The Visual Novel Megathread: Reading till your eyes bleed - Games

[QUOTE=EcksDee;37234010]I wouldn't ever consider most eroges to be able to teach me any important moral values, I just read them for the enjoyment. What I think of when I hear YMK is a well-chiseled VN that's fun to read if you get in the correct mindset (I now expect someone to attack me saying "omg the mindset of a retart rite guise? lol pwnt") I don't recall enough about the two latter arcs, but when I read it, not expecting it to give me a moral lesson, I enjoyed the way they fucked over ol' bitchy lady and her dumbfuck boyfriend. It has a bunch of ero, yeah, but borderline rapey is pushing it. Seems the difference between our opinions might stem from what we consider VNs to be. Because I don't see how anyone can say "Eroge VNs can teach important morals to individuals." Some can, but blanket terms like that are just silly. Most of them don't and don't intend to. If you can find me the writers of YMK saying that they intended for the story to do that, then I'll rethink my opinion to "An accidental enjoyable read". [B]However let's drop it here alright? Seems everyone is tired of the topic, so if there is more arguing it will happen in the tinychat.[/B] [editline]14th August 2012[/editline] Can one give me a savefile from kamidori? Preferable right after that one fucking mission with the goddamn orc captains in that lava world or whatever. I formated and lost my shit, but I kinda do want to continue.[/QUOTE] My last Kamidori save is like, chapter 12 of swordsgirl arc. :v:

[QUOTE=iLife_Aftermath;37233986]Speaking of the Katawa Shoujo megathread.... Why the fuck is it still up?[/QUOTE] I was wondering this too. was legit surprised to see it bumped the other day.

Fixed a few broken images in the OP.

[QUOTE=EcksDee;37234010] [B]However let's drop it here alright? Seems everyone is tired of the topic, so if there is more arguing it will happen in the tinychat.[/B][/QUOTE] You're the only one who even cared. [editline]14th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Banned?;37238162]I was wondering this too. was legit surprised to see it bumped the other day.[/QUOTE] I thought it was closed myself.

So, when I have free time I do other things than VNs, when I have things to do I want to play VNs. Fuck.

[QUOTE=Feuver;37258685]So, when I have free time I do other things than VNs, when I have things to do I want to play VNs. Fuck.[/QUOTE] That's why i always use my small laptop for visual novels, Slow day on the job? Time to whip out the good ol' MGQ

[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;37261933]That's why i always use my small laptop for visual novels, Slow day on the job? Time to whip out the good ol' MGQ[/QUOTE] where the fuck do you work that you can play fucking monster girl quest on the clock

I have a small laptop but it sucks balls.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;37237118]little busters is like 2% translated or something last I checked maybe it's little busters ex that's 2% but I want the adult version[/QUOTE] The normal version is 100% translated, EX is not.

If I've already seen the anime, would you recommend School Days?

[QUOTE=Lazyboy0337;37273018]If I've already seen the anime, would you recommend School Days?[/QUOTE] The anime is shit compared the VN imo. The anime only focused on a "bad end" route which a lot of people will dislike. So if you liked it because of only the bad end it had, then no. But if you liked the drama and would have like to seen it end differently then yes.

School Days is also very interesting because of the animation. It's literally like watching an anime, but you get to pick stuff. Don't hang back though, you only get about 10 seconds (I think) to pick an option.

you can pause with spacebar

[QUOTE=iLife_Aftermath;37274857]you can pause with spacebar[/quote] holy shit i actually forgot you could pause. spent the entire thing with my mouse hovering in the middle of the screen just to not miss a thing.

you can always use the skip keys to jump back if you miss something aswell

I can't stand School Days, the protag is so unbearable I have to stop playing every fifth minute. It's cool with the animation though. But they seem to be cutting every possible corner, they don't even move in the hallways.

Umm yes they do, I mean there's not an animated part with the legs and stuff, but if they are walking their heads are bobbing and shit. And IMO the protag is only unbearable if you choose to make him act so.

