Curiosity Poll #3
Added 2020-04-26 01:03:27 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
This poll might look kind of out of the blue (well, I did say I'd bring a curiosity poll to you this week, so maybe not that surprising^^).
So, it's something I've been thinking about for a while, and I wanted to have you guys' opinion on the subject:
1) For a NTR game , do you think the antagonist, the bad guy, should be a complete asshole, bad to the core, not showing one ounce of kindness or empathy ? (might be easier to hate him then)
OR
2) Should he be more in the grey zone, sometimes showing a more "human" side and some form of pity, although he'd still remain an unlikable character overall? (it might help bring the character some depth)
I'm looking foward to the results! If you wanna comment something, I'd be more than happy to read it! : )
The poll will end on Sunday the 3rd of May, 8pm CEST.
Have a nice sunday!
-N_Taii
Comments
If you wanted to be a real sick fuck you could have a morally grey character hit the MC with something like "I'm sorry that this is happening to you, I really am. Believe me, I didn't come here to 'steal your girl', she just seems to really like me and you yourself said that you love her and only care about her happiness... Well, what makes her happy seems to be, well, me." But that has a lot of potential to hit that "obsessive, watch and admire from afar, I deserve her I'd treat her right, I'd make her happy" crowd that lives on the internet (Yeah, I'm talking to YOU, person reading this. Stop being so damn creepy)... That said I think it'd be pretty funny as well as something I don't think I've ever really seen done before
Ob Nixillis
2020-04-27 19:50:12 +0000 UTCYes, I completely understand what you mean. Not only did the MC's life get ruined, but he's just a collateral damage that holds close to no value to the antagonist. Then again, it isn't exactly what I meant by "grey zone", I was thinking more about the antagonist's personality. In some rare cases, should he sometimes show more compassion, pity, even kindness, or should he remain in the "dark side of the force", so to speak, during the whole game? That's what I'm wondering.
N_taii
2020-04-27 16:44:00 +0000 UTCHmmm, now that you mention it, I should have added an extra option maybe, something along the lines of "either is fine". Anyway, thank you for your input! I'll keep that in mind for the future.
N_taii
2020-04-27 16:38:02 +0000 UTCI picked the morally grey one because there's something so much more visceral about someone who ruins your life not out of hatred of the MC or some twisted enjoyment but really just because he saw something he wanted and took it. The impersonallity of it all makes it, in a way, so much worse than if it were personal. "You took everything from me!" "I don't even know who you are"
Ob Nixillis
2020-04-27 06:45:53 +0000 UTCI abstained. The poll is too binary. Moreover, like most things in the life the answer is, it depends. The plot and the tone of the game are going to be the driving factors of this. NTRPG has a good example of a "grey zone" antagonist and NTRPG 2 has an outright villain. Both worked. Hell your game has a funky ass hybrid with Gary. Starts off as a kind hearted, if pervy, old man and is then corrupted into something much more monstrous.
tpogs
2020-04-27 04:34:56 +0000 UTCYes, if it was any other type of game, I'd go with 1) with little hesitation. But since NTR is a rather particular kind of genre for games, characters should reflect what players expect from them, thus this poll^^
N_taii
2020-04-26 22:31:06 +0000 UTCI completely agree. Thing is, I didn't really mean it'd give some depth to a character who didn't have any to begin with, it would just add another layer of depth : )
N_taii
2020-04-26 11:15:08 +0000 UTCAnother plot twist: the love interest was the bad guy all along and stole the original bad guy away from the player!^^ What I meant by grey zone wasn't actually in terms of a backstory that would somehow justify his actions, but closer to your 1), of a character whose personnality leans towards the completely bad, but has a more decent side. Like he wouldn't step on a guy who's already on the ground, or wouldn't necessarily lie and cheat every chance he gets, or both. That's just an example though.
N_taii
2020-04-26 09:21:08 +0000 UTCIm alright with either really as long as they are interesting to see. Though I do want to comment that just because someone is bad to the bone, doesn't mean they have no depth. Might be a cheap comparison but, Ramsey Snow from GoT was evil to the core, but no 2d. He had reasons and motives we could understand even if they were all utterly evil and twisted.
WaxerRed
2020-04-26 09:16:20 +0000 UTC
