/nep/ - Hyperdimension Neptunia

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>>8356 (OP) 
So 700 is the reply limit here. I'll have to make a note of that. Didn't expect you to make a new thread, Unifag. Also, you should have updated the OP, because the PS4 Re;Births just got a release date.
https://www.gematsu.com/2025/07/hyperdimension-neptunia-rebirth-trilogy-for-ps4-launches-september-30-in-the-west

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>>8356 (OP) 
For that poster from the last thread that wanted my Neptastic setup, here it is. For the Mesa files, I just extracted the folder and copy pasted the two files into the Birth3 folder as well as the base game folder (because Neptastic doesn't work on Re;Birth 3 unless the files are in both folders for some reason). I then changed the Opengl override settings to Opengl32.dll and deleted the Neptastic version. As I said, it didn't work out well. Did I do something wrong?
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>>8356 (OP) 
I wish Uni actually wore boots in her default outfit.

>>8359
You want to keep neptastic's opengl32.dll, rename Mesa DLL to opengl32_nep.dll and place it in the same folder.

>>8361
if there are more than one dll in the mesa download, you need to copy all of them. you still need to rename mesa's opengl32 to opengl32_nep (or whatever override you have configured)

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>>8360
It was always socks and shoes for her even with prototype designs. Boots look great on her, but I've always liked her regular shoes too. They look light, comfortable, and sturdy while still being adorable. She carefully curls her hair, does a lot of makeup, and clearly has fitted clothes, so no surprise her shoes are overtly cutesy.
I think she might want a pair of blue-bottom boots that matches her dress for the cooler months, but then, we haven't seen an autumn/winter version of her dress either. Not even when she goes to Lowee - that's a bit of a missed opportunity for alternate costumes.

>>8363
When I first played Re;Birth 2 I thought she had boots since I could not really tell all that well when she becomes playable. Was quite happy since I thought all of them wore boots.
Would love to see it officially, preferably by Tsunako.
The loafers are fine but I love girls in boots.
>Lowee
Honestly that is a huge missed oppurtunity, I would have loved winter outfits for the ones not from Lowee, more boots for me.

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I love my wife Neptune! 
So 700 posts is a hard limit, huh. I hope no old thread got bumped of the catalog, but I guess ultimately new activity is the important thing...
>>8363
Shame Compa is too lazy. In Nep's case, I wish there was a costume with tights, they're the best.

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>>8366
If this is anything like 8chan moe, the catalog probably supports like 20+ pages before threads start getting deleted/archived, and the current oldest thread is on page 11. I think it'll be a while before anything starts getting bumped off. Perhaps it would be worth discussing with the admin or BO what to do when that happens, but I think the BO is MIA again. I hope Blancbro hasn't stopped looking here. Damn it, I forgot that this place uses asterisks for spoilers again.

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Another day of being called a menace to society because I like smol anime girls and moe fanservice games and defend them on their own merits instead of falling in line with people that want them erased from existence.

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>>8369
Looking around at the weeb stuff I missed, and maybe at the world in general, it always feels like arriving at a party that has just ended. Standing among the few hangover bums who haven't left yet and broken bottles in the floor. Well, at least I'll always be able to look back and drink the bottles that are left.
In any case, maybe it's healthier to believe that this too shall pass, and that if nothing else, helping in whatever way you can is the least you can do.
>>8371
>GtoJx-zXEAAZIpm.jpg
Oh shit, first time I see my art reposted anywhere.

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>>8374
Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it.
>>8369
Don't take what they say to heart. You're a nice person.

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Would Blanc overcompensate for her small size by driving an enormous car?

>>8376
The Queen's chariot..

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>>8375
I mean, I wouldn't change Neptunia for anything. I'd change some things about it sure but over all I'm glad I played it all those years ago.
>>8376
Going by her consoles, she'd probably want something reliable and strong, and it just so happens to be that it's a car twice as tall as her (cute)

>>8378
What are the things you would change?

>>8378
>Going by her consoles, she'd probably want something reliable and strong, and it just so happens to be that it's a car twice as tall as her (cute)

Blanc's massive hummer that she needs a step-stool to get into.

>>8378
>>8380
You're also forgetting that it would have to be a vehicle of an older design that has stood the tests of time and will last.

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It took me this long to realize the old thread wasn't being posted in because it actually reached a hard post limit. That's new to me. I thought everyone had abandoned attempts to post on this site.

Also I suspect my poster ID will be different since I recently had to switch web browsers.

>>8380
That's a cute idea, but I've heard hummers lean to the high maintenance side of things. Maybe a big pickup truck would be better.

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>>8382
>It took me this long to realize the old thread wasn't being posted in because it actually reached a hard post limit.
I thought the same.
>>8379
I think the series would benefit a lot from better worldbuilding. Gamindustri basically encapsulates the whole concept, so having more solid rules and stuff could only make the games better I think.

