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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Finished Root Double. The kids were boring characters, but the adults were great. Thank goodness you only have to deal with the worst, most boring one during the first route, but having to deal with the second worst for the rest of the game was bad. Main character of Route A is the best though and I wish it'd been more about his perspective.
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Yeah it isn't bad, but those damned kids really drag it down until the very end of route B. Route A was just so good and is the high point of the whole thing.
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Aug 6, 2016 22:20
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the second op for the anime was good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju3sWRJ-fg that's my robotics;notes opinion
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Aug 6, 2016 23:27
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Chaos;Head is really interesting but kinda flawed. Apparently the re-release Chaos;Head Noah makes it way better but the translation issues surrounding that is such an utter mess. I have it on good authority that a complete Noah translation was made and pitched by the team behind the S;G translation and were subsequently turned down by 5pb. I still hold out hope that it will somehow turn up again after 5pb changes their minds. That company barely seems to understand what it wants out of the western market. The Chaos;Head follow up, Chaos;Child is also apparently really great, as is Steins;Gate 0 (coming out in the US next month). So I don't think S;G itself was a mere fluke.
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voltcatfish posted:I was gonna say "Maybe the anime I found out just now that exists, is a better way to experience Chaos Head?" They even adapted the only ending out of the three that matters. But it's apparently only 12 episodes long, so uh, maybe not. DO NOT DO THIS
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Aug 6, 2016 23:55
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if i can save even one other person from wasting their time on the chaos head anime i can die fulfilled
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Yeah it isn't bad, but those damned kids really drag it down until the very end of route B. Route A was just so good and is the high point of the whole thing. e: I've only read the first three routes and a couple chapters of the fourth to be clear Irony Be My Shield fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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Aug 7, 2016 00:21
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The Team Fourstar videos of Panzermadels are really making it look like a good buy, if you like fluff that doesn't care at all about being serious.
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Aug 7, 2016 00:26
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Aug 7, 2016 01:50
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Ohh man, there's a sequel to Steins Gate coming out in a month? I'm probably about to buy the first one and dive in but maybe I should wait to get instant sequel gratification??
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Aug 7, 2016 02:40
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It's not a sequel. It's a "side-quel". It's the events that follow one of the (non canon) endings of the original game.
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Aug 7, 2016 02:42
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steins;gate is pretty meaty, it'll probably take you a couple of weeks to read it
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Aug 7, 2016 02:45
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I probably only spent about a week on it (Not counting the break I took from it to play ZTD), though I work from home and can spend absurd hours playing these kinds of games as a result. It's a bit of a slow burn though once I got into it I couldn't stop. Very excited to play 0 now. Raxivace fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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Aug 7, 2016 03:10
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Man I just 100% ztd and I feel like it was a huge step down from vlr in tons of ways, and I was really looking forward to it before. Oh well.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:What did you find so bad about them? I guess they do fall into anime cliches more and aren't super interesting but I didn't find them actively offensive in any way. So, first off is Yuuri. Yuuri's actions are annoying in the first route, (4th route spoiler) which is actually clever foreshadowing, but still annoying, and she never changes as a character, even from when she was a kid. It makes sense why she's like that in the second route, but not so much in the first or fourth. Natsuhiko is annoying because he's a whiny prick with no interesting side to him. Seriously, I'd rather have the Chaos;Head protagonist because while he was a terrible human being at least he had hobbies. I wish he got his act together after the end of the second route, but nope, they have to get rid of that actually interesting potential character development because guess who's back. Salyu could've been a great character. In fact, I'd thought she was very interesting until it turns out she's 12 yet is strong enough to fend off three fully grown men. Admittedly, she doesn't necessarily win but still. Mashiro's alright though. Solid character growth and understandable motivations. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the game, it's just that these characters are the only ones that I feel really dragged it down. It's a very good VN.
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Aug 7, 2016 15:54
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I now fully endorse this dumb, goofy rear end game. -saxophone laced innuendo-  
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Aug 7, 2016 18:05
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Kinda sad that Chaos Head got royally hosed with regard to its fan translation and then the official one that never happened and probably never will at this point, tho.
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voltcatfish posted:Kinda sad that Chaos Head got royally hosed with regard to its fan translation and then the official one that never happened and probably never will at this point, tho.
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Aug 7, 2016 19:09
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The translation got pulled due to an official release but said release never actually happened.
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Aug 7, 2016 20:01
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Raxivace posted:What's the story here? Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Apparently the re-release Chaos;Head Noah makes it way better but the translation issues surrounding that is such an utter mess. I have it on good authority that a complete Noah translation was made and pitched by the team behind the S;G translation and were subsequently turned down by 5pb. I still hold out hope that it will somehow turn up again after 5pb changes their minds. That company barely seems to understand what it wants out of the western market. I talked to one of the team members about it. The deal was super close to happening, then the Japanese side backed out at the last minute. That's why there were hints like this being dropped by one of the translators. But now it will probably never happen. Everything I've heard about 5pb, the company that controls the science adventure series, is confusing as hell. Like how they forbid JAST, the company behind the english PC release of S;G, from selling it for less than $25 or something like that, and forbid them from selling it on Steam. They don't seem to understand how the market here works or what we want.
