nohman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEoDBItpVQ0

Hey, it's good to have you. Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the forums. I hope to see you around.

Welcome, it's good to have you. Do you have a favorite VN?

I can't wait for Pokebank so I can transfer over my murderhouse of a Lilligant I ran on my 5th Gen sun team.

JL8 is hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blkcXkNyDfE

That was about my favorite thing for about 3 days when that video came out.

That prompted a pretty big smile.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to present to you today the thinking man’s racing game: Picture this – 30,000 lbs. 1,000 ft-lbf of torque. A semi-truck sits on a mountain road, primed to blast forward at a moment’s notice. Suddenly, a jarring oozing yellow breaks the tension; it flashes the word READY out from the æther, marking the beginning of a race that’ll not only test your mettle as a driver, but also take you for an existential ride and force you to explore contours of this road called life. Presenting… Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing FEATURES: Non-existent AI: You move ahead of the starting line, only to find that all your fellow road-warriors are still sitting tidily. That’s right – Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the first adversarial racing game to feature a complete lack of artificial intelligence. By doing so, the player is forced to take a step back and take a wide look at and consider the competitive nature that’s pervasive of the human condition. Who are we really competing against? Ourselves? The constraints of our mortality? That dickhead Bill in accounting? Lack of Collision Detection: This feature is meant to be a statement about the ephemeral, of the lightness of being. Drive through houses, obstacles, fall to the bottom of bridges. Like Ozymandias, our achievements shall be washed away with the passage of time. No Sound: Allows for enhanced contemplation. No limit to the speed you can reverse: A commentary on that in spite of how hard we must fight to even just incrementally move ahead in both our personal and professional lives, it is exponentially easier to backslide or even lose it all. An extraordinary physics engine: Push forward, unaffected by any change in the terrain. This is meant to mark a more positive look at the human condition: our ability to overcome and face adversity head on. YOU’RE WINNER: The race ends with a gentle reminder… you’re winner. With this property, we hope to usher in an era of high-brow, atmosphere focused games. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing will be poised to take Game of the Year on virtue of its depth of soul and meaning filled moments.

This looks fun. Do you know if $15 is going to be the price point from here on out or is it going to go up once there's more stuff?

Acchi Kocchi I believe.

That's fair enough, I'll concede that. Anymore discussion would just be belaboring our points.

That's an understandable view point and that's certainly an ideal way to present a mystery. I enjoy being able to go back and pick up on the seemingly insignificant details quite a bit. However, I don't think that has to be a hard-set rule for a plot twist. Sometimes you simply can't fit all those details naturally in a story without unduly emphasizing it. With G-Senjou, while reading it you're presented heavily with suggestions that Kyousuke is Maou, but at the same time there's more subtle hints that he isn't when you take the time to think about it. I feel like you could argue that the twist of the story is that Kyousuke is not Maou, regardless of who it is and that in itself is something the reader might be able to work out on his own. EDIT: Accidently a word.

I feel it's presented when it becomes relevant, just like the rest of Kyousuke's personal history. It helps conceal the big reveal, but it isn't such an asspull that Kyouhei doesn't have *any* presence in the story until he becomes relevant. He appears in the photo of Kyousuke's mother.