/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Karakara 3 - Upcoming release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "QA finished, bug fixing in progress."
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, upcoming release
Rewrite+ - Kickstarter succeeded, 67% translated, 17% edited, November 2020 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In progress, upcoming release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 35% translated, upcoming release
Island Diary - 100% translated
Riajuu Plus - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated, Editing and programming started.
9-nine- Episode 3 - Picked up
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing, waiting on build from dev
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - 100% translated and edited, waiting on a build
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
SF - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Nekopara Vol 4 - In development, 2020 release

Sol Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - Upcoming release
Nukitashi - 66% translated, 7% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 69% translated, 58% edited, February 2020 release
Irotoridori no Sekai - 30% translated
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - work starting shortly, upcoming release
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 48% translated, 38% edited
Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
>Aokana Perfect Edition content - Released
Senren Banka - 90% translated, 80% edited, Trial version planned shortly
Aokana Extra1 - Picked up
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Hello Lady - 99% translated, 95% edited
Making Lovers - 100% translated, 85% edited
Melty Moment - On hold until after a newer Hooksoft title is released
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
Secret Project #1 - 100% translated and edited, engine work by developers
Secret Project #2 - 65% translated and 50% edited
Secret Project #3 - 34% translated and 10% edited

Cherry Kiss
>Customer Cums First - January 17th release

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - 2020 release

Visual Arts/Key
Summer Pockets - Awaiting the fix of "technical hiccups" and resolving a rating issue with Valve
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated

Aksys
Piofiore no Banshou - 2020 release
Gensou Kissa Enchante - 2020 release
>Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - 2020 release

Aniplex.exe
ATRI -My Dear Moments- - 2020 release
Adabana Itan - 2020 release

Other
Oshi no Love yori Koi no Love - February 28th release
Ouka Sabaki - Partial "Early Access" release on 9/17
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master - Announced
Utawarerumono Remake - 2020 release
Project Sakura Wars - 2020 release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

YO
Porn for the win

>>22724306
>Rance Quest - 100% translated and edited, image editing finished

>Rance 01 - 100% translated and 89% edited
>Rance 02 - 100% translated and 50% edited to be released along side Rance 01

I've seen several people insist that 01&02 would release before Rance Quest, but that just doesn't seem every likely, does it?
Anyway. Can we expect a release date for Rance Quest soon? It was stated somewhere that they were aiming for a Q1 release, no?
Would it be naïve to hope for February or sooner?

>>22724427
I expect it Feb -> Apr

>>22724427
>I've seen several people insist that 01&02 would release before Rance Quest, but that just doesn't seem every likely, does it?
Release order should be Quest > 01 > 02 > IX > 03 > X
> It was stated somewhere that they were aiming for a Q1 release, no?
Don't think that was ever stated anywhere, but SLC is still doing programming work on it and after that there's QA, then fixing all the bugs QA find. I'd expect it maybe in late Q2.

Has there been any official comment on Venus Blood's success or lack thereof?
Are they happy with it? Did it do well?

It's a somewhat autistic game but it's indeed very much a game and it's really refreshing to have such a gamey strategy game of that scale.
On one hand I fear that the autistic nature might have limited the scope of its potential audience which might reflect negatively in sales. I really wish these heavy gameplay titles can do well though. There really is something uniquely charming about them.
Do we have any idea? If Sengoku underperformed then I really fear for this one but I kind of want to be hopeful. They had plans to localize more games if it did well didn't they?

>>22724558
I think it was stated somewhere that it's selling about as well as their Japanese releases, so that's probably a good thing.
>If Sengoku underperformed
?

>>22724588
iirc when Arunaru threw his hissy fit he said that SR had 2k sales last he checked.
Which honestly doesn't sound that bad when you consider how old it is and that it's MG store exclusive.

>>22724596
Well that was only 1 month after its release. It's been a good few months since then and it's #1 on their ranking right now.

>>22724608
Yeah I'm sure it's doing fine.

>>22724596
Back when we were attempting to track MG sales ourselves by tallying order numbers and such. Even if there'd be a huge margin of error, didn't we surmise that old titles like Funbag Fantasy and Euphoria and so on likely sold like double that? Haruka too.

But I guess Sengoku has been selling since, and has been up as their top seller for some time their website's weekly ranking is to be believed. Maybe it has strong legs after all. Maybe things like Sseth's Evenicle video also helped.

>>22724596
The Alicesoft titles are in a bit of a tricky spot for judging their performance. They do well enough that it justified MG picking up the Rance series through Rance X before the Evenicle Steam release, but their on site sales are going to look pathetic compared to what Evenicle has done on Steam since its released there.

>>22724306
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>>22725629
He is thoroughly preparing for the task.

>>22724306
>Akogare no Ano Ko no Musume wa Boku no Yome - Released
If this is what I think it is, know that I cannot find it on sukebei. Where did the translator upload it?

>>22726993
>If this is what I think it is, know that I cannot find it on sukebei.
You should be able to since the upload has that exact title in it.

>>22726993
It was even linked for me in the previous thread.

