Ashadow700

Rance, from Sengoku no Rance.
Why? Because he was a rapist asshole. I thought he was the villain when he was first introduced. -_-'

A while back me and my friend ended up in a discussion about what place Let’s Plays have when it comes to visual novels. After approximately two hours of debating, it would eventually lead to us making a whole 17 minute video on the topic. I thought I’d share it here since it would be interesting here your opinions on the topic.

Here are a few questions that would be interesting to here your thoughts on:

1.       Do you like/dislike/are indifferent towards let’s plays of visual novels?
2.       Do you think Let’s Plays of visual novels are good/bad for the industry and the community as a whole?  


 

 

General feeling after having first read the original story:
Man, that's unfortunate, I hope it's nothing serious.
 
General feeling after having read the rest of the thread:
*Facedesk....* *facedeskfacedeskfacedesk*

General feeling after having first read the original story:
Man, that's unfortunate, I hope it's nothing serious.
 
General feeling after having read the rest of the thread:
*Facedesk....* *facedeskfacedeskfacedesk*

Look, I will straight up apologize for my comment about disliking Maeda. It was uncalled for, and I understand that. As I had said, it was in response to the comment above that upset me. I had given a legitimate concern about the article and said (in a very respectful manner) that I felt it didn't need to point out what he had done in his career. The opening post in this thread also stated that they hope the "great VN writer" gets better. That extra tag triggered me, and I misread the purpose of the post. Even if he wasn't a great VN writer, does that make him less of a person to wish good health to? I took the comment as a personal remark, and for that I apologize.
If you read the original post I made, I had stated that whatever happened to him sucks and I do hope he feels better. After being attacked I started a pointless flame war. Again, I'm sorry, but I would appreciate it if people stopped pointing out how saying one bad thing makes me a terrible member of the community and scum on this planet. It is actually extremely rude and disrespectful all things considered.
People make mistakes. I made one in this thread. I'm sorry.

I barely ever post here, just kind of browse. I enjoy Jun Maeda's work, and I hope he gets better. I actually really like Key VNs.
What I don't like is that this thread about a sick man has been derailed into a half assed flame war. There is no way that Maeda will ever see this thread, true, but show some respect for a respectable fellow human being. This is why I hate small, close knit communities like this. They just stew in their own juices until they become sour.
Seriously, get over yourselves.
Mad respect, Jun Maeda. You're a hard worker, and hopefully after a much deserved rest you'll be well enough to assess what's next for you. Best of wishes.
 
 

General feeling after having first read the original story:
Man, that's unfortunate, I hope it's nothing serious.
 
General feeling after having read the rest of the thread:
*Facedesk....* *facedeskfacedeskfacedesk*

General feeling after having first read the original story:
Man, that's unfortunate, I hope it's nothing serious.
 
General feeling after having read the rest of the thread:
*Facedesk....* *facedeskfacedeskfacedesk*

General feeling after having first read the original story:
Man, that's unfortunate, I hope it's nothing serious.
 
General feeling after having read the rest of the thread:
*Facedesk....* *facedeskfacedeskfacedesk*

General feeling after having first read the original story:
Man, that's unfortunate, I hope it's nothing serious.
 
General feeling after having read the rest of the thread:
*Facedesk....* *facedeskfacedeskfacedesk*

Hey everybody, this is a pretty significant post. Please saddle in with me.
 
Fuwanovel is migrating to both a new domain (Fuwanovel.net) and a new server (which we host). The old “.org” domain is going to be redirecting to the new “.net” domain automatically, so even if you forget to mark your calendars with the following dates, you’ll still end up in the right place. Be sure to update your bookmarks at some point, though : P
 
(Tomorrow) Wednesday 2/18/2015 – Evening: the forums, the Fuwazette blog, and the FuwaReviews blog will be redirected to the new domain. Next week (as late as 3/1/2015): The front site will redirect to the new “.net” domain  
For those of you who are nosey and want to start poking around the “.net” domain right away, you’ll find all the services I had mentioned but the forums will be outdated and the front site may or may not be online or functional. Do not panic – we’ll update the forums at the time of the transfer tomorrow night, and no content will be lost.
 