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Ate another 3-day ban from a 4Cuck jannigger for addressing political shills in what was obviously a political shitflinging thread.
>>8374
I have had this exact feeling constantly for what seems like a decade now. In general, I hate that I became an otaku in what seems to be the twilight of otaku culture.
>>8376
Unless you count her choice of weapon, Blanc doesn't really seem to try to "overcompensate", rather she tries to emphasize the appeal of what she has. She's surprisingly modest that way. In general, Blanc seems to be the most humble and modest of the four goddesses. Both Vert and especially Whoire are arrogant and pretentious as hell, and while Neptune is more sensible, she does have the whole "I'm the protagonist" shtick. Then again, it might just because Blanc (wrongly) believes she has nothing worth boasting of. As such, while I greatly appreciate her modesty, I enjoy seeing the rare moments where she gets to confidently flaunt. It really saddens me to see her think so little of herself sometimes.

>>8384
>Ate another 3-day ban from a 4Cuck jannigger for addressing political shills in what was obviously a political shitflinging thread.
This is most of /v/ now. There's no way its' organic. I've found a good way to address it: When a thread turns to polshit, I leave. This has meant that I've had to leave several Nep threads and SK threads but it's worth it in the long run because the only reason people drag that shit to threads I'm interested in is to derail them and then bait the janitor into carpet-banning the thread.

Which happens a bunch because the Janny has an IQ of chewing gum, and the original troll/bot ban evades and does it all over again.

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>>8384
>Ate another 3-day ban from a 4Cuck jannigger for addressing political shills in what was obviously a political shitflinging thread.
This has happened to me enough times that I've just stopped replying to political topics altogether on /v/. Which is some bullshit because people still post them all the fucking time.

>Blanc doesn't really seem to try to "overcompensate"
In 4GO she admits that she typically makes her characters with very large chests, and that she only held back in that game because she knew she'd be playing with the other goddesses and they'd never let her hear the end of it. Even then her chest size is still slightly bigger ingame than IRL. I suspect Blanc knows full well she'd be called out if she tried overcompensating at all.

My reply didn't get lost, did it?

>>8383
It absolutely would, though going too far would end up being a negative. On that note, did you have anything specific in mind?

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>>8385
This is the post I got banned for.
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/716352963/#716354418
For one, as you can see, this thread is nothing but political shitflinging, so it's awfully rich that my post is the only one banned for some reason. For two, the shitflinging in particular is DNC shills using this case to try and paint themselves as pro-anime/loli because blue states don't have age verification bills. This pisses me off to no end because I've dealt with at least a fucking decade of them and their subhuman footsoldiers shitting on the things I love, but they act like none of it counts because they don't pass heavy-handed legislation like establishment conservatives do. That is not their strategy, their strategy is the "long march" codified by activists in the 60s. They pressured and took over institutions and corporations on the ground and acted through them, not the government. Fuck you retards, I remember what you did to Senran Kagura after you pozzed Soyny! But now they're shilling themselves to weebs who don't know better. So I just called them out and told them in no uncertain terms that it was the insufferable gay race communism and open hatred of normal straight male sexuality that pushed weebs and normal people to the right and that it'll take more than just not having anti-porn/age verification bills for anyone to give them the time of day, knowing full well they're not going to repudiate what's been the core of their ideology for decades if not longer, but I just wanted to see them squirm because they know they've rightfully earned the contempt of everyone who isn't biotrash by being the party of subhumans tyrannizing everyone. No matter what team red does, pic related is eternal and they know it.

>>8384
You can kind of imagine why the goddesses picked the weapons they use.
>Neptune found the katana, plus she's a huge otaku so it's a good fit.
>Vert is a minmaxer, IRL spears are meta due to reach
>Noire wants to look cool ig?
>Blanc is strong and her consoles have a reputation for durability
>>8387
At least more refined rules so the stakes can feel well defined and real. Nothing too serious, just some more tension.

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>>8386
>In 4GO she admits that she typically makes her characters with very large chests, and that she only held back in that game because she knew she'd be playing with the other goddesses and they'd never let her hear the end of it.
So do you think she'd be less modest or even arrogant if she didn't have (or feel she has) the other goddesses constantly judging her? Blanc comes off as pretty modest to me, when she's not being provoked at least. I've said before that in all honesty she has plenty of things to flaunt at Vert in retaliation (and that Vert's constant prodding of her comes off as veiled jealousy to me), but she doesn't. Is it just because she feels too insecure to try?

>spoiler
The e-mail? It was the one from last Sunday, right? No, it's there. I don't expect such issues on my end. The whole issue seems to stem from Google not recognizing my e-mail as a "trusted provider", thus it's predisposed to treat all incoming messages from it as potential spam.

