/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Why do male friends always have to go around saying the dumbest shit to reinforce their or the MC's fetishes? What happened to actual bros?

>>12000019
Bros don't have ero scenes. Broges are great though, no homo.

>>12000019
Because boys tend to talk about porn and stuff while still being supportive and bros.

>>12000055
I know but it's boring when they just spout unfunny ero jokes or are just used as the character who comically gets shit on at every moment.

>>12000059
I like those, implies the MC is someone who can tease and laugh at other people properly.

Lesbian side characters are the worst. Yumeiro has a particularly bad one.

>>12000083
I like what hitoren did to that archetype, makes you understand why she's all over her crush and then just gradually shifts it to the MC.

>>12000087
Seriously why even include them though, like they don't serve any purpose because they usually have no sex scenes, no threesomes, and outside of some groping scenes in onsen or locker rooms that would only turn me on if I was still 13, there is no point. They don't create interest, they usually make me hate whatever heroine they're stalking as well, and it's not even funny most of the time.

>>12000106
Fandisk potential if the game is popular enough I guess, converting a lesbian seems fulfilling.
Daitoshokan fd is having this for the only female you couldn't fuck in the main game.

>>12000059
Agreed. Supporting male characters are usually just the same unfunny butt monkeys. I would prefer if the side-kicks got their own heroines more often, perhaps even full blown routes from their perspective. That would actually fix a lot of problems I have with regular eroge. More varied MCs, no silly harems where there isn't an actual harem ending (worse than Hitler) and best of all also lift the quilt trip I always get from playing more than one route. Or they could just make them actual characters instead of always resorting to the same "stupid ero-buddy" cliche.

Speaking of which do any of you have eroge with likeable male characters to recommend? So far from stuff I've read
Multiple protagonists with their own heroines: Swan Song, SubaHibi, ef, Kajiri Kamui Kagura
Male side gets his own love but no route: Grisaia no Rakuen, Asairo, Senshinkan
Leyline games also had pretty non-standard and likeable male characters and at least one of them could get his own love interest depending on how the final game turns out. Daru in Steins;Gate was bit of an ero-butt monkey but still managed to be a likeable character despite that.

>>12000119

レミニセンス had a pretty strong male cast imo.

>>12000119
I tend to prefer games with ensemble casts, or more than one male friend. If it's just one or two males in a sea of estrogen it gets to be too much. Unfortunately not many current games have this, and I feel like it will only continue to get more rare.

Clover Heart's has two protagonists, you might want to try that out. It's an older game though and I haven't personally played it so I don't know if it's any good.

>>12000119
All the male characters in Conboku were surprisingly interesting and their interactions with MC were hilarious.
Also, not eroge but I found K1 and Ooishi from Higurashi to be decent and likable characters.

The ratio of males/females is directly related to the quality of the writing. Casts with a high ratio of either female or males (especially) also tend to have the lowest quality writing.

>>12000161
With high ratio of male characters, do you mean otome games or regular eroge with an abnormally large amount of male characters? I'm inclined to agree either way though.

>>12000161
Yurige confirmed for worst writing ever.

>>12000171
http://vndb.org/v7691

>>12000161
46:1, this must be a horrible game.

>>12000171
Otome/BL games specifically.
I read an otome game once and it was the worst experience of my life.

And I can't really think of eroge with an absurdly large male cast. But a decent amount of male characters tend to roughly equal more focus on the plot.

>>12000135
And Akagoei is even better on that.
>>12000119
You should try Scarlett for multiple protagonists.

>>12000182
Never read it, I don't enjoy historical figures turned into cute girls plots unless it's a parody that doesn't take itself seriously at all.
Is it really that good?

>>12000181
But do you really know if it has bad writing? What if it's the masterpiece of our time?

>>12000182
Pretty much.

>>12000189
>Is it really that good?

Nah.

yall niggas are gay

>>12000190
It's on the Chinese top 10 recommendation chart for new friends.
Among others are Josou Sanmyaku, Imouto Choukyou Nikki, 3days and White Album 2, just to name a few.

>>12000198
I'm just sick of constantly getting the same shit shoved in my face.

But yeah I do like men.

>>12000190
It must be. After all, the more dudes something has the more it focuses on plot.

>>12000212
Then maybe you'd be better off with a different hobby.

>>12000217
Yaoi and otome doesn't count.

>>12000222
How convenient.

>>12000226
Seriously dude. I was talking about eroge.

>>12000212
>But yeah I do like men.

Finding eroge which caters to your interest must be hell.

Speaking of gay, I find it quite astonishing how gayge have always a high ranking on vndb and even on nyaa the game with the most seeds is dramatical murder. Is it all because of those 16 year old girls? Or is this scene full of homos?

>>12000229

There are yaoi and otome games which are eroge.

>>12000231
I think it's just young girls that make up those download numbers, also the art for that was pretty good and it was made by an off-brand of Nitroplus, so I could see people looking into it if they thought it would have a good plot.

It doesn't.

>>12000238
It's also getting an anime adaptation.

>>12000231
Homoge is garbage, but it will always be highly rated by teenage landwhales who have absolutely no semblance of good taste.

>>12000237
The eroge that are catered towards us and this thread, fool.

>>12000182
I enjoyed it thoroughly.

>>12000221
I'm in too deep. Besides, it's a good way to keep my Japanese fresh.

What is a good starting point for someone extremely well-versed in Japanese? I'm looking for something difficult and challenging to read.

>>12000255

Dies Irae
Senshinkan
Kajiri Kamui Kagura
Albatross Koukairoku

>>12000255
最果てのイマ
Dies Irae and 神咒神威神楽, but make sure to read the former first.
相州戦神館學園 八命陣
いつか、届く、あの空に。
装甲悪鬼村正
Or pick pretty much any raiL-soft game.

>>12000273
You should know better than to post screenshots in Chinese.

>>12000280
Please tell Masada to write his games in Japanese.

>>12000255
There really isn't anything that hard besides Mareni.

>>12000280
There's one の.

>>12000273
Just some non nonsensical chanting gibberish blabla. Is this why these chuuni games are considered hard?

