Forgot link https://store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/ENA_Dream_BBQ/

>>1083515 That's not the pirate link.

>>1083521 It's (((free))) so there's no crack

>>1083529 My bad. I didn't see when OP mentioned it was free on Steam, just assumed he was a shill.

>>1083531 I am the OP

>>1083514 (OP) A lot of effort put into a free game, enough that i don't mind it's multiple chapters the amount of work must be insane,meanwhile Deltarune...

>start game >wake up in the favela >go to work it's kino

Pretty good. I wish Ena didn't use the masculine voice as often as she does.

Played 2 "routes" so far, passed the skill check run, was very satisfying. The humor and aesthetics are in line with previous episodes, I'd say. I think one issue I have with these walking sims/LSD-likes, (besides the massive amounts of forgiveness), is that I sometimes get nauseous or motion sick playing them for extended periods

>>1083779 >sometimes get nauseous or motion sick playing them for extended periods You should play Labyrinth of the Demon King

>>1083791 >faux PS1 >western game LARPing as Japanese Not even doubting it will be good, but I'm tired of this.

>>1083773 i thought ena was a tranny metaphor for quite a bit of time because of that

>>1083918 Why?

>>1083988 I imagine same reason I was sick of all the faux retro pixelshit indies during the 2010s

>>1083773 >>1083980 Is it NOT?

>>1083773 >>1083980 you shitting me, there's people this retarded on the internet?

Is this good? My interest in Newgrounds has fallen off.

>>1084078 It's lowkey a playable animation. The creator is a professional animator after all Visually the game is great and super polished, the gameplay is serviceable, nothing too fancy, like a single step beyond a walking sim. You either love the aesthetic and will break your back hunting every single secret and bit of lore or you'll find it completely uninteresting.

>>1083980 Here's my favorite tranny!

>>1084101 I love weird games that don’t prioritize gameplay, but I have a pretty significant distaste for games that try to emulate the aesthetics of old games in new engines like Unity. Haunted PS1, Ultrakill, Buckshot, etc - genuinely, I would rather set up a Windows 95 virtual machine and throw a CD from a Freegames/LMW ripper on Internet Archive than play any of that shit. I played Dream BBQ for an hour and might revisit it. I’ve watched every previous Ena and I always liked Hands Up more anyway.

>>1084106 Give a try. The paradigm is shifting There's been interesting developments in shading / filters for indies. They are getting pretty close to emulating the aesthetic of old 2000s content, but also firmly their own thing. Simply things like a Dithering emulator for things like Mouthwashing make interesting visuals.

>>1084112 Do you have any favorites among the type of game that Dream BBQ is trying to emulate? LSD, Myst, Drowned God, Pink Gear, Cyber Oz City, Toymaker. There's enough stuff on Saint's channel alone to fill a replica of the 4/vr/ surreal exploration game list.

I don't like her design, and feel like people are only pretending this is good because it has some eceleb tied to it

Game is fun if you like adventure games and/or weird aesthetics. The character roster is pretty memorable with the list of oddballs you can meet and/or do odd jobs for. This Ena isn't as fun most of the time because her secondary/girl-voiced side isn't as active. Depressed Ena was fun in the web series and pissed(?) Ena is fun in the game, but the latter doesn't come out as often. I wish to impregnate the schizo catgirl.

>>1084167 Whatever fag

>>1084167 >it has some eceleb tied to it Damn I had no idea. I guess I hate it now.

>>1084101 >>1084195 >>1084181 >>1084112 >The creator is a professional Dat desperate have a SAGE and get a real job

>>1084244 I will masturbate to ENA and there is nothing you can do about it!

Cool, but i still want to inseminate the catgirl, though.

>>1084167 >it has some eceleb tied to it What the fuck are you talking about

>>1084256 Joel G, the animator has a following. Plus there's some other e-celebs he got to do voices but the only one I know off the top of my head is Vinny from Vinesauce.

>>1084167 >>1084281 In this day and age how else are you going to get following? I always found marketing campaigns of any kind shameful back before YouTube took off, but nevertheless it’s either shill your stuff or hope you randomly get noticed. Eceleb-faggotry is just another example of this.

>>1084167 Didn't the main voice actor get replaced because he was luring children in his Discord? Gayduck(?) was his name and was a puertorican furfag.

>>1084281 >Joel G, the animator has a following. Joel is producer, writer and creative director on top of that. Only thing he doesn't do is dev and do the 3D blender anims. And he was never an eceleb >vinny no idea who that is caring about VAs is an alien concept to me.

>>1084324 Vinny = the other Vinesauce guy that isn't Joel.