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>>8390
What I'm saying is I suspect she'd be more open to artificially boosting her self image if she thought she could get away with it. There's another drama CD where she's Nepgear's older sister. She's bothered enough by Nepgear being taller than her that she wears a tall chef's hat to compensate.

I know what the issue has been so far, but I got hit with a week long reminder and I didn't trust Google not to mishandle my reply somehow.

>>8389
Fair, low stakes and tension is a problem a lot of media suffers from since you almost always know the good guys are going to win.

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janny only ever seems to ban from SK threads for telling resident schizos to fuck off but never seems to ban the resident schizo, so let's hear it for a new ID.

>>8392
>since you almost always know the good guys are going to win
A lot of the interest comes from seeing the twists that come as a result of their actions. For example, newer TV shows here in America like Blue Ridge and Almost Paradise ride upon the same exact cliches you've seen for the past 40 years in everything from 80's TV like A-Team and The Incredible Hulk to series from little over a decade ago like Burn Notice and White Collar. However they're entertaining to watch because of seeing how the characters play off each other or what crazy antics they get up to.

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Honestly, I don't know why Histybro doesn't move or at least post here. The IFnigger has been harassing him constantly for the past few months. How does he put up with being called a pedophile over and over?

>>8391
That's a bit different than what I was thinking of, but I get it. It makes me want to imagine if it was her daughter instead. I think we touched on that last thread. I really ought to watch/listen to these drama CDs, but watching them on Youtube feels cheap for some reason, like I'm cheating. Why weren't these CDs included in any of the recent Re;Birth reissues, damn it!?

>>8393
>SK threads
Senran Kagura threads? Stop Killing Games threads? Or something else?

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>>8395
You'd be consuming them the same way I did. These drama CDs are in Japanese only, so watching fan translations on youtube really is the only way for gaijin like us. At least there were people around who could translate them.

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>>8395
>Senran Kagura threads? 
This one. I avoid the SKG threads because I'm aware most people are just there to troll from the 'ecker and are intentionally trying to get the thread carpet-banned. 
The SK one surprised me because it was me telling a very specific schizo to stop attempting to get the thread deleted by derailing into political garbage that SK is too dead to be a part of anyway.

>>8394
>the past 40 years
I do not think I am ever going to get used to the 70s and 80s being fifty and forty years ago instead of thirty and twenty...
That aside though, I completely understand watching stuff for character interactions and antics, both tend to be what I want to see the most these days. When I still watched TV my favourite American show was Two & A Half Men as well, so I guess it was inevitable I was drawn to slice of life anime.

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A great horror game that I was playing got banned off Steam today. I can't even imagine what kind of chaos would unfold if a new Nep game came out right now with all its fanservice.

>>8399
>A great horror game that I was playing got banned off Steam today
What game?

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>>8400
Vile: Exhumed. Ironically I only found it because it was banned and I got curious. It's just a found-footage point-and-click adventure. Nothing sexual in the game at all, only the implication that the psychopath is... a psychopath. You can still buy it off their site but that's a grim future where we're sending crypto to random wallets online to play video games because of content that's less extreme than the original Resident Evil.

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>>8402
>Nothing sexual in the game at all, only the implication that the psychopath is... a psychopath.
According to the dev, it is because of "sexual content": https://archive.ph/D4mIi
But who even know what that means anymore.

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>>8403
The dev says the ban is because of "sexual content", but there's nothing sexual in the game at all. It's about a psychopath stalker following this one woman around and the lengths he goes to in order to justify a parasocial relationship in his head. No sex, no romance, nothing. There is one implied rape scene that is never shown on-screen. Just a blurry video of him breaking into her house, and ending just after he opens her bedroom door. You don't even see her face. 

If the standard is now "Implied sexual content" then literally every game is at risk.

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>>8404
>literally every game
..Okay maybe not /literally/ every game, but you could use this backwards logic to get close to anything banned. Especially a game like Neptunia where the "Needs rape correction" meme came from.

>>8405
>Especially a game like Neptunia where the "Needs rape correction" meme came from.
It did?

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>>8396
It still feels cheap to me. Those drama CDs are a collection of "special moments" with the goddesses. It doesn't feel right to watch them publicly with dozens of other people. I want to have them for myself. But I'm probably just being autistic, and as you said, they're not officially translated. I don't know why they're not. They've translated other supplemental material before, and I doubt these would cost much. Unless it's a VA problem. From what you've told me of her, I doubt Wendee Lee would take issue, but I don't know about the others. As I've said, the English VA/dubbing industry is rather sketchy in general and many of its members have displayed open ignorance or even contempt of the material they deal with. I'll forever remember when Skye Bennett (Pyra/Mythra's VA) grandstanded on Twitter about how problematic the Rex harem photo from Xenoblade 3 was and how Mythra was a totally stronk independent woman with skibidi sigma rizz who don't need no man and being in Rex's harem was somehow disrespectful to her, completely and utterly misinterpreting her entire character and arc, seriously I could not believe that a VA who voices the character could get her so fucking wrong. It completely destroyed any respect I had for her, and I wasn't even one of the ones who thought her voice work was bad.

