discussion What is more important.. story or mindless sex ?

[Mahes]

What is more important to you all ? Do you like a game because of its story and how close to reality it depicts or just anything with mindless storyless sex ?

Story For Sure!!! Getting into the mindset of the MC is important for me

 

[GreatJ]

Good art and animations

 

[Loliholic]

Story. Sex is a bonus, not the reason to play a game.

 

[dragonsong64]

Story is more important. You get much more invested. Games that just jump from scene to scene are pretty forgettable and rarely a reason to ever go back to them, but ones with good stories you can remember years afterwards.

 

[Lort]

The story, more specifically the scene, the set of compositions that led the characters to the erotic or sexual situation, otherwise you will get just vanilla sex and that can be boring, also, mindless sex can also be good if properly placed in the story with the right sexual tension, there is even a doujinshi like that where the characters just keep looking at each other clearly wanting to do it then she starts teasing him exposing herself and then they start having sex.

The composition of a scene must not be confused with the story itself, there are games that simply have walls upon walls of text with supposedly rich story that is basically TLDR, then you get to the sex and it is just vanilla kind of thing. (looking at you Twin Maniax! and Ich Will Project) 1hr of text reading without nothing actually happening is way too long

 

[duckydoodoo]

sex only become mindless when its really good and becomes purely instinctual and carnal, or during the best orgasm whiteouts. ive banged more strippers escorts bartenders waitresses and bar flies than had real relationships, but those were just sex. the best sex always requires a component of connection. think it follows with porn and lewds, if the visual alone connects with the consumer, then great, but usually some story, some, is required to give people that component that gives them true arousal.

when i was a teen and in low 20s, huge horn dog, but i also enjoyed just being nude. i spent time at clothing optional businesses and would see both ugly and beautiful naked women and not get erect, was just everyone being nude. but damn it, the minute a cute girl whispers in my ear and her breath tickles the tiny hair along the lobe and down my neck, im ready to impregnate her.

so if there are visuals that remind me of real life stimulai, that can be enough for appreciative arousal. otherwise theres got to be some kind of story telling, something to get the mindset into why these characters are so horny for each other. cause honestly, being horny in itself is not pleasure.

idk if that makes any sense to anyone, i always have hard time describing it. probably why so many ex's got butt hurt when i tried to tell them sex was good but not great sometimes. you besides the fact that humans once offended stop hearing the logical rational parts of the conversation(i do it all the time even though i know better)

 

[exerp]

Story. But .. as has been said above .. not as walls of text.

A good story doesnt have to have a lot of text when presented as a visual novel. Lots of writing instructors talk about "show. dont tell". That applies at least double for visual novels. Let the visuals do a lot of the work of letting the reader/player know what is happening.

And dont say what is already being shown!! It is tedious to have a scene nicely laid out in the pictures/animation .. just to have it all described in text on top of the pictures.

If you are writing a visual novel and find yourself using lots of "narrating" text, its time to step back and think how that narration could be made into visuals instead.

Dialogue is good use of text .. except dialogue that is really narration or info-dumps in disguise.

 

[blackus]

for just scenes we already have normal porn, the history is whats keep a game alive

 

[User_141203]

Depends on the day. as of right now fun factor so maybe story then for today

 

[periperikante]

story 100%. makes you care more about the sex scenes. when the story sucks i just slap on skip unseen text and ctrl my way through the fodder.

 

[Chaos's iconChaos]

Depends on the Game tbh, but a good story is a must. however, if the Scenes themselves are just gung-ho nonsense Sex after, it Kinda ruins it either way.

if you have a really good story, you just kinda want the sex scenes to be on the same level i guess.

 

[HandholdDegen]

Story. Mindless sex get boring.
So many games have a shittonne of sex, but it becomes the least important and interesting part of the game because it is simply there for the sake of itself instead of actually mattering.

 

[noonzone]

Needs balance, story is good when its done right, but mindless pages and pages of cliche nonce will make me drop game

 

[JulianK]

A good story is essential - especially long term. The main exception would be if the gameplay or mechanics are otherwise good, though some level of story helps there too (things like some mangment/sim games and such). Just a bunch of sex scenes is okay for a little bit, but will get boring soon. At that point why is it a game and not a video/animation or images?

 

[lemonchapstick]

If the story is good, then mix, if its pretty bad then it's just fap material

 

[jabax69]

A little bit of both, I think

 

[MercurioC]

Well, I think both are important. If there's no story, it gets boring, and if there aren’t any good sex scenes, then it's not worth it as a porn game. It doesn’t have to be amazing, but it should at least be decent.

 

[James2911]

Depends on the game. If it's a straight up visual novel with little gameplay, I prefer more sex. But if there's gameplay involved, I don't mind gaps between sex scenes.

 

[andrew_12]

Story is very important, I need a good build up for making the sex really hot

 

[trashaway345]

A good mix of both. Too much story in between horny is, imo, not the way.