Preferences for Visual Novel Protaganist

Doctor Depravity

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I wanted to know what people's preferences are, if any, about the protagonist of a visual novel.

- Appearance : Do you prefer a guy? A girl? A futa (Girl with dick)?

- Charisma/personality: Wimpy guy that gets lucky? Charismatic guy that attracts all? A girl that lets things happen? A girl that takes charge?

I'm making a visual novel, and I have a few ideas and I wanted to know what people prefer.
 

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generally, i play male mc VNs/games. the only kind i dislike is wimpy guy gets cucked, other than that im pretty much down for anything :p
but if it's a female mc, i would prefer one who takes charge.
 
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A dominant lesbian, maybe with martial arts, magic or super powers with the desire to turn straight milfs (may include her mother) lesbian. Ideally in a steampunk or cyberpunk setting. Her physical prowess may be visible, but not in exaggerated way, some muscles are fine, but no steroids please and still a lot of curves. Dress the protagonist in black leathers, while her milf harem dresses more in a silk and lace style. So far, my perfect protagonist.

In more general terms:

I favor lesbian games, therefore I favor female protagonists. I prefer games, where you play as the dominant woman, though, this is not something I'd insist on. To be credibly dominant, she should be strong, but more in the fantasy warrior way, not in the real world bodybuilder way. Her outfits should mostly emphasize her dominance, lingerie is for the other milfs and girls. I'd set her apparent age in the early or middle twenties though she might actually be much older (if she is some sort of goddess or Chosen one) or younger, but with older memories (if she is a cyborg or golem).

If you want to bring straight sex into the game, forget the paragraph above. No straight sex for female protagonists please! Then make the protagonist a man - meaning a grown man deserving that name. NO teenage virgins and NO creepy grandpas! If the game is set in fantasy or sci-fi world, powerful antiheroes might work well. If the the game is a mom-son game, make the protagonist what I would call an "alpha villain", a man who can have any woman and therefore seeks the ultimate taboo. Warlords and ruthless business men work well, but my favorite would be a mad plastic surgeon eager to turn his mother into the perfect fuck doll.
 
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Sulring Durgul

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No preferences regarding gender or looks (though I'm not a fan of footlong dicks or melon-sized boobs), but my immediate turn-off is a completely stupid, weak as a lamb or immature pervy teenager MC.
In other words, I prefer the character I play to be an adult with at least average social skills.
 

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The protagonist I DON'T want to play:

"18yo virgin whose father just died and he's living with mum and sister(s), finding magical cock that allows him to mind control everyone, accidentally peeking while mum/sis are showering, sleep raping them"...
 

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The protagonist I DON'T want to play:

"18yo virgin whose father just died and he's living with mum and sister(s), finding magical cock that allows him to mind control everyone, accidentally peeking while mum/sis are showering, sleep raping them"...
I think there should be a tag that identifies this type of main protagonist. It would be the most used tag on f95zone. :ROFLMAO:
 
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joecoe

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I wanted to know what people's preferences are, if any, about the protagonist of a visual novel.

- Appearance : Do you prefer a guy? A girl? A futa (Girl with dick)?

- Charisma/personality: Wimpy guy that gets lucky? Charismatic guy that attracts all? A girl that lets things happen? A girl that takes charge?

I'm making a visual novel, and I have a few ideas and I wanted to know what people prefer.
As the main protagonist, I prefer a cis straight white male who doesn't like incest. Most members of f95zone will agree with that part involving a cis straight white man, but they will have the opposite view of incest.

In terms of personality I prefer protagonist who is not a total whimp, but also not a total dickhead.
 
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I prefer a grown-up adult male MC with a career of his own (i.e. not a "just turned" 18 y/o virgin in high school).

In normal "few to no kink" stories:

- Career could be background unrelated to story events (e.g. Writer in Pine Falls, retired Bitcoin trader in Acting Lessons) or closely tied-in to the story beats (e.g. Musician in Melody and Become a Rock Star, detective in Depraved Awakenings).
- If it's a game where money needs to be grinded, then career is, IMO, even more important. (i.e. not earning 10 bucks here and there delivering pizza or working a tanning salon.) Good examples would be MMA fighter fighting for Prize Money in Live to Fight and the Mafia contracts in The DeLuca Family.

If the story is to contain fetishes like Blackmail, Corruption, Mind break, humiliation etc:

I prefer the MC to be an out-and-out villain. Unlike Japanese and Russian authors, western authors seem to really struggle with this and either (a) Make the MC female and a victim rather than a perp, or (b) keep making Netorare rather than Netori, or (c) can't help but try to make the MC the good guy regardless of countless douchey actions. All this does is make the MC a hypocritical self-justifying whiny wanker (Let's face it y'all, if you're blackmailing your sister or found a ring/ancient crystal/artifact/drug/power and use it on your mom, your MC ain't a good guy). Evil MCs are fine and evil vs evil make for good stories as movies like The Godfather and shows like Breaking Bad attest.
 

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A dominant good looking male MC who for as much as possible takes no shit and has a streak of cruelty or callousness about him. A type that will get revenge if you wrong him. I prefer him to be either well off or to have done something that requires him no longer working, or if he works it's something crime related.

