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Rance 8 / Rance Quest [PC exclusive turn-based cRPG]

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Rance Quest
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Release date: 26.8.2011
What: Isometric Rape Playing Game

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Well, since Rance 8 has now been officially announced, why not have a separate thread for it.

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http://blog.alicesoft.com/archives/1784078.html

Not much is out yet. It will be going back to traditional Rance concept (i.e. closer to Rance 6). As you can see from the screenshots, quite a few re-occuring characters from previous games will join.

It also seems that Rance has a replacement companion, since Sill is still frozen. :decline:

The game should be out summer/winter 2011 which is kinda worrying. Expect delays.
 

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If this thing on the right is Rance's new slave then it's definitely a :decline:
What about translation? :decline:
Is Whiskey Wolf ready? :decline:
 

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Lets hope the best, the last Rance was such a great a game. I know many people who hate hentai games in general but love Sengoku Rance.
 

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That might be because SR is hardly a hentai game. You get a scene once in a while but it's mostly a strategy game.
 

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I'd actually play the older Rance games if they were translated.
 

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Rance 1 has actually been translated for a moment. It's still not done, there was a lot of typos, annoying graphics glitch and such but fully playable anyway.

http://rancetranslationproject.blogspot.com/

I played it, it's not that great but since it's very short also, it managed to keep its charm. I wouldn't have finished it if it wasn't for the familiar characters though.
It has very little combat overall which is good, considering the simplistic combat system. So most of the game is adventure game-style talking to people and lugging items around, unfortunately some of the puzzles are really inane and nonsensical. But you do get quite funny parts occasionally, sex scenes and otherwise, so it's not all bad.
 

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If you're looking at the old games, Rance 3 is the best of the bunch. Mainly because it has the best story.

Btw, AliceSoft is a cool company, making their old games freely available:
http://retropc.net/alice/

If you didn't realize it from Sengoku Rance, Kentarou and Miki actually appeared in their own game series (Little Princess/Little Vampire).
 

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A shame they don't have publisher in Yurop (or don't want to publish here), the gameplay is enough for many strategy die hard to enjoy at least SR.
Not to mention the soft rape.
 

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Haba said:
If you didn't realize it from Sengoku Rance, Kentarou and Miki actually appeared in their own game series (Little Princess/Little Vampire).
Who's doing the fucking in those games btw?
 
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Not much is out yet. It will be going back to traditional Rance concept (i.e. closer to Rance 6).

Yuck. I was hoping for a Kichikuou Rance-esque game. Though the screenshot has an overland map, which is new (at least to me, I haven't played all of the earlier ones).


The Sill replacement looks a bit generic, but it will come down to how well written the characters are of course. I'm genuinely interested in the continuation of the Rance storyline, something I can't say the same for pretty much any other game these days.
 

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Rance series will most probably be concluded in a Kichikuou Rance -like game. Ever since Rance 6, there has been build-up for a grand showdown. Before Sengoku Rance, there were two empires that Rance hadn't conquered through fucking. Now only one remains.

So I am guessing Rance travels to Helman for a search for a way to recover Sill as Helman conveniently happens to have permanent ice. Unfortunately ancient evil slumbers in the ice...

So after that the Rance series should be brought to a conclusion. More than 20 years worth of storyline wrapped up in one epic climax. If it ever gets done, that is.
 

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Haba said:
So after that the Rance series should be brought to a conclusion. More than 20 years worth of storyline wrapped up in one epic climax. If it ever gets done, that is.

Epic Rance Climax and an intro for an all-new Rance series!

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So I am a hero and have fucked all the girls. Yes, all of them, every single one is mine.

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What to do now? I'm bored. I want to fuck something new.

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HEY!

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So if I were to fall asleep and wake up in thirty years there would be plenty of new girls for me to fuck.

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Sill!

And thus, Sill cast a sleep spell on Rance and started a 30-years long vigil to wake him up.
 

