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

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Nobody Cares

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Every male who's not the MC is a vile, uncontrollable raging beast of a rapist scumbag pig who cannot keep it in his pants for nothing in this universe and will rape any girl that strikes their fancy at the first given opportunity. Like, the moment a girl turns around a corner and no one but a guy or a few guys are around, "YOU LOOK LIKE YOU COULD BE RAVAGED"

It's even a miracle society in H-games do not collapse somehow with their astronomically high rape rates
Good thing that MC was there to save her. And what is the one decent thing to do if not reward him with sex? After all nothing gets a woman hot and ready to go like being nearly raped and possibly killed.
 

monster king

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I like corruption genre/trope porn (whether in hentai manga or games) where a female protagonist slowly turns into a slut. What I don't like is that some corruption genre porn use drugs to push this corruption trope. I don't know how to describe it, but it essentially feels like taking the easy way in otherwise a "meaningful" progression.
 

Nobody Cares

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I like corruption genre/trope porn (whether in hentai manga or games) where a female protagonist slowly turns into a slut. What I don't like is that some corruption genre porn use drugs to push this corruption trope. I don't know how to describe it, but it essentially feels like taking the easy way in otherwise a "meaningful" progression.
I think the "hot" part of corruption is to bring out a part of a woman that was always there in the first place, have her give in to temptation (not my cup of tea but I can see the appeal). Using drugs would ruin it all, just like any other form of violence.
 

ProtoAlgo

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I don't know if this was added already or if it counts but here it goes.

Setting up the friend(s) with one of your LIs

To be frank, I find this action kinda stupid, it's sadly because most of the MC's sidekicks are written to be attention seeking idiots that are too afraid to go after a woman for themselves without your help. I hate this as it feels like you're giving up one of the girls as a consolation prize out of pity to a character that quite frankly has not earned that right and is not on her level.
 

sdibolcrif

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Girl is either a case of mistaken thugness (trying to be nice and accidentally fucking it up)
Have any examples by any chance? This sounds hilarious and adorable

the my-LI-is-my-bully.
What games do this? I'm admittedly a sucker for this trope and the only one I can think of is Old School Blazin'
 
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sinkind

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I figured out what else I REALLY don't want to see in games period. Plus it's a good way to bump up the tread.

Holiday specials.

I borderline HATE this shit. It contributes nothing to the story apart of some fuckery. Sometimes even breaking the immersion because dev's go like "for some reason every LI wants to give BJ to MC or maybe anal idk just consume". On top of that it actively damaging the game's schedule because of 1-3 months dev would spent on this nonsense while 0 hours will be spent at actual game progression.
I don't know who started it but this trend spreaded like plague, now most of ren'py games have or will have at least one. And for some reason I never saw any pushback or approval from the audience. Players are mostly like "ah, 3 month wasted for nothing. Cool, see ya next year". I doubt it that seeing girls in santa's outfits are as common kink, otherwise it would become separate genre by this point.

And it can be even worse. I swear I saw several games where dev made cristmas special every year, and other games where devs made specials for cristmas, halloween, st. patric's ay, etc. That's insane.

IMO specials can be made, but ONLY when the main story is finished and players want some more content to spend a bit more time with characters they like. Butif your game is barely started and you're already adding unnecessary bonuses I view it only as dragging time and milking money (if game is somewhat profitable already)

Rant over.
 

Nobody Cares

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I figured out what else I REALLY don't want to see in games period. Plus it's a good way to bump up the tread.

Holiday specials.

I borderline HATE this shit. It contributes nothing to the story apart of some fuckery. Sometimes even breaking the immersion because dev's go like "for some reason every LI wants to give BJ to MC or maybe anal idk just consume". On top of that it actively damaging the game's schedule because of 1-3 months dev would spent on this nonsense while 0 hours will be spent at actual game progression.
I don't know who started it but this trend spreaded like plague, now most of ren'py games have or will have at least one. And for some reason I never saw any pushback or approval from the audience. Players are mostly like "ah, 3 month wasted for nothing. Cool, see ya next year". I doubt it that seeing girls in santa's outfits are as common kink, otherwise it would become separate genre by this point.

And it can be even worse. I swear I saw several games where dev made cristmas special every year, and other games where devs made specials for cristmas, halloween, st. patric's ay, etc. That's insane.

IMO specials can be made, but ONLY when the main story is finished and players want some more content to spend a bit more time with characters they like. Butif your game is barely started and you're already adding unnecessary bonuses I view it only as dragging time and milking money (if game is somewhat profitable already)

Rant over.
I'm glad somebody finally voiced this problem. It's ridiculous that a game that has 4 updates in a year should waste 1 (or god forbid 2) on a rather boring and uninteresting gimmick.
 

GNVE

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I figured out what else I REALLY don't want to see in games period. Plus it's a good way to bump up the tread.

Holiday specials.

I borderline HATE this shit. It contributes nothing to the story apart of some fuckery. Sometimes even breaking the immersion because dev's go like "for some reason every LI wants to give BJ to MC or maybe anal idk just consume". On top of that it actively damaging the game's schedule because of 1-3 months dev would spent on this nonsense while 0 hours will be spent at actual game progression.
I don't know who started it but this trend spreaded like plague, now most of ren'py games have or will have at least one. And for some reason I never saw any pushback or approval from the audience. Players are mostly like "ah, 3 month wasted for nothing. Cool, see ya next year". I doubt it that seeing girls in santa's outfits are as common kink, otherwise it would become separate genre by this point.

And it can be even worse. I swear I saw several games where dev made cristmas special every year, and other games where devs made specials for cristmas, halloween, st. patric's ay, etc. That's insane.

IMO specials can be made, but ONLY when the main story is finished and players want some more content to spend a bit more time with characters they like. Butif your game is barely started and you're already adding unnecessary bonuses I view it only as dragging time and milking money (if game is somewhat profitable already)

Rant over.
From the dev I kinda get it. It's a pallet cleanser and can help you get away from the regular story if your stuck or something. Also when it fits the story it can work. (E.g. there is a clear timeline and when the characters enter the December month they celebrate Christmas for instance. Also I really want to do a carnival season. In the city I live now it's a lot of slutting (m/f) around.
 
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