discussion What ruins a game?

[Rebel 357]

Aging the lolies to adults or completely stopping/removing loli contents.

That shows the dev is a little bitch and has no spine. Especially when the game has a focus on loli content.

 

[Cruddy]

When devs can't make interesting dialogue, so they just throw in painfully unfunny attempts at humor like fourth wall breaks or a reference.
Censorship garbage like "landlady" or "roommate." There is also censorship where the school is called a college instead of a high school lol.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

When devs can't make interesting dialogue, so they just throw in painfully unfunny attempts at humor like fourth wall breaks or a reference.
Censorship garbage like "landlady" or "roommate." There is also censorship where the school is called a college instead of a high school lol.

Agreed. The "college" thing bugs me, but (unpatchable) "Landlady" and "Housemate" are so obviously contrived that it kills a game for me.

 

[dirty36]

Gay
That is what will make me not even think of looking into a game.
Just something that doesn't even come close to interesting me.
Not that there is anything wrong with it.

 

[MattShizzle]

It's odd when you see ones where college works like high school and ones where high school works like college.

 

[Harlequin1229]

Balloon Tits

 

[MattShizzle]

Difficult minigames or such.

 

[Cruddy]

The ridiculous shota censorship, where we are meant to believe the character is 18+ like in Golden Boy, Ravenous, and like two others I can't be bothered to remember (Lolis too in the case of Ravenous.)

 

[User_109578]

- fucking countless other girls, when you are building up a LI

- endless updates with no real changes

- to long update times, where you forget what the game was about..

 

[dereguedeixe]

Too much grind

 

[Finwin]

too much text, bad art, most sandboxes, bugs, bad story and game play.

 

[charliewall42069]

grind, tedious minigames, really bad edgy dialogue, sometimes too much plot

 

[Waqllisqa]

I can't play any that have NTR, Female Protagonist or DILF
These are the contents that I hate the most

 

[fallfallen]

chicks with dicks, massive tits or ass, animal stuff. not into thise things.

 

[dreski]

Its pretty much an automatic turn off for me when any game has a censored tag what is appealing to the people who do? the story?

 

[master cruss]

Man censorship in porn is the worst!

 

[chocovanilla]

Evil Protagonist. I want to be nice in the game. Not a wimp tho. I like the protagonist that kind and firm.

 

[Loliholic]

Man censorship in porn is the worst!

Nope, female censorship is the worst.
Censored dicks are a good thing, but censored pussys are annoying as hell.

 

[MattShizzle]

ANY censorship is bad.

 

[AnyNameYouWish]

Fourth wall breaks, especially to point out a lack of quality or developer confidence as a "joke." Nothing says, "This is a fantastic game!" like a developer telling you through the mouths of his characters that his game is trash. If you ever feel compelled to do that, just hold the latest (or initial, in the case of games that start off with a fourth wall break of that kind) release back and polish it until you no longer feel compelled to nudge and wink at the audience about how crappy your game is.

There are games I've quit before I even got into the story itself because the fourth wall was broken in an annoying way at the beginning, usually to provide a "quirky" experience while naming your character and setting preferred content. I took that as a warning about what the rest of the game would be like, and decided it wasn't for me.

Another related peeve would be the developer deciding to waylay any plot or character progression to outright explain broad swathes of the characters' backgrounds, usually by having the main character monologue internally for an extended period at the beginning before a single real action is performed, or a word spoken. This can happen in chunks, around each time the MC first meets one of the principal characters from the player's perspective (bumps into mom, she gives a single line, and then there are fifteen paragraphs of MC's internal monologue about her past, their relationship and exposition of his desire for her instead of actually showing us any of these things through creative and heartfelt interactions in-story) or all at once (the MC just rants to himself in his head about every single aspect of his world, life and relations before a single thing happens).

I hate those sorts of openings. It's the equivalent of a novel's narration giving you a dry breakdown of global geopolitics before any characters appear on the page, or a movie having the characters tell each other things they already know so things can be hastily set up in the clumsiest way possible. It's info dumping taken to an extreme, and obtrusive at best when it appears.