>>12000299
I can't obviously speak for all chuuni games but at least Masada's stuff have more verbose text in general, not just "chanting gibberish".

>>12000318
Not him but, what you guys call Masada's "verbose" also isn't hard. It isn't like he's trying to simulate some 純文学 with a insane syntax and everything else as Mareni sometimes.

>>12000410
What's this Mareni game? Neither EGS or VNDB brought up anything.

Where are the all the releases?

Oh my god don't tell the the government finally shut them down? Is Japan in anarchy right now? How will this tread go on?

>>12000455
This is most retarded post I've seen in /jp/ for quite a while.

>>12000473
So he's a writer? Still couldn't find anything.

>>12000473
>>12000476
Wait nevermind, couldn't find with EGS's creator search but googling "MARENI エロゲ" did the job. So you meant raiL-soft's writer.

>>12000476
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/creater.php?creater=2497

>>12000473
It was my fault though.

>>12000486
I reported you, don't worry.

>>12000485
>couldn't find with EGS's creator search
EGS 101: there's second drop-down thing in search, which you should switch to furigana. Enter マレニ there and you get correct record.

>>12000492
That's useful to know. Thanks.
I'm not that familiar with EGS since the proxies I use stop randomly working and usually I can't be arsed enough to get a new one.

I'm reading SubaHibi, reached the 13th in Invention.

I can't read any more, I'm too scared. it's also 5 AM and I can't go to sleep.

>>12000539
Switch to a cute moege for awhile.

Will steins gate be out Sunday night at 12 or later monday? will it have to be cracked or is it drm free?

>>12000019
Have you played the game? Akira was a bro.

>>12000751
It's been out for five years.

>>12000212
They're called galge for a reason.

It's surprising how even in these threads there are some of that breed of Western fans who apparently don't actually like eroge but hang around anyway. I know you're going to say that you're into the medium for the select few "superior" plot-driven games, but damn it must suck to only like about 1% of the stuff that gets released. If I were you guys I'd just read sci-fi/fantasy novels or something.

>>12000768
Who cares what other people do. Where are the releases today?

>>12000772
Since you're so disinterested in the actions of others, why don't you buy them yourself instead of waiting for someone else to upload it for you?

>>12000781
Do I have to take care of your life now just to play my porn games?

>>12000772
Patience. Jesus. It's not even 5 PM, and day one uploads haven't been a guarantee for a year now.

Frankly I wouldn't mind it if all the uploads were delayed a week or so as a rule. Then maybe some of the people who are actually able to buy the games would fucking do so and the industry wouldn't be in the shitter.

>>12000787
I actually wouldn't mind either.

>>12000787
Make that "not even 4 PM". Simple arithmetic is not my strong point.

Looking forward to Clover Days and Daitoshokan Dreaming Sheep.

>>12000787
How am I supposed to buy the games if I'm using them to learn Japanese so I can buy them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc7EcuqVhPE
Why would you people read this shit or waste time learning japanese when you can watch masterpieces like kill la kill.

>>12000809
>How am I supposed to buy the games
1. Go to dlsite
2. Open page for the game you want
3. Click on add to cart
4. Click on checkout
5. Fill out forms
6. Confirm your order

>>12000812
that was fast

>>12000817
I have to justify the money spent though. If I don't know Japanese I can't read them after all.

they don't ship overseas though, checkmate

>>12000823
>they don't ship overseas
DLSite sells digital versions. You can download and play them as soon as you paid.

>>12000772
>Who cares what other people do.
I do when I end up reading through half a thread of people bitching about how games based on fucking girls have too many girl characters.

>>12000831
Isn't that only doujin games though? Moege keep me alive, I can't live without them.

>>12000832
You sound like someone who eats nothing but shit anyway, probably can't even appreciate a good deep story.

>>12000823
You don`t need to receive it, just send to some charity there or something. After that you can download your game somewhere with a sense of accomplishment: You helped the Develepers and saved kids.

>>12000839
No, there's huge selection of pro titles as well. Didn't check moege, but Eushully has its digital versions there, for example.

>>12000848
Do they really accept foreign credit card though? Something just feels wrong about a Japanese company like actually lets foreigners
buy stuff from them.

>>12000857
I didn't have any problems with my virtual visa cards issued by local bank.

>>12000255
If some VNs are challenging to read then you aren't "extremely well-versed"

Also you sound like a complete faglord

>>12000863
Are you from russia?

Will Kakei have sex with Nozomi or Sakuya? Is it NTR then in my Daitoshokan?

>>12000001
I accidentally swallowed some of my little sisters piss once.

>>12000896
It's not NTR if it's a dream.

>>12000768
I can still appreciate cute girls and SOL.

During hscenes I pretend they're traps.

http://www.moe-gameaward.com/news/news.asp?i=554
http://www.moe-gameaward.com/news/news.asp?i=556
Uhh... what happened with these guys in 2013? They've became so slow and always fail with their updates and dates.

http://www.moe-gameaward.com/news/news.asp?i=545
http://www.moe-gameaward.com/news/news.asp?i=556
Uhh... what happened with these guys in 2013? They've became so slow and always fail with their updates and dates.

>>12001085
ebin spoiler dude

Is this thread a contest about who's more hipster and dislikes more genres than the others now?

>>12000210
That is quite a chart

>>12001161
Just killing time till the new releases get uploaded.

>>12000119
>Male side gets his own love but no route: Grisaia no Rakuen, Asairo, Senshinkan
For Asairo that's kind of an exaggeration

>>12000119
Maybe Ayakashibito it has male characters getting their own girl and scenes for them but no route.

http://www.clearrave.co.jp/product/sakusaku/
2014年4月25日　→　2014年6月27日
And trial out.

>>12001257
http://www.favo-soft.jp/soft/product/WhiteEternity/index.html

>>12001278
Of course it was delayed.

>>12001278
Guess >>11997028 was right.

(18禁ゲーム) [140328] [effordomsoft] 銃騎士 Cutie☆Bullet 初回限定版 (mdf+mds rr3%).rar OFAAFOV90kBdXtDl 1,915,270,203 859d55a181d49772ce785e4787173b784a20f392

First release of the month

>>12001333
中央値 0
平均値 26
Is that lowest full-price game on EGS ever?

