The desktop icon for A Shriek of Ash and Fire. What's that supposed to be?
>mfw lunargotHUMBLE kiihakaIDIOT
>9+ months for this
Dead genre
>>4048653Jolly Good will save CYOAs
>>4048486Spiral/serpent motifs appearing in the game.
>>4048653And that's a good thingLike anon explained, only pansies want to play games, real men prefer to w̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ wait
>>4048673you must want to play so many games then. any of them that you can recommend?
>>4048673>still seething because you have no argumentThere are plenty of games to play, you are just too stupid to do so and basically a mental cuck, wanting to only and solely play COG slop.
>>4048730>basically a mental cuckProjection from the man who admitted he likes to watch instead of play
>>4048739I said no such thing, learn to read
>>4048748>learn to readI think that's his problem.
>>4048753agreed. how do you end up in a hobby all about reading and not know how to read? what kind of bullshit is this
>>4048758>how do you end up in a hobby all about reading and not know how to read?Many such cases, sadly.
>>4048653The drought is so bad I went back to read VN.
>>4048643I'd wait 1000 years for Fang!
>>4048486>What's that supposed to be?Lava maze from the endgame of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
>>4048876Holy based (and same)
>>4048852Do you have any reccomendations? I'm up for anything that isn't slice of life moege. I've been reading/playing yumina the ethereal recently for example and its pretty decent, it doesn't take itself super seriously until the second half when it becomes a space opera but its still pretty hammy its not super deep but its got solid characters for what its going for and it has fun with its premise of shaping yumina up from a retard to a retard that is also student council president with the hints of intrigue in the first half of what kirara's goal is and how ai is totally not a fed. The payoff in the second half is okay, not stellar but it could have been a lot worse, i'd say the first half is more interesting than the second when it becomes a space story with boogeymen feds using yumina because the first half was actually a selection process for espers and the mock combat that debates where was actually esper combat with limiters put on them.
>>4048902>Do you have any reccomendations?I/O
You have three entire boards to discuss VNs on, more if you count red ones.>but I want to discuss them on /vrpg/Make a VN thread, then. Nothing is stopping you.
>>4048730>bitchmade loser still livid about no one agreeing with xerExercise your slave-like patience in silence.
>>4048976Agree, he should keep posting anime pics so it's easier to filter the waitcuck posts
I'll fuck all of your assholes if you don't shut the fuck up
>>4048985Go have your meltdown elsewhere, faggot.
>>4048990forgot your signature
>>4048902It's old and definitely count as sol moege but I finally tried Amagami and it unironically moved me.
>>4048999>>4048990
>>4048894>Lava maze from the endgame of Indiana Jones and the Fate of AtlantisKino
>>4048902Do you like mysteries? Check some of these:English mystery VNs on Steam from the past few years:>Beyond R: Rule Ripper>Birth ME Code >Blankspace>Clean Slate>CORPSE FACTORY>Decide 4 God (Out now in full 1.0)>Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved>The Divine Deception>Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear>The Game of Fourtune>Head AS Code (remake)>Look Inside>Methods: The Canada Files>Methods: The Detective Competition>The Price of Flesh>Quantum Suicide>Reaplaced>Shards of Chaos>The Specters Desire>SYNESTHESIA>Tead>Thief's Roulette>Whispering Memories>The Zodiac TrialEnglish mystery VNs on Steam that are to-be-released:>The Lost Delinquents of Rollings High>Motives: The Ultimate Problem>NO MORE WORK FOR ITO>Ubel>Underground22>The Wonderland Killings>>4048909/vn/ is completely godawful like every other general.
Bastard of Camelot updated! Chapters 4 and 5 rewrite completed!! Go read now!! :D
VNs won
>>4049146Too little there to warrant a re-read.Maybe in a couple of years.
>>4049083Which is why you decided to bring that cancer here.
I did read BoC, it's never getting finished.
this thread so dead the pasta hasn't been pasted at allanyone play the diaspora game? I remember playing it ages ago and dropping it at some point but can't remember why
CYOA games where I could be the biggest, most flamboyant, and annoying homosexual possible?
>>4050249Any self-insert power fantasy game, tbqh.
>>4050249Sabres of Infinity, you can even shoot yourself at the end.>>4050271>Aura ClashDoesn't check out.
>>4048902if you liked AC/POMA you'd like this, there's an EN patch
>>4049366Did it even finish the childhood saga?
>Kingdom and Empires, whatever happened there.