>>8397
It wasn't LunaticSoda (AKA scribbleschizo) or maybe Boco the annoying tripfag who thinks Senran Kagura needs to be more normalfag-friendly? Those are the two problem posters that I've seen commonly shit up Senran threads on /v/. But from what you're describing, evidently SK threads now have a THIRD schizo that I'm not aware of.
>that SK is too dead to be a part of anyway.
With all this shit going on, though, I can't discount the possibility that the Senran games on Steam may get delisted. They're already rife with material that Steam would never accept past 2021.
>>8399
At this point, Compile Heart is probably going to have to adopt the "off-site patch/DLC" method to get the fanservice in at least the Steam/PC version. They'd have to stop being lazy, though, and actually make an effort to get the fanservice in instead of just neutering across the board like they've been. That hasn't been going well for them; more and more people are getting fed up with how tame their games are now. This new Neptunia mainline coming up is really the last card they have to play, so they NEED to make it count.
>>8406
No, Neptunia predates that meme by a decade. It came from Twitter, from a translated post by a Japanese lolicon artist called Dorontabi. The original tweet has long since been deleted as his accounts have been banned numerous times.

>>8407
>off-site patch/DLC
Do many Japanese players play these games on pc? I would assume most are still on PlayStation and I cannot imagine them giving us that content back but screwing over the players back home.
>actually make an effort to get the fanservice in
For what it is worth, I mentioned that foreign fans miss the light ecchi the series used to have in the questionnaire. Whether anyone else mentioned something along those lines or if themy actually start bringing it back is another thing though.
>Dorontabi
That lines up with what I know about the origin, I was thinking Ram could have been the cause if that anon was right. It could not really be anyone else if it was a Nep thing.

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Speaking of, Compile Heart made a Twitter account for the Neptunia 15th anniversary

https://xcancel.com/NepCompileHeart

Clearly they're planning something. They've already said that the new mainline will be announced this year. I think this is it, and if not, they're even more foolish than I thought possible.
>>8408
>Do many Japanese players play these games on pc? I would assume most are still on PlayStation
Japan has all but completely abandoned Fagstation, as GayBearStation has more or less abandoned them. Concurrent with AIDStation's decline, PC gaming has been growing rapidly over there. However, it still pales to the near complete stranglehold Nintendo now holds in Japan over all non-mobile phone gaming (read: gachashit). Blanc and Lowee stand triumphant at last, but at what cost? Anything that isn't a scrimblo bimblo or backed by a big publisher is getting blocked from western releases on Switch, and all three of the Re;Birth games fell victim to this last year. Even Neptunia Riders with a fucking E10 rating (lowest in the franchise) couldn't escape censorship on Switch. Posts by other publishers who have had run into issues indicate Nintendo's problem is not merely the ecchi, but the very character designs themselves. So it's safe to say Neptunia is basically soft-banned from Nintendo consoles, which is why they're refocusing on Playstation and PC, and those are the two platforms I think the new mainline will release on.
>I was thinking Ram could have been the cause if that anon was right. It could not really be anyone else if it was a Nep thing.
It was not a Nep thing. He was reacting to a completely different character, I think maybe some Idolm@ster character.

>>8409
No mention of any new game(s) yet, just the questionnaire, that video and the figure stuff.
>PC gaming has been growing rapidly over there.
Honestly quite surprising but a pleasant one. Hopefully there are enough players for them to release the new game on pc, would be nice having JP Nep without having to emulate it.
Shame Nintendo are still big there but I cannot imagine them going down in any market any time soon.
>E10
What are Neptune games usually rated in the US? Most, if not all of them in the UK are 12, at least out of the ones I own. I would have to check that bike one. I wonder if it was rated lower in Japan as well.
What can you even censor in an anime styled bike game anyway? Do you know if this is this a similar case to SvS' post release censorship or is it more than names?
>some Idolm@ster character.
Probably Miria, I seem to remember him being quite into her.

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>>8410
>Shame Nintendo are still big there
Hey, you're talking to someone who was a staunch loyalist for twenty years.
>What are Neptune games usually rated in the US?
T/Teen.
>What can you even censor in an anime styled bike game anyway?
The whole swimsuit set DLC got canned from the western Switch version. Pics related. Same reason was given as for the Re;Birth bans, "does not comply with Nintendo guidelines", so yes, Nintendo is literally banning bikinis now if the characters are "underage-coded".

>>8411
What was it that kept you that loyal for so long? Twenty years is a lot of time. Was there really nothing that made you think it was not worth sticking around before "recent" events and policy changes?
>swimsuits
I should have expected that, these are not worth censoring at all but then I am not of the same mindset as those implementing these bans, so I never would see any issue with them outside of personal preference. It is weird that Vert is covering up her chest though.

