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RIP. Let's not forget that behind the legendary boxer was a great political figure that stood for black people's rights in the US and against imperialism.

Confession : I love/hate you all

http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/145377764065/xseed-localization-general-blog-1 Anybody else read it? On the one hand, "unpaid internship" is a veritable trigger for me, but otherwise it was a pretty enjoyable read, even if it was more about a personal journey than about localization itself. I threw them some support when this came across my Twitter feed in the hopes that they keep posting something from their team. I'm holding out the hope that these disjointed communities of professional localization for more mainstream non-eroge and the professional and fan eroge localization scene can benefit from each other, but while the latter are quite outspoken, we generally don't hear much from the former (that I know of...).

RIP Muhammad Ali. Great boxer, great wit, great wisdom.

Ok, I'll take a stab at offering a legitimate answer, and allot myself one bonus point for not looking anything up before trying to answer: In general, it's very stripped-down - the numbers aren't really necessary if you're good at reading a clock, so remove them. Bam: 12 unnecessary things gone. The resulting interface is now much cleaner and less cluttered. They took a middle ground and put little dots around the edges - they're still much less intrusive than numbers, and as a bonus are just as easy to read for most people (and will certainly become natural for you to read if you actually wear the watch frequently). I actually kind of like the way that looks. Modern design is unapologetically flat: this is kind of in the same vein as the above, but in a very specific way. This more often applies to digital design than to physical design - remember when computer UIs used to have beveled 3D buttons with glossy finishes? No more. In modern design, flat is justice. But I see the same thing going on here, especially with the blue hands. That said, it's probably not very good modern design, because it does still have too many extraneous bits. Remove all the blue hands, for starters. With a watch like that, do you really care about the second hand, let alone whatever those other tiny hands are? Plus, then you can remove those extra depressed dials and flatten the whole thing further. Disclaimer: I know pretty much nothing about this stuff, and I haven't worked on any kind of UI in about a decade. But that doesn't stop me from reading about it from time to time!

User info possibly compromised. I suggest taking steps to stay ahead of the intruder, in the rare chance your info is in his pile of data~ (change passwords and emails associated with your Hongfire account, etc~ http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/452735-hongfire-com-password-reset-and-server-roll-back

Here's an example of one of the vocal tracks:

Qualifying atmospheric tracks as forgettable is a blasphemy. And there are like, more than 20 songs in glorious Portuguese, that's quite a lot.

I keep recommending Nodame to people. Best musical anime in existence, imo. People keep promoting crap like K-ON for musical anime, but Nodame’s far superior.

Wow, that's like... a lot. Makes sense tho, since there's only a few otomege in English and some of them are price as hell, so being able to read a fluffy and cute love story for free is really tempting, but then again, mobile otomege have SO MANY issues I could talk about it all day. Plain characters, boring storylines, crappy art, crappy translations, crappy music and characters calling me "dog" and other things, I really don't know how many people can like mobile otome games + The fuckin coupon/ticket/points systems. It's a shame that to play some really good otome games you have to have a PSVita and know Japanese ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and between paying for a PSVita + a good game and playing one crap for free, mostly people would play the crap one. Hopefully this changes in the future~

Chihayafuru and Nodame Cantabile are the stealthiest top-tier shows I've seen; most series that are as good as those two are are widely-known and celebrated, but those two somehow fly under most peoples' radar (including mine, for the longest time). So now that I know how awesome they are, I find myself recommending them quite often.

Otomes are great, screw consoles vs. pc / mainstream vs. niche; everything should go multi-plat so we can all play on whatever we have and then have mucho fun discussiono's on the forums. I use my Tabby for the portable VN reading, because yes, not being chained to PC while reading a story is smex.

The second season of Chihayafuru does not disappoint. The continued hype this show has constantly managed to provide is straight up sugoi. So sugoi in fact that I managed to get two of my friends hooked on it as well, one of them even finished both seasons before me while I was on the first season. Feels good.

Confession: I made a discord bot yesterday... it went about as well as you'd expect. In case anyone is at all curious about the code (no idea why you would be though) http://pastebin.com/9WJ3x06L

I am looking for a VN similar to shuffle!, with a fantasy setting mixed into a romance / comedy game. Preferably with heroines like Nerine, Primula and Sia, who aren't normal humans. (Elves, demons, angels etc. Also fine with something different, like catgirls and such, but I want a game with routes that has some length to it.) I have played Shuffle!, I am currently playing Tick! Tack! and Tokyo Babel, and I plan on playing Really! Really! later, so do not recommend any of those. Any other recommendations would be appreciated! (It has to be translated into English. >_<)

One of the early sentences of skyrim.

