Another one.
Honestly, thats not even the reason I don't typically like adult games, but it is a part of it.
The reason why I don't typically play adult games is a bit complicated but I'll try to be brief, lol.
The entire environment of an adult game is different, people are aware that they can really stretch the content of their posts into really niche areas, which isn't inherently bad, I'm not saying it is, but since adult games allow the possibility to REALLY STRETCH into violent or otherwise graphic content, the entire scene, the feel is different.
Even the RTJs in adult games tend to ask for stuff that really, imo, are unnecessary. A lot of RTJs I've seen in adult games I lurk in are things like "Kinks" or "Turn Ons" and I feel like this is such a small part of one's personality that they should be treated just like the rest of the quirks of a character, and should be developed and found out by the players THROUGH the story, not just stated outright in the RTJ, especially in a game that is sex-heavy.
Anyway, here's a good example. Let's say I'm a GM and I'm telling a dramatic story. I want my players to feel really uncomfortable for an arc so in my Mature game I start throwing down subtle hints that one of my NPCs is lusting over another. A little minor stalking, a few awkward conversations. I build that tension through characters and make people feel just a little uncomfortable whenever they read his posts.
In an adult game, I could just have him rape her in really graphic detail. And yes, I could get away with a non graphic rape in a mature game, but it wouldn't be through the DESCRIPTION of the rape, but through the description of the events leading up to said rape. The emotions, the emotional dominance, etc. But just the possibility of these very graphic scenes changes the entire nature of the game. Why take the effort and time to make your players uncomfortable when you can just chop off a leg and have a cannibal eat it?
I also like most of my games to be inclusive as possible, and I also can't write a convincing sex scene without sounding fucking terrible lol.
Hope I explained that well. Again, I'm not saying that all adult games are populated by sleezy basement dwelling perverts, although surely some are there, but for the kinds of games I want to play, the classification isn't typically conducive to those kinds of games.
Edit: One more thing is that I feel like many GMs use the adult classification as a precautionary measure just in case their players get graphic, which, I think is kind of just... bad. I feel like you should build a world and concept and maybe a skeletal plot, around the fundamentals of your game, and its age classification is one of them. If you want to GM an adult game, build an adult world, not just any world and allow adult interactions in it, you know? If you want a mature game, build a mature world. If you lose some adult players, fine, thats fine, but your world and lore will be better in BOTH games if you focus your intentions as a GM from the start.
This message was last edited by the user at 05:02, Sat 30 Dec 2017.