Who is that target audience for transformation games?

[desmosome]

There are a lot of them out there and it seems to be popular with even a whole website dedicated to it. For me, the psychological state of the characters are pretty important in adult media. M>F transformation which is usually done involuntarily through supernatural means, makes it gay content to me and I cant enjoy it. I absolutely respect all fetishes and gender identity so please dont take offense.

I guess I just wanted to hear about the reason people like this tag. There would obviously be the gender fluent people that would enjoy it, but there is probably a bigger audience than just them. I guess it might have similar appeal as futa. As was explained to me, futa's appeal is that we like sexy females and we like dicks to fuck sexy females, so its the best of both worlds. I can see how that could be. But TF games that places a male psyche into a female body seems to not be quite the same.

 

[baneini]

It's hard to know how many game feature it just to justify being of TFgamessite.
It's somewhat convenient from game progression standpoint. A man tf'd into a female starts off with a clean slate that you can progressively corrupt, it's a shortcut in having an "adult" who never gave a blowjob when writing in 12y olds is inconvenient.
Now many people enjoy the idea of power games, it's a bit different to force a man to do something degrading vs a woman. It's not gay content per se, you don't have gay men fucking other gay men usually. It's like straight men fucking boys because they like the idea of dominating another man.

 

[W65]

I'm always sorta envious of folks who understand their own sex fetishes to the point that they can elucidate what they like about them to others. To my mind, the only real answer to a question like this one is "transformation fetishists." Anything beyond that is guesswork, unless it comes from the mouth of someone who has done serious introspection to decide just what it is about transformation that makes it their thing. It wouldn't, for me, be a selling point for a game; it's more of a part of the framing narrative. Then again, I mostly ignore story in porn games, so unless it was annoyingly intrusive (like some Quantum Vagina Leap thing where the gender transformed character is drawn/rendered as a guy but everyone treats her like a woman during sex--no I don't know how it would work either shut up) it probably wouldn't matter much to me one way or another.

Having said that, I was going to indulge in some wild guessing, but I realized I was mostly saying what had already been said in this thread. Given how short it has, I thought that it was probably too early in the day to be serving rehash.

 

[gunderson]

In my opinion, the most important thing to remember is that people can like fundamentally different stuff.

People tend to think everybody likes and dislikes the same stuff as them. Gay people think everybody secretly is attracted to people of the same sex as them and just hides it/lies about it for whatever reason. Heterosexual people think gay people can only think of sex in heterosexual terms (who's the man? Who's the woman?) People who like chocolate think people who don't like chocolate have only ever tried bad chocolate.

But transformation fetishists might not have an answer for why they like what they like that makes sense to you. And an answer that would make sense to you might just be a justification or a defensive lie.

So, honestly, I would suggest just letting people like whatever fictional porn they like. When it's shit that somehow causes real harm in the world, like only getting off to real life snuff porn where an actor dies, that's when they need to do some soul searching and maybe consider some therapy. But fantasies are fantasies, and people should be free to explore those without having to justify themselves to anybody.

 

[uradamus]

I can take it or leave it. It isn't a fetish I have, but it also isn't something that turns me off on it's own. I feel I'd tend to like it more in a comedy context than the more frequent corruption/domination setup that is most common. In the hands of a decent writer there can be a lot of funny and sexy stuff that goes on in a transformation scenario that I could see myself enjoying.

For the most part I like novelty and fresh takes on genres. Most fetishes can be enjoyable if handled properly by someone with some skill and a real passion for the content they are producing. It also seems the older I get the more tolerant my tastes become, probably because as time passes and I give more stuff a try, the greater my chances are of coming across higher quality examples of genres that used to turn me off in the past.

 

[GuyFreely]

There is probably some deep philosophical discussion to be had here on what defines a man or woman. There's a contingent of people who feel like they are in the wrong bodies in the real world right now. I can't really speak to any of that, but I don't know that it's a major factor when it comes to fiction anyway. While transformation stories aren't something I seek out, it doesn't really bother me that much, so I'll try to dig into my thoughts on it personally.

I think there's some overlap with people who can enjoy a female protagonist game. There's a degree to which you already put yourself in the shoes of the female character when you play a game like that. Having a transformation element in the game just makes it part of the story. I think the basic concept is what if a woman had the sex drive of a man. Some might argue there are already women with stronger sex drives than some men, but that's beside the point. The basic math is men = horny, women = sexy; man brain -> woman body = horny and sexy. Often the transformed character is put into situations against their will. This follows most female corruption games where things are done to the character, at least at first. There are some fish out of water and new experiences aspects to it as well.

I think at this point it helps to be able to separate clearly in your mind having a fictional character do things and doing them yourself. I don't think having a female character choosing to fuck a man in a game is gay. I don't think it's gay even if that female started as male. At that point in the game, the character is a woman to me and the character is also not myself. The end result is still a man and woman having sex regardless of the particulars. Now if the game felt the need to show the woman was still a man visually, by doing something like body swapping during the sex scene, that would start getting gay pretty quick. Why? Because now it's two men having sex. It was two men having sex before you might say, but visually, it wasn't.

I think if I suddenly found myself in a woman's body, I'd just be a 'lesbian.' Assuming my brain stays pretty much the same in the process, I just don't find men sexually attractive. Even if I knew that there would be some amount of pleasure to be had having sex with a man at that point, I don't think I could make the mental leap. At the same time, I'm perfectly happy to make a fictional character do it. The same way I could make a game character shoot an innocent person in the head while they beg for their life. I don't think that makes me some kind of psychopath and I don't think making a transformed dude perform sex acts make me gay.

Additional thought: I think a transformation game would put me off if we are constantly reminded that the transformed character really doesn't want to do these things. Though the same would be said of any corruption style game. If the woman doesn't become corrupted (begin to enjoy it) then it sucks all the fun out of it as well.

 

[khumak]

I generally don't like it but I can overlook it if all sex scenes are only with female NPCs. The game would have to sound especially good for me to overlook the transformation aspect though because normally I wouldn't bother trying it with that tag unless it was fairly clear that any transformations were entirely optional.

Futa is a hard no for me and anything that leads to MM is also a hard no.

Posession is a related topic that doesn't bother me but it also doesn't add anything for me. So for instance I enjoy A Spell for All despite the fact that there are optional transformation scenes in there, not because of them.

 

[obibobi]

Necro activated.

The OP thinks transformation between male to female is gay but I don't see it. I would consider it gay if it was a woman turned into a man.

The distinction would be biology, so I agree with them on futas, I find something off about them. My mind just goes that's not right.

As for the fetish perhaps it's a dominance thing. A male competitor is turned into a woman you can breed. That actually sounds pretty good.

 

[Fliptoynk]

In the past, you're most likely to see some boning at mid to late part of the story. The girls are pretty hard to court until you have given all the attention one needs.

Gender benders cuts the beating around the bush part. The ex-man is most likely curious of his err her new body, found a new pleasure, and there goes the fcking spree.

For me, x-change was the best example of that and gender benders are still appreciated by straight or alphabets.

Can't say the same thing for sissifyers though. I'm not judgin but ain't touchin that

 

[Joraell]

It's hard to know how many game feature it just to justify being of TFgamessite.

I don't know. To me this not sound as a good reason at all.
I didn't realize on TF gamesite nothing special to justify making game just because of this.

 

[Fliptoynk]

I wonder how the people in'ere would react about an h-game about a buffed stud that turns out to be a he-female?