discussion Hot take - every game should have an "unlock gallery and replay" option.

[4oomci]

Sometimes, you really just wanna get on with it.

 

[katemargu]

Yes every game needs this!

 

[johnnya123]

I agree with what several others have said, sometimes you just want to see the good scenes and that's about it after a while.

 

[Ausy]

I'm sure game devs would have a vastly different opinion as they want you to experience the game. I used to be on the side of having it be unlockable after a certain point. But after playing a variety of games over the years, there are THOSE (I'm sure a few popped into your head) that have just endless amount of grind and varying paths to where if you want to fully see all of the scenes you need to put in an excessive amount of time to unlock it, and those have changed my mind to just having unlocks available at all times. Also less common now a days, but many of the past VNs did not even have a gallery/replay scene to begin with and that is another level of nonsense.

 

[User_174965]

First: all games should have gallery and replay options, full stop. No exceptions. There's nothing more annoying than having to try and remember what part of a long game had the scene you want to replay and having to have thirty seven different save locations to try and find it again.

Second: all galleries and replays should be able to be unlocked manually by players if they just don't want to play through the story mode any longer.

Third: If you mouse-over or click on an "locked" gallery or replay location it should hint to you what you need to do to unlock it. "This path requires Izzy Love of 10+" or "To unlock this scene try and spend more time with Laura" or whatever.

Agreed. I get why some decent Developers do it to an extent but its a QOL feature that every game really needs. Particularly the Grindy shitty games that has a few decent scenes. Of course, the ones that need that feature the most, are typically the ones that have Developers which not willing to give such QOL features because paywall concepts or because it forces the player to grind to get to the 'good scenes'. If you give galleries / replays you kill the Grind factor that some developers desperately want to implement to make it seem like there is alot of material in game / string along subscribers so they can milk them for as long as possible.

 

[dionzx]

every game should have it, when I finish the game I want to see the scenes I missed

 

[Kekrekt]

Yes every game should have it

 

[Connoisseur739]

I think every game would be better if it had a gallery. While I would certainly also like them to have an unlock gallery option, I can't fault devs from choosing not to make one.

 

[User_24645]

Gotta agree

 

[lak]

Thats not an hot take bro I hate to put saves as checkpoints just to find my szene

 

[Mankind]

My friend that's not a hot take this should be a feature that every dev should put into their games

 

[p.smith]

I have to agree

 

[Donus]

Just unlock the gallery when the game is finished. I hate the grind

 

[Misuk09]

That a must have on every game or at least a description about the requirements to unlock certain images or scenes

 

[xel101]

First: all games should have gallery and replay options, full stop. No exceptions. There's nothing more annoying than having to try and remember what part of a long game had the scene you want to replay and having to have thirty seven different save locations to try and find it again.

Second: all galleries and replays should be able to be unlocked manually by players if they just don't want to play through the story mode any longer.

Third: If you mouse-over or click on an "locked" gallery or replay location it should hint to you what you need to do to unlock it. "This path requires Izzy Love of 10+" or "To unlock this scene try and spend more time with Laura" or whatever.

whole heartedly agree to this i like it when games give you ways to unlock art and scenes so you can still see all the content if you don't wanna save scum let alone having the option to replay the scene cus let be honest where all here for the porn first story and other things second. like
i love a good interesting slow burn but having no way to replay it in a game where its not a insta lewd scene its annoying to skip up to multiple hours to get to a scene or save multiple times

 

[pike]

For the developer this makes no sense, since his goal is to make the player play his game and not watch the scenes and move on

 

[Lucion]

unlock really needs to be present, i hate having to replay hours or guessing the right save to unlock that one scene i missed

 

[jfdomi]

Great for grindy games that take a year to beat

 

[LadyCeleste]

I often keep multiple saves throughout a playthrough at the start of scenes I like.

 

[naughtyones]

Any is fine with me isnt really going to make or break things for me. While I do pref a gallery just so I have indication of what scenes I need to get its a small thing is far down my list of what makes a title worth playing.