Hostess simulation game Dream C Club is set to be a core title for the Xbox 360 in Japan, much as Idol Master became, if the excited reaction and massive pre-ordering is anything to go by. The game occupied Amazon’s number one spot for games for a time, and still has a firm lock on the Xbox 360 charts.
The preview videos, consisting chiefly of gently bouncing oppai, are witness to a frenzy of comments and have immediately sent many to the pages of merchants offering pre-orders:
The game is due for release August 31st.
Even the character designs are not dissimilar from Idol Master.
The only weakness evident seems to be that the setting precludes the use of loli characters, cutting off the vital demographic so essential to the succes of Idolmaster…
Futaba Riho is finally going to be really damn famous after this (I just learned that she was in the Simple series as the blue bikini wearing chick. She had 2 dating sims, several strip mahjong games and other stuff that makes laddies go giddy.)
*AHEM~!* Are the Oppais too big that they block your view from this poor neglected loli girl? Though, since she's allowed to drink alcohol in the game, i believe she's not underaged.. Meh, who cares about 2D Age!
Being the shortest & smallest, the one with the baby face, along with a perfect combo of narrow shoulders and thin legs, non-existent breast, and a seemingly childish attitude, i don't see why you see Setsu only as a grown up non-pubescent girl with flat chest..
Are the Oppais too big that they block your view from this poor neglected loli girl? Though, since she's allowed to drink alcohol in the game, i believe she's not underaged.. Meh, who cares about 2D Age!
so there will be no sex scenes right, if so its kinda worthless. if i played that game and knew there was no sex scene it would kinda freak me out in the sense that i am not getting any hentai outta it but just close to the characters.....i do like 2D more then 3D is a lot of cases but i have the fear that this game would get me slightly emotionally attached to a 2D/3Dish thing that doesn't exist in RL.
Computer skeletal animation has successfully backfired on this piece. When different persons' movements are this much identical, the whole picture gets ruined.
Skeletal animation is one reason why 3D anime will always look a little off, IMO.
No matter how realistic they ever end up making it, it can't abstract movements and characters shapes like real anime can.
It can't take on "personality" like what sets visually distinct anime like FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Noein, Kaiba, Ghibli stuff, etc. apart from other mainstream entries.
One of the fundamental reasons I think a large segment of the Anime fanbase prefers watching anime over regular tv/movies is because they've learned to appreciate these styles of abstraction.
Check out this article: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/chicks-on-anime/2008-11-04
I never paid much attention to "Key Animation" in 2D anime until I read that article, but I think what they discuss about what it really means to animate, say, Golden Boy swimming across the screen, sheds much light on the nature of why animation/abstraction is such uniquely creative venue.
Will it ever be possible to transfer such human/imperfect "artistic styles" to 3D?
Not with modern anatomically and mathematically correct techniques like skeletal animation, I'd say.
But given time and perhaps some creative use of AI as an integrated component of the graphics pipeline, I'd like to think it will happen.
I only counted 2 or 3 places where you could see the vertex geometry (the older blond's hair buns were pretty much a hexagon at the end of the pipeline, for instance).
Maybe I've not been playing enough next-gen, but to me it looked like a good example of how successfully anime in 3D has been progressing...
Hell, I'm usually a "sprites/2D is always better" guy myself, but with some of the most recent 3D anime styled games, much like these videos exhibit, I'd say it can now stand on almost equal par.
Actually, it's by D3 Publisher if you would have paid any attention to the trailers you'd know that. It'll still be region locked though, D3's previous titles have been.
I knew this would happen. So I picked up a J360. Never regreted it since.
Been following dream club news releases since before the webpage even came out. Hope they make it as fun and character-driven as im@s. I still get a special high whenever I hit S Rank for Chihaya...
Just not lolis designed to please the average lolicon who likes his girls to look like they're in kindergarten as opposed to being shorter than average and having little to no bust.
