Thoughts on Steins;Gate?

Thoughts on Steins;Gate?

Love the original VN 0 was kind of disappointing but it gave us Maho so it's not that bad

S;G is one of my favorite stories ever. S;G0 is a bunch of wasted potential, with some nice moments and atmosphere that redeem it a bit

Am I the only one that likes 0 more than the first one?

R8

Is the original worth $7 (sales on PSN)?

So, I actually know moonrunes. Should I bother reading Chaos;Head NOAH before PQube's Chaos;Child release?

yeah it's great

I honestly don't know anything about the game/story aside from it beinga VN and so many people praising it so that's why I asked. Been awhile since I played/read a VN and kind of have the itch to do so after playing some heavy action games lately. Suppose I'll give it a go.

Ruka packs a monster cock and I wouldn't have it any other way

the anime was good

the vn is better tho

Close this thread and play it. It's best to know nothing about it before playing.

It's just cheap waifu-bait dressed up with just enough pseudo-scientific to trick brainless anime consumers into thinking they're watching something clever, enabling them to defend it by insisting that all detractors JUST DON'T GET IT OK.

It's a mess of poor directing and hamfisted characterization. It's the anime equivalent of donnie darko.

never played the vn but holy shit why is the anime so fucking overrated people treat that shit like the second coming of christ

its the doctor who of anime. every girl I have known who likes/watches anime their favorite is usually Steins Gate (without reading the VN) don't ask I don't fucking know

is this some kind of pasta

Insane amount of plotholes.

Definitely among the best VN adaptations, if not the best. I'd still definitely recommend the VN over it though. The little routes near the end aren't handled perfectly, but the huge length increase lets them really drive home all the shit that happens around the middle.

Here's your (You), now fuck off faggot

Are you triggered?

well not really

pretty dam good

It's literally nothing like Donnie Darko. The story is cut and dry. It's not a pretentious, garbage wankfest like that movie. You seriously must know nothing about S;G

The story is kind of stupid and doesn't make any sense in the end, I only watched the anime though.

>RUAH HAHAHAHAHA
>some minor plot development begins
>plot development derailed for trivial moment of emotional awkwardness from character B
>character A spirals off into longwinded internal monologue over awkward moment
>character B apologies... awkwardly
>character A apologises for character B apologising
>character B apologises for character A apologising
>repeat for roughly 4 minutes of screen time
>3 episodes later minor plot element begins moving along
>at least 1700 hours of phone close ups
>isn't early 2000s culture so special!!?
>obvious suspicious cues from other characters that fly over everyone's head sprinkled here and there
>TUTURU

>watched the cartoon
>didn't realize it was a game

haha oops. Oh well guess I won't be playing this one

if you know moonrunes why would you buy the pqube release?

It was great

Sup Forums-kun just likes to be tsundere about the things they like. VN is better than anime. Bad ends are quality. True end is amazing. Fucking loved it

>in lukako end they're not killed by rounders for some reason
>in faris end not inventing time machine causes only a minuscule deviation
>daughter of the store owner hates the protagonist for no reason and returns back to time for no reason, while having an access to time machine across decades of its existence with no explanation
>store owner searches for IBM despite being aware that it will result in his death
>SERN sends Mayushi to past despite that there's only a 10% chance of finding her jelly body to threaten protag
>deleting a recording of an email in SERN database somehow deletes the email from existence across all time
>rounders and viral attackers have hundreds of goons in one city for plot's sake. rounders are being recruited by spam email

I would write more but my memory is fuzzy.

>dad walks in

Nah, it was bad and you're damage controlling it.

Yes.

