Ar Tonelico III - Now with 50% more shame!

[Great Rumbler]

Not safe for non-weaboos:

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What shall I do?

1. Install
2. Strip
3. Present
4. Go Home

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[Bebpo]

I thought this franchise was always full of shame and that's why Prole plays it?

[Great Rumbler]

I thought this franchise was always full of shame and that's why Prole plays it?

That's true, but I think it gets even worse with each installment.

[MCD]

http://kotaku.com/5390458/only-by-taking-off-their-clothes-can-ar-tonelico-iii-heroines-save-the-world

When heroines in upcoming PS3 role-playing-game Ar Tonelico III activate in-game songs, their costumes show more and more flesh. This, explains producer Atsunori Kawachi, is for a very important reason.

By showing more skin, they are able to absorb more of the planet's energy," said the producer at a recent press event.

Continuing, he added, "The world can only be saved because the heroines took off their clothes!"

[Great Rumbler]

If only global warming could be combated in the same manner.

[Bebpo]

Reading that I thought it was an Onion piece.  Then I saw the link and was   

[demi]

Slime daddy, I found a PS3 game. PS3 has games!

[demi]

He thinks he has a choice!

[Joe Molotov]

http://kotaku.com/5390458/only-by-taking-off-their-clothes-can-ar-tonelico-iii-heroines-save-the-world

When heroines in upcoming PS3 role-playing-game Ar Tonelico III activate in-game songs, their costumes show more and more flesh. This, explains producer Atsunori Kawachi, is for a very important reason.

By showing more skin, they are able to absorb more of the planet's energy," said the producer at a recent press event.

Continuing, he added, "The world can only be saved because the heroines took off their clothes!"

Day 1.

[originalz]

The anime/otaku district in my city has posters for this game all over the place.  They sure know how to market to the target audience!

[Jansen]

gust games suck shit

only weeaboo loli loving distinguished mentally-challenged fellows buy their games

[recursivelyenumerable]

Sweet.  Can't wait for the soundtrack

[bork]

They oughtta shake things up in Ar Tonelico IV and add in a girl that's actually over the age of 14!  How will otaku deal!?

http://kotaku.com/5390458/only-by-taking-off-their-clothes-can-ar-tonelico-iii-heroines-save-the-world

When heroines in upcoming PS3 role-playing-game Ar Tonelico III activate in-game songs, their costumes show more and more flesh. This, explains producer Atsunori Kawachi, is for a very important reason.

By showing more skin, they are able to absorb more of the planet's energy," said the producer at a recent press event.

Continuing, he added, "The world can only be saved because the heroines took off their clothes!"

Gentlemen, I believe we have just discovered the way towards peace in the middle east.

[pilonv1]

I thought this franchise was always full of shame and that's why Prole plays it?

wasnt that Mana Khemia?

[Don Flamenco]

They oughtta shake things up in Ar Tonelico IV and add in a girl that's actually over the age of 14!  How will otaku deal!?

they will be too intimidated by women with fully formed breasts who are possibly not as impressionable and easily manipulated.

[Great Rumbler]

They oughtta shake things up in Ar Tonelico IV and add in a girl that's actually over the age of 14!  How will otaku deal!?

I know you're being sarcastic, but the first game doesn't have any playable character under the age of 14 and the second game only has one.

[bork]

They oughtta shake things up in Ar Tonelico IV and add in a girl that's actually over the age of 14!  How will otaku deal!?

I know you're being sarcastic, but the first game doesn't have any playable character under the age of 14 and the second game only has one.

My mistake. 

They ougtta shake things up in Ar Tonelico IV and add in a girl that's actually over the age of 18 and/or doesn't look like a 14 year old!  How will otaku deal!?

[demi]

lol, great rumbler played these games. god damn. there isnt a laughing girl pic big enough.

[Great Rumbler]

lol, great rumbler played these games. god damn. there isnt a laughing girl pic big enough.

Haven't touched a single one of them, actually. I'm not willing to get lost in that quagmire.

doesn't look like a 14 year old!

There's the catch. 

