Why are so many people ashamed to play this game?

That's what a guilty pleasure is. Like when I discovered what the best of worlds meant, and agreed. Everybody has something like dbd, and it's fun finding out what it is sometimes.

There's also the way the community acts and not wanting to be directly associated with them. That's a fair reason in my book, similar to how you wouldn't openly talk about playing Ecchi RPG's or always see people bashing mechanics very harshly when they do (even though they're generally equal to or better than most other games in the same genre).

I play hentai games shamelessly, this game I always feel some embarrassment about even as my hours grow on it.

I always assume there's a good chance they've fapped at least once to them so I chuckle when I see a new one pop on a notification. I can't imagine those kind of games being more entertaining than other kinds of games in any other way. It would be like playing the kmart version of a video game. It would be like, somebody would rather play a cheap asset flip on steam that only got a few people to buy it cause of the milkjugs on a few characters while it has poor hit detection and chiddy netcode over wanting to play mortal kombat. or even the last street fighter over mortal kombat, more of an opinion with those though

I don't understand that, the look of those games I have seen I've been reluctant to wanna evenr efer to as games sometimes. especially the ones calling them "visual novels". They just make me lol. stuff like legend of heroes, I'd always rather play that when it's a game where I can stand the cartoony style over anything using sex as a cheap gimmick. I just cannot help the low opinion I have of the sorts where that seems to be just about anything or the only thing they'll play. my mind is screaming "future funny article about a future felonious deviant", and holds the firm belief that they are definitely fapping like ted bundy locked in their home 'playing' the stuff. If the stuff had cost the same price as real games of the same type, and people still bought it instead of at least pirating it (usually they look much cheaper probably to make it more appealing since it seems a niche thing), I would honestly consider the guy that claimed the world ended in 2012 may have been right and we are in a parallel timeline at that point. one I'd call bizarro world, especially after all of last year.

meh, D&D and similar games are role playing tools. the whole point is to use them as a baseline for making up your own adventures and doing whatever you want with them. which is why I cracked up at the whole "inclusivity" thing since any group can play any way they want and anybody could always look for others who wanted to play the way they wanted to play. Nobody was ever denied entry unless they denied themselves of it, or failed to find the right people for them. Which is close to impossible going over the internet these days, but could be a real problem before it though. If people wanna play that way, then whatever lol. Telling people how to not play those kind of games is already defeating their purpose in my opinion.

hentai stuff is focused on sex though, that's the thing about it. I mean it's just a way to get something lazy or less imaginative a few extra sales. And yep many mainstream games of course have done it, with a lot of their characters especially in the 90s. That was obvious, but the hentai stuff takes it to a whole notha levo. But if anybody's story was good enough to sell, and they knew people would like it, they wouldn't bank on the priapism selling it for them.

Again, because you're biased. I wouldn't say that you're entirely at fault though, since that's just the sort of society the we live in. That is, one that shuns and demonizes this type of content instead of actually addressing the issue and teaching people about it.

Dungeon Travelers 2, MGQ and Rance for example, easily beats (or at least equals) many of the games that are usually in the "Totally Not Biased by Nostalgia Top Twenty Best JRPG's of all Time" lists around. Even if a hentai game came out that objectively completely outclassed them in every single possible aspect, people would still disregard it as thoughtless garbage.

People are set in their ways, so I am probably wasting my breath.

Dont really know what you mean, never really saw that xD Noob3 for example is just meming when he said that. And if someone is ashamed then they might want to work on their character.

Reminds me on the old days, when Animes and Mangas where a nishe thing and old times weebs where actually scared to admit that they watch or read them. Was also stupid imo.