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Comparing Sex Games: SL, Thrixx and 3DXChat


CarolineResident

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Hello Folks

 

I just recently started to play 3DXChat (Username: CarolineResident). So I am a noob basically. However, I do have years of experience in Second Life (Username: carolinestravels, Displayname: Caroline Resident). I also tried the other game called Thrixxx before the 3DXChat.

 

The later being way better, hence the reason I changed from advertising Thrixxx to this one (Affiliate Programm).

 

From what I have seen so far, I decided tto write a comparison between the three games on my blog:

http://www.second-life-adventures.com/comparing-sex-games-sl-thrixx-3dxchat/

 

Feed back and comments appreciated, here and on my blog.

 

Carol

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Your review is an objective point of view towards the named games and I really liked reading it. It is way better to look at games then the usual postings and ramblings that are posted here all the time.

 

When I read your thread title I thought: "Not another X-Game is better then this" thread. I am glad I was wrong about it.

 

Some feedback from my experience:

 

In 3DX you can socialize alot aswell. The problem is to get started. The game is full of closed groups that arent welcoming strangers or new players with open arms, which is kinda understandable as you can find alot of mindgames and falseplay around this place.

 

But once you met a circle of a few people that add you to "their" network its kinda easy to go from there as you literally activate the social butterfly effect by meeting friends of friends.

 

Also there is a part of the community that enjoys all kinds of roleplays from sexual fantasies to day-to-day roleplay. The range is wide spread and versatile. Also socialising in form of partys and events is a thing here, thus it remains in the shadow of drama play between several event organizers that strive for room numbers and listenercounts instead of quality and people that actually enjoy the stuff that is been played.

 

Once you enter this dungeon of the mystical partyworld in 3DX you might find yourself torn between the different event groups, as the social factor comes into play again as some of your friends go to this event and others go to the other event.

 

You will find this world very complex and sometimes exhausting and painful once you explore it. But once you find the flow and the people you want to spend your time with, you ll find this game entertaining and addictive. (It keeps me here for almost 2yrs now)

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I appreciate anyone who goes to the trouble of articulating a comparison but it is all subjective.
I was disappointed in your comment...

"However, your avatar looks shit when you first enter Second Life. Sooner or later you will want to invest a little in your appearance. Noob like looking avatars do have a hard time to find sex partners, for the obvious reason: you are down right ugly!"

...firstly because it was strangely worded compared to the rest of your analysis and secondly because, in my experience, it is simply not true.
Of course it depends what you mean by "invest." If you mean just do something, that is true with any game. If you mean pay out money that isn't true.
I lived in SL, playing virtually every day, for four months before I spent a cent. During that time I amassed a considerable size wardrobe and other objects. Frankly, I think I (my appearance, nude) looked better than after adding an expensive mesh body and head and I had sex relatively more frequently than I have done since and certainly more often than I have in 3DXChat in nearly two years.
Apart from that...
Now, having invested in their currency, I can rent a lovely furnished (with many variations) two storey apartment, with the ability to customize it even more with my own stuff, with an accessible beach and lake for less than $5 US a month. 3DXChat (for between 50% and 150% more) gives me two cuboids to which I can add a limited variation of furniture (I can't even put a picture on the wall) and I can't walk off the property (let alone use my free bicycle, my rowing boat, my jet ski, etc.) without my clothes suddenly materializing again.

In SL I can sit around (a dozen poses) in a communal hot tub with a group of people, of all different shapes, sizes and genders, chatting about anything and sharing free ice creams, milkshakes, coffee, any type of alcoholic drink, popping our poppers, waving our flags,etc. or getting up and doing one of the 40 dances I have available, all for free.
The better quality graphics in 3DXChat, which I admit did attract me to the game, is really a minor thing compared to all those other little things. I had just as much fun (and much more sex) prior to that in Achat, which you didn't compare.

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Personally i would have set Chathouse a bit before 3DX with animations . Why ? Simply because when you select a pose , there is 3 little things that chathouse have and not 3DX :

 

1 - the poses are "item based" like in 3DX but if both versions make walk the avatars to the furnitures , in chathouse avatars are not "teleported" to the position when near the bed or couch or chair ( you can see them take place on bed/couch/chair and wait for the partner arrival ).

2 - Every pose in CH have 3 moves

3 - When you change a move during a pose , your avatar move to change posture and is not just set with the new posture

 

The only point where 3DX win against CH is that you don't need to move out of the bed/couch/chair to change the pose ( unless they changed this problem in CH )

 

I agree on all others points , even if graphically , both games are very near with an advantage to 3DX

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While i do agree with most it one thing i do think i want to point about second life socializing, it that it felt a lot more diverse back when there were no adult zones. It was a lot easier to meet various people i think a lot easier while still enjoying the adult aspect, when mature tag was split into moderate and adult zones i felt like some of that disappeared personally.