[bork]

I looked up the first game on Wikipedia.  One of the female characters is like 738 years old.  Without even looking at a single picture of this character, I'm going to guess she's total loli-kawaiiiii desu.  ^__^.  Am I right?

[bork]

doesn't look like a 14 year old!

There's the catch. 

 

[Great Rumbler]

I looked up the first game on Wikipedia.  One of the female characters is like 738 years old.  Without even looking at a single picture of this character, I'm going to guess she's total loli-kawaiiiii desu.  ^__^.  Am I right?

Though, she looks cold at first, Shurelia is actually shy and quite clumsy (sometimes she trips and lands with her face while chanting spells). She has no sense of direction and often gets lost, even in her own tower. She has a great fondness for bunnies and their related stuff (from dolls to bunny-shaped food to the point of bombs and restoring items).

738 years old.

[bork]

Just elongate the body and add some titties at least.  That artwork makes the character look like she's 11 years old. 

Maybe one day otaku will grow out of the moe-loli phase.  I'm all animu, but damn do I detest that shit.  That reminds me of a dude I used to know back in college.  He was all into fighting games and everything.  He graduated several years before me andI never saw him again after that.  Found out from another friend that he'd just sit at home all day in his parents' basement online, and was jobless.  Then one day he hits me up on AIM and starts telling me about how he likes this girl and that girl and all that, but they're all underage.  He sends me a (clean, thank fuck) pic of one of some young girl that looks like she's 12 years old.  "Can you BELIEVE she's only 13?!?!?!  "  "Uh...yeah.   "  I tried to change the subject and made a joke about it, ending with "LOL," and he responds with "LOL...I? ha ha."  I stopped using AIM after that, but did load it up several years later, and he was STILL on.

[Great Rumbler]

Just elongate the body and add some titties at least.  That artwork makes the character look like she's 11 years old. 

Maybe one day otaku will grow out of the moe-loli phase.  I'm all animu, but damn do I detest that shit.

I shed a single tear when I saw the redesigned characters for Star Ocean 2 on the PSP. Looking at that difference basically tells you all you need to know about the way RPGs have gone since even the late 90's.

It will, hopefully, go away eventually, as did trends that were over-used during the 80's and 90's.

[bork]

Just elongate the body and add some titties at least.  That artwork makes the character look like she's 11 years old. 

Maybe one day otaku will grow out of the moe-loli phase.  I'm all animu, but damn do I detest that shit.

I shed a single tear when I saw the redesigned characters for Star Ocean 2 on the PSP. Looking at that difference basically tells you all you need to know about the way RPGs have gone since even the late 90's.

It will, hopefully, go away eventually, as did trends that were over-used during the 80's and 90's.

The 80s and 90s stuff was so much better.   :'( 

[Great Rumbler]

Just elongate the body and add some titties at least.  That artwork makes the character look like she's 11 years old. 

Maybe one day otaku will grow out of the moe-loli phase.  I'm all animu, but damn do I detest that shit.

I shed a single tear when I saw the redesigned characters for Star Ocean 2 on the PSP. Looking at that difference basically tells you all you need to know about the way RPGs have gone since even the late 90's.

It will, hopefully, go away eventually, as did trends that were over-used during the 80's and 90's.

The 80s and 90s stuff was so much better.   :'( 

It was certainly manlier at least.

[recursivelyenumerable]

The original version of SO2 had horrible character designs, though.  I don't remember the PSP versions, but they can't possibly have been much worse.

[Joe Molotov]

Screw you guys, almost all the girls in Ar Tonelico are 18, even the one girl that has a growth disorder and stopped aging at 12.

[Human Snorenado]

Just elongate the body and add some titties at least.  That artwork makes the character look like she's 11 years old. 

Maybe one day otaku will grow out of the moe-loli phase.  I'm all animu, but damn do I detest that shit.

I shed a single tear when I saw the redesigned characters for Star Ocean 2 on the PSP. Looking at that difference basically tells you all you need to know about the way RPGs have gone since even the late 90's.

It will, hopefully, go away eventually, as did trends that were over-used during the 80's and 90's.

