are you okay with other male characters getting your love interest if you dont pursue their route in a dating sim?
>>737250258i don't play games with other male characters in them
>>737250258I wish more games did that.Sucks when I play a JRPG and it makes all my homies permavirgin retards that repel all women for some poorly explained reason. I know that otakus get upset at the mere existence of other male characters, but I've still never liked MCsexual only parties.
>>737250258kill all NTRfags
>choose one girl>the rest of the girls never move on>just watch the winner fuck the MC for the rest of their lives
>>737250258BASED NTR enjoyer
>>737250258Why would you give a shit is the question, unless you are aiming at the harem end I guess
>>737250356Based tranny playing female only dyke garbage.
>>737250741>Play a VN>Choose a girl's route>Every other girl in the game ceases to exist
>>737250258Yes? I want to see my bro(s) settling down with a cute girl because I already got a cute girl of my own.
>>737250356>i don't play gamesAverage /v/bro....
>>737250684>>737250751NTR is a shit fetish, but autistic chink meltdowns over seeing any male character near their designated harem is even worseAt least NTRfags don't demand authors to cater to them to appease to their insecurities
>>737250258>Are you okay with other male characters Not really no
>>737250356>>>/sino/
>>737250258Depends. Side characters that's not a virgin? Some asshole girl who thinks her boyfriend is boring and wants to jump to MC? Prostitute that's lied and will cut you off from her life if you criticize her lifestyle? Sure, whatever. The virgin cover heroine? The childhood friend that loves (you) from the start? Hell no.
>>737250356Based gachaslop enjoyer
I want the male characters as MY love interest
>>737250258Fire Emblem is the best if you want to make sure all your bros get hooked up as well.
>>737250258If a game doesn't have a harem route it's trash.
>>737250258I was always partial to it in Harvest Moon games, the rivals system. Nowadays it's all "have your cake and eat it too"
>>737251684
>>737250258that's inherently cucked because people will make fanart of the character you went for fucking other guys
>>737251684Never understood why they took that out, it just makes the newer game towns feel more sterile since nobody else is having kids except for the MC and his wife. It was neat seeing the place slowly fill up with kids as all the characters started marrying each other.
>>737250258only if they're both girls
>>737251352Fire Emblem is best when there's no self insert faggotry
>>737251772Real men get enraged and kill everyone involved starting with the officiant
>>737250258
>>737251243>you and me go out>me go out?I think not. Learn English bitch
>>737250915bro, i wish sumire was a yandere
>>737250258Kino, so long as it's with a girl you aren't going after. Even better if the game gives you the ability to be your bros wingman
cuck thread
>>737250258only if i get to watch them fuck at the very least
>>737252126In the end he got exactly what he wanted hilariously.Mikasa pined after him for the rest of her life and was even buried next to him instead of her presumed husband. Probably thought about him during sex too
>>737250258i mean if it feels properly written sure, the big issue is that currently characters AREN'T being written to fit with anyone other than the MCtake persona 5 for example, ann's like the one party member who feels like she could reasonably end up getting with someone else in the party
>>737250356do people like this never had friends? i always picture some neet that got bullied in school whenever i hear crap like that. there is nothing like true male friendship, you can't ever have that with a woman but that should be common knowledge, no?
>>737253737gay
>>737250258Depends on the execution. If they've got a good chemistry and entertaining dynamic, sure. If it's just forced for some ntr bait, then no.I like the rival system in harvest moon games, it makes it feel more like an organic, evolving community and that the world doesn't just revolve around (you).
>>737253737wdytwa.jxl
>>737251087But they actually do best proof is f95>Inb4 d-doesnt count
>>737252126Kek
>>737250258no, I don't mindEXCEPT YOU KAI YOU FUCKING NIGGER POPURI IS MINE BECAUSE OF YOU I NEVER GET TO PICK OTHER GIRLS
>>737250916why is this so creepy
>>737250258Party women are allowed to get men from outside the party, and party men are allowed to get women from outside the party. But no intraparty hookups other than mine. I don't want the implication they were into each other from earlier on.