 
Precautions and Cause
Some of you will remember our failed migration last year. We’ve taken significant precautions to prevent a repeat of last year: Nayleen has optimized the server and we have paid for a significantly more powerful machine to host the site. Nay and I both did our homework looking for hosts, and we’re very pleased with the one we’ve got: scaling the droplet (the hosting power) is easy, and we’re enjoying a good value for what we’re getting.
 
We did this move for many reasons. Chief among them were legal concerns and recommendations, and my deep-felt responsibility to protect the many community leaders from new legal risks (of which I’ve only very recently become aware).  More positively, it also needed to happen because we have a lot of new content and services rolling out in the near future.
 
 
Consequences of TOS
The hot-button issue is compliance with our host’s TOS. I’m engaged today and tomorrow inspecting it and getting legal clarifications, but I do not believe we will be able to host torrents on the front site following the move and the D&R board will be too much of a liability to keep. It wasn’t my intention to have this happen all at once, but I feel like we have little recourse in light of protecting one another. I apologize if the legal liability is shocking, but the best way forward is to admit that what’s done is done, and the only thing we have control over is how we choose to move forward.
 
 
Compensation
I don’t know how else to say this, so please bear with me: I realize that losing the torrents will rub some of you the wrong way. It should make all of us concerned, as they were a major draw to the site. I’ve got two thoughts on the matter: 1) the year-end surveys indicated that torrent usage among the three surveyed usergroups (core, FB, Twitter) was much lower than anticipated, which will soften the blow, and 2) new features must by necessity rise to attract users in their place. Here is a taste of what I’ve been working on over the past few months and crystallizing (hurriedly) in the last few days:
The forums have been updated with blogging software. Users can input links to their own blogs, import RSS feeds of their blog, or create blogs hosted by Fuwanovel itself. This includes official/featured blogs such as the Recognition blog, or the Dev Boards Update blog (which is open to all the project managers in the dev boards to post freely on), or the Help Wanted blog (which similarly allows project managers to post freely when they’re looking to fill a position). All these blogs will have their own RSS feeds and will be incorporated into the corresponding Fuwazette categories. (Saving Tiago, Zaka and others time and hassle) ^ this blog functionality will have a lot of cool implications (such as for private clubs and the VN readers club!) The FuwaReviews site will now be reviews.fuwanovel.net, and it will be much more robust than simply a blog of the team’s reviews: I have negotiated with ~a dozen prominent VN bloggers and received the green-light to incorporate feeds of their VN reviews into the reviews site. I plan to continue to reach out to more bloggers and build this base. Things are looking pretty positive. I’ve been in productive talks with several OELVN devs (if I’ve talked to you about this, please don’t name names) and it looks like we’ll be able to form productive agreements for early-access game reviews, interviews, and PR access (we get emails/rss feeds of exclusive insider info to publish on our blogs before they announce it publicly). I can’t finalize these agreements until the full “.net” site is live, but it looks promising! I believe that I’ve arranged for an interview with [two gaming site writers/freelancers]. The interview would be about the VN landscape, Fuwanovel’s history, and how we plan to grow/expand in the future. No firm commitments, yet, but I’m in talks. There is another possible opportunity for an interview in a similar but more tech-focused major online blog as well. The front site redesign team is going to be launched for-reals in the next 72 hours. I’ve made a template for, and several examples of, mock-ups (which are flawed, but conversation starters), and I’m busy this afternoon uploading useful assets/psd resources to be available and ready for the team. Emi has agreed to be our secret-genius weapon, which means we can’t fail : P We’ve purchased a forums add-on which will allow us to use forums content in clever ways in our other websites. I’ve started putting together some ideas of ways it could integrate with the front site (including “FuwaScores” of games where fuwanovel users can score the games they’ve played and track their VN playing history), but its scope is much larger than that one implementation. With Nay’s help, I hope to come up with lots of cool ways to use this. Part of my discussion with devs is their agreement to a “releases” feed which would track OELVN releases and which could easily integrate TL releases on PC, but also on iOS and Android. I’ve been talking to several of the mobile app store VN devs, and they’ve almost universally been enthusiastic about the idea ^ This would be incorporated into the games section and a “What have I missed?” section which would list the important recent news and releases Fuwanovel Academy – the evolution of the “ultimate VN starter kit” idea – will be a section on the front site which will explain VNs, help players get started with a VN within 10 minutes of starting reading, and provide a lot of advanced information about the VN landscape, “movers and shakers” in the western VN world, and (hopefully!) some exclusive (read: slightly longer than normal) demos from our dev allies Obviously added on top of this is outreach to TL groups and OELVN teams to get them to use the Fuwanovel dev boards and/or the updates feed Expansion of the creative corner and dev boards  
Last of all, I’d like to mention that our host of the past two years has been very generous to us. I’ve passed along our gratitude for the extra nine months he’s given us to put our ducks in a row, and I want the community to know he’s making the transition very easy for us and being very supportive.
 