There are tons of great rpgs that don't feature prole panty bait- they're all ICKY GROSS WESTERN RPGS THAT DON'T RAPE YOU WITH HEAVY HANDED "STORY TELLING" tho.

[bork]

Just elongate the body and add some titties at least.  That artwork makes the character look like she's 11 years old. 

Maybe one day otaku will grow out of the moe-loli phase.  I'm all animu, but damn do I detest that shit.

I shed a single tear when I saw the redesigned characters for Star Ocean 2 on the PSP. Looking at that difference basically tells you all you need to know about the way RPGs have gone since even the late 90's.

It will, hopefully, go away eventually, as did trends that were over-used during the 80's and 90's.

The 80s and 90s stuff was so much better.   :'( 

It was certainly manlier at least.

We're going way off-topic, but seriously, how did it go from this

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[bork]

There are tons of great rpgs that don't feature prole panty bait- they're all ICKY GROSS WESTERN RPGS THAT DON'T RAPE YOU WITH HEAVY HANDED "STORY TELLING" tho.

Yes, give me games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, where I can choose to have sex with fully-grown females (or males, hyuck hyuck) instead of telling lolis to remove their clothes and watching magikaru dansu henshin for za piyaa uworudo!

[demi]

It goes that way because Great Rumbler keeps buying it

[bork]

Half-naked chicks are a gaming staple.  Just give me this



over this.

[Human Snorenado]

There are tons of great rpgs that don't feature prole panty bait- they're all ICKY GROSS WESTERN RPGS THAT DON'T RAPE YOU WITH HEAVY HANDED "STORY TELLING" tho.

Yes, give me games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, where I can choose to have sex with fully-grown females (or males, hyuck hyuck) instead of telling lolis to remove their clothes and watching magikaru dansu henshin for za piyaa uworudo!

You say that like it's not better or something.  Sure sex in games is awkward and dumb (kind of like sex in high school) but if we're going to be sexualizing game characters I'd prefer they look like they're legal.  AND you're ignoring great games like Fallout 3 where there's no sexual interactions with the main character.

Western rgps >>>> jrpgs this gen, fo sho.  I know you don't particularly care for either, but it's true!

[bork]

There are tons of great rpgs that don't feature prole panty bait- they're all ICKY GROSS WESTERN RPGS THAT DON'T RAPE YOU WITH HEAVY HANDED "STORY TELLING" tho.

Yes, give me games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, where I can choose to have sex with fully-grown females (or males, hyuck hyuck) instead of telling lolis to remove their clothes and watching magikaru dansu henshin for za piyaa uworudo!

You say that like it's not better or something.  Sure sex in games is awkward and dumb (kind of like sex in high school) but if we're going to be sexualizing game characters I'd prefer they look like they're legal.  AND you're ignoring great games like Fallout 3 where there's no sexual interactions with the main character.

Western rgps >>>> jrpgs this gen, fo sho.  I know you don't particularly care for either, but it's true!

No mayne, I'm totally on your side on this one.  Agreed 100%.  I can't play JRPGs.  I've actually played through and beaten Mass Effect, which is amazing considering how much I hate RPGs in general.  I like what Bioware and Bethesda have done lately, and that's about it.

[tiesto]

I don't usually care for the settings or the combat engines in most of the WRPGs I played.

[Great Rumbler]

The original version of SO2 had horrible character designs, though.  I don't remember the PSP versions, but they can't possibly have been much worse.

Now they're just generic animu, same with the voice acting. The VA and character designs in the original were bad, yeah, but at least they weren't that.

It goes that way because Great Rumbler keeps buying it

I haven't bought or played a single Gust game.

[Human Snorenado]

I don't usually care for the settings or the combat engines in most of the WRPGs I played.

Well yes, you're a weeaboo.  We know!

[Great Rumbler]

I don't usually care for the settings or the combat engines in most of the WRPGs I played.

Well yes, you're a weeaboo.  We know!

WRPGs have been so much better this generation than JRPGs that it's ridiculous. Fallout 3, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Oblivion, The Witcher, King's Bounty, Neverwinter Nights 2, Drakensang, Sacred 2, and a few more minor games.

Even Two Worlds was more fun than most of the JRPGs I've played this gen.

