discussion Do you find it difficult to play a protagonist that doesn't align with your self?

[Levius]

Doesn't bother me, as I'm more interested in the love interests.

Only If the game is set up in a way that the MC lacks redeeming qualities, is forced into situations, or makes questionable choices that start to ruin my experience, I will find something else to play.

 

[coquettishtir]

I self-insert a lot so if the MC is an extreme version of some sort of person, like super evil, too much of a goody two-shoes, or completely oblivious, etc. it can really take away for me. But it's rarely to the point where I just refuse to play the game. Though I'm less picky with porn games lol, much more picky when reading actual books. I've put down a lot of books cause I can't identify or don't want to self-insert with the protagonist.

 

[Taro]

I find it difficult to play games with a female protagonist. It's harder to insert myself into the role, I suppose. I do actually read and such so maybe that's a part of it. I really do play the games "for the articles."

One of the chloe games had a male protagonist for a chunk of it and I was enjoying it well enough (kind of an old game, at least a few years iirc fake family maybe?) and part way through, after a fair chunk of content it was a swap to chloe as the protagonist and I lost interest. Book of Lust does something similar in that you're switching protagonists throughout it.

I always find it offputting. I wish I didn't because it'd open more games for me to get into.

I agree with you

 

[Dex619]

It dependsin the choices sometimes the character is good or evil I prefer it grey

 

[SeveredRealms]

Oddly when I played games like WoW back in the day I had a split between male and female characters. I mean if I have to spend hours in a raid or farming shit.. I would rather look at a cute ass than some dudes ass right??? lmao.... Same with EOS I played females in that one. But games like Fallout I always played as a male. At least with fallout I could get female followers so I didn't have to look at the my characters ass. But like I said earlier in a avn... playing a female where you immerse yourself into the character. I just cant.

 

[spilek]

I always put my self in the role, probably why I can't play netorary and fem protagonist games.

 

[Deleted member 108320]

Not usually, but there have been cases where I just really dislike a main Protagonist.

 

[User_48178]

As long as the character has an actual personality that justifies their decisions, I'm mostly fine with it. There are limits, but I'm far more likely to be bothered by a blank slate character whose decisions don't match what I want or a story that's designed to force a character down one specific path.

 

[hubb58s]

This is a good question.
I tend to go the good or nice route first then go the bad route last.

 

[xanxus07]

If it forces you down a path I just wouldnt take, then yes

 

[Thorbjorn]

I don't particularly mind their personalities not alligning with mine, I'll still play the game. However when they do it does make the game more immersive. I sometimes feel frustrated with the choices the MC makes if it's not a choice I would make. Most of the time I can get past the small things, but if the choice is too extreme it has led me to drop a few games.

 

[qwertyzxcvb123]

Depends on how much of a personality the MC has. If its a faceless protagonist intended to be the player sure, if the MC is his own person then I dont really care.

 

[User_56991]

Given that the MC is having more sex in a week than I might have in a year (or more ), I'm already being forced to control a character that is utterly unlike me. So it's easy to accept other differences. But I do avoid games with a lot of overt violence (Overcoming reluctance with some firm insistence is OK).

 

[dereguedeixe]

I always look at the protagonist more as something i created and i try to make align him as some of my visions even if he end up going to the wrong course

 

[User_111574]

That question has never bothered me. Perhaps because I don't take the game and the game world seriously. I never immerse myself in the game world. Maybe that's why I'm completely indifferent to the NTR issue.

 

[User_111887]

As long as it nothing too violent, gory or the MC r'ing someone I really don't mind.

 

[MassageEnnis]

Ever since I was young I could only play games as someone else because the options for my race were always shitty so I'm used to just playing as something completely different. I prefer being a male but chicks are fine too if that's the only option.

 

[Siwodnenw]

No but if they are overly retarded or brutal or pansy or etc. it makes it difficult to tolerate them.

 

[User_111574]

I don't see any problem with that. I'm comfortable playing as female characters, for example. But I will never play as rapists, murderers, gangsters, gays.

 

[SegmentCoalescing]

No, but I don't like when they are whiny and have an explosive temper for no real reason. That and them being really dumb.