>try dating irl
I can't make new friends IRL because nobody wants to maintain a relationship beyond the classroom/workplace. >get along well with someone >want to [food/activity] later? >"no thanks"
>inb4 join a club >want to visit [relevant place]? >"Sorry, I only have enough spare time to attend this club."
I actually speak to people and they always talk about how lonely they are, but they don't do much to improve their lot, so it's not a robot9000 problem.
I'm going to keep improoving and following my interests and hope I'll meet someone who reciprocates one day. I don't think it's just me who gets this either;
People would rather spend thousands on gacha girl jpgs instead. Meanwhile a new otome gets released every month even on the English side and there was a new Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side a few years ago.
I know how dedicated fujos are and they actually bother to learn the language and buy the games without needing a translation. Deserved. Everyone I know who passed N1 is a girl.
Girls have a very instrumental approach to exams, meaning they grind what's on the exam and nothing else. Because the goal is to pass the exam. I don't really trust their competence levels. Tokimemo for girls is a shitton more popular than the main series though, that's true.
Depends on how picky you are about the definition of "sim" I suppose.
LoveR came out in 2019 (LoveR Kiss in 2020), and it's labeled 恋愛シミュレーション (as opposed to ADV or アドベンチャー)
Although having played Photokano and Recolove, in my opinion those games are really just novels with some minigames in between chapters
Truth is that dating sims are shit games, and now that visual novels have evolved past the point of having 98% of the same dialogue in all routes with only minor differences in the endings they're completely obsolete.
And old school dating sims in particular are especially repetitive and superfluous.
See:
>TALK >LOOK >TALK >LOOK >MOVE >only like 3 actual choice that matters on the ending
Thank god modern VNs get away from the cancerous adventure game padding.
I sort of get this, but in reality it's more like I act like an idiot and then the girl who was kinda interested in me no longer wants to date me. It's not like some pure unconditional love thing where I was perfect for them in every way... I checked some boxes until I didn't.
I asked a girl out today, im 26 and that was my first time doing it. she said "im good, thanks" and left, the problem is that she works at my local gym so its going to be quite awkward whenever I will go there from now on
Act like you can exist in a world where sex is acknowledged to exist and you are still able to be a human being you gigantic autistic frick. Its not fricking hard. Women bear a reminder of sex on their chest every day moron.
>TALK >LOOK >TALK >LOOK >MOVE >only like 3 actual choice that matters on the ending
Thank god modern VNs get away from the cancerous adventure game padding.
I'm willing to tolerate light doses of stats and variables, like in Musumaker
but a big killjoy for me is the general lack of features, like the lack of voiced backlogs
There's stats, which I can tolerate, and there's "you need to talk to x character 3 times, look at the specific object 2 times, then talk again to x character 2 times to advance the script because frick giving the reader all the dialogues with just 1 action."
>PC-98 on floppies
Hopefully the ports keep most off the horny.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Could be worse
https://www.mobygames.com/game/43246/sotsugyo-graduation-real/screenshots/
8 months ago
Anonymous
For comparison
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'm moronic, where do you suppose the game might be in this collection: https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17
Japan Home Video is not on there as a publisher. Most of these are preinstalled and not on fricking floppies.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Nvm I'm moronic. Abbreviations am I right. Not on floppies either.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yes should be on JHV zip.
8 months ago
Anonymous
There is also Fire Woman Matoigumi on this exciting failed console. I'll play it later.
Holy shit!! a True Love thread on /v??
This was my very first VN i ever played waaaay back in the day and my first hentai too lol.
I love this shit and it's surprising so damn deep for a mid 90s VN.. they really dont make them like this anymore with stats and calendars etc.
I also love the main theme so much bros:
I decided to try and be a hipster and playing this right now. It's a Sakura Wars clone. It's a mess, but playable. There is a tomboy who's also a girly girl idol while wearing a wig.
There's a few vanillashit virginal girls, just not literally every single one of them like how VNs are to now. No incredibly long and boring common route before they let you branch off either.
Love Plus
If You Love Me, Then Say So!
Heartache 101 is a jank western one, but I liked it.
Amagami's translation is completely fricked, but if you can wrangle the thing it's probably the best Dating Sim you can play.
Played it years ago
I remember i was going for the childhood friend girl, but there was this other b***h who was was getting kidnapped so i saved her and fricked her, and the childhood friend somehow suspected i fricked her and got pissed so i got the other girls ending instead
Only "dating sim" I played was katawa shoujo, the rest are VNs that pretend to be dating sims but aren't
I get too fricking depressed with these too because I know I'm an old pathetic loser, and the girl that I really fell in love with I couldn't really confess to without fricking things up. Years after I stopped talking to her I'm still trying to move on but well, now there's a chance I might see her again, so it's really hard to move on.
I mean it's the closest thing to one I played, but I put "dating sim" in quotes for a reason
I only played popular stuff where there was no particular objective to get this one girl or another.
