/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Noble Works - 53,589 / 57,690 (92.9%) lines translated, partial patch released
Nursery Rhyme - 8543/32977 lines translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - 246/268 scripts translated, 181/268 through TLC+Editing, 84/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 18647/30040 (62.07%) lines translated
SakuSaku - Common route + Konami route fully translated, 45160/49257 (92%) lines translated, 31858/49257 (65%) lines finalized, Konami + Mio route released
Starry Sky In Summer - 173/177 scripts translated
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 12/323 scripts translated
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete - 4282/35056 (15.7%) lines translated
White Album 2 - 8926/35275 (25.3%) lines of closing chapter translated
Witch's Garden - 36704/67201 (54.62%) lines translated, 2221/67201 (3.31%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited


Official work

JAST
>Shiny Days - Delayed until Sept 18th
Seinarukana- Fall release
Django - 1st half of 2016
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- translation about half done
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up
Flowers - Fall released planned
Sonicomi - Picked up

MangaGamer
>Asuka Final Chapter - Released
Euphoria - In beta
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, 85% of Watanagashi TL
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - In beta, demo released
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 55.4% translated
>Gahkthun - 100% translated, 45% edited
>OZMAFIA - 69.81% translated
>House in Fata Morgana - 72% translated
>Myth - 16.10% translated
>My Boss Wife is My Ex - 69% translated, 60% edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
>Supipara - Ch 1 76.8% translated, 57.71% edited
>Yurirei - 42% translated, 25% edited
Himawari - TL finished, 60% edited
>Beat Blades Haruka - 32.2% Translated
Sonohana RHWM - In scripting
Umineko - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - 15% translated
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up

Sekai/Denpa
>Grisaia trilogy - Both All Ages and 18+ version of the first game released
Clannad - 100% translated, mostly edited, 4Q 2015 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Fault Milestone 2 - Demo released
Kokonoe Kokoro - April release
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
G-Senjou - Summer release
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Root Double - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Nenokami - Picked up
Witch Boy - Picked up


Other
>Amnesia - Released
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter planned
Eiyuu Senki - Summer release
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - Kickstarter succeeded
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Norn9 - November 11th release
Code Realize - November 24th release

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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

What am supposed to gather from this? Some other group started a mahoutsukai translation prompting commie to finally begin edits on their translation that they denounced way back?

>>14021587
>Beat Blades Haruka - 32.2% Translated

Surprisingly fast.

>>14021598

The new project was announced on August 23rd. Herkz had a post on the VN page at Commie on August 17th that they had an editor making progress for about a month, but that hadn't been re-added to the list until this week.

Behold the power of bundles.

As always, post em' if you got em.

>>14021667
That has to be because of Indiegala and their own sale. Groupees would have only added 1370 currently.

>>14021667
Can you use more than one product code at a time on MG's site? Because that would explain the huge boost if you had to do one order per activated product.

I hope someone picks up Escalayer instead of more rance projects

>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated

Source ? Is it the guy who translated the preggo nukige ? Or McJon from Beast Lair ?

>>14021906
The preggo nukige guy. Basically he doesn't have much confidence in commie and started his own translation.

>>14021923
Well it's better than nothing since the commie translation is a fake troll project.
How is the quality of his translations ? I hope he's not into the machinetl conspiracy which already corrupted 3/4 of the projects listed on this thread.

Why do people even care about Grisaia still?
shit got old so fast

>>14021960
Loe, naturally

>>14021703
Yeah, you have to activate the games one by one

>>14021960
Low quality but definitely more readable than a machine TL.

>Gore Screaming Show - Prologue and day one patch released
Does anybody actually expect this to finish?

>>14021972
Because surprise! Not everyone holds your exact opinion. In fact most don't in this case since Grisaia is one of the most popular translated VNs.

>>14021727
If I had to guess, I'd say that is very likely for MG to eventually pick up Escalayer. I wouldn't mind this at all.

On another note, I've been reminded how Japan is amazing all over again because of a request someone made on MG forums - http://forums.mangagamer.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=588&start=180#p16235
I'm specifically talking about Henshin 3 and Change. I never heard of those VNs but their description is so ridiculous that I can only expect having a fantastic fapping experience with them.

>>14022509
The Himawari/Tokyo Babel translator gave Change glowing review.
https://vnrw.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/nukige-change-ano-ko-ni-natte-kunkun-peropero/
Hopefully that will happen at some point.

>>14022516
>will turn your fapping experience into something akin to a Monty Python sketch, and some of the most interesting heroines you will ever find in an eroge — one almost talks like a character straight from Dies Irae
Well, I know what I'll be reading next

>>14022509
>I'm specifically talking about Henshin 3 and Change. I never heard of those VNs

You might as well post
>hello, i am 14 and new and i have never seen any internet before

>>14022624
Please don't bully :(

>>14022701
Sorry :(

>>14022509
So, in Otome Switch the girls for some reason have vibrator under their panties. I wonder what reason could it be...

>>14021972
The common route was pretty dull and nobody really explained why a big-ass, fancy school only had a handful of students except to say dad got angry at his daughter and wanted to keep her in. Thing was, she could pretty much leave whenever she wanted. Same as all the other students.

Dovac, bastad, stop DDOSing erogedownload.

>>14022864
The common route was the best part of it.

>>14022921
Maybe it's being overloaded by all the people checking if the Sekai release of Grisaia is up yet. Honestly, it's the same as the fan TL so they should've just downloaded and played that version already.

>>14022982
No it's not.

It has a shitload more bugs.

>>14022982
>it's the same as the fan TL
They work on this shit almost year. Something MUST be better.

>>14022988
>It has a shitload more bugs.

The fan TL is actually better? That's hilarious, people paying a premium for a version of a game that's more buggy than the fan TL. What kind of issues have you run into with it, I thought Doddler said they were all supposed to have been fixed.

Umineko has no progress? No editing? I mean what is left for them to do except add in the pachinko graphics?

>>14023022
Some minor translation corrections and minor editing, but the editor is Herkz, so maybe he just added more memes.

Most of the work involved porting the game, so it created bugs that weren't in the fan TL that just modified the original engine.

>>14023030
Well, I think the official version natively works on English OSes, but yes, it's buggier.

>>14022921
The admin just uploaded Amnesia, so the otome fan traffic likely crashed the site.

>>14022864
Common route was the only part worth reading.

Eh, I prefer it a little wider.

>>14024136
Tilt it horizontally, then.

>>14024208
I'd rather she be turned 180 degrees so she can be Aussie.

>>14024208
He might not want a planking waifu.

>>14024234
Since you're sitting to the left of your mousepad, having it sit horizontally means it will be upright from the angle you look at it. So it is the optimal ways of viewing your waifu.

Can anyone vouch for Maria's translation quality? I'm a little concerned by how fast she's moving, she might be rushing it and causing the translation to suffer.

>>14024297
Widenyo was really shittily translated the first patch they released, and she's said that was all her fault.

>>14024310
Uh oh.

>>14024297
This is her pet VN so presumably, she would do a good job. Although, it doesn't hurt if she looks over her translation once or twice.

Who was the Rance translator that finished a patch and then went berserk and admitted they had brain damage? Arunaru?

>>14024331
Didn't this happen to a Fruitbat translator too?

>>14024331
It was Ludo and he didnt finish any patch.

