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Originally Posted by hyl
It's kind of hard to prove my point that people are wrong who think that eroges can't have good written main characters, without giving any examples. Eventhough i am aware that many people in this forum don't read them and have no bloody idea what i am blabbering about  |
I never said they can't have well written main characters at all, did I?
I can't prove a negative, so feel free to list them. But can you be confident that these are just exceptions.
You're right though, I haven't an exhaustive list of VNs that I've played and almost never complete them, however, I think I've had enough experience with games and hentai to put two and two together. This is why I don't use the words
most and
all to avoid retarded semantics debates.
To me though it's simple logic that as a game that features many attractive females will put the focus on them. There are many, many ones that feature them on the cover, no? And there's just a higher chance they'd be more interesting. It's what sells.
It's also simple logic that a game is inherently a self insert in most regards, especially when you can direct the character's actions. Making a character too distinct could interfere with the process. Of course, games are evolving.
I also don't think it's unreasonable to say that pornographic material has certain elements of sexual fantasy to it which of course increases the self-insert factor.
Finally, it would be safe to say that a lot of the audience, heterosexual males, do not have interesting men in their sexual fantasies.
And to me it makes perfect sense that when the transition comes to anime, that viewers obviously do not have control over the protagonist's actions and a straight port will seem boring.