Talk:Anime game

message: I see "eroge" more frequently than "H game" on American websites these days. Google doesn't help because it lists anything with the letter "H" and then the word "game". Neither one is an official or proper term. If no-body objects I think I will just move the article. Ashibaka (tock) 15:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, two days and no discussion... time to be bold. Ashibaka (tock) 13:30, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Is "eroge" more common than "H game"?

message: Google seems to indicate that "dating sim" is more common than "re'nai" in this context. That, and Wikipedia's policy to use English in the English encyclopedia, seem to point to using the term "dating sim". Can anyone provide sources which indicate otherwise? Fagstein 21:06, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: From [[WP:3o]]

message: I've noticed that there are a number of stub articles for anime games. They generally get tagged with Template:Simulation-cvg-stub, but lumping them in with flight sims or Sim City has never felt quite right to me. It seems to me that the people familiar with anime games and able to fill out articles about them would not necessarily overlap much with those who know about general simulation games. Thus, I propose we create Template:Anime-game-stub, replacing the relevant stubs with that. Then it would be rather easier to decide to, say, fill out one anime game stub per week. It would like some small representative image, perhaps the face of Shiori from Tokimeki Memorial. Thoughts? --AlexChurchill 10:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub template 

message: AnimePlay and Dojin soft (as a collective) are really technically publishers or brands, they aren't really "formats". Dating Sims is a format, not a genre (assuming RPG, Shooter etc are "Format").  All games of the dating sims format are in the genre of Renai games, due to the nature of "date".  That's my point of view, and I'm wondering if it makes sense to other people reading this. -Afker 18:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Listing both "dating sim" and "renai game" is a compromise between me and omgwtfbbq. Ideally, renai game should just be a redirect Ashibaka tock 19:17, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand.  The relationship between dating sim and renai game should be similar to the relationship between "First Person Shooter" and "games where you kill stuff".  You don't have to kill things via shooting.  In fact, there are a LOT of games in which you kill stuff, but without the game being a FPS (pick just about any RPG game and you'll be killing stuff in it).  -Afker 19:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In reality they describe the exact same kind of game, with disregard for whether they involve dating or not (similar to how the term "adventure game" also describes boring kinds of interactive fiction). Ashibaka tock 21:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I would've expected renai games to overlap with "strict" visual novels where all you do is click to read story and graphics (no choices involved), whereas dating sim wouldn't include it.  Does your definition of renai/dating overlap with the "strict" type of visual novels or not? I can't really tell from what you wrote above.  Anyways, part of my original issue remains: "AnimePlay" and "Dojin soft" are a different type of categorization compared to "Visual novel". -Afker 22:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That point is correct, you can fix it. Visual novels are a medium of expression, whereas romance is a genre of fiction. Ashibaka tock 23:42, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

text: blah, nevermind, the sentence is there, at the end of the "technical definition" section, which is probably why I missed it.  I'll think about if there's any way to mvoe that sentence to a more prominent location. -Afker 08:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format vs Genre - the template box issue 

message: An anime game is not a game that looks like an anime. The term is never used in Japan this way and it's only used in this way incorrectly outside of Japan. Calling Final Fantasy an anime game is as much of a mistake as calling a manga an "anime comic". Anime is not an art style, it is a just a cartoon from Japan. 
Just look at the link on the page. That's how the term is used.
Per discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga, 'anime game' is to only cover games based off of anime. For visual novels and dating sims, the overbranching genre is .
Of course now the problem is that there's really not much to talk about, and I wonder if we really need the article at all.--SeizureDog 04:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, took me a few seconds to realize what was going on. But I'm happy with the long-needed cut you made. Now to refill the article with correct info... Danorux 06:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

text: First of all, a bishoujo game is not a genre, it is simply a game with pretty girls in it. You can't have just a 'bishoujo game'. You may have a 'bishoujo puzzle' or 'bishoujo dating sim', but not just a 'bishoujo'. And as I said before, the overlapping genre is ren'ai game. All dating sims and most visual novels are of this genre. The naming problem gave us quite a bit of trouble, but anime game is certainly wrong. Chew on this yourself: how can a visual novel be considered an 'animation game' ('anime' being simply short for 'animation') when it consists almost entirely of a series of still images?--SeizureDog 05:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Generalizing bishoujo games as anime games is as wrong as calling Ultima 6 or Prince of Persia 2 or X Wing vs Tie Fighter "cartoon games" or "comic games". -Afker 09:26, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The butchering of the article