>>14024331
That was Ludo, who may have never released anything. Everything he claimed to translate was full of basic errors, typos, and things indicating copy/paste out of machine TL, like Japanese punctuation all over the place. However, other people, like Maria, fell on their swords for him, saying that any problems that existed were their fault and Ludo was actually great.

Eventually, Aru called him out on something and he threw a fit, claiming he had all kinds of mental problems and severe chronic amnesia so couldn't remember why he translated things (very wrongly) the way he did, and disappeared.

>>14024297
She seems really enthusiastic about the project and Kindred Spirits isn't a particularly long game, so it's not that surprising. Aru's progress on Haruka on the other hand is really quite surprising. He's probably hammering it out so he can move on to a project he wants to work on.

>>14024362
Eh? What possible benefit could Maria have gotten out of being so nice to a machine translator?

>>14024379

>>14024362
It's funny because even Aru used to suck Ludo's dick.
https://archive.moe/jp/thread/10980799/#q10984251

>>14024383
He was the /rance/ tripfag god, who claimed to translate 25% of Rance VI in one week and (mis)translated a bunch of infographics for them. They worshiped him, including her. I would honestly bet more on him having shitted Widenyo up and her claiming it was her fault to protect him than her having fucked things up herself that badly, but the fact still is that she claimed responsibility for putting out something that looked like this.

>>14024362
Why would they risk their own reputations for a guy who couldn't even translate basic things? Unless he was super popular with the fandom or something.

>>14024405
This happened again with Little Princess. He claimed to be the main translator, a bunch of errors were found, then someone else stepped up and said that they just happened to translate or mishack all the parts where the errors were.

>>14024413
The whole alicesoft general on /vg/ practically worshiped him.

>>14024428
Good thing /jp/ hates those nerds.

>>14024379
Haruka is literally about 80-90% porn. It's long as far as nukige go, but probably a quarter of it is moans and squelching noises alone.

>>14024428
Why, though?

>>14024436
Everyone they worship ends up lying and screwing them while saying it's for their own good, so they're more like battered wives.

>>14024444
EOPs don't care about quality or accuracy.

>>14024379
He just wants to get Haruka over and done with so he can do Rance VI

>>14024455
Yes, but what did this guy do to impress them in the first place?

>>14024468
Just by "translating" alone, you are their god.

>>14024468
He mistranslated a bunch of infographics and claimed to have translated 30,000 lines of Rance VI in about two weeks.

>>14024472
You don't even need to actually translate. Look at Futsuu. You can just claim to translate, then say your harddrive ate it or it's not up to your standards, and bask in a few years worth of e-dick.

>>14024484
Futsuu's the worst. He also claimed to be the translator on a bunch of anime when if you look at the subs, they were all just Crunchyroll edits.

>>14024498
>they were all just Crunchyroll edits

That's pretty funny since CR has also been know to mistranslate. Did he just edit for readability or did he actually edit the part they got wrong?

>>14024509
Technically neither. He just kind of made random edits here and there so that it would look slightly different, like how Commie basically uses the exact same translation as CR but tosses in some memes. But it was still obvious that it was the CR translation.

In fact, Futsuu has even "translated" for Commie himself, so he's partly responsible for that.

>>14024484

That's not even the worst, Moogy wins that category. The last thing he did was.....? Don't forget he didn't actually do much TL on most of the 'projects' he worked on, but he's more than happy to throw his former TL under the bus.

>>14024542
That's one tl worship that I never understood. I mean he straight out says that Japanese is special and translating it is impossible.

Hey guys, Licker here. I'm translating Kajiri Kamui Kagura. Ask me whatever you want to know.

>>14024603
Samples of your work?

>>14024613
Sorry, my hard drive ate them. They weren't up to my standards anyway.

>>14024498
>>14024534
Examples?

All that qa and this is what you get
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3irgau/the_fruit_of_grisaia_unrated_edition_is_now/cukku4l

https://twitter.com/Conjueror/status/637985977500209157
>Himawari (+side stories) has 457k words versus LOTR trilogy's 455k
Looking forward to spend many hours on Himawari.

Also, apparently Cafe is having fun
https://twitter.com/CafeDX/status/637848006642024448
>I can't believe I'm referencing Varg Vikernes's site for some of the Norse mythology stuff in #mg_myth

>>14025367
It's worth noting that translation of Himawari side-stories is done and they're in editing.

>>14025301
Off the top of my head, Kyoukai no Kanata for UTW and Tokyo Ravens for gg (this one was especially bad because it's one of the ones where they just stuck in memes).

>>14025305
I find it hilariously apt that the link says "cuck".

>>14025367
What's this about Aoiro Rinne image editing? Is there a translation project going on?

Apparently Aroduc's translating Akatsukaze.

Apparently Akatsukaze's translating Aroduc.

>>14026043
Why would it be doing that?

>>14026087
Because he is difficult to understand. He needs to be made more apparent.

>>14026115
>He needs to be made more apparent.
Are you offering to mother his child?

What even happened to TLWiki? It used to be this place where pretty much everyone went to host their translations so there was a bunch of random stuff there. Just today I found that someone was apparently using for something called "Kono Mama ja, Ane to SEX Shite Shimau!?" which never really went anywhere. Now nobody hosts any new projects there anymore, and the few that are left are practically dead. Hell, Subarashiki Hibi may be the only project that's been active on TLWiki in the past few years, and that's going to end soon. Who knows if we'll ever see another one from that site.

So what gives? People just prefer to use their own sites? Or rather, a Wordpress? Was it a problem with the administration, or what? Because TLWiki still seems pretty convenient. I have heard Dovac used to run it, though.

>>14026144
Because all the fantranslators have gone corporate or are Fuwafucks.

>>14026123
Yeah, fuck that guy.

Are the flat chests the villains in Boob Wars or can you choose a side? This is important.

>>14026345
No and no.

>>14026351
I don't know whether that is more or less promising than expected.

>>14026345
You an choose a side.

Any VNs where there's a route for an old lady? I'm talking grandma tier.

>>14026345
You made me want to play Boob Wars 2. I fapped to 1 quite a bit.

>>14026423
You have such nonexistent standards.

>>14026426
Yeah, I know. I sometimes fap to anime fanservice. There don't even have to be nipples.

>>14026423
I actually brought it up because I just noticed there was more than one of them. But I'm confused about whether it's an actual sequel or an updated version.

>>14026435
Wrong thread, you inbred sack of shit. Spend 5 seconds looking at VNDB or the game's official page. Now throw a temper tantrum because I wasn't being nice and embracing your helpless stupidity.

>>14026428
So you're the kind of person that stuff exists for. Well, at least now I know there's actually a point to it. I'd never met such a person before.

>>14026443
You must not come to these threads often then. You know most of the green stuff, that's actually progressing, is nukige, right?

>>14026442
>Now throw a temper tantrum

Ironic much?

>>14026451
I meant anime fanservice, since that was what he was talking about in the post, not actual sex and such. Masturbating to nukige is understandable, even if I don't do it. Instead, I masturbate to people getting mad on /jp/.

>>14026435
>But I'm confused about whether it's an actual sequel or an updated version.

It's neither really. It's just bigger game with the same concept.

>>14026459
Try non-fap for a few days and you will fap to a pantyshot in a mahou shoujo anime.

The scene is ded.
Twitter is also ded.

>>14025989
Yes, there has been one for quite some time.

>>14026465
I actually have an abnormal amount of self-restraint and have gone years at a time without doing it, like a monk. But you don't wanna be in the way when my laser goes off.

