Tawm

Bought Crypt of the NecroDancer. Good stuff so far, though I haven't been able to try the local co-op yet. I'd say the visuals and music were by far the worst part of the remake. Rondo of Blood is one of my all-time favorite games, and the remake rubbed me the wrong way. Still, it included the original RoB and the definitive version of Symphony of the Night, so it's an excellent package. Save yourself the money and look into emulation. Emulation up until the 6th generation can be run on a toaster. There's an emulator called Retroarch, which combines all the popular emulators for all platforms up until 6th generation, plus the DS and the PSP. It also works on modern phones and tablets.

I don't mind referring to people by whatever nickname they choose. Online, I always just use "Tawm", which is how my friends jokingly pronounce "Tom", my first name, in broken Norwegian/English.

Never have, never will. It's not my thing. I read VNs entirely for the story. I've always had the stance that you may as well just google some porn instead of clicking slowly through hours of text that you might be entirely disinterested in. I'd never look down on someone who does fap to h-scenes, though. I do understand it.

I'll have to shill for Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer once more. It's essentially a corruption of most things your average otaku/VN fan enjoy about visual novels, so it's not very popular or highly regarded. Plenty of depth. Also has one of the most haunting conclusions I can think of to anything in any medium.

I'm playing Baldur's Gate II: EE as well as some GTA Online. Also working on a no-damage run of Castlevania: Bloodlines. BG2 is making me want to replay Planescape: Torment. The problem with that is that PS:T sets the bar so high in terms of writing, that it always lessens my enjoyment of novels and visual novels I'm reading at the time. Didn't know a PC version existed. Regardless, it's better on the PC Engine CD, as you can emulate it with Retroarch in HD, with sharp bilinear filters, 16:9 aspect ratios and whatnot. Also better controller support and compatibility with any hardware and OS. Also, has anyone ever played the Rondo of Blood remake? Absolutely terrible, right? The original has a smooth 60 FPS and tight controls, whereas the 3D remake barely reaches 25 FPS, and destroys the soundtrack with overproduced orchestral tracks. The original metal OST is far superior. The remake also looks like garbage compared to the original; which arguably is the peak of 16 bit visuals.

Having taken part in the Bethesda modding scene since Morrowind, this is an incredibly sad day. Remember when we touted free modding as one of PC gaming's biggest features? Yeaaaaaaah. I'll never pay or charge for mods. This is cancer. What's next? Will modders set up Patreons? The Nexus sites will have no legitimate way of competing with this. Traffic for affected games will plummet, as modders pull their content in favor of monetizing it on the Steam Workshop. This sums it up just perfectly. Those 600+ mod setups will now cost you hundreds of dollars. TB is inherently biased in this regard, as he works an uncommon job; a job which most people will say does not warrant wealth beyond what master's degrees and advanced craft certificates will ever get you. I believe he pulls in around 400k yearly from all his sources. Of course he's going to advocate all work as being legitimate work. He'd likely even endorse fan translation projects becoming monetized.

It's a joke game, made by trolls. The fact that they're charging for it while falsely advertising non-existent features on the Steam store page makes it border on scam. Additionally, they've stolen a lot of sound assets from games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Postal 2. They were also caught ripping promotional art assets from Payday 2. I don't think this game will last very long on Steam. Also, have any of you actually seen their Steam forums? They're actively deleting criticism and also banning users outright for mentioning Hotline Miami. 3k copies sold last I checked. That's a lot of money.

A few times. Saya no Uta, Hanachirasu and Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer come to mind. Other than those titles, I don't think I've ever read a VN that's less than 20 hours long.

Make a nukige with a theme revolving around contraception. Your lecturer would approve.

Every VN ever should have the same ending that Six Feet Under had. It would make them objectively better.

You're greatly underestimating the power of ignorance. While it *should* be a non-issue; it's clearly not. I'm sure that even here, people will tell you that they will *not* support censorship in any way, regardless of how it affects the medium. If you were to poke your head in on the Cho Dengeki Stryker Steam forums now, you will find very little else but topics discussing and criticizing censorship. Of course, it being a big VN with high production values and so on; the pricing puts people off. Considering that it's one of the few full-length VNs on Steam, that's kind of disheartening as well. Note that the VN is currently 50% off, yet all that is being discussed is boycott and taking a stance against censorship.

Cho Dengeki Stryker has some embarassing stats, considering it's been on Steam for over 6 months. It's not surprising considering that it was the first VN on Steam to cause an outrage over censorship, which no doubt greatly affected its sales. The top 10 is cringeworthy, though hardly surprising. I assumed Dysfunctional Systems would have abysmal sales, judging by how the developer put it.

The censored art is priceless. One of the better jokes I've seen today.

If nothing else, that artstyle is atrocious.

Nah, not between routes. I don't skip anything when I re-read something, though. If I re-read the common route each time, I'd probably have killed myself after Muv-Luv Extra.

That's really dumb. The story and dialog alone easily take up 40 hours of in-game time, and it's all presented in a VN format, non-linear choices and all. I don't see the reasoning behind not labeling it as a VN; especially when there are other SRPGs labeled as such on VNDB. That said, there's a looooooooot of trash with the VN tag on Steam. It's no wonder why newly released games with this tag explode with trolls in the community hubs. I'd say that the lack of quality VN releases on Steam; the biggest mainstream gaming market on PC, negatively affects how casual gamers view them. Worst case scenario; a great VN finally gets localized and released on Steam, but is met with the same misinformed backlash and trolling.

Yep. Pirating is one thing, but making a profit from other people's work, whether that be an official release or a fan translation, which they don't give any credit for, by the way, is atrocious and unethical practice.

Seems like a knight in shining armor is required after all. Saveth us from mediocrity and ads, chosen one.

Oh. Well, no problem then. Then there's no haste in grabbing any of these.

Oh, crap. Someone should put these up on Nyaa to prevent certain sites from making further profits from these titles when they become less available. I'd do it, but my upload speed is 50kbps. Even the 1.6gb I had to upload for the Kikokugai localization I did took me close to 8 hours. I did say I would only provide the patch, but the game was so obscure, having only a single western torrent with 3 seeders. A translation would be for naught if none could actually play it.

Magical things happen in the locker room if you stroll around with your genitals dangling about. Trust me. Magical.