What do you want to see in games ?

[FRhys]

There are already a couple of good japanese ones, Demonion 1-2, Venus Blood Abyss, some Softhouse Chara games, maybe some others.

Never heard of those so I checked out some videos. They are in the area but not quite Dungeon Keeper and not quite what I'm looking for thematically. But thanks. Good to know they are out there.

The reason I am asking is because I am working on a project that is a little bit tricky.
There has never been a system where you socially interact with NPCs in a procedural way that has been that good.
I am looking at games like Rai 7 and even with its potential for a space opera in a strategy game,a Crusader Kings in Space.
The interactions with the NPCs are so basic that it has no charm.
So that's why I am looking for good mechanics for Dating Sims.

But to give you an idea how my game works. You have Mafia/Werewolf style faction game or Space Station 13, where there is a Cult against the Good Mages in a school setting, think Bible Black. Cult causes (sexual)corruption in the students and you have to investigate who are the members of the cult are and protect the students from being corrupted and recruited into the cult. The students that are recruited to either faction and magically initiated can also get unique magical power for that character that can be used on a targets in a time slot, and you gain mana through sex, which might make them vulnerable to cult corruption abilities which is their own magic powers, so there is a bit of strategy going on on when you attack and defend and against who.

The problem is the Game is meant to be Replayable so I can't use normal written scripts that much.
I am also hoping for a normal Dating Sim style relationship building mechanics with the characters until they get "Recruited", and even convert existing Cult members through that relationships in a kind of love conquers all style thing.

Procedural social interaction is incredibly complex. There's a reason why characters in The Sims interact with an unintelligible language, floaty icons, and exaggerated motions: because its hard to make nuanced procedure social interactions. Conveying context and intent "dynamically" without making your character make questionable statements or idiotic decisions is still the realm of heavy-duty AI research. Unless you want to see your workload increased dramatically, you might need a mix of pre-made social interactions (with some variance for stats, decisions, and relationship status) and more abstracted interactions that don't rely on complex exchanges (more "Sims"-like).

That's just my take, though.

 

[socksguy]

One of my pet peeves or major gripes with games comes down to something I want to see - clothed sex.

I don't mean necessarily leaving everything on and just dropping pants or pulling up a skirt (though that's fun, too) - I mean that we are often teased in games with adorable outfits then suddenly when it comes to sex, both characters are suddenly nude.

Leave the stockings on. Leave the socks on. Arm warmers. Collar. Kitty ears. Tail plug. LEAVE THAT STUFF ON DURING SEX, lol... I'm bored by just seeing two completely nude bodies tangled together. Creating games allows us to explore beyond the mundane. Let's take advantage of it, shall we?

 

[Volta]

One of my pet peeves or major gripes with games comes down to something I want to see - clothed sex.

I don't mean necessarily leaving everything on and just dropping pants or pulling up a skirt (though that's fun, too) - I mean that we are often teased in games with adorable outfits then suddenly when it comes to sex, both characters are suddenly nude.

Leave the stockings on. Leave the socks on. Arm warmers. Collar. Kitty ears. Tail plug. LEAVE THAT STUFF ON DURING SEX, lol... I'm bored by just seeing two completely nude bodies tangled together. Creating games allows us to explore beyond the mundane. Let's take advantage of it, shall we?

Just saying but in daz clothes are harder than it seems, they collide with everything, which looks really bad, lots of clipping issues, lots of screwy peek through, bad collisions with the body(pokey nipples become armour piercing nipples, not even joking, they poke through medieval armour). As such when you put a body into a sex pose sometimes you have to turn pose limitations (designed to keep joint angles realistic) off so you can exceed them by 10-20% or w/e, clothes are often not designed for these extreme angles so the auto follow function that normally lets clothes conform to a moving body doesn't always work as you'd expect.

