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Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Palpek posted:

These games were originally discovered by FirstAidKite, all from the same developer/publisher seriously called RyuVsCloud:

Well, don't keep us in suspense. Who wins?!

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Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Writing negative reviews can also invite assholes to harass, as I've found.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Once you've seen "X is now playing Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme" everything becomes relative.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

END ME SCOOB posted:

Yo I get enough of that poo poo to my face, don't subtweet me

I'm just saying there's better transformation fetish games on Steam. Half-Genie Hero just came out, after all, help is available.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Yeah, there's a Jim Sterling video for it, it mostly just looks like pretty excruciating platforming with awful controls and dying on account of a bold breeze.

Alien Rope Burn fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Feb 14, 2017

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Finally videogamers can now experience the insufferable stoner philosophy course that is Mage: the Ascension.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Yeah, I have awful Anonymous-themed icon (earned from a Beat Hazard badge, randomly) that's worth more than a quarter. Most are poo poo because they're completely unreadable at the size they appear in text or just completely meaningless outside of whatever context generated them. The few I have that are worth anything seem to be partly so just because they're readable smilies of various sorts.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Discendo Vox posted:

Is there a :shittydog:?

It's not animated but it exists in both icon and background forms.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
I think I'll stick to Privates as far as spunk-themed games go.

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.

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".

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

The Colonel posted:

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.

Yeah, it was a big inspiration for Megatokyo for those who remember that internet tire fire.

it's still burning

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
I really wanted a legit Sugar Rush game that will never happen. Pretty sure even the dinky flash version was pulled from the Disney site.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Yodzilla posted:

Why do so many of these lovely games list how many hours of gameplay they provide?

Because it's an easy "value" for crappy devs to inflate. Making poo poo take more time isn't too terribly hard compared to a lot of other things.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

I like how the trailer gives away the "money shot" ending illustrations of the VN right in... the trailer.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Yeah, it seems mostly like a just-above-amateur RPGmaker game, and those are pretty dinky to me, but there's nothing obviously bad from the steam page.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Finally, I can live the dream of watching other people have sex as a business until it's more boring and routine than most people could ever think is possible.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
There are hentai games - you just buy mildly sanitized versions on Steam, then go over to the dev's page to download or buy a patch that adds in the missing porn. It's not advertised on Steam but it's the first thing that gets brought up in reviews of said games.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
They know their customer base.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
It strikes me more as just lampshading than parodying, and lampshading is the lazy nerd's wit.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Strangely, it turns out you can go and find pictures of naked cartoon girls for free, you don't even have to buy and play any crummy games to do it.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

FactsAreUseless posted:

However, there are animal skulls that must be placed on tall lamps.

Hear, hear.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Rectus posted:

Makes me wonder what percentage of the anime tiddies on Steam are asset flips or lifted straight from someones Pixiv/Tumblr/DeviantArt. Someone's gotta be making mint churning out generic looking waifus.

There have been some, but I some artists have no idea of their own value (or you hire from the third world, seriously). So you don't even need to go that far to make a VN affordably.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Well, it does teach people to social interact via complaining about his bullshit...? Mission accomplished, or something?

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Too Shy Guy posted:

BundleStars has reached peak Steam garbage with a bundle of 47 games for ONE DOLLAR, headlined by none other than FEMINAZI: The Triggering.

Brought to you by noted publisher Back to Basics Gaming, willing to publish the finest indie budget shovelware and meme-baiting as fast as they can fart it out.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
What if Clayfighters was done by Jhonen Vasquez...

... fans?

Well, here it is.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
My Steam discovery queue feels like it really hit bottom today with games like Zumbi Blocks and Gynophobia.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

The Skeleton King posted:

If she's a trans, then at least their porn is being progressive. I guess.

I know it does have those elements in the game, though I haven't played it.

I think a lot of it comes with Christine Love having an established rep for art games and having more critical leeway than, say, Sekai Project, regardless of Ladykiller's content.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

unironically, how the hell without living in the third world? I've actually been poking at making a VN for a while but I have neither art skills nor a ton of money to pay for art and I don't wanna go Full Umineko and make something with lovely MS Paint art

There are a lot of artists out there that don't know what they're worth that can be exploited, at least until they wise up. Try not to do this, but if you must, they are out there.