I understand the corner cutting though. I've noticed that they've reused a lot of scenes a lot. (The eating lunch on the roof shot, for example.) It didn't really bother me that much though, and I can understand why they did it. If they would've animated everything the game would be even bigger, and IIRC it already is 11 GB or so.

play the sekai route, and you'll see what I mean. I did give up on the game after that though, so I don't know how the other one is, but during Sekai's he's absolutely unreasonable. I was hoping he'd get run over by the train or something so it would've been because of my bad choices

The animation isn't really the selling point in my opinion, it's the massive amount of endings and choices there are. [editline]16th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=NS;37275261]play the sekai route, and you'll see what I mean. I did give up on the game after that though, so I don't know how the other one is, but during Sekai's he's absolutely unreasonable. I was hoping he'd get run over by the train or something so it would've been because of my bad choices[/QUOTE] "The sekai route". You do realize half of the game is about sekai, and the other half is about kotonoha? [editline]16th August 2012[/editline] According to the wikipedia Sekai has 8 endings

the good ending [sp]she almost moves away yadayada but her friend sacrifices herself and moves away in her place[/sp]

there are several good endings out of the like 27 endings or whatever 5 are bad [editline]16th August 2012[/editline] and i don't remember him being so much of a dick in that. he is a dick in the "fuck everyone" routes, but that's just obvious

yea I described it more throughly in the spoiler he's like that all the time though, spoiled, selfish and has a little too big sex-drive you guys obviously don't share my opinion though, but personally I just don't have the heart to play this, I'd probably break something edit basicly in the route I described he [sp]dismissed the one he apparently loved, abandoned her and even started on other girls right in front of her, doesn't really matter how good the end is after that because he didn't deserve one - go die you bastard[/sp]

"you guys" being me then. i'd rather call him easily swooned, childish, and tries to do right but doesn't really know how to handle girls. And he has a pretty normal sex-drive I'd say. Like the cinema scene for example. [sp]Sekai tells him that the right thing to do on a date is to 1. Hold hands 2. Kiss Makoto believes what she is saying, and tries to hold her hand, but it "fails", and when he tries to kiss her he gets slapped. [/sp] I can't really remember any "too big sex-drive" moments where you aren't in control

dunno, the part where [sp]they just got together and he fundles her breasts in the train[/sp]

[QUOTE=NS;37275513] basicly in the route I described he [sp]dismissed the one he apparently loved, abandoned her and even started on other girls right in front of her, doesn't really matter how good the end is after that because he didn't deserve one - go die you bastard[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]He never "loved" Kotonoha, he thought she was a looker. But she is an extremely shy character while Sekai on the other hand isn't that shy and is trying her hardest to get Makoto to look at her instead of Kotonoha. And Makoto, being easily swooned, fell for her seduction and instead found an interest for Sekai. But he still doesn't really want to hurt Kotonoha because he still has some lingering feelings for her, and he's a bit ashamed that he hooked up with Sekai behind her back. So he doesn't want to tell her. And even if you do try to tell her Sekai will stop you. The only way he could have "started on other girls right in front of her" is if you make him.[/sp] [editline]16th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=NS;37275669]dunno, the part where [sp]they just got together and he fundles her breasts in the train[/sp][/QUOTE] umm he doesn't do that unless you make him [editline]16th August 2012[/editline] Seriously there's 2 choices one is [sp]FONDLE HER BREASTS[/sp] the other is [sp]TRY TO REMOVE HANDS[/sp]

[QUOTE=iLife_Aftermath;37273653]The anime is shit compared the VN imo. The anime only focused on a "bad end" route which a lot of people will dislike. So if you liked it because of only the bad end it had, then no. But if you liked the drama and would have like to seen it end differently then yes.[/QUOTE] Fair enough, I'll give it a try.

I did choose that, he did it anyway though maybe it's a bug, but it didn't seem like it, basically he just tried, failed and went ahead with his business

[QUOTE=NS;37276028]I did choose that, he did it anyway though maybe it's a bug, but it didn't seem like it, basically he just tried, failed and went ahead with his business[/QUOTE] The scene goes like this [sp] You are on the over-packed train with Kotonoha, and in a bump your hand gets wedged inbetween her breasts and the train door, you are then presented with the choices "Try to remove hand" or "Grab breasts" (Don't remember the exact name for the commands but it's basically those.) If you choose to remove the hand you will see that you are stuck, and the game will offer you again if you wan't to grab her breasts, and if you ignore it it will skip forward until after the train ride, if you choose to grab her breasts she will ask you to stop and you can from there choose to keep up the molesting (which it basically is) or to stop. The 3 different outcomes are: 1. You never tried to grab her breasts. (Which is what almost everyone in the situation would do. Kotonoha will still be a bit shaken as you technically touched her breasts, though unintentionally.) 2. You tried but stopped when she asked. (Naughty, but does not make him a bad person.) 3. You grabbed her breasts and kept going even though she begged you to stop on the verge of tears. (You're a heartless swine and deserve to be stabbed)[/sp]

Playing School Days, 5 minutes in and there is a panty shot already...