Okay, so I've been playing pic related, already finished Patricia and Yuuki, and regardless of the excellent first hours beyond that i get the distinct feeling that this may have the shittiest writing I've ever encountered, so how come it's so highly rated? Should i just give up any hope for the other routes and the second game?
Also why in the fuck did they decide to write Eurasia as Euracia? It just makes it extremely painful to read for any Indo-European language speaker. I learned to accept some questionable localization choices, but this is just bonkers

>>22727536
>so how come it's so highly rated?
The porn. The sequel is apparently much better in terms of writing.

>>22727536
It's a comedy game with a high amount sexual content that got censored and a terrible localization, basically a different game compared to what the Japs got.
Though even if it got a good 18+ translation I imagine a lot of people would still dislike it because of cultural differences and the hate for "Japanese humor"

>>22727545
>>22727568
I will definitely be playing the H scenes, and the heroines are really cute and have some good moments. If it was just that I'd have no complaints, it's just that i feel like the writers thought "oh, true, we do have to come up with some plot or something for the routes" and ended up shoehorning something that the game would have been better off without. Take Patricia's route as an example: Starts okay, drags a bit with the sisters' coming to accept Nora but we get a threesome H scene so it's okay i guess, then it's supposed to get more serious and we get some drama with the whole "one of us has to die or the world will be destroyed" but it all ended up being hand-waved 5 minutes later and somehow everybody lived happily ever after
I don't give a shit about there being a plot or not, i can enjoy nukige for what it is, it's just that if you go out of your way to write a plot then at least write something remotely coherent.
I have a good enough grasp on japanese humour to reverse-engineer the shitty translation to figure out what the joke was supposed to be about, and actually i consider the humour to be one of the strong points of the VN, together with the cuteness of the heroines and the heart-warming feeling you get while reading (at least at the beginning, before the writing bares its fangs). It's just that there's a bunch of material (at this point more than half of the goddamn novel) that it would just be better off without.
I'll keep playing regardless just because i need to see this though and find out if there's at least one well-written route

>>22727536
Honestly I didn't know it was highly rated. I read it when it came out and dropped it after jerking off to the porn, which was the only good part about it.

>>22724558
The UI sucks too much for me to deal with it. There are way too many skills and effects in it to not have tooltips for them and to expect you to just look at the massive list in the help menu and memorise it.

So ResetEra found out about Maitetsu on switch and one of the first things they talk about is trying to get it banned off the eshop.

>>22728166
The most amazing part is that it took them this long.

>>22728166
Curious what they think they can accomplish, "was originally a porn game series" covers an exceptional number of titles and isn't any basis for banning anything.

>>22728344
ResetEra has the mindset of most tumblr/twitter users where they think any game or anime that has some form of fan service with characters under the age of 18 is pedophilia and should be banned. There so far gone that I've actually seen people try to argue that a 18 year old dating a 17 year old is a pedo while also drawing yaoi fanart of MHA. Anyway, it doesn't matter because the thread for Maitetsu got locked and it's going to be added to the Era's banned games list which is best thing that can happen because it prevents them from causing a shitstorm.

>>22728113
>and memorise it
I just took screenshots of the skill pages.
Kind of annoying that the config menu or something didn't have a button that lead to the tutorial menu I'll admit, but at the same time it's not as if I actually memorized the skills until like halfway through into the game. Prior to that point I flipped through my tutorial screenshots.

>>22728166
And the funniest part is that Sekai Project still thought it was a good idea to try appeal to the normalfag market with the all-ages releases in the west.

>>22728452
Yeah the thread lasted just under 2 hours before mods banned it after people were going nuts. As you said it's probably the best thing that can happen over there, they obviously can't handle discussing the game, or almost any anime game for that matter, without degrading into full on moral panic.

>>22728487
> As you said it's probably the best thing that can happen over there,
It being on that ban list is one of the best way to prevent any form of controversy from them. I remember when they made a thread about Azur Lane and how they couldn't handle you being able to marry lolis in that game so they had to add that game to ban list..I need to check the thread they had on Saya no Uta because that on the ban list too and that probably helped prevent a huge shitstrom from them.

>>22728166
Kind of funny considering that they are the new "no fun allowed" soccer
mom crowd.

>>22728487
>>22728552
The best way describe it is weak thirsty effiminate men trying to virtue signal to Feminists in order to get a date. And feminists that as a whole hate anything more beautiful than they are and men giving 2D drawings more attention.

Utawarerumono sequels are coming to Steam later this month.

>>22729415
Most of Era's crazies are either men, trannys or some of neogafs worst people, some of which have been banned off that site even before thay shit happan on gaf. Era's a sad site, the vast majority of that site doesn't care about politics or lgbt shit and just want to talk about games. But the moderation on there help create an environment where if you don't tow the line you can be banned for the smallest thing like saying you like Kill La Kill. And the funny thing is the mods are in the middle of some drama where Era users of all fucking people are saying mods don't care about lgbt issue and hate trannies. You can never please these people

>>22730152
Best news I've heard in a while. I could never be bothered to set up an emulator.

>>22730152
Too bad they got censored in development so trash games.

>>22730318
im sure someone will be autistic enough to add back in the spanking scene for you

>>22730318
Since it's both a PC release and also a new publisher, with any luck they'll undo the censorship themselves.

>>22730318
>>22730405
Wait. Are you telling me that even though the sequels/remake are already all-ages, they were censored further in localization anyway?