>>1083693 >>1084101 >>1084324 zoomer newfag lmao

>>1084328 I've never watched an LP in my life.

ENA was already one of the last bastions of absurdist internet art, being and adventure game puts even more "outdated" weight on it's shoulders but it might work out since chapter one seems good. >>1084281 He effectively bypassed all the bullshit VA union FAGtra bullshit by asking his youtuber friends to voice characters for free, it's a smart move. >>1084071 It's not, Joel G used to keep telling them to fuck off when someone assumed it was but I think he gave up on repeating the whole spiel at somepoint and just says that ENA is a girl without expanding on it when someone asks. >>1084296 ENA's left face is on her third VA.

>>1084671 >absurdist internet art Is that what you call lol so randum xd maymay humor?

>>1084671 I fucking love that wizard. You talk to him again and he's just vibing, but if yo KEEP talking to him, he'll stop, then just stare at you.

I hate ENA because it's complete absurdism for the sake of absurdism. Maybe that makes a statement and I'm retarded but it really irks me the exact same way randumb quirky humor does. That plus the main character is a wacky woman who is voiced by a man makes me think the creator is either a faggot or tranny, as is almost always the case with shit of this style. I don't know anything about the artist but I've disliked it all purely off of a gut feeling.

>>1084678 It used to be called "Dadaism"

>>1084694 see >>1084671 It's not troonery, it's just an aesthetic choice.

>>1084704 Ok. I still don't like it.

>>1084697 Dadaism is pretentious pseudo-intellectual commie garbage. Perhaps the most utterly worthless "contribution" of the 20th century.

>>1084713 Like most art that came out during the late 19th and early/mid 20th century. Including cubism, expressionism, fauvism, pop, etc...

>>1084694 He's a man from Peru Fucking Christ you niggers never played a 90s adventure game.

>>1084694 I want to pet those kittens Consider switching from clay litter to wood based litter (I buy ökocat super soft wood clumping cat litter) Wood based kinds have less of a smell, less dust, is healthier for their feet, and is lighter. Best of luck to them!

>>1084694 > it's complete absurdism for the sake of absurdism. I'll be real with you: It's only absurdism if you fail to pick the references. ENA borders on 2deep4u /mu/ tier autism on the sheer amount of references to "cultural aesthetics" it has. it's not trying anything new really, it's all a reference to something. The last sentence is a bit of a criticism tbh.

>>1084713 >>1084715 The key error was assuming the only value “realism” had was supplanted by photos. Real life stuff simply looks better than abstract stuff for the most part. You might say that real women are uglier than fictional ones, and overall you’d be right, but the most good looking fictional women in my opinion have a “photo-realistic” artstyle while at the same time exceeding the beauty of actual real women. Not to mention you can have surrealistic elements like coloring, structures, etc while still having realistic anatomy, shading, etc. At the same time, not every appealing piece of art is in a realistic art style, but it all has the same kind of symmetry that real life has. Even when a character design is asymmetrical it’s still comprised of symmetry. It’s difficult to put into words. Samurai Jack looks good, Picasso’s Weeping Woman looks bad. But Samurai Jack’s artsyle is probably descended from commie art like Picasso’s, or at the very least there’s similarity.

>>1084671 >It's not, Joel G used to keep telling them to fuck off when someone assumed it was but I think he gave up on repeating the whole spiel at somepoint and just says that ENA is a girl without expanding on it when someone asks. That's honestly really good to hear. I've always loved her design. Why even have the dichotomy, then? And why explicitly have a male voice? Shouldn't it just be a philosophically different female one?

>>1086577 Because it's weird. This is surrealism for the sake of it without meaning. ENA having 5 faces with different personalities & like 3 different voices shouldn't be baffling.

It actually took me a while (while being "several years") to even notice one was a male, and someone else had to point it out to me first. Kids itt and on 4v seem completely clueless on decades old practices in the industry and instantly cry "tranny game" when they head the VAs. Don't even wanna imagine what English speaking kids go through at school to end up so paranoid at the mere prospect of hearing a male sounding voice on a fem character.

>>1086612 >4v The question is why the fuck you're using the trainwreck that is 4/v/? I don't think I've posted there in over a decade.

>>1086638 News? What else would I use hobby boards for? Occasionally something worth replying to pops up, but it's really just for news.

>>1086612 >Don't even wanna imagine what English speaking kids go through at school to end up so paranoid at the mere prospect of hearing a male sounding voice on a fem character. There were people that thought tails and slipply were girls in the 90s until they recasted them because they sound feminine when the intention was young and naive young boy voice instead. So a woman has a guy voice = tranny or guy is a perfectly normal assumption. This is just a failure of execution of the author to convey his intentions to the audience.