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While i do agree with most it one thing i do think i want to point about second life socializing, it that it felt a lot more diverse back when there were no adult zones. It was a lot easier to meet various people i think a lot easier while still enjoying the adult aspect, when mature tag was split into moderate and adult zones i felt like some of that disappeared personally.

 

I have not experienced this in 2nd Life, but I have noticed that these sort of games, social media and MMO's share this issue in common. If you give people the ability to separate, it is to the detriment of the community. On social media you are led into a "only people who think like me" group. MMOs need guilds, but they also push the community into boxes. Putting labels on rooms, zones etc is similar.

 

We meet a broader range of people when there is less sophistication in how apps manage those people. 

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I have not experienced this in 2nd Life, but I have noticed that these sort of games, social media and MMO's share this issue in common. If you give people the ability to separate, it is to the detriment of the community. On social media you are led into a "only people who think like me" group. MMOs need guilds, but they also push the community into boxes. Putting labels on rooms, zones etc is similar.

 

We meet a broader range of people when there is less sophistication in how apps manage those people. 

 

Dunno if it's a problem you can really fix with 3dxchat, some people come on these places with a very 1 dimensional interest, IF game it's self doesn't really entice them to broaden that perspective, you can't really avoid it being that way. Then when some have a very opposite interest to theirs you will initially be bound to get some conflict arise between. Like you see when some like cold invite sex and others hate it with a passion, so it is natural that the two would avoid each other like the plague. Then in a sex type game there will always be the good sex vs bad sex scenarios too, so social aspect when there so few non sex activities aside from dancing and talking will be bound to face a hard time.

 

Guess it's why mini games and activities been suggested so many times, but you're right that if you make it possible for people to move out into groups with common views, goals, interest and etc.. Then you will see community divide, but then again at this point 3Dxchat is very divided so less developers actively does something to solve this problem. Splitting into groups may be only options to not creating a toxic environment where nobody really enjoys being inside.

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I would bet 100 USD that my character in SL. Is more graphically appealing than the horrible copy/paste males in 3DXChat. Environments too...yeah forgot that one. So what does that leave 3DX? Animations. That's it. 7-20 dollars a month for the same 30 poses? Or $5-10 for 4000+ animations that aren't as good "yet"? Lastly you are playing a social/sex game. You are using imagination to a large extent anyways, why be locked into a few dozen poses and a meager way of "3dxCHATING" (horrible chat logging/features) for just socializing. I love 3DX don't get me wrong. Pace is the problem here. Just too slow what it all comes down to. Slow development time and price/value. 

A fine assessment, I wouldn't have even added ChatHouseRoulette (Thrixxx) It is so bad. Also. a value category would of been good. What you get for your hard earned cash.

P.S. people that hate SL that play these kind of games are usually too ignorant for it's more complicated systems (Calm down I was that guy at one point).Unpacking items and the entire process of editing objects and avatars. Also, I'm a little too high to form complete sentences, so sorry.  ;) 


 

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I really don't know how ppl can even compare SL to 3DX and 3DX to Trixxx or any combo of them.

SL is a full on money drainer social network, which is ugly as my neighbors ass.

Trixxx is a "random blind date fuck me maybe, see you later" 

3DX let's you not only fuck, but be creative with music streaming, room designing(with all round free times), not to mention the awesome camera that let's you take stunning pic's. 

in my eyes - 3DX is the best - dress up / decorator / social dance simulator i've ever seen.

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Lol, I have already said that I lived perfectly happily in SL for four months without spending a cent. How can you call it a money drainer?
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Now, having invested in their currency, I can rent a lovely furnished (with many variations) two storey apartment, with the ability to customize it even more with my own stuff, with an accessible beach and lake for less than $5 US a month. 3DXChat (for between 50% and 150% more) gives me two cuboids to which I can add a limited variation of furniture (I can't even put a picture on the wall) and I can't walk off the property (let alone use my free bicycle, my rowing boat, my jet ski, etc.) without my clothes suddenly materializing again.

And, in another thread...

I visited 20 dance halls (a small percentage of what is available) last night, five of them on beaches with far more content than here. I have a personal hud that gives me more than 40 different dances and the dance places have their own too.

 

...and the dance halls all have their own streams.

In my eyes, 3DXChat is just a glorified money pit that relies on reasonable graphics to cover up a pathetic inventory of clothes, furniture, dances and poses. Want a stage for your "club" in 3DXChat? Oh yes, spend an age putting together a bunch of cubes and tables and lights and steaming drinks cabinets to emulate one (I have great respect for those that do). Want a stage for your "club" in SL? Spend $0.38 US (and, you can probably get one free or create one easily yourself using free to anyone technology).

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Sorry I never have been able to figure out properly how the quote system works, lol

 

Cordelia Said,

 

...and the dance halls all have their own streams.

