Porn Game Tropes: The good, the bad, and the fugly

[Proto Persona]

Daz3D is as much of a trope as printing is a trope.

Or Ren'py and Twine too.

 

[LeopoldWilliamReynolds]

Asset sharing across games is perfectly fine in my book, sometimes you want to see a different personality on a particular model and devs can't be expected to research other games to avoid using the same models.

But. Some of the other reuse impacts the story in weird ways. Like why are there so many restaurants in caves? And that one office floor plan is apparently super popular in the porniverse. And that one boutique has a real problem with perverts spying on their family members. You'd think they'd put a guard up after the fifth or sixth time someone got caught peeping

 

[megaplayboy10k]

You can do photorealistic DAZ renders, but doing thousands of them for a game would, I imagine, be a huge pain in the ass.

 

[ChaosOpen]

It isn't a trope, but I dislike how the quality of the art seems to be dependent on how depraved the game is(at least this is the case with games coming out of Japan). Every time I find a game with an S tier waifu I end up recoiling when I look at the tags.

 

[skipper_kowalski]

Jack-o-nine-tails trope (Read: graphic cannibalism)

 

[HopesGaming]

The trope is DAZ, the rest is my opinion.

Get down from your high horse.
Just because you do not use Daz does not automatically mean it is easy to do.
You're spitting on all the devs who spent months/years on their project.

Devs who attack other devs and accuse them of what they're doing is easy just annoys me so much.

 

[AmazonessKing]

I'm not spitting on anyone, after all DAZ still sells regardless of the trope or my opinion.

However, every other DAZ game looks the same to the point you can't even tell them apart. Since all devs buy the same assets, and all assets look similar, seeing how there's so much you can do when you are dealing with "realism", then the trope comes, and my opinion is formed. There's a reason why there needs to be a distinction between DAZ and 2DCG, or even DAZ and 3DGC from models done in, say, blender.

 

[Vengel]

I'm not spitting on anyone, after all DAZ still sells regardless of the trope or my opinion.

However, every other DAZ game looks the same to the point you can't even tell them apart. Since all devs buy the same assets, and all assets look similar, seeing how there's so much you can do when you are dealing with "realism", then the trope comes, and my opinion is formed. There's a reason why there needs to be a distinction between DAZ and 2DCG, or even DAZ and 3DGC from models done in, say, blender.

I get what you are saying.
But the problem is not really with the tool here.
The problem is the creators. I read a lot of comments describing them as a DEVELOPERS . That is a real insult to the real developers that are producing products that we all see and use or play. This dudes here are obviously the kind of shrubs that sat down one day and found out that - OMG there a lot of people that want those wacky absolutely amateur looking games with a lot of fucking. Here is some semi-decent soft done only for human body renders ... I am lazy and dont wanna work anything ... here is my chance to create some porn and wrap it around in a game (sort of ) shell
These dudes don't change or sculpt their characters because they cant. To be able to create some human body and face you need to know anatomy. You need to know and been able to paint or draw ... have some kind of education or at least a little bit of talent in that direction. They don't . And then you can see that we are talking about guys in their 20s ... no life or relationship experience ... some dumb cringy ... outrages ideas that are idiotic even for real porn ... and dialog is just retarded ... if someone speaks that in real life ... this will be the guy that everyone will beat constantly just for the fun of it
And that is why assets are the same ... faces are the same ... apparently if a render is just smooth that makes it > perfect
It does not matter if all the characters look like badly done wax dolls
Daz studio with morphing plugins is perfectly capable to produce unique results. Buuuut someone needs to be able to do it.
There is no "developer" at this point that is capable.

 

[yihman1]

The Crime Drama

In the early stages of this game you will hate it... hate it so god damn much... So you open up your porn game... And gunshots are being fired... Oh no someone was murdered. Now you play the detective. You go around searching for clues and trying to solve the mystery. Your partner says "I'm getting too old for this shit.". You spend a whole lot of time talking with the fellas about non-sex stuff with this big murder mystery hanging overhead the entire game. Occasionally some pussy will come along. It's a porn game after all. The murder may have even happened at a strip club. You will spend a lot of time in your detective office and look over videotape footage, and sort the clues. You will walk around and meet people and there will be red hearings. More people may even die before the game ends. Eventually you "Solve The Case"... However, that is just when the good sex shit started... You have been building and building and building that sex up... Sorry it's over. You have worked your way up from hand job, to blowjob, to sex, to anal, to threesome... Now when all the fun could be had in the world with all sorts of threesomes and meeting new chicks no more worries about that crime. The End.... Wait no don't end... but sorry that's it. Once that crime drama is over the game is over. Sorry buddy. Now you no longer hate this game you love it... but it's too late it's gone... forever. The End

 

[Baka_Energy_studios]

"red herrings"

 

[Proto Persona]