>>4050328It's fucking dogshit.
>>4050689It’s been 4 years since it was first announced right? Seems like it’s been longer desu
>>4049195Every general is poor at discussing its related topic.
Oh so the guy/gal from the mystery nigga faction in AMR is a new RO. Good to know.
>>4051144Cute brown anime girl, but my heart belongs only to my wife Ilya.
>>4049385I played Diaspora. Overall, liked it.Basically, the game is about kind-of-Vikings meeting kind-of-Romans. Somewhat linear, but allows 3 main routes: trade (I think), war against Romans, war against some bunch of natives.Not too woke, though has "them".
>>4051260Reunion soon™. The MC and Ilya are in the same fucking room, it can't be delayed much longer.
Is Diaspora worth the read? I equate word count to elevation from a bad plot, not writing, but just the plot.
>>4052011It's fine, won't blow you away but it's not bad either.
>>4052011no, waste of time with uninteresting characters and overarching plot
Fame game was recently updated again, but it’s locked behind patreon. I’m a bit confused, didn’t the author promise to make it all public? Or was that just for the part one rewrite?
>>4053435I think that's just part one rewrite (still not done with 7 writers btw)Technically he has to release the part 2/3 of part 0 of his 7 part story for free on CoG a while after patreon release, but he hasn't posted there or mentioned it since his post about how badly they bullied him by calling his "game" far better than it deserves, so who knows if he'll bother or if he's too traumatized to return to CoG or if CoG will even enforce this
>fame gameWhy do we care about this game again?
>>4053876because no games
I had a dream where i played a cyoa and thought "man i should share this with the cyoa thread". The drought is real
>>4055252Share the details you remember
Clearly, you need to play more Chinese games
We need more woke gaymes.
>>4053485>or if CoG will even enforce thisThey have only ever done it to Dao Ascension. No other author even acts as if that rule exists.
>>4056264Quick rundown? Was the Slop Ascension "writer" forced to "rewrite" his game?
>>4056706No. Random readers just brought it to his attention and he was the only author in CoG history to decide to follow that ignored and unenforced rule.
>>4056954Close, random readers brought it to CoG's attention and they told him he has to do it. They'd never enforced on anyone before that. Probably because his game doesn't let you be gay.
I have reached a level of psychosis where i just write worldbuilding and a plot, then tell chatgpt to turn it into a roleplaying session with four choices for me to pick from. I spent five fucking hours doing this yesterday. I'm going insane.
>>4048909VNs are CYOAs.... you have /lit/ for choosy books.
>>4048852>>4048902you can go read Lone Wolf. or the 20+ years worth of actual gamebooks published in the past, including the more famous Fighting Fantasy books. if you can still find the old PDFs anyway. most of them used to be on HOTU and that abandonware website, but HOTU died and most of the abandonware links died. i don't even think anyone bothered to DMCA those piratey downloads. people just stopped caring , stopped bothering to update the download links when the servers stopped working. maybe archive dot org got em.
>>4056234what? not enough gay woke RPGs now? orly?
Now i remember it was a dream that the demo for the mage the ascension cyoa's came out
Welp, i just finished trying everything, and i don't think that right now it gets better than:Aoyusumu+EldraMido+Kaito>bu-no
>>4057501Consider the following
>>4057346cool it with the riceism, psyops bot. this is a gentlemen's RPG thread.
>>4057501For me? It's JDF Midorikatai Fire+Storm with Eldra for the canon STRONGEST possible MC.
>>4057346based
>TripfagThis is what happens when you talk about VNs in a CYOA thread. There’s already a ton spread across several different boards, so wtf would you want to bring that cancer here?
>>4057239Just play D&D
So anon what'll it be? Full or partial release?
>>4057239I have done that too. It has occasional moments of greatness. But it quickly becomes boring because AI is dumb as rock and too cucked by its corpo overlords, to create anything trully great.
>>4057959it wasn't me who started it. and VNs are RPGs and CYOAs anyhow.
>>4057501>ever picking EldraLittle better than being a JDF. Imagine taking bullshit heavenly handouts, couldn't be me. Heavens tongue my anus.
>>4058491>xianxia/xuanhuan>not picking the strongest possible optionEjoy dying junior.
>>4059018Kaito gives you true immortality, no questions asked, from the get go without having to be a heaven nepobaby.
>>4059026>ever being close to dying as a jadechadLMFAO
>>4059074Jadecuck dragons die all the time. As a jadecuck, it's an intrinsic part of your backstory that you died like a bitch.
