Melancholic

Tormenting NPCs suits me just fine. They are also much less likely to break the immersion with inane out of character chatter.

None, because they are full of people. The Biodrone in me wants to play The Old Republic, but I shall resist it's calling.

I wanted to have an MLG weekend. Watch StarCraft 2 games with a drink and a bag of crisps. Good times. After 1 hour of streaming it tells me to pay $20 for a weekend pass, and pretends this is some kind of bargain. I'm unimpressed...

http://i.imgur.com/o93yZl.jpg Touhou. Yummy Kogasa legs by Sayori. Full-size version here (click the image to enlarge). http://i.imgur.com/4PQDCl.jpg Fate/Zero. Saber and Iri by Eiwa. Full-size version here (click the image to enlarge).

I can heartily recommend Spell Force 2. It's an RPG with RTS base building and unit recruitment that should be good for a hundred hours of fun, especially if it includes all the expansions. It's quite well made, but it never got the attention it deserved because it was made primarily for the German market and wasn't marketed properly in the rest of the world. Bonus: much of the armor for females is of the chainmail bikini type, so you can whore around while you save the world.

I have a -50% on Jamestown one that I got for playing Jamestown (...) and -50% and -25% ones for Valve games.

Doujin is not a genre, but a term for self-published works. Think of it as analogous to "indie" in the west. So Touhou is a series of doujin shooting games, Umineko and Tsukihime are doujin visual novels, IOSYS and TAMUSIC produce doujin music CDs, Homunculus is a doujin hentai mangaka, etc. Since it's just amateurs making things as a hobby with no financial backing other than their own pockets, it's unreasonable to expect a doujin circle to meet the production and sales of a major publisher. ZUN has to practically burn every game he sells to a CD himself, and that is why his works are not available in major retail outlets. This has nothing to do with any kind of lack in demand (on the contrary, physical copies of Touhou games are frequently sold out).

Dragon Quest is published by Square Enix, Touhou is a doujin franchise. You can't really compare the two. Square Enix relies on a massive network of manufacturers and distributors to get their goods in stores, while ZUN remains fiercely independent and does almost everything himself. Obviously he's not going to be able to compete with them in that regard. Koichi Sugiyama (Dragon Quest composer) has 159 composer credits on VGMdb, ZUN has 3642. "dragon_quest" finds 185 pages of fan art on Danbooru, "touhou" finds 12366. Either Touhou is more popular, or Dragon Quest fans are just not artistically inclined.

Since this community is built around the distribution of illegal copies of software I'm going to just flat out say it: pirate the whole lot of them, then buy the ones you like if you are so inclined. Imperishable Night is a good one to start with due to it's many starting lives, easy deathbombing and overall awesomeness. Nah. I don't think that's true at all considering the things Cave makes.

It's fine. I'm a Fairy, so I'll just respawn instantly anyway.

Running is a meaningless effort. She'll just use her pocket watch to stop time. You have doomed us both.

http://i.imgur.com/wX6xA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1vSZl.jpg

ziki_7 - Eastern Historia

10.5 and 12.3 are worth it just for the arranged soundtracks alone! Yes, the other games in the list are all unofficial ones. I'm going to pepper this paragraph with YouTube links to share the love. and are shooting games in the style of the official games. They're both full of awesome spell card ideas. CtC offers 4 routes that have completely different early stages (Scarlet Devil Mansion, Eientei, PoFV, PC98), and one of the most epic final bosses ever. It runs in Danmakufu, an engine that emulates Touhou for which anyone can write scripts. are really scripts , as well as obviously a lot of horrible ones. is another great full Danmakufu game one with many new gameplay mechanics and modes, that for some reason is not on my list. is also a shooting game. It adds a third dimension (height) and a jumping mechanic. Suwako takes a walk through Gensokyo and encounters various natives. It gets really hectic. Everything above is recommended. I won't cover the non-shooters on my list because this post is already too long.

Melancholic, human, 24 years old. I live in the Netherlands, where otaku culture does not exist and those who deviate from the norm are ostracized mercilessly. I dropped out of high school after a family tragedy, so I have a bright future ahead of me bagging your groceries or something similarly glorious. I am a full blown STG addict (Touhou, Cave), but I lack the required fine motor control. I'm a Bioware fanboy, though I don't play The Old Republic because it's full of people. I was a teenage metalhead, but I grew out of it. I tried being a hipster for a while, but I got better. Now I listen mainly to doujin music, videogame/anime soundtracks, Björk, and various flavors of goth (post-punk, synthpop, industrial). I prefer 2D girls to real ones because I'm socially awkward. I like happy sex, bondage, lolis, yuri, monster girls, MILFs and just about everything else, but not traps or futa. My favorite food is NOT VEGETABLES, my favorite anime is probably Neon Genesis Evangelion (or Madoka, or Haruhi, or…), and my favorite visual novel is Tsukihime. Hello!

I'm a complete Touhou-tard. http://i.imgur.com/kJ5VA.png I can 1cc all the main (shooting) games on normal and a few on hard, I've beaten Ran, Suwako and Mokou and I've beaten PoFV's crazy sudden death extra mode with both characters. I don't have the patience for StB and DS, though I made it to the final stretch in both. Fairy Wars is easy, until Marisa destroys me. I suck at fighting games. Overall, I am a terrible player considering how long I've been playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZfb2pcMCY 茶太 - 変わらぬ世界で EastNewSound. Chata's whisper vocals are sex.

Yes, and consensus is most of them were awful! 65 isn't all that much, to be honest. I spend most of my days home alone. Chugging down 3 to 4 albums a day is easy.

Websites: My Last.fm, YouTube, Danbooru, DoujinStyle, 6 webcomics, this place, "[something]+Mediafire" on Google Programs: Firefox, MSN Messenger, Winamp, SAI, µTorrent

Proud. [video=youtube;1uDWZ4A0e-4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uDWZ4A0e-4 izna -Skittish Trooper

I'll see your 183.9 hours and raise you 185 hours. I should probably pick that up again, but the high resolution texture pack will break all my beautiful texture mods and it's making me sad.

I like you!

I'm a sucker for doujin shmups. The one I most recently played is eXceed 3rd - Jade Penetrate: Black Package. It's really fun (and kind of easy). I was relieved it doesn't have the polarity system of the second one (it's like Ikaruga). That gameplay mechanic confuses me. I also play the C81 version of Stella Vanity a lot. Stage 7's incredible difficulty boost keeps owning me.

ZTS - Mirage Coordinator Umineko BGM will always be awesome.