>Also, DIvidead is best VN ever
Please be joking lol... you clearly havent played enough VNs.. Dividead isnt bad but calling it the best is ridiculous.
Also it requires you to play many routes to fully understand all the shit going on in it.
Anyway go play 999 and VLR and even Remember 11. They all btfo Dividead
Holy shit I remember this.
One of the old Tokimeki games, think I banged the sports girl.
same here, remember giggling along thinking there would be cartoon breasts at some point, was mildly blown away to end up in full blown anal sex
i experienced young love
should suffice until im no more
sex
Why are 90s/early 2000s anime girls such high quality?
Wot gaem
There is a severe lack of dating sims in the market right now. The last one got released like 10 years ago.
Kinda weird the chinky flu lockdowns didn't revived the genre.
try dating irl
>romancing 3DPD
the average woman has stricter requirements for dating a guy than nasa has for astronauts
What would you know about the average woman?
i bet that sounded really good in your head
Don't you need a master's degree for a STEM major to be an astronaut? That itself is pretty strict.
Already tried it and it sucks even more than the loading times of a PC95 game.
Dating IRL is basically over, 80% of men are invisible to modern women
Using dating apps is moronic if you're a man.
There are like 10 men for every woman on an app like that. You're never going to win.
>Using dating apps is moronic if you're a man.
So? What else are you going to do, cold approaches during the day? It's over.
>What else are you going to do
being part of a community and meeting woman the old fashioned way
Alright good luck to you then
>tfw i'm getting married to a girl i met this way
oh noes
>going against the meta
Ngmi
I stopped using dating apps when I met up with a chick who turned out didn't have any thumbs.
Did she play vidya?
She was a bookworm. We didn't click mostly since she couldn't drive.
>We didn't click
should've told her to use a keyboard instead of a controller then
We need Ukraine to really kick off so we can thin the competition. See ya, chad, have fun fighting the ruskies.
No, that would mostly be a nuclear exchange. A lot of people just randomly die. Same with Choina. I suggest not living in cities.
>try dating irl
I can't make new friends IRL because nobody wants to maintain a relationship beyond the classroom/workplace.
>get along well with someone
>want to [food/activity] later?
>"no thanks"
>inb4 join a club
>want to visit [relevant place]?
>"Sorry, I only have enough spare time to attend this club."
I actually speak to people and they always talk about how lonely they are, but they don't do much to improve their lot, so it's not a robot9000 problem.
I'm going to keep improoving and following my interests and hope I'll meet someone who reciprocates one day. I don't think it's just me who gets this either;
People would rather spend thousands on gacha girl jpgs instead. Meanwhile a new otome gets released every month even on the English side and there was a new Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side a few years ago.
Maybe we should have nuked the island a few more times.
I know how dedicated fujos are and they actually bother to learn the language and buy the games without needing a translation. Deserved. Everyone I know who passed N1 is a girl.
Girls have a very instrumental approach to exams, meaning they grind what's on the exam and nothing else. Because the goal is to pass the exam. I don't really trust their competence levels. Tokimemo for girls is a shitton more popular than the main series though, that's true.
Depends on how picky you are about the definition of "sim" I suppose.
LoveR came out in 2019 (LoveR Kiss in 2020), and it's labeled 恋愛シミュレーション (as opposed to ADV or アドベンチャー)
Although having played Photokano and Recolove, in my opinion those games are really just novels with some minigames in between chapters
Photokano and Recolove have more gameplay than the average AAA game nowadays.
Too bad they are console only.
Truth is that dating sims are shit games, and now that visual novels have evolved past the point of having 98% of the same dialogue in all routes with only minor differences in the endings they're completely obsolete.
And old school dating sims in particular are especially repetitive and superfluous.
See:
Wowzers sounds like the average gacha game yet somehow they still are popular in the island.
I fapped to the girl with pink hair a lot
Everyone in this game has distractingly long necks.
are people on Ganker who still never experienced True love
most anons never will
This image is funny to me because in order to have a situation like that you need to talk to women first.
who cares
I sort of get this, but in reality it's more like I act like an idiot and then the girl who was kinda interested in me no longer wants to date me. It's not like some pure unconditional love thing where I was perfect for them in every way... I checked some boxes until I didn't.
that pic only applies to failed normalgays who are decent looking but socially moronic
I asked a girl out today, im 26 and that was my first time doing it.
she said "im good, thanks" and left, the problem is that she works at my local gym so its going to be quite awkward whenever I will go there from now on
Act like you can exist in a world where sex is acknowledged to exist and you are still able to be a human being you gigantic autistic frick. Its not fricking hard. Women bear a reminder of sex on their chest every day moron.
Im really not sure what are you trying to say
I just woke up. Your comment just sounded cringe because i can't imagine feeling that way. I dont intend to offend.
what gama?
I could never get into dating sims. They're so boring
ANZE CATGIRL MASTER RACE!!!!!!!!
arisa master race
Typical /v tastes.... why am i even surprised lol
Love is overrated. Someone always ends up getting hurt in the end.