>>12001349
Give it a week at least.

> 4ヶ月延期してCG35枚差分SD抜き
> 中古売りさせないための後日追加パッチ（最初からいれとけと）
So this version isn't even complete?

>>12001360
Fuck you pirates DLC, yes.

>>12001360
I'm reading that there's a grand total of 49 CGs in it. Pretty underwhelming, but I'll give it a shot anyway. I'm not sure how that stops second hand sales or pirates, though, since they'll just download the patch when it's available.

If anything, it'll stop first hand sales.

http://futalog.com/252706101_2.htm

There's also a few caps from some of today's games, though, so I'd refrain from opening this link if you don't want to get spoiled on those.

>>12001394

Cheers.

>If anything, it'll stop first hand sales.

I agree, not to mention it will get a bad word-of-mouth among its target buyers, and that usually means sales suicide. They aren't the only one releasing a VN on this self-established date. I do recall some words back in magazine interview about how most of the VN sales are pre-orders and first two weeks of retail. Obviously we do know big hitters have longer legs than that but those are exceptions than the norm.

Hello Lady is out in Share too

>>12001404

There goes my weekend, and I wanted to spend time washing/detailing my car, sort of counting on a delay "release" from the usual places.

>>12001405
I just need my Daitoshokan.

Eiyuu Senki is out too

Finished ojousama wa gokigen naname.
As I said before, it was pretty interesting being the all-powerful butler, and he was pretty interesting, though a little too hard-headed at times.
Naname and Shiaya were pretty interesting, the former being the main source of comedy in the game, and the latter of moe. The imouto and Touka were average, and I wish the MC had punched the tsundere in the face.
I didn't really like much the idol routes, because I'm too possessive to handle my girlfriend being fap material for the nation. The imouto route brought some nice closure to the main antagonist. Naname's route was by far the longest, was a little annoying to read due to all the economy, and I felt it lacked in emotio compared to all the others, but her and the MC's interactions were still pretty fun. Shiaya, the route I started the game for, surpassed my expectations. It had some great S&M that reminds me of Nana to Kaoru, and even managed to make the shota likeable.
The weakest point of the game were the H-scenes(other than in Shiaya's route), I had to really apply myself to cum to most of them.
I mentioned mostly the weak poinrts, but it was still an interesting game, and I even managed to learn sone economy. I'd definitely play Shiaya's route if you're into M heroines.

>>12001867
Is there a multi-route plot or can you easily read the heroine you're interested in then drop the rest?

My bet is on the latter, but I'd like to make sure.

>>12001884
There's 2 different common routes, one for the idols, and a slightly longer one for the other 3, but it's pretty interesting, and has actual plot.

>>12001394
So what should I wait to play dreaming sheep until this patch is out then?

>>12001917
Isn't that from Cutie Bullet?

>>12001923
Yea I only took a quick look but then re-looked at it a now I feel like an idiot, a spoiled idiot.

Anyway should I wait for the patch or play it now? I've been looking forward to it for quite awhile but if the patch is just that 5th character I can wait.

>>12001278
Damn. Well, that may be a good thing. April was looking a bit too busy.

Ruins is a pretty good band from Japan

>>12001867
Does this have any S heroines or are they all varying degrees of M?

Totally ruins my image of master-servant relationships if they swap roles in bed.

AVG keeps warning me that the .exe files from eroge I install are viruses. Is it safe to ignore?

>>12001981
The only actual M heroine is Shiaya, the others are normal.

>>12002001
it probably detects the cracks to avoid dvd detection or something like that
probably being the keyword here since I don't know where you get them from and if you have shit on your computer to begin with

>>12002004
Could be, I haven't applied any cracks but maybe it detects if the file has already been cracked. It's not letting me make an exception for the .exe, so I guess I'll never find out.

Finished Dengeki Stryker. Shit was fun. Heroines were meh though.

>>12002041

Run the patch/crack in a virtual machine (XP/Vista/7), your antivirus/antimalware won't trigger.

>>12000273
Is he listing a long sequence of names?
Looks like chinese to me if it weren't for the no particles.

>>12002069
>悪魔退散
Yeah sure sounds like names to me dude.

>>12002069
It's a buddhist chant

>>12001726
I can't seem to find it, you sure?

>>12001360
The only patch I'm seeing about is the wakasa patch or are they making another one?

But isn't that normal? I mean last month there was like what 3 games with DLC that you needed the serial code for.

>>12002073
>implying I can read that pile of random lines

http://hentaidl.me/
That's just evil

>>12002256
What is this?

>>12002256
How jew can you get: the hobby.
I hate these people, the links aren't legit either probably.

>>12002256
Well, if those are legit (big if) then it shouldn't be long before they show up on Torrent sites as well.

>>12002258
Guy uploaded some nukige, both links require premium accounts. Hilarious stuff.

>>12002256
I haven't paid one cent for porn since I was 12, and probably never will.

Why would anyone subscribe to these terrible, terrible sites?

>>12002280
I've honestly thought a few times of getting a rapidgator account. At least depositfiles is still great for the usual ones.

Oh yeah Hello Lady started moving again.
97% now

>>12002256
Definately not legit, they are just trying to cash with fake files. Been like that for sites like that and the files sizes just seem way too wrong for some of the games.

>>12002304
Hopefully torrent soon, after so many years I still haven't managed to set up share correctly.

>>12002309
I finally figured it out several months ago, but it's not significantly faster than torrents anyway, so I still don't bother with it unless it's something I just can't find anywhere else. For new releases you might as well just set up an RSS downloader and point it at Nyaa.

>>12002319
That's what I tend to do, but since 2gf and gircelly release the same stuff, I get paranoid just leaving it and downloading the one that comes later/ downloading it twice.

>>12002319
>setting up rss downloaders
>Implying I even know what rss is

>>12002334
kool greentext bro

I'm planning to play 家族計画, which version would you guys recommend?

Eiyuu Senki is up.

