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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Lol

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Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Ekster posted:

Did he just assume that car's gender.

Anil Dasharez0ne posted:

Ha ha! You did the meme! Now do "triggered" and you will be a true lord of comedy!

:ughh:

Seeric
Aug 18, 2011
As far as no-effort garbage is concerned, Yellow: The Yellow Artifact http://store.steampowered.com/app/486820/ has to be somewhere close to the bottom. It boasts about its 'cool graphics' in multiple places despite them just consisting of free assets commonly used in Unity tutorials, it claims to have a whopping '20 levels' which all take somewhere around 15 seconds to complete judging by the trailer, and its 'puzzle elements' seem to consist entirely of collecting a key to open the exit door. By the way, it has 436 reviews with 219 being marked as Positive and a grand total of 29 marked as coming from Steam Purchasers just in case there was any doubt as to the level of integrity upheld by its developers.

a helpful bear
Aug 18, 2004

Slippery Tilde

This game is cool as heck. Thanks for the recommendation

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/582290/

That UI looks rather familiar....

Edit: I didn't realize how bonkers this really was until I looked a bit closer.


George Lucas? Mobil Oil? :psyduck:


Original UI do not steal.


Oh, well that explains everything. This game is Early Access, btw.


:thumbsup: This is literally one of the screenshots they uploaded to the store page.

John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Mar 8, 2017

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
I love eating game prototypes for lunch.

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


Are they still charging $60 for visual novels that came out in 2009 on Steam?

Most of these games look like something that would be featured on Tim and Eric.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

Vargatron posted:

Are they still charging $60 for visual novels that came out in 2009 on Steam?

Most of these games look like something that would be featured on Tim and Eric.

The thing about VNs is that there aren't many people who want them, but the ones who do will pay $60 for em

Taciturn Tactician
Jan 27, 2011

The secret to good health is a balanced diet and unstable healing radiation
Lipstick Apathy

Vargatron posted:

Are they still charging $60 for visual novels that came out in 2009 on Steam?

Most of these games look like something that would be featured on Tim and Eric.

I really have no idea what the gently caress Sekai Project was thinking with pricing Clannad as high as they did. I get that it's a long game and that it was expensive to translate but that game is more than a decade old and looks like fried rear end.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Taciturn Tactician posted:

I really have no idea what the gently caress Sekai Project was thinking with pricing Clannad as high as they did. I get that it's a long game and that it was expensive to translate but that game is more than a decade old and looks like fried rear end.

Traditional Japanese marketing is "charge as high a price as you think you can get away with while still making a profit", so the licensing price could have been less than reasonable or they could just be hoping to exploit Clannad's existing Western fanbase, such as it is.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

If less people buy something it has to be more expensive to cover the costs of it.

Prism
Dec 22, 2007

yospos

Taciturn Tactician posted:

I really have no idea what the gently caress Sekai Project was thinking with pricing Clannad as high as they did. I get that it's a long game and that it was expensive to translate but that game is more than a decade old and looks like fried rear end.


I think this screenshot is distorted. That or his face is.

Killer Low Life
Sep 6, 2010

Taciturn Tactician posted:

I really have no idea what the gently caress Sekai Project was thinking with pricing Clannad as high as they did. I get that it's a long game and that it was expensive to translate but that game is more than a decade old and looks like fried rear end.


Jesus christ that's badly drawn

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Isn't that the remastered edition and the original release looked even worse?

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


No the game's art style is legitimately that loving bad. Good story though (PS watch the anime if you want to save your self 100 hours).

DStecks
Feb 6, 2012


2004, when every anime face literally looked like that.

a7m2
Jul 9, 2012


Ainsley McTree posted:

Yeah I can't get mad at that. I file it with hatoful boyfriend in the "I'll never play it but I'm glad it exists" folder.

hatoful boyfriend isnt what you think it is

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


a7m2 posted:

hatoful boyfriend isnt what you think it is

Is that not the one where the boys are pigeons? I don't know what it is beyond that but I like that premise

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax


Gon' E-Choo is a 3 stage, arcade-style game based on early arcade platformers.



That, uh, takes place in a creepy basement wallpapered with drawings of the main characters that you walk around slowly with heavy, ominous footsteps.



A comic, huh? Must be some kind of promotional thing...