>episodes

>daughter of store owner hates protagonist

Okabe is creepy as shit. Kids don't like creepy men. Also she hates him in that one timeline because she thinks it's his fault her dad died and she carries that hatred into adulthood, tortures/kills Okabe, steals his time machine, jumps back tons and tons of times (2 day jump limit) to childhood and fucking goes apeshit. Just to refresh your memory

Oh Sup Forums-kun, stop being so tsun-tsun and show your dere-dere side

>someone not dying is a massive, universe altering shift
>completely redefining the geography and history of an entire region is not

A good amount of those are wrong, and the rest are wisely cut from the anime

>the anime was good

>Also she hates him in that one timeline because she thinks it's his fault her dad died and she carries that hatred into adulthood, tortures/kills Okabe, steals his time machine, jumps back tons and tons of times (2 day jump limit) to childhood and fucking goes apeshit.
This is exactly what I was talking about, nigger. Her dad has died because of SERN, yet she hates Okabe for no reason, she uses time machine despite that it was supposed to be captured by SERN and she jumps to the past for no reason. On top of that, she hasn't aged at all, despite jumping from the future.
She is also aware how multiple timelines work, knowing that killing Okabe at the time is impossible.

No it wasn't.

>wrong
Nice argument, chucklefuck.

>On top of that, she hasn't aged at all, despite jumping from the future.
Scratch that, I forgot that his time machine only transfers the mind. Rest is valid though.

She was a Rounder or similar SERN operative in the future and personally killed Okabe, holding him responsible for her father's death after having seen it happen.
This was all explained if you paid any goddamn attention to the VN.

I don't have to argue, you said yourself you don't even remember it well. You have some incorrect statements in there

Okay but just one more question: does it get graphic/bloody? I can't take that kind of thing...

Wait that meme trap is from steins gate? guess im never going to watch that now

SERN made her dad commit suicide and yet she works for SERN. Makes perfect sense, yeah.

I'm still waiting for you to point out those incorrect statements, clown.

>so many memes and references that you have to add a glossary for them

it's just Reddit: japan edition

I don't know what you are talking about the character from that image is a regular girl

This. Why the fuck do people get so endeared to characters just because they can make some funny memes. This characterization is fucking marvel tier shit.

>look at how much character growth I've had over the course of the story! El Psy Congroo :^)

>Steins;Gate threads are doomed to be forever ruined by secondaries that watched the leddit dub, trapfags and epic memers
It's a real shame.

Only secondaries like Stains;Gay, so it's not like you have a lot of choice.

I think you should kill yourself pham

>you need to complete the game 6 times to get a true ending
God damn, man.

For one, you somehow failed to understand that acting on knowledge obtained from the future and deleting the text from SERN's database stopped them from detecting it and hunting down the lab members, and thus, WW3 never started and Suzuha never came back in time, so the worldline was altered

The original? You only need to complete it once. Zero? I think there's two routes you need to get through before the true ending unlocks. Which is a fucking slog and a terrible idea, a lot like most of Zero.

>put on a lab coat and beige pants
>I'm cosplaying as an anime character now
Everything about this show is reddit tier crap. And people actually call this show a classic. I'm honestly curious if 10 years from now whether people will still think Kurisu spewing horrifically out of date memes is funny.

>show
this is not an anime board user you can't do that

>tfw to dumb for Steins:Gate
I watched it and didn't understand. Why does the other Okabe have to go through the 3 weeks of suffering if they changed the timeline? Why are they allowed to change important shit in the timeline like the mental Oopa but then have to leave Kisuru's "death" the same?

Nigger, WW3 starts AFTER they delete the email and Suzuha goes back in time irregardless. Maybe you should play the game first?

It's almost been 10 years from its release, and it's got a new game and new anime adaptation

Because it came down to what was observed and what was not. You run into issues with causality if you start fucking with things that Okabe has explicit memory of, which will just invoke the universe to sort itself out.
Think the first time that Okabe went back. He tried to directly prevent the stabbing, which just caused the event to play out again via another means. The second time he preserved the elements he'd observed the first time (Kurisu on the floor, non-responsive and in a pool of blood) which meant that it didn't mess with history. The first Okabe still had to see that, leave and send the text that first changed the timeline.
Does that help at all?