For anyone familiar with the Maou to Odore series, is there a continuity, or can I start with 2?

how would Dra+KoI rank in difficulty from 1 to 10?

are there any lists out there ranking a lot of VNs in terms of Japanese reading difficulty?

>>12002676
10/10 couldn't read even if I were a native.

Every games is out but Daitoshokan, even Clover Days has already finished the slow as ass download. Guess I will have to start with that first.

Is there a guide to setting up share?

>>12002700
I think google has a few

>>12002695
>Version 1.00
There's a 1.01 patch you probably want to get.

>>12002737
Why? How can a game this simple possibly have any problems.

>>12002741
Have you never downloaded patches before? Lots of eroge get patches to fix stuff like typos or other problems in the script. Clover Days' patch seems to fix something with the engine which is actually a bit more uncommon.

>>12002749
It's literally pictures with text, what could possibly go wrong.

>>12002752
The text obviously. It's some megabytes worth of text, is it really so inconceivable that they would make a spelling mistake somewhere in there?

>>12002752
Syncing issues, interface issues, Cg's not loading etc

>>12002752
Are you new or just retarded?

>>12002759
So the people who make these pieces of shit are incompetent as well, great.

>>12002761
This is literally the most simple shit I've seen in my life I have a hard time they need to patch it.

>>12002752
>>12002741
Hey guy, you dropped this. No need to thank me.

>>12002761
He's obviously just shitposting. Report and ignore.

>>12002766
I'm being serious though.

>>12002763
Looks like your post is going to need a patch. How could you fuck up something so simple?

>>12002707
Google leads to http://uguu.org/share/, and all links to share itself there are dead.
Tried to seach for it on 2ch.net, but all I get either threads for tracking new share uploads or threads like http://awabi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/download/1380276397/ which says to download share from share.

>>12002796
google.co.jp

>>12002676
Maybe like a 5 or a 6 at the highest. Haganeya's main intention in a lot of what he writes seems to be to write things that are cool, so it can be a step or two above you're average moege, but it really isn't that hard.

>>12001867

I'm just about done with this game too. I was a bit disappointing with Shihaya's actual H-scenes, there was so much potential. Nanami's are good though, more reasonable voice acting than normally and pretty cute.

Good game overall, pretty funny and some decent plot and MC. Economy infodumps were pretty tedious considering it's all concepts i already know but not a big deal.

>>12002642
Second one is only tenuously connected to the first and 1000 years after it I believe.

>>12002737
The guy replied to you is not me. I got the 1.01 before I downloaded the game, just forgot to patch it before I took the screenshot and couldn't be assed to do it again.

>>12002965
Thanks for the blog update.

Haha, Memoria (1位) outsold Rance (2位) on amazon.
So apparently at least amazon users have good taste, should pay more attention to their rankings.

>>12003043
And the bait has been set. I don't think you're going to get anyone with that one though.

Why the fuck Sengoku Rance, 英雄*戦姫, デモニオン, 魔導巧殻 and 三極姫 are sold as "アダルトPCシミュレーションゲーム", along KISS and Illusion shit?

>>12003052
To hurt your ego.

>>12003052
>アダルトPCシミュレーションゲーム
That's not quite correct. At least for Alicesoft and Tenco.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E5%9F%9F%E5%88%B6%E5%9C%A7%E5%9E%8BSLG

>>12003067
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsellers/software/927716/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_sw_1_3_last

>>12003070
Well, all I'm saying is that Amazon is labeling it incorrectly, e.g. lazily reducing the whole 地域制圧 part and using the SLG part alone.

>>12003052
because in japan tactical games are counted as simulation and so fall under the same umbrella? the s in srpg isn't for strategy

>>12002436
Shame it isn't popular around here, guess I'll go with the unvoiced PC release and the PSP one then.

>>12003090
Just get the remake?

>>12003096
I heard it lost the charm of the original after the overhaul, was it okay?

>中央値 0
>ヒロイン可愛けりゃそれでよかったと思ったんだけど、これは許せん・・・
>ユーザーを舐めているとしか思えない。
>ああ、もうエイプリルフール企画の時期かエフォルダムは随分と手の込んだ仕込みをしたな。
>体験版からわかっていたことだが、ゴミだった。午前中に買って昼一に売った。
>汚い商売する前にちゃんとゲーム作ってくれませんかねー・・・

Damn. How's that anti used sales strategy working out, Effordom Soft?

>>12003113
What did they do?

>>12003113
Honestly, again all I see is that wakasa patch, and since December companies have been doing these patches that require you to enter the serial key.

Giga did it with kissato where you need a first edition serial key or miss out on epilogues for all the heroines, ひとなつの had one where you had 30 days to register your copy or miss out on a whole route, バカ燃え had 2 fucking 2 of these a whole route and also extra scenes, released at different times.

And I keep seeing more and more copies keep doing it. Is there something I'm missing here or are people mad about something they've been doing since D.C.III?

>>12003117
>総CG35枚(SD除く)、HCG25枚、総シーン数14――これは同人ゲームではない、フルプライスの商業ゲーである。
That is pretty bad actually.

>>12003122
So then, real question was 恋騎士 any better?

>>12003122
35 CG in total, 25 HCG... Would that mean just 10 non-HCG?

>>12003113
Heh. That one guy who rated it a 90.

>>12003096
Eh those replies reminded me of EGS and the rest of the internet, I'll stop being retarded.

>>12003122
>>12003127
How many CGs are there usually in your average full-price game? I never really counted before.

>>12003137
The game I'm currently playing has 145 base CGs.

>>12003137
well, most games I played recently had 12-16 cg per extra menu page, with 6-8 pages of stuff, maybe more

>>12003137
Venus Blood has 90 base CG and several hundreds with variations.

>>12003143
Err, Venus Blood Abyss. Gaia has more.

>>12003140
>>12003142
>>12003143
Holy shit then I can understand the outrage.

Honestly I want to see how long it is for myself before making a decision.

Length has always been the prime factor of my enjoyment and I remember playing a nukige awhile back that was like 500MB or something but I got a lot of playtime out of it and really enjoyed myself even though there was like 2 CGs per heroine.

