Kitouski

I do a TON of League of Legends. Other than that for normal stuff I have Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Terraria, Starcraft 2 and Minecraft. Natural Selection 2, Chivalry are things too, but I'd be surprised if I a lot of people had those and wanted to play them en masse, lol.

All of my seconded. Amazing anime but wasn't very popular.

Currently playing Pokemon White, because I'm a hipster and forgot I had last gens Pokemon (and never finished it) and was reminded when everyone was walking around with X/Y. I picked up a hard copy from the creator on a whim at a convention back in the day. It's actually really, really good but you'll be done with everything it has to offer pretty quick once you figure it out.

Mint tea and hot cheetos. Snack of the champions.

It's all relative to me. It could be gorey as all heck and downright disturbing and I'm game as long as it's appropriate to the writing. I may or may not decide to actually read it (I've been putting off Divi-Dead because of things I've heard about it) depending on my mood but I wouldn't say any form of visual novel whatsoever is "inappropriate". Just not for me sometimes. ...really no good option from the poll for me to choose, all of them would be inaccurate to how I feel. xD;

I'm not sure I can call it my least favorite yet (because I like it a lot... then again I like everything Key makes a lot) but I totally get what you mean. Still playing Rewrite since my last what I'm playing post and I've gone through Shizuru, Kotori and Lucia. I still got a bit to go yet, but thus far the one I thought I'd like least was the best and the one I thought would be the best I've liked the least. Was ready to hate Lucia because I can't stand tsundere types but her route was just too good...

"You want to believe it, but you're afraid to. You're afraid that you can't make a difference so you don't try." - Ripples

Actually, going to have to completely agree with Lord Zero here and I think you're highly misinterpreting what he meant Joy. A video game is simply electronic software that revolves around human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device... it's never been defined as any more then that. We call RTSs "Real Time Strategys" because they're strategy games played in real time. We call games "First Person Shooters" because they're in the first-person perspective and involve shooting. We call "visual novels" because they're games based off their visuals and they read like a novel... and they're still marketed as games because they fit the original definition for most people and especially businesses. If it doesn't count as a game for others, it honestly feels about as silly as saying social games on cellphones aren't games because that's not how it's traditionally done, which plenty of people do but we keep calling them games anyways. We don't call JRPGs Rorupureingugemu (or whatever the proper romaji is) because that would be correct if we lived in Japan, that would make no sense in an English speaking country. We can describe a role-playing game a million different ways, a war game, a murder game, an MMO, virtual chess, whatever we wanted to call it, but just describing the thing would make it pretty clear pretty fast rather then giving it a billion subgenres. I don't think he was trying to be offensive, because even I'm mystified by what the question of this thread is... because I literally don't quite understand what we're asking here. I really do get the difference in meaning with the different names, but it's pretty apparent that "galge" or "eroge" is not a widely accepted name for anyone but the niche fanbase. Old Hirameki games plastered the boxes with the term visual novel because it was the most neutral, descriptive, universally understandable term and a lot of other companies just rolled with it. It's an easy to understand, culturally acceptable, marketable term. Eroge is not always accurate and is not a very marketable term, Galge, Bishojo game or even "pretty girl game" would not be culturally understandable at all and very unmarketable. It just happened to fall that way that visual novel works, just like RTS is more marketable then "war game". It's all relative though, a name is just a name. The recent trend is to call a lot of recent shooting games like Halo, Gears of War and Dead Space "space marine shooters"... there's no "rules" in naming things. Like... this I really don't mean to offend at all to state, but the second line of your signature (hater of weeaboos) seems ironic when we're questioning why we don't use the Japanese term that virtually no one outside of VN culture would understand instead of a universally understood and accepted term.

I love bad endings that add a side to the story and make sense. For the heck of it I purposely tried to get a bad ending in Rewrite after getting an end without managing such and (honestly not that spoilerish but just in case) Type-Moon is an example of a company that makes nothing but quality bad endings. It gives a bit of pressure in your choices and not everything is so obvious. I thoroughly enjoy different sides of the same story.

Also voted all three... there are some things that I think are too good to not recommend, but sometimes they're not a good fit given what someone is asking. Genre and concept is a good place I start when making a recommendation, but it's also per what the person asking likes.

I'm assuming since you posted the codes up they're free to grab... on that note, I claimed the second one. Thanks muchly.

You guys say Shiina and all I think is;

I remember hearing about how well received R.O.D. both the OVA and the TV series was, but I never hear anyone... talking about it. Am I just not looking in the right places? The movie and show are downright amazing and deserve people to be looking into them more if not. Before moe-everything was a thing, Galaxy Angel was a freakin amazing and funny anime. I never hear anyone talk about it either. Only other one I can think of is 2x2 Shinobuden (Ninja Nonsense). Great comedy, I don't often hear about it though.

Have it, want to make time for it because I was looking forward to this being translated before it getting a release was even a thing but... too many other things eating up my time. I'll get to it when I can get to it is sort of where it's sitting for me.

I think all visual novels are video games, and that it doesn't work that way, like it's black or white. It's like if we're calling Fallout 3 or System Shock 2 a RPG or a First-Person Shooter. Well, they're both, and they're all games. That's how I view visual novels; To The Moon, Blazblue, Corpse Party, they're just hybrid genres to me. I just think you can't view it so black and white, nor can you deny any sort of interactive computer software that's meant to entertain as not a video game. Someone google "Attack of The Mutant Penguins" for the Atari Jaguar and tell me if a game needs to be defined to one genre, like seriously, lol.

To add to that list, "Narcissu" and "Planetarian" are both extremely good, though you could probably hammer these out in a couple days a piece. "Saya no Uta" is also something I'd recommend to a lot of people, but given what you've seen thus far I'm not sure it would be up your alley or not. Could always read the synopsis and decide for yourself; http://vndb.org/v97

First few things I found on my desktop that I find aderiburu;

I'd be for seeing this happen, sounds really awesome. I'd be game to contribute to it as well.

Kanon: Uguu.

1.) I generally dislike the sibling routes. They generate a lot of drama over a plot point (them being siblings) that, to me, I just couldn't care about. That and it seems to be the thing to make sisters tsunderes. I really hate tsunderes. 2.) One of the best selling video game series of all time Call of Duty, Sherlock Homes books and horror movies with a large enough backing to make a profit after spending millions of dollars in development don't make murderers. The billions and billions of dollars porn industry doesn't make rapists. Stories with incest romance doesn't make incest. People have a right to be offended by it and not play it, but they don't have a right to make people conform to their tastes, thus I find any work of fiction of any sort okay. Real life circumstances have nothing to do with fiction. It's considered harmful worldwide because a lot of people don't like the concept of it. A lot of people don't like the concept of a lot of things. Problem is, it's just concepts.

I am incredibly ready.

Well there should be... ]':

Mark of The Ninja. Humblebundle has granted me an amazing game, lol.

Wish granted. It's great when it's working but the provider sucks and it's completely offline half of the time. (^ Story of my life actually. ;_; ) I wish I didn't have so much homework.