>>737250258I'm fine with broenheim hitting that because charon is made for me anyway
>>737250258What game actually does that? The latest I can recall is Pillars of Eternity II.I remember some people being extremely seething about one pair's ending being better than if a Female MC gets together with him.
>>737250258If you're only playing through a game once, then yes I would say other characters should get together, otherwise it feels like everyone is mc-sexual and the entire world revolves around you, see Persona 5. Persona 3 barely manages to avoid this by giving Junpei Chidori. If that happened in P5, Chidori would have been a social link and fall in love with the mc.That said, if you're gonna replay a game and you're expected to clear all the routes, I think it would feel pretty bad if the character you fell in love with in the previous route, found a different person to fall in love with while you're pursuing a different route. Call me old fashioned, but I think if you fall in love with someone, I think it should be for life, even if they died and you're a widow, you don't go and hop on the next dick.It's one of the reasons I don't like the AoT ending. Mikasa you're so loyal to Eren but you really wanted to feel a dick inside you, you just couldn't help but spread your legs.
>>737257601Wasn't she 19 when he died?
>>737258010a fair point, if their entire fucking relationship wasn't predicated on her almost fanatical obsession with him and the only thing stopping them from rutting like rabbits is ymir being a bitch and needing to watch someone kill the person they love so she could... move on from her rapist asshole of a husband that she had no reason to love but randomly did i guesslike eren only really starts acting like he actually wanted to fuck mikasa near the end of the story, meanwhile mikasa was trying to get in his pants day 1 and was up for shanking historia just because they were acting friendly with each other, and i'm supposed to believe HE'S the one who's incapable of moving on? that within a decade she'd be shitting out kids with totally-not-jean?you simply can't write a borderline yandere in this fashion, it doesn't feel right in any way
>>737252126After thinking about it, I agree with Eren. See >>737257601Imagine if your dad passes away, and your mom who was married to him for 30-50 years, right after the funeral says "I should get back into the dating scene." You wouldn't think that was normal, you wouldn't encourage her to move on. To you, that was a bond for life that you can't imagine a time before or after it.There was a line in the Kaguya-sama ova that really struck me. I feel like regular people think of sex like their favorite restaurant and if it closes down, they can just go to the place down the street. It's not a big deal, you gotta eat right? Like sex is just a natural part of life, everyone's doing it. Even if your lover dies, it's not like you can't not have sex. You gotta have sex so I guess you just find a new dick to put inside you.t. sexless virgin that idealizes true love and chastity
>>737250258Romance in games is gay so I don't care
>>737250356I can't think of a single game with an all-female cast that is good
>>737250258triple H doesn't like Faust like that bro
Some people really work hard in order to feel cucked. They're so spiritually raped that they couldn't imagine a woman picking them, even in their power fantasies, if there's any feasible way the woman might have ended up with someone else. That or they just secretly love the NTR shit and their protests are all part of the RP
>>737251812Because japanese players complained. Thats literally the entire reason it was removed.
>>737258536but anon, sometimes that new restaurant just simply appears in your neighbourhood, and you can't simply stop thinking about it, even when you mastered cooking home for all these years since the last one closed for good.
>>737250356Based
>>737253737Based and friendpilled
>>737250741Stream that film, if you're so great.
>>737253737Friendship is for equals, I am equal to no man.
>>737258689Exactly, why would I give a fuck about virtual hoes
>>737250258Sure. If I'm not dating them, why would I care if someone else does?
Uh, sorry I'm not well versed in this dilemma if you care, why are you just not doing that route?The only possible way this can be a problem is that there are hidden paths in the story that don't work if you get with the love interest. That's just a bad game though.
I'm fine with male characters getting with my love interest ESPECIALLY if I'm pursuing them.
>>737267403Pajeet or jew, call it.
>>737250258Fuck no. I'd straight up never read or play anything that has potential love interests get with other people, if other male characters are going to have love interests it should be with a girl who isn't one of the heroines. I should instead ask why the fuck would you specifically want one of the potential love interests to get with your male friends? That's weird and kinda sounds like you're just projecting a fetish.