Dforce helps a lot, at least until the simulated surface is squashed between two non deforming surfaces, say two bodies in a sex pose, then the simulation sometimes decides to shit a gibbon and proceed to gibber in Swahili for an hour, honestly if you've not seen what happens when dforce goes wrong it's horrific and hilarious in equal measure, i've had a simple sweater(dforce) argue with a scarf (non-dforce) and end up with an internal structure like an aero bar, no joke, clothes are tough at times, naked is easy.

Still would love to see more semi-clothed sex, it's far more real to look at, it's more involving and just as hot as completely naked.

 

[Morgan42]

One thing I would want to see more of is sharing the girls.

I'm NOT talking about NTR, or doing this with the main love interests.

But I like the idea of becoming the Lord of Women and helping your friends get laid by roping the women in and then getting them to 3-some or sleep with your friend.

 

[tanstaafl]

One of my pet peeves or major gripes with games comes down to something I want to see - clothed sex.

I don't mean necessarily leaving everything on and just dropping pants or pulling up a skirt (though that's fun, too) - I mean that we are often teased in games with adorable outfits then suddenly when it comes to sex, both characters are suddenly nude.

Leave the stockings on. Leave the socks on. Arm warmers. Collar. Kitty ears. Tail plug. LEAVE THAT STUFF ON DURING SEX, lol... I'm bored by just seeing two completely nude bodies tangled together. Creating games allows us to explore beyond the mundane. Let's take advantage of it, shall we?

I've always found this somewhat hilarious, so it hasn't been a problem for me for the most part. An MC and a girl are walking in the park (you know the one) and decide, hey, let's walk off the path 3 feet and hide behind a tree. Do they lift a skirt? Just drop the pants a little bit for a quickie? Nope. Fully nude while in the background people are jogging. It's just funny to me. But I agree, some realism in how people would actually act during public or risky sex would be sexy.

 

[MrSanzpants]

Ignoring the Daz models all looking pretty much the same, I get tired of ALL the characters in a game having the same absurdly large breasts. I want a little more realistic variety; small tits, nipples that don't point to the sky, big areolas, more shape variation than 'spherical'. I's like a little more range in pubic hair than either 'none' or a 'well trimmed patch'. Maybe an uncircumcised penis, or uncommonly large labia. Porno-Barbie is played out, I want more games with recognizable characters like Light Of My Life.
More queer content, and fewer male power-fantasies. I can overlook shitty grammar/translations if I'm given anything interesting to focus on.

 

[Kamashi]

I haven't yet seen a 3D game that has really sold me. Illusion games look nice but they lack gameplay.

Have you try XStoryPlayer or Virt-A-Mate ? MyFav

 

[FormerlyknownasOlheden]

A game that combines all the fetishes of Parental Love, Midlife Crisis and Fetish Collector with the story writing and rendering skills of Light of my Life and the comedy of Power Vacuum. Then I can die a happy man or atleast find a different hobby.

 

[chujkus]

I would like a game with male MC who's not the male equivalent of a basic bitch. I want the male MCs to have more personality and to be more assertive and confident especially when it comes to women.
Something like:
Don't be a wimp when this bitch is using/mistreating you. Leave her to make her see what she's losing and make her crawl back to you.
Inb4 the male MCs are blank so you can insert yourself into them.
Well, I guess that's true but it's hard to insert myself to someone who does things I would never do.

 

[Endrju]

Like mentioned above size of a dick, healthy balance between fucking and good story but also romance like actual romance were characters don't forget about intimacy they shared night before. I personally hate when writing doesn't acknowledge or change anything between lovers after the deed.
Sex is treated like this thing, cold and repeatable necessity. I want more emotions, I want it to feel special and NO grinding for it for months isn't what I mean
Mostly though I wish devs would stop ignoring the rules they create themselves for their stories\world

 

[kzaazul]

First, a disclaimer: I've played mostly HTML and RPGM games. 3DCG is something I have interest in experiencing, but they very rarely catch my attention.

So, for HTML games, I take the example of Whoremaker: it's a sissification/corruption game, but your MC has straight sex early on and other sexual situations are hinted. That's good, because it's a porn game, so I don't think all porn content should take long to achieve.The Company, likewise, offers characters who need very little serums to succumb to your charms, so you can have slow corruption and quick gratification in the same game and in different enough manners or with different enough characters that it doesn't make the game boringly easy nor a long chore to get to any sex at all.

