It seems to be mostly lesbian encounters and you play as a girl, right?

[LucaNatoli]

In your opinion, is the new roommates game worth getting a membership in Sex and Glory? It seems to be mostly lesbian encounters and you play as a girl, right?

Yes, you do play as a girl. In my honest opinion, the game by itself is not worth the membership. I mean it looks great, mostly lesbian scenes, and a lot of the scenes get replayed, a lot. I still haven't figured out how to get the girl in the foursome scene with the dudes yet (as they showed on their page a picture of that scene).

[muttdoggy]

Thanks for the info. It's not exactly up my alley but is up a friend's alleyway! She's bisexual she may like the game.

[vkalvkal]

In your opinion, is the new roommates game worth getting a membership in Sex and Glory? It seems to be mostly lesbian encounters and you play as a girl, right?

Hope you do not mind my intrusion here. Well, I have not purchased a membership to play this game. I am not a fan of lesbian scenes (which seems to be the majority of the game) and the usual grind fest kind of game (I can not stand stats building games anymore - thankfully, Living with Temptation 2 will not be like this).

But, if you are a fan of the status builder and grinding kind of games, and if you find lesbian scenes arousing, I guess you would enjoy this game a lot. It is being really well received in the comments of their blog.

[LucaNatoli]

It is being really well received in the comments of their blog.

You know why that is? It is because that is the best and decent game they have released in a long time. The rest where short, or had so many problems (the texas card game one) that they were dismissed. That being said, the games on S&G are made by another team, different to the ones that do the lesson of passion gold. And sex and glory don't pump out that many games, they take their time .

And I agree with the statement of the status builder games. They drive me insane, they rub me the wrong way when you have to grind and grind to open 1 lousy scene. I await living with temptation 2 as well, I think it kept getting delayed.