March of the Crabs
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Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator |OT| Thirsty for Pop
- Thread starter Barrylocke
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Yes this is totally reasonable
If they released a broken game, you guys would just be whining about how it's broken and still not being able to play it.
Honestly I see more comments trying to shame people for being disappointed/upset than I see actual negative comments like that pirating one. It's reached the level of ball washing at this point the concern trolling over the devs' well being.
It's fine the devs are human and have needs; but they are the one who set this release date/schedule.They are the ones who programmed it bugs and all. They still tried to rush it out, hence all the delays.They are the ones who made the decision to not communicate basically all day yesterday to their fans. There is a lot to be upset about how they handled the non-launch yesterday.
I don't want to see anyone tire themselves out over programming a game. But most of this is still on them in how they've handled things. So I'm not really seeing a reason to absolve them of any blame or shield them from fans who are disappointed after they went silent.
It's fine the devs are human and have needs; but they are the one who set this release date/schedule.They are the ones who programmed it bugs and all. They still tried to rush it out, hence all the delays.They are the ones who made the decision to not communicate basically all day yesterday to their fans. There is a lot to be upset about how they handled the non-launch yesterday.
I don't want to see anyone tire themselves out over programming a game. But most of this is still on them in how they've handled things. So I'm not really seeing a reason to absolve them of any blame or shield them from fans who are disappointed after they went silent.
I just think both sides of the argument are being a bit... extreme about things. It's just a game, you know? No one should be yelling at each other or losing sleep over it, including the devs themselves.
I realize this is the gaming community though, so there's a lot of people that are just... extreme. :/
Also #TeamIThinkBrianIsDateable
I realize this is the gaming community though, so there's a lot of people that are just... extreme. :/
Also #TeamIThinkBrianIsDateable
MulderYuffie
Member
The thought crossed my mind but mind but tbh I think he's always been dateable from the beginning
It would be ridiculous not to have the bear dateable
Garrett Hawke
Member
I would sit on Brian TBQH
Wait, like the band???
Prototype Viktor
Member
humans only
the game was delayed after they got flooded with request from Dev's trying to figure out how they got those skin tones and if it was a result of magic
Damon Bennet
Member
Brian <3
Conkerkid11
Member
Oh wow, this is probably the first time I've seen a Steam page for a game a day after the page says it came out, and it's still unavailable. I'll be surprised if it doesn't initially get bombarded with negative reviews solely based on this bad launch.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
YessssssssEveryone can stop worrying!
I confirmed with PR that Brian is dateable.
Yes
Yes
Well, there's definitely a community for it as you can see in this thread, haha.
origamipirate
Member
Bear here, am gay, can confirm: yes.
On topic- I'm not mad at the delay or the way they communicated it tbh. They did their best and were hoping to make a timely release, but it just wasn't in the cards. Sucks, but it happens. I also understand the disappointed people, I was planning to stream it last night after work myself and it sucks I couldn't- but if the game is better for the delay, then we're all better off.
DealWithIt
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I'm not here for the release controversy, I'm here to simply announce that this is the best thread title ever posted on Gaf. That is all.
MulderYuffie
Member
would consider myself a bear and am gay and yes very sought after.
MulderYuffie
Member
Hopefully very
Question for the gay dudes in this thread: would you only be interested in dating sims that had explicit sex scenes? I'm curious because dating sims targeting women are largely PG-rated.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Nah. I'm interested in literally any game with mlm options or even LGBT characters in general. I couldn't care less if there are explicit sex scenes in a game.
This just happens to have a romanceable character in it that I'd actually be into in real life (Brian) which makes me especially interested.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Same. But I won't say no to explicit scenes 🌝
Earthbound64
Banned
Will it be available DRM-free?
SoulUnison
Banned
"Goth Daddy?"
*series of increasing snorts and guffaws*
*series of increasing snorts and guffaws*
MulderYuffie
Member
While it is preferred and I hate to prove the overly sexual stereotype to be true but I love things like these and i feel that others would still enjoy it too or at least I hope. I would still be interested in a dating Sim minus such content given I have some kind of connection to some characters in general and I'm easy to please.
Yup, I'd say you could be a way bigger slut with other dudes than you typically could with women.
I wouldn't mind some lewd scenes, but they don't even need to be overtly pornographic. I just think it'd be less fun if the game only skirted around the idea of you actually "dating" these guys. I wouldn't say I'm "only" interested in that, though.