>>12003140
>>12003143
Is that the norm, or are those on the higher end?
I have the CGs of Eustia extracted here, and it has only about 50 non-HCGs, not counting all the other variants of the same one like pic related.
Didn't feel inadequate at all, honestly.

>>12003150
50 non-H base CGs isn't bad, and Eustia also isn't a bottom of the barrel moege that people only bought for the art. Cutie Bullet has 10.

To add a couple more data points, Hapymaher, a game that was also criticized for having a low number of base CGs for its length, has 84 total (H and non-H, not counting SD). Dracu-Riot has 100.

>>12003168
Not to defend cutie bullet but does anyone know exactly how long it is? If it's like 5 hours to full clear, then yea I can see the problem. It's kind of the same problem the video game industry has today where they focus too much on graphics or some kind of controversial story they forget the about the main gameplay, length or general longevity of the game.

Putting aside cgs for a second can we at least get actual length answered?

>>12003181
Looks like it's 6-10 hours according to EGS.

>>12003073
It's not labelled incorrectly at all. They're SLGs. egs, Getchu, etc. also label them SLG.

Eroge makers always assign overly-specific "genres" to their games. That doesn't mean sites should give HappyLoveCutegirlHeartthrobbingAdventure its own category instead of just calling it an ADV.

>>12003235
TBS is widely-recognized genre through, and its silly to call it SLG, since "simulation" is totally different beast.

Dat 3D Sakuraba.

>>12002907
Nice, thanks. Now to find it.

Daitoshokan is up on Nyaa.

>>12003320
Thanks.

>>12003181
>>12003188
I've been at it for 3 hours or so and I'm still in the common route. Unless all routes are super short (which I guess wouldn't be that surprising at this point) it should be a bit longer than that to fully complete, but of course that also depends on your reading speed and how much time you spend getting distracted by the Internet. According to a walkthrough, there's 4 routes for each heroine and one final "Grand Route".

It's kind of weird. I have the feeling that it doesn't know what it wants to be. There's been abductions, thievery, assassination attempts, betrayal and revenge so far... but many of those try to be silly comedy even though they are apparently also supposed to be serious business. There's this flashback early on depicting the protagonist's father on his death bed, but the entire scene is spent fooling around. Then the flashback ends and the protagonist says that his father died right after that like I'm supposed to take it seriously.

I'm not sure I like the ornamental d-pads on the guns. Too many of them lined up together looks a bit uncool.

>>12003374

Sounds like they are trying too hard for genre shift but failing it, so bits and pieces don't link up.

>>12003374
Koikishi was like that too

Hello Lady still stuck in 寸止め地獄
99% and no hint of it starting again

>>12003459
Hope it ends soon so someone starts a torrent.

>>12003459
Convert the archive with CacheDumpEX and repair it?

>>12003477
Yeah I thought of doing it before but I hoped it would start again.
But I guess I'll try now

Clover Days is up on nyaa as well.

>>12003494
Boring shit.

3 hours later, not even 1%.

>>12003482
Well winrar finished rebuilding it, now to see if it works

Time for nonchalatant fun!

What games made you actually laugh out loud? Not just smirking or thinking "that's funny", games that you thought were positively hilarious. I'm trying to see if japanese humor can actually get me

>>12003587
I found hitoren's non stop retarded humour hilarious. Oretsuba's too, but that's due more to character interaction than actual jokes.

>>12003587
Konboku. It was hilarious all the way through.

>>12003590
Yeah, it can be really fun.

Grisaia made me laugh quite a lot during its comedy scenes throughout the three games.

>>12003587
Like >>12003589 said, hitoren. One route in particular.

>>12003587
As far as the ones I've read recently are concerned, I'd probably only be able to go with WLO. Mainly the parts with Yuriko.

>>12003587
Hard pressed to think of any one game that was consistently funny. Usually it's unexpected funny moments in otherwise fairly serious games that get me.

Especially choice jokes. I love those.

Playing Sharnoth right now, loving the music and the minigame is good too; are the hidden voices really that important? And how do you find them?

>>12003730
>are the hidden voices really that important?
Yes.
>And how do you find them?
The four counters are steps left for their respective voices, alternatively, search for the maps in google.

>>12003735
But there's that fifth voice with no counter on it, how do I find that one? Or is a map the only way?

>>12003739
Pretty sure that after you get the four voices, the map changes and you just need to go to the exit.

>>12003043
not really a surprise considering rance is getting badder by each release

After a year, she's still bad for my health.

>>12003781
Man I have been downloading for like 6 hours now and it's still not done. I want my Kanasuke dose so bad.

>>12003587
The funniest games seem to be the ones where the writer is actually good. Muramasa, asairo, oretsuba, etc
Grisaia was probably the funniest game I've played, although I hated the character routes.

I've never liked the humor all that much in any of the pure moege that I've played.

>>12003867
Please don't list muramasa with Asairo and Oretsuba. I couldn't stand the humor in it, and just seeing it alongside games with humor I actually enjoyed really tickles my autism.

>>12003881
Murasama had better humor than Asairo

>>12003881
It's ok anon, you just have bad taste.

>>12003867
I don't see how Asairo was funny. It's good, but some of the jokes make me cringed like the Araragi ossan thing or Hiyo going yandere.

I know this is a stupid question because dreaming sheep is the fandisk but is the common route enough to play it?

I remember I went through the whole common route was finally on a route and then my stupid AV software blacklisted the exe and I couldn't play anymore until I installed to to a new HDD.

I guess what I'm asking is do I have to play everyone routes or does it pick up from some common point because I think I know all the plot points of the common route. If it doesn't I guess I'll just work on the first game.

>>12004014
It's filled with after stories for the cast, so you'll need to play the original.

>>12004017
Damn, I was afraid to hear that. I guess I'll get back to work on it then.

Does anyone know if Asapro is working on anything new? I always loved their games.

>>12003587
I found Princess Witches and Twinkle Crusaders (particularly the latter) laugh-out-loud funny. Also a lot of Romeo's humor, and some of Maeda's.

YMMV, though, I seem to have rather, uh, non-mainstream taste in humor based on shows and things I thought were absolutely hilarious that no one else seems to like and vice-versa.

