Or if going to force the harem...at least have writing skills (and actual knowledge of the human pysche and how people act) and force a lot of drama at times betwen the girls, forcing us (the MC) to deal with said jealousy/time-share/personality problems that inevitibly, as you say, in real life will always occur (and if you screw up girls will leave etc).
Now that would be a haram game at the top of my to play list.
That and why 5 girls would share the same resources of said man if they can get better deals. Unless said man is king, wizard, post apocalypse survivor might makes right. Make no fucking sense. Yeah they can all fuck him but being loyal to one man?
As I said before a man have two arms one for each bride. Perfectly balanced.
Trauma is a good way to ensure a semi harem mesh, like incest the sister can't marry bother so having a second wife is needed and so on.
The only reason I'm still here is cause he writes the characters too good.
I'm hopeful that as the game nears completion, it doesn't do the AVN standard sad LI thing if you choose to not engage romantically, cause hating that is why I only play harems. Once I know what the thruple or quad or whatever options are, I'll do a single run romancing those LIs and just helping the rest.
The only reason I'm still here is cause he writes the characters too good.
I'm hopeful that as the game nears completion, it doesn't do the AVN standard sad LI thing if you choose to not engage romantically, cause hating that is why I only play harems. Once I know what the thruple or quad or whatever options are, I'll do a single run romancing those LIs and just helping the rest.
you know what's funny joshy even when I play a game with the harem tag I still try to only simp for 1 at time. Unless it's clear it's meant to be played like a harem. As ive played some where it's optional and that tag isn't the main focus of the gameplay.
It makes a sort of sense, if it's any value to you. But I gotta ask in counterpoint, do you treat your friends that way? Does having two friends diminish either friendship? Does making a third make the other two less special? If not, why is it different?
The same thing applies for romantic love, to me. If I love someone, and express that love with them, that is between me and them. But if I love someone else and express that love to them, it doesn't take away from the love I have for the other person. It only takes away the time I have with them. But so does work. And friendships with people that might not be shared with this beloved person. And hobbies that the lover isn't involved in. And even time to myself so I don't straight up set fire to the couch out of stress. So after factoring as many of those into my time as I can, it's already an understanding that my home life isn't going to be completely devoted to them. (and forget adding children into the mix!) And attempts to make me feel bad for not giving them even more of myself tread all over that "how much of somebody do you need" level of toxic monogamy I think is just socially encouraged co-dependence.
I'm not trying to challenge you on a fundamental belief or anything. I'm just trying to say my perspective of things from my experience (without going into said experience, of course).
I'm not going to say all polyamory is fair game here specifically. there's a certain sort of compromise given the audience (the NTR crowd). And again, I am not trying to complain about this game specifically being ruined if NeonGhosts doesn't give into my demands or insane things like that. (NeonGhosts, dude, you're fantastic, and I'm here to the bitter end and probably the next game. You're a hell of an author/artist thus far.) But even selfish dick style poly triads are weirdly under represented in fiction, given the freedom to assign character traits by the nature of being created whole cloth. My entire point was to express confusion in this prevalent understanding that people are supposed to play around as much as possible, and then pair off and die ride off into the sunset. Like, that's the ideal. The goal. The reason to be. Even in fantasy it's all that can be aspired to.
But how is it really superior to prune all but one of the perfectly healthy branches from a tree that can bear fruit? Yes pruning some branches does sweeten the fruit that will result from the branches that remain, but a tree is more than one branch. My metaphor is going to get away from me. I'm trying to say that you put yourself into this thing with multiple people, and then at some point the expectation is to sever those ties (often completely, which is downright sociopathic) and focus exclusively on one like that was the prize all along. Which both changes you (because you're now not the person also branching out all of those other ways) and presents you as the sort of person who would drop others like a bad habit because as important as they might have been to you, nobody is so important they can't be dropped the moment they're not the goal. But you were building something with those other people, and it might have been just as real. (as real as any story is anyway).
