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Oh, I agree 100%. I wasn't saying "this game is objectively terrible and anyone who likes it is wrong and bad", as much as I was suggesting "These are the reasons it doesn't click with me". Nothing wrong with different people having different opinions.
Well, I'm pretty sure that having aliens rape your love interests fits the generally understood definition of NTR when it comes to porn. It's certainly applicable to the literal definition of NTR this site uses for tags ("Designed to cause jealousy by having the romantic interest involved with someone other than the MC").
About the only way it wouldn't is if the MC actively agrees to offer up their love interests for breeding (at which point you're shading more into sharing as opposed to NTR). But most anti-NTR players wouldn't make that fine a distinction - they just don't want to see other people/things/etc. fucking their love interests at all.
But that's not exactly what I said regardless. I was responding to a post from someone who seemed to be pretty heavily anti-NTR, and I pointed out that I definitely get the vibe that the aliens are there to play up the NTR idea (giving a race of "nothing but males" giant exposed dicks on a planet you can't escape from feels like a pretty strong nod in the "Mars Needs Women" direction). As you yourself mention, it's a "looming threat". The question is whether the threat just stays a threat to increase dramatic tension, or eventually becomes a reality. But for players who are anti-NTR, the threat alone might be more than they're willing to deal with if it makes them uncomfortable (or if they don't trust the dev to not add unavoidable NTR later).
It was mostly just an aside (hence why I put it as a separate paragraph in parentheses) pointing out that if someone is strongly anti-NTR (like the post I was replying to seemed to be), it seemed like the threat of future NTR was always going to be looming. I wasn't saying it was definitely going to happen or that it was the reason why I was giving up on the game.
By that logic, no one should have positive opinions either. The entire thread should just be one page with nothing but download links and objectively factual game dev updates.
The main reason to offer up negative opinions is so that other people who might be considering playing the game can see what other people think, both good and bad. And if they agree with those sorts of criticisms, they may choose to avoid a game. If, say, multiple people in a thread say "Man, I hate the MC because they're written like a total doormat", someone reading that might go "Man, I hate games with pushover MCs, maybe this game isn't for me." If people complain about a sandbox game being too grindy, people who don't like grindy sandbox games will know they might want to skip it. And so on.
And as long as you're offering your opinion relatively politely and not just saying stuff like "Man the dev is stupid and I hate them and wish they would just stop making games" or other abusive or hateful things, there's no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to say "I don't like this thing". Silencing all dissent and only allowing total praise or circle-jerk asskissing is a toxic mentality in and of itself. And honestly stifles creative growth for any artist because it means the only feedback they'll ever get is from people who refuse to say anything negative.
Game reviews aren't restricted to "Unless you're posting a glowing 5-star review, don't bother posting" (or if they are, you're on a terrible review site). Negative opinions can be just as useful at deciding whether or not you're going to like something as positive reviews are. Generally speaking, when I'm buying stuff on Amazon, I'll read both the 5-star reviews (to see people praise a product's good points) and the 1-star reviews (to see what sort of problems people had with the product) to try and get a feel for what a product is actually like.
I was mostly posting my opinions to agree with the previous poster (who had a lot of similar opinions to my impression), and to offer them up to anyone in the future who might be skimming the thread to see what people think of the game to decide if they want to play it. Considering that's exactly what I did before playing the game - and considering the excessive positivity misled me into thinking the game was something it's apparently not - a few more negative opinions might help other people in the future.
But hey, like what you like. The fact that I don't like it doesn't mean that you're not allowed to like it. Or somehow retroactively make your affection for it mean any less.
Ehh, someone was critical of a game they really like made by a dev they like, and it hurt their eFeelings. Happens all the time on the Internet. No big deal.
