solidbatman

I will say that Clannad is a pretty good VN. I enjoyed it but it is an incredibly long slog. Little Busters! and me have a very troubled history, however, and I cannot recommend it.

Key VNs have garbage romance because every damn route is romance. There is little consistency in quality and even if the romance is good, you are forced to get through 500 bad routes to get to them

tl;dr its garbo if you dont like key its not garbo if you like bad writing

I mean yeah, VNs will never actually be popular in the west unless its a straight up meme game like Nekopara, Sakura, or DDLC. The genre is not taken seriously at all because it is tightly tied to a perception of being anime porn. Other hurdles remain too such as; lack of gameplay, poor story telling, generic cardboard cutouts, and the supposed gold standard of VNs are too damn long. Interactive media today aims to give instant gratification. VNs cannot do this very easily. Current VN fans do hold back the genre by demanding a preset standard of tropes, porn, and characters. Take for example Rancesama on twitter who threatened to stab people in the eye for some perceived slight against his favorite VNs. He was then promoted by Mangagamer and given a big special blog post to advertise Rance. Or the reaction when Sekai Project fucked up the loli train game where you sex lolis. How the hell to you advertise a genre in which the biggest outcries within the fanbase come when porn gets cut somehow or the leaders of the community threaten to kill people on twitter? VNs will not be popular with the current fanbase. VNs will not be popular with the current stable of companies promoting VNs. If VNs are to become popular, the fundamental definition of what a VN is would need to change. Which is kind of why I said I don't think VN fans want it to necessarily take off mainstream and become popular. The things you love about VNs would likely change and become heavily watered down. Not to mention porn would be gone. Please note, I am not demonizing anyone who loves porn in their VNs. I just think it is something that would be lost if VNs achieve mainstream success.

I mean, I dont know if most VN fans really want VNs to become popular based on the treatment of shitty ol ddlc in the news.

drop the porn for one. Once VNs are no longer associated with porn they stand a better chance. Western perceptions of sex are not going to change. And remember, even in Japan, its not like VN fans are proudly popular.

i might make a new website about visual novels and attempt to make them popular in the west via discussion and informational guides on visual novels.

I mean, every VN company has fucked up pretty bad a few times. Attitudes like this will result in just perpetual anger because someone will always be screwing the pooch.

their existence

are there any kusoge where you fail to pay taxes?

Yamato 2202 is still on going and will for fuggin eternity at this rate which is fine by me.

I don't. The real deal is more fun.

i will

with the exception of fat morghan these are all shit.

just make me a mod and everything will be better again

I wish I could run a company, makes lots of money, and not do a damn thing to improve it because I have a (somewhat tenuous now) monopoly.

Not entirely true. This is remastered with 4k visuals and will include the content that is exclusive to the Vita Complete Edition in Japan. Said content includes an entirely new story with voiced characters that I think fleshes out some of the After Story stuff from Requiem(?). Someone else pointed out that the Novectacle team teased some new content being added to this version.

rito was teasing me with this shit like a year and a half ago. I waited for far too long but now my time has come and so have i

I'm not sure when they started doing it, but the Sakura Taisen game has timed choices and decisions that require various user inputs. I always felt that was a neat way to keep the player involved. Though the series is helped by not being a true VN .

Game is good. Better than 2 but I haven't really played much of it. Its the Undertale effect. Game is good, fanbase ruins it by being insufferable much like me.

oh good. another cdprojekt red game for the gaming community to jizz all over. I hate the witcher 3 simply because of the fanbase and I have a feeling that despite loving the look of the game, I will end up hating this too. also no gameplay yet they'll get a pass unlike every other company that does the same thing

the forums break when you look at them funny. Best not to anger them

its garbage

if anything i am dumber now and starting to enjoy seeing the same 3 stories told over and over

I've seen some people point out games like GTA V and Witcher 3 feature explicit sexual content as well as many other rated M games not getting hit by this wave. I would imagine, because those games sell so well and as a result make a lot of money for Valve, that Valve would simply ignore any mass reporting campaign of those games. VNs on the other hand do not make enough money for Valve and would not be worth the headache of focused media attention on their content should the group in question doing the mass reporting were to launch a large media campaign against Valve for hosting. Someone may have already said this somewhere in the 200 replies to this thread but really the whole situation just seems like a PR maneuver on Valve's part to prevent undesired media attention.