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Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer
Also, they are sending the little girls in, because nearly all the men capable of fighting have already died fighting these things. They've sent armies upon armies into these hives, and mankind has been reduced to 1 billion people or so. 5/6ths of mankind's population have been wiped out fighting these things. MUVLUV SPOILER: Our protagonist is not an exception either. No, it's not doing the whole "it was all a dream" spiel.

Don't watch the anime. The anime is poo poo and is actually based on a spin-off called Total Eclipse. The only thing it has going for it is the first opening. Don't watch it.

I would recommend getting the game, but if you are not on Windows, you might be kinda out of luck. It's a bitch to work with, otherwise, we could probably have made the all-ages version available, which I do believe has multiplatform release.

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tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly
So there's a porn removed version that would be immensely easier to get if you aren't in Japan, but people refuse to translate it because it would ruin the original Japanese vision?

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン
That's just a nice way of putting "because it doesn't have porn in it" but yeah

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012
Yeah I am totally gonna play this porn game because of its rich deep story and vibrant characters.

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Livingtrope posted:

Yeah I am totally gonna play this porn game because of its rich deep story and vibrant characters.

No, you see, they just had to put porn in there for the game to sell. So that makes it totally okay and not creepy as gently caress.

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Saagonsa posted:

No, you see, they just had to put porn in there for the game to sell. So that makes it totally okay and not creepy as gently caress.

I take it you're not a big HBO fan either? :v:

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Saagonsa posted:

No, you see, they just had to put porn in there for the game to sell. So that makes it totally okay and not creepy as gently caress.

This is literally true though, VNs without porn sell horribly. Well, it used to be true at least. Might not be nowadays with stuff like Persona and the ;Gate series coming out.

threeagainstfour
Jun 27, 2005


How did it end? I don't want to play the game but I'm curious if the world ends up beating the BETA.

Daler Mehndi
Apr 10, 2005

Tunak Tunak Tun!

AdjectiveNoun posted:

I know this is a longshot, but do any of the people who've played Muv-Luv know of a way to get it for Mac? (Or alternatively, know of any good Let's Plays of it) I don't have enough memory on mine to even do a Bootcamp windows partition, but want to see what it's like after reading the non-spoilery posts about it.
You may want to know that it's a visual novel, meaning it's pretty much an electronic book with pictures. And (Japanese) voice acting. I don't think a Let's Play would be practical or meaningful.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Daler Mehndi posted:

You may want to know that it's a visual novel, meaning it's pretty much an electronic book with pictures. And (Japanese) voice acting. I don't think a Let's Play would be practical or meaningful.

There are plenty of VN LPs. Some, like the Fate/stay night one, are quite well regarded.

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

I am literally too lazy to click a mouse in order to read a bunch of words. Somebody else do it for me.

ADullMin
May 3, 2013

by Ralp
VN let's plays are currently being oppressed because some goon tried to lp three porn games and got banned.

Elotana
Dec 12, 2003

and i'm putting it all on the goddamn expense account

Saagonsa posted:

I am literally too lazy to click a mouse in order to read a bunch of words. Somebody else do it for me.
Getting most japanese VNs to run correctly on a US Windows install is not what one would call a one-click process.

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012
So I'm going to be honest with y'all, I just recently finished reading the manga and so skipped to the end of the thread to see what was up. Is porn game discussion a regular thing or did I just come in at a bad time?

ADullMin
May 3, 2013

by Ralp
I have not read or watched this japanese thing, but I have played porn games.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Unless I'm actually piloting a giant robot shooting giant monsters with wasd controls and mouse aiming, I have zero interest in convincing a bunch of schoolgirls with brightly coloured hair to have sex with me.

ADullMin
May 3, 2013

by Ralp

Phobophilia posted:

Unless I'm actually piloting a giant robot shooting giant monsters with wasd controls and mouse aiming, I have zero interest in convincing a bunch of schoolgirls with brightly coloured hair to have sex with me.

You will like Baldr Sky if it ever gets translated. It has gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN6F9PVIHDM

ADullMin fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Dec 28, 2013

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer

Phobophilia posted:

Unless I'm actually piloting a giant robot shooting giant monsters with wasd controls and mouse aiming, I have zero interest in convincing a bunch of schoolgirls with brightly coloured hair to have sex with me.

I am sorry, but you were the one who asked.



It doesn't have any gameplay, unless you count a fandisc, otherwise the mood is a lot like Shingeki no Kyojin and you were apparently patient enough to read that, so...

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Hey, I wanted to know the big reveal of the series that inspired SnK, and it turns out to be a knock-off of a dozen other modern sci-fi stories plus hot anime babes.