>>22730436
What else would you expect from console localisers?
>A brief note on content: While Atlus is committed to bringing over games that are as true to their original forms as possible, in the case of Mask of Deception, a scene had to have a small content edit to comply with various regional regulations about the depiction of physical discipline to minors. We worked with Aquaplus to keep the scope of the editing to an absolute minimum, and we both agree the change made to the scene in the game still conveys its full meaning without running into issues.

>>22730329
Mods will be available.

>>22730152
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149550/Utawarerumono_Mask_of_Deception/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1151440/Utawarerumono_Mask_of_Truth/

also a new western vn publisher?
https://twitter.com/shira_vn

>>22731355
More steam only all-age releases! I can't wait!

>>22731606
Ok

On the VNDB page for Musicus it says that it's supposed to be released in English by MangaGamer, but I couldn't find any information about this anywhere. Anyone know anything?

>>22732743
https://musicus.over-drive.jp/products

>>22732761
Thanks. I wonder why it isn't on MG's site anywhere. Hopefully it'll get a decent translation.

>>22732777
Hasn't been officially announced yet.

>>22731606
They confirmed 18+ patches for their stuff. They're affiliated with dmm, so mosaic censorship remains.

>>22732743
Good ol' times when Aaeru was the queen. No one could replace that, little moogy doesn't even have 3k after all those years

I only have 4 followers but I'm an influencer

>>22733050
Moogy has his own circle of friends and fellow vn enthusiasts. He doesn't need newfriends following him. In fact, if you want to join kastel's discord you have to prove you have read one vn in JP before.

>>22733229
Imagine needing to prove your worthiness to a bunch of discord trannies. I think I'd take never talking to anyone about anything ever again over that.

>>22733284
Why are so many people in this hobby trannies

>>22734182
Because all those girls in eroge look like they feel super good. Over time you just start wanting to feel that good as well.

>>22734542
The dudes look like they feel super good too, though. Hell, they cum buckets.

>>22734182
Normal, well-adjusted people don't become invested in visual novels.

>>22734681
Yeah, if you wanna stay away from trannies maybe you should stick with capeshit or something.

>>22730152
Confirmed censored.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149550/discussions/0/1747893292776201072/?ctp=2#c1747893292779606627

>>22737182
On the one hand, I completely agree with the people who are anti-censorship; give an inch and they'll take a mile.

On the other hand it's such a minor change that I find it difficult to care as much as I usually do. Since it's just a CG modification, I imagine it'll be easy to mod back in, at least.

>>22737194
That it's such a minor change is all the more reason to be annoyed that they didn't fix it. But with it being a multi-language release it'll be funny if they applied the censorship to all versions, but if not it'll be an easy fix. I won't buy it though.

>>22735967
Lol, I take it you've never spent any time on /co/.

>>22737532
i dont know what that stands for, so no.

>>22738052
Comics and Cartoons board
>>>/co/

>>22737532
Thing is 4chan is for nerds and autists like us. Trannies are nerds and autists, they're not normal. So there's probably trannies all over 4chan regardless of the board.

>>22738220
No they are "normal." They're accepted by society, defending by law, and praised by every position of social, economic, and governmental power in the western world. If you called them abnormal in public you'd be promptly fired from your job and socially ostracized.

>>22738228
since i am into autistic things i know many trannies, and none of them are even remotely normal, they are all messed up people and most of them know it.

>>22737182
Well that's annoying.
I can't help but wonder why. Are they like bound by contract/licence in some weird fashion preventing them from fixing this?

On one hand I am with >>22737194. I can't lie and say that what is being censored bothers me as much as usual. But I still think it's terrible and like >>22737254 said it makes the act of the localizers all the more infuriating.
Putting the original CG back in should be so simple that an intern could do it on a coffee break. And yet nothing? For what purpose? Sony pushing for parity between all versions so that the ports don't outshine the originals? Or what's the deal here?

>>22738465
They might get banned from steam

>>22738465
I think it is just backwards logic.

"Why did they change this if it wasn't an issue? So it must be an issue and best to not revert".

It is kind of like how fake news make something up, and then circle quote it among themselves because if they quote it from one of their partners, it is facts.

I like how Chaos;Head Noah's """upcoming fan TL project"" is not even mentioned now.

Even in the scenario of Venus Blood being an absolute smash hit in the west, it's still unlikely for an as of now unreleased and thus not market tested title, to be picked up for localizing is there?
Because I have really been eyeing Ninetail's upcoming game for some time now.
http://www.ninetail tk/tn06/index.html

It'd be kind of amazing if they'd get on it. But they'd sooner localize the rest of the Venus Blood games wouldn't they? And it's unlikely that they'd work on several titles simultaneously isn't it?
And even if they did it'd be unlikely for them to work on this particular game wouldn't it?

I hope the game ends up being good regardless.

>>22737182
Eh it's nothing really worthy to get worked up over.

>>22732743
I see you fags are still falling for this dipshit's awful opinions in 2020.