In my eyes, 3DXChat is just a glorified money pit that relies on reasonable graphics to cover up a pathetic inventory of clothes, furniture, dances and poses. Want a stage for your "club" in 3DXChat? Oh yes, spend an age putting together a bunch of cubes and tables and lights and steaming drinks cabinets to emulate one (I have great respect for those that do). Want a stage for your "club" in SL? Spend $0.38 US (and, you can probably get one free or create one easily yourself using free to anyone technology).

 

Now that nails it, where they fail in 3DXChat is supplying things that have not only been asked for so many times, they fail to see trends that could not only benefit players but also benefit themselves with the effect it would have on the growth of the game.

Lots of what is asked for and needed are fairly simple to add but because it hasn't been put in their schedule they don't appear to even consider it.

The better graphics is what the game relies on to attract players to the game and it does work, but how long will it continue to work.

Showing they will continue to rely so heavily on just the better graphics is what is driving lots of people away and back to the other games.

 

Some of the simple to add things that have been asked for multiple times, that you will see new players come in these forums all enthusiastic about what they have seen the game needs and ask for the same things that have been asked for before.

 

As Cordelia pointed out, decent stages

The ability to be able to save our room designs.

The ability to be able to transfer those room designs to other players. 

Custom content, the way they have gone about allowing custom content is a joke.

Pictures on walls, that would be so easy for them to do and would open  up so many things that could be done to better our rooms.

 

On top of that they do things like go to all the effort of making a beautiful beach in V2 for our room but don't allow us to be able to use it.

Now I may be wrong here, but I am fairly sure that wouldn't take much for them to do.

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Twiggy said...

 

On top of that they do things like go to all the effort of making a beautiful beach in V2 for our room but don't allow us to be able to use it.

Now I may be wrong here, but I am fairly sure that wouldn't take much for them to do.

 

Funny thing that you should mention that... within a few days of 2.0 starting, we had a fabulous installation from GoddessAthena (I hope they don't mind me saying) that stretched from room 1, across the chasm above the beach, with a staircase, half way, going down to the water and then a path of separated cube (top) stepping stones running along the sea bed back towards the apartment, curving round and heading out of the water onto the beach ending in a set of deckchairs "on" the beach. There was more to it than that but you get the idea. It is possible to get there but you can't actually use it as a beach without furniture that you can move to.

(and for quotes Twiggy, I just copy and paste text within [ quote ] [ /quote ] (no blanks) )

Sorry, I'm getting off topic.

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I think it is all about preference. Personally, my first trip to SL, I was like what the what. Still, some of their SIMS drew me in. We knew someone there that showed us a few things so it was an easier transition.

 

Graphics? Depends on your machine and the money you spend. I've seen some amazing looking Avis and met creators that have made good looking mesh heads but that ish is costly. If I had the time to learn to do it properly I'd make a killing by selling for 3-5k their currency for just a mesh head. Honestly if you want a good avi you'll spend from 20 to 30 bucks for body, head, skin alone. Then tack on more for mesh/fitted clothes for your mesh body. I did not like the system style bodies so I upgraded. A decent skin looks good without a mesh head so it isn't a requirement, all about preference.

 

Poses? They are great if you go to a sim that has invested in them or you yourself invest in. HUD or some good furniture. So if you got talent and know the scripting, modeling, etc. you could possibly make some decent cash on the side. Many are there for that.

 

Still, at the end of the day it also gets boring if you spend enough time there. Maybe it is just me and my gnat like attention span. I rarely go there either unless I am creating something to sell. To me it is the best thing about that place. Never been to the other places. I tried imvu once as someone here recommended it. Logged in, logged right back out. Still, Cordelia made valid points. I've been to some pretty awesome clubs.

 

Another thing I do not like about SL is this whole virtual families thing. I once sat on someone's toddler because I wasn't fully loaded and did not see the tike. Screaming ensued and I was frozen in a state of what the actual fuck. I don't get it. Also, you have to be careful because it is open to kids under 18. Same applies here but at least there are measures in place to limit if not restrict underage access.

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  • 1 month later...
  • 2 weeks later...

SL is really old at this point, it could really use a "minor" overhaul to just about everything. Me being somewhat of a graphics whore is the only thing that's kept me away from trying it out for more than 5 min.  :rolleyes:

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SL is really old at this point, it could really use a "minor" overhaul to just about everything. Me being somewhat of a graphics whore is the only thing that's kept me away from trying it out for more than 5 min.  :rolleyes:

 

 

We are rightfully so graphic whores when it comes down to a fucking sex game!!! Sure RP ing with people who know wtf they are doing is a pleasure, but when you have gorgeous gfx and ability to be able to express yourself by customizing the shit out of your avi adds TONS to the experience. 

 

Thus, SL and Trixxx fails miserably on that department. Animation and gfx wise they are pathetic compared to this game. This game however, is pathetic compared to the HUGE content of SL has. Trixxx though fails on both ends imo. 

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