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Aug 7, 2016 20:10
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:They don't seem to understand how the market here works or what we want. To be fair, most western companies don't, either.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I talked to one of the team members about it. The deal was super close to happening, then the Japanese side backed out at the last minute. That's why there were hints like this being dropped by one of the translators. But now it will probably never happen.
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Endorph posted:To a certain extent, I can understand not wanting to devalue your brand, but when you can buy Steins;Gate in japan for somewhere around 1650 yen if you know where to look (roughly $16), it feels a little disingenuous. Yeah it also leads to fun things like songs with the theme of "going out into the world" not being available outside of Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTTnwUS37Y I think as a company they do want to expand but are very very paranoid about losing the ability to price gouge their Japanese base (because foreigners = cheap versions & piracy)
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Endorph posted:To a certain extent, I can understand not wanting to devalue your brand, but when you can buy Steins;Gate in japan for somewhere around 1650 yen if you know where to look (roughly $16), it feels a little disingenuous.
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Raxivace posted:FWIW I got the PS3 version of S;G for only $10 through a recent PSN sale a month or so ago. That felt like more than a reasonable price to pay, though I might have paid the $25 or whatever too. Yeah, this is one of the things that pissed off JAST. 5pb allows pqube to price the game very flexibly and it's been $10 on PSN before, but the PC publisher is forbidden from doing so for reasons no one understands.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Yeah, this is one of the things that pissed off JAST. 5pb allows pqube to price the game very flexibly and it's been $10 on PSN before, but the PC publisher is forbidden from doing so for reasons no one understands. As I understand it PSN works differently from most PC distributors like Steam. On Steam the publisher decides the sale price and receives a percentage of that price. PSN works more like a brick-and-mortar store; the publisher sells copies to Sony for a fixed unit price, but Sony are the ones who decide the final sale price. So 5pb wouldn't be able to control the sale price on PSN in the same way, because it's ultimately Sony's decision rather than the publisher's.
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Saoshyant posted:It's not a sequel. It's a "side-quel". It's the events that follow one of the (non canon) endings of the original game. Which ending, just out of curiosity? Because if it's the one that I thought was more interesting than the true ending, I might have to play this.
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Rollersnake posted:Which ending, just out of curiosity? Because if it's the one that I thought was more interesting than the true ending, I might have to play this.
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Raxivace posted:From what I understand, the sequel follows a variation of the True Ending where Okabe accidentally stabs Kurisu himself, but never receives the video mail from his future self so he doesn't time travel again to save her. I thought it was the Mayuri ending. In other words, where he never receives the email from his future self.
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I thought it was the Okabe timeline who actually researches time travel and sends the e-mail. Which is probably the same as one of the two above
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This is only tangentially related to VNs but the Fate/Stay Night spinoff novel series Fate/Strange Fake is absolutely amazing and everyone should read it. This coming from someone who generally hates the whole Fate franchise (I love the premise and some of the side characters and fight scenes but could never really get into the rest of it for various reasons). They put the guy who wrote Baccano and Durarara in charge of this spinoff and the cast and premise and writing are just incredibly entertaining. I thought I'd hate it when I saw Gilgamesh on the cover of the first book but he even somehow managed to make Gilgamesh a character I want to read about. Seriously it's good. Someone has probably fan translated the novels somewhere so go check it out. Some knowledge of the Fate series will help your comprehension but honestly you can probably get by without it.
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Getsuya posted:This is only tangentially related to VNs but the Fate/Stay Night spinoff novel series Fate/Strange Fake is absolutely amazing and everyone should read it. This coming from someone who generally hates the whole Fate franchise (I love the premise and some of the side characters and fight scenes but could never really get into the rest of it for various reasons). They put the guy who wrote Baccano and Durarara in charge of this spinoff and the cast and premise and writing are just incredibly entertaining. I thought I'd hate it when I saw Gilgamesh on the cover of the first book but he even somehow managed to make Gilgamesh a character I want to read about. i initially misread this as the guy writing the series hates F/SN and got very confused
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Stexils posted:i initially misread this as the guy writing the series hates F/SN and got very confused Well, sometimes the best side works happen when the creator hates the source material. Like Knights of the Old Republic 2.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Well, sometimes the best side works happen when the creator hates the source material. Like Knights of the Old Republic 2. i know about kotor 2 but are there actually any other examples
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Stexils posted:i know about kotor 2 but are there actually any other examples Movies, but Paul Verhoeven said he couldn't even finish the Starship Troopers novel, he was so disgusted by its admiration of fascism. edit: Also not really a 'side work' or sequel, I guess. Not Operator fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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It's another adaptation, but the film version of Kiss Me Deadly was done by people that hated the Mike Hammer character and didn't like Mickey Spillane in general. That reminds me, other than Hotel Dusk and its sequel (And with Hotel Dusk this is only sort of the case) are there many noirish VN's?
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well there's that jake hunter thing but despite it being a 16 games strong series in japan, we only got like the worst game of them all or something so rip
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Raxivace posted:It's another adaptation, but the film version of Kiss Me Deadly was done by people that hated the Mike Hammer character and didn't like Mickey Spillane in general. kara no shoujo
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Spike Chunsoft's "which game do you most want ported to steam" poll is done. The right game won.
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I'm satisfied with a close second for 428, and amused that people who want actual gameplay only managed to muster a 20% showing.
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