>>12004014
I don't know about the the others, but for Ureshino's you need her route and for Aoi's and the club's stories you need, I think, at least halfway through Kodachi's. They start after the MinaFes event, and unless I'm remembering it wrong the story only reaches that part in Kodachi's and the True routes. I assume it's the same for the other heroines.

Cheer up, you'll get there eventually.

Best pronoun.

>>12004049
>I assume it's the same for the other heroines.
Or rather, chances are you need the True endings, unless they would drop them as non-canon for some reason.

I should probably think more about what I'm saying.

>>12004064
does this game still has single Ending or did they added some different ending as well? even if its still single ending i hope they changed it as a sweet harem at least.

If anyone is interested, I updated the Steins;Gate VN flowchart I made several months ago. And yes, I know that there's the walkthrough at ibm5100.net, but it's shit.

http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Steins;Gate_100%25_Completion_Walkthrough

This is just a beta, the final version will be when I update it to match the official translation. I'll get that done ASAP after I get my hands on the official release.

Hello Lady is finally complete.
I guess you guys will see the torrent soon

>>12004477
It's up

>>12004477
It's now out.

>>12004487
>2.9 gbs
Awesome compression or is it just somewhat short?
Also Saku did end up being the main heroine after all.

>>12004491
Saku is the last route.
Order seem to be Tamao/Sorako, finishing them unlock Eru/Ell, finishing her route unlock Saku

>>12004497
I really wonder why Tamao is a heroine, Mitori was way more interesting than a hot blooded violent red hair.

>>12003881
But Asairo just recycled the same jokes until they got stale for the most part.

>>12004653
That's part of the fun, anon.

>>12004653
I would like to go back in time and strangle whatever Japanese entertainer said that the key to comedy is repetition. And then come back and see if they managed to figure out humor.

>>12004414
Neat. Thanks.

I just recently started reading the Higurashi VN after watching the first season on the anime.

>>12001394
I was wondering about that myself, it feels like CGs were cut from the content.
Especially for the Miyabi's route, I was expecting CGs for the massage event as well as more HCGs too the bunny girl suit sprite should have seen more use. I don't know if they cut those out or just added that route after a second though, I'm betting it's the latter.

>>12001360
>Additional patch to add in the stuff they removed to prevent 2nd hand sales
>Doesn't give a date for said patch release

Why?

>>12005016
The patch is an extra route for some sub-character.
Or there is other patch that I don't know?

>>12005016
>>12005075
Well, they did announce an upcoming patch
>「銃騎士Cutie☆Bullet」本日発売ですカウントダウンボイス発売当日を公開しました若桜ルート追加パッチの配布が決定しました 2014年4月4日(金)配布開始予定です
They'll probably release more "patches", hopefully

>>12005080
That's the patch >>12005075 was talking about. we don't know if that patch will restore those missing CG's though, hopefully it does.

>>12005081
I hope it doesn't take long to complete, like the patches append of the LxC series

>>12005100
>append patches
Fixed, I need more sleep.

No matter how much Cutie Bullet is being shitted on, it is still selling pretty well.

>>12005123
Only because most of sales are preorders and day-1. Eroge consumers are known to hold grudges, their next title will inevitably flop, even if they actually bother to invest some effort into it.

>>12005139
But their first game was terrible. The only good thing about it was the art.

>>12005198
that seems good enough for some people

What's your method for reading VNs?

Do you do something like set aside a little notepad document on the side of your screen and copy-paste any unfamiliar vocab into that document so that you can later study these words?

I can "read" VNs but I'm worried that I'm not really reading them because I depend so much on programs like TA to understand all of the vocab that I don't know. I'll get through a VN and maybe only really remember a handful of new vocabulary from that. I feel like I'm doing something really wrong, but I don't know what the most efficient method would be for correcting this bad habit.

>>12005221
> Do you do something like set aside a little notepad document on the side of your screen and copy-paste any unfamiliar vocab into that document so that you can later study these words?
There's handy program called 'anki'. Use it.

>>12004500
I liked Tamao, especially as a foil to everyone else being so high-class. Her common route scenes suffer from the usual male acceptance denial shit, yeah, but she looks like she could find lots in common with Shinri.

>>12005221
The best thing to do would be to kill yourself.

>>12005221

Why are you reading anything before finishing Core10k?

It only takes 50-100 days at a pace of either 100 or 200 new words a day.

>>12005226
> either 100 or 200 new words a day
Why so slow? I'm sure any decent human being could do at least 1000 new words / day.

>>12005224
>look mommy I told someone on the internet to kill himself, I'm so amazing

>>12005226
And what implies he doesn't know that vocabulary? There are still heaps on heaps of unknown words beyond Core10k.

>>12005228
That would still take too long. I think, it would be best to complete it in one day.

>>12005198
It's more of a charage and I find it decent, especially Yuu route. Don't expect Muramasa or something.
Opinions aside, they really went out with the references in their new game, like Equilibrium's Gunkata and Code Geass

So there's unskippable prologue-before-game-menu thing in hello ladies too. Is it some kind of trend in VNs now?

Did I miss patch for the game?

>>12005346
Typos and mistakes with scripting make it into eroge all the time.

>>12000119
Senshinkan - all bros got routes where they end up with girls.

>>12005367
Not really, Narutaki didn't have guts to go for Yurika, and Oosugi sacrificed his love.

Wow, hello lady is unexpectedly cool.
http://pastebin.com/mcACLRqf

I hope Hino can keep it up like this till the end.

>>12005397
How does it compare to &?

>>12005412
definitely better, & was kinda weak
I'm not sure it trumps ruitomo, but it's one of their best efforts

>>12005427
As long as it keeps a more constant quality, it should be better, ruitomo had a couple of pretty crappy routes midway through.

>>12000119
Zero Infinity has a true bro, who has a love interest and gets some impressive moments.

>>12005367
>>12005369
I read that Yoshiya's mother dies in one of the routes, does that happen in all of them?

>>12005431
Senshinkan routes are fake. Definite reply would be major spoiler tho.

>>12005431
She dies during the trial, so I'd assume it happens in all of them.