>>737267663NTS is the true white man / honorary Aryan fetish
>>737258689>>737265107If you want the male characters to get with them it kinda sounds like you do care.
>>737250258>>737250915>Play a VN>Choose a girl's route>All the other girls end up being extremely miserable
>>737267862>if a girl doesn't get with me she's miserableWhat a fucking narcissist.
>>737267992I didn't say that
>>737268032I know what you said. Why would the other girls not just enjoy spending time with their friends as they were before you entered anyone's route? Narcissist.
>>737250258Yes, everyone deserves a happy ending in my book
I wanted a game that was like The Sims, but with characters who had their own personalities, and where you could bring them all together in one place and watch their relationships develop, some fighting, others dating, and then the guy who gets cuckolded tries to kill the other guy, and so on.
>>737250258Yeah, that's kind of what I liked about Symphony of War. Romancing best girl meant cucking best bro but it kind of balanced out because there was another chick you could hook best bro up with.
>>737250258A dating sim is one thing, but if the romance isn't the main attraction then the very act of giving me a choice of romantic interest means that it's overwhelmingly likely that the romance isn't integral to the plot, and you could pick anyone or no one with little consequence. In that case, I should just have them all.
>>737268083I didn't even mention the game I was referencing, you're just assuming that because you want to start shit, very pathetic attention seeking, here's your last (you)
Is there any VN that lets you be a wingman to your bro
>>737264871>Friendship is for equalsthe fuck does that mean
>>737250258No. Fuck NTR.
>>737250356Peak south korean/seamonkey mentality
>>737250915>play a vn>choose a girl's route>every other girl FUCKING DIES
>MC doesn't have relationship points to win the girl's heart>Goes on a fucking rampage after getting cuckedWhat other games?
It's one thing if Tali ends up with GarrusImagine if she ended up with Jacob/v/ would implode
>>737269473I'm imagining a VN where your split second decision to save one person from a disaster(like a train crash or something) leads to an exploration of trauma and survivor's guilt from various perspectives
>>737269631that would be neat not dismissing you but you should check azreal (guy saves the grim reaper and now he's forced to reap his love interests)
>>737269526>play one of those dating sims where you need to get enough points with a girl to even start her route>first playthrough just do the choices that seem natural to me>get the forever alone bad endingthe mc is just like me fr fr
>>737250258If they don't date me I at least want them not to date anyone else
>>737250258If I didn't pursue them then I wasn't very interested, was I?
>>737269707tbf a lot if those dating sims operate on moon logic>Oh, did you not go to the art room on 3/18 to find the bracelet that you're supposed to give to Mai-chan on 4/5 in the hidden evening event?>Too bad retard, you've been locked out of her route.
>>737259523I honestly don't get it unless the game has a harem route. By picking one girl's route the player effectively rejects all the others, so there's nothing to be upset about
>>737267663Definitely a white man
>>737250915Rejecting Sumire feels so good
>>737250915I hate this shit too.I get that the focus is on the girl who's route your on, but why does the MC seemingly cut all contact with the other girls he was friends with in the common route?
>>737250258Yes. I thought Junpei in Persona 3 getting a girl was nice and I'd be fine with my bros in the other games getting some pussy.
>>737270623You monster
>>737250258>>737251812>writer's special favorite girl gets to be with Prince Charming or suspiciously remains single>writer's most hated girl is stuck with ugly bastardNever underestimate how petty they can be
>>737250356look aat all the angry cucks in the replies
>>737272229Sorry I went with my wife
>>737272768Well, at least you have good taste.
>>737270463It does end up being rigged against girls who are less popular though
>>737250258Yes. Makes it seem more like a living and breathing world.>>737255965I isn't.
>>737273256>Makes it seem more like a living and breathing world.It's not. It's a popularity poll.
>>737273370Actually, it's a video game.
>>737250258Yep
>>737273412It's a popularity poll disguised as a videogame.
>>737273679>your love interestYour love interest is Makoto, Makotofag. Let's see Makoto paired with someone.
>>737273736Wait, I got it: it's a video game disguised as a popularity poll.
>>737250258Have you noticed people give characters intentionally shitty pairings out of spite?