fired* FTFY

Koihime Musou is one of the longest translated titles. It was MangaGamer's best selling title for years and is probably still the most expensive title they've ever translated. So this is definitely a high quality title. It has one very long story route where you can choose to get into a closer relationship with several heroines. So it's more of a custom route instead of multiple routes, even if it does have several different endings. Da Capo 2 is almost a 'remake' of Da Capo 1. It's very similar, just that pretty much everything is better: writing, art, characters. I've seen people being disappointed with Da Capo 2 because it was too similar to Da Capo 1, so this would be one rare case where I'd suggest to just skip the first part. The connections between both are very loose anyway. If you like DC2 you can still play the first one afterwards. I did the same and it wasn't a problem. But it would be a real pity if you'd skip DC2 just because you've played DC1 first and didn't like it.

I actually have the first season on disc but haven't gotten around to it yet. My incoming rate of anime to watch is much higher than my consumption rate, so as dictated by a fundamental theorem of queueing theory, the queue keeps growing and I never actually watch half the stuff in it But I'm more interested now - I didn't know that writer by name, but I loved both NagiAsu and AnoHana, which speaks pretty well for her. But, don't worry; I know not to expect either of those from AKB0048. This one has been sitting in my backlog for at least six months now, probably a lot longer... I really need to get to it, but I never hear anybody around here talk about it so it always gets put off. No more!

Confession: had my first exam in finals today and these finals supposedly decide which college you go to It was leaked along its answers and I only knew after the exam Everyone is pissed off because some people are gonna get high grades The first exam which is important wasn't cancelled ,however the second exam which isn't important was cancelled before it began and we went home and now our exams won't end on 28th but will end on 29th Sasuga Egypt

Nekopara.

Hope P5 comes on vita Anyway, waiting for ZTD and god eater 2

The free-to-play mobile games really turned me off with the ticket thing. I found I couldn't even finish a single route and I think it's a waste of time. The paid mobile games held my interest for a while. It was what got me into visual novels, after all. But then, after I've read a few, they started to get really boring. The MC is designed for self-inserts and is really, really bland. I don't do self-inserts so it's really annoying for me. I thought the art was good at first until I discovered Amnesia and some evn otome games. The guys in mobages seem pretty much the same in every game, personality-wise. I stopped buying mobile games the moment I realized I spent more on one route than I spent on a discounted copy of Amnesia on Steam. The price in mobages add up when you buy a lot so I regret that, especially when PC otomes seem to get cheaper in comparison. It was fun for a while until I realized there's more to VNs and otome games than fluff.

Soon. Btw, now that replaying 999 ruined it for you... ~~ Cold Steel is great. It's a very slice of lifey JRPG, slow paced, so its not for people who want to jump straight off the train and into the action FFVII-style. You get 'free' days in between field studies to bond with classmates and converse/quest with townsfolk, and holy crap EVERYBODY in the main town has their own ongoing little story going on, they're not your typical one-time-one-line NPCs, so while it can feel chorey at times to have to walk all over and talk to everyone to see what's new as the main story goes on, it can also feel quite fulfilling.

Dunno. But I like this answer better: http://chigai-allguide.com/分かると解ると判る/

I know, seriously. It's just so sad that the producers had to go through with that prank and blow any practical chance for this series to get another season. Well, I suppose there's always the LN. The anime was a breath of fresh air with the way it told its story and developed the characters.

Unfortunate, since the anime is amazing. It's unfortunate that all the blurbs for it just try to sell the fanservicey angle of the first arc (which is itself less than a third even of the fairly short one season + OVA show that exists, and was hardly a major feature of it to begin with), since the show as a whole is actually fairly serious, psychological, and yet still optimistic - a rare combination which I greatly enjoy.

I used to play Voltage otome games and other free-to-play games on my phone before I got bored. They're mostly light and fluffy, okay 2-4 hour reads. They also have a pretty large fandom on tumblr, probably because unlike say, Ozmafia, they have lower prices and the ability to choose the guy from the get-go (although there is Amnesia:Memories which goes on sale for as low as 90% off). Personally, I'm moving on to otome games and other visual novels I find on Steam since it gives more content for the money.

Chihayafuru is probably the only show that can get you excited about staring at paper rectangles on the floor.

>eroge >mainstream Surely you jest

Cross Channel can qualify, albeit not entirely. Katahane - mainly whole Kurohane arc - remains a tale of righteousness and betreyal on a political level with interesting, well fleshed out characters. If you liked Equilibrium, you might like the short fanfic Urobuchi wrote. Almost every single of WAB novels from Sakurai (Inagnock, Sharnoth, Sona-Nyl) features morally grey characters, with action often set in dystopian settings. True Remembrance is another story, which features a protagonist stuck between dubious, questionable choices. 40 Days and 40 nights of Rain is another decent story. Finally, you might try Everlasting Summer, albeit that one discusses morals on more of a personal, psychological level. Others already recommended the best games available. You should start with the Song of Saya.