>>12005427
I finished the first route of Hello Lady (Tamao) and while it was pretty good, it kind of felt rushed.
Game seem shorter than Ruitomo and Comyu as well.
I hope the other routes will deliver something a bit more consistent

>>12005469
my judgement might be biased since I didn't like comyu that much except for a few scenes I guess

>>12005474

It's fine, whatever floats your boat.

Personally this has the same problem of me liking it and wanting more. I truly curse writers that tick all my boxes with their forte.

Eiyuu Senki is fun

>>12005558
The production values for this game are high but they still couldn't fix those faces.

I'm going through Root Harem, and I'm enjoying it more than I expected. For a moe/nukige, anyway.

Sayori's designs are a pleasure to look at, and the mouths in particular are very nicely done. Pic related, and I can't help thinking that the expression on the right would look great in a rape scene.

アリス先生ハァハァ。

EGS down again?

>>12005848
Not down here.

>>12005858
Works here too.

>>12005858
>>12005859

Odd, the website isn't loading for me at all, yet everything else is working as per normal

>>12005863
Maybe there is something with your proxy?

>>12005863
Well, I'm having no problems.
>>12005883
Yeah, or maybe he got lucky and managed to get in without a proxy. I used to be able to do that with my old computer.

>>12005883
I'm not using a proxy, never needed one to access EGS

>>12005887
maybe he got you, owner's been banning foreign proxies for some time now

>>12006009

Anon the page doesn't even load when i put it through a proxy.

>>12006009
Wouldn't i get something along the lines of this if my IP was blocked?

>>12006030
No, you just can't access the site and fails to load, unlike other bans.

>>12006047
Guess i got blocked then, i can access it through the normal proxy i use.

>>12006047
Guess i got blocked then, i can access it through the normal proxy i use, Thanks for answering my questions.

>>12006030
lrn2accesslists

Why is EGS blocking foreign IP anyway?

This jo sudo, that made the screenplay with hino in HL, have another good works?

>>12004669
It's not like repetition in comedy is exclusive to Japan. Pretty sure Mike Myers is a big fan of it, as well.

Do you feel ashamed, /jp/?

>>12006447
What a cunt. Fuck her.

>>12006447
At least the game is self aware.

This VN is toying with my feelings.

>>12006078
do they? i can go there directly

>>12006447
What is she saying in the last two lines?

>>12006078
probably just preemptive action to avoid bullshit, he had no problem unbanning a guy that asked him directly
this is perfectly normal, pls don't go on racist/xenophobe autismdumps

>>12006493
死は生の出来事ではない。

>>12006563
Preordering your VN is the investment and protection VN makers need to have hopes of making money and insurance to produce new games.

>>12006600
That's pretty deep.

>>12006493
>>12006588
OK, Just finished 終の空II.
The fuck did I just read.
What the fuck was that ED.

This is like watching eva for the first time again, but even weirder.

Just when I thought shit was making sense.

So www sounds like a sheep dying after bashing its head multiple times, good to know.

>>12006618
Give it a couple more of goes since it's short, it starts making some sense after that.

>>12006623
Also, it might be helpful to reflect on what happened in the other endings.

>>12006623
>>12006626
So it's not that everything was basically inside of Ayana's head? A daydream? A day-lucid-dream-theater? That single soul thing reminded me of 人類補完計画.

I just want Tomosane, Yuki, and Hasaki to live happily ever after.

Apparently there's neither 美鳥 nor 菱吾 route in hello lady. So retarded to omit best girls. Plus unneeded forced order, with 朔 being last.
Good thing writing is good even with otherwise horrible heroines, so I'll probably endure this.

>>12006655
>Plus unneeded forced order, with 朔 being last.
More like completely needed, she has to be the main heroine for a reason and spoiling the whole thing because you did her first is retarded.
There's a reason there's no Mitori route and Hashia is barely in the game for her to be a heroine.

>>12006651
Oh god, no, no. Why does everyone comes to this conclusion.
Although you can say that. As you can say everything was inside Tomosane, Yuki, and Hasaki's head.

>>12006651
Oh god, no, no. Why does everyone comes to this conclusion.
Although you can say that. As you can say everything is inside Tomosane, Zakuro, Yuki, and Hasaki's head.

>>12006682
That was my original conclusion until suddenly the point of view 私 magically shifted from Yuki to Ayana at the end.

Oh well, I guess I'll re-read later on.

For now, what shall I read next? Thinking of Oretsuba, Baldr Sky Zero, or Grisaia series.

>>12006708
The three are completely different genres, I'd advise BS0 for some action though.
Now that I remember, 2 still hasn't been uploaded.

>>12006708
If you're ok with the shit art and kind of annoying sound quality, Oretsuba is definitely the best of those.

>>12006722
Coming from subahibi I'd say it's a bit overkill.

>>12006655
>Apparently there's neither 美鳥 nor 菱吾 route in hello lady
And it's dropped. I hate to be that cunt but I play games for the heroines.

Done with Tamao, pretty good, thought it'd be worse since she's the introduction route, but aside from 'it ends here, if you want more try in another two routes' ending, enjoyed it quite a bit, seems promising.

>>12006990
Your loss. Game is quite awesome for story alone.
Best protag ever.

>>12007047
I do like the protag so far but I am an impotent manchild when it comes to some characters I like having no routes and enforced playing order. Unless there is a fandisk and a reason for the playing order.

>>12007066
Don't worry, I've dropped VNs for similarly petty reasons.

>>12000768
Just because you're a pathetic loser who needs moeshit to stimulate not being a pathetic loser doesn't mean I can't enjoy VNs that aren't cliche-drive regurgitated moeshit.

>>12007125
both were faggets if the history was worth, in case of moege or weak plot whatever

>>12007151
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Jooubachi no oubou kaguya-hen has been uploaded in the bl general on /vg/ if anyone's interested in that sort of thing. Otome game, the three boys you can date are a do-s, do-m and a shota.

has a bit of a dark plot, for those that way inclined.

>>12007178
forgot to mention that it is in fact straight. the main girl is a cutie.

>>12005226
Dry vocabulary lists are terribly boring and not the most efficient.

