- Mar 5, 2020
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I just don't get it. I see those 5 or 4 stars games and I just don't understand how most users who play them give such a high rating.
One of the most popular game format in these forums is the visual novel. Then you play these games and the story sucks, the characters suck, and the whole writing sucks overall. "But it's porn, who cares about the story?" That's the kind response you get. Because it's a fucking visual novel, you dumbasses (I'm just trying to give some expression to the argument, I'm not that passionate about this issue), and if the story doesn't have any importance then a more suitable game format should be chosen. Also, if the story doesn't matter, why the fuck would the devs bother writing it? Most of the times it's just padding the game. If the game really needs a story for the scenes to have some meaning, then keep it short and simple so I don't have to read (skip through) thousands of lines of mental diarrhea just to get to the next scene. By that point I'd rather watch porn.
But there's another problem with those visual novels. Let's just pretend that it's porn and the story doesn't matter. Well, the renders suck. They do, they fucking suck. And this is not just for the visual novels, this applies to every fucking game in this site. Most 3d games on this site have shit renders. We're in 2020 and most of the renders look like they come from the mid 2000s (there were games back then with better renders), and in the worst cases, the late 90s. And that's just for the overall shape of the models and the backgrounds. Let's not talk about the genitalia which is what we're supposed to be looking at. Most pussies are literally textures placed into the models. This problem has a very simple cause. Most devs in here are using 3d modeling programs which were not designed to create porn - there are programs designed to create porn, and the devs just don't use them. And then there's another problem. A lot of models are recycled from other games with slight modifications (or for the male characters, none at all). How many times have I seen the same girl with a slightly different face? The same weird/punchable looking male characters? How many fucking times? Then there are the games that, for some reason, use a fucking filter on top of these renders making them look even worse. And how does the forum react to those shit renders? "5 stars, great renders". Every fucking game. Is it a shit game? "Even though the renders are awesome, ..." I'm trying to understand, what are your standards for quality? Why are they so low? What kind of porn do you watch, do you only have access to 144p videos or something? Genuine question. 3d is not the only problem though. There are also the 2d games which are a whole other issue altogether. I don't wanna get into it that much since those seem to be rated much more fairly (which means more harshly in this case), but they still have their problems. My biggest grip is with tracing. Why not just watch porn at that point? Or why not just use the references from which the scenes were traced? I think games that use real porn can be acceptable if supported by good writing, and by doing that you're ensuring better quality in the scenes department and you just have less work developing the game. But I don't wanna get into an argument about tracing. My argument here is that the art in most games posted in these forums is subpar, and I'm genuinely confused by the amount of users who think it looks good.
Ok, the visuals are not good, but they're easy to masturbate to. The thing that's easy to forget however, is that porn, and games because these are supposed to be games, are transmitted through an audiovisual medium. Audio is a very underrated and overlooked feature in these kinds of games, but dammit you already know my opinion, it sucks for most games in here. Voice acting is one of those things that enhances (most of) the games where it's implemented, but it's understandably too expensive for a lot of devs and it's not that necessary or important. Sound effects are important. Most games in here desperately need sound effects for sex scenes. Even a light background moan would go a long way in improving the power of a sex scene. It amazes me how many games have sound effects for the most trivial things but none for the sex scenes. Fortunately some games have sex scene sound effects and manage to implement them extremely well. The vast majority, however, manage to fuck it up. From low quality stock sound effects to unmixed sound effects in contrast to the music to extreme repetition of those said effects with no variation during long sex scenes. And it just decreases the quality of the already low quality scenes. Yet it's not rare for games like these to routinely get 5 stars. Sound effects are not the only problem though. There's also the music. Most of the games just use the generic music assets provided by the platform in which they are released. The problem with doing this is that the music is, of course, generic. It's also repetitive, from the fact that it's so often used in other games and also because the loops are often too short. Some devs go and get royalty-free music from other sources which is great, but most of them end up picking the already popular music from the same sources every other dev uses. It ends up being repetitive and tiring, hearing the same music in every porn game I download. It's not like the music is great or adds any value to the game anyway. Most of the times, the music feels like it comes from one of those corporate presentation videos, or from an elevator, or from a generic jrpg. These are supposed to be sex games, so why not use "sexy" music? There's so much royalty-free music out there that would be appropriate to use in porn games, and it feels like such a waste that most devs are not using it. But yeah, you go and see the reviews for those games with generic music, and there's quite a few "great music", compared to none (or maybe one, two) "music could use some work". It's really a shame.