Ami looks super loli-ish still. Looks older then her imas version but definately within the boundaries of middle school. Her bio might say otherwise but you can use your powers of imagination to cover that gap.
Just like all the Chihaya fans insisting that she's still 72A here and just using some state of the art pads.
Im@s sold well because it had a girl to cater to most otaku's tastes and fetishes in some shape or form. It covered all the widely idolized traits that otaku find moe and thus its wide appeal.
No, breasts don't generally sell well. Otherwise Soul Calibur 4 would have sold more than just 100K to 200K in Japan. Underage girls are what sell, which is unfortunate in my point of view.
They love oneechans, shotas, anikis and a variety of other deviant concepts. The list of fetishes in most akiba stores will probably send most conservatives into a coma.
PS. Have you heard the one about the nose hooks...
I for once would love to see one of this videos without those god dam symbols runing across it.
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L2Nico, there's a button to turn off comments.
Omg it acutally worked. I swear i press every button on there and the symbols where still there.
Nico changed its player!?
It was about time.... though I kinda miss the chick. XD
Futaba Riho is finally going to be really damn famous after this (I just learned that she was in the Simple series as the blue bikini wearing chick. She had 2 dating sims, several strip mahjong games and other stuff that makes laddies go giddy.)
"The only weakness evident seems to be that the setting precludes the use of loli characters"
"This game is going to be shit though.
Ero game with no lolis = shit."
"For me its no loli no game…"
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*AHEM~!* Are the Oppais too big that they block your view from this poor neglected loli girl? Though, since she's allowed to drink alcohol in the game, i believe she's not underaged.. Meh, who cares about 2D Age!
Having a flat chest and being a pubescent girl are two different things...
Being the shortest & smallest, the one with the baby face, along with a perfect combo of narrow shoulders and thin legs, non-existent breast, and a seemingly childish attitude, i don't see why you see Setsu only as a grown up non-pubescent girl with flat chest..
That Ami clone looks suspiciously pubescent. What age would you estimate her to be?
Moe-O,moe-O ore no COSMOS.
Loli > Oppai
why can't people understand simple math. greater than!!
"The only weakness evident seems to be that the setting precludes the use of loli characters"
"This game is going to be shit though.
Ero game with no lolis = shit."
"For me its no loli no game…"
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http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1132/1239139274716.jpg
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*AHEM~!*
Are the Oppais too big that they block your view from this poor neglected loli girl? Though, since she's allowed to drink alcohol in the game, i believe she's not underaged.. Meh, who cares about 2D Age!
cool pic
its xbox360, so there is going to be any sex scenes in it right?
so there will be no sex scenes right, if so its kinda worthless. if i played that game and knew there was no sex scene it would kinda freak me out in the sense that i am not getting any hentai outta it but just close to the characters.....i do like 2D more then 3D is a lot of cases but i have the fear that this game would get me slightly emotionally attached to a 2D/3Dish thing that doesn't exist in RL.
I believe this game will be a hit ... and make xbox360 more powerful again in Japan ...
There's no better way to stay a virgin...
the graphic looks pretty good.
MOE MOE KYUN~
Magical Host Club Mio Kyun!
I love Mio as much as the next guy, but she (and K-ON) get enough articles as it is - no need to infect all the others with K-ONisms.
Computer skeletal animation has successfully backfired on this piece. When different persons' movements are this much identical, the whole picture gets ruined.
Skeletal animation is one reason why 3D anime will always look a little off, IMO.
No matter how realistic they ever end up making it, it can't abstract movements and characters shapes like real anime can.
It can't take on "personality" like what sets visually distinct anime like FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Noein, Kaiba, Ghibli stuff, etc. apart from other mainstream entries.
One of the fundamental reasons I think a large segment of the Anime fanbase prefers watching anime over regular tv/movies is because they've learned to appreciate these styles of abstraction.