Usually I'd say Kara no Shoujo but I think it's too dark for you. G-senjou is a good mystery VN, a lot of people like it. The main heroine is like a detective and she's so awesome. Little Busters! for Friendship, Comedy and Drama. Welcome to the forums!

I also second the Saya no Uta suggestion. It's brilliantly written and makes it very hard to decide what's morally good or bad. And good old G-Senjou has some greyish areas too of course. A lesser known title with some more philosophical depth would be Suika AS. It looks just moe on the outside, but there's more than meets the eye. Tokyo Babel also has some deeper philosophical backgrounds even if I still find its execution deeply flawed.

Hello, always good seeing new people here. See ya around.

None of Kajitsu/Fruit's ends are cliffhangers since the sequels follow a non-existent harem route. Basically, it's a very complete experience. However, I would say that although the protagonist is a bit of a pragmatist, Grisaia doesn't really qualify here. It never questions Yuuji's righteousness.

Welcome! Always nice to get some female representation in our melting pot of opinions. Hope you like it here! Me neither, I tried to read Phenomeno and I literally chickened out halfway though

Hi hi, welcome to Fuwa If you're into gory stuff, play Corpse Party, it's good, I swear See ya around

Hey, welcome to the forum, nice to meet you I recommend G-senjou no Maou. It's a pretty good mystery / battle of wits type story.

Hello and welcome!

Welcome! Nice to see a fellow otomege fan here (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ I love Hakuoki! For now it's my favorite otomege! Who is your favorite character? And, if you are starting to learn japanese and want to play some easy to understand otomege I recommend Alice=Alice and the Dot Kareshi series, since the Japanese in this ones is really simple and easy to understand what's going on. Amnesia is a good choice too, since almost all the dialogue is voiced, but there's an English version on Steam already~ There's some good otomege in English on steam too, like Dandelion and Nameless~ I don't know much about yaoi tho, but I know a lot of people who played No, Thank You! and they liked it. Hope to see you around (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I believe Saya no Uta would fit the description.

Tried the demo, it's pretty well made. The premise seems interesting, and I like the atmosphere and writing. I have to agree the teaser scene kind of ruined the atmosphere though. Anyways, looking forward to the full version someday and GL with the Kickstarter!

I mean you want to make a book from VN, If there is complex flags, like: show text flagA+1 show text flagb+1 if flagb=30 show textA else show textB it would be not a book, but a bunch of barely connected text lines.

Porn doesn't have to be art. Porn can just be porn. That still doesn't discredit its existence in any way, shape or form. Again I'm repeating myself but this comes down entirely to people's taste in the genre. You clearly hate sex scenes, and that's fine, but don't bash other people and call them delusional for merely having a different preference. You are literally trying to justify a personal preference of yours as some universal fact, and I'm sorry to tell you but that won't go anywhere. And let's assume everything you said is true. That h-scenes give a bad name to vns, that h-scenes are pointless, that they literally only harm the medium. EVEN THEN, that is still no reason for people not to like them. I think you should just accept the fact there are different audiences in the medium and in this case you're just not part of it.

Dicussing this is fine, as long as you don't turn it into what happened in the last thead (which was broken beyond recovery.) Please, don't stop to shitpost. I don't know whether or not this person is baiting, but it really doesn't matter. Given how the last one ended up, this thread will be moderated much more strictly than what we usually do around here. Hope you understand. Now, happy discussing! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, I do like H scenes. VNs allow you to know the characters better and hold feelings for them, which has a pretty nice effect on the H itself. I read them for both H and the story (oftentimes separately, though.) By the way, I don't see much of a contradiction with saying that "I dislike H-scenes, but they're there for the sales" The point of the argument is that, in general, people are more likely to buy titles with H scenes than they are to buy titles without it. People saying that are making a statement about the majority of the VN-buying public, not about themselves. Whether or not the statement is correct is an entirely different matter. I know little data about it, so all that I can offer are my observations and speculation - Some VNs certainly can thrive without H-scenes. A (probably valid) argument against that is that only big-name publishers have the luxury of making said non-H VNs, though. Either way, the fact nukige tend to sell pretty well indicates that there's a pretty good interest in H scenes, at the very least.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toneyemedia/anomie-a-dystopian-visual-novel There we go. Months of hard work. I hope you guys check it out.