The reason for playing games?

tanstaafl

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I just finished the latest update to Chasing Sunsets and had made the decision to actually quit progressing with the game the latest cliffhanger turned out the way I thought it was going to. Then I asked myself, why? Why would I quit this game, which to this point has been amazing? Especially since I play so many other horribly written, horribly translated, or just plain bad games all the way to completion. In the end it boils down to the reason I play specific games. I apparently have two reasons for playing these games.
  1. A good story
  2. Boobies
I also, apparently, don't mix these two reasons. Once a VN has been associated in my brain as "A good story" type game, it stays that way. Meaning, if the story becomes no longer good, I don't continue with it. No matter how good the renders are. On the flip side, if a game gets associated on the boobies side, it really doesn't matter what the hell is going on in the story, let's just get to the next sex scene. It's actually kind of frustrating. Anyone else have this issue?
 

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Boredom, lack of a significant other & horniness, boobies
But, also, finding games with interesting stories with juicy rewards :devilish:
 
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For me to play a game it needs to have a good story and good animations. I don't ask a lot. I mean it is porn so guess a story is a bit of a ask....
 
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Pretentious Goblin

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For me to even check the game out, it has to have a corruption and/or mind-control tag. Then I go read the description and look at the screenshots. If it looks interesting, I download it. From there, it's up to the writing to hook me in, in particular in regards to the aforementioned fetishes. The art is a nice bonus, if it has any at all. I play a text-only game that makes Degrees of Lewdity look sexy. I play a 10-hour sprite-sex NTR marathon. I play a game that would give AWAM blue balls, where 6 hours in, the corruption has gotten to the outrageous point where the MC tries wearing contacts instead of glasses.

The bottom line is that my interest is obtained and maintained by how my fetishes are handled. If I want quality art with no context, there is always rule34 and a variety of imageboards. But especially nowadays, that doesn't cut it. It just feels crass. I want that corruption, dammit, and unfortunately I'm pretty picky too.
 
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There are games that I start playing for promise of tits and ass, but I end up staying for the well-written story. In a few cases I completely forget about the tits and ass and get wrapped up in the story for hours, until a sex scene begins and I'm suddenly snapped back into the original reason I started playing in the first place. In fact, I've found I prefer if the tits and ass take a back seat to a well written story and/or refined gameplay. If I want tits and ass just for the sake of tits and ass, there's always Pornhub, with no poorly written story or janky gameplay to get in the way.
 
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Hi,
apparently you suffer the "Porn game/VN" Vs "Game/VN with porn" ptsd.

I would agree with you that a good story within something you look forward mainly as Porn may be not only boring but also - let's say - that it may cause you to lose your focus - which is dreadful in the situation which we are referring to.

On the other hand - so to speak - Porn presence within an excellent and enticing or even exhilarating Story may prove to be also an annoyance - like "hey stop screwing that redhead - I want to know what happened with the missing secret file we found in the previous chapter!"
(yeah - sure, a lot of people think that when they see porn...)

So, what to do about this traumatic experience?
should we stop watching Porn?
Stop playing games?
Start playing Porn?
Start watching Games?
Praise the Lord?
Open another Beer?
add an aspirin in our beer?

Roll 6 D&D D24 dices in order to decide what to do?

- special bonus: ask for a Gallery mod in order to avoid the story?
All of the above?

Edit: in fact in story driven Games - sex should be avoidable! :p


(the thing that annoys me the most is when the "skip" function has been rendered inactive!)

My reasons for playing games? - way too much free time and they are free to download.
 
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DawnCry

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Personally I need two things for a game to be interesting in my book:

-First is to have gameplay, I just find visual novels boring to be fair and I give 0 interest towards their fetishes or stuff like that, I started playing games like Rance, kamidori alchemy meister and even monster girl quest, the last one even if it was kind of VN like at least it had some combat and the sex was the combat.

-Second is that you know your public and stop with the "everything is optional", in monster girl quest no character asked me if I wanted the character to give me a footjob, handjob or whatever sex act it wanted, the monster girls just did it cause the game is about monster girls having their way with the MC, in Rance we are a rapist and sometimes good person that seems nothing compared to the rest of the world which is totally fucked up (especially in Rance VI and X).

Just have a soul, personally I do play more japanese games just cause of that, the "optional" of every sex scene is contrary to dynamic relationships or acts, and I get that you may find stuff you dislike, but the only question there is if it's enough for you to not play the game or it is, either way that's the answer.


If the game has those things I will play it, if not I may download a game here and there just for something casual then forget it.
 
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I play to edge. There I said it. I don't play these for just a story or to click a thingy. If that was my goal, I'd read a book, watch a movie, play a great computer game that doesn't focus on any adult content, or play some D&D etc... I want to explore some seductive unrealistic sexual situations with mind blowing kinks. I want to pretend I'm that character doing that and get that high over and over. To be honest when I have the time I will edge for about 6 hours on a great VN. This is why the VN must have great pacing and not get too cold by getting lost in the story and forgetting that it is an adult porn game. In the end, the release is awesome and I get to boost my testosterone. I highly recommend it.
 