>>1086712 News like “would you let vegeta anal-vore your mom”? Cuck/v/ has been naught but a glorified /b/ for over a decade now.

>>1086743 The only people that thought Tails was a girl only played the games with no dialogue in them, never read the manuals, and never watched the TV shows or read the comics. The voice had nothing to do with it. In the TV shows and comics, Sonic is always calling Tails "little bro" and stuff like that. Also, Tails was actually played by male voice actors in all of his English appearances until Sonic X. But even with all of that, I still think it's silly to look at that character design and think it looks feminine. My hypothesis is that people who had little sisters are the ones that thought Tails was a girl. Tails is the character you give to your younger sibling that sucks at video games but wants to play with you anyway. Slippy being a girl is just ridiculous. I mean look at him.

>>1086766 LOL

>>1086766 >Slippy being a girl is just ridiculous. I mean look at him. Now I get what you mean by that, but when I was a young kid I actually thought Slippy was a girl due to his voice being very high-pitched. The Pixelated picture also made me think his hat was actually a hair tie for a pony tail. It wasn't really something I thought that hard about, at some point eventually I realized I was wrong about that. In that regard, I thought my Aunt was a guy for years because she wasn't traditionally feminine in her Appearance to me, and had a voice that could be mistaken for a guy at my young age.

>>1086743 Lucio, statistically you'll find the opposite case in the VA industry, many cartoon characters are voiced by their opposite gender due to pitch, accent or age requirements, or sometimes simply because they can make it work, and few people ever find out. Even then people should intuitively grasp that a character with multiple personalities, in a series known for it's intentional misdirection, has considerable leeway in their choice of VA >>1086778 well, nothing stops 12 years old from posting here.

>>1086766 >>1086769 L-LOL

Added to my Library. Is it any good? Is it playable while sober?

>>1086767 Yeah, the GaymerGay thread is >our watercooler thread. That's different from 99% of threads being watercooler threads. Plus, cuckchan rapefugees like yourself have been migrating over for months now so it wouldn't surprise me if that was one of you. I have noticed an increase in cuckchan-tier posts at any rate. I wouldn't mind cuckchanners coming over here if they followed the golden rule of imageboards

>>1086767 The mistake there is entering the GG thread. I don't know why people still post there, personally I haven't touched it since maybe 2017. It's better left to its own board like it was on Prime.

grognards who haven't touched the subject of discussion in almost 10 years trying to tell the people who actually use them how things are.

>>1086926 Time to close the gate...

>>1086926 I viewed it today, and can confirm anon is still right.

>>1086612 Somewhat related, the old term "Rule 63" to signify a gender swapped character has almost vanished from online use. The younger generation now call any gender swapping "trans", even if the character in that universe has always been the swapped one.

I ended up really liking this. Didn't even know it was coming out soon and I was pleasantly surprised! Psychedelic dreamlike games are always fun to explore and Joelg does a good job of creating a really cool world with funny characters. Also Alex is cool and Miku is sex

I really like the genie Theodora and her Greek way of sing-speaking.

huh, there's an ENA thread here too. Good, good. I see everyone here wanted to fuck taski too. Good taste.

>>1084694 I don't mind one of her voices being voiced by a man, the problem is the voice doesn't sound like a woman. You get character voiced by people of the opposite gender but it normally works because they are specifically putting on a voice that sounds like the gender they're meant to be portraying. But that voice doesn't sound female, and the belief that it doesn't sound female is justified in discovering it literally isn't a female doing the voice.

>>1092351 anon the voices are just voices, they're not supposed to sound realistically female, they're supposed to just be tones that she speaks in remember she's also half red half white and made of floating polygons I think you're all just overcome with so much tranny derangement that you freak out over if when it's not there and then demand things be made such that you can't possible conflate them with trannies anymore to soothe your own panic

>>1094383 It makes it very hard to think of the character as female though. Since ENA speaks with that male voice most of the time and appearance-wise almost passes for a boy. Also I never mentioned trannies, you're the one who has brought that up.

>>1097821 When you walk into alcoholics anonymous you assume everyone is thinking of booze even when they're not saying it Let's not pretend we haven't all been on the web long enough to know it always comes back to tranny chimpouts regardless of what websites you're on Still though, I understand if you didn't mean that and just meant you struggle to see it as analogous to a real person, but still I must remind you that it's not a real person If your mind struggles with an unusual thing in a game all about absurdism, it then it's best to train it to absurdism because this is what you're getting, as opposed to demanding the absurd thing be made more palatable to someone's preexisting expectations about the real world

>>1098657 >as opposed to demanding the absurd thing be made more palatable to someone's preexisting expectations about the real world But you're doing that by assigning a gender to it in the first place.

