I'd love to have some VNs on GOG, because i personally like them. The problem with VNs is that they are a very niche market in the west and japanese publishers are not easy to deal with.

The only thing i don't like about VNs are the random surprise tentacles.

I love reading. I love books. And I like GOG. I see no reason not to combine all of them.

... then again, chocolate beer wasn't such a good idea. But it's still worth a try.

Corpse Party was originally on PC, and XSEED is thinking of localizing that version, so you might see that game on here eventually.

There's an interesting one. I would've played that long ago if I had ever thought a PSP was worth getting.

I like books so I like visual novels provided they're well-written. As Bansama said, however, the Japanese companies producing most of those are very unlikely to ever agree to be on GOG.

But there are quite good non-Japanese VNs that you can enjoy DRM-free, made by western indie devs.
The most (in)famous of those is probably Katawa Shoujo, but I know of at least 3 indie devs doing VNs, , [url=http://www.winterwolves.com/]WinterWolves, and HanakoGames.
I'm sure there are plenty of others so if you want VNs on GOG, you'd be better off starting the wishlist with those.

The main reason why I bought a used PSP was originally just for Corpse Party, but I don't really know why since I usually don't enjoy horror games very much. You end up finding other uses for it though.

True, but as I understand it, the original Corpse Party has already been localized for PSP, and the PSP version has better graphics, new CGs, new characters, voice acting etc, and I haven't heard about a PC release of the PSP version.

The rumor mill is that Carpe Fulgur (they localized Recettear and Fortune Summoners PC) is doing an XSEED localization that is yet unannounced.

The service sells PC games. Japanese publishers with the main exceptions being Square Enix* and Zenimax Japan (Bethesda) have no interest in supporting PC games. PC gaming would be far more popular here if the local publishers actually supported it. They don't.

Capcom Japan, for example, holds the PC distribution rights to several games, not only their own, but for other publishers (and indie devs) too -- but will not release any of the games. Capcom US, would apparently like to release some Megaman games on GOG. Capcom Japan, say no.

* Now they have a new CEO, that's likely changed.

The BlazBlue series are VNs? I thought it was a series of fighting games. o.O

Why would the deliberately cup themselves out of a potential market?.



Having said that VN's seem very niche (this from a visual novel fan)... doubt they would sell well, plus GOG always seem to look at stuff that majority of customers might be interested in buying...not sure vn's fall in that category....

I'm always interested in new and unusual genres. If GOG offered visual novels that looked interesting, I'd buy.

I would certainly buy VN's here if they were offered. Aselia the Eternal (family-friendly version, that's the only one translated), (if the developer would translate the last few pieces - a couple endings and the "extras" scenes lack English translations), and [url=http://www.shira-oka.com/]Shira Oka (completely western-produced) should, as far as I'm concerned, all find a place here (though Shira Oka is already available DRM-free from Gamersgate and other places, the other two are available at, perhaps, lesser-known places).

I would mention others, but I prefer to keep it short and family-friendly.

EDIT: I don't know if Portal (Rob Swigart's 1986 one, not the one from Valve) qualifies as a visual novel, or if it's better described as an interactive novel (though more visual than Zork, it's less visual and more text-heavy than any VN I've played), I'd like to see it here though (as far as I know, the DOS version is only available from one of the "Home of the Underdogs" spinoffs, I think Swigart himself still has the Amiga version somewhere though he's said that he doesn't have the DOS version).

They don't want to support the format. Simple as that.

The games as a whole are fighting games, but the story mode is more like a VN: each character generally gets an hour or so of dialogue and just a small handful of fights, with both the fight outcomes and dialogue choices influencing the ending you get. The Guilty Gear story modes are similar, but shorter and with a higher fight-to-dialogue ratio.

This is an interesting-looking strategy RPG/visual novel hybrid. [HINT] I've even added it to the game requests. [/HINT]