 
 
No matter what we do, we're going to lose some of our traffic and our userbase. I’m convinced this is a necessary decision (if a painful and hard one), and that we’re going to make it through this. People can say a lot of things about Fuwanovel, but nobody can deny that we have staying power.
 
Thank you for your time. I realize this is a lot, and it’s overwhelming. Please don’t be afraid to speak up or ask questions.
 
Tay

Actually I think most people don't think anything about visual novels, becuase the medium is so underground chances are pretty high they don't even know what a VN is to begin with.

Actually I think most people don't think anything about visual novels, becuase the medium is so underground chances are pretty high they don't even know what a VN is to begin with.

Okay, I'm going to put a halt on the toxic atmosphere going on here. It seems like we've pretty squeezed all the actual value out of this topic and it has been beyond sufficiently derailed by this point.
Another mod may see fit to clean up this thread and reopen it for discussion, but for the time being I'm going to lock this topic.

Then fucking leave. You literally are the cause of most of these discussion threads being closed because you refuse to accept the fact other people think differently than you. If you would just be slightly more open minded, and maybe realize your way isnt the only correct way and your beliefs are not the only correct beliefs, maybe you'd be taken a little more seriously, and wonder less what Fuwa has become.

Because fuwa has always been like this. You just want to play the part of victim

I was wondering when you were going to join. And since no one said this already:
WELCOME TO FUWA!
 
I've personally been following you for a long time. So I'll just ask a couple of things I'm curious about first:
1.Do you only play games on steam?
2.Why do you mostly review very low quality games? You have the potential of becoming a big youtuber if you go for the big stuff.
3 Why are they always bad games?! (I kid, I kid)
4.You don't torrent games, do you?
5.Do you have any interest in trying Japanese made VNs? Since all the ones you've reviewed so far are made in the West.
 
But nevertheless, you are indeed one of the funniest youtubers I follow. Keep up the good work! And I hope you enjoy your stay in this website

/me nominates InvertMouse for the community spotlight

Oh I do indeed have it, the town that Hibarigasaki got inspired from is called 小樽 - Otaru
Its few km from Sapporo in Hokkaido.
 
I did find the places on google street view, just like I did with the Iroseka background recently but about a year ago when I checked again, they updated the street view and lot has changed there.
 
Anyways here are some pictures:


 
more actual version of street view is from winter: http://goo.gl/maps/FsFsa
The signature fence was removed for some reason (you can still see the filled holes in the ground)
 
 
This is the lookout: http://goo.gl/36MfPe




 
 
 
then for example the canals


 
those are not accessible by google street view car so there are only pictures that people took
 
 
 
 
But yeah, with Hoshimemo theypretty much used one town, where as with iroseka they used places all over that part of Japan
 
 
 
I actually can't wait to look up where the places from AstralAir are based from, because they are so beautiful. But I need to finish that game first
I took screenshot of one of the backgrounds from prologue:

So I just finished this video. I've wanted to make videos for quite some time now, and after seeing Rens loyalty and passion to this site, i figured I'd make something for it too.