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I want to jerk off and I want some context about it, ideally the context about it will be an enjoyable story.
 
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tanstaafl

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For me to even check the game out, it has to have a corruption and/or mind-control tag. Then I go read the description and look at the screenshots. If it looks interesting, I download it. From there, it's up to the writing to hook me in, in particular in regards to the aforementioned fetishes. The art is a nice bonus, if it has any at all. I play a text-only game that makes Degrees of Lewdity look sexy. I play a 10-hour sprite-sex NTR marathon. I play a game that would give AWAM blue balls, where 6 hours in, the corruption has gotten to the outrageous point where the MC tries wearing contacts instead of glasses.

The bottom line is that my interest is obtained and maintained by how my fetishes are handled. If I want quality art with no context, there is always rule34 and a variety of imageboards. But especially nowadays, that doesn't cut it. It just feels crass. I want that corruption, dammit, and unfortunately I'm pretty picky too.
This fits in my "boobies" reason for playing the game. I have several favorites that seem to be tailor made to my fetishes and the stories are basically non-existent in them. But, a good story goes beyond the sexual fetishes. A good story, no matter the medium, whether it is book, movie, or VN is always worth it, imo.
 

tanstaafl

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Hi,
apparently you suffer the "Porn game/VN" Vs "Game/VN with porn" ptsd.

I would agree with you that a good story within something you look forward mainly as Porn may be not only boring but also - let's say - that it may cause you to lose your focus - which is dreadful in the situation which we are referring to.

On the other hand - so to speak - Porn presence within an excellent and enticing or even exhilarating Story may prove to be also an annoyance - like "hey stop screwing that redhead - I want to know what happened with the missing secret file we found in the previous chapter!"
(yeah - sure, a lot of people think that when they see porn...)

So, what to do about this traumatic experience?
should we stop watching Porn?
Stop playing games?
Start playing Porn?
Start watching Games?
Praise the Lord?
Open another Beer?
add an aspirin in our beer?

Roll 6 D&D D24 dices in order to decide what to do?

- special bonus: ask for a Gallery mod in order to avoid the story?
All of the above?

Edit: in fact in story driven Games - sex should be avoidable! :p


(the thing that annoys me the most is when the "skip" function has been rendered inactive!)

My reasons for playing games? - way too much free time and they are free to download.
lol, I love this response. That said I do like the porn in my games, but I have to admit, I have found myself annoyed when a sex scene started mid-cliff hanger or reveal and I'm like -> Open menu -> allow skipping -> hold ctrl -> continue story.
 

tanstaafl

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Everything else besides story and game play you can find at a porn site.
So I play games for the game play and story.
I can't see why anyone would play a game if they aren't interested in those two aspects.
Control. I would guess that people play these due to the control aspect that you don't get on a porn site.
 
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I also, apparently, don't mix these two reasons. Once a VN has been associated in my brain as "A good story" type game, it stays that way. Meaning, if the story becomes no longer good, I don't continue with it. No matter how good the renders are. On the flip side, if a game gets associated on the boobies side, it really doesn't matter what the hell is going on in the story, let's just get to the next sex scene. It's actually kind of frustrating. Anyone else have this issue?
Well, probably everyone have it.

You separate the two, when in fact they are the same. You continue to play a game as long as it correspond to the reason why you decided to follow it. Even someone that is strongly appealed to games with a story, sometimes play a game only because of its lewd content ; and this not necessarily for fapping purpose. This lewd have something entertaining, and therefore the story become less important because the game already fulfills its function (entertainment) without it.

A story can interest you because of some mystery and, once resolved, why continue ? Image a Thriller where you know the culprit mid story. Unless it's some kind of Columbo, where the interest come from the process to confront the culprit, or at the opposite the process to avoid being caught, the rest of the story have no interest. It also happen that an author is finally not an as good writer as you initially thought. Look at the example you gave, and imagine that the outcome of the cliffhanger is in fact absolutely nothing. At first you thought that the author knew how to manage suspense, and you discover that he just write a bunch of words without further intent behind them. Deceiving, no reason to continue following this non-sense.
But its more difficult to stop fulfilling the said function when it come purely from the lewd parts of the content. The girls will still be the same, and there's no reason for the game to suddenly stop having lewd and to focus on the story. Therefore, you'll never encounter a moment when the game will stop to be interesting for you, what mean no reason to stop following it.
 
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tanstaafl

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But its more difficult to stop fulfilling the said function when it come purely from the lewd parts of the content. The girls will still be the same, and there's no reason for the game to suddenly stop having lewd and to focus on the story. Therefore, you'll never encounter a moment when the game will stop to be interesting for you, what mean no reason to stop following it.
Probably a good way to look at it. Makes sense to the cognitive dissonance in my brain, lol.
 

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2 & Boredom at the start. I've moved on from that now, I finally resolved it was time to get my shit together to be brutally honest. The few I do play are they have a good storyline. I play Being a DIK , WVM & Halfway House. I don't play DMD anymore.