Is Nepgear around in games after SvS? If so did they bring her stripes back or is she going pure white again? Was that an oversight? Not sure how that got missed.

>>8413
I've heard so many people mention that. TBH I'm ok with Nepgear owning more than one pair of underwear. But you'll be pleased to know her shimapan are back in GMRE

>>8407
I feel like if they don't want to do them because then they'd have people asking questions about the other ones.
There's some which aren't at all fanservicey (or at least, not in an intimate fashion) but stories like Hot Spring murder mystery or the ones where the sisters get mixed up. I believe the anime even contains a prequel to itself which would be really great to see because I want to see more of the CPU's early days.

>>8414
I can only speak for myself but I would honestly not mind if she had a new outfit or was wearing Blanc or Noire's outfit. That said, I prefer her in her current stripes.
I am glad they fixed that in the next one at least but I would quite like to know what the reason was. If it was just an oversight I wonder why it remained in that state.

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>>8416
What is the reason why Nepgear changes her underwear occasionally? The world may never know.

>>8417
That only makes me want to know more. Does the same apply to Neptune's underwear as well? Assuming they are actually missing in this, I would very much like to see what she is hiding. That cute embarrassed face is far too enticing. Though even if they are not missing I still want to see...

>>8418
Neptune has a huge closet full of striped stockings and shimapan

>>8419
I was asking about its holy status in Planeptune but good to know Neptune likes them as much as I do.

>>8420
Well there's apparently a museum where stuff like spoons and tissues used by Blanc and the twins are kept as relics, so yes.
I like to keep a monopoly on Neptune pantsu however.

>>8421
So do people sneak in then? I cannot imagine Blanc or either twin being up for that arrangement at all lol
I am very curious about how that even came to be.
>I like to keep a monopoly on Neptune pantsu
Unfortunate for me but completely understandable.

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>>8412
For all my life I've pretty much only gamed on Nintendo consoles. When I was very young I had a SNES and a Playstation but I lost both of them. One time, my dad's cousin brought in a Nintendo 64 and gave it to us along with a bunch of games. I played Super Mario 64 and Banjo Tooie and was hooked. I got a Gamecube with Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion and Taz Wanted soon after that. From that point on, aside from a few exceptions, I played mostly Nintendo (first-party) games. It took until the 3DS for me to start getting interested in branching out to third-parties and that's when I got into anime-style "otaku" games after enjoying Fire Emblem Awakening and deciding to pick a few similar-looking games from Gamestop, those being Tales of the Abyss, Lord of Magna Maiden Heaven, and I think one or two others. But I credit Stella Glow with really selling me on the whole thing. I still hold that game in high regard, it charmed me in a way I didn't think it would. I immediately went and got the Luminous Arc games after it too. Imageepoch were real ones, and I miss them.
Anyway, so after I became a weeb gamer and was now actively looking for such games, two things happened just at the right time; the Switch, and Soyny shooting themselves in the foot and driving a significant migration of anime and otaku-style games to the Switch. On top of Nintendo being happy to provide themselves with Xenoblade 2, which to this day is a serious contender for my favorite game ever, and Fire Emblem Three Houses which completely satisfied my desire for both Fire Emblem and anime-style stories and character drama, on top of all the other first-party offerings like a new 3D Mario and Kirby and a new 2D Metroid. I literally could not ask for much more, Nintendo with the Switch had provided me basically everything I could have wanted. Why would I ever consider anything else? 
...Well, unless Nintendo began to actively repudiate and destroy those same things around me. Xenoblade 3 presented clear signs of DEI infection which put me off of it, such as a conspicuously increased amount of brownskins including one in the main cast, and obvious desexualization of the characters, especially compared to 2, but even compare to 1. Fire Emblem Engage was utterly butchered by Treehouse which me off from it as well. Then Mario's longtime VA was replaced by a random pronounfag from Xitter. The whole situation stunk to me, and it got worse when Daisy's new VA was announced as a "non-binary" fag. Then the Paper Mario TTYD remake trooned out Vivian. And yet I was willing to overlook all of this if the first-party games were still reasonably good and not super-pozzed like Soyny's and if they continued letting me have my weeb games from other devs. And then they dropped the bombshell on me with the Re;Birth bans and the censorship of Tokyo Clanpool, both of which were among my most anticipated games of 2024. At that point, the betrayal was complete and total. I now understood exactly how otaku PSfags felt in 2018. And after harshly judging Sony for their actions, I was not about to give Nintendo a pass for the same. Especially as they explicitly stated they wouldn't do the very thing they're doing now in 2019. So I've refused to buy a Switch 2 and will likely settle on the Switch as my last Nintendo console.
>>8413
I think they put her stripes back in the Switch version of SvS. It may have been an oversight, it may have been Snoy (as stupid as that sounds). But she's also in Game;Maker. As far as I know, she's not in Neptunia Riders, though.

