discussion Does it feel like there aren't very many "new" games that are good?

[JojoLomax]

When now a days assets can be copy/pasted from game to game juts kills the vibe. Makes it that much harder to tell if something is even really "new".

 

[Windchill]

So true, having your sister or another family member help is

The good harem games have that instigator character that pushes everybody to the MC. Useful story tool.

 

[unusual7]

i think the only good game that i´ve played in version 0.1 was twisted world, these games takes atleast 3 good updates to become something

 

[User_76996]

Might be just that I'm getting old or something but it seems like a few years ago, you'd check the various sites and almost every week there'd be a new game or an update to a game that was incredible. Like 2-3 games a week being updated that were just really good, really decent stories that had good renders and animations, tolerable writing, etc.

And some of those games are still out there and still being worked on, with updates periodically.
But for the last few months it feels like there's so many games that are following the fetishes/trends that I'm not really into, or that just don't spend any real time on animations/renders, or that just follow the same templates as all the other popular games.
I mean, I like Harem games for example but it seems like almost every Harem game is copying the most popular few harem games and I can't even tell you how many "Dad that's fucking his daughters, wife, sister, nieces, their friends, etc" games that follow almost exactly the same plot.

1. Get seduced by daughter #1.
2. Hide it from wife.
3. Sister comes back into life due to a divorce from her husband.
4. Fuck sister like you always used to.
5. Find out sister's daughter(s) are your kids, fuck them with sister's help.
6. Sister helps you fuck your daughter #2.
7. Wife finds out you're fucking niece, gets mad.
8. Easily talk wife out of her anger with the power of dick.
9. Fuck wife, daughters, sister, nieces, some of their friends.
10. Daughters ask you to impregnate them constantly.
11. Sister talks you into impregnating her daughters.
12. You're a very wealthy businessman who also fucks his assistant.

It's like...this could describe half a dozen games I like. But why?

It's like that "you're a college graduate and your dad just died so you moved home but now you have to fuck your mom and sister, or they lose the house to gangsters!" type of plot.

Why isn't anybody coming up with unique stories anymore? Why are all the games feeling the same?

Is it just me?

Steps 1-12, out of curiosity can you list what games do this in this order? I can only think 2 games that do that, how many other games that do this if theirs a lot of games that do this?

 

[FooTaco21]

i think the only good game that i´ve played in version 0.1 was twisted world, these games takes atleast 3 good updates to become something

You should play Godson remake

 

[Lll]

Yeah stuff is just getting less and less original.

 

[SegmentCoalescing]

I don't really mind that some games are similar to others, like DreamLink and Eternum.. which seems to trigger some people.
I have however noticed a massive decline in quality the last what, year or so? There's way too many low effort AI games being posted, good games are taking forever to update (If they ever update.. ) and many promising games end up being abandoned.

 

[herot32]

I don't really mind that some games are similar to others, like DreamLink and Eternum.. which seems to trigger some people.
I have however noticed a massive decline in quality the last what, year or so? There's way too many low effort AI games being posted, good games are taking forever to update (If they ever update.. ) and many promising games end up being abandoned.

I feel those things are kinda connected though. Like I completely agree that there are more low-effort games coming out, but that's also tied to devs using the same plots over and over.

I don't really mind if there's general commonalities (after all, if you're doing an incest harem game without NTR then dad's gotta be dead or at the very least missing) but sometimes it feels like they literally just copy-paste the entire plot.

Coupled with people re-using the same models and like the same 50 names for the girls you end up going "wait in this game is that redhead model called Tiffany or Lauren? Fuck."

 

[User_10267]

Might be just that I'm getting old or something but it seems like a few years ago, you'd check the various sites and almost every week there'd be a new game or an update to a game that was incredible. Like 2-3 games a week being updated that were just really good, really decent stories that had good renders and animations, tolerable writing, etc.

And some of those games are still out there and still being worked on, with updates periodically.
But for the last few months it feels like there's so many games that are following the fetishes/trends that I'm not really into, or that just don't spend any real time on animations/renders, or that just follow the same templates as all the other popular games.
I mean, I like Harem games for example but it seems like almost every Harem game is copying the most popular few harem games and I can't even tell you how many "Dad that's fucking his daughters, wife, sister, nieces, their friends, etc" games that follow almost exactly the same plot.

1. Get seduced by daughter #1.
2. Hide it from wife.
3. Sister comes back into life due to a divorce from her husband.
4. Fuck sister like you always used to.
5. Find out sister's daughter(s) are your kids, fuck them with sister's help.
6. Sister helps you fuck your daughter #2.
7. Wife finds out you're fucking niece, gets mad.
8. Easily talk wife out of her anger with the power of dick.
9. Fuck wife, daughters, sister, nieces, some of their friends.
10. Daughters ask you to impregnate them constantly.
11. Sister talks you into impregnating her daughters.
12. You're a very wealthy businessman who also fucks his assistant.

It's like...this could describe half a dozen games I like. But why?

It's like that "you're a college graduate and your dad just died so you moved home but now you have to fuck your mom and sister, or they lose the house to gangsters!" type of plot.

Why isn't anybody coming up with unique stories anymore? Why are all the games feeling the same?

Is it just me?

I think it comes down to taboo. The more 'naughty" something is the more arousing it becomes. Incest just happens to be considered the most forbidden of fruits (unless you are of a more sadistic bent). And the more closely related the more taboo, which is why you don't see a lot of 'second cousin' options over the fruit of your own loins. As for plot, well you're probably not getting many Pulitzer winning novelists writing this content. Consider the source I guess.

 

[nixium535]

Couldn't be that payment processors are cracking down on NSFW and the majority of NSFW creators aren't making a living outta making games.

 

[asdasc]

yeah, it's really rare to find a good 0.1 game out there with good story and render

 

[Radulac]

Was there ever a golden age of porn games? I can't recall, really. In my honest opinion, I think the quantity of good games is still the same. The increase was in the generic/bad/mid games.

 

[Zauldjamin]

I do like number 9, the more fucking the better as long the visuals are well done

 

[mrsinister]

True, plus even the updates of the already good games are now taking forever!

 

[sundogsun]

The devs were all about making a game based on what they were really into. But then things took a nosedive when everyone started throwing in their two cents, like "Make NTR avoidable, no incest, more lesbian, no gay, female MC sucks , I'm out of here" and all that jazz. These comments pushed the devs to water down their original vibe and just aim for mass appeal, losing their spark and the game's cool factor. So let the developer do their thing...

 

[qrew53]

The porn games market is growing and competition is increasing, but most often they evaluate the visual part and there is no strength left for a good, thoughtful plot (and many people don't care about it, but not me). So we get what we get.

 

[Gonzo01]

Must be tough thinking up new storylines. The films industry survives by rehashing old films two or three times, so why not here?

 

[cosicosi89]

YES!! i agree 100%. everything does feel generic and bland. the fun is depleted

 

[gugusty]

feel the same bruh

 

[003]

Most western fantasy for the past century is Tolkien-esque. Most Xianxia and Wuxia are basically copy-paste (sometimes literally). This isn't a VN problem it's just that people are lazy, and originality is hard. Try to come up with a truly original idea and, if you think for a while, you'll remember something else just like it. Individuality is best shown in execution style, not plot points.