>fall out of love with vns after the golden era of fan translations ended around 2010
>get into reading good old books instead
>try to get back into vns years later
>it's all just poorly written, poorly localized trash that exclusively panders to coomcooms and waifufaggots
>see absolutely no light at the end of the tunnel on the lists in this thread
>still see some of the same vns on the list that were there years and years ago

>>22742617
imagine looking through a medium whose entire speciality is cumming in waifus and then complaining about not one, but both of those things

>still see some of the same vns on the list that were there years and years ago
vn industry has been in a death spiral for a while now

>>22742617
>coomcooms
>waifufaggots
Back to /v/, larping newfag.

>>22742872
>triggered by terms with 100% accurate and relevant definitions
Haha...

>>22742885
Yes, I'm triggered by tourists from reddit, /v/eddit and discord invading my comfy board and spamming their shitty buzzwords. Now fuck off.

>>22742617
I kind of doubt any of that is true given your wording.

>>22742888
Yes, painfully triggered.
>>22742893
If you say so. I'll counter with those terms applying to you two since you seem to have gotten your panties in a bunch.

>>22742617
Nice, even the safe space janitors do your bidding now. What's the matter, would it be better if instead of calling someone a "coomcoom," I call them someone who thinks exclusively with their penis and puts pleasing it above all else? How is that post any less valid regardless of triggering wording?

That's still exlusively what the medium caters towards these days, and ESPECIALLY on the localization and fan translation side of things.

>>22742912
We all have to pitch into the fight against buzzword retardation.

>>22742912
>would it be better if instead of calling someone a "coomcoom," I call them someone who thinks exclusively with their penis and puts pleasing it above all else?
Yes, actually. Not typing like a retard forcing shit memes will do you many favours.

>>22742921
Getting absurdly triggered over wording is what's retarded here, friend, especially when the definition does apply. What, are you going to petition to take away words with meanings you don't like? I'm sure you mock the same people who engage in pronoun wars, yet you want to enforce your own little word game on others.

>>22742927
Labels short-circuit thought by allowing you to label something with a word and calling it a day, especially made-up buzzwords that can mean whatever you want them to mean. They also allow people to jump towards retarded non-criticisms like "only X label people could like Y thing," instead of making actual criticisms of Y thing.

>you want to enforce your own little word game on others.
Ideally, people who introduced retarded buzzwords from other boards to /jp/ would be strung up and hung by the neck until dead.

Reminder to not engage with them.

>>22742617
>those triggered replies
Based

>>22742960
You can trigger people anywhere you go just by dropping your pants and uncontrollably shitting everywhere but most people don't consider it an accomplishment.

>>22742942
What you really mean to say is that if one such as yourself sees something they don't like, feelings get hurt and they''ll do their utmost to have it removed because even the briefest of reminders of the harsh truth and everything that comes with it is simply unbearable. Hang those who remind you. Hang them all.

Like I said, the medium in the west is becoming unrecognizable. Localizations and fan translations alike cater exclusively to the people who think with their pee pees or the mentally ill obsessed with waifus and cute animu girls. I'll leave you alone in your safe space now. There's seemingly nothing worth sticking around for anyhow.

>>22742991
Yes. Your bargain basement /v/ shitposts are national treasures and everybody who doesn't like it when you get shit everywhere is just mad about how correct you are. You figured it out.

>Like I said, the medium in the west is becoming unrecognizable.
It has nothing to do with the West, retard. But sure, congratulations on collecting your cheap shitposts.

>>22742994
>what's being localized for a western market has nothing to do with said market
>the untold amounts of plotge and chuunige dating back several decades remain unlocalized in favor of more moege and nukige
How wrong you are. What sells in the west is what gets localized, thus it has everything to do with the west. What an intelligent individual you are, anon. The rest of your posts in this chain form a complete picture about you.

>>22743004
You seem to be under the delusion that there is a steady stream of high-quality plotge and chuunige coming out in Japanese that simply doesn't get localized in the West because Westerners are pigs. This is not remotely close to true. Most things that sell in Japan gets localized to the West and the reason we're not getting very much plotge and chuunige is because that shit doesn't sell ANYWHERE. The last great chuuni game was Dies Irae and its parent company went down in flames last year while the moege factories keep humming along.

>The rest of your posts in this chain form a complete picture about you.
There's literally nothing to discuss with you. Most of it consists of you claiming that people are triggered snowflakes because they don't like your braindead shitposting.

>>22743013
>You seem to be under the delusion that there is a steady stream of high-quality plotg
Once more you display a lack of reading comprehension. Localization isn't tied to NEW releases. There is a massive library of older and successful plotge that could be brought over in the absence of newer plotge, but that isn't happening because what sells is nukige and moege. It's not hard to understand, and the mental gymnastics and absurd agression isn't necessary.

>Most of it consists of you claiming that people are triggered snowflakes because they don't like your braindead shitposting.
Ironically, this is all in your head stemming from the insecurities I implied above. Let's drop that subject entirely. You're mad about words and think people should hang for using them regardless of context. Got it, completely reasonable, definitely not batshit insane in any way.

>>22743013
>Dies Irae
>great
yikes

>>22742912
>What's the matter, would it be better if instead of calling someone a "coomcoom," I call them someone who thinks exclusively with their penis and puts pleasing it above all else?
Yes.
We insult each other all the time here. It's nothing out of the ordinary. That was never the issue.
The issue was that you're posting just like the off-site scum like >>22742945. Not what you claim you meant with your post. The latter no one really took offence at. The issue was >>22742945.

