I thought the film looked like garbage and I still have not seen it. Chicken Little did it better. In the brief time I was on Twitter around the time the film came out, I spoiled the film's shitty twists where possible and so many people lost their shit. It was fun.
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I think there are enough ongoing furry comics out there that could warrant a thread, it's just that most comic artists primarily post to Twitter or FA rather than make their own websites anymore, and a lot of the big ones from the mid to late 2000s-era Internet have faded from relevance in part because of the shift to social media. Kinda seems like sites to host a webcomic are more ancilliary than anything.
Dating sims are a dime a dozen. Unless there's a lot of drama around it (like Major/Minor) or it features some extreme shit like Nazis or cub art, no one really gives a shit about them.
Just look at whoever it is that's making the game and dig from there. Being a furry made game there's a more than fair chance that they have skeletons somewhere. If not, just observe long enough and some drama will inevitably occur.
The fact that DUST, an actually good game (Assuming we are thinking of the same game) is forgotten, and mostly dismissed for its furry art style and the assumption it was just some pervy thing, always saddened me, even if I assumed the same and only tried it due to a lost bet. Such a good game forever forgotten because it happened to also be furry, and one that has been reduced to wank bait in the memories of the few who still discuss it, because it is furry.
If you want a decent above average mystery anime, it's not bad. Manga was better, direction for the English dub was a bit shaky, they poorly casted the major characters, made some character assumptions based on animal tropes that don't hold true for those characters as the tropes aren't the ones being used in the writing, they also make a few weird localization changes resulting in information being given too early or too late. The furry aspects are at least used to a decent degree in the writing, which means that if you can ignore the obvious fetishes that pop up at times you actually see what decent furry media could be.
I think I proof read that script a while back maybe? I remember a rather tame furry minotaur gay dating sim I did proof reading and editing for a while back. Furry smut blurs together, unless it's particularly out there, the employer is exceptional to work for, or I get paid particularly well or fucked over it doesn't stick out. If it's the one I'm remembering it's got some hyper fetish stuff. Nothing that stands out by furry standards. By normal standards it's absolutely degenerate, but I don't judge furries by normie standards. What's exceptional for normal people is tame for a furry.
Fair enough.
You bring up DUST, I raise you one Solatorobo; an old DS game from a decade ago that manages to be both furry and rather interesting overall.
That one was fantastic, too. There's honestly a lot of nice 'furry' games - Some of the old earlier ones like Claw and Jazz Jackrabbit are still going strong with their little communities.
Jeff Minter. That's a name I haven't heard in a long-ass time. He's the llama guy who made a ton of demo-style games, right?
The thing is, people who made those weren't trying to make furry games(well, I assume), but interesting games. I feel like anthropomorfic animals were much more normalised as an artistic mean BEFORE wide society learned about furries through the internet.
You're entirely correct about that. Of course, now that the fandom is better known for the sheer amount of sick shit that they pull - hell, even my parents have been taking notice of them, and they don't pay attention to anything outside of Fox News and Facebook these days - it's severely negatively impacted video games featuring furry characters in general. That Solatorobo game I mentioned above? Had the spectacularly shitty luck to be released around the same time that the original Zaush incident happened; that drastically ended up affecting sales, since everyone in the know about the fandom didn't want anything to do with anything remotely furry-like at the time.
I bought a used copy of that and the cart was fried, never got to play it, despite hearing it was worth poking.
This is something that's important to remember. Not everything anthropomorphic is necessarily furry. Furry is a sort of subgenre to the larger anthropomorphic art style.
I play the rare visual novel. Mostly for work reasons, but occasionally for myself, like the World of Darkness ones that recently came out are a guilty pleasure of mine for example.
Lugaru was pretty fun and there's an open source version now. The combat system was actually quite ahead of its time.
Yeah. that's the guy. I loved his stuff back in the day but haven't been following as much now. I remember he was a Guest at one of the furcons in the UK, I'm not sure if he likes the community much but he sure knows he's got fans there. He's a total hoofer guy at the very least.
I never played that one but I remember Overgrowth that came after was stuck in development hell for years. They sunk so much time into perfecting the fight system but it felt like a demo in the end... Still, it was really satisfying playing with the combat for a while. Apparently open source now too, which I understand because the modding community always was pretty good with it.
DUST: An Elysian Tail was okay. It commits some cardinal platformer sins at times with controls, but it's honestly decent. Not everything can be Super Metroid.
Nigga are you blaming the failure of an obscure game on furries? You're overestimating how many people were even aware of the fandom at the time, let alone the Zaush accusations. Even now, with the fandom being known, the average person doesn't know dick about the fandom beyond fursuits, let alone the dark side of it.
