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A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:32 am
by Guest
When we play these games, we use them to escape reality. They're a fantasy.
So, when you insert characters in there that are like real life normal girls, you might think you're doing well, but you're not. I can see girls like Emi out in the real world any time I want, I don't spend time playing a game to deal with their shit some more.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:34 am
by Tomate
Cool story, bro.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:42 am
by UncleJellyfish
Tomate wrote:Cool story, bro.
QFT
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:54 am
by Thrasher Thetic
Sorry. I like characters that are relatable and feel like real people.
If you want a fantasy, maybe pick up something that is based in a fantasy world rather than one centered on fictional characters based in OUR world. If you don't like it, don't play it.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:06 am
by Ph33rles
While, yes, there is enjoyment and escape and fantasy in any novel, if that is all you take from any novel, you've missed half the meaning and all the point. There is wisdom and life in the pages and in the words, and the story is just the vehicle.
Now granted some do get far too wrapped up in the story, but to say that its entertainment value is all its worth is denying its substance.
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:10 am
by Robnonymous
Guest wrote:When we play these games, we use them to escape reality. They're a fantasy.
So, when you insert characters in there that are like real life normal girls, you might think you're doing well, but you're not. I can see girls like Emi out in the real world any time I want, I don't spend time playing a game to deal with their shit some more.
Truer words have never been spoken. Not one work of fiction in any form of media - NOT ONE - ever got anywhere by having believable, realistic characters.
... Oh wait, that's exactly the opposite of how it works.
Also obvious troll is *blahblahblah*
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:22 am
by hickwarrior
Like a lot of others have said before me, you're dismissing the entire experience.
For some of us, like me, this is the first time I read a VN. The feelings I had were genuine during the course of the VN. You can't tell me that I should just casually dismiss it, when it feels like it left a huge impact on me. Not everyone can just put up a middle finger to thoughts that keep circling in their head. For those people, they have to take their time and possibly keep thinking of what they just experienced. Only then could they move on.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:05 am
by NoOne3
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:27 am
by Tezzeret
Guest wrote:When we play these games, we use them to escape reality. They're a fantasy.
So, when you insert characters in there that are like real life normal girls, you might think you're doing well, but you're not. I can see girls like Emi out in the real world any time I want, I don't spend time playing a game to deal with their shit some more.
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Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:32 am
by dunkelfalke
Tomate wrote:Cool story, bro.
In a more fitting style, sugoi monogatari aniki
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:01 am
by newnar
dunkelfalke wrote:Tomate wrote:Cool story, bro.
In a more fitting style, sugoi monogatari aniki
Honto sugoi desu.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:25 am
by Snow_Storm
I tried to insert the main two characters from American History X into real life.
It went horribly wrong.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:32 am
by Morello
Ins't anyway of entertainment a way to get out of reality? Of our problems?
Sorry, I don't see your point.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:36 am
by encrypted12345
Guest wrote:When we play these games, we use them to escape reality. They're a fantasy.
So, when you insert characters in there that are like real life normal girls, you might think you're doing well, but you're not. I can see girls like Emi out in the real world any time I want, I don't spend time playing a game to deal with their shit some more.
As a fellow player of visual novels, I shall say this.
May tentacles rape you.
In all seriousness though, I acknowledge that Katawa Shoujo is different from other visual novels and respect it for it. Not everything can be as awesome as a Rance game.
Re: A helpful tip for someone who has played a lot of VN's
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:19 pm
by Silentcook
Thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry to hear that you didn't like the game, but we decided long ago not to make KS pure escapism. It seems to have worked fairly well, all considered.
I assumed that you meant "from someone" in the thread title. Hopefully I'm right.
