discussion Was there a game you have played with multiple LI paths, but you stopped after the first because you felt like you were cheating on the first one?

[Monokuma]

I don't put myself in the shoes of the main character, I don't give a fuck as an omnipotent observant being

Honestly, this is how I have always played. It wasn't until people started talking on here that I realised some people really take these games to heart... More power to them, I guess, for it to stirr such a reaction with them. But damn, I just can't connect like that even if I wanted to.

 

[Degen Man]

I always play such games with a mindset of "whatever path i pick is the canon path for me, and I have to live with the consequences" and I never go back to check other endings. It makes the decision-making much more intense IMO.

 

[User_124703]

But damn, I just can't connect like that even if I wanted to.

That is sad. imo
Such feelings are wholesome.
I had tears in my eyes playing leap of faith.

 

[Monokuma]

That is sad. imo
Such feelings are wholesome.
I had tears in my eyes playing leap of faith.

I can connect with art, I just don't connect with "being the main character", if that makes sense.
Outside of the adult world, some games have created very powerful and visceral reactions in me. Movies too (I cry at almost every Disney film... but don't tell anyone) and books. But I am never in the main characters POV, I am feeling empathy on their behalf, or I feel the emotion of the moment.

This is no judgement for those that do, by the way. I just think it's different ways of consuming media. Just trying to prove I'm not completely heartless and disconnected

 

[Teal80]

I have played so many games I've forgotten the first time it happened to me. However it does occasionally happen that I start with a LI who draws me in so much that I can't bear to make that LI unhappy. Bizarrely that also happened in Bare Witness with Athena+Heidi - could bear to let either of them down (god those breakup scenes...) so ended up kindo forced into a throuple... Not that I minded in the least

 

[eezergoode]

I don't cheat IRL. I cheat like a SOB in the games.

 

[misaki002]

I cant play this type of games... its just too hurtfull to see the other characters when i pursue other paths... So the harem is it way for me

 

[Lurkabowa]

Yes, in

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, but it was not cheating.

Spoiler

When selecting Yuuki’s route, before things between you guys get sexual, Shana invites you to the roof to confess her love for you. Only to be rejected by MC & Yuuki publicly announcing to the world, (on TV i believe), that they are together.

Coupled with this fact and the other Love Interests being quite fond of MC. I decided to go for Harem route instead which feels more natural for this game. The game feels to me like a “harem path 1st individual paths 2nd” game.

 

[zagreus]

Melody from Melody haha

The girl was so "pure" that for my first playthrough i only dated her. But i later did a manwhore run to see all the scenes

 

[readonly]

No, I'm a total scoundrel in-game. In life I'm a pretty loyal person, but I don't feel the same impulse in the realm of fantasy.

 

[WigglyWorld84]

sure, but I got over it quickly

 

[TheVicarious]

Not really, I can't really connect that way unfortunetly. I'm more the observer of what's going on in the game. Of course though there is usually one LI that I feel more for than the rest, and consider "cannon"

 

[HZeroH]

Four Elements Trainer. For some reason i can't seem to take any path other than my original one, no matter how many times i replay the game.

 

[kabeza]

when i finish a game, i always forget the other paths and delete the game jaja

 

[stangnomez]

Different paths are parallel realities.

 

[anxiousturtle]

I did it with Radiant the first play. Than I read a post from the dev, which said. This is a harem game... After that I played it another time.

Oh never played a leap of faith after Cece route. Only Cece. No one else.

Agree on Leap of Faith, for sure...only Cece!

 

[pi00tr]

Cece leap of faith or Erynn from intertwined

 

[beast_boy23]

Don't really think about the cheating aspect, if im forced to choose certain paths i just choose the girls i like and try to play through the alternate paths as quick as possible.

 

[Flaming1]

If MC can get his dick wet, he gets his dick wet. Variety is the spice of life, so let's keep things fucking spicy.

 

[Dafuking]

I don't put myself in the shoes of the main character, I don't give a fuck as an omnipotent observant being

The same