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NotABot55
PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:39 pm 
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...and guess which free games are overlooked?

Sure, I've played Knytt Stories (281) and KoL (224), and seeing all of Yahtzee's Chzo Mythos mentioned (233 - 237) was a nice touch, but c'mon PC Gamer! If you could mention Masq (052) and Fedora Spade (161), why not give a nod to Songs of Ariah (112 on the R'AA) or EVEning Course (095)? That's saying nothing of Renpy's or Novelty's omission from "More Game Creation Tools" on page 24....

Heck, does PC Gamer know this site exist?
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Ramidel
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 12:37 am 
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Nope, probably not.
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Wintermoon
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:56 am 
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In all fairness, visual novels aren't games.
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Jake
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 3:38 am 
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Wintermoon wrote:
In all fairness, visual novels aren't games.


Most visual novels aren't games - some are, unless you want to come up with such a strict definition of 'VN' that it excludes all kinds of dating sims and so on with similar interfaces. And it's certainly possible to make proper game-games with Ren'Py.

But I'd agree it's probably pretty unlikely PC Gamer knows Ren'Py or the RAA exist in the first place.

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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 4:33 am 
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Meh, outside of the anime crowd, I don't think anyone knows what visual novels are period!

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Samu-kun wrote:
Meh, outside of the anime crowd, I don't think anyone knows what visual novels are period!
And even then, not all anime fans know what a VN is, much less that they exist.

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NotABot55
PostPosted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:06 am 
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Ah, more's the pity (or is that more stupidity?) Maybe I'm into things with a relatively limited audience (no Transcendence there either!) but I'm willing to believe that enough people want it....
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rioka wrote:
Samu-kun wrote:
Meh, outside of the anime crowd, I don't think anyone knows what visual novels are period!
And even then, not all anime fans know what a VN is, much less that they exist.
And some anime/manga fans don't even know, that their favourite shows originate from a VN/Erogē-Ren’ai-Adventure to begin with. Like e.g. AIR, Clannad etc... AIR is even a 'hentai' VN o_0; As is "Kimi ga nozomu eien".
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:37 pm 
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The community is too small to strive for more attention, and to make things worse - VN's aren't on that big demand as casual games, especially here in the western world.

And for those anime fans - they probably won't even know that most of the stuff they watched originates from eroge (hentai, lets bo more straight forward and specific for them) visual novels :D . You forgot to mention the pinnacle - Kanon :)

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