GimmickMan
Dec 27, 2011

Livingtrope posted:

So I'm going to be honest with y'all, I just recently finished reading the manga and so skipped to the end of the thread to see what was up. Is porn game discussion a regular thing or did I just come in at a bad time?

The end days of each month tend to make for weird derails. :v:

InequalityGodzilla
May 31, 2012

Pensive posted:

I've yet actually read it myself since I can't really find the motivation to do so, but from what I know;

Muv luv is split up into three parts. The first is a generic high-school rom-com at the end of which the protagonist gets teleported to an alternate reality where the last of the human race is struggling to survive against an alien invasion bent on their destruction. He is quickly conscripted in to the dwindling military (which is now almost entirely staffed by female child soldiers, because they ran out of adult soldiers and then ran out of the male child soldiers. This is mostly an excuse to put teenage girls in skin tight bodysuits with see-through fronts.). Character development and PTSD happens. Then the third part which I am told is the awesome bit.

The big reveal is this;

The endless army of apparently non-sentient aliens that are destroying the planet are not intentionally destroying the human civilization. It turns out that they are actually Von-Neumann probes working for a massive inter galactic civilization and are supposed to avoid systems inhabited by intelligent life. However an oversight in their programming causes their scouts not to realize that humans are sentient and instead classifies them as "hostile/dangerous wildlife". This is the reason why they seem to have no real objectives or goals beyond destroying everything.
poo poo, that... Actually sounds pretty drat interesting. From what I'd seen of it before it looked utterly generic but I might have to actually check that out.

Perfume chat: But what would everyone else smell like?! Christa I imagine would be freshly baked bread to fit with the kind of domestic goddess joke they had going with her, Ymir I kind of imagine smelling like mold and damp and rotting wood because that's kind of what I imagined her titan form smelling like, Bertolt smells like (nervous) sweat, and Connie smells like genericness.

...i kind of feel like only one of those would actually sell as perfume/cologne.

Edit: also, a bit late but alternate title: Bounding Behemoths.

InequalityGodzilla fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Dec 29, 2013

blankd
Mar 26, 2010
Grim reminder of Japan yadda yadda

So, being one of those "watched the anime and skipped straight to where the manga picked back up" is there any kind of place I could see what changed between the anime/manga adaption? I'm sure someone has done it.

I've seen here and there that some Armin scenes were swapped with Mikasa and I'm wondering if the differences were only in the anime's last 2 episodes or if there are other moments in the other 30 odd chapters.

I also know that Levi got to take some others' lines and scenes but weren't as different (or so I've been vaguely told). I kind of question why some of these swaps were made but I won't lose any sleep over not having an answer. Also is there a consensus to the dramatic spinoffs(?) and if they're worth a read or not?

Forgive me if these questions have been asked already as well, this is a monster of a thread.

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




blankd posted:

Grim reminder of Japan yadda yadda

So, being one of those "watched the anime and skipped straight to where the manga picked back up" is there any kind of place I could see what changed between the anime/manga adaption? I'm sure someone has done it.

I've seen here and there that some Armin scenes were swapped with Mikasa and I'm wondering if the differences were only in the anime's last 2 episodes or if there are other moments in the other 30 odd chapters.

I also know that Levi got to take some others' lines and scenes but weren't as different (or so I've been vaguely told). I kind of question why some of these swaps were made but I won't lose any sleep over not having an answer. Also is there a consensus to the dramatic spinoffs(?) and if they're worth a read or not?

Forgive me if these questions have been asked already as well, this is a monster of a thread.

Honestly the anime is pretty much scene for scene until about the second half of episode 22 and then it starts doing things a lot differently. This is around chapter 30. The differences between them are for the most part irrelevent until that point.

There is some new stuff thrown in like Rico Brzenska telling Eren the names of the people who are going to die for him, and some things taken out like the end of Eren's training sequence with Annie. It's unfortunate they took that specific scene out because it showed Annie's real personality and why her and Eren have tons of mutual respect for one another. Not to mention feeds into why Eren has difficulty fighting Annie until Mikasa and Armin are threatened.

http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c017/31.html
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c017/32.html
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c017/33.html

Honestly the anime could have done with taking out the recap episode, and done one more episode- they would have been able to finish at http://www.mangahere.com/manga/shingeki_no_kyojin/c034/35.html This point. It's an easy cliffhanger too- the guy says "Wall Rose has fallen!" and then the ending scene is the Ragako titans walking the hills.

Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Dec 29, 2013

Mordaedil
Oct 25, 2007

Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?
Grimey Drawer

Phobophilia posted:

Hey, I wanted to know the big reveal of the series that inspired SnK, and it turns out to be a knock-off of a dozen other modern sci-fi stories plus hot anime babes.

When you saw Shawshank Redemption, did you think of it as an episode of Oz plus geology? I mean, jeez.

