This is a video game. It has no input but what you type. It has no graphics other than words, text on screen...

This is a video game. It has no input but what you type. It has no graphics other than words, text on screen. If this is a video game, then why are visual novels not a video game?

>If this is a video game, then why are visual novels not a video game?
Visuals novels are games and anyone saying otherwise is an idiot

well for starters, it's far more gamey

Visual novels don't have input based on predefined selections at certain points in the story; they're the electronic equivilent of choose your own adventure.

You just fucking established in your own fucking post that Zork 2, a fucking text-based game, has more actual GAMEPLAY than visual novels, due to player input.

BIG SURPRISE the anime retard is a fucking retard.

Fuck you for making me think this was an IF thread with that pic. And VNs are games so this thread is unnecessary.

Zork 2 has finite choices, and only a certain selection of commands will work. They may as well be pre-written. If the commands were pre-written and clickable, wouldn't it just be a visual novel?

Let me guess, you haven't actually played Zork.

You probably think all you do is press enter and read more text.

>tfw I never got close to the unicorn

Someone make a real thread, let this die.

Let me guess, you haven't actually played a Visual Novel.

You probably think all you do is press enter and read more text.

Ok, what else do you do?

Make choices and try to avoid a game over, just like Zork.

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>maybe if I post a reaction image without any text people will think im winning the argument

Don't bother with the "games in this genre I don't enjoy aren't really video games" autists. You'll find it for more than half of all genres these days.

someone seems butt bamboozled

im not the guy you were replying to

Trust me, it's the majority opinion already no need to convince anyone

Both are to videogames as poker/darts/etc are to sports; gay as fuck.

Visual Novels are the opposite: All graphics, no gameplay

i don't doubt it but he still just stopped arguing as soon as an argument he couldnt refute came up

Because Zork contains a proper win/lose condition and obstacles designed to test your skill, specifically puzzle solving. Visual Novels for the most part do not.

You can lose in Zork if I remember correctly. Gone Home has no way of losing.

Gone Home was a walking simulator, not even a visual novel.

Well, anon2 just repeated what anon1 said with a word switched, this isn't exactly the master class of debate here.

Can you get stuck in a visual novel? Do they have puzzles? For most of them, no.

98% of the time you are "playing" a visual novel you are reading text and clicking next. Choices in visual novels are often hours apart and when they're not they're often meaningless.