>>8412
>Was there really nothing that made you think it was not worth sticking around before "recent" events and policy changes?
most of their consoles, switch and arguably switch 2 included, all have a diverse library of pretty fun games, i don't see why the thought of someone sticking to nintendo stuff, especially the handhelds, would be so unbelievable...

>>8423
>but I lost both of them.
Sad times.
That aside though it does make sense that you stuck around for so long, not much reason to go looking elsewhere if you are consistently content with what you have been given over a long period of time.
>brownskins
I must admit, it makes me chuckle when you say stuff like this but given the reason why it is done I do understand the dislike, dare I say disdain?
>utterly butchered by Treehouse
Going off of what I know of their "work" on Fire Emblem it is safe to assume they ruin everything they touch, I know every Fire Emblem game they had their filthy hands on is ruined if nothing else. To be fair though, as far as I have seen, Nintendo localisation was always shit, just for different reasons back then.
>And yet I was willing to overlook all of this
You were more patient than I would have been in that situation. The voice changes would have been negatives, especially given the politics behind them but I probably could have tolerated that. An established character becoming mentally ill like that though is where I bow out no matter what.
>I've refused to buy a Switch 2
It is a shame the number of people that are willing to do so is as small as it is. I doubt it will make much of a difference to them, at least not any time soon. I know at least two people that bought one.
>it may have been Snoy
I had considered it too to be honest but if it was them, would they even allow pantyshots at all? You can still look up the rest of them and quite easily at that.

>>8424
It is not that it was unbelievable, I was just curious about it. Nintendo were barely a speck on my radar for a long time. I had a GBA SP for some time but no first party games, it was all third party stuff.

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>>8407
>It still feels cheap to me. Those drama CDs are a collection of "special moments" with the goddesses. It doesn't feel right to watch them publicly with dozens of other people
Don't look at the comments. Don't think about it. That's a mindset you're choosing to have. Put on some headphones, focus on the subtitles, trust me, it'll feel very private. The CDs are purposefully designed to sound close and intimate.
>They've translated other supplemental material before
All I can recall is the anime and one artbook that saw a relatively limited release. The TV series' translation was done when NISA still had the license. Under IFI, the OVAs have all been sub only with super limited releases. Like being available for only a few days on Steam or some stupid shit like that. Oh, right, I guess there's the Nep & Friends app, too, but that was abandoned real quick. Most of the other supplementary material in this franchise had to be fan translated. The manga, the light novels, the drama CDs, etc. There's a whole lot of content we'd never see if not for the efforts of passionate fans.
>I'll forever remember when Skye Bennett (Pyra/Mythra's VA) grandstanded on Twitter about how problematic the Rex harem photo from Xenoblade 3 was
Forgive me for going there, but if you really care about the girls then there's reason to be bothered by the harem picture. There was a Nia waifufag that was completely broken by that reveal. And it's put the fear in me that one day CH might pull a stunt like that somehow since they love to use controversy to generate buzz when they think they can get away with it.

I mean, okay, I'm sure Pyra/Mythra's VA honestly didn't give a shit about the characters and I'm just rambling here.

>>8423
Getting into otaku oriented stuff came really natural to me. At one point I realized Japanese media had permeated my life since early childhood. ESPECIALLY with video games. Sure I've played stuff like Doom, Mortal Kombat, or Shaq Fu, but the vast majority of games I played growing up came from Japan and I find that I overwhelmingly prefer games from Japan.
>Then the Paper Mario TTYD remake trooned out Vivian
Vivian was always a trap in the Japanese script, any excuse is a cope. Treehouse still butchered it, of course. By boiling it down to one throwaway line that just happens to destroy her entire character arc. All they had to do was make the villain character Beldam say mean and disparaging shit about Vivian being a boy. But I guess that'd be too real for trannies.
>So I've refused to buy a Switch 2 and will likely settle on the Switch as my last Nintendo console.
Buy used. DKB was great, and if that's any indicator then Switch 2 will have some amazing exclusives. Just buy used. You won't be financially supporting the censors that way.

>>8423
>And then they dropped the bombshell on me with the Re;Birth bans and the censorship of Tokyo Clanpool, both of which were among my most anticipated games of 2024. At that point, the betrayal was complete and total. I now understood exactly how otaku PSfags felt in 2018. And after harshly judging Sony for their actions, I was not about to give Nintendo a pass for the same. Especially as they explicitly stated they wouldn't do the very thing they're doing now in 2019. So I've refused to buy a Switch 2 and will likely settle on the Switch as my last Nintendo console.
The "final betrayal" for me was Xenoblade X back in 2016. After everything that went down with the Wii U and 3DS, seeing that happened with TMS#FE and FF5 and Devil's Third on the former system, then Three Houses and Bravely Default on the latter, the topper of Treehouse effectively lying and making far more extensive censorship changes than they had originally declared for XCX was the part where I lost interest in ever wishing to support Nintendo ever again.