That said your base argument still seems to be based on lots of false assumption.
It's really like >>22743013 says. What sells well in Japan tracks similarly in the west too. Quantities may differ, but general trends aren't too different. The titles you claim aren't selling in the west aren't doing too hot in Japan either.

>>22743029
>There is a massive library of older and successful plotge that could be brought over in the absence of newer plotge, but that isn't happening because what sells is nukige and moege.
There really isn't a "massive library of older and successful plotge" sitting around untapped. The vast majority of the Japanese visual novel catalogue over the last twenty years is nukige and moege. The best-sellers every month for twenty years running are mostly nukige and moege. The reason the list hasn't changed much is because Western localizers have already skimmed off the chuunige and plotge that were good enough to defy this pattern, and now that it's ten years later, would far rather localize best-selling 2019 games than mediocre-selling games from 2007.

>You're mad about words and think people should hang for using them regardless of context.
People who attempt to reduce boards that are not utter shit to /v/-level should be hanged. It's fine to use in some contexts, though. For example, you could use it to talk to the other braindead children from /v/.

>>22743013
there's tokyo necro

>>22743055
>localize best-selling 2019 games than mediocre-selling games from 2007
You realize you're just reinforcing my point, right? Moege and nukige are profitable, plotge and chuunige aren't. This is dictated solely by the western market. Had it been the other way around in Japan, that still wouldn't affect the market here because companies want to actually make a profit and cater to the biggest demographics within the market. Had, say, something like Tokyo Babel actually been profitable here, we would've seen more of its kind, like Evolimit or earlier Propeller titles, for instance. All the licensed Propeller titles bombed while the low effort nukige and moege didn't, hence why there is no desire to go fishing for anything else in the sizeable backlog that you like to downplay.

Saying the west doesn't dictate what gets localized for the western market is dumb. Clearly what sells here gets priority. It's not like ONLY the latest and greatest no no word bait VNs get localized. Just one look at MG's upcoming localizations on VNDB shows multiple 4:3 VNs that are at least 8 years old. Age isn't a factor.
>People who attempt to reduce boards that are not utter shit to /v/-level should be hanged.
You're reducing the board level to far below /v/ levels right now with whatever this is. It wasn't the use of buzzwords that triggered this outburst, but the specific buzzwords used. It's obvious. Sorry your feelings were seemingly irreparably hurt. Surely I should've written out the lengthier description of the type of person I was referring to instead of using the short alternative that conveys the exact same meaning.

>>22743119
Yeah, nobody wants to read pseudointellectual chuuni garbage. See, I can use buzzwords too. Can't wait for you to get triggered.

>>22743131
Sorry, I don't get triggered because I'm not mentally 12, nor do I have deep seated insecurities that make me lose my shit over wording.

>>22743137
Yet you still don't realize that the problem people have with your posts is you using exactly the same words that discord raid from >>22742945 uses.

>>22743145
You're the one associating it with that. The word has become widespread and gained a life of its own and describes a certain kind of person so perfectly. See, children, this is why context is so important. This is kind of like being confused for a console warring faggot and having an actual console warring faggot from the perceived other side screeching at like a baby.

>>22743145
Good thing some random ass discord raid doesn't dictate everyone's vocabulary or the meaning and intent behind the words. One could only hope that it doesn't determine how everyone perceives those words either. I'm in plenty of normal irc and discord chats, where everyone hates /v/ and reddit, that use these words just like any other that's come to being on the internet. They represent a specific idea, and that idea is conveyed to the reader in a single word.

To be honest though, everyone can shut up about it because this discussion is obviously going nowhere and contributes nothing.

>>22743119
>Had it been the other way around in Japan
If it had been the other way around in Japan, there would still be lots of good plotge and chuunige coming out in Japan, which would then be hyped up and sell in the West. Plot games that people actually like sell just fine. The most famous VNs that anyone in the West can name, and some of the best selling, are plot games. There just aren't very many of them. People didn't think Tokyo Babel was very good in Japan OR in the West.

>Age isn't a factor.
It's true that MORE people will buy old shitty nukige than old shitty plotge but we're not talking about that. We're talking about this supposed library of old untranslated masterpieces that the West will never get because it has shit taste.

>You're reducing the board level to far below /v/ levels right now with whatever this is.
Hostility to retards introducing retarded offboard terminology to /jp/ has been a board staple for over a decade now.

>>22743158
>The word has become widespread and gained a life of its own
It's nothing but spam and shitposting and it's little wonder why someone like you would use it.

>>22743119
>Age isn't a factor.
Age and more specifically art absolutely is a factor.
If you want proof look at Sol Press, their catalog mostly consists of moege which you claim the west loves yet almost all of their titles have bombed. Guess what common link all their worst performing titles have? They're ancient, at least 10 years old. The only titles they have that sold decently are the ones released in the past few years, and one of their best performing, Newton, isn't even a moege.
Or if that's not enough for you we have Nekonyan, who indefinitely delayed Melty Moment (a moege) after "getting a more comprehensive understanding of which kind of titles do well", and said that they would instead be releasing one of Hooksoft's more recent moege first.
If you don't have something else to drive sales art is by far the biggest factor, so naturally companies will gravitate to modern moege and nukige which is the only thing that gets released these days. If Japan was still producing plotge and chuunige consistently there's no reason to think they'd do any worse in the west than moege.