Talking about feeling real or unreal, or breaking the immersive qualities. You're already juggling sometimes a dozen love interests in half these games. You're already that person. Is the audience supposed to feel that this was a personal growth thing? That now you only "need" one person because you've matured? Cause that's never how it's presented. I really don't understand why the trend is so uncommon to deviate from. Some of it is a limit of these games. Very few of them have a way to be single minded from the start, sure. But also they're rarely set up to make sense or be anywhere near as engaging if they're not predicated around establishing sex scenes (fair enough, a conceit of the genre).
I do agree that full up harem games are usually super fake though. Like, those aren't people. Those are just sex bots(a totally worthwhile persuit, but not what i'm trying to discuss). Which is kind of why all of this was started in 'awe' of the preference of a couple over a thruple.
Really shouldn't post drunk before passing out. Didn't mean to open up the harem can of worms. But that said...
It makes a sort of sense, if it's any value to you. But I gotta ask in counterpoint, do you treat your friends that way? Does having two friends diminish either friendship? Does making a third make the other two less special? If not, why is it different?
The same thing applies for romantic love, to me. If I love someone, and express that love with them, that is between me and them. But if I love someone else and express that love to them, it doesn't take away from the love I have for the other person. It only takes away the time I have with them. But so does work. And friendships with people that might not be shared with this beloved person. And hobbies that the lover isn't involved in. And even time to myself so I don't straight up set fire to the couch out of stress. So after factoring as many of those into my time as I can, it's already an understanding that my home life isn't going to be completely devoted to them. (and forget adding children into the mix!) And attempts to make me feel bad for not giving them even more of myself tread all over that "how much of somebody do you need" level of toxic monogamy I think is just socially encouraged co-dependence.
I'm not trying to challenge you on a fundamental belief or anything. I'm just trying to say my perspective of things from my experience (without going into said experience, of course).
I'm not going to say all polyamory is fair game here specifically. there's a certain sort of compromise given the audience (the NTR crowd). And again, I am not trying to complain about this game specifically being ruined if NeonGhosts doesn't give into my demands or insane things like that. (NeonGhosts, dude, you're fantastic, and I'm here to the bitter end and probably the next game. You're a hell of an author/artist thus far.) But even selfish dick style poly triads are weirdly under represented in fiction, given the freedom to assign character traits by the nature of being created whole cloth. My entire point was to express confusion in this prevalent understanding that people are supposed to play around as much as possible, and then pair off and die ride off into the sunset. Like, that's the ideal. The goal. The reason to be. Even in fantasy it's all that can be aspired to.
But how is it really superior to prune all but one of the perfectly healthy branches from a tree that can bear fruit? Yes pruning some branches does sweeten the fruit that will result from the branches that remain, but a tree is more than one branch. My metaphor is going to get away from me. I'm trying to say that you put yourself into this thing with multiple people, and then at some point the expectation is to sever those ties (often completely, which is downright sociopathic) and focus exclusively on one like that was the prize all along. Which both changes you (because you're now not the person also branching out all of those other ways) and presents you as the sort of person who would drop others like a bad habit because as important as they might have been to you, nobody is so important they can't be dropped the moment they're not the goal. But you were building something with those other people, and it might have been just as real. (as real as any story is anyway).
Talking about feeling real or unreal, or breaking the immersive qualities. You're already juggling sometimes a dozen love interests in half these games. You're already that person. Is the audience supposed to feel that this was a personal growth thing? That now you only "need" one person because you've matured? Cause that's never how it's presented. I really don't understand why the trend is so uncommon to deviate from. Some of it is a limit of these games. Very few of them have a way to be single minded from the start, sure. But also they're rarely set up to make sense or be anywhere near as engaging if they're not predicated around establishing sex scenes (fair enough, a conceit of the genre).
I do agree that full up harem games are usually super fake though. Like, those aren't people. Those are just sex bots(a totally worthwhile persuit, but not what i'm trying to discuss). Which is kind of why all of this was started in 'awe' of the preference of a couple over a thruple.
