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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Digirat posted:

is this real

Welcome to England.

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Gulping Again posted:

Also more politicians involved. Somehow.

Hell, possibly royalty.

Also apparently a radioactive college professor.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

kirbysuperstar posted:

604 idiots give them some amount of money (it's hidden) every month on Patreon, too.

The good thing is, the sales of their games were on a huge downward trend.

On the other hand that owner seems like the guy who'd make off with everything and gently caress over the rest of the staff even more.

This seems to happen a lot with porn games.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
rear end in a top hat protagonists work well as dysfunctional people. I'm oddly reminded of Tales from the Borderlands, which I felt was better than it had any right to be. (though I've always liked stories that take place on the periphery of a standard kind of adventure dealing with the fallout and implications)

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Ratoslov posted:

Well, voice over monologues are one tool you could use. Another is to use the objective reminders as being from the character's internal dialogue- stuff like 'Go Somewhere To Feel Like An rear end in a top hat, Like A Park Or Something' or 'Talk to Alice and Try to Help' -> 'OH GOD THAT DID NOT HELP'.

Now I want to play a game where you're a self-hating fuckup trying to go through everyday life and mostly failing hilariously.

I mean, differently from how I already do in real life.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Voyager I posted:

I know it's parody but I couldn't break 15 seconds into the kickstarter video.

Nice recycling of the Sextoy ISIS flag though.

...I just noticed that. And of course the middle is a horse head.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It's basically an extended Newgrounds flash parody with disturbingly good (relatively) production values.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I don't think Krang and Shredder bickering like an old married couple will ever stop being funny.

The villains were always the best part of 80s and 90s cartoons.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Dawgstar posted:

It is speculated that the hentai scenes were put into Fate under protest, like the theory Harrison Ford tried to make the narration in Blade Runner bad on purpose.

Either that or it's just hard to write good porn.

There's a reason that there's a thriving meme scene about hilariously, amazingly insane hentai dialogue.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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I kinda want to link that hentai that was translated into Australian.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Dareon posted:

It says something about porn in general when I'm not sure something like that exists.

Or that it seems more likely to exist in hentai form than live action.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Ratzap posted:

Isn't that just anime.txt though? Any time someone describes the plot of one, the main character seems to be someone you want to punch for eternity.

It's not ALL of them, but the trends for protagonists being shouty manchildren or grumpy teenagers (of all ages) haven't helped. And that they usually get zero character development while gaining a zillion powerups that make the supporting cast irrelevant for everything but filler and commentary.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It depends wildly on the type of video game, too. Not only does the writing have to accommodate for the requirements of gameplay and technical limitations but try to fit the tone of the game too, otherwise you get the good ol' ludonarrative dissonance.

And it doesn't help that a lot of video game plots are basically lifted wholesale from movies and anime.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
The only moral porn games are my porn games.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Valve finally takes advantage of opening the porn floodgates on Steam with TF2 Dating Sim.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
A lot of people seem to forget that The Angry Video Game Nerd is a character whose reactions are meant to be comically exaggerated.

That said there apparently was a LOT of dodgy stuff going on with the whole Channel Awesome thing.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Kanfy posted:

"Wholesome" no doubt ranks fairly low on most people's porn searches. It's taboo fantasies that make people Maximum Horny and purely fictional works allow for going buck wild with 'em, so as a result games and smut and other such things are filled to the brim with pretty degenerate stuff even by porn standards.

You can probably expect a lot more stuff like that from here on out.

Not to mention most of it's been developing completely off the radar from anything resembling mainstream channels, so it all has to compete for the weirdest niches.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Probably using sites which already have tagging systems.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It's a double-pronged dildo.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Trying to fight the horny is always a losing battle.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
I heard that Japanese PC games mostly stuck to visual novels and low-intensity dungeon crawlers because having a dedicated gaming PC is extremely rare, so anything that hopes to sell has to run on toasters.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Mokinokaro posted:

Yep and stuff like PUBG got popular because it's played in gaming cafes where folks rent computer time.

That market is definitely much much larger in South Korea though.

I didn't think of net cafes but that makes a lot of sense. (Doesn't that basically make them the PC gaming equivalent to arcades?)