>>14026469
Fuck. I was just looking through the thread and thinking "I wonder why that guy hasn't appeared yet." I must have summoned you on accident.

>>14026508
It's been almost two years of weekly dose. You would be lonely, wouldn't you?

Remember how Baldr's Sky's being translated but nobody cared?

>>14026737
There wouldn't be people getting angry at you and so I wouldn't be able to masturbate.

>>14027143
Fuck off, Ixrec.

Apparently Licker's translating Aiyoku no Eustia.

>>14027143
It's not getting translated.

>>14027194
Of course it's not.

>>14027202
*wink* *wink*

>>14026345
You can either pick a side, or aim for boob equality.

>>14027235
You're not in the inner circle.

>>14027253
Perhaps not, but YOU'RE not on the secret council.

>>14025367
VNDB says 30 - 50 hours so it's long but not that long.

It's shit, right?

Also wow that's a quick turnaround for a sale on freefriends, I wonder if it didn't sell quite so great.

>>14027329

That's not Free Friends

>>14027341

Please disregard me, I appear to have suffered temporary retardation

>>14027328
I mean, that's about how long it'd take me to read the LotR trilogy, so the word count seems apt. That's a satisfying amount of reading.

>>14027329
I feel sorry for those girls in Orion Heart. They do not look happy to be in that situation at all.

>>14026411
Chichi Miko had the protagonist's grandmother as a romance option.

What the fuck is The Asenheim Project?

>>14027448
She does not look very old at all. I want one that actually LOOKS old, not this cop-out nonsense.

>>14027329
Can some please write a game review? There is only so many times I want to read how eden* made them cry.

>>14027550
Ask Conjueror, he reviews everything.

>>14027553
Are people who work for MG allowed to write reviews on there?

>>14027561
Technically he just freelances, so he can say whatever he wants as long as he clarifies that his opinions aren't MangaGamer's. He would write it on his wordpress though.

>>14024405

>https://archive.moe/jp/thread/10980799/#q10984251

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt there because I didn't really know. When he started managing this website for Rance lore and shit that he just tried to translate from the Japanese Rance wiki is when it started becoming apparent that something was up, since I hadn't really paid attention to what was going on with Rance VI and Widenyo before that. Also that Toushin Toshi translation is bad and I hardly knew what I was doing then, so my past opinions should be disregarded.

>>14027707
It's okay, if you translate Toushin Toshi 3 all will be forgiven.

>>14027143
Baldr Sky is always being translated by someone, somewhere. It doesn't mean shit until there are results.

>>14024297
Seems like she saw this discussion: https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/638200497346744320

To be fair, if the KnS2 demo is any indication she is perfectly capable. The main limiting factor on translations is time available, these people don't do this as a full time job. The more free time a translator has for this, the faster they translate. Speedy translation doesn't necessarily mean that it's a rushed or sloppy one.

>>14024405
I notice that old thread mentions a Shingakkou translation project starting up. Guessing that went nowhere considering it's two years later and there's no sign of it. A shame, since I've heard that's pretty good.

Also I somehow remember specific posts from that thread even though it's so old. I've been coming here for far too long.

>G-Senjou - Summer release


We're out of summer. Or are they permanently extending summer to September 18?

>>14027917
Well, as far as I'm concerned, summer lasts all the way until the end of October, because that's how long it stays fucking hot around here. I hate this place in summer.

How come this thread constantly leaves out translations because they're from Fuwanovel, but then later includes them anyway? I was just noticing the Akatsuki no Goei translation which was never mentioned here, and I saw it. This thread includes tons of machine translations anyway so if that's the so-called reason then I don't think that's actually a reason for the reason. Does this guy just pick and choose games based on whether or not he likes them?

>>14027961
Seems like the op chooses exclude projects that only have a thread on fuwanovel and no other source of information. At least, that's what I've worked out his arbitrary criteria to be.

Motherfucking Kotomine Kirei up in this bitch.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/638191844669587456
>Up today: Adding features every game has, that almost no one uses.

I wonder what features are the hardest/most time consuming to implement. I hate it when VNs don't have:
Cut voice line when advancing the text on/off option
Option to make right click hide the text window (especially for nukige)
Voice reply button (backlog too!)
Gallery for unlocked CGs

A whole bunch more are on the "nice to have" tier like a window transparency slider, separate volume sliders for BGM/SFX and each voiced character.

>>14028646
I would say all of the ones you listed are used very often.

August release they said.

>>14028646
He should add:

1. Autohide mouse. I hate seeing it in the corner.
2. Easy way to make screenshots.

>>14027550
Somebody wrote a DMC review. Thanks, dude!

Oh shit
http://forums.mangagamer.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=706#p16261
>I'm a translator that started translating one of Navel's masterpieces "Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou" I have experience as a translator as i done over 9000+ lines idk if they sound much to you or not but my real question is to ask you if you're planning to localize this game or not, so i can finish translating this. I didn't translate that much yet on this i'm just almost at the end of the prologue, so i wish to know if you're planning to do anything about this game.

>>14028814
And what they meant was "Someday, Eustia will be released in English."

>>14029145
Does Mangagamer even have any Navel games? A cursory glance says no. If not, I don't know why that guy went on their forums. His English is even worse than mine.

>>14029188
Never mind. They actually have quite a few. I don't know why I missed it the first time I looked.

>>14029145
God save us all.

>>14029188
>>14029203
What an awful cursory glance. Shuffle is a pretty well known game so I'm not sure how you were unaware of that. That's why everyone's always talking about MG doing Tsuriotsu, they have a good partnership with Navel and that one is kind of a big deal. But I think 5pb is cockblocking them or something.

>>14029145
I wonder if he has literally done 9000+ lines or if he is just using the meme. Well, this is good, because even if nothing comes of this translation it will get more people talking about it and MangaGamer might eventually pick it up.

>>14027329
Thank you. I could have missed it since it is one of those darned stupid single day sales with the goal to "not sell more than a few".

>>14029302
It's not Free Friends.

>>14028646
In this case, I was referring to individual voice volume controls for all 44 characters. Who will make use of such a thing in a game where shrill voice characters don't exist?

At very least, all of those features you mentioned are in the game already, so that's a plus.

>>14029145
You missed the best part
>Thank you for you're time and please contact me at kirito.cyprus97@gmail.com for an answer or any questions

>>14029347
I'd use it on the ones with slow, tedious voices, like Ruriko. Ugh, Ruriko. What a horrible voice.

>>14029347
But will there be snow?

>>14029347
While I guess it's more a band-aid around the original issues, but I use them when certain character's voices are too quiet/loud (often in low budget moege) not just if there's an annoying voice.

But yeah, I can see in KnS2's case it's probably not going to be very useful. Time might be better spent making more realistic snow shaders (there will be snow, right?).

>>14029345
I don't care. I'm playing pretend democracy. Paying taxes and voting on what I want them to focus more on.

Which is not tentacle rape trash.

>>14029404
>But will there be snow?
>(there will be snow, right?)

According to the demo, there's snow but it's static. Hehe, static snow.

sekai must be desperate for sales on grisaia putting it 50% off already

>>14029217
What fan translator would ever ask? This could just be a ploy to see if MG has any plans to work on it. They're busy at the moment though, so obviously they'll just say "not at this time."

>>14029302
It said right on the back to school sale page that there was going to be a flash sale on 8/31. How did you miss that?

