Japanese Dating Sims

[kawaiiamethist]

Who here plays them?

I like to pick them up at cons (they're expensive, ouch) and have a few downloaded. It's fun to try to nab all the scenes and...other things. Anyway, I am curious to see if anyone else on the board has an interest in them.

 

[Flishiz]

My girlfriend and I got one to try it out once and...eh.

Terrible. If you want to scroll past text of William James proportions and see a grand total of five facial expressions per character, be my guest.

 

[Vianyte]

I don't see any appeal in them whatsoever.

I heard someone in Japan married one of the characters.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

I don't see any appeal in them whatsoever.

I heard someone in Japan married one of the characters.

I read about that. That's seriously fucked up.

 

[Mekado]

Who here plays them?

I like to pick them up at cons (they're expensive, ouch) and have a few downloaded. It's fun to try to nab all the scenes and...other things. Anyway, I am curious to see if anyone else on the board has an interest in them.

If you're talking about visual novels too, there's actually a small group on the escapist, we stay hidden though since most people have a very negative preconception of this...kind of game

It's like the rest of the genres frankly, some of these games are trash, some are good and a very select few are gems (yes, i'm looking at you fate/stay night!)

 

[Pingieking]

I play them in a way similar to reading light novels rather than games. There are some fairly good ones out there.

 

[ravensshade]

meh can't actually find any... (atleast none in english) heh maybe i'm just searching wrong

 

[Mekado]

meh can't actually find any... (atleast none in english) heh maybe i'm just searching wrong

You definitely are

The big translators for japanese dating games are G-Collections and Peach Princess, you might wanna look them up

 

[Communist partisan]

what?

 

[ravensshade]

meh can't actually find any... (atleast none in english) heh maybe i'm just searching wrong

You definitely are

The big translators for japanese dating games are G-Collections and Peach Princess, you might wanna look them up

uhuh and do they sell&ship boxed version or are they digital downloads?

 

[Mekado]

meh can't actually find any... (atleast none in english) heh maybe i'm just searching wrong

You definitely are

The big translators for japanese dating games are G-Collections and Peach Princess, you might wanna look them up

uhuh and do they sell&ship boxed version or are they digital downloads?

Digital downloads

 

[likalaruku]

I've played a couple of hilarous fan-made ones on Newgrounds. I think it was based on Love Hina. The girls were violent, bat-shit crazy, & my favorite one was always glued to a bottle of Jack Daniels.

 

[ravensshade]

meh can't actually find any... (atleast none in english) heh maybe i'm just searching wrong

You definitely are

The big translators for japanese dating games are G-Collections and Peach Princess, you might wanna look them up

uhuh and do they sell&ship boxed version or are they digital downloads?

Digital downloads

guess i'll look em up when i go home

 

[Zephirius]

I don't really like them, though I've played a few, just like how I don't like reading books on my PC. Which is basically what it is, a choose-your-own adventure book; choose certain responses and events differ.

Usually, though, the characters are annoying, so I can't really be bothered to click through a novel's worth of their dialogue when I don't even like them.

I've played one or two that were actually fun to read, because the characters weren't complete tools.

 

[A random person]

Well lordlee beat me to the punch, though I'll add reinforcements since we usually have seizure attacks over Japanese things.

I haven't played any dating sims per se, but I played some of Fate/Stay Night, a visual novel that is story-focused. On a related note, no, visual novels aren't all porn or "wank games."

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I don't see any appeal in them whatsoever.

I heard someone in Japan married one of the characters.

Yeah, what is the appeal of trying to convince some retard with the mind of a robot to say "Oh I like you too" in terrible voice dubbing?

 

[benoitowns]

I don't see any appeal in them whatsoever.

I heard someone in Japan married one of the characters.

I read about that. That's seriously fucked up.

What the hell is wrong with people? FAIL

 

[magicmonkeybars]

Some are better then others and then there are the ones who are just plain sick...

 

[Pimppeter2]

I've played some of them online when I have been really bored. Not much fun, other than that there is porn

 

[Hiphophippo]

I do not, and will never see the appeal. I like real women, thanks.

Also, I do not care for Anime.