>>8425
>It is a shame the number of people that are willing to do so is as small as it is.
Don't count anything out yet. As some people noted, the Wii U was selling out just before the Bloodborne Machine hit the shelves.

>>8426
>Just buy used. You won't be financially supporting the censors that way.
It sort of does because it shows that there is demand for the system.

>>8427
>...then Three Houses and Bravely Default on the latter...
Excuse me, I meant FE Fates.

>>8384
>unironic angry sperg
<she's so modest!
Love really does blind a person

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>>8427
>Don't count anything out yet. As some people noted, the Wii U was selling out just before the Bloodborne Machine hit the shelves.
People are still clinging to this cope? Wii U sales fell off immediately after its first quarter on the market. PS4 didn't release until about a full year after the Wii U's launch. The Switch 2 has absolutely blown past the Wii U's first quarter sales and they remain strong so far. It's got two killer apps under its belt already. Even if interest starts to wane, we're not going to see another Wii U situation because Nintendo won't have to choose between two platforms to prop up. They'll give the Switch 2 their full focus. At the very worst it'll be another 3DS, but given how it's going right now that's extremely unlikely.

>It sort of does because it shows that there is demand for the system.
Talking out your ass. No one's gonna rush out and buy more Switch 2s or Switch 2 games just to sell them on the used market for less than they paid lol now if he started paying for the online service with it, that's a different story, but I assume he has little interest in any of that.

Besides, if he does go the used route, he'd be better off waiting a few years for the platform to mature and accrue some exclusives.

>>8430
>The Switch 2 has absolutely blown past the Wii U's first quarter sales
How many territories did the Switch 2 launch in compared to the Wii U and the 3DS? Or even the original Switch, which took almost three years before it even reached regions like West Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brazil.
>No one's gonna rush out and buy more Switch 2s or Switch 2 games just to sell them on the used market for less
That's exactly what people do. That's how places like GameStop built their entire business model. New game comes out, people rush to buy it (And a console if they don't have it), beat the game or get tired of it, return the game (And sometimes the console) in exchange for some money back, then repeat the process all over again for the next "big hit".
>Besides, if he does go the used route, he'd be better off waiting a few years for the platform to mature and accrue some exclusives.
At that point, just advise him to wait until Nintendo releases the Switch 3 six or seven years down the line, then buy up the Switch 2 and all of it's "best" games on the cheap. I mean if the argument is that these games absolutely are "Must Plays" they're still going to be as good seven years down the road as they are today. No need to rush the process. Especially when you could be spending that time playing all the other exciting games that you missed out on.

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>>8431
>How many territories did the Switch 2 launch in compared to the Wii U and the 3DS? Or even the original Switch, which took almost three years before it even reached regions like West Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brazil.
I don't know for sure, but I do know with certainty that it doesn't matter. Because the main markets: North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, all of them surpassed their respective launch sales for the Wii U. Switch as well, if I'm not mistaken. It's one of the most wildly successful hardware launches ever so far, and you're seriously trying to cling to the cope that it'll magically turn into another Wii U? Get real.
>That's exactly what people do.
No, it's not. Take it from someone who's lived in the trade-in life, you're not going to be buying brand fucking new game consoles regularly to feed your trade-in habit. You keep the hardware unless you're such a poorfag that you have to sell or pawn your shit regularly and it's just the software you're trading around. Even then you're not buying any more than what you already would have, you're not buying new games at every opportunity just to dump in them in the used market, in fact the trade-in life encourages you to buy used more because you'll save some money. The trade-in value will be the same regardless. The industry itself even views the used market as adversarial. They've been trying to kill it for decades with things like online passcodes packed in with retail games, the Xbone's infamous DRM, or even just the general push towards digital distribution. So no, buying used does not support the censors. It actually makes them quite booty blasted.
>At that point, just advise him to wait until Nintendo releases the Switch 3 six or seven years down the line, then buy up the Switch 2 and all of it's "best" games on the cheap.
Sure, they can do that, too. Depends on how long they wanna wait. I'm pretty confident that DKB will still be a pretty fucking good game 7 years from now.
>Especially when you could be spending that time playing all the other exciting games that you missed out on.
Some of those are already priced way out of reason, sadly. Hell, even certain Switch 1 games are priced ridiculously. I can't believe people are still asking well over $200 for Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. It's a great game and all but it's been released so many times...

>>8427
>the Wii U was selling out just before the Bloodborne Machine
I get the feeling the Switch 2 is a lot more popular than the Wii U ever was. It would be a nice surprise if it failed but I cannot really see it happening. Will gladly eat my words if it does though.