>>14029751
>He doesn't believe in kirito.cyprus

Why did Harry Potter emigrate to school for disabled in Japan ?

>>14029675
It's likely a promotional sale since they just released the 18+ edition.

>>14029675
Are you new to Steam?

>>14029675
They want people to accidentally buy all-ages, then realize the 18+ was released and double charge them.

>>14029763
I have seen it, that doesn't mean I'll remember it or that I frequent the page every day.

Can someone explain to me why some guys are trying to get localization companies to price equally both adult and all ages versions of a VN when a Steam release exists?
I find this concept ridiculous because by using it, you're pretty much saying that the adult version isn't worth any value.

MG and JAST price the adult version higher than the all ages. SP and some OELVN devs are pricing equally the two versions.

I really don't want to see this eventually being a thing with all releases with both an adult and all ages version.

>>14029984
Steam is good for sales but not good for the fandom. All it does is encourage the bottom of the barrel "fans" to give the world their 2 cents.

>>14029984
So if you had the choice to pay $40 or $50 for the same VN you would choose to pay 50 just because?

>>14030051
>So if you had the choice to pay $40 or $50 for the same VN you would choose to pay 50 just because?
It's this retarded line of reasoning that makes people do these kinds of statements. It only shows how ignorant you are.

>>14029984
A few reasons.

First is that the difference between all-ages and 18+ is usually just a patch. It is like asking why doesn't it cost 25 dollars each time WoW patches their servers? (Except you know, you can't ask them not to patch your game)

Another reason is when you talk about what the point of the game is. If you want to claim it is story based (and valid to make all-ages version of), then you admit the 18+ content is just trivial extras that are not necessary. If it is just small stuff, then the extra cost should also be small. A dollar or two perhaps, since it is less than 1% extra content.

So no, it is not that the adult version has no value, it is that the all-ages has 99% the value of an adult version. I'd be quite fine with them charging the same for all-ages as 18+ games, and made a killing. But they somehow admit normal games have to price match competition, while 18+ games are above game rules and can be priced at any level because "We'll just blame piracy for bad sales".

Prudes pay less because they get less.

>>14029984
The core audience of a niche product can be relied upon to pay a higher price, where as a marketplace with a much higher pool of potential customers such as steam but with far less interest or dedication to the medium requires a lower barrier of entry. The all ages/adult barrier happens to be a convenient place to draw the line, as the adult version can be seen as purchasing additional content.

>>14030076
It depends on how you view it of course. In a company driven world, it makes sense to view each scene in the 18+ game to be worth 10 dollars each and to run a DLC campaign.

In a customer driven world, the whole thing should be included to begin with, without charging extras for every single detail. For them, DLCs are just cash grabs.

>>14030076
The problem here is that the core audience for visual novels has been trained to pirate and if you piss them off with the pricing, that's exactly what they will do.

>>14030061
What's so retarded about it?

The thing is that if MG or Jast just halved the price of all of their games, I doubt they would see twice the number of sales over the long run to make up for it. There just aren't enough people visiting their sites and actively looking for those products.

Steam is a different beast altogether. Consider that Sakura Spirit, Nekopara vol 1, and Go Go Nippon are the most widely owned and played visual novels on the platform, each exceeding 100,000 copies. I imagine those sales exceeds the sales of any comparable adult release by a factor of somewhere between 10x to 100x. You really have to consider them separate markets with separate rules, and with it, separate pricing.

>>14029984
>>14030114
You got the words out of my mouth. Those are pretty much my thoughts on this matter.

>>14029902
You could just refund the game from Steam if you made that mistake.

Order number guy here. There's one more. I didn't get it from a bundle.
Got Inventions of the Sexy Era. This is a fun nukige.

2015-09-01 - 075942

>>14030155
I can't help but be impressed with myself. There was actually a time when I didn't care about supporting the industry. Look at me now ahah

>>14030171
get out kouryuu

>>14030182
>not supporting our lord and saviour

>>14030114
While halving price probably does not double sales, doubling the price probably doesn't halve the sales either. So they should be charging 80 dollars each like in Japan.

>>14030253
I'm pretty sure it would do worse than halve sales at that price.

>>14030076
Except that many people at least claim to oppose censorship as a principle and refuse to buy a product they believe is missing content. They also refuse to spend more and some won't buy anything not available on Steam, so they're loosing sales.

>>14030265
Not really. I played Scarlet Blade a short period of time. They used a cash shop where simply buying one revealing costume cost you 200 dollars, a new one each weekend. And the staff claimed loudly that it was fair pricing that made them good profit.

Sure it is a tiny difference between selling a digital skin and a translated VN, but my point is that there apparently are enough people out there willing to pay 200 dollars PER WEEK for lewdness. 80 for an entire VN in a month would just be spare change.

>>14029675
I wonder how backers and day one buyers feel about this.

>>14030155
I just had a dream about this game for some reason. In it, I told someone about the multiple penises and he was like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Which is more or less my reaction so I wonder why that wasn't me.

>>14029675
It gets even better. The 18+ version is now 25% off. Meaning that people who buy it now are getting it $10 cheaper than the backers and that version only came out 3 days ago.

To keep early buyers happy, they can contact denpa and request a coupon for 25% off future purchases from them. I'm sure there's a limit.

>>14030508
That's weird. I just had a dream where someone told me about the multiple penises and I scramed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and woke up.

>>14030304
Are you serious? I've seen insane MMO prices, but never that insane. Did they ever eventually back off or is it so successful that they're still doing it?

These had better be some damn good costumes, though I doubt anything could possibly be $200 good. It'd have to come with a free lobster.

>>14030524
Wow, it wasn't 25% off a few hours ago. Glad I didn't buy it too fast.

>>14030545
Clearly this means we are destined lovers. United by penises.

>>14030581
Why even buy it? You can get that for free.

If you're going to spend money, buy from MG.

>>14030576
Yea, I double checked now. Still need to pay 200 dollars to get a skin.

Also you could pay2win 90 dollars for a necklace with stats.

And they've been running with this for over a year, so it must be some people frequently buying every week.

>>14030588
Politics. If I don't buy it, Dovac will be all "See, 18+ games can't sell, we'll only do all-ages steam titles".

But I really would like a limited edition hard copy from the store though. I guess they didn't kickstart hard enough for good things.

>>14030598
I'll think about it during their Christmas sale. I wish more companies would get on board with going DRM free. Have any other games or brands been added to that list?

>>14030608
JAST has already done that and years ago.

>>14030605
I'm not sure you know what politics are. Well, now we see why Dovac makes money so easily. As long as you have money to spare I guess it's not a big deal, not like you're paying for a bad translation considering it's Grisaia. Probably one of the few good things to pay SP for.

>>14030605
Now Dovac will be all "See, games with existing fan translations can sell, lets keep doing them."

Damn, I'm sure I recognize this KiritoCy from somewhere. Like, I'm not saying this to draw attention to some nobody, I'm pretty sure I saw someone with that name doing something else of note in the VN community, but I can't remember what. So he seems like the kind of guy that will stick around, whoever he is.

Well, at least he has great taste in anime, since this is in his favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rg3mIZL-Q

>>14030696
The only winning move is not to play, then.

>>14030736
Well, no, it's not that strange of a game. You can still play - rather, the only winning move is not to pay.

>>14030748
Well it seems I fucking won then!
Who's the man? I am!

