discussion Should incest games have more look-alike characters in the same family?

[kazu13]

Question for those of you who like incest: do you prefer all the girls to look alike, y'know, since they're family and all? Or are you willing to sacrifice that bit of immersion if it means getting more LI variety?

Was going through the incest tag to find a new game to play through when I realized that a lot of the girls in those games look nothing alike, despite often being daughters, sisters, mothers, etc, so the question sort of popped into my head.

 

[Loliholic]

Dunno...a bit perhaps. I mean, if 4 kids have 4 different eye- and haircolors you dont need to be a geneticist to call the mother a slut.

 

[e6mill]

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[Gunzther]

I think it's something that sounds better in theory than it would be in practice. If there's 3-5 girls and they all look like differently aged versions of the same girl, I'd be very disappointed. It would be especially bad for 2D but even 3DCG has it's limitations when it comes to differentiating characters. Can't let 'realism' get in the way of making a good game

 

[floydrowx77]

Never really thought about it, but it does work better when they look and have some similarities.

 

[sevengs]

It would make sense, but variety is fun.

 

[RandomLycan]

They should, yes. Works very well (see Sinful Summer for reference).

 

[AlBetGam]

Yeah, I agree that family members in games should look at least somewhat alike. Some games are better about this than others.

I think it's something that sounds better in theory than it would be in practice. If there's 3-5 girls and they all look like differently aged versions of the same girl, I'd be very disappointed. It would be especially bad for 2D but even 3DCG has it's limitations when it comes to differentiating characters. Can't let 'realism' get in the way of making a good game

My theory is it's one of those things that's a consequence of the medium. In real life siblings tend to look obviously similar but still clearly distinct- most times you wouldn't mistake one sibling for another unless they're identical twins.

But when we're talking renders made by an amateur dev it gets a lot harder. Even in Daz or a similar 3D rendering program a lot of characters don't look that different to begin with; a lot of details of facial features aren't well depicted. And heaven help you if you're using something like Koikatsu where the faces are all basically identical and 95% of character differentiation is hairstyle. Some devs are good enough at rendering that they can make characters look related and still different, but a lot aren't and they're well aware the players will get bored with three nearly-identical looking family members.

 

[Lonniel]

I think that when they look alike makes for a better part of the incest but they wave to rave some unique traits to creste a sense of being unique that may phut them apart from cliches.

 

[Lonniel]

or they have to look different for plausible deniability.

 

[User_120869]

I dunno, I nothing like my sister.

 

[NumNeg]

Question for those of you who like incest: do you prefer all the girls to look alike, y'know, since they're family and all? Or are you willing to sacrifice that bit of immersion if it means getting more LI variety?

Was going through the incest tag to find a new game to play through when I realized that a lot of the girls in those games look nothing alike, despite often being daughters, sisters, mothers, etc, so the question sort of popped into my head.

Except twins, they shouldm't be (almost) identical, but in most cases some more similiarity wouldn't hurt. Either between the sisters, or between mother and daughter. (Sometimes one sister is almost the younger version of her mother, and the other has the facial structure of her father, so yes, sisters could be different.)

 

[Gokatraz]

Question for those of you who like incest: do you prefer all the girls to look alike, y'know, since they're family and all? Or are you willing to sacrifice that bit of immersion if it means getting more LI variety?

Was going through the incest tag to find a new game to play through when I realized that a lot of the girls in those games look nothing alike, despite often being daughters, sisters, mothers, etc, so the question sort of popped into my head.

Id personally like some resemblance but keep it "realistic" in a way

 

[bbb222]

Maybe they can all have a similar hair colour.

 

[zyrrmiller]

Personally, a little bit similar in term of look alike is fine

 

[User_109578]

Yeh, they should make it obvious that they are family, just look at blackmailing family, the girl looks nice (in comparison with the ugly grandma's you get to fuck), but nobody would say it's his sister...

 

[HandholdDegen]

Not look alike, but look similar. Not all family look alike, but most family have some familiar trait to each other.
If characters look like they could just as easily be neighbors then what's the point?

 

[leomgr69]

A few similarish characters would be ideal for me. But as others have said having variety is also very nice.

 

[mikrole]

I do not think so. Difference matters.

 

[Runescape771]

oh there are a few games that think about it. I think it would be great, but most 3d characters are ready to use assets. and 2d characters all lookalike with different hair usually