For RPGM games, I think making sex front and center in the gameplay is a must (unless your game is more "a game with sex" and less a porn game, if you know that I mean). It's weird that sex is a non-interactive punishment for losing a fight, for example, because you're playing some RPGM game for the sex. It should be a reward, or even an integral part of the game. At least, let sex be an alternative solution to combat.

If it's a dating sim, I guess we could apply the same idea I had for the HTML games: have some characters be readily available for sex once, but not always, so you can pursue a relationship with them or others, and still have sexual encounters troughout. Apostle comes to mind when I think of this.

 

[SpoiledPrince]

A good story and character development. Since I'm a great fan of corruption, that would mean for the character to be torn between difficult choices that lead to moral damage that slowly taint their soul, not just sex.
In fact, I'd like to see a sex-positive corruption game where intercourse isn't treated as something dirty, but a bunch of MC's despicable actions (done to get it, or simply thive in the world) are.

I can't do it for my own game because of the setting, (historical/medieval, where almost anything is a sin) but I'd love to play something like that.

 

[JuniorAT]

Honestly I just wanna see all my fetishes and fantasies represented to their full extent. Gloryhole sex, dark alley/public sex, office lady, domination, cheating, paid sex, bathroom sex, I want to see them all.

 

[masterwolf25]

Honestly I just wanna see all my fetishes and fantasies represented to their full extent. Gloryhole sex, dark alley/public sex, office lady, domination, cheating, paid sex, bathroom sex, I want to see them all.

Exactly this, minus the public sex and cheating.

 

[cocoloth]

Imma be honest I would just love to see a Urban Demons 2?

If thats way to far out the park then I guess I would like to see a game where the MC is a monster but kind. So he has to hide and sneak around. Slowly corrupt the girls into having sex with him but they end up loving him. There could be alot of vourism and stealth game play and if people want a more punishing game you as the player would have to choose when to reveal yourself and could get a game over from this. Maybe even include a upgrade system like in the game Simply Mindy. Where you get a better start based on what achievements or endings you have unlocked.

 

[Stretta]

Futa. Not shemales, not crossdressers, not sissies. Actual futas.
Also a black guy MC would be nice to see for once. 8 billion games with generic, skinny white boys with undercuts trying to knock up their entire family tree and I've seen like 2 games with a black MC.

 

[Walnutt]

Honestly, more than anything I just want more dialogue that feels real.

MC: "Why go home when I'm so fun?"

Girl: "OMG IM BLUSHING YOU'RE SO CUTE" *proceeds to suck dick*

I know it's a porn genre but come on man. 90% of these games feel like the writer has never actually interacted with a girl.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

Geeky characters. And I don't just mean someone who wears glasses and plays vidya every now and then. I mean shut-in, poor hygiene, socially-awkward, no sense of fashion, out-of-shape etc. Either a male or female MC like that would be nice in a more sandboxy type of game with lots of options of exhibitionism, humiliation and other naughty non-contact stuff.

 

[kzaazul]

I've been trying to play 3DCG games, but they rarely "click" with me. That got me thinking about what attracts me to a game in the first place.

I will repeat myself a bit: I think it's a good idea to give players a "sample" of the experience the dev wants you to have early on, as a hook. If it's porn, have an early sex scene, even if the MC is not involved. In Memoirs of a Battle Brothel, you have an interactive sex scenee between two characters you won't play as (at least, not when the game actually begins). That's a good way to have people hooked up. The same applies if you want people to play because of your combat system, for example.

Another good thing is to give the player a feeling of agency early on. I think having to read a ton of text without giving an input as the game begins really boring.

 

[Crimson Delight Games]

Would like to see more survival elements in games. Especially for situations like camping or getting lost in the woods. Nothing too grindy, just some extra mechanics that cover basic human needs, but factored into the gameplay somehow.