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Monocause said:
Haba said:
So after that the Rance series should be brought to a conclusion. More than 20 years worth of storyline wrapped up in one epic climax. If it ever gets done, that is.

Epic Rance Climax and an intro for an all-new Rance series!

ranceA.png
So I am a hero and have fucked all the girls. Yes, all of them, every single one is mine.

ranceD.png
What to do now? I'm bored. I want to fuck something new.

ranceB.png
HEY!

ranceD.png
So if I were to fall asleep and wake up in thirty years there would be plenty of new girls for me to fuck.

ranceC.png
Sill!

And thus, Sill cast a sleep spell on Rance and started a 30-years long vigil to wake him up.

BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A HENTAI GAME OK GUYS, OK? SERIOUSLY GUYS. SERIOUSLY.






























:M
 

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So is this the longest running hentai series or what? 8th installment and going strong? One more and it would equal Ultima series.
 
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure its the longest running hentai series.

There was a Rance 4.1 and 4.2 in addition to Rance 4. Taking those into account it will equal Ultima, assuming we aren't including expansion packs or spin offs in either case but are including all standalone games in the main series of each.
 

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Multi-headed Cow said:
BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A HENTAI GAME OK GUYS, OK? SERIOUSLY GUYS. SERIOUSLY.
Nobody claims that. It is obvious that Rance games are about him fucking all cute girls and one can't deny that. But Sengoku Rance does have great gameplay and interesting characters. If it wasn't true, nobody on the Codex would care about it. There were some LPs of other hentais and while they were popular, all of these games were quickly forgotten and almost nobody played them. Rance, on the other hand is a game which gathered quite a few dedicated fans around here.

And most of the porn scenes in Sengoku are crap anyway.
 

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure its the longest running hentai series.

There was a Rance 4.1 and 4.2 in addition to Rance 4. Taking those into account it will equal Ultima, assuming we aren't including expansion packs or spin offs in either case but are including all standalone games in the main series of each.

Ultima Underworld? Serpent Isle? :smug:
 

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Interesting characters...hmm. "Pats sister on the head" "Oh you" "Stop it!" "Pats sister on the head" "Pats sister on the head"....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

After clicking past such evocative dialogue and descriptions 600 times before the first 'battle', I had to get some shuteye.

Rance sucks. Sorry faggots, but it does. Strategy you say? Nothing different from a whole bunch of KOEI titles in map mode mixed with rock/paper/scissors 'depth' in tactical combat.
 

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Yeah, right. Because the dialogue you witness during the first two minutes of the game between two of the 50 or so characters and the tutorial battle which you literally can't lose are a clear indication of what is to come. Does the "temple of trials" ring any bells?

Hey, I can't stand pretty much any sort of Japanese export entertainment. I don't do Anime (with the notable exception of the Ghost in the shell series which I liked), jRPGs or really anything that features that small "j" out there, limiting myself to occasionally browsing Black Cat's LPs, nya. The fact that I got hooked and finished SR three times means something. The Rance character is hilarious and SR's plot manages to do something very rare, meaning that while there's a lot of over-the-top comic relief you stumble upon surprising amounts of depth fairly often.
 

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commie said:
Interesting characters...hmm. "Pats sister on the head" "Oh you" "Stop it!" "Pats sister on the head" "Pats sister on the head"....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

After clicking past such evocative dialogue and descriptions 600 times before the first 'battle', I had to get some shuteye.

Rance sucks. Sorry faggots, but it does. Strategy you say? Nothing different from a whole bunch of KOEI titles in map mode mixed with rock/paper/scissors 'depth' in tactical combat.

I did notice the similarity between Rance and KOEI games but the problem with KOEI games is that it is very difficult keep track of which of these 100 Chinese guys with beards and gibberish names you're supposed to care about. (I was able to keep track of them in Legend of Cao Cao due to the smaller scale, but it is impossible in the larger scale KOEI games)

Rance's cast of characters was at least a step up from that, and the plot was more interesting as well.

I actually would have liked it better without the actual porn as I was reluctant to play it with other people in the room.
 

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