>>22743180
>Good thing some random ass discord raid doesn't dictate everyone's vocabulary or the meaning and intent behind the words.
Not the guy you're arguing with, but >>22742945 isn't just some random discord raid. It's literally the origin of the phrasing.

>>22743233
Who cares about the origin of a word? The ideas conveyed and other people's understanding of it is all that matters.

Also don't want to argue, was my first reply in this thread. I'm just tired of seeing there's a new post and every single time its just the back and forth over this dumb word.

he talks like that and yet he claims he was around in 2010. that's either a lie or he's a sheep that copies whatever speech is popular at the time. it's 10 years later and we got subahibi, baldr sky and many other highly regarded non-nukige. he's obviously just trolling and you can ignore him.

>>22743251
>The ideas conveyed and other people's understanding of it is all that matters.
That'd be all fine and good, if people like >>22742945 weren't still trying to use it in their crusade against all kinds of erotic content (not just people who are obsessively addicted), and against communities
that they despise to which they continue to drown them in shitposts.
That's the true nature of these phrases that they managed to con ledditors like yourself to use to disrupt places like this. If you talk about making yourself understood you shouldn't need, and in fact it'd be highly advised not to, use awful shitpost ammunition like these phrases.

>>22743251
>The ideas conveyed and other people's understanding of it is all that matters.
Guess what? You are not in charge of setting up ''understanding'' and "ideas" that words convey, other people might see it differently. If you don't like how anon react to your memes than don't bring them here in the first place. You are free not to conform to posting habits of the board, but if you do that than don't complain if shit get flinged your way. Anything else you don't understand?

>>22743298
>ledditors like yourself
>>22743320
your memes

You might want to read what youre replying to because I think youre confusing me with the other guy. All I said is I dont give a shit because its just a dumb word, and that I want everyone to just shut up because these posts are annoying. I never said the word, and Im not defending anyone. You niggers making contunous back and forth replies over it is more annoying than the original post itself.

>>22740503
I really wish the demo had at least some of the gameplay. It still looks cool.

>>22743055
>There really isn't a "massive library of older and successful plotge" sitting around untapped.
I can make a list of at least 30 plotge successful or not which are not translated in english and will never be. The backlog is huge, lurk more and fuck off.

Do any of you think Cross Channel will ever get translated into English? Always wanted to read that one.

>>22743635
>successful or not
well if they're weren't successful then it's not a "massive library of older successful plotge" is it

>>22732743
>It's one of the masterpieces of eroge, on par with games like Muramasa, Oretsuba, C+C, etc.
Bold words considering a translation is being released later this year. So how will this be retracted? I'm guessing we'll see a case of, "The translation isn't good enough and the depth and nuance of the game can only be understood in the original Japanese blah blah..."

>>22743925
stop getting so worked up over the opinion of a manchild

just ignore him

>>22744028
I just think it's funny, especially how often this kind of thing has happened before. My preferred outcome would of course be that the game is actually as good as he is claiming it is. I'd really enjoy not being disappointed for once.

>>22743686
Not successful in Japan doesn't mean it will flop in the west too though.

Most of these ecelebs don't rate any nukige at all.
I'm just curious what people think about this; did they never play any nukige or do they not rate them in order to preserve a certain image?

>>22744165
I am guessing a lot of them are afraid of being lynched by some crazed lynch mob for having confessed to like something sex related containing something that someone else finds unacceptable.

>>22744165
Maybe they just don't like nukige. I don't like nukige either.

>>22744165
>I fapped a lot it was good
>I didn't fap much it was bad
Great review material.

>>22724444
Isn't 3 pretty important for 9 considering the content?

>"Aikotoba", a popular matchmaking app with a feature of "finding your fated partner".

>The protagonist, Mizukami Takumi, is an office worker with a stable job. One day, he is recommended by his colleague to try the app. Through it, he meets a girl called “Yozora” with compatibility of 99% and gradually become closer each day.

>Coincidentally, Takumi is being sent for business trip to Sendai, the city of where the girl is. As a result, they decide to meet up in real life and arrange a meeting there.

>However, when the time comes, he wouldn’t believe what he sees.

>“…Onii…chan?”

>Under the cold sky of Sendai, Takumi didn’t expect to meet “her”… his younger sister, Uzuki, who he hasn’t see in seven years. Moreover, she is the girl under the alias “Yozora” all this time, the girl in the app who made him fall in love.

Well, which company is going to translate this masterpiece?
https://vndb.org/v26537
https://omochikaeri.wordpress.com/2019/12/24/december-2019-eroge-releases/

>>22744638
Well it's Azarashi Soft which is a subsidiary of Nexton so your only hope is MangaGamer.

>>22744638
sounds really good. Fortunately textractor is enough for me

>>22744651
I actually will trudge through it with ITH but want to raise awareness. Looks like a a lot of fun

>>22744555
Technically, since 03 came out after IX, it's fine.