..nope, actually it turns out that the game is the brainchild of a vore fetishist who has spent years :nms:drawing a comic of the same name that is mostly excuses to draw an alligator eating little boys:nms:.



Which is also what the game is about. :shepicide:

h_double posted:

He's got sort of a Chuck Tingle thing going on, I like it.

This is a fairly apt comparison considering that nobody actually reads or enjoys Chuck Tingle books, they just have a sensible chuckle at the title and store description.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Prism posted:

I think this screenshot is distorted. That or his face is.

Hey, people with Bell's palsy and eyebrows pasted over their hair deserve representation in visual novels too.

Cicadas!
Oct 27, 2010


Guy Mann posted:



Gon' E-Choo is a 3 stage, arcade-style game based on early arcade platformers.



That, uh, takes place in a creepy basement wallpapered with drawings of the main characters that you walk around slowly with heavy, ominous footsteps.



A comic, huh? Must be some kind of promotional thing...





..nope, actually it turns out that the game is the brainchild of a vore fetishist who has spent years :nms:drawing a comic of the same name that is mostly excuses to draw an alligator eating little boys:nms:.



Which is also what the game is about. :shepicide:

:stonk: Vore and pedophilia, two horrible tastes that should never go together. Those pictures on the wall are making my skin crawl, ugh.
Is this person on a government watchlist? There's no way those boxes aren't very real and also filled with tiny skeletons.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
When I saw it advertized I thought it was going for some sort of pony island vibe. Time to remove it from my wishlist.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Guy Mann posted:

..nope, actually it turns out that the game is the brainchild of a vore fetishist who has spent years :nms:drawing a comic of the same name that is mostly excuses to draw an alligator eating little boys:nms:.

:stare:

Well, I won't be getting much sleep tonight. I think I'm going to have to change my plans to "staring at the ceiling for twelve hours straight until I forget".

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
It's like the Mega Man DOS Remake, but worse, and for money. The epitome of that KC GREEN piss forest comic.

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

an actual dog posted:

The thing about VNs is that there aren't many people who want them, but the ones who do will pay $60 for em

I wouldn't mind paying that kind of money for a VN, but only if it had a competent translation. Most of the time (in my experience, anyway), non-Western VNs have very stiff translation barely above fan translations.

Cicadas!
Oct 27, 2010


Discendo Vox posted:

It's like the Mega Man DOS Remake, but worse, and for money. The epitome of that KC GREEN piss forest comic.

Hang on, back up. Are you telling my that not only did someone try to remake the godawful DOS Mega Man games, but they also managed to gross it up in the process? Am I interpreting this correctly?

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Taciturn Tactician posted:

I really have no idea what the gently caress Sekai Project was thinking with pricing Clannad as high as they did. I get that it's a long game and that it was expensive to translate but that game is more than a decade old and looks like fried rear end.


See it looks horrifying right away because his eyes are a good 6 inches apart, but the grim reality of anime hasn't truly set in until you think about what a small percentage of the human eye you're seeing when you look at someone's face. You're only seeing something like 15% of a person's eyes through their eyelids at any time.

Now think about how big those anime eyes actually are, behind the small fraction of them you can see. Those things are the size of goddamn baseballs. It's revolting.

Fargin Icehole
Feb 19, 2011

Pet me.
I played VA-11-Hall-A, it's my first Visual Novel. loving loved it, the writing was really good, and I appreciated it for what it was and amount of people that made it. Now Steam is just showering me with recommendations for sakura and other visual novels and poo poo. I figure what the hell, be open, let's look at one. big screen saying CLANNAD


Aaaand then I backed away. What the hell is this, and why is it 50 bucks?

Jamfrost
Jul 20, 2013

I'm too busy thinkin' about my baby. Oh I ain't got time for nothin' else.
Slime TrainerS
The truly fat VN's have a price to match. They are long experiences.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
clannad is a super old vn and the art in it has pretty much always been considered a joke even by people who like it. it's a similar situation as higurashi, the people who made it just can't draw, but unlike higurashi its art never got a decent do-over. it doesn't matter much anyway cause the animated adaptation has been the only way people really recommend experiencing it for years

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Cicadas! posted:

Hang on, back up. Are you telling my that not only did someone try to remake the godawful DOS Mega Man games, but they also managed to gross it up in the process? Am I interpreting this correctly?

