discussion Reasons you will not play a game and not because of a tags (regardless of if it has one you do not want or is missing one you do).

[Danna8219]

The art style has often a lot to say for med. Excagarated body parts, or too cartoonish.

 

[PROPH3T]

Untranslated or with an awful translation.
Models created with another game, like Honey Select.
Ugly artwork.
Female protagonist.
Submissive protagonist.
Bad history.
Extremely annoying protagonist. Especially if they behave like a dumb teen.

 

[Ashield]

Pretty standard list

Art not to my tastes
Super annoying game mechanics
A story that sounds like its going to be too annoying to want to deal with

Might end up trying it before finding out two or three but I will drop fairly quickly.

 

[fthegovernment]

i play western styled art (3D / AI) games only.
all others go on the ignore list

or games made by devs with a history of abandoning their games

 

[Cocaine]

I've found that a lot of games that are based on/parody existing properties are almost always a disappointment.

Anything that has "trainer" in the title basically guarantees super tedious grindfests.

 

[falafal]

Anything in Unreal Engine. Always runs supper lagy on my laptop and I've learned to not even both with them.

Also, as much as I love Japanese visual novel games, if its just one still pic that lasts for 10 minutes as the sex scene, theres a good chance I'll stop playing after that.

 

[chocolate52]

If a game has no animations I’ll stop.

 

[SmogJonkler]

If a game has no animations I’ll stop.

This, it doesn't matter how pretty the renders are, Thicc the milfs are or cute the girls are. If it has no moving parts, I will very quickly check out.
I usually filter out anything that lacks the animated tag.

 

[psage]

I know, but it is annoying and i hate having to do it all the time, so i just delete them.... just something annoying that stops me from playing a game

Normally it only pops up on the initial run, after that you won't have to do it again for that game.

 

[CoolCatK]

If a game doesn't have any choices/gameplay, or if the game just meanders and insists on itself. It kills the mood.

Another thing that will make me get rid of a game is if the art style just isn't good.

Those are my major pet peeves with adult games outside of content tags.

 

[silverf1717]

I always just run the game anyway

A reason I don't play a game at all is bad renders

 

[Private_User69]

A few reasons not to play certain games: if they have a really grindy-sandbox style (or god forbid a part in the game where you have to find something with 0 labels when hovering over it) OR in the case of Summertime Saga having prompts like "go meet xyz person" and no names on-hover (this one really bugs me ngl) OR if a game has a "click button to continue with scene" every 2 seconds.
Both are an instant delete and blacklisted from playing again

 

[Donus]

Whe the art style is not my type I usually don't play it

 

[yobnis13]

Bad story and instant sex. I prefee a little slow burn and grind

 

[blacblacblac]

Anyone else see a game you haven't played, liked the artwork, thought the story might be decent so you get it. You install, you open the folder double click the appl and then..... woot a blue box from windows with a button that reads "Don't Run". So many decent looking games I have deleted because of that. Even if it was a false positive and safe to run having that pop up every time you run a game is annoying. Anyone else have this issue or one like it? Seen several promising games that i will not try again for awhile simply because of that.

Mostly won't play a game that deals with scat or any nasty type fetish.

 

[blacblacblac]

Bad story and instant sex. I prefee a little slow burn and grind

True bad story is another reason why I won't play a game. Like if I find myself skipping through most of the dialogue I would rather leave it.

 

[blacblacblac]

Rpgm games. I hate those

Truer words have never been uttered.

 

[JackCayman]

I would say the artstyle play a huge role in it.
Along with that, some engines might be easier to fuck up the intro to the game (RPGMaker as a lot of gems but also a lot of stinkers as indicated by others in this thread).

 

[HuiEtyud]

If I'm being honest...RPGM. I don't know what it is about RPGM games, but I just can't do it. Which is ironic, because I'm always internally complaining about how same-same AVNs tend to be and would like to see something new. I have played a couple of RPGM games that I've enjoyed, but ones that interest me tend to require translation patches and/or AppLocale just to run, which is just more effort than I care to put in.

 

[blacblacblac]

honestly, biggest one is just anything that won't run on my computer lol. it's a shaggy little Linux thinkpad barely able to run any Windows game through proton, and anything that doesn't put any effort into optimization gets really tough to play, and i just lose patience. and you'll be surprised at what kinda things get it chugging: about half of all RPGMaker games have such horrible performance, meanwhile the other half runs just fine, some specific Renpy games can take minutes to load, and don't even get me started on Unity games lol

The struggle pc days. I remember those days like it was yesterday... and today and probably tomorrow because that is what I am living on.