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Klyith posted:

If you're extending a history back to the 1980's, the whole PC vs Console idea didn't exist back then. There was a whole continuum of computer-like devices that played games, they were all competing and nobody was on a "PC team" or "Console team". A lot of the systems were made by relatively fly-by-night companies that came and went, programmers were more used to packing up and moving to a completely different architecture because someone went out of business. Different countries and regions has their own completely different devices, it wasn't a global business yet.

So I'd bet that a fair amount of why Japanese devs moved to the NES was because it was the first thing that became a huge world-wide success. They jumped to consoles because their console won the battle royale. If the MSX or whatever other PC-like system had taken over the world they probably would have gone with that, piracy or no piracy.



VVV edit: just trying to make a point about people framing it with the PC vs Console idea, I know nothing about pre-NES japan

That explains a lot. Also means a lot of old computer platforms have their own styles and nostalgic communities; La-Mulana, especially the original, is made as a tribute to MSX games, with the games findable around the ruins. (including Castlevania which is naturally part of a whip damage boost combination, and Metal Gear) The Commodore 64 at least if Game Dev Tycoon is any indication was one of the major competitors to the PC platform, and I think while the Amiga has a reputation for being used more for art programs it STILL has a dedicated, slightly scary fan community.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
This game's been around for years, and is just one of the more popular examples of a rather expansive genre.

That can probably be assumed of most of the porn games that show up in this thread.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

SardonicTyrant posted:

Any game that involves shooting Nazis, even if it's the jankiest buggest piece of poo poo ever, is not a bad game.

What if it's Hitler Simulator

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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This is another reason why I wait for the hype to die down around games before trying them.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Didn't one of the DoA games have time-displaced SPARTAN from Halo?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Dogs are like the counterpart to cats serving you up small animals in various states of deadness.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
That escalated quickly.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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I don't think anybody trusts non-joke reviewers at all anymore. Can't say it's not for good reason.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Antivehicular posted:

Completely "consensual," "loving" sex with the slaves you press-ganged onto your pirate crew

It's like the Dragon Ball Abridged movie where the whole thing is their fetish, presumably.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
IIRC they were getting rid of a bunch of waifu games on the recommendation of Morality in Media, who then started saying games with LBGT themes were being objectifying and misogynistic and everyone suddenly realised they were literally a right wing Christian group using woke liberal language, so they basically said gently caress it, reversed course and opened the jizzgates.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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I'm almost finding it hard to believe that the VA of the bearded hipster indie developer is a sex pest, because that's just too on the nose.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Flannelette posted:

Calling your game postmodernism seems like a pretty good strat, any bad reception you can just say that its meant to be bad because :umberto:. I'm leaning heavily towards it just being bad though I don't see a writer having the massive experience needed to satirize something this well.

I get the feeling it was absolutely meant to be earnest appealing to the hipster nerd demographic not realising it's impossible to not portray them as completely insufferable, because they are.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

The Bee posted:

Something tells me the first goon brave enough to LP it will end up with one hell of an audience.

is The Dark Id still around?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
A shitload of what normally falls under 'postmodernism' can be traced way back, in some cases back to ancient Greek theatre.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Isn't New Sincerity the thing among the insufferable chattering classes and the bored rich young people who follow them?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
I vaguely remember it being called 'The RPG where nobody has to die' but I might be thinking of something else.

A big part of Undertale's appeal is that it's best approached knowing absolutely nothing about it.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Twee is basically 'cute' and 'quirky' taken to grating and insincere extremes in lieu of an actual personality or creativity. "Tee hee, aren't we having fun here?' and such. The kind of thing that's a comfort zone for insufferable people who aren't quite aware of their brain problems.

Undertale goes well beyond that into outright weird, and the creepy bits aren't just jarring for the sake of it but generally meant to demonstrate the monsters are people, with their own problems and dysfunctions and traumas that have made them into what they are, as well as being supernatural beings who are really weird. (and in turn find humanity really weird)

I feel a big part of being twee is that at no point will there be a genuine attempt to portray or tackle people's actual problems that isn't handled with the thickest kid gloves or most condescendingly humorous attitude.

Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jan 29, 2019

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

The thing about Yandere simulator is with a reframing I think you could make that concept work. Make it about wall street power brokers instead of high school students and now you have "American Psycho: The game"

But then you're basically discarding the entire primary audience in it for the central conceit.

Guillotine Simulator is another story, now.

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