Any good DVD-PG games?

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#1

According to this they are played on DVD players or DVD-capable consoles
http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/DVD_Players_Game

taken straight from the page

"DVDPGs began appearing in 2000, released by eroge makers and adult video producers, although a unified terminology was not set until 2001 by the EOCS. While most DVDPG titles are ports of PC games, in recent years original DVDPG games have been appearing. "

Does anyone here happen to know one of these original games by any chance? are there any good ones?

also I gather you can actually use your remote-is this just to select branching paths?

#2

I’ve not heard of an original DVD-PG title, personally.

Yes, you do use the remote to select choices, you can also sometimes use it to fastforward in a limited fashion.

Hirameki released a number of their localisations as DVD-PG only, and they weren’t exactly well received =P

#3

why though?

I mean I could understand some games have elements which wouldnt translate well at all [Gun Katana]

Others like GSS though would be perfectly fine on DVD ,hell it would be awesome to see that on a 46" plasma screen.Not to mention cheaper

#4

Lack of convenient features we’re all used to (like skip, text speed, etc), slow playing, not working on many PC dvd-players, having to use a weird password system to save, the weird password system sometimes crashing?

#5

I’m not sure if it’s what you’re talking about but Hourglass of Summer was fantastic and you can play it on anything that has a DVD player. I also heard Ever17 was the pinnicle of such games, too, though I have yet to confirm it.

#6

I own Hourglass of Summer and I’ve never been able to play more than a little ways into it, as I’m not in the US (it won’t work in my DVD player) and it doesn’t run right in ANY dvd software I found, and I found lots.

I managed to get one that would mostly run, but the password/save system still didn’t work, and the lack of other features made me sufficiently frustrated that I never got back to it.

Ever 17 was sold in English as a PC game - if there was also a DVD version I’m not familiar with it, that’s certainly not what I had.

#7

I played the PC version of Hourglass of Summer (Natsuiro no Sunadokei) - to be honest I didn’t really find it that fantastic and probably wouldn’t want to endure DVDPG just to read it.