But when all of the above fails, the only thing saving the game, and the most important aspect of the game, is the gameplay. Even for visual novels which can barely be considered games, the gameplay, or the interactivity, is important. There's not much to write about this. From all the games I've downloaded from this site, I can count by my fingers the ones which offered very good gameplay, and there are still very few that offer at least solid gameplay. I won't go into details because I don't need to. In general, games on this site are not enjoyable to play through, and normally the only thing that makes them worth it is the quality of the art (which is often bad), and following this idea, what is even the point of playing? If I'm here just to look at the scenes, why not watch porn, or even read a porn comic? I don't think it's fair for a game without satisfying gameplay to get 5 stars (I don't even think it's fair for it to get 4 stars). I just don't think it is, and I don't see why anyone would think otherwise. Yet those games constantly get 5 stars for "great renders" which normally are not even that good. It's extremely disappointing to download a game that seems good from reviews and then playing it just to despise it after under 1 hour of playtime, and it's also disappointing to see that the users on this site have such low standards and such a low bar for gameplay quality. It's frustrating to see that the porn game "industry" has so much potential, but due to the low standards of these forums (which are probably the most popular forums from where to discuss porn games), devs are just incentivized to put their shit on a platter, because there's always someone who will eat it, pay for it, and gladly recommend it to everyone else. It's sad to see that in the past 5 years, porn games have been mostly coming out in the same 2 tiring formats and engines (renpy and rpgm), with absolutely no advancement in their general boring formula. And what do these games get? That's right, 5 stars. Because we have no standards.
Anyway, I was getting a little off-topic. I hope you understand my point. The question is in the title really. I want to know why are there so many people quick to give 4 or 5 stars to games that clearly and absolutely don't deserve them.
One of the most popular game format in these forums is the visual novel. Then you play these games and the story sucks, the characters suck, and the whole writing sucks overall. "But it's porn, who cares about the story?" That's the kind response you get. Because it's a fucking visual novel, you dumbasses (I'm just trying to give some expression to the argument, I'm not that passionate about this issue), and if the story doesn't have any importance then a more suitable game format should be chosen. Also, if the story doesn't matter, why the fuck would the devs bother writing it? Most of the times it's just padding the game. If the game really needs a story for the scenes to have some meaning, then keep it short and simple so I don't have to read (skip through) thousands of lines of mental diarrhea just to get to the next scene. By that point I'd rather watch porn.
But there's another problem with those visual novels. Let's just pretend that it's porn and the story doesn't matter. Well, the renders suck. They do, they fucking suck. And this is not just for the visual novels, this applies to every fucking game in this site. Most 3d games on this site have shit renders. We're in 2020 and most of the renders look like they come from the mid 2000s (there were games back then with better renders), and in the worst cases, the late 90s. And that's just for the overall shape of the models and the backgrounds. Let's not talk about the genitalia which is what we're supposed to be looking at. Most pussies are literally textures placed into the models. This problem has a very simple cause. Most devs in here are using 3d modeling programs which were not designed to create porn - there are programs designed to create porn, and the devs just don't use them. And then there's another problem. A lot of models are recycled from other games with slight modifications (or for the male characters, none at all). How many times have I seen the same girl with a slightly different face? The same weird/punchable looking male characters? How many fucking times? Then there are the games that, for some reason, use a fucking filter on top of these renders making them look even worse. And how does the forum react to those shit renders? "5 stars, great renders". Every fucking game. Is it a shit game? "Even though the renders are awesome, ..." I'm trying to understand, what are your standards for quality? Why are they so low? What kind of porn do you watch, do you only have access to 144p videos or something? Genuine question. 3d is not the only problem though. There are also the 2d games which are a whole other issue altogether. I don't wanna get into it that much since those seem to be rated much more fairly (which means more harshly in this case), but they still have their problems. My biggest grip is with tracing. Why not just watch porn at that point? Or why not just use the references from which the scenes were traced? I think games that use real porn can be acceptable if supported by good writing, and by doing that you're ensuring better quality in the scenes department and you just have less work developing the game. But I don't wanna get into an argument about tracing. My argument here is that the art in most games posted in these forums is subpar, and I'm genuinely confused by the amount of users who think it looks good.
