How do you end the game with your niece? I’ve gotten the achievement for spending as much time as possible with her, but not the ending with her. I never have the option.
Jjcb
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You need to be turned down by the person you’re dating at the premiere.
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How do I make that happen? Enter a relationship with someone but be distant? Can I even do that while spending the most time with the niece?
Lys
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It is possible to be in a relationship with your niece, and with another person. Obviously, doing so could lead to a lot of stress as you try to balance everything (especially if you romance more than one person).
Heck, I still need help getting the Cult Classic Achievement and the Direct Line Achievement.
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Jjcb
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Date someone but spend the least amount of time possible with them.
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I really like this game. I’ve played it dozens of times since I bought it a week ago. My only (minor, mildly spoilery) criticisms:
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In the Oscar Party ending, I usually get my award for Best Screenplay (even if my Directing was about 20% better) or Best Editing (which I seem to get if I edit the film at all, regardless of skill level) and don’t find out if I won Best Picture at all unless I don’t do anything except produce. This seems to me to be somewhat anti-climactic.
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You never do find out if Croghan was right about your film being a commercial flop. You find out what the critics and the Academy think, but not the public.
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The scene where you get hauled before the Committee seems to play out the exact same way regardless of your previous choices. Shouldn’t Creed be nicer to you if you’ve played the Red Scare crusader throughout the game? Shouldn’t casting Fish Grundy as your star affect you in some noticeable way?
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I believe I have found a bug. The last time I played the game, I flatly told the Committee I was a Communist Party member and refused to name names, and I still wasn’t blacklisted. This then triggered an Oscar Party ending in which I got two versions of the scene where I go up to accept my award, one where everyone applauded me and one where many of them didn’t, on the same page.
Achievements I can’t seem to get:
- New Wave (What constitutes “terrible pacing” for the purposes of this achievement? I have yet to hit the sweet spot.)
- Light Up the Screen (I have costarred with the actor while dating them exclusively a couple of times and never unlocked this.)
- Creative Differences (This never comes up, even when I surrender all creative control to the backer.)
- Direct Line (I’ve played with Directing as my natural talent many times and never seen any dialogue options that seem to relate to it.)
- Mixed Review (The reviewer either thinks my film is schlock or the best thing ever, no in-between.)
- Cult Classic (The last ending I have to unlock. I’ve made crap and been blacklisted and I’ve made crap and not been blacklisted. Either way, I get the choice between Plan B and On the Road.)
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Does anyone know what triggers the critic at the end to say your film has “old-fashioned sensibilities”? I first thought it had something to do with the Original stat, then with how Intellectual it was, and then I thought maybe it was about some combination of its aspect ratio, whether or not it’s in color, and the amount of location shooting, but I have now definitely ruled all those out.
And now my most recent picture, according to the critic, has “bold ideas,” “weird experimental qualities,” and “old-fashioned sensibilities”…all at the same time. LOL wut, as the kids say.
A very interesting game. I’ve played a few times, and Hollywood Visionary is a very well-composed game about 50s cinema. And the interesting thing is that it manages to put the player in a social, political and economical context in a way that is quite sophisticated and also acessible. The characters and the relationships they build with the protagonist are also really interesting. Mostly because I see the game as a very character-driven story. Congratulations on another wonderful launch.
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Maybe ask this in the “Hints” category? 
Lys
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Mostly because nothing came of the post I made 8 months ago. But you know what, the question is deleted.
After all, when some of the errors/bugs exist from that same time and are still present…you know nothing will come of it. I could say this of a few other games, and it really doesn’t matter.
Tevin
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First choice of game i was ever able to get every single achievement in under a week. I am king! But rlly this is a great one, and a breath of fresh air which is executed greatly. May have been the best cog of 2015. But anyway, i need some opinons, i always get the ending where my dude either ends with an oscar or just honored in his old age. I gotta ask, which do you think is better between the two? Tbh its a tough choice, the first one my guy has a bright future ahead of him, likely to win more and become a bigger legend. But the other one is way later where i may have gotten blacklisted, but now i’m winning another award and my film is getting loved by the next generation. Not too mention FISH AND ME ARE BFFS AGAIN!!! But i’m torn. Its hard, you see in the oscar end im on my way to great things with a bright future, but in my honored end i was underappreciated for a while and am only now getting what i deserve, and theres also the implication that i probably didn’t make any more movies after i got blacklisted…however fish is back and with me and I’m also famous for standing up too the anti-commie bullshrimp. (Tho i am 100% capitalist irl that doesn’t mean i don’t see how foolish restricting freedom of speech is) what do you guys think? I can’t decide! But either way i know my actor-directors content, especially a gorgeous actress and a smart grip in love with him, not too mention getting some of garbo at one point! So what do you guys think? And if you guys prefer the cult-classic thats fine too.
Replaying Hollywood Visionary, and I can’t manage to trigger the assistant romance. How do I do this?
NOTE: I played through to the end, chose assistant, and then I only got the ‘best friend’ achievement and everything was platonic.
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As someone with too many standard when it come to choice games, i have to admit that I really liked this one. It was a good change from all the action focused games and I liked the choices, even the small ones came back later in the game to surprise us. Just a quick question tho is there any way to find out who set the studio on fire?
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AnneR
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Any particular reason why the orientations of the actors seem to be locked? It seems rather restrictive to limit my character’s romantic options when a male could easily have a relationship with Paul Newman or Ricardo Montalban.
I’m not sure what you mean - as far as I know you can romance the actor no matter their or your gender? I’ve romanced a male actor as a male PC.
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Can you help me with the “Lost” and “Direct Line” achievements?
Make a sequel where you make a sequel to your movie PLEASE.
By the way, on @JedHerne’s podcast, there’s an episode where Aaron Reed talks about the process of making Hollywood Visionary - it’s so interesting! And I still can’t believe it was made in THREE MONTHS - amazing!
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