Do you remember the last time when visual novels were good?

>>717039957 (OP)
Yes, right around the time when Kurisu's game released.
Visual novels peaked in 2009 and they've been going downhill ever since.

they were never good

They were always good

hot sweaty kurisu sex in the lab with no AC

>>717040185
This but with Mayuri instead

>>717039957 (OP)
>when visual novels were good
Pic unrelated

>>717039957 (OP)
Visual novels have been almost completely replaced by gacha games because they make so much more money. Even former VN writers have gone on to gacha now, see Heaven Burns Red.

>>717039957 (OP)
I don't remember any time when visual novels were games.

>>717039957 (OP)
Yes. What S;G has to do with that though?

Is it worth it if you've already seen the anime?

I never got in to VNs beyond Ace Attorney. That was a fun game but I can't imagine having an entire genre of just that except with even less gameplay somehow.

>>717040596
Sometimes I get tempted to try a gacha game just on the promise of something resembling a visual novel with an ongoing constantly updated story. Even though I know it's going to be shit.

VNs peaked with Hentai Prison

What year was MGQ?

>>717039957 (OP)
Not video games

>>717041337
That was 2011. It feels like so long ago.

>>717039957 (OP)
this shit sucked

Umineko's ending was so bad I'm never going to play a VN ever again.

>>717041631
Wrong. Maybe visual novels are not for you.

>>717040875
>gameplay
Most are not games.

>>717039957 (OP)
Visual novels and this whole website by extension have been slowly dying since Katawa Shoujo in 2012.

>>717041994
The last time 4chan had soul...

What visual novels are you playing? You ARE reading something, aren't you?

>>717040185
This. So much this.

>>717039957 (OP)
Early and mid 2000s were when all the best visual novels came out.

>>717042302
I've just started reading Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. These solitary night walks with Shirou not noticing what's wrong are pretty creepy. Reading him describe the pale moon while he's looking up at the black void of what I presume is the Grail is really off.

>>717041425
Kill yourself

>>717039957 (OP)
Steins;Gate was awful. If people unironically call that the peak then vns are just a shit medium.

>>717040094
SPBP

>>717039957 (OP)
Is Class of 09 worth reading?

>>717042302
I haven't read a vn in years.

Yeah.

>>717039957 (OP)
yeah 2004

>>717046408
What came out in 2004?

>>717046270
>you will never have a beautiful kurara gf

>>717040094
This. We were just young and our standards for what a good story is, was in the gutter.

>>717046996
Half Life 2

>>717039957 (OP)
Steins;Gate is only "good" if you've never read any other VNs before.

>>717047341
I reread Steins;Gate a couple years ago and was surprised at how tiresome it got. It doesn't hold up very well.

>>717040751
They do belong on /v/ thoughever

>>717047921
For me it's because it relies too hard on muh hecking 2chan memes and Akihabara nostalgia instead of making good characters.

>>717039957 (OP)
It's still good now newfag.

Yeah, it hasn't been topped.

>>717048837
Based

>>717039957 (OP)
Yep. Plenty of great VNs coming out.

Recent mystery English VNs on Steam over the past few years:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249260/Birth_ME_Code/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1228600/Blankspace/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568920/Clean_Slate/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1414250/CORPSE_FACTORY/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1728290/Decide_4_God/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820720/The_Divine_Deception/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2011310/Entropic_Float_This_World_Will_Decay_And_Disappear/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058090/The_Game_of_Fourtune/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338940/Head_AS_Code/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2801620/Look_Inside/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271300/Methods_The_Detective_Competition/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1940040/The_Price_Of_Flesh
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020030/Quantum_Suicide/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2621950/Reaplaced/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1725910/Shards_of_Chaos/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2560870/The_Specters_Desire/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2091580/SYNESTHESIA/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1513120/The_Zodiac_Trial/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1590230/Tyrion_Cuthbert_Attorney_of_the_Arcane/

Upcoming mystery English VNs on Steam:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2551380/Beyond_R_Rule_Ripper/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3790060/Bound_Between_Desks/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349820/The_Lost_Delinquents_of_Rollings_High/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287170/Thiefs_Roulette/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1929350/Ubel/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2385550/Underground22/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3211810/Whispering_Memories/

>>717039957 (OP)
steins gay is shit

>>717049275
>Plenty of great VNs coming out
>Lists all of that garbage
You've got to be joking.

>>717049352
>immediate kneejerk opposing opinion
Sorry, champ. You are not fitting in.

>>717049275
Based

>>717049620
Actually I agree with the other guy, those games look like shit

>add voice acting to vn
>mc doesn't get voiced
>except for his two final lines in the game
>do the same in the extra story
Cringe or kino?

For me it's Faris

I've watched SG years ago, should I play the VN? I think I only remember the ending and some major plot points

>>717050363
The VN is a great read.

>>717050363
If you want more of the same story you can.

>>717050363
If the anime left you eager for more, then yes. Even if you remembered the anime vividly, there's still enough extra content to make the VN worth it. Some of which will leave you guessing, and at least one scene of which clears up a plothole the anime left by rushing through the story.

If you are someone who thought the anime was too slow, then no. By comparison, the VN would leave you begging for them to pick up the pace.

>>717050363
If you liked it. I'm never going to read the VN because I found the S;G anime boring.

Gotta be Suzuha. How could not pick the time traveler in the time travel story?

They were never good, hence the reason I refuse to touch them

marry me suzuha

I will read Hundred Line before year end I think.

>>717039957 (OP)
Steins;Gate is for retarded pseuds

>>717039957 (OP)
I don't want to read a picture book for 100 hours.

>>717039957 (OP)
I do not remember any time like that, no.

>>717051349

>>717052405
Yes we know, zoomers don't read anymore.

>>717039957 (OP)
Yep

>>717052981
Makes no sense for the tomboy to dress like this

>>717039957 (OP)
last week? Yea I remember last week. -What about it?

>>717052405
Your loss. These are some pretty cool picture books.

>>717052405
>reminder that original books had pictures and it wasn't until British people wanting to feel superior did "no picture books" became the 'more adult thing'

>>717039957 (OP)
>the last time when visual novels were good
when Hentai Prison released

>>717040094
I think CLANNAD was popular for no serious reason. Sure, there's some insane ressurection fuckery in the end, but the rest is just painfully slow slice of life with silly artwork to boot.

>>717040069
Visual novels peaked in 2009 yes but it had nothing to do with Steins;Gay.

>>717039957 (OP)
Yes, me reading Higurashi.

>>717046270

>>717039957 (OP)
Yes, 2022, Hentai Prison release.

>>717048837
Senshinkan is better though.

>>717055071
>Hentai Prison
Pales in comparison to older classics.

>>717055260
comparing how?
what older vn does hentai prison even remotely resemble? yet alone pales in comparison to it so much that you felt like stating the fact

>>717055667
That poster is just one of those retards that calls Steins;Gate or Muv Luv better than every other VN regardless of genre or context.

>>717039957 (OP)
I haven't cared about VNs in over a decade.

>>717050156
Why would they even do that?