That new Neptune account just retweeted this White Heart clip, no idea if you guys are following either account so here you go;

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>>8434

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>>8407
>It wasn't LunaticSoda (AKA scribbleschizo) or maybe Boco the annoying tripfag who thinks Senran Kagura needs to be more normalfag-friendly? Those are the two problem posters that I've seen commonly shit up Senran threads on /v/. But from what you're describing, evidently SK threads now have a THIRD schizo that I'm not aware of.
It actually wasn't either, I've learned to tune that stuff out. (Though, I didn't know scribbleschizo had a name until just now). It was people trying to turn it into another Visa/Mastercard thread and thus inundate it with ((( them )))posting to get the thread deleted. It was clearly being done to make the thread off-topic and succeeded extremely well. 

Wish I could link the post, but the janny didn't even link my post so idgaf anymore. Just more chances to make more Nep and SK threads that maybe won't have schizos in them.

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Also I've had intense anxiety about the internet ID law shit even though I don't live where it's been currently passed, and I have the knowledge to evade all associated blocks and bans for effectively free. It's the thought of losing the cleartext internet that bothers me the most and the realization that all of the things I consumed once and discarded, thinking I could find them again if needed, are effectively gone or are being taken away and I am in no position to start saving it all now.

>>8435
>>8434
It's a combination alarm clock/Nep news tracker? The News portion must be pretty barren unless it's also flooded with things like limited-time cafes.

>>8441
>I am in no position to start saving it all now.
I can unfortunately relate.
>It's a combination alarm clock/Nep news tracker?
The Compile Heart application? It is more of an alarm clock than anything else. It comes with a card minigame and a few lines of dialogue and outfits for the main Neps + Ai chan & Compa, Tiara from Fairy Fencer and some chick from Trillion and Moero Chronicle I think.
I did not really pay attention to the news when I used to use it, so take this with a grain of salt but I am pretty sure the updates were mostly for the app.

>>8444
So it's a video of the old Alarm clock?

>>8445
No, just the main page with White Heart selected. They have specific lines for the alarm. This was just advertising the new White Heart swimsuit with one of what I assume are the purchaseable lines for her. I do not have any of the transformed versions so I could not say. I cannot even preview anything besides outfits for them if I remember right.

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>>8426
>Put on some headphones, focus on the subtitles, trust me, it'll feel very private. The CDs are purposefully designed to sound close and intimate.
That seems like cope, but I guess it'll have to do. As you said, not like I have any better options.
>Under IFI, the OVAs have all been sub only with super limited releases. Like being available for only a few days on Steam or some stupid shit like that
Then there's no reason they can't sub these drama CDs and sell them  on their website or bundle them with one of these Re;Birth rereleases, isn't there?
>Forgive me for going there, but if you really care about the girls then there's reason to be bothered by the harem picture. There was a Nia waifufag that was completely broken by that reveal.
I'm aware of him. I've been lurking those threads for a while now. I sympathize, but while I would not say any of Pyra, Mythra or Nia were ever really in the running for my waifu (this is hardly to say I don't like them, though. I'm rather fond of Mythra and Nia), if I did, I'd probably just self-insert as Rex. I don't view it as that different from, say, Jack in Mary Skelter and how he can romance and marry any of the 10 original Blood Maidens. I might be a bit bothered by the other two girls intruding, though. Obviously, the way it would likely be done in Neptunia (through Player-san who is actually, literally you) is much more intimate, but I'm saying I don't generally have problems just self-inserting through game protagonists when it comes to waifuism.
>spoiler
I may be optimistic, but I don't think there's much, if any chance of this. If they were to do this, it would be through canonizing some yuri ship or multiple ships. Thing is, almost all of the yurifags already jumped ship from Neptunia and the yuribaiting has steadily decreased over time. Blanc has also made it pretty clear her interests are only in men. Neptunia is basically subsisting on waifufags nowadays, just look at /nepgen/ and how most regular posters are some form of waifufag. To pull a stunt like that would utterly destroy what's left of their base and they can't afford that, least of all now.

>Vivian was always a trap in the Japanese script
I know that, but the remake rewrote the lines to more obviously imply trannyism. Disgustingly enough, they did this under the guise of being "truer to the original", even though it could hardly be further, and almost nothing in the game's localization is true to the original, either. In fact, I think the original localization was actually more accurate in several aspects. Rewriting Vivian as a tranny was clearly politically motivated, and the cherry on the shit sundae was that the guy who apparently pushed the hardest for it was a literal furry diaperfag.
>Buy used. DKB was great, and if that's any indicator then Switch 2 will have some amazing exclusives. Just buy used. You won't be financially supporting the censors that way.
I don't think I'm ready to even consider this. Frankly, at the moment, it's hard to even look at my Switch, let alone play it after everything that's happened. I had such high hopes for Nintendo and their future. And I really, genuinely thought that the Switch 2 was going to be the golden ticket for the damage Sony did to the Japanese anime game industry to start being undone.