>>14030304
This doesn't prove anything because you can't compare the profits to the profits that would be made if the same products were $100, $50, etc.

So. On one hand, if today ends without the patch being released, they will have lied. On the other hand, The Phantom Pain will be out, so it's not like anyone will have time for Subahibi for a few weeks, because that is an absolutely massive game.

>>14030696
I much rather have dovac releasing already existing fan-translations than having him ruining translations for new projects

>>14030703
He contributed to the Noble Works translation but I'm pretty sure their main translator went back and redid those parts.

>>14030775
>The Phantom Pain will be out
This reminds me that a few months ago I bought a MGS collection with the first four games for PS3 (before buying it, I actually never played MGS), played a bit of the first but kind of lost enthusiasm. I need to see if I get back on it and finish all games.

>>14030779
Lemnisca will be working on Root Double if the kickstarter succeeds. I guess it's an issue if he bothered to get a competent translator for the games you're interested in.

>>14030788
It definitely takes a certain mindset, but the amount of depth to the setting is truly impressive. It's also a pretty cinematic experience. And then they went ahead and made Metal Gear Rising for people who want an action game. I wish they had a PC version for MGS4 though.

>>14030794
>I guess it's an issue if he bothered to get a competent translator for the games you're interested in.
But anon, that wouldn't be an issue because we'd at least know the translator working on the project knows what he's doing.

On another note, another fucking Sakura game is on Greenlight. The thing is, as you can see on Steamspy ( http://steamspy.com/dev/Winged+Cloud ), those games have been selling less and less. This leads me to believe that these games are starting to cause saturation on the Steam audience and on a whole it'll also affect actually good VNs released through it. Some interesting comments were tweeted recently (let's forget the pic doddler tweeted):
>steam interest is dropping fast with every new game. Unfortunately, that's affecting ALL steam vn releases.
>why bother making a good game when you can just slap some tits on anything and people will buy it anyway?
>I'm guessing it's also not doing wonders for the general image people have of VNs.
>So when something genuinely good gets put on Steam, people may view it with more skepticism and such.
>steam interest is dropping fast with every new game. Unfortunately, that's affecting ALL steam vn releases.

>>14030775
Eyes open, Boss.

>>14030847
VNs have been somewhat of a fad on Steam. Now that people have begun to have their fill, how many have really become vn fans?

If sales keep decreasing, this might have a very negative impact when Da Capo 3 finally releases, since the decision to do it was when Steam sales were still high.

>>14030847
Thank god people are waking up to that Sakura garbage. I found it amazing that people didn't drop that shit by the second game. I don't think they ever finished that kickstarter game either. Did anybody believe them when they blamed the VAs for the delay? Damn hilarious.

>>14030847
Just noticed that I didn't post the twitter link. Here it is:
https://twitter.com/_garejei/status/633393503997968385

>>14030866
Apparently they haven't awakened quite yet because they're making 8k for month on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wingedcloud?ty=h

>>14030847
Damn, they're back to the old artist. I actually liked the Sakura Beach one. What a waste, too, I like school swimsuits but these don't even have their names in hiragana. That's the whole appeal. Oh well, I've still got Dead or Alive.

I played Sakura Beach as my first Sakura game, and while I wouldn't describe it as an outright bad game (maybe I'm just too nice, but I found the experience pleasant), I can't deny that it's obviously not doing wonders for the public image of visual novels. So it makes me really hate Dovac and Winged Cloud for dragging VNs as a whole through the mud just to make a quick buck. Especially with SP's hate for 18+ games even though these Sakura games are goofy fanservice games that toe the line anyway.

I just hope one of MG's releases is able to save VNs on Steam before it's too late. Evangile looked like it was a good start, but we need more than that. If you remember that Reddit comment, Dovac even straight up said he intended to ruin visual novels in the west, so we're basically fighting a war here, and the question is which castle will crumble first. It's not like we need mainstream appeal, exactly, but we need enough of a core audience that it's viable to keep releasing VNs on Steam because they keep making enough money to keep us going.

>>14030877
I presume they're using multiple artists now because producing the art is probably the bottleneck to shitting out these titles as fast as possible.

>>14030876
lol, what the fuck? On one hand, that's sad but on the other hand, most of the people who use patreon are stupid idiots. I mean they were fairly successful with their games, why do you even need to give them more?

>>14030865
Why doesn't MangaGamer just release Da Capo 1 and 2 on Steam while they still can? The games are translated, they have all ages versions, and people will feel more "prepared" for DC3. What's to lose?

>>14030894
Da Capo 1's translation is pretty shit though...

>>14030894
Probably need to ask the dev or something.

>>14030865
Huh, Da Capo 3 was announced in Summer 2013 before much of any VNs were even on Steam. The Go Go Nippon boom wasn't even a thought at the time.

>>14030905
Even if Steam sales being high actually did have anything to do with it, just how many people could they reasonably expect to buy a $50 VN? I really don't think that's the reason. They're doing it because it's Da Capo, which already has an audience. They're selling it to the existing fans who already love Da Capo and are willing to drop that much money on it.

>>14021587
>Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
Now that Overdrive is dead, will Mangagamer-translates-everything-Overdrive shift to Mangagamer-translates-everything-LevoL? Or are the ties to the corpse of the former parent company gone now?

>>14030897
Oh no! I guess they can't put it on Steam then, since nobody has ever put a game with a bad translation on Steam. Curse you, Gaben, you've foiled us again!

>>14030605
The LE hardcopies are all-ages and backers only. There may be plans in the future for an 18+ physical copy but I wouldn't bank on it based on how shit has gone so far.

>>14030921
They won't even put the all-ages version of Kira Kira that they already have licensed up on Steam, since its translation is not up to their current standards.

>>14030932
Have they actually said that's why they haven't done it?

>>14030916
Speaking of Bokuten, that is taking a long fucking time. Is it just a huge game, or not a high priority?

>>14030938
Yes. Kouryuu said so on his ask.fm a long time ago.

>>14030905
I keep forgetting how long that game's been in translation. Greenlight started back in 2012, so at the very least they probably planned from the beginning to put it on Steam.

Thing is, they didn't expect Da Capo 3 to take nearly as much time as it's taking. See pic.

>>14030932
>>14030951
This is no time to have standards. Sekai Project is making sure to continue to ruin visual novels for us. We need to put as many on Steam as possible, no questions asked.

>>14030942
Translator worked on eden* and now on Supipara. I was under the impression he worked on Remembering how we met but I don't find anything to confirm it.

>>14030956
Who is that in Kouryuu's avatar?

>>14030956
Is translating a part-time job or a full-time job for him? I find it really odd that he hasn't finished in 2 years. Currently, it's only half done. Is this shit going to take 4 years?

>>14030970
I was wondering the same thing. I could understand it if he had other priorities, but I thought Kouryuu was like, THE MangaGamer dude and someone for whom this is a full time job, not a freelancer. Well, I assume that means he has a lot to do related to running the company, but still. Hopefully he's focusing hard and will actually be able to get the rest done more quickly.

>>14030942
It's not a particularly long game. It's also considered by many to not be a very good one either. It's definitely not one of their priorities at the moment.

>>14030981
Weird that they even announced it in the first place.

>>14030970
He does other translation work on the side, or at least used to. He translated the Da Capo 3 anime for Crunchyroll.