The Crime Drama

In the early stages of this game you will hate it... hate it so god damn much... So you open up your porn game... And gunshots are being fired... Oh no someone was murdered. Now you play the detective. You go around searching for clues and trying to solve the mystery. Your partner says "I'm getting too old for this shit.". You spend a whole lot of time talking with the fellas about non-sex stuff with this big murder mystery hanging overhead the entire game. Occasionally some pussy will come along. It's a porn game after all. The murder may have even happened at a strip club. You will spend a lot of time in your detective office and look over videotape footage, and sort the clues. You will walk around and meet people and there will be red hearings. More people may even die before the game ends. Eventually you "Solve The Case"... However, that is just when the good sex shit started... You have been building and building and building that sex up... Sorry it's over. You have worked your way up from hand job, to blowjob, to sex, to anal, to threesome... Now when all the fun could be had in the world with all sorts of threesomes and meeting new chicks no more worries about that crime. The End.... Wait no don't end... but sorry that's it. Once that crime drama is over the game is over. Sorry buddy. Now you no longer hate this game you love it... but it's too late it's gone... forever. The End

I feel like that's incredibly specific.

 

[thecardinal]

I feel like that's incredibly specific.

All he needs is a few grainy renders and he has a 0.000001 game ready to go.

 

[yihman1]

Empty Sandbox Syndrome

The game looks very promising. The artwork is beautiful. It really catches your eye making you want to play this game! It seems like this game is going to be great! There is an inventory, no items yet... okay... There is money! you can earn money... Fuck ya I'm going to be rich! There are no items to buy... or you can buy items but they have no use yet even worse... There are people! you can't talk to them yet... or they say like one thing to them. There are places to go! you can walk around and explore... no random events... You don't know where to go... You don't know what to do... So you wander around a bit in the empty sandbox. You can point and click on a few things. There is nothing to do... You can click a button and pass the time! that's something... Oh someone is in the shower nice! and you can't peak... fuck... Um... People go to sleep at night you can creep up to there door and look at them sleeping... oh that's it though no touching! no getting closer! Oh wow a stat system! you can earn points in something! that doesn't do anything yet... don't worry about your stats. You can still earn points though so that's something! Oh wow I never saw that door before it was hidden! fuck I need a key to open it damn... It looks like something really cool is behind that door I must find that key! Well that key has not been put into the game yet my friend... and you can wander all over every screen looking for it mwahahaha...

 

[Xalenda]

Empty Sandbox Syndrome

**NOTE** This is not a dig at yihman1 or anybody else, it's just a personal preference.

Okay, first? Love the trope idea, it's fantastic.
But second... wall of text ahoy.

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[yihman1]

Faithfullness is directly proportional to relationship length:

Most "Faithful People" are a "New Couple" and "Cheaters" tend to be an "Old Couple".

Imagine you are a male protagonist in a game:

Have you been with a woman for 20 years? You live together, have a couple of kids and all that jazz? Guess what... This story has a high chance she is going to be getting lots of other dick on the side, the mailman, the guy at the clothing store, that guy she met at the gym, the new pool boy... All of them will be sticking their dick in your woman. Even the pizza delivery guy gave her some extra sausage... Tough luck pal. If that is not the case then you are going to be fucking the babysitter, the secretary, and your daughter, and your daughter's best friend.

On the other hand...

If you are a part of a new relationship in-game things are very different. That girl that you just met at the bar last week and have been on exactly one date with will turn down a more handsome and wealthy new man, and will even take a bullet for you.

 

[yihman1]

Suntan Lotion

I have lost count of the number of games that at some point the male protagonist puts suntan lotion on a female character, and sometimes vice versa. It's almost always before having sex with this female as well. Male protagonist usually gets an "accidental boner". Some games have it where going further is a good plan others have it as a bad plan. Some girls you must grab that ass fondling her like a horny pervert when you are putting lotion on her or she will lose complete interest where others get offended if you gaze at her breasts for a moment in such scenes. It's a scene in many games and you never know which is the correct approach until you have tried both options. Sometimes it doesn't matter as well. This scene has been done so many times so many ways... You would think that this happens to guys all the time. Men apply suntan lotion to women more often than anything in adult games. The "suntan lotion scene" is probably as common as a "blowjob scene". I'm Frankly surprised "suntan lotion" is not a tag so many game have it.

In the universe of adult games the man who sells suntan lotion is wealthier than Bill Gates. Figure there are about 8 billion people on earth. Figure 4 billion women buy at least 1 bottle of lotion for $100 a month every month? It's a 4.8 Trillion dollar per year industry...

They don't have "Big oil" in the adult game world... They have "Big Suntan Lotion". Nations fight wars over suntan lotion... Men know damn well that suntan lotion practically always leads to sex only a matter of the time... It's worth fighting for. Suntan lotion is more likely to get you laid than a fancy car, good looks, or a charming personality.

The applying suntan lotion stuff is sometimes a segway to...

Massage

 

[ZedX]

Truth or Dare

It doesn't matter if they're barely 18 or in their 40's, when 3 or more people get together and start drinking, we know that a game of truth or dare is about to occur. The shy main girl doesn't want to take a dare. The slutty friend takes it all too far. And you just want to know which option gives you the most points because aside from a girl in a bra or a kiss nothing is going to happen.