>>22744786
The experience still gets greatly enhanced by playing great remake instead of shitty original that even TADA said it's ちょっとひどい

>>22744786
You're a fucking genius. The main plotline about Helman was in III, like 25 years before IX was released.

>>22744887
The only gameplay VN ever which made me cheat.

>>22744638
So basically just a pure version of Free Friends 2

>>22744888
Yeah, and? III might be free by the time IX came out, but I doubt the majority actually did play III before they did IX. While IX would certainly be enhanced by playing III/03 first, it's definitely not like you will be completely lost without it.

Played 03 recently and this reminded me - didn't Rance fuck Satella in III? I can't remember.

>>22745071
No. You fuck her for the first time in Quest, which came out before 03.

>>22737194
It's a CG, text, spoken dialogue and SFX modification which I doubt will ever get fan patched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-SNPbza-I&feature=youtu.be&t=6656
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Ku1ZfFc1E&feature=youtu.be&t=16

>>22745914
Ok. This is proof.
But then why have everyone all over the internet, so feverishly been insisting that it's less than that?
What? Why? Did none of them like, actually look it up? Or did they intentionally lie?
And I mean, the PC port is new but the localization itself is old. Surely people must have known this by now.

>>22746624
it didn't cause too much hubub back when it was released outside of censored gaming covering it as they do with all censorship.

so i wouldn't be surprised if most people just weren't familiar with the situation at all.

>>22746624
Nobody in the medium cares about censorship anymore, at least customer wise and the publishers fucking love it since they can cut or censor whatever they want and get away with a huge profit still. I think the biggest issue in recent times was maitetsu and they got away with saying
>I literally did not give a shit about the title so I never bothered to check to make sure everything was properly handled despite the fact I was the lead manager on said product, oh well
People will still buy the title regardless of how much you butcher the title as shown with all of moenovel's releases, most Sekai Project titles where they literally release the title unfinished and promise to fix it years later when nobody gives a shit anymore so they can just pretend they never said anything about it.

Sekai Project, Age, Moenovel, Kagura Games, Fakku, have all in current memory notably censored their titles with little to no heads up until someone called them out on it. Hell even Frontwing claimed their one of their titles was "Free of all censorship" until someone specifically mentioned a particular scene and they go
>oh no that's been censored and partially removed, but everything else is uncensored!
despite them literally using the phrase "available for purchase completely uncensored", affirming that in a reply, then immediately backtracking when question above was asked by someone else. JAST also did the same thing recently, sorta. So it was censored but all the original content including the original uncensored art assets for it were left in the code for someone to restore with a few pointer changes and they also offered full no questions asked refunds for anyone who was upset about this.

>>22748755
I don't think Maitetsu did particularly well.

>>22748755
>Nobody in the medium cares about censorship
nobody cares about your autism.

>>22746624
Downplaying what any instance of censorship actually entails is a common tactic of the pro-censorship side. This happens both because they don't care and don't see why others would care and so don't bother to present it properly, or because they're maliciously doing it on purpose to mislead people about it being less than what it is. Just look at #FE and how often people will say "they just changed a few costumes", or Xenoblade 2 where people will say "it was completely uncensored".
I guess those are both major video game examples, the VN crowd is generally much better informed, but I also didn't know the Utawarerumono censorship was more than just the CG all this time either. I guess I assumed it made sense since the DT2 censorship didn't extend beyond CG edits. Unless someone's going to tell me now that it actually did.

>>22746624
It does not matter much. Those that say it matters are Puritan autists that will whine and do nothing about it like provide a mod.

>>22749149
I care you fucking retard.

>>22748755
The performances of Noratoto 1 and 2 are probably the strongest recent example of censorship negatively impacting a release. The titles were recent, well known moege releases that got plenty of press not too long ago, and similar titles have done quite well on Steam this past year, and yet neither did particularly well on Steam. Shuffle is a relatively well known franchise, yet it only ever peaked at 30 concurrent users and appears to have halted the plans for Yumehaven before they got off the ground. Moenovel has had less success these days than they did historically, noticeably with Cross Channel peaking at just 17 concurrent users.

I will grant you though that while it appears titles with significant amounts of censorship, especially going R18 to all ages, have some noticeable recent underperformances, titles with a handful of smaller edits don't appear to have much of an effect on sales.

>>22749402
Shuffle is primordial ( and old titles in general sell worse ) and was on sale in MG store for quite a while.
Noratoto was not only censored but was also
initially planned to be released as unedited MTL. This probably even more harmfull for sales as your average steamfag can easily spot unedited MTL while is unlikely to tell if the VN is censored and to what degree.

>>22749483
We're going to pretend that the average steam user gives a single fuck about translation quality when they buy SakuraGame releases in droves?

>>22749486
>>22749486
"Translation quality" is one thing and Noratoto anouncement was something else.
https://imgur.com/a/ZRetG

You now remember Haro

>>22749590
https://store.steampowered.com/app/665180/Dark_Elf/
Yep, totally different league.

>>22749768
Well, this is just as bad.
Still you comparing 1.5 $ rpgmaker trash and fully priced title wich is one of better selling VNs from 2016. One of those is almost pure gameplay and the other one is just text.
Might as well compare potato to helicopter since you can't shave with either.

Wasn't flowers autumn supposed to be done by now?