Barrylocke
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That's me. It's more about having guys and scenarios that I find appealing than having explicit scenes. I can't deny that that well done explicit scenes does a lot to catch my initial attention and is definitely appreciated, but most of the process is getting to know the guys story and their personality quirks.
I enjoyed what little I've played of Katawa Shoujo (a Visual Novel that involves romancing various girls at a school for the physically disabled), and the Social Link sides of Persona 3 and 4 were very fun, including the ones that involved dating. I even played through Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia, a game that has involves lengthy Visual Novel'esque sequences to power up certain party members and learn more about their internal struggles in the process. I ideally want a game like Dream Daddy to take similar ideas, but with guys that I could find myself eyeing if they were in real life.
No, Thank You!! was a good example of this. It was chock full of well done lewd scenes and I was VERY excited to finally progress far enough in the VN to see my first one (They didn't begin until about 2 chapters/a couple hours into the game). By the tail end of every route though, I was more engaged with the characters of the route and what was being revealed with the overall narrative and would (ALMOST!) be disappointed when an explicit scene came up because I knew I was going to be engaged in a visual treat that was going to last about 15 minutes and have nothing to do with how Haru and the man of the moment were going to resolve the issues that are in front of them.
Ah, I didn't mean to bring stereotypes into it, I just don't know much about dating sims for guys. It's my impression that the ones for straight dudes are generally a lot more explicit than the ones for straight women. I don't know of very many that are m/m and actually made for a male audience.
Anyway, thanks for your answers, dudes!
Monocle
Member
Not necessarily. But at least give me some hunky shirtless dudes to enjoy. I don't like stories that establish blatant sexual tension and then stay poised on the edge of a payoff it never delivers.
Just don't blue ball me with winks and innuendo. That's all I ask from dating sims with hot casts.
umop_3pisdn
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No, given the medium I think writing and character are most important in keeping me interested. I mean it's a pretty inefficient way to get porn otherwise.
But if it's too chaste then that's kind of boring too.
I know I never run into this much attention around other gay guys lol.
Depends on what kind of porn you're after. If you like your porn with some semblance of a coherent plot, for example, then dating sims are probably a better bet than porn films
.Personally, I do think that I prefer these types of games to have explicit scenes but I don't think I'd mind it if one didn't (unless the reason for that was that the creators were censored or felt they had to censor themselves). On the other hand, if the only good thing about the game were its sex scenes and the plot/writing/characters/gameplay/graphics were shit, I very much would mind. It's like sex scenes are a very nice bonus but I don't think that they're necessarily the point of the game for me. (Unless it actually is supposed to be a porn game first and foremost but then I'm not sure if it could still be called a dating sim.)
Can you explain this a little more? Is Oney calling this a virtue signaling game
It's from Julian, who was one of the three on Grumpcade when they played Simpson's Hit and Run and is also a member of the OneyPlays group.
http://yollgraveyard.tumblr.com/post/162960778784/okay-sorry-for-the-vaguepostsmore-so-yeah
Quoted relevant part:
Whooooa tho wtf at that entire tumblr post. Uhhhhhhhhh
It seems really weird to make a post like that if he's still friends with the grumps? But maybe he's not
Brian sort of kind of called it out but not really:
https://twitter.com/bwecht/status/885961389818302464
kurona_bright
Neo Member
Yeeeeah the tone of that post set off red flags for me. But even still, there's the fact that the person who wrote it is a gay man, and apparently has done testing for it.
I'm still going to take his words with a grain of salt because 1) different strokes for different folks, 2) people have apparently liked what has been streamed of the game so far, and 3) badmouthing a game and its creators that hard before it comes out really strikes me as having some sort of axe to grind, even before considering the use of "virtue-signalling".
I'm still going to take his words with a grain of salt because 1) different strokes for different folks, 2) people have apparently liked what has been streamed of the game so far, and 3) badmouthing a game and its creators that hard before it comes out really strikes me as having some sort of axe to grind, even before considering the use of "virtue-signalling".
Anybody into Bara, even beyond those two demographics.
Joseph Christiansen would be my husbando in terms of type, but he's ruined by his commitment to Jesus. So I'd date Craig Cahn, but I'd be thinking of Joseph; and I'd get so emotionally unsettled that I think I'd need to take Amanda and just move somewhere else where there are more dads. Life as an eligible dad-loving-dad is super hard.