>>737273791Ok
>>737250484The secret is to have an equal mix of non-heroines in the side-cast. Let your bro find love but not with one of the main heroines. That way everyone wins.
>>737250258Fuck No.But cucks don't care.
>>737250484It's even worse in Korea, isn't it?
I personally think its a bad move because most dating sim games are designed to be replayed and if you just watched a girl smooch some other dude on the last run, theyre un-endeared to you on the next playthrough. Dating sims should serve the player, life sim games that happen to have dating elements have a bit more leeway but even then, why risk upsetting anyone? If its super important to you as a dev that a girl dates some other character, why risk this story being prevented by the player dating her? Just make her a non datable character.
>>737269526is that Alice on the far left?
>>737254186The cucks on f95 and the cucks here are one in the same as in they're the same fucking people.
I only care about established characters shipped together most of the time but so many times shippers and official couples just fucking suck
>>737250258Okay, Ideas Guy moment:What about a Dating Sim where your actions dictate how well your male friends go with their own cast of female candidates?
>>737274775Strand type dating sim where other players can send you resources (money, exclusive restaurant reservations, rare gifts) and wingman you by talking you up to your cadre of girls
I am way too selfish of a person for NTRcould never
>>737274775Shippers would still manipulate this to go poorly for the characters they don't like
>>737251772Kylebros...
To start with we have to address how the male side characters are written as stupider, pathetic, ugly, gross in contrast with the cool main character
>>737273679For me, it's Kanji and Naoto
>>737250258I look like the guy on the left, but I'm short and fat, and women don't like me. My hair looks pretty similar, like a long, anime, shaggy, and wavy look. I also don't think my face is bad looking. I guess I need a twink physique, but then I was scared I'd just attract faggots. I've never fully believed that women like skinny men as I see a lot of women married to fat dudes.
>>737250258Idealman gets Faust, Hohenheim gets his exploding moth lady, and Dante already has Beatrice
>>737275664Idealman already has Idealman.
>>737257601>Built up society to at least the mid 1900's >Automobiles >Those clothes>Had access to planes, bombs, and nukes. >That style of architecture >Ends up getting bombed to rubble Kek. It was neat seeing society progress past literal Medieval tech, honestly, I'd say it was more dated than that.
Unrelated, but I'm fucking seething about the sequel to the nonexistence of you and me being dead in the water with most of the team leaving because chinks were screaming about NTR because there was a male character is the party member list. There was also one of the devs just randomly saving art, where they reposted some ai slop art of the male party member kissing the main heroine, which sent people into a massive shitfligging fit that destroyed the team and had the original author leave with a large amount of the team.Absolutely seething.
>>737274775fire emblem
tokimeki memorial does it and its based for it
>>737250258If I didn't pursue her route, then she's not my love interest.
>>737275493basedNaoto is cool, but I'd never do my bro Kanji dirty like that and romance her.
>>737250258>using a gay character for this shitpost
>>737278285HoenCHAD canonically is grooming like two young girls to be his bride right now
>>737278185This is where it becomes a problem, inevitably you start trying to guilt trip players who do pick that character
>>737274775You make matchmaker?There was a VN like that where you have the choice to keep a couple together or not. Its not always ends up well though.
>>737267862Blue haired chick from majikoi whose whole personality is being in love with you. Felt bad for her on other routes.
>>737257601While I definitely agree, I would also say that in the alternate reality of your second playthrough that character never DID fall in love with you. It's kind of silly to go>The MC was your true love in an alternate universe so you should stay loyal to them>even though they are currently pursuing and fucking somebody elseI think if you've explicitly not shown interest in a character on a playthrough they should be able to show interest in others. But the obvious thing is that they should just make it a determinant option (i.e. your dude friends comes to you and asks if you're interested in Y girl or something and goes after her if you say no, or he asks for advice and you can tell him to act on his feelings or whatever). So that means if you do find it weird and would feel bad if your waifu got together with somebody you can just have it not happen.
>>737250484I think most reasons given in something like Persona were okay. But making it so Yusuke and Akihiko couldn't get gfs was fucking absurd.
