Ironic Dating Sims - "I-I'm not REALLY into romance! It's a hecking epic subversion! Now give me upvotes!!"

[30+GameOvers]

There's nothing wrong with Hatoful Boyfriend -- it's just silly japstuff. You're not supposed to want to bang the pigeons, I hope.

It's cringe streamer bait, there is definitely something wrong with that

These troon coded indie games where you can date a toilet or a duck or whatever are the most reddit cringe imaginable.

The only good one is Snoot Game and that's because it was made by /v/ anons and not reddit trannies.

Agreed. You can tell something like Snoot Game has genuine passion for it, vs le funny pigeon or toilet dating game.

I don't really think weebs are to blame here, but more what they call tourists nowadays.

Maybe the landscape has fundamentally changed since I was last on 4chan (years and years ago), but I still vividly remember all the waifu wars, endless debates over which anime girl was the best and all the explosions of rage as "worst" girl won. There was always this understanding that anime, like most nerdy stuff, was inherently cringe and pandering to a specific demographic, so you either embrace that aspect of it, or gave up on the whole medium altogether.

I assume the people making this slop are people that watched mainstream stuff like Naruto and One Piece on and off and try to coopt weebery for their own ends, and the subhumans that lose their shit any time they are reminded anime features tits and ass.

Either way, I hate this trend of people only consuming entertainment to laugh at it. What kind of hollow husk of a human do you have to be to waste your life doing something you don't enjoy so you can go on the internet and attempt to impress random strangers with how "mature" and "sophisticated" you are for disdaining trash meant for peasants?

This is actually one of the nastiest traits of liberals, the need to barge into places where they are neither wanted nor welcome. My thought process when encountering something I don't care for, or dislike, is to leave it well-enough alone, but not liberals, they are compelled to screech at people that their hobby is racist/sexist/bigoted etc. and that it should be changed so liberals can feel better about themselves.

If you're talking about places like /a/ or /jp/, these days the former is filled with underage non-white ESL third worlders obsessed with DBZ or the flavor of the month, or trannies. Latter has been largely taken over by vtumors, despite them having their own board now. That kind of culture you're describing is largely dead on 4chan and the site as a whole has userbase numbers dropping like flies. Snoot Game is one of the last achievements 4chan had left, and even then /v/ jannies hated the game so much you could only talk about it on /trash/.

 

[bingin]

Oh yeah we can't talk about dating sims without bringing up the Date Everything featuring a troon VA or whatever game.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lAolvQlDgD0

only good design is the refrigerator

 

[why42]

Mass effect

 

[SIMIΔN]

The scifi clone dating sim Love Thyself is a fun few hours set in the Endless Space universe.

It's free on steam.

 

[biglurker]

All of these look like one of those half-assed anime parodies you would see from assblasted cartoonists in the 2000s.
I never even played a visual novel before (closest was Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving) but all of these come off as only tackling surface level aspects of them.
Not the mention that apparently actual dating systems are spreadsheet time management games to the Japs.

don't really think weebs are to blame here, but more what they call tourists nowadays.

Its likely comes from tumblr-era "ironic" anime culture. Those people went on to like certain animes, and were also stupid enough to believe that dating sims/VNs were responsible for low birthrates in Japan.
All of these games often have tumblr-esque art styles, tumblr quirky humor (less irony and more lol-random than reddit), and parody completely from the outside looking in.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Anyone remember the one where Gordon Ramsey dates Paula Deen? There's an ending where she jumps in a vat of butter and dies.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Why isn't there a holocaust dating sim? supposedly multiple jewish women did give birth and hide the children (and being pregnant) from everyone.

dude i hated this trend it just felt like normalizing gooner culture

Pretty sure that stupid nigger Beyoncé has done more to normalize gooner culture than the entire WEG and VN community combined, even the non-ironic ones.

In fact i'm surprised we don't have a thread here hating on her.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Another theory I have is that this is an attempt by the left to "take over" the VN market to deny it to the straight, male audience. If they can normalize "ironic" visual novels as the norm, then it becomes easier to pressure other content creators to pervert their own creations to fit the mold.

As autistic this post may look to some, i do believe there's truth in here. I remember moths ago i was looking for some free VNs on Steam, something to kill time, eventually i stumbled upon a reddit thread about VN recommendations, as you might expect, most users where like "I refuse to play a VN/dating sim unless it's ironic!", if there's really an organized effort to take away VNs from straight males or undermine the genre, well, it's working.

 

[Senior Frogmin]

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE CLASS OF 09. THERE ARE 510.1 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETERS OF STONE. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF KILOMETERS IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR CLASS OF 09 AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT.

I hate Class of 09. Every time I see it, every time I hear about it, every time a clip of it gets put in my YouTube recommendations, I recoil in disgust and anguish. From the moment that I have first seen it, I hated it, there has not been a moment on this earth that I had any positive feeling towards it. My reaction was not born out of prior knowledge of the developer and his antics, no. The very second that I glanced upon the Steam store page I knew deep within my heart that this was evil. But I was not angered or agitated. I felt pure disdain for it, like looking into a pit of maggots carved into the head of a cow, slithering in their mucus and filth. I knew because of my heightened instincts, I felt its wickedness with my soul.