>>907 I see, thank you

happy new year hikarin! let's have lots more fun in 2025. i will withhold making a new poll for a few days to let people catch up and suggest any new games. the previous games we have played are NEOTOKYO, 100%OJ, and L4D2. feel free to include any other games you'd like to see and put up for a vote! games that can include more than 4 players are preferred, but there are no wrong answers. going by the same scheduling as before, we are aiming for Saturday the 25th, aka the last Saturday of the month. nice seeing you again hikarins!

well, there have been no new submissions so i'll go ahead and throw a poll up with the previously suggested games. get your votes in! we are still aiming for Saturday the 25th at 3pm EST, but if this does not work for you please tell us when you're available and we may be able to make something work. https://strawpoll.com/7rnzVLlBLnO

>>944 how do i know you are the real guy organizing these? where is frieren??

>>945 you're right... gomen... it's me i promise...

By the way, added a Christmas resource pack to the server, when you join for the first time It will ask if you want to download it, you can just decline if you don't want.

Poorly made Christmas tree Hope everybody have a merry Christmas

I like your Christmas tree hikarin, Merry Christmas! Did you restore the map from the previous server?

>>927 Yes, I kept everything as it was before, even the server settings.

>>738 I forgot to mention I also played Love at First Sight, it was super cute. >>741 Really like the artwork... and the game seems perfectly psycho. I see it is on f95. I don't trust that website, need to setup a virtual machine to play VNs from there.

i honestly haven't played many VNs. where on the seven seas can i find them with translations?

>>752 These days? Steam. There are a few games that have fan patches, like Steins;Gate or Higurashi. https://sonome.dareno.me/projects/sghd.html#installation https://wiki.07th-mod.com/Higurashi/Higurashi-Part-1---Voice-and-Graphics-Patch/ I'd start with Steins;Gate and install the above patch or with Raging Loop (no patch needed).

>how many VNs have you read? 76 according to my VNDB >what is the best VN you've read? Muv Luv Alternative/Muv Luv trilogy. Someone said this up thread though, so to be special, and my favourite changes with the wind between these two anyway - Mahoyo >what is the worst? I tend not to play or watch bad things, so luckily most VNs I've read are good. But Root Letter and Narcissu suck. No idea why the latter is popular And to blab about Mahoyo, my goodness is it a beautiful game. I mean in terms of visuals, yes, but it's writing (I didn't read it in Japanese, but God bless the translator) and themes felt like a dream to read. It made me laugh, smile and cry, it felt like it was made for me. I remember watching Doremi as a child and wishing I could grow up to be a witch kek, Mahoyo was like Doremi for adult-me. Also I want to marry Soujuurou, plz give him a figure when the movie comes out, and a body pillow too Kami-sama!!! And and, does anyone else wish more VNs had visual styles like Muv Luv where the characters fully interact with the environment? Like, if a character is in a doorway, their sprite would be in the doorway, not plastered on the screen. I've never seen anyone talk about this specifically, but I wish more VNs did it

>>725 I raw dog it and read untranslated novels without knowing or ever planning on knowing Japanese. I'm used to this kind of thing, when my family fled to the US I didn't know a single word in English so I just watched cartoons without understanding the words.

contra there was such sega game, can be played on an emulator let me check for a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra:_Hard_Corps great game, but playing it without joysticks sucks

megaman, specially megaman 3

>>940 Beating the giant thing in level 1 with the direction buttons is like impossible lol

>>942 Back when I played it on Sega my joysticks were old as the world, they didn't have thumb sticks, so moving in directions was done with buttons as well, but it was still much more comfortable that keyboard. >impossible I know an avid Sega fan who beat the entire game on keyboard, though I didn't inquire how exactly.

>>153 An arcade music game like IIDX with a LED backlit 512 key isomorphic (hexagonal grid) key layout that overlays a reflection of your hands on the the keyboard over top a reflection of a 240Hz monitor using optics to create a situation where you can see where your hands are in relation to the oncoming notes.

>>401 I'd rather they make a Mania 2, I don't really like Superstars much

One more borderlands but made by people who made 1st 2nd and the pre sequel. Bl 3 was a disappointment. 3$ westoid comics wrapped up in the skin of what used to be one of the best games ever.

>>153 remake of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (the genesis plataformer) with rythm/dungeon crawler gameplay (crypt of the necrodancer style)

>>153 probably this would be an action game set in taimanin univers. gameplay wise something like ninja gaiden, MGRR, nier automata or bayonetta, Now taimanin IP is a series of japanese porn VNs(and few gachashits) but it has pretty cool lore with demons and ninjas and shit.

Pretty good, I have an old shitty laptop that's over a decade old so stuff like this is pretty nice

>>18 Never tried it, but it seems cool. I'll try it out eventually though

>>18 Personally as someone who cares about ownership(uses steam ironic) I couldnt justify using such services along with subscription services like gamepass. it doesnt align with my morals. Id rather invest money into hardware and software than use such services for gaming

reminder that when buying a game, you need to buy the consol that work with the game. it costs more

>>44 honestly when it comes to PCs there is no reason to buy physical imo. Steam has proven itself to be a reliable service that you dont need to fear fucking you over. I still ike physical videogames so i do buy physical releases for games i really like. Not to use but to have in collection. Hell im thinking on starting to make my own custom physical releases for indie games that are digital only.

Physical == digital You can just copy the drive contents into a file and have the emulator use that forever Like, this discussion just boils down to whether you want to purchase merchandise, purchasing 1s and 0s is beyond me.

don't physical copies require an internet connection nowadays because of drm?

>>920 i think so think CD most cases is just as a piece of physical DRM with next to no game on it

>>930 it's fun but i can't help being a little shit and pushing it with the jokes just a touch too much

>>931 Quiplash is the best for that though.

>>930 thanks for so many raidable streamers, jackbox games

>>357 My Steam wishlist is full of upcoming games, and this is not even counting Early Access games whose full release hasn't come out yet Looking forward to trying each one of them!

>>667 >>669 >i hope we get lots of trailers seems like i'm getting my wish, there's just a deluge of information coming out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBzE1n0_O2M

>>670 >koe Holy shit, hasn't this been in development for almost a decade now? I thought it was long dead. In the meantime the game was being made I already reached a somewhat satisfactory level of Japanese, so I don't know if it will be of any use for me now Hopefully it turns out to be good and help whoever is just starting to learn

>>357 Welp here are my most anticipated games im looking forward to(Id also add nightrunners to this picture but steam only has page for the prologue) there are more unreleased games in my wishlist but these 4 are main ones

>>924 oh yeah I also forgot to mentioned that im interested in DoA Prism(the dating sim) but its not in my wishlist since im european and game is for asian region only