Doki Doki Literature Club Thread - Tag your spoilers!
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[QUOTE=spazthemax;53147421]Fuck i just played through this game with my fiancee over the last week, me voicing the MC (who we named Valentine because we started it on the 14th) and narrating, while she did different voices for all the girls.
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This is a game that really occupied my thoughts, and I think Im going to need some time to get over it. [/QUOTE]
It's been like a month and a half since I finished it and I still think about it at least once a day. It's absolutely fucked me up in a way no other game has before, and it's strange in so many ways.
[QUOTE=spazthemax;53147421]Has anyone here seen the game theory videos? The guy has super annoying presentation but the information he digs up is really interesting. I hope team Salvato's next game is connected to [sp] the third eye or project libitina, [/sp] whatever that is.
I know Dan has come out and said that their next game will have nothing to do with DDLC, and I wouldn't expect them to make any direct references or callbacks or anything. Still, having anything to link the two games even quasi-universally would be really cool.
[sp] I mean, the decoded monika.chr even talks about this not being her game, it being her turn to be the hero, and mentions 2018. What is up with that? [/sp][/QUOTE]
One pretty crucial foundation of ARG's is that as the creator you're [I]supposed [/I]to deny any assumptions that it's an ARG. When people ask what's next you're supposed to be all "There's no ARG, what are you talking about". So when the game is riddled with so many meta puzzles and traditional ARG-elements like Base64 and binary, I have a hard time swallowing Dan's denial as it could [I]just be a part of the game.[/I] :vs
The DDLC Discord-group is extremely adamant on this and take Dan's word as law, which is just beyond frustrating. The mods immediately shut down any discussion on it because "Dan said it isn't an ARG, doesn't matter".
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;53147630]It's been like a month and a half since I finished it and I still think about it at least once a day. It's absolutely fucked me up in a way no other game has before, and it's strange in so many ways.
One pretty crucial foundation of ARG's is that as the creator you're [I]supposed [/I]to deny any assumptions that it's an ARG. When people ask what's next you're supposed to be all "There's no ARG, what are you talking about". So when the game is riddled with so many meta puzzles and traditional ARG-elements like Base64 and binary, I have a hard time swallowing Dan's denial as it could [I]just be a part of the game.[/I] :vs
The DDLC Discord-group is extremely adamant on this and take Dan's word as law, which is just beyond frustrating. The mods immediately shut down any discussion on it because "Dan said it isn't an ARG, doesn't matter".[/QUOTE]
It looks like they planted the seeds to make an ARG, but due to the overwhelming popularity of the game I wouldn't be surprised if they mostly scrapped any ARG stuff until they have all the merchandising and so forth dealt with.
[media]https://twitter.com/dansalvato/status/949340076395417600[/media]
Seems pretty genuine to me.
[editline]21st February 2018[/editline]
That said, I think the very expectation people have for an ARG will drive them to make one as they come closer to releasing their next game / VN / whatever.
spoilers inside, but i just want yall to appreciate the effort put into this video (skip to 1;40 to get past ad stuff)
[video]https://youtu.be/AWsKuifJj0c?t=102[/video]
[video=youtube;4YE-1UvhKKc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YE-1UvhKKc[/video]
So it begins.
And to think, back in December, I mentioned Lattice's playthrough with the synthesized voices. Meanwhile, in that time, a Japanese translation was finished, and subsequently multiple folks have either livestreamed the entire game or finished their playthroughs on NND/YT. Hell, going through [URL="http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club!"]the tag[/URL] on NND, someone has even subbed the [I]Game Theory[/I] video at this point! And Lattice is just now [I]approaching[/I] the end too!