 

[Burt Reynolds Mustache]

Truth or Dare

It doesn't matter if they're barely 18 or in their 40's, when 3 or more people get together and start drinking, we know that a game of truth or dare is about to occur. The shy main girl doesn't want to take a dare. The slutty friend takes it all too far. And you just want to know which option gives you the most points because aside from a girl in a bra or a kiss nothing is going to happen.

As someone who wrote this before it became a porn game trope, I don't know if I should be proud it had, or horrified.

 

[CboyC95]

The Retard in Lechertown

This girl is just dumb. Much more naive than you'd think a girl over the age of 10 should be. She's pretty, and an adult, sure - but she has the worst luck, she's somehow ended up in a city / town / dimension where everyone has no other goal in life than to molest, abuse and rape her. Do they mix fluoride with viagra into the water? Is the MC girl just so hot that supposedly functional human beings would go into a blind rape-rage in her presence? Nobody knows. But the girl is dumb enough to go along with all of it. There's no blackmail scheme too stupid to fool her, and no ridiculous bluff isn't rewarded with a reluctant sexual favor. She can't work without her boss molesting her, she can't go down the street without getting groped. She can't go to the doctor without getting fucked. This dumb cunt can't even buy a bag of apples without getting herself raped twice. Sometimes she gets raped by dogs, too. Any smart person would take precautions, or gtfo out of this crazy town. But she just isn't a smart girl, she's oblivious to it all until eventually she may start enjoying it and stops protesting. At that point she can become the Cockhungry Slut.

If she has a boyfriend, that will be pretty much the only man in her life who doesn't forcefully fuck her at every opportunity, i.e. every breathing second.

Examples: Annas Exciting Affection, Road Trip, Lily of the Valley, Daughter from Dating my Daughter, Katie's Corruption


The Cockhungry Slut

This girl once tasted the cock, and now she can't get enough of it. She is hungry for the cock. She is gagging for it. She'll walk around in fetish gear shopping groceries with a vibrator humming inside her, and offer a flash to any random passersby. She will suck your dick in an instant, if you merely ask. If you don't ask, she might consider your agape mouth an invitation to do so anyways. No matter where she goes, she is the sluttiest and cockhungriest thing in a huge radius. And if she doesn't get some love for longer than 5 minutes, she can just move into the bushes and do herself. Does she get raped? People try - but you can't rape that which always consents and begs for more.

This girl doesn't have a boyfriend, or he's completely oblivious to what she's up to. One guy simply can't have the stamina to do her the way she needs it. Dogs, horses, girls, family members, random homeless people, no one is safe from being made a little bit more relaxed by her. Maybe she's a demon spawn who gains magical power from each milked cock, or maybe she's just a horny slut. Either way, she loves the cock.

Examples: Coceter Chronicles, Girl Life, Good Girl Gone Bad, presumably everything with the word "Succubus" in the title

You know what other game has those tropes? Lida's Adventure. I have no idea what is the appeal in those games. It's like so many adult games with NTR.

 

[yihman1]

Cuckquean Unicorn Dream Girl

Such a female in real life has proven impossible for me to find, and I don't think such females exist in nature, and if they do exist they are extinct in the wild. I have never found one. If you find one please capture her (without hurting her) and bring her into the laboratory so that we can study her. The cuckquean unicorn dream girl fits all of the following characteristics:

1) She is cool with you, cool as fuck. I'm talking you can sit and chill with her for hours like a best friend, and she is not a bimbo and contributes to the conversation like she is your best friend.

2) She is not going to have any sort of large social media presence. She is not going to be sitting on Facebook all day or Instagram. She finds such things of little interest.

3) She is not a gold digger at all. She is not after you for your money, and if she were to be unemployed she would totally contribute around the house washing dishes, cleaning the house, washing your clothes, cooking your meals and so on. So she may or may not be dependent, and if she is a dependent she doesn't freeload and she contributes.

4) She will have 0 interest in the attention of other males regardless of physical attractiveness, wealth, or social standing. She is incapable of having good chemistry with any other male other than you.

5) She will love you no matter what you do so long as you want her love. You may have the option to avoid such a female, but it wouldn't make good sense to do so. She will not turn into some sort of crazy ex or stalker were you to end intimate relations with her and she will handle things like a mature adult.

6) She does not mind one single bit if you are with other women. In fact, she will encourage you to do so as much as a cuckold would encourage his partner to sleep with other men. She is perfectly happy to be in a half-open relationship with you, and she has a more the merrier mentality.

7) She will be open to threesomes (and more) with other girls, but not other males. She will convert other females to be like her, and treat you as she does and not be jealous of her "sister wifes". She will happily help you build your harem as big as you want it to grow.

8) Physically she will be of model attractiveness. She won't be a fatty or deformed, or ugly. She will be a hot enough girl to get any mans attention.