Ok, the visuals are not good, but they're easy to masturbate to. The thing that's easy to forget however, is that porn, and games because these are supposed to be games, are transmitted through an audiovisual medium. Audio is a very underrated and overlooked feature in these kinds of games, but dammit you already know my opinion, it sucks for most games in here. Voice acting is one of those things that enhances (most of) the games where it's implemented, but it's understandably too expensive for a lot of devs and it's not that necessary or important. Sound effects are important. Most games in here desperately need sound effects for sex scenes. Even a light background moan would go a long way in improving the power of a sex scene. It amazes me how many games have sound effects for the most trivial things but none for the sex scenes. Fortunately some games have sex scene sound effects and manage to implement them extremely well. The vast majority, however, manage to fuck it up. From low quality stock sound effects to unmixed sound effects in contrast to the music to extreme repetition of those said effects with no variation during long sex scenes. And it just decreases the quality of the already low quality scenes. Yet it's not rare for games like these to routinely get 5 stars. Sound effects are not the only problem though. There's also the music. Most of the games just use the generic music assets provided by the platform in which they are released. The problem with doing this is that the music is, of course, generic. It's also repetitive, from the fact that it's so often used in other games and also because the loops are often too short. Some devs go and get royalty-free music from other sources which is great, but most of them end up picking the already popular music from the same sources every other dev uses. It ends up being repetitive and tiring, hearing the same music in every porn game I download. It's not like the music is great or adds any value to the game anyway. Most of the times, the music feels like it comes from one of those corporate presentation videos, or from an elevator, or from a generic jrpg. These are supposed to be sex games, so why not use "sexy" music? There's so much royalty-free music out there that would be appropriate to use in porn games, and it feels like such a waste that most devs are not using it. But yeah, you go and see the reviews for those games with generic music, and there's quite a few "great music", compared to none (or maybe one, two) "music could use some work". It's really a shame.
But when all of the above fails, the only thing saving the game, and the most important aspect of the game, is the gameplay. Even for visual novels which can barely be considered games, the gameplay, or the interactivity, is important. There's not much to write about this. From all the games I've downloaded from this site, I can count by my fingers the ones which offered very good gameplay, and there are still very few that offer at least solid gameplay. I won't go into details because I don't need to. In general, games on this site are not enjoyable to play through, and normally the only thing that makes them worth it is the quality of the art (which is often bad), and following this idea, what is even the point of playing? If I'm here just to look at the scenes, why not watch porn, or even read a porn comic? I don't think it's fair for a game without satisfying gameplay to get 5 stars (I don't even think it's fair for it to get 4 stars). I just don't think it is, and I don't see why anyone would think otherwise. Yet those games constantly get 5 stars for "great renders" which normally are not even that good. It's extremely disappointing to download a game that seems good from reviews and then playing it just to despise it after under 1 hour of playtime, and it's also disappointing to see that the users on this site have such low standards and such a low bar for gameplay quality. It's frustrating to see that the porn game "industry" has so much potential, but due to the low standards of these forums (which are probably the most popular forums from where to discuss porn games), devs are just incentivized to put their shit on a platter, because there's always someone who will eat it, pay for it, and gladly recommend it to everyone else. It's sad to see that in the past 5 years, porn games have been mostly coming out in the same 2 tiring formats and engines (renpy and rpgm), with absolutely no advancement in their general boring formula. And what do these games get? That's right, 5 stars. Because we have no standards.
Anyway, I was getting a little off-topic. I hope you understand my point. The question is in the title really. I want to know why are there so many people quick to give 4 or 5 stars to games that clearly and absolutely don't deserve them.