>>14030988
OVERDRIVE was one of their most supportive partners. It has a solid fanbase among MG's customers as well, but this particular title is so much different from the rest of their catalog. MG trying to pitch it as being in a series with Kira Kira and DEARDROPS is very misleading.

>>14030990

I think he still does stuff for them. I remember him tweeting about having translated the airing Prisma Illya season.

>>14030988
OVERDRIVE was one of their most supportive partners. OVERDRIVE also has a solid fanbase among MG's customers as well, but this particular title is so much different from the rest of ODs catalog. MG trying to pitch it as being in a series with Kira Kira and DEARDROPS is very misleading.

>>14031013
Did they really actually describe it as part of a series? I hadn't seen that.

>>14031013
They did that at one of their panels this summer.

>>14031024
It has musical themes so they were at least trying to put it in the same category.

Here's what one user wrote after playing Bokuten.
>The first 6 chapters where he is forced to observe and influence the outcome of other people's romance are very standard stories you can find almost anywhere (except chapter 6, which has an extremely messed up ending, and which is a complete outlier from the rest of the VN...but it's also nonetheless cookie-cutter from the genre they borrowed it from).

>The endings of these chapters are realistic--the kind of depressing and bland realism you find in real life. The message here: "Love does not overcome everything. It is quite easily stopped by the most trivial of circumstances."
>Physical distance, obligation to one's family, the fear of losing a friendship, societal norms, non-reciprocation, physical incompatibility: all of these easily get in the way of the romantic relationships presented.

https://vndb.org/t3803

>>14031099
That second quote sounds like a positive thing, though. Though I hate to use the word, it would be more generic to go the other way with it, if anything.

I don't mind if I've seen a story before. There's more to whether or not I enjoy something than that.

>>14031145
It's a zero win scenario. No matter what you choose and which route you enter, even the true one, bittersweet is the best you can hope for. And some of the plot devices were just moronic, such as the sister of a girl the protag can pursue opposes their relationship and later feels bad for doing so, but instead of just apologizing, she commits suicide by jumping to her death.

>>14031167
My life is a zero win scenario with moronic plot devices. I'm used to it.

Also people killing themselves for stupid reasons happens in real life too so I think that's understandable, even if it's kind of a serious overreaction. But one time I dropped a remote and started swinging a candle stand around like a baseball bat and destroying stuff, so.

>>14030847
This is pretty much what I said would happen when any old trash started being able to make it on to steam. That well is pretty thoroughly poisoned.

>>14031247
http://store.steampowered.com/app/389230/

Look at this game's trailer. I felt like I had taken LSD.

Running out of time, Herkz...

>>14031549
IT'S OUT! And by it I mean MGSV, not Subahibi. Sorry.

Yes!! So excited to see a new Sakura game! It's by far my favorite series :D They have great art style, great stories, and that little touch of magic that makes me smile when I play through.

>>14031689
Yes!! So excited to see a new Metal Gear game! It's by far my favorite series :D They have great art style, great stories, and that little touch of magic that makes me smile when I play through.

>>14031846
Ha, it's so true.

https://twitter.com/mangagamer/status/638614634518327296

>>14032426
What, how did they manage to do that? Because there's no dicks?

>>14032426
That actually is exciting news.

>>14032426

What. How? I can only assume it isn't terrible explicit in the first place.

>>14032491
It's explicit enough that this is an exceptionally big deal. Best part is it's a big "fuck you" to Sekai Project and their prudishness. Now people will be able to point to Yurirei and ask them why they can't do that.

>>14032515
Yeah. The best thing about this is that it sets a precedent, so to speak.

>>14032437
>>14032491
>>14032515
According to Moogy, they can get away with it because there are no mosaics in it and the most visual porn in the H-scenes is breasts.

It's less explicit than the Witcher

>>14032549
Your mom's less explicit than the Witcher.

>>14032426
If they can put that uncut on Steam, not a huge stretch to think that Gahkthun might have a chance as well.

>>14032541
There are no genitals in the H-scenes. We already are allowed to have sex scenes and breasts depicted in games, just look at The Witcher 3 or GTA V. And Huniepop already showed that Steam would allow lewd CG with breasts showing.

http://g.e-hentai.org/g/477216/07bc71dcf8/

The main difference between Huniepop, this, and actual H-scenes are genitals being showed.

>>14032541
What the fuck is Moogy doing up at this hour of the night? Does he even have a life?

>>14032562
Next up on Steam: Oiran Rouge.

>>14032568
He just got done banging his gf and when you run your own business that earns you a six figure salary you don't have to stick to wageslave hours.

>>14032564
The question I have now is, how in depth does the writing go about it? Do they still describe it in explicit detail? If so, I'm really starting to suspect they could get away with other sex scenes if they just replace the offending CGs with text on a black background.

>>14032570
Pbbt. Implying Moogy has a girlfriend or a business.

>>14032588
I know because I am his girlfriend.

>>14032592
Liar. Moogy obviously has a cute trap boyfriend, not a girlfriend.

>>14032593
From what I've heard, Moogy's boyfriend is Ixrec. Supposedly, "Sheeta" is just another one of the names Moogy goes by.

>>14032562
>not a huge stretch to think that Gahkthun might have a chance as well.
Please this.

>>14032910
Considering they announced it for a game that is ages away and not gakthun it does not seem planned for it at the moment

>>14032562
>>14032910
Does someone know how explicit Gahkthun is?

>>14032929
Yurirei is A LOT CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.

>>14032937
It has several h scenes and I believe you can see genitals in a few of them, so no it probably won't go to steam with porn if at all.

>>14032957
If Maria continues with the same speed, its translation will be finished in about two or three months. I'm expecting Yurirei to be released early 2016.

>>14032937
No genitalia in the CGs as far as I remember. Similar to Yurirei except with bigger tits, I guess.

>>14032998
Hell yeah, big tits.

I could definitely see Atlus doing Utawarerumono 2, since it's currently console exclusive and they have that existing partnership with Aquaplus.

Eden* is 50% off for 48 hours. Go get it guys.

>>14033033
I got it for like a buck in a bundle. Haven't played it yet though because I never do anything.

Okay, there's a game that just came out on Steam today called Mortal Online where you can walk around naked with your dick hanging out. What's stopping visual novels from showing genitalia?

>>14032564
Some of the other games that were given permission for off site patches did have explicit depiction of sex though. Sunrider Academy is a good example of this. Look at its mature CG http://g.e-hentai.org/g/807400/c1e00337b9/

Looks like Sonohana is going to be MG's release for September.

https://twitter.com/Neilikki/status/638621852009656320

It looks like MG no longer has plans to release that terrible evn, Sekaiju - Yggdrasil. It's been removed from their Coming Soon section and the game page is gone.

I remember the beach bounce guy saying that valve told him that eventually they were looking to have an actual AO section for steam

I wonder if that's coming sooner than expected?

>>14033241
>They could probably be described as "softcore"—nudity, but no graphic depictions of genitalia /etc

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/638619659185487872

It's likely because Yurirei isn't very graphic. I do hope they eventually add an 18+ store though. Would they allow just about anything as long as it's legal, or would there still be limits on what they would allow? Would they accept Liquid, Black Lilith, and some of the CLOCKUP titles?

>>14033240

More likely the game is cancelled completely since their indiegogo didn't gogo.

Nothing of value was lost.

>>14033274
Its indiegogo campaign failed months ago. And the developer went completely silent not long after. I'm surprised it took MG this long to actually remove the game.