>>737279410Yeah an option would be the best choice that solves it for all parties. Write it so they have their own side stories, but then turn off those dialogue branches if the player says they don't want it.
>>737273679A man of taste.
>>737270826Because the girls presumably move on and it would upset people
Play Star Ocean 2.
>>737250258I don't want my homeboys to go pussless. Get some puss, bro, I got some puss, we literally all can win here.
>>737250258>dating simi'm not a faggot so why would i play some gay shit like that
>>737250356Tranny freak.
>>737273679>>737279696Cute siblings. Ann only sees Ryuji as her little brother.
>>737274775>(you) play the role of that one luckless ineffectual bro character who is a friend to different dense protagonistsAn ironic weeb OELVN classic in the making.
>>737280502Just like how Futaba is Joker's little sister.
>>737280771Touche
>>737250258>Play Persona 5>Date my love interest>Every other woman dies a loveless virgin>All of your male friends explicitly die loveless virginsWhy is Japan like this?You know, I played a gacha back in 2012 where following a timeskip, the entire female cast got paired off with the male cast while the player/MC marries their canon love interest.Can you IMAGINE a modern gacha pulling this move?
>>737280502Such a great sister
>>737250258It's already been said itt, but Fire Emblem is the king if you want a game where every character can find their own relationships.You even get a (sometimes) nice little epilogue to see how their relationship ended up long term.
>>737268594He's fat, nobody is equal in size to him.
>>737281115it'd be NTR if anyone was happy without (you)
Only if it's my homie Garrus
>>737282002>never got to see Garrus and Tali get together because I always romance Tali with male Shepard and Garrus with female Shepard
>>737267862It's fucking bananas how many jap writers have no basic understanding of how human beings socialize.
>>737281115Because it's what a lot of them prefer, and they don't make heaps of threads talking about FILTHY GAIJINS WANT ONLY CHEATING AND HAG BEHAVIORS IN THEIR WOMEN, CAN'T IMAGINE A LOLI WITHOUT THE DIVORCE on futaba, they just play games they like. It'd be funny if they did make threads like that though
>>737250258If it's side characters/routelets I'm not too bothered. If a heroine I really liked ended up with another guy when on a different route, I'd definitely hate it.I'll make an exception for Kiminozo though because Mitsuki is such a terrible human being that Shinji can have Takayuki's sloppy seconds for all I care.
>>737250258>playing dating simscannot relateif i was the kind of pathetic loser that did that kind of thing i probably would be pissed but this is pure conjecture
>>737280128What size queens are you dating because I just get bitched out for being too big. Like it's annoying and mood ruining.
>>737282456based gigachad posting on 4chan
>>737282606Upload a picture of your penis in Cat Box and post the link!You have to post forensic factual evidence because if you don't, then you're just a LARPer.
>>737267341>why are you just not doing that routeThat means not finishing a game you've paid for. You can't say you have beat a game without finishing all the content it has.
>>737250356Me neither. I don't want to risk being accidently turned on by a male.
>>737275664Let's take a look at Beatrice first, shall we?
>>737267862>Choose a girl's route>She dies because she prioritize (you) over her own health >Is healty in all other routes
>>737250258If this happens after a timeskip. If a girl can "move on" in just a few days, her feeling for the MC weren't especially strong.
>>737250258>are you okay with other male characters getting your love interest if you dont pursue their route in a dating sim?As a general rule no, bUT for me to make an exception it would need to be done in a way that is belieavable and that doesn't devalue the romantic undertones or innuendo between the MC and the girl.Otherwise it would look bad if for example she started dating another guy immediately after your explicit or implicit rejection.Also at the very least the other guy should be someone you as a player like and that the MC is in good terms with. I.e. It definitely shouldn't be someone the main character would disapprove of.
>>737264664Not that anon but the law was broken and I have arrived to set things right.>>737250741 should catch a 24 hour ban for his crimes though. One fucking job anon.
>>737282789>heathniggerIs for cuckthy and Trannymael
>>737283002E.g. I would be okay if a girl I liked but chose to not pursue ended dating one of my friends or someone good. I'd of course want the girl to be happy even if I didn't chose her.
