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Yeah.

You guys are totally joking. Uh-huh.

You think I care about some damn video of dumb shit I said a while back on another forum anymore. Nice ad hominem by proxy there.

You have never played a Visual Novel, you have no idea what variety exists.

Writing is more than just the story or plot. You also have to remember atmosphere, pacing, and ambiance are a part of the writing as well, which is something Biohazard totally achieves. Granted, it's a little unfair since Gears is space marine shooter while the other is a survival horror where you're encourage to save your ammunition, run away, solve puzzles, get lost in mazes, and etcetera, thus building up more of a feel of isolation, despair, fear, and be sucked into the world and all that. Finding all those journal files and reading the story and being engrossed in the happenings around you (itchy, scratchy.. tasty). This is why 5 is the weakest game in the franchise, it sacrificed a lot of that for forced-coop, and hopefully 6 will be much better, which it looks to be so far.

Though I had no problem following the story so I'm not sure what you mean by it being incoherent. It seemed fairly straightforward actually.

you jump to mind-blowingly absurd conclusions based on very few things.

He's saying because dating sims are explicitly geared towards people so sexually dysfunctional and delusional that they's rather be in a "relationship" with a fictional character than actually tru to impress a real woman.

TitanXL wrote:

Writing is more than just the story or plot. You also have to remember atmosphere, pacing, and ambiance are a part of the writing as well, which is something Biohazard totally achieves. Granted, it's a little unfair since Gears is space marine shooter while the other is a survival horror where you're encourage to save your ammunition, run away, solve puzzles, get lost in mazes, and etcetera, thus building up more of a feel of isolation, despair, fear, and be sucked into the world and all that. Finding all those journal files and reading the story and being engrossed in the happenings around you (itchy, scratchy.. tasty). This is why 5 is the weakest game in the franchise, it sacrificed a lot of that for forced-coop, and hopefully 6 will be much better, which it looks to be so far. Though I had no problem following the story so I'm not sure what you mean by it being incoherent. It seemed fairly straightforward actually.

Atmosphere means nothing without emotional investment, I have no emotional investment when the story doesn't provide it for me.

I'm sorry though, but when your series primary antagonist starts throwing missiles at people like rocks, your series has jumped the shark.

Actually, in the article, Todd didn't explicitly mention dating-sims, but virtual-dating escapism - both of which can be applied to visual novels (unless it's one with no romance) or dating-sims.

superdry wrote:

Actually, in the article, Todd didn't explicitly mention dating-sims, but virtual-dating escapism - both of which can be applied to visual novels (unless it's one with no romance) or dating-sims.

When did virtual-dating escapism become a synonym for visual novels? Because when I think of virtual-dating, dating-sims is what springs to mind since the use of "virtual" (as in "virtual reality") implies something of a simulation. Maybe we're clashing over a difference in terminology here (well, primarily).

Ironically enough, I read something about this in a Nintendo Power once! (RIP NP) The scenario writer for the DS game 999 had been wanting to do stories about protagonists in their late 20s and 30s, but said it was hard to get such a story greenlit because the people above him believed no one would buy such a game. It is a shame because in that sense, the Japanese market's penchant for games with younger protagonists becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then again, Atlus' Catherine did feature a 32-year-old protagonist, so...

Atmosphere means nothing without emotional investment, I have no emotional investment when the story doesn't provide it for me.

I'm sorry though, but when your series primary antagonist starts throwing missiles at people like rocks, your series has jumped the shark.

I guess ift hat's how you feel, though I don't see how that's any different than Nemesis' rocket-launcher arm gun, or Alexia being a psychic pyromancer. The series has always been straddling the line of unrealistic and over the top, that's part of the campy charm people like. It's like complaining about the fanservice in Highschool Of The Dead. Maybe the franchise just isn't for you.

Market is there, but its very untapped.