I paid for Supporter Edition Upgrade Just because Peru is hell on earth, poor Joel

>>1083514 (OP) I think visually it's cool, but I wish they just talked less.

>>1101842 no, the dev did

>>1109000 >But the dev did that by assigning a gender to it in the first place

>>1113644 yes, the dev also gave it visuals and sounds that the human mind can comprehend absurdism is about giving you specks of insanity intertwined with things you recognize, not a cacophony of ethereal noises of visuals the eyes cannot concieve and the brain cannot theorize of like some kinda impossible ninth dimensional being, there will always be ideas that your brain recognizes but it also demands you take those ideas and go on from there, not get stuck on "b-but these two things don't match most real world cases, i-i don't know what to think!!! reeeeeeeeeee!" if a concept as simple, basic and frankly quite entry level in the realm of absurdism as 'mismatched voice' sends you into a shock maybe absurdism isn't for you, maybe start with childrens' picture books and go up from there when you can handle it just don't read the one about the talking elephants, elephants don't talk in reality and your brain might explode if you see it in the pages seriously, it's very obvious what you're focused on and cannot let go of, it's the things you're subconsciously most obsessed with, and you accepting everything else *but* it makes it clear you have some personal mental hangup on that isn't our problem if you accepted that doors lead to locations they're not supposed to lead to, 2dimensional people walk around in 3 dimensions, people get eaten and korean women exist, and yet "female with... male voice? whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?" is what did it, ask yourself why that's your mind's breaking point and then don't tell me i don't really care about your past traumas just sort it out away from me

>>1113944 Not reading that wall of text but I agree with him, it's annoying having this sexy cubic block of fuckmeat talk with a male voice most of the time. I get it's just part of the silliness but it still bothers me, ENA should have a cute girly voice so I can jack off to her better. It would be better if her primary voice was female and the mean/angry one was male.

>>1113944 I mean, it's not like other games haven't had characters who fuck with reality and (at least in the lore) have changed their sex on the fly.

>>1124677 >Not reading that wall of text well why should i proceed to read your post from this point on, then? fuck it, why do i even bother?

>>1124677 if you can't have her at her male twink voice, you can't have her at all

the male voice would be more common in a happy relationship, while the female would be more common in a dysfunctional one

>>1127005 What does JoelG mean by this?

>>1128191 that's a dog

Anyone have the gif of dream bbq ena saying O.K.?

>>1126890 >well why should i proceed to read your post from this point on, then? Because he didn't sperg out and made his point concise?

>>1131947 >A long post is "sperging out" They really oughta stop giving kids iPads and meth the moment they're born, they're losing the ability to read and they lack the ability to comprehend emotions when they see them

>>1132441 The irony of your post is astonishing.

>>1132441 >A long post is "sperging out" It is when it's filled with sperging out.

>>1088374 More like Russian chanting, which is heavily influenced by Greek chanting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2cRh8QAEsE

>>1086577 Anon, this is a game where the main target of the first chapter is a neon pink Russian nesting doll that sings her lines in Greek while occasionally zooming out to reveal she's actually a claymation-esque Hindu statue of a female god. Having a famous male voice actor do a voice for half of the female lead is not even remotely an issue.

>>1127005 The bathroom sequence seems to indicate that the angry voice is the "real" ENA and the Entrepreneur / Worker voice is an artificial addition.

>>1132933 I don't think that's the case, ENA clearly uses the female voice when she's upset or emotional so it make sense it'd be the voice she uses when she's hungover and feeling like shit I don't personally think any voice is "more" or "less" real, they're both just two sides of her >>1132907 Also I absolutely love Theodora's voice and singing, it's so nice sounding

>>1113944 when I played it the ENA world feels less like nonsense and more like a dreamy version of a grimy city. You can almost imagine her in a normal detective setting. in a way the game may also be a successor of JoelG’s Hands Up

>>1126890 We aren't equals. When I speak, your mouth shuts and your ears listen with full attention. When you speak, I make farting noises with my mouth so I can't hear you. >>1132907 The absurdism you are highlighting in your posts has nothing to do with his complaints though. I can completely get why he was worried it was a trans allegory given how common that shit has become these days, it's a valid concern.

taski feet

>>1108791 did someone in the thread make this love it either way

>>1083514 (OP) I can tell this game was made with a lot of passion but can't really enjoy it without a gun or a grappling hook

Imagine if there was a secret diaper item in the game and it said "Like taking the Bathroom everywhere you go!" when you picked it up

There's a proper general thread on the new vidya generals board for anyone who wants to move out of /v/

Taski sex

>>1159306 Taski showing you her stinky neet room (and braps)

bro what the FUCK am I even playing right now. Cool design on the MC though

>>1168827 Surrealism for the sake of surrealism.

