I am curious about this perspective considering we are talking about games and no 3D model is actually related to eachother.
If being blood related is so important how do you compartmentalize different models claiming that they are blood related? Is text the only thing that matters?
Yeah, the text is what is important.
The incest kink is about the TABOO, and the blood relation is what makes it taboo. It's about two characters doing something with each other sexually that society
forbids, and is
actually dangerous. Like, not only could the incestuous relationship destroy their family, but depending on the jurisdiction the story takes place in, may literally be a crime - even between two consenting adults. But all that (and the risk of a devastating pregnancy) is only if the two people are blood related.
If you bang your
step-sister,
the law doesn't give two-shits. If you bang your
sister,
you're going to jail. So legally, blood absolutely matters for incest to actually be incest.
What if the models looked very similar in features but the text said they are not blood related, would that also be instant uninstall?
I don't care if the models or character look similar or not. The incest kink isn't about similar looking people banging each other - it's about
related people banging. As in real life, family members may or may not resemble each other closely. But, yeah, if I downloaded the game for incest and they just gave me two unrelated people, instant uninstall. Doesn't matter if they look like twins. (And I'm assuming such a game wouldn't have the incest tag anyway.)
What if you play the entire game believing that they are blood related, but at the very end it is revealed that they were not blood related?
Oh, I have before. And it's a good damn way to make sure I never touch anything by that dev team or developer ever again.
Japan is fucking terrible about doing this, so much so that if it is a Japanese "incest" game, I look up reviews or info to see if they pull that crap before I will even download the game.
Not to mention, it is also usually a sign of terrible writing, because it's usually delivered during the ending of the game with an exchange like - "I love you, brother! Let's get married!" "Well, sister, since we adopted you when you were a little girl (which we're just now mentioning) we CAN get married!" "Oh, that's right! I'd almost forgotten we weren't blood related!"
And I don't get why devs or story writers would do this. It's fucking stupid. Anyone that would only enjoy the story if the two characters are NOT related by blood won't get far enough to find out, and anyone who was so into your "incest" story they finished it will leave pissed off with a bad taste in their mouth.
This perspective is a bit weird to me because when I play an incest game I just assume that they are related regardless of what the text says, so I really don't mind all the step-cest,interdimensional-cest or similar. They are one and the same.
Step-cest to
me, is NOT incest. Again, I'm probably prejudiced because of my family flipping out on me for dating a step-cousin. Step-cest has
no consequences. No legal danger. No risk of a bad pregnancy. About the only thing that can happen is an uncomfortable conversation with your family members where you can tell them to fuck off with the "incest" label because no shared genetics or blood is involved.
Interdimensional-cest? Absolutely incest. If you can do a genetics test and the results come back as related, I don't care what dimension or reality the two people originally came from. They're related, and if they bang, it's incest.
I guess I must be strange because to me, alternate dimension mom is still mom. If I were to go to an alternate dimension and saw my mom, I'd think "Holy shit! That's my mom!"
What I wouldn't think is "Well, she looks like my mom, and is the mother of this dimension's me, but I didn't grow in her specific womb so... I'm gonna fuck her. I mean, she's fair game, right? I'll just explain that I'm from another dimension and while I might look and act like her son, I'm not her actual son, so I'm sure she'll be down for some dick. Boy, alternate dimensions sure are neat!"
Banging your mom = incest. Tag checks out.
Agree 100%.
Hell, if you're writing a sci-fi story set in the future, people may be grown in artificial wombs anyway, so your parents are the ones who contributed the genetic material.
The whole "specific womb" thing is weird and creepy. As you say, if it looks like your Mom, talks like your Mom, and the DNA test comes back AS your Mom . . . it IS your Mom, or at least your Mom's genetic twin, which would be like banging your blood aunt. So... totally incest.