>>22750084
It's JAST.

>>22749483
>Shuffle is primordial ( and old titles in general sell worse ) and was on sale in MG store for quite a while.
Funny that you said that, but Shuffle was almost never on sale on MangaGamer's site, I waited years for it to go on sale so that I can buy it only for Navel to cut ties with MangaGamer and release an inferior butchered version on steam.
I just can't understand how they can sell it for like 10$ on steam, yet price it 40$ on MangaGamer.

>>22750204
>I just can't understand how they can sell it for like 10$ on steam, yet price it 40$ on MangaGamer.
MG has to pay royalties for the license.
Average title selling about ~500 copies on MG store if Aru("i put "dudes" in translations because im not paid enough")Naru is not lied.
So 30-40$ is probably about right if you want it to pay for itself.

what happened to

https://daybreaktl.wordpress.com/projectoverview/

>>22750279
Was probably just made up.

>>22750279
i read it machine translating the hungarian translation, which is not fun, since all the pronouns get fucked up

>>22750204
Navel saw the Nekopara sales and wanted a piece of the cake. Considering how desperate MangaGamer is for every sale they could have asked them to make a steam version and I'm pretty sure Diddler would have done it, but they waited for the contract to expire and went on their own.
It wouldn't even be a problem if they released Shuffle! Essence+ which is the best version of Shuffle, but in this case it was just pure greed.
Navel, MoeNovel, Frontwing or last years Noratoto release are good examples how obsessed some companies are with steam and still view it as the holy grail of easy profit.

whoa...

>>22750461
what, didn't get enough replies in /vn/? fuck off and take your twitter screencaps with you.

>>22750461
Sounds almost like he has never read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Proust.

>>22750470
>fuck off and take your twitter screencaps with you.
No

>>22750461
When will MG announce this?

>>22750743
It is already on their lineup for this year.
>>22724306
>Musicus! - 2020 release

>>22750765
I know they're releasing it, I mean that they haven't "officially" announced it yet. Like there's nothing about it on their website or Twitter. The 2020 release info is from Overdrive's site.

>>22750794
Lately they've only been announcing things when they're almost done, so it will probably be announced at one of their conventions they're attending this year.

>>22750812
Doddler seems to be still patching Baldr Sky, so my guess is they are try to stretch updates until he's back.

>>22750844
>Doddler seems to be still patching Baldr Sky
Really? Was it a broken mess after all?

>>22744165
https://gareblogs.wordpress.com/

>>22750997
No surprisingly

>>22752089
Then what patches are being worked on?

>>22752120
Scenario chart messing up in one route apparently.

>>22752132
That actually got solved, the scenario chart crashes during chinatsu route if you have directX rendering disabled in the launch options for some reason. It probably even happens in the JP version.

>>22744165
Why the fuck would anyone rate a nukige highly?

>>22750997
Would be great if he could patch the fucking garbage skip function. It's completely shit and makes binging the routes absolutely awful.

>>22749209
You are pretending to care.

>>22754375
What's shit about it?

>>22754585
I don't know how it works, but it doesn't function like the skipping function in most other games, meaning when you end up having to re-read the same scenes over and over again, because there's a 1% difference in the scene on a new route

is erogamescape not loading for anyone else lately

>>22755343
VPNs and the reverse proxy site stopped working for me, it still works if you load the page trough google translate but it's pretty slow to load and the page layout breaks.

>>22755343
>>22755382
Don't they just block it in the USA? I've never had trouble accessing it.

>>22755404
I think they also block you if you try to vote or post info about a game from a foreign IP, it happened to me on my home internet with static IP but I can still access it from my phone.

>>22755404
The admins obviously don't want filthy gaijin to even watch it, much less tamper with and use the site, to the effort of blocking Tor nodes from inside Japan.

>>22755343
>>22755404
>>22755465
>>22755470
I've seen people say for years that they're blocked in the US, but I've never had such issues personally speaking. Loading just fine for me.

can someone post a link download VBF International Soundtrack ?

Hey I have literally no where else to go, I just want to get this translated can someone please help me.

>>22759885
The pleasure of being cummed inside.

>>22759885
日没

>>22759885
https://jisho.org/search/%E6%97%A5%E6%B2%A1

>>22759929
>>22759916
Thanks! Trying to find the artist of this Lofi song I heard.

>>22759908
How lewd..

when is tha annual mangagoyim survey? I think I missed it last year.

>>22761513
Who cares, it's not like they'll ever license anything good anyway

>>22762213
But anon, they've licensed the moogy-approved greatest visual novel ever™, Musicus.

>>22763080
Do you really think they listened to a random twitter faggot? Overdrive is part of Mangagamer newfag.

>>22763194
Learn to recognize sarcasm you fucking idiot.

>>22763080
Only fools would listen to his biased opinions and his whims to choose licenses.

>>22763080
But how can it be the greatest ever if it's getting translated? VNs lose value the more others can access them.

>>22763080
Moogy did nothing wrong!

>>22768937
>Moogy did nothing
Fixed that for you.

>>22769719
New thread up with the updates for this week.

>>22733284
>ORIENTALISM

Sound racist.

Also, what's with all the question marks? Don't you know what you are?

novel

>>22724306

>>22775101