>>1175963 I don't get this logic that ANYTHING is bad if it's for its own sake >I grew this beautiful rose bush >Ugh so what, it's just BEAUTIFUL? For the sake of being beautiful? EEEEEEEEEEEW

>>1176205 No one said it was bad

>>1176223 No one said that anyone said anything was bad

>Surrealism for the sake of surrealism. The game's clearly about something. I'm not sure what because the chapters aren't all out, but there's consistent rules to this universe and multiple overarching themes.

>>1176205 I didn't say it was bad at all. >>1176299 You implying it faggot, don't try and be a passive aggressive no u bitch. >>1176672 I don't think having rules or themes means it has to be about anything. I think the creator just thinks of designs and concepts after seeing other media (Picasso, the countless references from the way ENA moves etc) and makes his own thing with them because he thinks it's neat.

>>1155464 song name?

>>1182212 Jockel, der Gartenteichspringbrunnen

>>1182689 >Jockel, der Gartenteichspringbrunnen Thanks, anon!

>>1176205 Not him, and do not read if you don't care about a blog of vagueties of why I don't like ENA, but... don't compare ENA to the effortless beauty of a rose. It's painfully contrived, especially when compared to one of its inspirations like LSD Dream Emulator, a literal dreamscape recreated from a dev's dream journal. I don't think it's simply the knowledge of ENA's intentionality that's ruining it, but there's something there which is off-putting, and it probably comes from the intent to create the surreal. Not even saying that the intent to create the surreal will always produce something stilted and weird (in a bad way), it's just the case here

>>1176672 Was the wiznerd a reference to anything? It feels like he is but I don't recognize it. I'm ashamed that I didn't realize ENA's poses at the start of the game are a reference to Japanese Spiderman, I've watched a ton of that show and still didn't notice it

>>1183354 How can surrealism exist without intention? Everything made by a person has intent behind it, same as LSD.

>>1183393 you didn't read my post

>>1183406 I just did. That's why I'm mentioning specific things you said in it.

>>1183393 there is an intent in shared semiotics versus the personal and mostly vagueless. LSD operates on the jungian idea that dreams are archetypes and archetypes are shared and ultimately reflect a deeper well of progressive communion through image. ENA doesn't feel anywhere as conceptually realized, or rather, it feels pretty postmodern in its semiotic signaling. in the worst way possible. but explaining this is pretty hard. I'm still with the other anon as a massive fan of LSD and psychedelia in general

>>1183513 ooooookay then, nevermind, glad I'm ignorant enough to enjoy it without knowing what any of those big words you used mean

>>1183371 Wizard is a reference to the zelda CDI games. I personally think he's meant to resemble season 1 ENA with his color scheme and the way he's compressed and talks and understands ENA

>>1183555 Wait really? I've watched a gorillion youtube poops and didn't get that at all.

>>1183513 Interesting, thanks for posting. Made me want to read some psychology

>>1183667 >wanting to read psychology

>>1183584 He's animated like a cdi character, this is in the extras menu as well

>>1183753 I can see it there, but none of his animations gave me a cdi vibe at all.

>>1183762 >>1183753 literally first thing I thought of was that damn merchant >>1183753

sex!!

Jesus Christ do not look up the voice actor for ENA's male voice. I've never seen a more insufferable faggot in my life.

Reminder: Taski hates bathrooms. Not just the big-B Bathroom in the game, but apparently ALL bathrooms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Dpl4stNBM&t=79s How is there no diaper art of this chaotic cutie yet?

>>1185538 Shut the fuck up about your disgusting fetish you complete fucking nigger.

>>1108591 I knew the Incans cultivated potatoes, but I didn't know they bred with them too...

>>1185602 Okay but she totally would (and she might even try to convince Coral Glasses that changing her is part of the job description)

>tfw found myself listening to the main menu theme on repeat and absolutely daydreamaxxing to shit man

>>1185116 I AM THE BOSS!!!

>>1185116 Shame it's FUCKING DEAD

Just played it, how many endings/paths does it have because I feel I got the bad ending somehow

>>1185116 Built for BMC

>>1188916 There's only one ending, but two paths to get to the bathroom, and if you fall into the white or not you may or may not get a wish.

>>1188916 it's only a bad ending if you didn't get to see the bus