>>12007235
Yeah, that's why you should do Core10k and not a vocabulary list.

Sure would be cool if there was already a thread up where people could talk about learning Japanese instead of shitting up other threads with it.

>>12007280
Calm yourself.

>>12007291
You calm yourself.

I feel kinda bad for people who have been here for years and have been tolerating these people who keep asking for ways to learn japanese or simple to read titles. I mean, it's seriously easy to search the archives to find methods recommended by other people. And if everything goes wrong, just study some grammar and learn the rest by playing VNs.

>>12007478
Of course, people who ask about Japanese language questions here are essentially beating a dead horse, especially now that there's that one image list. But the people who make posts declaring how the first group of people are idiots, lazy, etc. are a bigger problem from the perspective of someone who finds any post not about visual novels ever so slightly annoying.

And yes, this is one of those posts.

Goddamn, when are they goung to stop teasing and give me my damn Rita already.
Also, Eclair(?) is pretty samn cute, didn't expect that at all from GnK.

>>12007552
Aren't most females in IM super BBA given how ridiculously long the time scale is?

cytu
.be
/r/
WhenTheyCry

Was hoping to stream some Umineko playthrough (with voice-acting). Just playing music until some more people show up.

>>12007151
I'll propose a compromise: I'll allow you to enjoy the "non-cliche" VNs if you stop whining about the majority of the medium not suiting your tastes and stop using "moeshit" outside of /a/.

So can we all agree that Rosebleu is only good for their Dungeon series?

It's what...their 5th game now? I'm still loving it.

I would even complain about some individual omakes, but god, the banter on this harem route is perfect.

>>12007859

>>12007827
Yeah, honestly the only good think they did is the Dungeon series... man I love all the characters.

>>12007859
Oh how I missed Giza

>>12008143
>Aoi makes him go full M
Such a great cat.

>>12008143
Insulting Giza sama is unforgivable.

Just finished Sorako route. It was great, but wtf with this ending? Did I miss something or there's no conclusion at all after Sorako leaves church?

My god

What route is considered canon in Verita?
And even if Louie did succeed in putting Irina's soul in Ekuria, wouldn't it be something like Luna Clear, with a different personality?

>>12008392
Those faces really turn me off.

>>12008431
True history is called like that for a reason.
And for the later, you'll see in the dark route.

>>12008392
is that supposed to be scylla?

[ 2014/03/31 ] 皆さんにお知らせです。

bar

　春は出会いと別れの季節です。

　これまで長い間minoriを支えてくださった、庄名泉石さん、高崎まこさん、御影さんがそれぞれの希望を胸に独立されていくことになりました。
　“漫画やイラストの仕事に注力”、“文筆に注力”などなど、挙げれば理由は様々ですが、皆さん共通して「仕事の幅を広げたい」ということですので、今後もあらゆる場所でご活躍されていくことと思います。どこかでお見かけの際には、これまでと変わらぬご支援を賜りますようお願い申し上げます。

　また、minoriにも(まだお披露目できませんが！)新戦力が加入し、色々と着々準備をしております。皆様にご提示するにはもう少し時間はかかりますが、こちらもご期待頂ければ幸いです。

　それでは明日から新年度。
　これからもminoriとそして独立されるご三方をよろしくお願いいたします！

>>12008555
It's Alvida.

>>12008562
Is that an Eiyuu Senki original character? I'm not familiar with the name if it was mythical or historical figure

http://products.web-giga.com/baldr801/

It's that time of the year again.

>>12008590
http://inre-soft.com/index2.html

>>12008590
>>12008597
wow gay you could at least have put up a warning

http://www.makura-soft.com/sakuranouta/index.html

>>12008590
>Kou not with Eiji
I want my money back

>>12008609
I'm not sure if I completely like some of the new character art, but Rina is still best girl, so I'm happy. I hope it actually gets released.

>>12008613

At least this time we aren't so spoiled for choice like the last one. Long live bromance!

>>12008609
I'm going to be depressed when this turns out to be a joke.

Nine/Dual-tail having fun again this year.

>>12008609

http://www.project-navel.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEOdU_rizM

>>12008704
It would make for an amazing game.

>>12008588
Isn't Alvida the name of the evil witch from the little mermaid? Really shooting in the dark here.

>>12008588
>>12008724
Look up アルビダ on Jp Wiki.

>>12008733
Nice, thanks

http://frontwing.jp/product/mgm/index.html

http://speciumboys.jp/

The shit companies advertise for april fools' tends to be super interesting, shame they never happen.

>>12008781

That would be awesome.

>>12008781
As expected from the main heroine.

>>12008733
Looks like a popular character in Japan. She was also in Daiteikoku.

>>12008869
That's not Amane.

>>12008867
This one is actually probably

>>12008867
I guess it was a good call to still keep it in the backlog.

>>12008875
Vomit kiss confirms main heroine status.

>>12008891
Aside her va she doesn't have any other interesting point

>>12008724
That's Ursula.

>>12008871
Also in One Piece and PazuDora.

>>12008907
Can you name another eroge heroine who keeps vomiting through the whole game? Didn't think so!

But yeah, seriously speaking it seemed the writers didn't really know how to handle her apart from filling the useless dunce of the group / comedy relief role. I find it funny she still managed receive so much spotlight, even getting her unique ending song in Meikyuu and pregnancy epilogue in Rakuen.

>>12008948
Maybe she was the second favorite from the developers after Yumiko or something, Amane, Kaijitsu and Meikyuu, and Kazuki, Rakuen, always dominated the character polls and are the closest of main heroines the game had, especially the former, considering she had the last, cannon, scene too.

Is egs down or did they banned my ip and my six proxies?

>>12008987
It's up for me.

http://pcgameconquest.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-804.html

>>12009054
In the eushully one is that Will, kamidori, being Solomon?

>>12009065
No

>>12008609
>推奨動作環境
>Vista/7/8 Pentium4 4Ghz以上
Oh Scaji.

http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/
http://www.nitrochiral.com/
I'm getting used to ChiRal getting better than the main branch at this.

>>12009085
Well, one actually puts out the games it's expected to.