Check out this article: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/chicks-on-anime/2008-11-04
I never paid much attention to "Key Animation" in 2D anime until I read that article, but I think what they discuss about what it really means to animate, say, Golden Boy swimming across the screen, sheds much light on the nature of why animation/abstraction is such uniquely creative venue.
Will it ever be possible to transfer such human/imperfect "artistic styles" to 3D?
Not with modern anatomically and mathematically correct techniques like skeletal animation, I'd say.
But given time and perhaps some creative use of AI as an integrated component of the graphics pipeline, I'd like to think it will happen.
They're dancing to the same song. If they follow Im@s tradition, each somg's dance routines are different.
Holy shit i will never see this rise on my country..
The loli-most characters from im@s will be coming to Dream Club.
The Ami fans for one. The flatchest-maniax 72A chihaya fans as well. Not to mention the tomboy favorite Makoto.
fans of the above im@s girls will come in droves.
If Ami doesn't qualify for a loli, nothing does!
Those are ... nice point cards she has in the opening picture.
Wonder if it'll move millions of points like im@s did. I'm waiting for a sukumizu and buruma one myself....
With Oppai?!? How dare they. What were they thinking?!? I demand DFC NAO!!!
if this game had girls who were all dfc I would kill my self three times over!
What is this DFC
it looks kinda funny though. like not to its graphics potential? or maybe ive been on PS3 too much.
I only counted 2 or 3 places where you could see the vertex geometry (the older blond's hair buns were pretty much a hexagon at the end of the pipeline, for instance).
Maybe I've not been playing enough next-gen, but to me it looked like a good example of how successfully anime in 3D has been progressing...
Hell, I'm usually a "sprites/2D is always better" guy myself, but with some of the most recent 3D anime styled games, much like these videos exhibit, I'd say it can now stand on almost equal par.
NOT yakuza3 btw....
Hope it's not region locked.
It's Bandai Namco, so it'll be region locked. All their games are, regardless of where they're released. Fuckwits.
Actually, it's by D3 Publisher if you would have paid any attention to the trailers you'd know that. It'll still be region locked though, D3's previous titles have been.
I knew this would happen. So I picked up a J360. Never regreted it since.
Been following dream club news releases since before the webpage even came out. Hope they make it as fun and character-driven as im@s. I still get a special high whenever I hit S Rank for Chihaya...
It does have loli characters though...
Just not lolis designed to please the average lolicon who likes his girls to look like they're in kindergarten as opposed to being shorter than average and having little to no bust.
I don't think you know what a loli is...
This game is going to be shit though.
Ero game with no lolis = shit.
Is 13 too old for lolihood?!
That's not loli.
That's petanko.
By your logic, someone like say "Kyonko" would be loli.
Ami looks super loli-ish still. Looks older then her imas version but definately within the boundaries of middle school. Her bio might say otherwise but you can use your powers of imagination to cover that gap.
Just like all the Chihaya fans insisting that she's still 72A here and just using some state of the art pads.
It looks to me like Setsu has more of a straightforward loli design.
I'm not sure I understand. How does "Idolmaster with breasts" turn into a well selling game? I'm not seeing any pros here.
to each his own dude. dont be close minded
Idolmaster sold well.
Breasts generally sell well.
If you mix the 2, you'd hope for synergy and that it'll sell better then Idolmaster.
Hard to believe considering the success of im@s, but that's what they mean,
Im@s sold well because it had a girl to cater to most otaku's tastes and fetishes in some shape or form. It covered all the widely idolized traits that otaku find moe and thus its wide appeal.
No, breasts don't generally sell well. Otherwise Soul Calibur 4 would have sold more than just 100K to 200K in Japan. Underage girls are what sell, which is unfortunate in my point of view.
I hear DOAX2 sold pretty well.
if thats the case Japans got issues. No wonder the birth rate is so low there,ther all a bunch of loli lovers!
They love oneechans, shotas, anikis and a variety of other deviant concepts. The list of fetishes in most akiba stores will probably send most conservatives into a coma.
PS. Have you heard the one about the nose hooks...