>unable to understand something simple
>says irregardless
yes, WW3 still starts, but not due to the capture of the lab members and the creation of the time machine by them. And your original complaint was that it "deleted all record of the text through time", so you're clearly very lost as to the effect that deletion had

WW3 is not related to Okabe and his time machine at all.
It started because Nakabashi has killed Kurisu, stole her thesis and run away to Russia.

Play the game, secondary.

when does the anime get good

I was meaning another 10 years beyond that to bring its age into NGE territory. But then it's not like most people that see S;G go to 2ch anyways. The show implying that what Kurisu says is supposed to be funny is probably enough for them since that's how dumb memes are supposed to work.

Steins;gate is best VN/anime. I enjoyed Zero and was sad it ended, and it's probably the end of the entire story.
Good luck finding plot holes. Also motivated me to get back into learning piano.

when you start the vn instead

I think it's telling that the majority of people shitposting in this thread are talking about the show, rather than the VN. I'd hazard a guess that most of them watched either the dub or the official subs as well, then wonder why it's 'reddit'.

you misunderstand, i have already played the VN. i am watching the anime afterwards and it is not good. but other people have assured me that it is good. is there a point where it becomes good?

>WW3 is not related to Okabe and his time machine at all.
>It started because Nakabashi has killed Kurisu, stole her thesis and run away to Russia.
>Play the game, secondary.
not in the timeline where the e-mail exists, idiot. That's what we're talking about. That's the plotpoint you can't seem to wrap your head around. Try to keep up.

There is no WW3 in email timeline, nigger.

In the VN they're used mainly just to illustrate the types of people that the main cast are, the individual memes aren't actually super important. I don't think it's much of an issue. Remember, it's already seven years old.

no

Not really, but it will completely mentally wreck you.

Ah, you're right, wrong term. I always lump in the resistance/SERN dystopia with WW3. My mistake

The contemporary internet culture references are not important parts of the dialogue. If you miss the humor, you still get the impression that they're nerds who are in over their heads. The rest of the story will age fine too. Not sure why you think the memes are the appeal, but you're wrong, and I expect you to admit that in 10 years

Because most people with something against the VN act as if it's literally nothing but memes, so it's the focus of their arguments.

So why were there so many cases of people possessing Reading Steiner in 0?

More importantly, what caused the worldline change when Okabe was a child?

>worldline change when Okabe was a child?
That was Y2K.
>So why were there so many cases of people possessing Reading Steiner in 0?
Because everybody has it to some extent. People that watched the anime tend to get this one confused since it explicitly reverses Okabe's realization that everybody has a degree of it in the true ending, for some fucking reason.
As for why it's so strong? I don't think they ever give a decent reason.

I wouldn't be surprised if S;G is still well liked in 10 years but it won't be because it's a well written story.

Steins;Gate 0 is wasted potential. Really wasted potential.

Explain how it isn't one, now that you've shifted the goalposts.

I really wish the light novel was translated. The manga seemed good and it was apparently following the LN.

Yeah it's a shame they had some interesting things going on but it ended up being really disappointing

0 felt like a desperate attempt to get people to care about the wider sci;adv setting while doing nothing to actually build on S;G.

>As for why it's so strong? I don't think they ever give a decent reason.
It was implied it had to do with Okabe surviving whatever illness he had as a child.

Chaos;Child western release date when

I was meaning the other people's. Nobody in the base VN shows too much in the way of symptoms other than Luka remembering the pager number, Mayuri having dreams of some of her deaths and Kurisu right at the end responding to a phrase and situation that yielded an extreme emotional response.
In 0, people with fairly precise recollections of events are seemingly everywhere.

Are you me? I was about to post something just like that.

Why does the title have a semicolon in it? Why not "Stein's Gate?"

Ah, in that case all I recall is that everybody has it to some extent, it just requires a significant emotional trigger of some kind. It wasn't explained beyond that.

Brand;Recognition

because it's stylish

Looks;Cool

i sure wish someone less cancerous than pqube had picked up sciadv

To link it to the other Science Adventure games, like Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes.

Would JAST have been any better?

Franchise;Trademark.