Just curious how other dudes are able to enjoy female MC porn games?
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They are the best protagonists when you want to have a variety of sexual partners and not have any issues
Now many posters around here will claim they don't self insert/empathize, these people are talking shit, most entertainment is built around it. We empathize more with a protagonist than a side character because we are getting their perspective, although there are limits, if the protagonist is too extreme in some way it can make them unrelatable, too spineless, evil, selfish, etc
For a male protagonist I ask what's the point of seeing a female character fucked by a male that isn't the protagonist, seems like a waste not to have the self insert do it.
But a female protagonist creates a distance for most male players, you don't care if she isn't the one doing the fucking. That's not to mean you don't empathize with her, you just don't see yourself in her shoes sexually, the way you would a male protagonist.
Now many posters around here will claim they don't self insert/empathize, these people are talking shit, most entertainment is built around it. We empathize more with a protagonist than a side character because we are getting their perspective, although there are limits, if the protagonist is too extreme in some way it can make them unrelatable, too spineless, evil, selfish, etc
For a male protagonist I ask what's the point of seeing a female character fucked by a male that isn't the protagonist, seems like a waste not to have the self insert do it.
But a female protagonist creates a distance for most male players, you don't care if she isn't the one doing the fucking. That's not to mean you don't empathize with her, you just don't see yourself in her shoes sexually, the way you would a male protagonist.
Get a load of this guy lol. Other people are "talking shit" about their personal mind set because it doesn't coincide with your own experience?
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I used to avoid games with female protagonist tag since in the majority of them you control a naive, retarded sometime prudish girl and the whole point of the game is to drag her down and "corrupt" her into a slut.
Fortunately not all are like that, there are gems like Demons roots, Daughter of essence, Once ever after, Lona rpg...where the female protagonist kick asses or at least she can be if the player choose that path for her.
Fortunately not all are like that, there are gems like Demons roots, Daughter of essence, Once ever after, Lona rpg...where the female protagonist kick asses or at least she can be if the player choose that path for her.
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Experience? it's a basic understanding of how and why entertainment is made, unless they are sociopaths they will self insert, the "I don't self insert" is either an misunderstanding of what it means or an insecurity thing because it's become a bit of an insult to call people self inserters.
Avatar the most successful movie of all time, known for being forgetable but it was a pure self insertion fantasy.
Maybe you are a furry who dreams about naked blue aliens, but no, I didn't self-insert to Avatar of all things lmao.
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Your post comes across as insecure, you're trying to turn it into an insult.
It doesn't have to specifically be about wanting to be a naked blue alien, he was used because as a human, he was the Earthling who was as new to this world as the audience rather than from the perspective of an alien. I'll leave it at that because either you don't understand this or you'll just double down
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So you finally realize self-insert isn't the same as simply being able to enjoy the story and characters? Good to know, you already ruled out your bad initial take that assumes others are lying to you, we aren't...
Once you grow up a bit more you will realize it isn't just female protag thing, because most games have dumb protags that any sane person wouldn't even want to self-insert as, male or female.
Self-insertion is a naive way of enjoying content, often done by younger people that can't fully empathize yet because their brains are still developing, so their only option is to get in the shoes of the protag and play make believe for a second.
That's cringe on many levels to me, and good for you if you enjoy that, but maybe stop doubting not everyone is as cringe as yourself.
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You clearly confuse immersion and self insertion.
Avatar is the first one, conceived to make you feel as a direct witness of its story. This while self insertion is the belief that you are the MC, and therefore that the adventure happen to you, and not to someone you follow at distance.
And it happen that entertainment focus more on the immersion than on the self insertion. Even interactivity do not imply self insertion, and many players picture themselves not as the MC, but as some almighty god deciding of his fate.
There's even a game, probably abandoned because I haven't seen it since long, what mean that I totally forgot its name, that put the player in those shoes. Each time a decision have to be made, a collegial of entities ask you what the character should be doing.
Most of the feMC games that get posted on the site are not aimed at women. The idea behind most of them, especially the miserable-in-tone rapey ones, is to doubly satisfy a straight male player by allowing them to PROTECC the girl's chastity or turn her out. They're very clearly not written with the idea that you should be projecting yourself onto her or seeing things from her perspective. That'd defeat the appeal with the way a lot of them are designed.
Like there are shockingly few ero games with female protagonists where you as the player are given sandbox freedom to go out and fuck anyone who catches your eye despite there being thousands of male protag games where this is the whole premise. I'm not counting otome games here since they only rarely have 18+ ratings.
Like there are shockingly few ero games with female protagonists where you as the player are given sandbox freedom to go out and fuck anyone who catches your eye despite there being thousands of male protag games where this is the whole premise. I'm not counting otome games here since they only rarely have 18+ ratings.
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Most female-protagonist games and to a degree VNs read like they were written by autists with a restraining order, though an obvious exception is yuri. I doubt anyone could self-insert into that. I wonder if any people manage to roleplay as those protagonists. So yeah, meant for men, intended to be played as a third person perspective.
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James Cameron watched Dances with Wolves/Pocahontas and then said what if everyone was a Smurf and that is how Avatar came to be.
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Japanese yaoi games are far better then the western 3d games with fem. protagonist. Not only most of the games have quality art and mature stories, they have attractive guys like Rafster mentioned already.
I'm of 2 thoughts on that. I think this is only true if people actually self-insert into the opposite-sex MC. From what I understand most people don't and still see the opposite-sex MC as the object "like to see women in embarrassing situations", that's not really more empathy that's more like people get less immersed in the story from the beginning.
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quality art ? !
Apart from the fact that they have been using the same ugly, scary face in all paintings, games, cartoons, and comics for 50 years. The same damn disgusting face. The Japanese don't know how to draw. They don't know anatomy. They don't know how to use light and shadow. They do not know the technique of transition from light to shadow, known in Europe in the 15th (!) century. The Japanese even destroyed car design. Now all cars are like anime: indistinguishable from each other primitive, colorless, faceless ugliness.