For female MC's I prefer choice not to be taken away. I hate when you just get groped and raped randomly no matter what you do. Fuck that.
 

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A dominant good looking male MC who for as much as possible takes no shit and has a streak of cruelty or callousness about him. A type that will get revenge if you wrong him. I prefer him to be either well off or to have done something that requires him no longer working, or if he works it's something crime related.

For female MC's I prefer choice not to be taken away. I hate when you just get groped and raped randomly no matter what you do. Fuck that.
When I said "A girl that lets things happen" I didn't mean a girl who gets groped or raped no matter what you do, but rather a girl with low self control and high depravity that likes to let things happen, meaning she chooses to engage and enjoys it etc. I agree with you, get forced no matter what you do is dumb, and honestly boring
 

Doctor Depravity

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The protagonist I DON'T want to play:

"18yo virgin whose father just died and he's living with mum and sister(s), finding magical cock that allows him to mind control everyone, accidentally peeking while mum/sis are showering, sleep raping them"...
Lmao you described Dreams of Desire to a T
 

Doctor Depravity

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Okay guys, I love all the viewpoints, really helped me out so thank you very much :)

I've decided to go with:

- Male protagonist who is in his 20s.

- Not a wimpy loser with juvenile social skills but neither a superman kinda guy that can never lose, but rather something in between, average guy, and a bit of an underdog who grows/matures over the course of the story

- As for physical proportions, he will definitely have an average penis because I want it to be about the skill/intensity and intuitiveness of the people involved that makes the scenes sexy/erotic, rather than the stupid nonsense of big dick = awesome sex and the women will be relatively believable, rather than inhumane proportions with clown tits and ass and no room internal organs kinda waist BS

- I've decided on a college setting because I think it will allow me to introduce a wide variety of characters and have it seem organic/believable and not forced and also I think it'd be fun
 
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joecoe

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The protagonist I DON'T want to play:

"18yo virgin whose father just died and he's living with mum and sister(s), finding magical cock that allows him to mind control everyone, accidentally peeking while mum/sis are showering, sleep raping them"...
By the way, I'm working on a visual novel in which the main protagonist's parents are alive. However, they will not play any significant role. And there will be no incest, monster cock, or huge boobs.
There will be some supernatural elements in the game, but not mind control spells like "show me your breasts and suck my dick". :)
 
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anne O'nymous

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A MC that feat with the story he's in.
I'm tired of looser MC that is seen like a champ by every single girl he cross. If he's a looser, then make him struggle to get the girls, and if he's a champ, make him act, talk and think like one.
 

polywog

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POV is becoming more and more popular. It's easier for a player to relate to the character when they can't see the MC's face.
First person puts you in the driver's seat, rather than watching some random dude.
 

hameleona

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I must say, male MC is my jam. Tho the tradition of the MC to be a total looser and be dominated left and right is quite boring (I blame BB for it). Like, ok, for a certain type of game, where you blackmail and drug the people around you in to submission it makes certain sense, but very few games nowadays keep with that theme.
The only time I had real fun playing the looser was in Man of the house. I love it, when devs leave room for ambiguity about who is working whom in a game. As a writer I know that's a risk to take and does require above average skills to pull off, but still...
Give me more protagonists that are not wimps. That stand up for themselves and don't let just anyone treat them like shit.
 

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Rather than something I specifically want to play, there are few things I'm really getting bored of:

- Loser / creep MC that has to remind the player about the fact that he is loser and creep every damn scene.
- Horny idiot whose inner monologue mostly consists of mentally wanking at every female character they interact with.
 

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Hmm...
I usually like to play VNs where the MC is a guy, and whether they're someone who gets lucky or is charismatic from the get-go doesn't really affect me. I'm also alright if the character is a good looking, teen to 20-something year old who's loving and methodical in all he does, or even if it's some random dude who only thinks with his dick (think of any Miel/Norn game. Like that.) The only thing that really turns me off with an MC, though, is how they look and how they act after fucking someone. I'm okay if the character looks a bit like a loser, a dork, a body builder, or anything in between, but some games seems to design their characters to particularly push the "douchebag" like really hard like F.I.L.F., where the character has a certain look that just screams "douche" and sometimes the character's ego just seems through the roof.

Then again, that's mainly just me. You can ignore the whole F.I.L.F. bitching from me if you want to.
 

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The protagonist I DON'T want to play:

"18yo virgin whose father just died and he's living with mum and sister(s), finding magical cock that allows him to mind control everyone, accidentally peeking while mum/sis are showering, sleep raping them"...
Well then you, my friend, need to stop playing erotic games because you clearly don't know what it's all about!

Next you're going to tell me you don't like sneaking into everyone's room in the middle of the night and touching your meat stick to their bums!

You sad philistine!
 

vir_cotto

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Well then you, my friend, need to stop playing erotic games because you clearly don't know what it's all about!

Next you're going to tell me you don't like sneaking into everyone's room in the middle of the night and touching your meat stick to their bums!

You sad philistine!
Yeah, I don't like that. Feel free to shoot me.