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Does /vr/ make charts like this after polling its users?

>> No.4212679

>>4212652
That's a troll chart you know.

>polling its users?
Ha, I wish. I like to make charts but when I try to say "hey, I'm making a chart, come weigh in on it" I get very few takers, and then later when I post it I get ten times as many complainers. If you have a strong opinion, I'd love to hear about it before I'm finished doing all the research and making the chart!

I don't think it's really practical to try to make a "fair" poll anyway. Even if everything goes right, the result is mediocre. Some games (or books or films or w/e) are divisive but still appeal to enough people that it's good to spread the word about them anyway. I'd much rather know three killer games loved by three different disagreeing groups of people than the one game that the majority of them hated the least.

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>>4212679
>That's a troll chart you know.
Maybe, but by the type of trolling you know the kind of users.

>> No.4212729

>>4212706
>by the type of trolling you know the kind of users.
Pedophiles? People who think Lolita is overrated? Not sure what you're getting at.
To be clear that is not actually the list that the users voted on. There is probably an original out there without the top 5 or 6 books being switched for obscure pedo novels.

>> No.4212773

>>4212729
>Pedophiles?
If they voted that, yes they are. Or at least wanna be pedos.
If /vr/ voted custer's revenge as the best game ever would say something.
I messed up downloading the first chart I saw on Google. And no one is replying because of the pedo-books.

>> No.4212787

>>4212652
>2016 /lit/ chart
>no mention of Infinite Jest
I'm skeptical

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>>4212652
>2016 /lit/ chart
>top 20 novels aren't all about prepubescent girls
Very dubious image OP.

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>>4212787
Sorry, didn't saw the CP books.

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OK I started one based on OP's format

>> No.4213152

>>4213117
Me on the right.

>> No.4213197

>>4213117
God fucking damnit.

>> No.4213231

>>4213117
Fuck you. I started laughing in the middle of work.

>> No.4213246

>>4213117
There are probably a lot more lolicon games out there, but the chart should definitely also have sections for gay/rape/incest related games.

>> No.4213281

>polling its users
Don't do this. Autismos will just end up vote stuffing niche games that no one else cares about. You can't truthfully poll people on an anonymous image board.

>>4213246
>gay/rape/incest related games

Er, as one all-inclusive category? I'd be curious about the gay games, at least. You practically never hear about those.

>> No.4213291

>>4213281
>Don't do this. Autismos will just end up vote stuffing niche games that no one else cares about. You can't truthfully poll people on an anonymous image board.
My main concern right now are the loli jokes. I didn't mind some obscure Japan only Saturn shmup as number one.

>> No.4213306

>>4213281
>as one all-inclusive category?
No. For historical reasons the sci-fi thread on /lit/ has a meme of asking about books that contain gay scenes, rape scenes, or incest, abbreviated "GRI." But on charts they are shown separately. Someone looking for their little-sister-incest fix or whatever probably doesn't want to read about sweaty mansex and vice versa.

Do gay retro games exist? I don't know of any.

>> No.4213309

>>4213291
You will never get that because only two or three people will vote for it. The top ten will be boring and predictable because only extremely well known games will get voted for many enough times.

>> No.4213360

>>4213306
>Do gay retro games exist? I don't know of any.
It seems like they do.
>In 1986, Infocom released Moonmist, a text adventure mystery with several possible randomly selected plotlines. In one of these plotlines, the criminal is a female artist who is jealous because her girlfriend is married to a man. This is the first instance of a homosexual character in a video game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_with_LGBT_characters

>> No.4213414

>>4213360
Oh, of course it's a lesbian thing. Probably written by a man who liked "lesbian" porn. When it comes from a dude who likes looking at sexy pics of two women because he's straight, I think it's a stretch to call it "gay." \
I bet male-male gayshit is harder to come by.

Looking over the list on wikipedia, in the 80s I see a HyperCard deck which is neat but hardly counts as a game, the usual cop-out shit like Birdo and Poison (where it's only gay/trans because it says so in the manual but not relevant to the game in any way), and some vague examples that could be gay or not-gay depending on how you interpret it.

In the 90s section I see a couple JRPGs with at least the option of a gay male player character, but it's still mostly either inoffensive lesbian side characters or "effeminately evil" male villains. Pretty pathetic.

>> No.4213434

>>4213360
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_with_LGBT_characters

This list doesn't seem very informative. A lot of character sexuality is implied at best, and fan speculation at worst.

I suppose ratings boards like the ESRB made it difficult to have LGBT characters and see any mainstream success. I mean, having your game rated up to T or M just because there's a gay character somewhere in there seems punitive, and it's practically sales suicide depending on the platform you're developing for.

>> No.4213486

>>4213434
>A lot of character sexuality is implied at best, and fan speculation at worst.
Before the 00s it was pretty rare to have a character being openly gay/lesbian.

>> No.4213721

>>4213414
I think most you'll get are joke/bad gay endings like in True Love and gachi games like Cho Aniki.
Real BL/yaoi games only seem to have started in 2000.

>> No.4215002

>>4213117
where are the top 6 -100?

>> No.4215176

>>4215002
Madou Monogatari/Puyo Puyo is a no brainer.
That one GB RPG with kindergarten kids.
Kana: Little Sister

>> No.4217449

>>4213414
>Oh, of course it's a lesbian thing. Probably written by a man who liked "lesbian" porn. When it comes from a dude who likes looking at sexy pics of two women because he's straight, I think it's a stretch to call it "gay."
It's a text adventure. I doubt it's a sexual thing.

At least it's better than Capcom and "we made this sexy lady a tranny so that you feel less guilty about pounding her pretty face in."

>> No.4217515

>>4217449
My point is that it uses lesbianism as a prop, just like Capcom using the supposed existence of Poison's balls that way.

>> No.4217707

>>4212652
No, but /v/abies and reditors who come here to shit the place up do.