the chronicles of alextrasza

[Sniff3005]

http://www.thechroniclesofalexstrasza.c ... n-progress

i played the beta version. if you like the "WoW" environment this is a must look its a wow type sex rpg. there is a demo of the game on this site in the forum section. the sex scenes are pretty awesome considering how good the game looks.


note: the game will take a beefy computer to run.

[Franco]

Thanks. Looks interesting. I'm downloading the demo.

[kessie8yl]

Thanks. Looks interesting. I'm downloading the demo.

1 free download every 30 mins?

Life's too short

[Franco]

Ya know, that's not all I'm doing. While it's downloading I'm washing clothes, fixing my dinner, reading about the Han empire, etc.

[kessie8yl]

Ya know, that's not all I'm doing. While it's downloading I'm washing clothes, fixing my dinner, reading about the Han empire, etc.

LOL ... No, that comment wasn't directed at you. I just meant the choice of site doesn't seem to be the best. There are sites that allow free users to download a lot more 1 file every half-hour and there's not even a second site so we can save time by downloading more than one file at a time.

[tlaero]

Franco, thanks for being the guinea pig here. I'm interested in hearing how the demo is. The graphics on the site show that the author put a TON of work into the game. I hope it turns out to be good.

Tlaero

[TheBrain]

Just played it. First off, I know it's a demo, it's not necessarily representative of the actual game, but let's put it like this: you better HOPE it's not representative of the game. The control and the interface is horrible, also had quite a bit of input lag, but that could just be me.

But looking at the actual gameplay, there's some dialogue with one choice which allows you to avoid all the sex scenes in the demo (why someone would do that, no idea, but at least it shows the capability of doing branching dialogue). The sex is completely uninteractive, just press a button to change between poses. I wouldn't expect much more from the actual game, I think it would be quite hard to do interactive animation with the Unreal engine (beyond "press a button to change something"). Then there's a small puzzle in the demo, which I found rather unintuitive. I'll put it in a spoiler in case you actually want to play it:

First you need to find someone, with no explanation why or who it is or where to find him. Turns out he's in the jail, for which you need a key. The key is guarded by a guy (who's fucking a schackled girl, for some reason). You need to kill/knock out the guy by dropping a bucket, which is conveniently hanging above him, and you use a knife to drop the bucket.
Now the key and the knife were easy, they glow a little, hard not to notice it after looking around. The bucket, however, is hardly noticeable, not glowing, etc. I had to look on the forum to know how to do it.
Furthermore the "story"/dialogue is just weird, it doesn't explain why you're there, what you're doing, why you get raped by guards, who you are, etc. etc.

As for the graphics, the environment looks good, after all the Unreal engine is a modern game engine, you'd expect nothing less. The characters appear as they do on the screenshots on the website, animation and moving around doesn't really subtract from their looks. However they appear to be just World of Warcraft models with genitals slapped on and huge boobs added to them, needless to say it's not a style I particularly enjoy (I have little interest in seeing a green thing fuck a purple thing...). And the sex animations are nothing special in my opinion.

I think the concept of a 3rd person RPG with sex elements has some potential. I mean, you can run around, see objects and characters, interact, etc. It might open options that are not possible in 2D. That said, based on this demo I don't think this game will be very good. It severely lacks any kind of polish, the controls are cumbersome, the dialogue is bad, the animation is okay but doesn't contribute to the gameplay, etc. etc. Now of course there's the possibility this will change when the creator releases the first part, and I definitely hope it will, it could be a good game. But I fear that someone who releases a demo in this state won't achieve the polish I'd expect in the actual game...

[Franco]

I agree. I had a lot of trouble with the controls too. I'm just going to delete it.

As far as sex in rpg and other games: Why can't developers include the sex as a necessary element to the game rather than just an add on? For example, have the hero collect manna or some other magic quality by having sex with a variety of girls. Increased manna would give him more power in combat, or magic, or etc., but would be used up or dissipate over time. Higher quality girls would bring more, or higher quality, manna, etc. That kind of thing would make the sex more integral to the game than just something irrelevant to the game play.

[tlaero]

Thanks TheBrain and Franco. I'm glad I didn't download the demo. Enough time passed between the demo and the release that maybe it'll improve, but I won't get my hopes up.

Franco, as for sex as a necessary element: usually sex is the goal, not the mechanic that gets you to the goal. Though wasn't there game called something like "Erotical night" where sex was the "combat" in the RPG, and the more you did it the better you got? I played it a bit but didn't stick with it.

Tlaero

[Franco]

There seems to be a difference between a dating game where the sex is the goal and an rpg where there are other elements and goals. If the developer just wants sex to be the goal, why bother with the rpg elements?

[tlaero]

The first sex game I ever played and is still a high point in the genre was Leo's LOP which was an RPG where the RPG elements helped you achieve the goal, which was to have sex.

I'm sure that sex as a method rather than sex as a goal could work, but I don't think I'd enjoy it as much.

Tlaero

[Sniff3005]

well i like it.

[Socio]

do you have to download all 4 parts to get it to work?

[Sniff3005]

do you have to download all 4 parts to get it to work?

yes

[Socio]

do you have to download all 4 parts to get it to work?

yes

Thanks