POLL: How GOOD(Morals) aligned do you want to be when playing a porn game?

[cramcramcram]

Completionist part of me wants to answer all the routes...


I don't self-insert, so for some story games I'll take options that seem to fit a character or interaction well (as they have been shown), or are the most interesting/compelling. I dislike boringly moral or immoral choices, and prefer greyish as part of the narrative. Same as above posts for comedic games - if it reaches a level of ridiculousness or meta then all is fine.

Sheer pettiness or jarring character shifts are kind of annoying though (again, unless taken not at all seriously). Same with pseudo-intellectual 'big bads' or white knights. Wary of the pragmatic answer because some times it seems wholly inconsistent in a game as to the character. However, it is equally fun when you have an 'evil' character with a great romantic route, or a degenerate moralist. It sounds hypocritical or inconsistent to answer that way, but I guess I favor a certain development. Case in point, not a sadist nor a masochist, but I do love a good reversal when portrayed. Not just a gap.


The 'sin' of some games is more when they stop being entertaining/interesting, for what they are.

 

[meleaguance]

I responded pragmatic but really it just depends on the game. Sometimes it's fun to be a dick and sometimes it's fun to be a hero based on the scenario. Although, sometimes I'll start out pretending to be a dick and then am just unable to go through with it.

 

[meleaguance]

Actually, maybe that's what I like the best. To either start out like a Paladin who becomes corrupted or a villain who finds redemption.

 

[ciphertul]

Yup, the boring option A. I'm just that vanilla.

 

[HypnoKitten]

I like innocent characters only when they're victims as a result, otherwise degenerates. Reasoning being, simply, if I'm playing an H-game I'm playing it for more H-content, not less. And any time I'd pick an innocent-route it feels like I'm just blocking H-content.. to protect the poor imaginary pixel characters..?

I think what I'd love to see most for games that have morality, and I don't know why there aren't more with this, is victim-vs-power routes. One path more-happens-To-you, the other you-happen-to-more-things. Alternatively where the paths are the intensity (or genre) of the scenes but where either intensity provides different content (not just locking out the more intense content)

 

[LewdCatgirl]

I don't want to play some prudish protagonist. I don't want a rapist protagonist either. My ideal would be to play as a very lustful but non-rapist protagonist who maybe enters an open relationship.

 

[danarchist_lewd]

I prefer the PC to get out of the way. I'd rather they be a total blank slate character, and to focus on the stories of the romantic partners instead.

 

[Yngling]

I would prefer the righteous path.

But unfortunately a couple of things generally spoil that:

- The girl(s) are just not interesting enough.
- The side girls are too interesting
- The story is too poor
- The romantic path is spoiled by being sweeter than a candy store in Disneyworld.

 

[Power Broker]

This depends on the mc, but it is actually also the wrong question, because the better question should be: how good aligned should the story / the world be?
MC is just the vessel for telling the story and therefore, his morals and whatever happens to him or is initiated by him is dictated by the story. There are many games with "bad boys" who are just boring and cringey, but the same is true for "good guys".

For example, for a female MC, I want bad things happening to her (including rape, blackmail etc.), so her own morals don't really matter. Is she a cheating slut or a loyal saint? Well, she is hot, so she gets fucked by the guy she doesn't like.

Male MCs are usually badly written and idiots, so their morals don't matter either, for them, I always enjoy some good NTR, because at least this way their stupidity and idiocy gets their due reward.

So in short: morals that match the story that is told are the right morals for the MC.

does anyone actually want to play as a righteous MC(like a Christian/Catholic/Muslim, but with different wording and context)?

and you shouldn't pose self-contradicting questions.