>>14033186
The dicks in this game look pasted on
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/0044480165/807400-49
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/1e4b2225f6/807400-38
http://g.e-hentai.org/s/06ac7eb63f/807400-53

>>14033033
Speaking of eden*, when will the promised version with reduced mosaics be available? It has been quite a while since eden* original release and still no word about when they'll be available.

>>14033345
They don't just look like it, those are the same dick. Trust me I'm an expert.

>>14033345
>>14033366
And some people bought this game just for the H-scenes, when the the artist put in so little effort as copy-pasting the same dick over and over again. It better have been drawn by that artist or be a freeware dick, otherwise some eroge publisher might sue them for stealing their penis. If that happens, you can be the expert they use to show that the penis are identical.

>>14033366
Are you the doddler?

>>14033403
I'm the Doodler

>>14033299
He's still on Twitter. Apparently he broke his wrist or something.

>>14033627
The nr.1 injury among serious erogamers.

>>14030524
Now that's some grade A bullshit. A discount after 3 months? Sure, whatever. 3 days? Remind me never to back Sekai again

>>14033744
If you're a backer, you're getting 3 VNs though. Still, that's what you get for backing SP.

>>14033744
It's your own fault for giving money to a sham.

>>14033744
Retards getting what they deserve, nothing wrong with that.

>>14032937

I didn't see any explicit genitals, but there was a boobjob scene was a giant ass cumshot where the girls tits where covered in it afterwards. I doubt that'll go on steam.

>>14033744
Ha! You actually gave dovac money?

>>14033849
>giant ass cumshot where the girls tits where covered in it afterwards
Just tell gaben MS Paint was responsible for that and he'll allow it.

eden* is on 3rd page of steam top sellers. MGS5 is also on the 3rd page so it must be selling well. This just means more money towards the fun-raiser.

>>14034415
I'm retarded. It's not the new MGS that is on the 3rd page.

>>14033849
Only the fandisc has bodily fluids (but still no genitals), the main game itself is quite tame.

Dreaming Sheep reminds me Takamine and Tamatama should be a couple.

>>14033072
Is nobody going to address this?

>>14034887
I think because it looks like shit and has mixed reviews so nobody here wants to try it. Somebody post the offending nether regions in that game.

>>14034908
I found this on google.
Looks like a penis to me.

>>14034964
I love how perfectly the sun is shining on it. A penis crafted by the gods.

>>14034908
It has "mixed" reviews but most of the top reviews are pretty positive. That's why it's not always wise to look at averages.

>>14034964

To be fair, flacid dicks aren't really the same thing as erect dongs

Kotaku is reporting on Yurirei and raising hysteria about sex games flooding Steam. Haha.

Kotaku is trying it's best to get Yurirei banned on steam.

Kotaku is talking about my big butt and how it is one huge butt.

>>14035107
>>14035132
Doesn't Kotaku realise that games like the Witcher have been doing this for years? Nudity on steam is not uncommon.

>>14035146
In classic Kotaku fashion they are straight up lying about what the game is about, too.

>>14035107
>>14035132
>>14035146
If anything the article is neutral to slightly positive.

https://archive.is/qxQ5n

>>14035107
This is actually good news. The game will market itself and MG can get their name out there. There's even the possibility of other major gaming websites picking up on this story as well.

>>14035173
PC Gamer also did one.

Kinda annoying that they don't report on MangaGamer's stuff unless it's something wild like this, though. I mean, they're all games, aren't they?

>>14035189
>I mean, they're all games, aren't they?
No. VNs are VNs.

>>14035275
Don't spout that bullshit about how a visual novel isn't a game.

>>14035275
One of the Kotaku commenters thinks that more vns should have more special effects like Nekopara, which they think is a higher quality vn.

Another commenter thinks it's sexist and pandering to men, to not release more yaoi vns.

These are examples of why mainstream gaming politics shouldn't enter into vns.

>>14035299
This is the kind of fucking shit that VN fans will have to deal with in the future. Be more popular they said. It can only be good they said. I actually think its currently popularity is just about right. Enough fans to support MG and JAST but not enough that fat lesbians with kool-aid colored hair will get the attention they crave by complaining about useless shit.

>>14035299
Just took a look at the article and there's a lot of retarded comments, holy shit.

>>14035297
It isn't. Visual Novels are novels with sound and pictures and choose your own adventure. They're not video games, nor should they strive to become video games.

I mean if you're going to use the definition of video games so loosely to include visual novels then applications like photoshop also become video games.

>interactive
>failure state
>runs through an application

>>14035320
Yeah, this is why we get mad at Kotaku reporting on this shit. Not the articles themselves.

>>14035299
>>14035320
>>14035334
This is a good thing. So long as VNs remain a niche, sexist hobby in the eyes of the normie, they'll never take it over and ruin it like Christine Love has been trying to get them to do for years.

>>14035353
But anon, I'm already getting sick of them bitching about it. The results of MG's next licensing survey are starting to concern me. They'll ask for shiny games with shit stories and games that they think go along with their moral agenda.

>>14035368
The bigger concern here is the redditards and fuwafags who ask for VNs that have already been translated. It's pretty much because of them that Rance has been indefinitely delayed since they asked for it so much.

>>14035368
Eh. MG has still been making some really good licensing choices. I doubt they're anything to worry about. It's SP that's been catering to the masses.

Fuck you, Herkz.

Whoah, MG getting mainstream gaming press publicity.
Seems like Yurirei is going to be big hit.

>>14036376
It deserves it immensely, so this is pleasing news to me. And you know what makes it even better? Since it's a Liar-soft game, its success will lead to a lot of other awesome games, since they do a ton of cool stuff. Albatross Sky Butlers confirmed.

Hey, who was it that translated Gahkthun? Makoto?

>>14036601
Sure

>>14036603
Thread? Did MG have an employee with that name?

>>14036709
Anon, koestl was the one that translated Gahkthun

>>14036709

Perhaps you should do your own twitter stalking if you're worried that you're being rused

How would you feel if MG did Teito Hiten Daisakusen?

>>14037300
Well, it's a more realistic proposition than a raiL game, anyway. Not that that's much consolation to whoever ends up with the unenviable task of translating undiluted Mareni.

>>14037300
I'd prefer Fairytale Requiem.
I'm hearing good things from it.

Sumaga preorder in 2-3 months.

Interview with Kouryuu and Kaitsu is up on eroge bus. I'll hear it later but it seems they talk about Yurirei Steam release.
No link because if I post it 4chan thinks my post is spam.

>>14037580
The Go Go Nippon DLC is still in development, so even though the translation and editing is complete, they can't release it until OVERDRIVE finishes it.

>>14037580
Gahkthun were likely be released early next near along with Himawari.

vg247 released an article on Kindred Spirits.

http://www.vg247.com/2015/09/02/sex-game-kindred-spirits-on-the-roof-completely-uncensored-on-steam/

>>14037580
Did Kouryuu talk about how he's tired of Da Capo III because can't say anything because his boss will be mad?

>>14037580

Did Kouryuu talk about how he's tired of Da Capo III but can't say anything because his boss will be mad?

>U-mee-neck-ko

>>14037524
It's a good game, but you can't put it on steam, since onscreen sexual abuse is a big part of it.

Where's the fucking Rance cutout on Twitter, Kaitsu?

>>14037831
What did she say?

>>14038014
She sexually harassed Maria with a Rance cutout.

