Chade on 11/6/2009 at 21:47
Can't wait to get a chance to try it ...
How long is it, btw?
Ostriig on 11/6/2009 at 22:23
A big chunk of positive posts without a single negative in a TTLG thread? I might just borrow my mate's HL2 for this...
EvaUnit02 on 11/6/2009 at 22:34
Quote Posted by Ostriig
A big chunk of positive posts without a single negative in a TTLG thread? I might just borrow my mate's HL2 for this...
Other than it not being a game and being more akin to a Hentai visual novel?
Oh and Half-Life 2 is tied to a person's Steam account. Being signed into the same account simultaneously from two different IP's is not a good idea.
june gloom on 11/6/2009 at 22:42
psst
visual novels aren't necessarily hentai
Vivian on 11/6/2009 at 22:45
maybe you can explain which aspects in particular remind you of hentai, for those of us who are less familiar with the form?
demagogue on 11/6/2009 at 22:55
Quote Posted by Vivian
maybe you can explain which aspects in particular remind you of hentai, for those of us who are less familiar with the form?
The genre of visual novels is dominated by ren-ai (Japanese romance) games; a lot of them, maybe most, have hentai aspects (explicit sex), but not all. And they have ubiquitous features like narration, and interaction limited to forced choice-forks in the narrative path, the rest basically just more or less creative ways to let the narrative progress on its own. I think that's all he meant. As opposed to Interactive Fiction, which is also strongly story-heavy, but puts more emphasis on open interactivity and the player's choices being part of the story.
EvaUnit02 on 11/6/2009 at 22:59
Quote Posted by dethtoll
psst
visual novels aren't necessarily hentai
No shit, Sherlock.
Quote Posted by Vivian
maybe you can explain which aspects in particular remind you of hentai, for those of us who are less familiar with the form?
Koki already spelt this out earlier:-
Quote Posted by Koki
Like The Path - it's as much a game as dating sims, where you just use one button to scroll the dialogue and up/down to select plot branch every half an hour.
They equate to glorified Choose Your Own Adventure novels. Yes, they do have graphics, sounds, music and sometimes animation, but they still aren't games.
A pretty famous example is School Days, it's literally a hybrid between the traditional visual novel and those shitty CD-ROM interactive movies that the West used to shit out in the 90's.
The genre also has a few examples of its' "Citizen Kane". Namely the games produced by a company called Type-Moon and writer Kinoko Nasu. Tsukihime and Fate stay/night are lovely pieces of literature/interactive experiences.
Vivian on 11/6/2009 at 23:19
there are no dialogue choices. What are you on about? Have you actually tried Dear Esther out? or was this an excuse to try and legitamise your hentai habit?
june gloom on 11/6/2009 at 23:20
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
No shit, Sherlock.
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Other than it not being a game and being more akin to a Hentai visual novel?
Backpedalling is dangerous. You might get hit from behind.
Quote Posted by Vivian
there are no dialogue choices. What are you on about? Have you actually tried Dear Esther out? or was this an excuse to try and legitamise your hentai habit?
i don't know much
but i know i love you
EvaUnit02 on 11/6/2009 at 23:25
Quote Posted by Vivian
there are no dialogue choices. What are you on about? Have you actually tried Dear Esther out? or was this an excuse to try and legitamise your hentai habit?
Don't be a dick, I was humouring Ostriig. The point was that it's not a game.