That's everything. Look at fricking Halo.
For me it was Season of the Sakura and the blatant rip-off Rayearth, Evangelion and other anime girls.
>TALK
>LOOK
>TALK
>LOOK
>MOVE
>only like 3 actual choice that matters on the ending
Thank god modern VNs get away from the cancerous adventure game padding.
I'm willing to tolerate light doses of stats and variables, like in Musumaker
but a big killjoy for me is the general lack of features, like the lack of voiced backlogs
There's stats, which I can tolerate, and there's "you need to talk to x character 3 times, look at the specific object 2 times, then talk again to x character 2 times to advance the script because frick giving the reader all the dialogues with just 1 action."
Is this the game?
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%92%E6%A5%AD_%E3%80%9CGraduation%E3%80%9C
Yes
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/sotsugyo-egl#PC-98
>PC-98 on floppies
Hopefully the ports keep most off the horny.
Could be worse
https://www.mobygames.com/game/43246/sotsugyo-graduation-real/screenshots/
For comparison
I'm moronic, where do you suppose the game might be in this collection: https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17
Japan Home Video is not on there as a publisher. Most of these are preinstalled and not on fricking floppies.
Nvm I'm moronic. Abbreviations am I right. Not on floppies either.
Yes should be on JHV zip.
There is also Fire Woman Matoigumi on this exciting failed console. I'll play it later.
I remember the Rei rip-off being a pain in the ass. So many hoops you had to jump through to start her route
Holy shit!! a True Love thread on /v??
This was my very first VN i ever played waaaay back in the day and my first hentai too lol.
I love this shit and it's surprising so damn deep for a mid 90s VN.. they really dont make them like this anymore with stats and calendars etc.
I also love the main theme so much bros:
?feature=shared
I decided to try and be a hipster and playing this right now. It's a Sakura Wars clone. It's a mess, but playable. There is a tomboy who's also a girly girl idol while wearing a wig.
I remember that novel, damn it's been a while
What are some date sims for a poor EOP?
>sakura wars
>True love
>Tokimeki memorial snes
>Pie Carrot e Yokoso
Doukyuusei
young Hitler in the back
His friends suspected him to have a girlfriend when he was young. I guess this pretty much confirms it.
Ptoo.
Don't you like realism in your games?
Oh boy, I looked through the spoilers for characters in this. I don't think I would have much fun.
There's a few vanillashit virginal girls, just not literally every single one of them like how VNs are to now. No incredibly long and boring common route before they let you branch off either.
>Don't you like being reminded why 3dpd is unlovable in your escapist entertainment?
Contemporary dorks were seething about Doukyuusei and Kakyuusei games, worry not. It's basically NTR, trying to make the player feel bad on purpose.
Love Plus
If You Love Me, Then Say So!
Heartache 101 is a jank western one, but I liked it.
Amagami's translation is completely fricked, but if you can wrangle the thing it's probably the best Dating Sim you can play.
Played it years ago
I remember i was going for the childhood friend girl, but there was this other b***h who was was getting kidnapped so i saved her and fricked her, and the childhood friend somehow suspected i fricked her and got pissed so i got the other girls ending instead
I wish it was much better than it is, but you gotta take what you can get I guess.
>certified bawd
women were so honest back then
I have and the main theme still plays in my head from time to time
I also got Anze
Most people don't whether on or off Ganker.
.
Can someone explain how to play this? I tried to download it from abandonware but it wanted to edit my registry.
How do you guys feel knowing your waifus from this game would be 50 now? would you still love them?
More like early to mid forties.
That and X-change were the first two porn games I ever played.
There was a site that had all these you could play, does anyone remember the name?
here you go broski :
https://tss.asenheim.org/true-love.html
And for anyone else who wants to try True Love
ty ty
https://tss.asenheim.org/en/
Only "dating sim" I played was katawa shoujo, the rest are VNs that pretend to be dating sims but aren't
I get too fricking depressed with these too because I know I'm an old pathetic loser, and the girl that I really fell in love with I couldn't really confess to without fricking things up. Years after I stopped talking to her I'm still trying to move on but well, now there's a chance I might see her again, so it's really hard to move on.
how is Katawa Shoujo not a visual novel?
it has zero dating sim elements
I mean it's the closest thing to one I played, but I put "dating sim" in quotes for a reason
I only played popular stuff where there was no particular objective to get this one girl or another.
Its ok, but i like Immoral Sisters and Seasons of Sakura more.
Also, DIvidead is best VN ever
>Also, DIvidead is best VN ever
Please be joking lol... you clearly havent played enough VNs.. Dividead isnt bad but calling it the best is ridiculous.
Also it requires you to play many routes to fully understand all the shit going on in it.
Anyway go play 999 and VLR and even Remember 11. They all btfo Dividead
I haven't played DIvidead but if those are better good lord it must be a turd