I have a bloody foundation because I do cultivation the super fun way that cannot possibly end badly.
>>4057501Eldra is the only one that actually kills that other dragon, right? Wonder if that's gonna have any impact on the story at all (probably not, considering anon is already dying from too many branches).
>>4059140>You got the skull of a dragon!>+20 prestige>+10 retainer power>+5 commerce
>>4048486>7 years to release a demo>it's just the introReally
>>4059219What game are you talking about?
>>4059223Zappers long awaited sequel to War for the West.
>>4059235Fug, you're right
>>4059146anonbros...
>>4058491the two paths scratch different itches of power, imothe former leans more on the control aspect, master of reality bullshit, 'i already won so there's no rush' with the added flavor of holy/righteousnessthe latter is all about HULK. SMASH. *smiles*, and getting these little events where damage just no longer matters or registers because you already died for thousands of lifetimes. the guy mixes unstoppable force with immovable objecthighly recommend trying both>>4059140well, in theory it really should, the guy is not only a major cultist but also the leader of an entire nation?
Kaito is actually the worst mentor for a mido but it's good for everyone else.>you get damage reduction but it's actually bad since you actually want to take damage because of the AP/wound techniques>you get beast taming but mido will get that either way>you get some surged cores (literally who cares)>more AP gain but you basically lose 800 AP so it's bad until you get those 8 cores backEldra is literally the best mentor for a mido and decent for everyone else (besides JDFs where she's the canon pick)>literally free AP forever>3rd element (incredibly versatile and good)>healing for the jobbers around you (Rin, Jin and Kosuke mostly), I guess it's pretty flavourful lorewise>FUCKING TIME REVERSAL how do you beat that?!
>>4059316>>FUCKING TIME REVERSAL how do you beat that?!By not jobbing in the first place
>>4059321but then you also can just not die and kaito's foundation is worthless
>>4059316>you want to take damage because of the AP/wound techniquesthe issue is that if you play well enough, that already will not happen one way or another, or it happens too little and can't really be relied upon like the AP per victory gains. unless you somehow force? i'm unaware of these methods>you get beast taming but mido will get that either wayindeed, I wonder if you will get 2? that would sweeten the deal>you get some surged coresalso an issue when you are playing well, it just doesn't happen often/you don't need. though maybe it could be used on key fights/moments with the occasional bullshit checks?>more AP gain but you basically lose 800 AP so it's bad until you get those 8 cores backyes but think of all the extra power that we will get from that in the 3rd boopfffff
>>4059316If you're assuming surged cores don't matter, you might as well assume nothing matters, because your already win every check anyways. Getting an extra surge is almost as useful as getting an extra core.>you get damage reduction but it's actually bad since you actually want to take damage because of the AP/wound techniquesDon't you get the bonus whenever you're injured, irrespective of the amount of damage?
Is some combination of wind/light/storm good or is there too much overlap? I want to play kuro and be speed itself, but two elements giving the same scene seems wasted
>>4059377Light is the speed element
>>4059316>and decent for everyone elseI find her the worst purely on the basis of her giving you pseudo-JDF foundation.I've already made the decision not to play on the easy mode at the start of the game. I am not falling for the "Easy Mode is now selectable" bit.So the choises are>The guy who gives you de facto immortality but is a lame and boring mentor>The cool grandpa with no sense of right and wrong taking you on adventures but the powers he gives you are lame and boring
>>4059464i haven't tried playing with JDF. does it give you the same mechanical rewards as JLF?
>>4059377Had fun with light. Then changed to darkness/storm but I am considering light as a third element since I also tend to focus on speed when available.
What does ice even do in ac?
>>4059590Giant cool ice shuriken in the Jack fight.Cool walking on ice/water during the Daichi fight.
>>4059469No, it's much more broken on top of playing JDF
>>4059316>Kaito is actually the worst mentor for a mido but it's good for everyone elseI strongly disagree with both parts of this sentence. Kaito has two appeals and both of them are better for midos.-FGF's regen + demonic bloodfuel is the premium engine for a zenkai build. You can wake up every day, beat yourself up in front of the mirror until you have 1 health/0 chi, and then go on about your day at death's door but with a few extra dozen points of AP.-A serious athleticmaxxing mido should be gaining around 60AP per weightexp trigger by chapter 9, 100x weight training doubling it to 120 is big. It will only take 13 triggers to pay off the entry cost, then you're left with what is essentially a much better version of dragon's nest.Meanwhile-His other passive bonuses are super cool in-univese but worthless mechanically.-Conqueror's aura is worthless for everyone.-The value of explosive cores will be determined entirely by how much AP you gain per surged core. Could be great, could be shit. My expectations are low.-Has the worst ultimate of all three if the Roc is anything to go by. Beasts suck.EC being good is the only thing that could salvage him for non-midos IMO.
>the only way to have a cool crackling yellow aura is to be kiihakaifuck, I don't want to be a scrawny mage
>ac spam https://forum.auraclash.com/https://www.reddit.com/r/AuraClash/s/wvdBS4Mc1W
>>4060461Talk about CYOA games.
>>4060423Just pick the muscular body type and be a muscle wizard.
>>4059140>anon is already dying from too many branchesi wonder about this as wellhe put a good number of seemingly major branch points that i can only see leading to either fuckton of work or just disappointing content
>>4060497why not both?
I'm 90% sure he'll tone down the branching after the twins are out of the competition, also the update will be 300k+ words
>>4060540>>4060497I actually like the amount of branching and reactivity in AC.i hope the author is able to maintain it. I suppose I'm fine with cutting back on the perspective switches if he has to cut back on something.
>>4060553There have been a grand total of 2 so far, 1 being essentially a failure state.
>>4060585I personally don't like jobber perspective switch. Make it switch with a top 5 or Keiko or something like that.
>>4060592>keiko pov>"Damn this white boy is cute."
>keikoNo way she's not super strong right?
>>4060625well she's a political actor, not a warrior, but she's got be carrying some power. at least to live longer + the other benefits
>>4060655She's some whale paypig's character, no doubt she'll be powerful.
Pon Para 3 just DROPPED!
>>4062142I got scared for a second that I'll actually have to play something, but thankfully you're lying and I can continue to wait and focus on other hobbies instead
Pirate Hat calls to me like the green goblin mask, does the eunuch's trust me bro writ compare?
>>4062347Once you reach Nanhou, you can immediately trade it in at port for any one of>1 ship and crew>2 ships>a bunch of shards>ice boosting belt that raises fortitude>light boosting weighted clothing that doesn't apply any penalties>free skill book + technique that passively lowers all prices by 10% (+ persuasion when focused) + free deception raise (if yours is lower than 3)All of them give you 6 loot as well.You can get the writ AND the pirate hat if you either immediately kill the pirate using earth element or combat ship ballistaor alternatively by recruiting his crew and his ship and making him walk the plank (You do this by using deception option on the bandits you fight in chapter 2 or by letting them go free)
>>4062409Thanks, yeah I didn't expect that the ballista of all things was the secret ingredient. Any opinion of the Siren/Endless Beating divergence?
>>4062428Companions fighting the endless beating sect was more fun. Siren sect writ used to be helpful for the twins when that update came out, but since then they were given an option to stat check their trial if you put bare minimum into strenghening them.
>>4062445Thanks. Just one more thing: do you have to interact with the darkness gate(and not the demonic gate) if you want to get darkness? I thought I could get it via memorywell but it's not showing up
>>4062347Shiver me timbers
>>4062464>do you have to interact with the darkness gate(and not the demonic gate) if you want to get darkness?>I thought I could get it via memorywell but it's not showing upI just checked the code and you're right, I already added a check to make that available a long time ago and it's never been working because my dumbass did ($chapter 5.5) instead of ($chapter gte 5.5). Fixed for next patch.
>>4062678Funnily enough I found your post addressing this while digging through the archives, it's what gave me the idea in the first place. Genuinely surprised nobody went this route in two years and complained, thought I was misunderstanding something. Sadness.
What I like about zaper is that he spends less time shitposting here, and more time working on his game or hustling to get out patches and more content for Unsupervised.Oh and he does all this without a trip, something that our resident attention fag should take note of.
>>4063294>and more time working on his game or hustling to get out patches and more content for Unsupervised.Oh so you are being sarcastic>something that our resident attention fag should take note of.and now you're ironic
>>4063297>Zaper>6 games released Vs >Cultivator 0 gamesI’m serious, he should spend less time shitposting, being an attention-whore, and more time working on his game.
>>4063294>zaper doesn't shitpost hereBro thats all he does
>>4063300>6 gamesHuh, I only knew about 4 of them>cultivator>0 gamesZaper is a full time writer (I might be wrong about this) and he took 9-10 years to get there, AC is already bigger than both Unsupervised and War for the West put together and the game is only like 60% done, and he's a wagie with kids.
>>4063302Its just stupid ragebait anyways considering i like both
>>4063302>ghost simulatornot the writer>queen's wish500+ people credited for it
>>4063301>>40633006 games, good ones at that. And all under a 3 year window between releases. So clearly he’s doing something right.>>4063302If anon has enough time to be lurking and shitposting here, then he has enough time to sit down and write something >b-but his kids! His jobIrrelevant, he was spiteful enough to spend weeks and months copying the twine engine code for his own engine, and hosting his own forum to spite Cog trannies. He could’ve released chapters 10 and 11 by now if he wasn’t still butthurt about what happened months ago.And who’s even using his new engine aside from him? Or the forum itself? It was a complete waste of time.
>>4063307
>>4063294>he spends less time shitposting hereImagine unironically thinking this
Shriek of Ash and Fire is done at 2.6 million words.
>>4063349>Shriek of Ash and Fire is doneHell yeah, day 1 purchase
>>4063349An author who barely spends anytime online has completed a 2.6 million word game in record time, and it’s his second one? Colour me shocked!
>>4063410How's your game going?
>>4063349OrkGod-sama
Amazing how little shit I give about the mentor bonuses, kinda wish I could just go back to town and buy some techniques myself without this whole plotline
>>4063495i think we are going back in the next chapter? anon was saying something about quests you can get to complete or smththere's also a thing or two i'd like to buy
>>4063302Out of all of them I only liked Highlands Deep Waters and Ghost Simulator. Others are meh.
CYOAs with un-CoGy "ROs"? You know, attractive, hetero, age gaps, on the pale side, maybe a little blood relation as a treat.
>>4063885To Crown a King.
>>4063885Al salamalaikum
What’s the appeal on incest?
>>4063952Brown fetish, who knows?
>>4063954Nips are much whiter than you, my Tagalog friend. Though I can see why you'd be envious.
>>4063885Arcadie
>>4063885RoguesWar for the WestLords of Aswick (no incest though)
>>4063349So this is the power of speed. Take note, Wangchang.
>>4063885Sir Brante / Prince Jerian except the blood relation. Well technically Camille from Prince Jerian is related to you but it's not clear how close.
>>4063885My maidwife fitzie
I read in the archives that it's possible to get both Limitbreaker and Kurokonton transformation, do you need to let Guiren play in the secret base for that or was that anon talking shit? Maybe even pocketing the talisman in Taio fight?
>>4064213Yeah let him keep the secret base and help him with the research.
>>4064224Aw damn. What about the talisman from Taio fight, Blood Crystal is ok but is there a use for it later?
>>4063954This, Mexicans and Indians are infamous for this
>>4064270>mexicansFathers and brothers fuck their daughters/sisters all the time.>indiaArranged marriages
>>4063967Wang is decently rapid nowadays after he started taking meds, he just channels it into his Napoleon OCslop instead of Wars.
No games
>>4064439write it
>>4063306>he has enough time to sit downYour optimism about parenting disgusts me>>4064439working on it>>4063885ukrainian pawn shop waifu in Vampire Night Road
>>4064493>ukrainian pawn shop waifu in Vampire Night RoadUmmm actually she's romanian.
>>4064393>after he started taking medsmeth*
>>40644933 more chapters and it's gonna take you 10 years to push the next update.
>>4063294>>4063294I don't post here more often because I hate this new captchaAlso cultivator anon is incredibly based and prolific
>>4064393keeping in mind that his napoleon OCslop is a linear, nothing happens piece of shit
>>4064629He’s gay, dramatic and prone to histrionicsOrc God is the real G, 2 games in two years, with a combined total of 4 million words. He’s an underrated author.
>>4063294just a reminder newfren, zaper is a fake faggot and a flip flopper >you now remember the nebula award drama and how he backed natalia, the mods and gleefully participated in the drama
Anything good come out these last couple months?
>>4064629>I don't post here more often because I hate this new captchaTry 4chan neXT. It shows you all the captcha images side by side for easier comparison.
>>4064829No. Ash and Fire soon(tm).
>>4064829life and suffering of prince jerian if you count it as a cyoa instead of a vn
>>4064762Im his defense, if you don't kowtow to cog it won't go well for you.
>>4064762He's happy to hang around here and shitpost with us, so he's ok in my book.