>>14037524
Fairytail Requiem is a little new is the problem. They'll probably do it, but not for a few years. Teito Hiten Daisakusen seems more likely to come first.

>>14038014
>>14038111
Kaitsu is a girl? AND a Love Live fan? This is wonderful.

>>14037580
Whoa there, I just heard something fantastic about Supipara protagonist.

>>14038287

and ds55's girlfriend lol

>>14038743
I don't know who ds55 is. I want her to be my girlfriend though, because that voice is adorable.

Nothing from Siliconera on Yurirei. Do they just not care anymore?

>>14038878

Siliconera's usual mangagamer posting guy was pretty upset over them putting out mikan, but I imagine they'll probably get to it eventually, as they're usually slowpokes

>>14038888
>was pretty upset over them putting out mikan
Why?

>>14038908
Some pretty retarded people write for Siliconera. Enough said. It's pretty much a hipster version of Kotaku.

Gematsu is the much better site when it comes to Japanese games. Did they post a Yurirei article?

>>14038888
I saw some articles and it seems that guy was Ishaan. He doesn't write articles for Siliconera anymore:
https://twitter.com/Ish_Siliconera/status/630214206881566720
>I'm not Siliconera's managing editor any more. It was a great 7 years, but I want to move on to other things.

>>14038951
There's a thread on Neogaf about Yurirei. Seems to be well received´
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1105997

>>14038964
>Neogaf

People still pay attention to those fags?

Who really needs Subahibi when you can get Deadly Premonition for $1 from Humble Bundle? Only 20 hours left on this deal. Act fast.

>>14038959
Good riddance. That guy was the biggest idiot on the planet. Figures it'd be him bitching about nothing.

>>14038964
More importantly, the article is by Destructoid, one of the few remaining good sites for news on video games. They don't rely so heavily on sensationalism and they actually play games to completion before reviewing them (it disgusts me that this is actually an uncommon thing for reviewers). Glad to see they reported on Yurirei.

>>14038969

Sure is a lot of "lol male gaze sexy lesbian porn no way women could enjoy this".

Hey you, that neogaf faggot that watches this thread and reposted the herkz kerfluffle there and to reddit, go make yourself less of a faggot and post in that thread that maria's the one translating that game ( https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess )

I want to see the shift in the mental gymnastics when they realize that a lady is translating it.

>>14038964
That thread is awful. There's a bunch of stupid people typing in lowercase and people assuming that only males can like yuri so it must be pandering to them and even someone who didn't know greentexting is from 4chan. Well, originally it's from e-mails or whatever, but people who do it like that are emulating the 4chan style of greentexting.

>>14039033
>the article is by Destructoid, one of the few remaining good sites for news on video games.
Seriously? Destructoid is awful. Stick with Gematsu or NicheGamer.

>>14039050
Wait, we actually have a dumb neogaf member in these threads?

>>14039060
Thanks for tl;dr edition. Makes my choice not to give them clicks easier.

>>14039080

There's got to be atleast one guy who lurks these threads, because the reddit thread supposedly came from neogaf, which heard it from here.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/639181382464442370

I agree, disco hellclown.

>>14039146

I dunno if I'd say "the" trifecta. It's a trifecta, sure, but I think "the" trifecta would need kotaku and polygon.

Thankfully one of the two has already put up an article, and as you'd expect, reading the comments is a surefire way to solve overpopulation with the rate which they give you cancer.

>>14038790
Ds55 is one of MG's translators. He's worked on minori's games and he's also translating Bokuten.

>>14039172
Do they cosplay as the characters they're translating and fug each other?

>>14039197

Do you imagine them doing so as you jack off?

>>14039208
No, but Doddler does.

>>14039214

I don't think he does anonymous. I think you're also pretty weird for thinking about such things.

>>14039223
Doddler is multi-talented.

>>14039234

I also don't think that's a talent

>>14039248
You should see his dick-drawing talent.

>>14039252

I don't think he's particularly talented with drawing dicks either, but merely skilled at inserting dicks where there previously were none, guiding dicks that went astray, and polishing dicks that are unfit for use.

>>14039271
Fine. He's talented at finding dicks wherever and whomever it may be.

>>14039271
>>14039283
Doddler, the dick whisperer.

>>14039076
>>14039146
Um, since when was Destructoid awful? I can't think of anything they did that particularly bothers me. Hell, they even fired Allistair Pinsof, who was the only thing Kotaku-tier about them.

>>14039336
>Hell, they even fired Allistair Pinsof, who was the only thing Kotaku-tier about them.
What? They fired him because he didn't toe the SJW line.

>>14039146
With all the attention this is getting, I'm starting to think that MG should have waited for when Yurirei was ready to be released, drop the announcement and and release it on both their site and Steam.
Since Yurirei will still take some months to be released, the hype for it will probably be less.

>>14039338
That's a silly reason to hate them, because the dude was just as bad as any of your average Kotaku writers. Stupid clickbait bullshit everywhere. He doesn't get a free pass just because he's on "your side."

>>14039354
I agree but hindsight and all that. It might not affect VN sales though since I fully expect the lgbtwtfbbq crowd to support this VN. What it will affect is probably the first time VN buyer who would have bought it for curiosity sake.

>>14039354
I was thinking that is definitely a concern myself. It probably will not be THAT long, considering how fast Maria's going (I could easily see it right at the start of next year), but people lose interest fast. If they don't have something else to reveal to draw attention to it closer to release, all this hype will have already faded and it won't do as well as it could have.

MG probably just underestimated how much interest there would be in that one and didn't think there would be such a reaction. They'll learn from this in the future, though.

>>14039505
Maybe MangaGamer as a whole underestimated it, but I have to think Kouryuu knew exactly what he was doing with his comment included in the announcement as a hook for the press.

>>14039505
>>14039597

The press release MangaGamer sent out (as ANN posted the press release on their press release page) had a title of "Valve and MangaGamer Breaking Down Barriers With The Uncensored Steam Release of Kindred Spirits on the Roof", along with including Kouryuu's comment and a similar comment by the general manager of MangaGamer. I would assume they sent that to all the larger press as well. They might not have known how large of a response they would get, but they certainly were trying for this response.

>>14039597
>>14039734
While the wording certainly seems manufactured for this purpose, I'd also like to believe Kouryuu genuinely feels this way about the game. I know I do. #LoveLiveWins

>>14039271
>skilled at inserting dicks where there previously were none
I don't know, man. That sounds like a cool superpower.

>>14039992
He's Superdick.

>>14039992
I think there's an eroge about that. Probably Henshin.

>>14039734
>>14039597
>>14039851

So what you're saying is that

Kouryuu did his job well?

Apparently nobody's translating Bloody Rondo.

>>14040155
For now yes, but keep in mind Kouryuu will probably do the same thing bragging about how extreme the content is in Euphoria, and send it to all the same places.

Bunny Black 2's out.

>>14040472
I'd imagine he already did that, considering how well known Euphoria is. But these sites refuse to report on their games, for whatever reason, so of course they're scared to report on something extreme like that. Yurirei gets to be an exception because it's 1) a Steam game and 2) a Steam game doing something arguably "controversial." Even though it is rather tame compared to Euphoria. But good luck getting anyone to report on Euphoria.

>>14040602
Even if it was, nobody gives a fuck.

Is Kouryuu the worst translator MG has now?

>>14041669
Worst is a stupid word to use when they are all good translators. His only problem is that he's pretty slow compared to the rest.