That being said, bear in mind making games still isn't even cheap for VNs (paying thousands of dollars just for the art is practically a given), they're just cheaper than making many other sorts of games. It's just the basic tools to do it with are comparatively easy and cheap.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
I really really don't get the appeal of these thousands-of-achievements games on Steam. I mean, at least on a Xbox or whatever, you have your gamerscore, another meaningless thing, but it was a tangible system and it was hard to cheat your way into. (I suppose it's probably less hard now.) But on Steam, one can just buy a bunch of games and use hacks to activate all their achievements. I guess I are idiots that'll brag about anything. It's surreal that anybody cares about that number enough to worry about it, much less a number so easily manipulated. I guess what I'm saying is: how is this a thing?

People buying crappy ripoff porn games is no mystery, though.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Veotax posted:

To make it even worse, when AC1 eventually came to PS3 trophies didn't exist yet so those flags did literally nothing.

The same is true on the Steam version, all collecting flags does is increment one of your progress counts on your pause screen - the game has no Steam achievements. About the best that can be said about collecting flags is doing so saves your game, so that can be useful. I don't think there are even any unlocks tied to getting them all.

The scuttlebutt I heard is that the dev team was forced to put a collectible in by Ubisoft, and hated doing so, so they did it in an amazingly :effort: way and called it a day.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Really Pants posted:

Did some of them work on Blood Dragon? I remember Sgt. Rex Power Colt saying "At least I don't have to collect any loving flags/feathers" when you pick up collectibles.

No idea. They were both developed by Ubisoft Montreal, but it's a 3,000 member subsidary that's seen some notable staff changes over the years.

Granted, hatred for having to pick up flags is something anybody could develop by playing any Assassin's Creed game (and I say that as somebody who enjoys them for the most part).

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Justin Godscock posted:

I admit I do the whole collect-a-thon thing but I'm not some super-goon who will have a panic attack if I can't find the final flag or whatever. I just roam the world to chill and pick up poo poo that's on the map. I'm playing Black Flag right now and just cruising the Caribbean is a great way to relax after work.

A lot of the later games gave you tools to make the collectathons easier, made them less of a pain, and actually rewarded you for them.

They're still pretty dumb but they're at least functional now. (And yeah, I have like 80 hours in ACIV for a reason.)

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Discendo Vox posted:

I'll be honest, despite all their other issues, if there's one person I'd trust with a business plan to take over the world, it's Newell. I think they may be eyeing Star VR, given their long-standing unusually simpatico relationship with Starbreeze.

That would presume Valve isn't just staffed by lazy cats.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

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Uncle w Benefits posted:

It could be a lazy feral cat lair.

I'm now envisioning a new employee being told "The desks are on wheels! You can move them anywhere!", and then promptly wheeling the desk out the door and into the back of their car before driving off.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Vermintide is a massively unsubtle Left 4 Dead clone with equipment drops. Payday is similarly inspired. Dead Island also tried to copy a lot of L4D's magic in an open world format... badly. So they're out there. Evolve was made by some of the same devs, I don't know if it's fair to say they "aped"... themselves?

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
Yeah, given a lot of prolific bad Steam games publishers have websites that are little more than a logo and an e-mail address, it seems likely.

Because that's how you promote your business to indie devs, zero information and no sales pitch, right?

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

SilverSupernova posted:

... you know what, it's only a dollar, I might still get it if I still get to romance the non-anthropomorphic shark.

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, BAKA?!

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
I've never wanted to be so bad at a game so much.

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Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!

Lyrai posted:

Visual Novel effort phone post:

There's a phone game out where you can summon Thomas Edison as a giant muscletiger, and honestly one of the most amusing things to do is just slam in "(historical figure) fate servant" into Google and see what they came up with, but again. Lots of anime to get past. And a loving lot of words, last I checked, Fate/Stay Night held some kind of word count record.

Yeah, there's a reason "VN word vomit" became part of my personal terminology. :words:

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