Games should have a comedic villain duo that end up becoming a couple.
>>737250258>Multiple romance options>Each has aspects I like>Suffer from choice paralysis >Don't choose any at allEverytime. And no, I'm too retarded to have multiple saves and picking them all that way
>>737284321Does that apply to your real life too?
>>737284321By choosing nothing, you still made a choice anon.
>Go through School Days>Stay loyal to Kotonoha>Sekai gets raped and stays trapped in a relationship with Taisuke>OK...?>Next playthrough go for her but end with Kotonoha in the end>Kotonoha gets raped and Hikari gets violatedI think no correct choice exists.
>>737284761School days is fucked up by principle
>>737250258I should be able to fuck them
>>737250258If it's not a plotge VN where there's a linear route progression I laser focus on one girl, which may not be who I thought before booting up the game. I don't get replay value out of full-on dating simsbut how many games other than certain FEs let you ship everyone else off, anyway?
>>737284761That's kind of the point of School Days.
>>737258763Senran Kagura? Toe Hoe? Gris? Honestly I'm not sure.
Tali and Garrus getting together makes me not want to romance either of them because they're both good characters and I can't deny one of them by taking the other. They deserve each other.
>>737258763I wanted to say Borderlands 3 but then I reread your post
>>737250258What would that add? Serious question. Why would I care about their relationship? What would justify the author spending time and resources on that?
>>737250741That's a good thing!
>>737284761School days is a special case being basically a "What if dumb teenagers make dumb decisions without consequences non-stop". But I agree with the point that staying 100% loyal to one girl or the other ending up in the nasty shit happening to the other.Then again, the same IP where Makoto is basically related with over 90% of the characters on-screen. Hates his dad for his actions but does the same shit.
>>737250258I want to say no, but the only game I played where this happened was Mass Effect, and I thought Tali and Garrus getting together was cool. In a perfect world, I could always have a harem.
>>737275493>Naoto is obviously best girl>Don't want to cuck kanji because he's a brothe hardest choices require the strongest wills
Honestly, there are less insecure people itt than I imagined.
>>737287660Why should there be any? Anonymity removes the need to appeal to others. This isn't a platform where saying the safest or inflammatory shit carries over into traffic for your IP, you just say how it is to you.It's a dating sim, those who aren't picked can be freely handled in context of their character or story. Gravitating it all around the decision of the player seems too narrow-minded.
>>737274078This
Self-inserting is retarded, and so is seething over seeing fictional characters in a happy relationship(s). Especially if they're likable on their own.
>>737250258It's not my love interest if I didn't pursue her route. What a strange question.
>>737259134This is the best post in the thread, one that hits the nail in the head.>If a girl who got together with me in one timeline, who chose me as her lover/partner/husband, picks someone else in a timeline I show no interest in her, it means she never loved me, not really.Some men, especially the more deluded ones, really think love is a once-in-a-lifetime affair.
>>737282172Have you seen their birthrates, their marriage rates, the level of loneliness in their society? They literally have no experience with romance or intimacy, even on a basic level.
>>737287243I like School Days because it's also something I experienced IRL - despite being a near-sociopathic sperg, all it takes is for one hot but insane girl to take interest in you, and suddenly you start having adventures out of porn novels.
>>737250258No. I'm a loser in real life and I never got women, while all my male friends did. When similar thing happens in video games it makes me realize I'm a pathetic subhuman that has no value at all in society and would be better disappear. So I'm not okay with it. In video games all the women are mine and mine only.
>>737250258only if I get to play as those characters too
>>737251684I love suffering
>>737253737Modern vidya isn't able to capture proper male friendship anymore, it's either fucking nothing or faggotry
>>737293976what did she mean by this
>>737250356It's like playing an FPS with no enemies though.What's the point if there's no threat?
yeah any other games like that cthulu game where you can get cucked?
>>737250258I wish there were more none MC couples in games in general. So tired of the boring blank slate MC getting all of the romantic attention rather than the girl and guy that actually get some characterization and dynamic together.
>>737289491It's not like that's anything exclusive to Japan anymore
