Higurashi - Game Discussion (spoilers lurk here)

[GrAVit]

Originally Posted by Shikou

I dont blame him though. If people knew his identity people would probably send him a shrink for his works in Higurashi and Umineko. Or maybe people he knew would be scared of him and has done all of this in the dark. I kinda want to know his mental status as weird as that sounds. If I were to do something like that I would totally use a fake name on just about everything so it would be hard to track me down (I actually am currently in the process of making my own VN atm). Its not totally uncommon that people use a fake name regardless of where you are. Even English voice actors use a fake name completely different from their birth given name.

Yeah uh.. It's not like he's mentally ill and hid his name just because he wrote a horror story. What about the thousands of other indie horror games? Do you think their developers are ill in the head as well?

[Levani]

Pfff, Ryu is fine. Judging from how happy he looks in most of his pictures that are on the internet, I'd say you wouldn't suspect that such man is writing horror and mystery stories.

[Shikou]

A new Web Radio was uploaded on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCzAECf5rw

Originally Posted by GrAVit

Yeah uh.. It's not like he's mentally ill and hid his name just because he wrote a horror story. What about the thousands of other indie horror games? Do you think their developers are ill in the head as well?

Well his methods of murder and how to hide the victims are pretty detailed.

[Mr. Dent]

Originally Posted by Shikou

A new Web Radio was uploaded on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCzAECf5rw


Well his methods of murder and how to hide the victims are pretty detailed.

Yes, but at the same time, we've got things like Saw that are super gruesome and popular, and it's not like the people who make that are mentally ill. And besides, I'm pretty sure it's not writing gore that Ryukishi likes, it's seeing fans react to their favorite characters in mortal peril.

[chaos_alfa]

Originally Posted by Shikou

A new Web Radio was uploaded on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCzAECf5rw


Well his methods of murder and how to hide the victims are pretty detailed.

Higurashi isn't the only gory game or visual novel in Japan, there is for example Chaos;Head, Kara no Shoujo, Saya no Uta, Coprse Party and many more. If there was something mentally wrong with Ryukishi07 the same would apply for the writers of those visual novels and games.

[TheGuraGuraMan]

Originally Posted by Shikou

Well his methods of murder and how to hide the victims are pretty detailed.

His games and SoL scenes are detailed too. Same for the Tokyo thing in the last arc. It's "detailed" as much as the rest.

[Levani]

Originally Posted by Shikou

A new Web Radio was uploaded on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCzAECf5rw


Well his methods of murder and how to hide the victims are pretty detailed.

Are you being serious or just joking?

[st_nick5]

Writing violent and gory stories does not mean you are mentally ill.

[xPearse]

Originally Posted by st_nick5

Writing violent and gory stories does not mean you are mentally ill.

Exactly, I honestly have no idea why people mentioned that, it's just silly.

Also, there was some updates about Higurashi on steam from Doddler about a week ago. It's nearly ready, they're just testing it and such, so yay, I guess.

http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/122415832049
http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/122321996017

And I just felt like posting some silly pictures from Hou, bored at the moment.

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[07th]

Originally Posted by xPearse

And I just felt like posting some silly pictures from Hou, bored at the moment.

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>> apocapylse

That aside, what does the original say on 1st and 3rd pics? Russian Federation? Ryukishi leapt in time for shits and giggles again?

[xPearse]

Originally Posted by 07th

>> apocapylse

That aside, what does the original say on 1st and 3rd pics? Russian Federation? Ryukishi leapt in time for shits and giggles again?

These pics where from before December, so all those pesky errors and misspellings have already been fixed. That, and I'm re-going through the script and fixing things up one last time at the moment.

Anyhow, here is the original text for the 1st and 3rd pics. I searched multiple online dictionary's, thejadednetwork (sound effects) and the internet at large but couldn't find an answer to what guso meant. Other than Google images where I saw poop, so I subbed it as shit.

1st
野グソマンはヒット作でしたねぇ。

3rd
　同じことは、ロシア連邦、スヴェルドロフスク州、エカテリンブルクの生物兵器秘密研究所でも 起こった。

I can understand why you asked for the original text as anyone would think that can't be what it says. Also, I found this just now (Weird how I didn't notice it before) which has it as poop, but field poop man sounds really silly and childish.
http://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/poop_2/

[07th]

Guso is kuso with rendaku enabled.

Sorry, i thought there was a mistranslation, but you actually did a fine job at googling. The translated script pretty precisely describes what a "no-guso-man" is, that is, "a man who takes a dump in plain sight", or a "shit-ass", "shitter", or a "loose ass", something along those lines (damn, it feels so weird to be typing these words here). For some reason, "no-guso" even got its own page in nicopedia.

[xPearse]

Originally Posted by 07th

Guso is kuso with rendaku enabled.

Sorry, i thought there was a mistranslation, but you actually did a fine job at googling. The translated script pretty precisely describes what a "no-guso-man" is, that is, "a man who takes a dump in plain sight", or a "shit-ass", "shitter", or a "loose ass", something along those lines (damn, it feels so weird to be typing these words here). For some reason, "no-guso" even got its own page in nicopedia.

That's ok, and I didn't have a clue what rendaku was until I googled it.

Also, I just finished with the Hou staff credits yesterday. Damn that took long, there was seriously alot of text. There's only a few things left until it's complete anyhow. The title/logo being the main thing, then I will read through it all one last time and fix some past tense and pretense that I noticed, which I have already started a little for Outbreak.

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[07th]

"Use script"? That's better translated as "Game engine" or "Scripting engine". Also, "eye" should be plural, since it means THAT image seen on 11st day of Watanagashi-hen.

And, by the way, does anyone know what LRRP could mean? I'm wondering what the heck it is since 2013. It's hard to believe it really is "long-range patrol", as Google keeps telling me.

[xPearse]

Originally Posted by 07th

"Use script"? That's better translated as "Game engine" or "Scripting engine". Also, "eye" should be plural, since it means THAT image seen on 11st day of Watanagashi-hen.

And, by the way, does anyone know what LRRP could mean? I'm wondering what the heck it is since 2013. It's hard to believe it really is "long-range patrol", as Google keeps telling me.

Yeah, that's actually what it says. Weird though, but I guess game engine makes more sense. I'll make those changes, thanks for spotting them. I also don't have a clue what LRRP means either, maybe it's something to do with Ragnarok Online.

[Katsu Koneko]

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[Levani]

I'm tired of waiting, what's taking MG so long...

[TheGuraGuraMan]

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[GrAVit]

Originally Posted by Katsu Koneko

Some sample images have been colored~

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I like the one with Keiichi and Mion.

[xPearse]

Originally Posted by TheGuraGuraMan

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Looks good, although the "N" for "Naku" and the "K" for "Koro" are meant to be in caps, sorry to be nitpicky. Anyway, I just finished going over Outbreak one last time and fixed up some stuff, so the entire game should be finished, refined (I hope so) and released within a week from now.

Originally Posted by Levani

I'm tired of waiting, what's taking MG so long...

http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/122415832049
http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/122321996017

It should be done sooner or later, a month tops maybe. Although I'm more worried on what the release schedule will be for the rest of the arc's, the thought frightens me.

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