Why does Japan Make the best porn games?

baneini

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Theres very few games that are worth reading in english that aren't natively written in english.
The quality of translations is very low.
 

Ahsl

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Meh, female characters in japanese games are always so insanely girly. Personality, body, voice, all of it. Don't even get me started on yaoi...:cautious:
If you are looking for masculine gay hentai then bara manga might be of interest to you, especially and works.
 
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I'd say having about 30 or so years of practice might have something to do with it. Or it could be that when one talks about the "best" examples of eroge games you're typically talking about professionally made products that are planned to be released as complete packages at retail, rather than as continual drip-fed minor content releases for as long as the dev feels like it before calling it 'complete' (Gacha games being the obvious exception to that, but if Japanese tiddy-devs are raking in the gacha-cash, then they're probably doing something right.) It also probably doesn't hurt that for the longest time what was getting translated was the cream of the crop, generally done with some proper care by fans no less.

And while currently the floodgates to the machine translated DMM DLSite games have opened and all the shit is coming through, you could still argue that you've got no lack of choice in your vices.

Edit: Well dang, seems I got my game sites mixed up again.
 
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There are a lot of extremely shit japanese games. And I don't mean "shit" in the weepy sadboy I-don't-like-these-kinks way that's all the rage on these boards, I mean low-quality, low-effort, quick-n-dirty, cheap games.

There's two reasons why Japanese games tend to be of higher quality, though:

1) Japanese games are usually finished. Even the shit ones are technically finished. This is because DLSite doesn't let you sell incomplete games. Western games, on the other hand, often go the Patreon route, where the money doesn't come from finishing a game and selling it, but from monthly payments from dumbasses who hope you'll someday finish your game while directly incentivizing you to never do that. Which is why SO MANY Western games are unfinished, but almost no Japanese games are.

2) Japan has a mature porn game industry. The West doesn't. This means there are big Japanese companies making porn games, like Alicesoft and Illusion, while Western porn games are made by one dude, or a small team. Western games simply cannot reach the polish and content of the best Japanese games, because their devs just don't have the resources or the manpower.

The second point will probably change as porn games gain more legitimacy in the West. The first, who knows.
 

gaogao

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censored are extremely common in Japanese games/porn
Japanese Porn isn't "commonly" censored. It's ALWAYS censored. That is the law forced by the U.S after WW2 which stated: "no porn allowed." And that law is still in effect. Because it doesn't harm their industry, Japan never bothers to change it.

What do I mean by "no porn allowed?" I mean it ' .' It's illegal to make porn in Japan. By that ancient and vague U.S law, porn was not very well defined. Censoring genitals is a way to bypass it, making every Japanese "porn" not porn, in the eyes of the law. In another word, Japan has never supported the production of porn since after WW2 with the use of censorship.
The U.S also tried this for a decade by listing pornography as documentary and education so that 'porn' can be played on a large screen in public theatre (hint: Deep Throat, 1972).
 

♍VoidTraveler

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Japan? Makes best porn games?
Those same ones i've been blocking on steam AND on F95 by the dozens?
THAT SHOVELWARE you are talking about?! :ROFLMAO::coffee:

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I guess i'll just go ahead and assume that you are talking about the 10% of actually good games out of the 90% shovelware Japan seem to be always producing. :whistle::coffee:
The answer would be, experience. They were always perverts so.. plenty of exp to draw from.
Once the west catches up with their exp... you just watch. :sneaky::coffee:
 
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Hildegardt

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much better looking art that the west simply cannot match the quality of
You might just be a weeb. No offence, but many people, who consumed this stuff for years forget that japanese style is very particular and tropey and can be hard to get into at first.
 
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OleJackRipper

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Dunno,

Most of my favorite porn games look to be of the western make. Or the stories are western compared to their japanese stereotypical counterparts and art.

Maybe you like jap ones better and that's fine.

But yeah na
 

EpicLust

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Why do I have the best quality opinion?

Weather it's about porn or games , I have the best quality opinion, to the point that people will machine auto translate it.
/s
 

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Weather it's porn or porn games , Japs make the best quality, to the point that people who when play through horrible machine auto translated scripts.
Tried a couple of them. I wouldn't say they make the best porn games since I'm more into western games myself, but they do have some elements that aren't very common in the western scene such as:
1- The depth of the story, especially if you're playing a game where "adult/sex scenes" aren't the main focus. A game like instantly comes to mind.
2 - A lot of their games also have a (very) long playtime, if that's your thing.
3- Render/Image quality is usually top-notch unless you're playing something a bit older.

But what I didn't like was the "censored" part of the equation. Also, translation isn't always the best.
 

paust.alex

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A very biased opinion. I would even say that their regular games leave a lot to be desired too, unless of course you're a fan of anime, lack of proportion and common sense and constant rolling. As for the porn, it's utterly disgusting, unless of course you're a fan of bullying, humiliation, blackmail and rape, and that irritating high-pitched squeals. The only thing you can watch is erotica with models because they look good - petite and flat-chested.

Render/Image quality is usually top-notch unless you're playing something a bit older.
Can you give me an example? Because all I can think of is a drawn manga style, like Koikatsu. Or do they have games with visuals on the level of Dark Souls or Resident Evil?
 

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A very biased opinion. I would even say that their regular games leave a lot to be desired too, unless of course you're a fan of anime, lack of proportion and common sense and constant rolling. As for the porn, it's utterly disgusting, unless of course you're a fan of bullying, humiliation, blackmail and rape, and that irritating high-pitched squeals. The only thing you can watch is erotica with models because they look good - petite and flat-chested.



Can you give me an example? Because all I can think of is a drawn manga style, like Koikatsu. Or do they have games with visuals on the level of Dark Souls or Resident Evil?
Sure.
comes to mind when speaking of render/image quality, but that's just my opinion. Check it out for yourself, maybe you'll like it.