Jackard
Oct 28, 2007

We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Phobophilia posted:

Hey, I wanted to know the big reveal of the series that inspired SnK, and it turns out to be a knock-off of a dozen other modern sci-fi stories plus hot anime babes.
And posters are actually recommending the entire mess even though you apparently have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it working on modern systems :jerkbag:

e: "50-100 hours" of this nonsense. visual novels are the worst format. like listening to an audiobook except without any of the talent involved

Jackard fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Dec 29, 2013

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン
Windows XP is the premium Anime Operating System, followed closely by UBUNTU

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

MeLKoR posted:

Welcome to the World of Vore :burpcrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTvdKLI7Ndo

Saagonsa fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Dec 29, 2013

socialsecurity
Aug 30, 2003





Silver2195 posted:

I take it you're not a big HBO fan either? :v:

If HBO had all of it's actresses either be or look like under 15 then yes it would be a problem

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン

Can you get this for Boardwalk Empire

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

threeagainstfour posted:

How did it end? I don't want to play the game but I'm curious if the world ends up beating the BETA.

Could someone answer this? I just had more than my fill of scantly clad girls and high school drama.

e: Considering the absolute lack of discipline in the army and complete disregard for the lives of highly trained soldiers by the higher ups we have no hope in hell.

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Dec 29, 2013

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン
In one timeline yes, but the Earth is basically destroyed. Most of the worlds oceans are turned to salty wastelands with hosed up physics, but the BETA on Earth are basically gone. However, there's BETA colonies on Mars and the Moon that are way more developed than any of the ones on Earth were, so if they decide to close in on Earth it's over. A colony ship was sent from Earth, though, and it's implied it found a habitable planet.

In the main timeline, it hasn't gotten to that, but they probably will beat the BETA.


If I'm wrong about something whatever I just read the wiki

Enid Coleslaw
May 17, 2011

by Ion Helmet
If I understand correctly, MuvLuv has a great story, but not great enough to sell on its own merits, so they added pedobait? Or is it just pedo fodder with above average writing for the genre?
How come there's no porn-free translated version if pretty much all they would need to do is cut some of the already translated VN?

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Pork-Ridden Paper posted:

If I understand correctly, MuvLuv has a great story, but not great enough to sell on its own merits, so they added pedobait? Or is it just pedo fodder with above average writing for the genre?
How come there's no porn-free translated version if pretty much all they would need to do is cut some of the already translated VN?

AFAIK that's a really common thing with visual novels in Japan; Fate/Stay Night originally had this too and it's a really prominent example (someone please correct me on this if I'm wrong, I heard this like 5 years ago).

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

I am sure this game that the developers did not trust would sell well enough without porn being included actually has a "great story"

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン
I'm not really a vn guy but from what I understand they're almost universally PC games, and PC games in japan implies a certain kind of customer. A goon, basically. So they market to them. Sometimes vns are actually good and can be sold to slightly more normal people (console gamers)

Saagonsa posted:

I am sure this game that the developers did not trust would sell well enough without porn being included actually has a "great story"

The witches of titmore is one of the finest cinematic experiences you can find. please subscribe to cinemax so that you may begun to appreciate the art of erotic cinema

now watching: pizza boy's bluff

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Saagonsa posted:

I am sure this game that the developers did not trust would sell well enough without porn being included actually has a "great story"

I haven't played Muv-Luv myself, but since a poster above mentioned it as another example, one of your fellow goons has pre-removed the sex scenes from Fate/Stay Night for you: http://lparchive.org/Fatestay-night/

Having said all that, the vast majority of VNs are terrible.

Enid Coleslaw
May 17, 2011

by Ion Helmet

muike posted:

now watching: pizza boy's bluff

I would watch that, not because I think I would be missing out on something good if I didn't, but because the title is awesome and I wouldn't have to fiddle with region and compatibility settings just to end up on some kind of list. Also I somehow doubt the makers of Pizza Boys Bluff were very creatively or artistically invested in their smut project.

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Silver2195 posted:

I haven't played Muv-Luv myself, but since a poster above mentioned it as another example, one of your fellow goons has pre-removed the sex scenes from Fate/Stay Night for you: http://lparchive.org/Fatestay-night/

Having said all that, the vast majority of VNs are terrible.

Dude I'm not reading that.

To blatantly attempt to steer the conversation in a different direction, anyone know when the next chapter is supposed to come out? I thought it was next week, but I'm not sure.

cafel
Mar 29, 2010

This post is hurting the economy!
I think Crunchyroll has Jan. 8th listed as the day they post the next chapter. Unless you meant the raws, in which case I have no idea.

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Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 252 days!

Democratic Pirate posted:

Alternate title: extreme short man syndrome

Short People (Got No Reason to Live).

Armin's cologne should be named "Psychological Destruction."

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