We need more games where you play as a lonely social reject
We need more games where you play as a lonely social reject
Grayson Hill
Jose Parker
Who'd want to play that?
Cameron Murphy
Why bother when that's half or more of this board's real life
Kevin Miller
OP, there is a whole series where you play as the town rejected retard.
Wyatt Martin
I don't think a single piece of media has portrayed being a loner/NEET accurately. They always have friends, or start getting friends right away.
Henry Jones
Dwarf Fortress adventure mode.
Ayden Perry
WHERE IS IT TOBY
Ian Gutierrez
We need more games where you can fuck purple dinosaur girls
Daniel Thomas
The problem is that there's nowhere to go with that kind of character. They'd have to serve as a background character because there's no way to write a proper loner as a protagonist.
Samuel Rogers
Because you don't want to photograph reality, you want to photograph the photograph of reality. Art must always relate to our normal lives in some way or we couldn't get anything out of it. Obviously the social reject in the game would not just sit in front of his PC all day. He would be forced to constantly confront the issue head on like the Tatsuhiro in Welcome to the N.H.K. so we as the audience can vicariously confront the issue in an entertaining way.
Parker Wood
Based
Kayden Johnson
>is recognized as the hero by many people
>often has female NPCs crush on him
>confronts NPCs without hestitation
>goes in people's homes and breaks their stuff
>is friends with a princess
Charles Hughes
No, it just requires creativity and not appealing to baby boomers with the same old cliches.
Chase Martin
Just thrust them in a horror situation where they have to fight or die, They don't have to an anime protagonist.
Charles Sanchez
the town delinquent needs to hook up with that particular social reject
David Barnes
>Art must always relate to our normal lives in some way
Totally false, in fact that's the lowest form of art.
Leo Lee
>the stacy boss battle
>the cum sock collecting minigame
>the imaginary anime girl side character that doesnt actually exist but helps you anyway
>the xp bonus for not missing when pissing in a jar
>the tearjerker moment when the pizza guy is the old high school friend and you banter about old days
>the suicide bad ending
>the stacy handjob good ending
it could be good desu
Xavier James
No, you don't get it. There's LITERALLY nowhere to go story-wise. What kind of story can you write with a loner/NEET as a protag? He's not going to want to interact with anyone or do anything out of his comfort-zone. It's going to be the most mindlessly boring story of all time because nothing is going to happen.
The only solution is to do something like but then you have a situation where the character's personality doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter if a character in that scenario is a loser, a socialite, whatever. They're all going to fight the same because they've got no other choice, they effectively all melt into the same archetype no matter what their origin is.
Xavier Watson
Cute and canon.
Nathan Ortiz
Yeah that's because no one would like a story about a viscerally unlikable person going out of his way to not let more likeable characters in the plot.
There are single character stories, but they're all deserted island sort of deals. A NEET or hikikomori can only exist when there is a whole society that he is actively not taking part in. Throw him into deserted island situations and he's not really a NEET anymore. He's just a deserted island character with a very unlikable backstory.
Aiden Perry
You can go around that and make the NEET have lots of online friends. In fact this is actually pretty close to reality, all those chucklefucks on Yas Forums whining about not going outside have like 300 discord friends and even e-gfs that they cyber with
Nicholas James
would he count as a social reject?
Liam Allen
There are literally thousands of games like this. You probably don't notice because they don't go out of their way to say "LOOK I AM LONER!!", they just progress the story with a sole character
Thomas Baker
Of course you can do it.
I'm just answering the implied question why no one has seemed to do it that way.
Most people aren't looking for complete novelty out of their fiction. They like normal things like character growth and the main character not being a completely unlikable piece of garbage.
Surprisingly authors try to make things people will like, or at least authors of things that get enough interest to have publishing/adaptation money spent on them so you can see them.
I'm sure if you trawl some writing forums you'll find the truly novel garbage you desire
Dylan Richardson
Underhero comes to mind. Plot about random generic mook accidently killing the chosen hero and having to return the mcguffins he had back to the bosses the hero beat. Main character hates having to go the adventure. Game has genuine effort and love put into it but is only a 7/10 at best with some obvious issues. The games finale is well done and is why I even remember the game, final journal page at the end is cute.
Josiah Lopez
>so much inner HMFA awakened in people who played the demo
Goooooooood. Between this XCOM and Trials of Mana, we've got a bright future.
Samuel Reed
Colton Diaz
Recluse protagonists are hardly given justice, Because you hardly ever get a reason as to why they are that way. Maybe they're a paranoid schizophrenic who cant trust people, Or maybe its self-loathing to the point where they fell inconsiderate just interacting with people. Instead we just get normal dudes who are just unpopular geeks who haven't broken out of their shell yet.
Camden Bailey
What kind of story can you tell about a man who sits in front of a screen 10+ hrs a day and only talks to another human once or twice a week in the form of saying "t-thank you" to the cashier?
Luke Clark
Sorry to break it to you, special snowflake, but that's the real world. Most losers aren't like that because they've got some disorder or they hate themselves. They're just normal people whose social skills aren't as good as others and cause them to isolate.
Nathan Howard
Yeah but those people are boring, I want more welcome to NHK or Chaos Head shit.
Logan Rodriguez
>Between this XCOM and Trials of Mana, we've got a bright future.
I love your optimism but I dunno if it'll have any general lasting power
We'll see I suppose
Nicholas Edwards
I just want more crossover art to fill my folders
Grayson Brown
Of course the person talking about being an edgy social loner reject is an Undertale fan.