What do you consider the most anticlimactic tropes in porn games?

[ThatGuy_Shaggy]

Pretty much everything you wrote is wrong.

Incest itself is not a trope, per se, it is just incest, and there are still many more games without it than with it, they just are not the ones people ask to be shared/pirated on F95. Purely for the purpose of illustrating the point, imagine a cissification VN/game where the grandfather is cissifying the grandson. It is certainly incest, and would include other popular themes/tags of many games including cissification, corruption, and male protag, but would it be a trope? Of course not. Incest in itself is NOT a trope. Mom-Son incest is kind of a stereotype, but we can blame Oedipus for that, and of course Freud for first pointing out it's stereotypical qualities.

To understand the ridiculousness and laziness of the shower scene, you have to actually think. What is the natural reaction to unexpectedly seeing a penis you didn't want to? How many sporting events where a streaker rushes across the field, sometimes televised to millions, end up with the streaker being inundated with proposals do you think? How many flashers get laid?

No, the natural reaction to seeing a penis outside of an already sexualized context is usually either laughter or revulsion. Don't believe me, go out into the street, walk up to a girl that isn't remotely interested in you and whip it out. Once you are released from the justice system, tell us how it went. Do you think there was any, however remote, spark of lust in her eyes?

If seeing a penis were in any way 'corrupting', to the extent of changing ones sexual beliefs and taboos, then every single guy who ever shared a communal shower or changing room in school sports would be gay or bi, right? Butt-fucked endlessly by all those poor corrupted humans who couldn't resist the corruption of seeing a dick they were not interested in. It is a stupid, stupid nonsense, and people *only* accept it for a moment because it is a trope. That is the laziness.

how bro declare everything I said was wrong, but then only focus on one specific situational example...

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

This thread has taken a turn for the reddit...

Myself i've heard "Trope" used in both a pejorative and neutral sense, it depended on the context.

 

[alibaba34]

1) A lesbian woman turned straight.

2) A lesbian encounter turning into an MMF threesome:

3) Harem building with inverted difficulty. First the MC blackmails his mother, than his sister joins in, then the MC has his first rather innocent romance with a girl he met at school. This is maybe less of a boner killer but more of a flaw in game design. Typically a game's difficulty should increase and not decrease. For a porn game this would mean, that it's odd that a character breaks an absolute taboo before having a completely normal and socially accepted relationship.

4)Thugs try to rape a female hero ... and succeed. I admit, I have a rather conservative outlook, when it comes to fantasy heroes. When a woman in shining armor is surrounded by a gang of thugs laughing dirtily, I expect her to kill them quickly and as painlessly (if her armor is golden or silver) or painfully (if her armor is black) as possible. No fear or hesitation in her eyes, no doubt who will win, just a quick show of her martial or magical prowess. The worst she has to expect is cleaning armor and weapons afterwards. I don't expect and don't want the thugs to pull the armor from her body and fuck her, especially, if she is the main character of a game.

What are your main boner killers and anticlimaxes?

I don't particularly care about 1 and 2. But 3 is my biggest turn off. It makes the proceedings boring as fuck. I mean what is even in there in the story at that point. Unfortunately it is a massively popular trope in the harem games here.

My opinion on 4 depends on what happens next. I kind of like 4 because it puts the MC in a horrific situation from where they have to grow and transform. If they realise they are actually pretty underpowered and now have to resort to using sluttery and cunning in order to overcome their challenge, then that would be awesome. If they have a sexual awakening, that would be fine too. But many games just keep piling misery on the MC with no growth and only despair. Then this is the same as 3 but inverted. It becomes boring as well.

 

[Deleted member 752977]

Primarily in games with themes around incest, the trope of two sisters with one being bitchy and the other being innocent is overused at this point.

 

[RogueKnightUK]

Myself i've heard "Trope" used in both a pejorative and neutral sense, it depended on the context.

That's quite right. Tropes can be used as shortcuts, ways to give a well-known understanding very quickly, much as other stereotypes can. That's one reason why TV uses them so heavily. With limited airtime per episode, and with a story needing to keep a certain pace, the use of tropes can be a quick way to outline a character or situation. When it is something that is fine being a little generic, having the corners cut, then that's at worst neutral, and sometimes even a good thing.

But a trope is always a bit generic, always a shortcut to actually building out that character or situation better, and with more originality. Thus the perjorative nature of the word too.

What it comes down to then is about where the compromises are made, and which corners are cut, for what benefit or trade-off.

 

[Obiyo]

Helpless female characters who suddenly go out of character with a single magic word, alongside certain actions that lack consequences.

 

[SpoiledPrince]

Harems. I can take hetero, but the pussy-hoarding games make me sick and bored. Mc-s become a cult leader with Diogenes Syndrome. They just don't now when to dispose of characters that bring nothing but a vagina to the table. They add nothing but a change of breast size, hair color or race, but the selfish MC won't share his toys with other kids. They keep piling women up, literally stacking their bodies on a matress until they form a meat mountain.
Giant dick or not, there's no way the moron would be able to keep all of them sexually and emotionally satisfied, and when people aren't satisfied, they sulk and cheat. A good change would be for them to netorare the hypercocked macho Gary-Stu.
Imagine it, my boy... if being cucked by a woman can undo a man, getting cheated on by 5 or 10 you thought you owned in mind and soul must cause a degree of suffering and ego destruction that could only be described as sublime.

Forget about the game itself: that's a game thread I would visit only to read the comments and fap to the bitter laments.


Sissification. You can like men without becoming a woman. Seriously. It's called "gay", not "trans". You can be the subbiest sub of WorthlessBitchland and still NOT want to grow breasts or get your genitals mutilated. Dressing like a girl could just have a humilliation component to it, not an ardent need to become a mindless three-holed castrato in drag, especially if you have never manifested such desires before.

 

[AlfredBundy4]

So much, too many to list here.

If I had to pick one it would be the MC that is infallible. Essentially a Gary Stu character where every woman you meet wants to fuck you, the one that is immediately hostile is only hostile because she can't come with how bad she subconsciously wants to fuck you, etc.
"Hey, MC, meet my friends Tammy and Sally..."
And then Tammy and Sally immediately want your dick, lol.

The other males that are just your best pal and would never act in their own personal interests.
"Who me? MC, you know I would never fuck Tammy OR Sally until I knew you didn't want to! That's what bros are for!"

Like lolwut?!

I'm just a fan of good stories as much as porn so a bad story irks me. A good story tends to have some struggle and/or a chance to lose. Imagine any book or movie you love where the protagonist had zero threat, just walked around in GTA Chest mode the entire time. It would suck. It does suck. Sadly, most Adult VNs follow this pattern.