Absolutely. I sadly cannot trust that a developer writes their dialogues/choices in a way that makes any sort of sense, I have been burned way too many times to do that.
Developers who make games that mix porn and actual gameplay elements have 100% lost the plot. They are fundamentally at odds and will always detract from each other. Stick to one or the other.
It's either Story+Porn or Story+Gameplay. That's it. Those are the only viable choices.
So no...
There are even several openly female adult VN devs, and anyone who actually listens to women knows they're basically just as freaky as guys are, they just don't have any reason to make themselves known to any of us because a large portion of people here sadly can't be trusted to not act like...
I certainly play way more 3D games, I guess it's just harder to make quality 2D games. And no, there's no chance I will ever try those games that look like they were hand-drawn by someone's nephew. That's just not ever going to cut it.
I don't have a preference personally (but I do enjoy a variety of them in my games, each type has something endearing about them).
But I would like to add, in case some people don't know, is that the term for a girl with black hair is "noirette". "Brunette" is strictly for various shades of brown.
They might as well not exist because I have never ever tried one and there is an absolute 0% chance I ever will. This may be controversial but I kind of feel they shouldn't even be "allowed" because all they do is clog up the board with games that basically no one plays.
Some games are tagged weirdly and have "female protagonist" on some technicality even when it's not the case at all in practice. But disregarding those, I only play male (or futa who goes for females) yeah.
It really depends, and both have their upsides. Some games genuinely have such a galactically ugly MC that it distracts from everything else, to the point where the game isn't even playable. In those cases hiding the face would obviously have been better. It's also somewhat better for immersion...
Sore pecker? That's amateur talk. You have to jerk off enough that your penis adapts so that doesn't happen any more.
But yeah I goon/edge until I get a good sex scene and release. If it's a good game with decently sized updates I get several fap sessions out of a single update.
Sometimes? It depends, and also largely depends on what you mean by "taking it seriously", because that's really vague.
Sure there are adult VNs that are either batshit insane or just incredibly dumb and are only good for their porn content. I don't take these very seriously.
Some have a...
No, I feel like I see just as many sci-fi as I do fantasy.
So not technically overused but I still don't actually prefer it. Neither of them actually. Almost every single time someone makes a game set in a fantasy/sci-fi setting, or high-school but with demon anime powers or whatever, it's just...
It actually says a lot about a large portion on AVNs that I can play while skipping large chunks of the story and still follow along perfectly. Hint: It means that skipping is warranted, because your storytelling is way too drawn out and repetitive.
But there are some really quality titles...
I prefer some music but it needs to be way less loud than what most devs seem to set it to. In general I really hate it when games overuse sound effects though, but my favorite game uses them liberally so I guess it's not really a dealbreaker for me.
Out of these the only one that turns out to be a hard preference is shaved pubes. Other than that, there's a time and place for everything on here as long as it's interpreted correctly.
Few things make me drop a game faster than massive bushes on girls.