Of course, this is all just for laughs. Don't take anything here seriously
And if you have any sort of criticism, do NOT share it. I already have a (coach? teacher? Instructor?...Senpai? I dunno what you call it) for that.
 

 
And thanks for Ashadow for being very patient with me, and for answering all my questions and requests (Sugoi, Ash-senpai!). If you don't know him... wait, you DON'T KNOW HIM?!?! See here http://www.youtube.com/user/Ashadow700
 
ps: i think the title should be edited to have (video) in it...

I have to say this, even though it might be quite unpopular.
 
I really love the community here and fuwanovel - it's my favorite forum on the web. I adore how friendly people here can be and I really hope we can keep it that way. 
Ever now and then however, I still run into some rather unfriendly people and it makes me rather depressed to see. So, I wanna bring up the possibility that start giving users warnings for behavior that would generally be considered as rude and/or unpleasant for the rest of the forum, much that same way they do over at The Escapist.

School days.
All of it.

Mind if I bump this thread a bit?
...
You don't? Okay, thanks.
 
I think it was some time during either January or February of 2012, that I more or less on accident clicked on an article for a certain game named Katawa Shoujo. Since it was free and I did not have a lot of other things to do, and downloaded it, read it and absolutely loved it. It made me go out and try a look for other visual novels, but it really wasn't until I found fuwanovel about a year later that I seriously started getting into VNs, as for the longest time I had no information on what visual novels were worth reading or where and how to download them. The only thing I really had to go by back then were that I would go and play the VNs which had been adapted into anime,, which is why my second, third and forth VN ended up being Clannad, Kanon and Fate/Stay night, and it would also take me several hours to get the games up and running because they did not come pre-patched or anything. 
 
Seriously, praise be to fuwanovel and Aaeru-sama.   
Dear lord, I hope we can keep this community as great of a place as it was when I first found it.
 
Pointless fun fact of the day; it was actually one of my IRL friends who first introduced me to the site, although he had been immediately scared away from it because, quote; "They were all a bunch of perverts". (He had accidentally ended up in a conversation with Steve)

I have to say this, even though it might be quite unpopular.
 
I really love the community here and fuwanovel - it's my favorite forum on the web. I adore how friendly people here can be and I really hope we can keep it that way. 
Ever now and then however, I still run into some rather unfriendly people and it makes me rather depressed to see. So, I wanna bring up the possibility that start giving users warnings for behavior that would generally be considered as rude and/or unpleasant for the rest of the forum, much that same way they do over at The Escapist.

Heh... and here I was thinking that Rewrite was a really, really bad introduction point to VNs. Even if it was only the second one. 
And I'm still happy that you found your way here man. Makes all those endless hours I spend dealing with trolls over at youtube while like its worth it. 
 
Although, out of curiosity I still have to ask; why did uninstall Clannad when you ran into the IRL wall we all have to deal with called "school". Why didn't you just stop playing it and come back a while later?

yyyyyyyyyyy
 
But on a more serious note, since you bumped this thread, I'll go ahead and join in on the loot
 
Well, I actually started reading VN's not so far ago, about 10 months or so. I was watching an anime review by arkada, about "the world God only knows", and I got very interested in the whole idea of VN's. But it wasn't until I watched his Clannad review that I actually tried one. He mentioned how the story was "so touching, it will bring the manliest man to tears" and, being the manly man I am, I took this as a personal challenge, and since I don't like watching lovey dovey anime, I decided to try the VN. I actually finished all 5 side routes before interring one of the main routes, but when I did... I got emotionally involved like never before... I actually cared deeply about what would happen to the protag and his love interest. Don't get me wrong, I never care about this normally. And you know what? I don't remember why exactly, but I got so close to crying... this close... aaaaaaaand I uninstalled the dam thing before finishing the route, cuz I had exams .
 
But I was so scared of the power of this thing, I ended up not trying another VN until a month had passed. Then I discovered ashadow, who "guided" my VN path pretty well. I got to play some awesome VN's cuz of him, like Rewrite, Rewrite and Rewrite!
 
Then I ended up here with you guys. And I suppose you know the story as good as I from there