XBLA Indie Game Tries to Help You Talk to Girls

[Paragon Fury]

where I had to figure out the birthstone for the month of May.

What on bloody Earth is a 'birthstone'?

Sounds like a very basic dating sim to me. Fairly certain Japan's been well ahead of these indie devs for a while now. Ah well, suppose if the guys make some cash off it they can make something better.

A "birthstone" is the stone assigned to each month that is supposedly represenative of that month. It is tradition to get the stone in jewelery for any non-specific event (IE: Engagement Ring) in your or the reciever's birthstone.

I don't know all of them, but I do know December is Topaz.

 

[Abedeus]

where I had to figure out the birthstone for the month of May.

What on bloody Earth is a 'birthstone'?

Sounds like a very basic dating sim to me. Fairly certain Japan's been well ahead of these indie devs for a while now. Ah well, suppose if the guys make some cash off it they can make something better.

Birthstone is the mineral that is set to your month, like Zodiac, that you give to someone for their birthday. For instance, my birthstones are Agate, Emerald, Moonstone or Pearl, depending on the tradition they come from. There are also birth flowers.

edit: damn, ninjad.

 

[Amnestic]

where I had to figure out the birthstone for the month of May.

What on bloody Earth is a 'birthstone'?

Ask and ye shall receive [http://www.galleries.com/Minerals/birthsto.htm]. Basically it's a precious gem of some sort that they decided should be associated with a given birth month. It's mainly something women care about since guys don't much tend to go in for jewelry as a rule. Apparently mine is an emerald.

Oh hey, mine too. Let's be bestest buddies because we were born in the same month!

 

[The Hairminator]

I'm buying this game!

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Apparently mine is an emerald.

Oh hey, mine too. Let's be bestest buddies because we were born in the same month!

A sound plan, I can see no downside. Super-secret best friend handshake go!

 

[Pipotchi]

where I had to figure out the birthstone for the month of May.

What on bloody Earth is a 'birthstone'?

Sounds like a very basic dating sim to me. Fairly certain Japan's been well ahead of these indie devs for a while now. Ah well, suppose if the guys make some cash off it they can make something better.

A "birthstone" is the stone assigned to each month that is supposedly represenative of that month. It is tradition to get the stone in jewelery for any non-specific event (IE: Engagement Ring) in your or the reciever's birthstone.

I don't know all of them, but I do know December is Topaz.

Psh If I had proposed to my Wife with a ring, set with a stone of the purest agate/Topaz/Granite I would still be single.

Unless her birthstone is diamond in which case everything is coming up Dan!

 

[orangebandguy]

That picture cracks me up. I don't need help from XBLA thank you very much, I'm not a social failure.

 

[splatterguy734]

i bet CWC would use this if he didnt hate xbox so much

Nevar hex bawx

 

[Rand-m]

I bought this for the sole purpose of laughing at it. I regret it whole-heartedly.

 

[Donrad]

i actually saw a review from this somewhere else..
but i laughed at the fact she is in third grade. AND having trouble with it xD
oh boy.
but it would be rather annoying for a game to throw some trig ratios at you i guess.

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Yes, Fallout 3 vastly improved my social skills, when conversing with Super Mutants.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

that's pretty darn funny i must say, not sure how well it will sell or actually work

 

[wooty]

By the sounds of it, the title should be "Sim-Stalker", wonder if theres a sequel for if you fail to get a girl "Sim-Stalker 2: The bi-curious years"

 

[SantoUno]

That's....partially insulting and partially hilarious.

LOL my thoughts exactly.

I feel sorry for anyone who feels contempt to buy this.

 

[FightThePower]

This really does show how pathetic most gamers are.

Or at least how pathetic people think gamers are.

Touché. A lot of us can talk to girls...some of us even have friends that are girls! Some of us even have girlfriends! Shock Horror!

In all seriousness though, that was a rather sweeping statement I made initally.

 

[Kojiro ftt]

congratulations XBLA for moving your users closer towards the Japanese dating sim market!. maybe now there wont be so many screaming kids on xbl as they are too busy trying to get into the pants of pixelated women!.

Yeah, when they get to the level of the Japanese ones are, then maybe I'll play. But of course, that won't happen until Microsoft allows adult rated games on Xbox.

 

[Eric the Orange]

This reminds me of those terrible mid 90's FMV games that seemed to be popular for the PC and Sega CD. Teaching the lesson that just because you have the technology to do something doesn't mean you should.

 

[Anarien]

This really does show how pathetic most gamers are.

Or at least how pathetic people think gamers are.

This, exactly. The way this is designed seems rather insulting to both sexes. That said, Japan is the master of these games, but they seem to rely heavily on stereotypes. Does anyone know if there are any that function more organically? I'm not well-versed in dating or role-playing sims of this nature to know.

 

[chronobreak]

Let kids focus on their studies, not trying to woo that girl that sits in front of them in class. Is there a rating on this game? I can't seem to find one. It's good for the right audience, but I hope there aren't going to be a bunch of ten year olds learning the ropes from this thing.