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*Sigh* That'll teach me to get my hopes up

I'm not bitter or anything, but I'm fairly certain JAST acquired Django before Rome fell and we're still waiting ... just sayin'

Evenicle is a lot of fun, probably the best H-RPG released in the west. However it's incredibly easy, and the randomly generated fights get boring real quick. There's also a couple of places where if you're not paying attention (or doing 3 things at once, none very well haha...) and you miss some instructions, you could be wandering around the world for an hour because no journal!!!

Ha ha a year older ... thanks everyone for reminding me I had someone at the bank remind me also, then start a long conversation about it, a conversation that just wouldn't end and I'm standing there thinking do they employ you specifically to make your customers feel bad? Is that it? It doesn't matter how depressed I feel, I'm not opening another account you know... Happy birthday @Jun Inoue may your day be blessed with *insert randomly generated google saying*

It seems that CD Projekt hid a number of free keys for the Witcher 3 at the beginning of their trailer. What a nice thing to do

While Ranma is a classic, Rumiko Takahashi's best work was always Maison Ikkoku (heartwarming romance ahoy)

Shadows Die Twice looks fantastic! Recently there's been so many good games coming out, good times to be a gamer :3

NEW CYBERPUNK TRAILER JUST DROPPED: Also definitive edition of Tales of Vesperia FIIIIIIIINALLY coming to the West.

Making a cup of tea as we speak type :3

A few years ago when I wanted to give my sister an entry level VN to try (she's not a VN reader) I went for Hakuouki and it quickly became one of her favourite games. It was even the theme on her PS3. I did not go for Second Reproduction *rolls eyes*.

Eh, community recommendation charts are just there for communities to congratulate and jerk each other over their favourite games. They are of questionable use to people needing recommendations. BTW, I'm taking a look at Reddit's previous "recommendation chart" and I have a question. Why is Kanon one of the "least" newbie friendly entries? Kanon was actually one of the first visual novels I read and I had no trouble with it. Also why would Fate Stay Night be a "newbie" selection? Isn't the route structure one of the more complex examples in the visual novel fandom? Would newbies know that Fate will be different (yet similar) to Unlimited Blade Works? Why is Hakuouki, an accessible game that was also released on the handheld, considered less newbie friendly than Second Reproduction which is a game that needs to be patched? Why is Utawarerumono considered newbie friendly when every time you save (with modern operating systems) it crashes? Then you need to do some funkie things to get the game working. Would newbies enjoy that extra dollop of frustration? Tsukihime is considered more newbie friendly than Kanon? What? Oh, and more newbie friendly than Ef, good to know ...

I prefer a hand on approach purely from a practical standpoint - once oversaturation reaches a certain point, searching for games becomes a massive pain.

I find recommendation charts pretty useless because they only take into account the tastes of the recommender and not the recommendee. I also notice these are only for VNs with an english translation, so what's this "beginner level VN" business? Entry level english use or "mild to no perviness" involved? Eh.

The 3D looks semi-horrible. Not as bad as FF7 but still ...

I have necroed this thread to announce that this question, along with many other issues surrounding waifus, have finally been thoroughly researched and analysed. For everybody's convenience, the findings have been condensed down by a Youtube celeb to a 10 minute academic video. Rejoice everyone.

People have been calling for GOG to include visual novels for over 5 years now ( https://www.gog.com/forum/general/why_is_gog_refusing_visual_novels/page1 ). Their policy has consistently been "we're not putting them up". Maybe MG and Sekai just wore them down through rugged persistence or something ...

Nobody seems to know xD

My problem with it is that it costs (often a lot of) money (also when done during the development process can lead to limiting the text, but that doesn't apply here). So if it's not needed, I wonder whether the increase in sales justifies the expense? I guess the developers could have got some voice actors on the cheap ...

GOG has regional pricing. I guess the advantage is that it has a Steam like platform (GOG galaxy - automatic updates etc etc) and an established customer base.

Highway blossoms remastered is now live on steam ... for only a moment, before inevitably being purged by Valve ahahahaAHAHAHA I'm pretty 'meh' on the full english voiceover to be honest. I always wonder whether it's really needed, especially when the game wasn't written with voices in mind.

GOG refuses to put most VNs on their store. Nobody knows why and they don't speak to the reasons, but I don't think it will change because of Steam's changing guidelines. Seems to be a conscious decision on their part.

Fakku launches a new platform exclusively for 18+ games. People install it under protest, but install it all the same. Fakku slowly takes over the West. Then the world.

There's a common misconception hanging around the definition of pornography. Porn does not equal h scenes. I'm going to grab the first def I come across cause I'm lazy Pornography (noun): printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement.