Yep, that was one of the things the developer changed later on. Now a complete pacifist playthrough is possible.

1914-1918, 1939-1945 probably. Also when the black plague was in other regions. Probably also during the great cleansing in Maoist China.

Thank you, will do!

A fine comparison.

And I only now saw your name and instance. Do you have any recommendations regarding audio games that in your opinion deserve a mention?

Ah, interesting to hear that it was not really ground breaking. Because from what I heard from the media around it, it sounded like that. Now I have a new key word to check. Thanks!

2020 there were at least 247 emu-adjacent birds (nandu/rhea), after some intervention. The highest counted was 2018 with 566.

Thanks for sharing this video. While it is a bit long and has some duplication about some games in the introduction part and the specific game parts, it was nonetheless interesting to hear about this in depth talk about the romance genre.

I think the biggest problem romance in games will always have is the inherent contradiction between game mechanics and the realistic development of a relationship. It will be between the two extremes of being a pre written story or being a “relationship vending machine”. But maybe somebody will find a way to combine both in the future. I never would have guessed that I found it fascinating to play a autocratic countries border guard and then along come Papers, Please, so who knows.

I don’t really understand the downvotes, is it due to the length or directly proving the point of the video that too many people are scared of romance in games?

Oh for sure, I don’t blame the companies for doing it. I’m blaming the customers for being stupid enough to fall for it. Again. And again. And again.

No worries, didn’t thought you implied that, just wanted to be clear that its not the games fault.

And yes if your mind is not in the right state at the moment for that, there are many different more positive games instead.

For example, might I suggest a whimsical gentleman adventure roguelike? O=)

I wouldn’t say I didn’t enjoy the route, it was still interesting to me to learn more about Shizune and Misha. It wasn’t that I found the characters annoying or the story bad.

If you liked the other routes I encourage you to try it someday.

In my opinion that is the strength of Katawa Shoujo: You go into it expecting a light hearted RomCom from the visuals and the “made by 4chan”, but rather get a deeper view into the psyche of 5 teenagers, which helps you better understand yourself or others.

Shizune’s route was my least favorite one, but only because the way you have to act to be liked by Shizune is the exact opposite of my own character and that’s not the writers fault

Kudos to you for staying friendly and on point through this whole comment chain, just reading it I felt my blood pressure rise.

The original Minecraft had the right idea in my eyes. Cheap in alpha, because there is less stuff. A bit more when it reached beta state and another increase when it reached full release state.

Because you played an inferior version with less content and supported the development, you got a discount. No idea why people would pay extra to be the beta tester though.

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I mean… that description is not far from the truth! Many small baby magnets created by two big magnets smashing together.

Just checking, are you for real or just that committed to the act online?

Little advice for the internet in general:

Do at least a quick search for a term before sounding all confident and smug. Makes you less prone to ultimately showing your lack of knowledge.

I wholeheartedly agree, the voices in this game are all awesome and fitting. I just didn’t mention that because you either read the texts or sit even longer hearing them. Both ways you need a certain patience to enjoy this game. (Which not everyone has and that is okay as well)

Both are among the greatest RPGs.

Planescape suffers from it’s zeitgeist and that it “needed” the fighting to be considered a RPG. I imagine it would surpass DE if they could have focused only on the story, the world and it’s inhabitants.

DE could only reach it’s high because PT existed first and showed what was possible and that the fighting only distracted.

If you haven’t played Disco Elysium yet, I highly recommend it. Since you like reading long texts, that part of the game will not bother you as it does some other players.

No, they specifically put it in quotes, to make the distinction.