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Originally Posted by arekwibowo
Also, he said he never even played an eroge because he has a "life" and it's only something for people who can't "get real girlfriend" and "living a lonely and desperate life".
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My girlfriend and I are both eroge players. She's also not the only woman I know who plays eroge.
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Originally Posted by Triple_R
Well, from what I've been told by serious VN/eroge-lovers...
Visual Novels = Basically anything that's literally a visual novel. This would include properties like Higurashi and Umineko, which are horror/mystery-driven (although I'm not sure if they have sex scenes or not).
Eroges = VNs that focus on romance, and include at least one sex scene per route.
Nukige = This is basically porn, yes.
All Nukiges are Eroges, but not all Eroges are Nukiges.
All Eroges are VNs, but not all VNs (though most, it seems) are Eroges.
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Eh, the way I understand it, eroge covers all games with erotic content. Doesn't matter if it's a nukige, nakige, utsuge, moege (no seriously, it's a genre) or what have you. So yes,
some are porn.
Many others, not so much, as other have pointed out - though there's definitely a certain stigma about it. I met a Japanese exchange student who was a VN enthusiast at one of my anime club's sushi nights, he was perfectly okay with talking about ero-free VNs like Ever 17 (well, okay, Ever 17 has some implied sex but you get the point) but asked me to keep it down when discussing titles with actual ero because he felt it was shameful to talk about them around women - his words, though I wouldn't put too much stock in his choice of words as his English was still a bit awkward at the time.