Yes. It was also something of a design clusterfuck. That creator, too, is a vore fetishist, something I learned while googling them after encountering the frankly really unbearable first version of the game. When the closer to serviceable version 2 was being played in the fangames LP thread, I mentioned the creator's...interest offhandedly and got a lot of heat for it. Then Fortress stage 4 took place entirely inside a dragon. The author's avatar is there in a secret room, even.

There's room out there for a good remake or reinagining of the DOS games (they have a surprising number of fans), but it hasn't happened yet.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Mar 9, 2017

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax
I know it's just confirmation bias at work but furries are really the kings of innocuous-looking retro games actually being secret perv-fests. I remember awhile back some people in the Steam thread were interesting in a retro platformer on Greenlight called Anubis and the Buried Bone until somebody actually googled the creator and found out that :nws:the game had faux-8-bit animated gay porn in it featuring the suspiciously young-looking protagonist:nws:.

Discendo Vox posted:

Yes. It was also something of a design clusterfuck. That creator, too, is a vore fetishist, something I learned while googling them after encountering the frankly really unbearable first version of the game. When the closer to serviceable version 2 was being played in the fangames LP thread, I mentioned the creator's...interest offhandedly and got a lot of heat for it. Then Fortress stage 4 took place entirely inside a dragon. The author's avatar is there in a secret room, even.

There's room out there for a good remake or reinagining of the DOS games (they have a surprising number of fans), but it hasn't happened yet.

That's amazing.

Guy Mann fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Mar 9, 2017

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


Fargin Icehole posted:

I played VA-11-Hall-A, it's my first Visual Novel. loving loved it, the writing was really good, and I appreciated it for what it was and amount of people that made it. Now Steam is just showering me with recommendations for sakura and other visual novels and poo poo. I figure what the hell, be open, let's look at one. big screen saying CLANNAD


Aaaand then I backed away. What the hell is this, and why is it 50 bucks?

Have you somehow forgotten how to cry? Because the game will reteach you how to do that, multiple times. No clue why it's $50. I saw it on sale for like $20 a few weeks ago and nearly bought it, but then I realized it was discounted by 60%. $20 is fair for something that barely constitutes as a "game", not loving $50.

VA-11-Hall-A is a pretty good VN, but was developed by a western studio I think. But yeah it's got good writing for what it is.

Sorry for the anime/VN derail guys.

Is there no review or quality control to Steam Greenlight games at all? Jesus gently caress you could publish your vore/diaperfur "game" independently outside of Steam if you wanted. I would have to have a child and explain to them why the cutesy furry game is Adults Only.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
Ever since VALVe started selling hats there has been no quality whatsoever.

tight aspirations
Jul 13, 2009

Lunethex posted:

Ever since VALVe started selling hats there has been no quality whatsoever.

The very first 3rd party game on steam - Ragdoll Kung-fu - was poo poo. There has been no quality control ever.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


I had an ongoing bad game write-up series on these forums way before Greenlight and I would never run out of material. However, some of the awful releases in the last 2 years have been on another level entirely.

Vargatron
Apr 19, 2008

MRAZZLE DAZZLE


I don't see how you maintained your sanity doing that. The poo poo coming now now feels like a one man weekend project while the developer was on a heroin binge.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Guy Mann posted:

I know it's just confirmation bias at work but furries are really the kings of innocuous-looking retro games actually being secret perv-fests. I remember awhile back some people in the Steam thread were interesting in a retro platformer on Greenlight called Anubis and the Buried Bone until somebody actually googled the creator and found out that :nws:the game had faux-8-bit animated gay porn in it featuring the suspiciously young-looking protagonist:nws:.

I mean, it's called X and the buried bone. And the protagonist is naked in a Strong Female Character pose on the cover image.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

Discendo Vox posted:

I mean, it's called X and the buried bone. And the protagonist is naked in a Strong Female Character pose on the cover image.

Is the goal of the game to find a buried dildo and ride it?

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Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Digirat posted:


Now think about how big those anime eyes actually are, behind the small fraction of them you can see. Those things are the size of goddamn baseballs. It's revolting.

Not exactly. That is as big as the eyes get. Lots of anime forget that people have things like eyelids.

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