[Don Flamenco]

lol, great rumbler played these games. god damn. there isnt a laughing girl pic big enough.

sure there is

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

If Prole comments, he should just abandon the whole "I'm not going to get it" and then buy it on the sly a few months later.  Just come out and admit that you'll be buying and going "uguu~ ^__^" when you buy it.



You hear that Great Rumbler buys games starring 14 year old girls?

Don't worry Great Rumbler, these girls are actually 850 years old!

[Great Rumbler]

If I played those kinds of games, I'd admit to it. I mean, you kind of have to because I don't think you could even will yourself to buy them unless you were just so far gone that you didn't even care anymore.

Edit: That laughing girls pic is massively awesome, by the way. Like...I can't even fathom how awesome it is because only a third of it will fit on my screen at once.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

[Great Rumbler]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.

Yeah, I think that pretty much nails it. Some people are quite vehement in arguing that WRPGs aren't nearly as good as they were back in the 90's with the heyday of Black Isle and the like, but JRPGs are so much worse off in the regard.

I think the last JRPG that I really enjoyed was Persona 3. Nothing from this generation has done much to pique my interest, except for a faint hope that FFXIII turns out to be fun.

[Mr. Gundam]

Demon's Souls is a fantastic JRPG, but it doesn't fit the mold.

[Great Rumbler]

Demon's Soul looks really interesting, but it's only on the PS3.

[bork]

Demon's Souls is a fantastic JRPG, but it doesn't fit the mold.

It's more of an action-RPG anyway, right?  I'd like to try it sometime, and I'd actually like to give Persona 3 a chance.  Will probably do that when the PSP version comes out in English.

The only "RPG" I know I will buy for sure is 3D Dot Game Heroes.

[Trent Dole]

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[tiesto]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

Yeah but I think that most game genres have gotten progressively worse this gen...

[bork]

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The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

Yeah but I think that most game genres have gotten progressively worse this gen...

What else besides RPGs?

[Great Rumbler]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

Yeah but I think that most game genres have gotten progressively worse this gen...

What else besides RPGs?

I'd say that the sandbox action genre this generation is the best it's ever been.

[Bebpo]

don't we have this "JRPG IS DUM" discussion like 3 times a week?

I don't post about it because everyone says the same thing and nothing ever changes.

[Human Snorenado]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

Yeah but I think that most game genres have gotten progressively worse this gen...

What else besides RPGs?

I'd say that the sandbox action genre this generation is the best it's ever been.

By default and sheer volume I'd say the console fps has been nearly perfected... of course the problem is that you have to wade through tons of crap and mediocre entries to play the good stuff... or at least you would if you didn't have two thumbs and discerning taste, like THIS GUY!  HEY-O!

And Bebpo, just because we say the same things over and over doesn't mean they're not true, or make jrpgs any better this gen.

[originalz]

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Goddamn I hate this commercial so much, it's always playing on the TV.  At their display at the supermarket, there's a video always playing the goddamn song plus showing you how you can do the proper dance for it.

[iconoclast]

there's a video always playing the goddamn song plus showing you how you can do the proper dance for it.

Thank god. If you did it wrong you'd look like such an idiot.

[tiesto]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

Yeah but I think that most game genres have gotten progressively worse this gen...

What else besides RPGs?

I'd say that the sandbox action genre this generation is the best it's ever been.

It's a shame I hate sandbox action games...

[Human Snorenado]

The problem isn't that WRPGs are better, the problem is that JRPGs get progressively worse.  WRPGs are the same, boring, sci-fi (or some medieval bullshit with orcs) shit that we all derided before.  Japanese developers don't give a fuck anymore; they're all porting their SNES and PS One shit to the DS.  That or designing games that would only be acceptable on the DS since the bar is low enough.

Exactly.

It's hard to agree that high quality wrpgs aren't being produced in a gen that gave us Fallout 3 and Dragon Age.  Just sayin.

[demi]

two worlds > persona

[Great Rumbler]

two worlds > persona

Verily!

[tiesto]

Yeah, I like animu much more than orcs and elves and hobbits and shit, or Star Wars.