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You and I have been making counter posts. I am not going to keep repeating.You're trying to compare (DIK and CHIC) to LI paths. These are not completely one in the same or an interchangeable comparison. Since episode 1, we had 5 LI paths. Everyone had the choice to purposely go a solo LI path since the start of the game if they wanted, rendering the rest of the LI paths pointless to that playthrough. No different than a linear playthrough from the start.
In my main playthrough I only saw 3 unlockable scenes out of the 15 for chapter 8. If chapter 9 has 15 scenes and I miss 12 because of that final choice in chapter 8, then it is no different than any other chapter where scenes can be missed due to choices you made.
Why do you think it is all of a sudden different moving forward? Or more ambitious? When DPC has been doing multiple routes since the beginning anyway.
The fact is that regardless of your statements you neglected the following points and my caps are for emphasis, not to be a dick;
IF you made a LI choice, she now requires a full play through in a chapter.
SINCE we all had to make a choice there are now 5 hooked storylines that must all be different but can all have different docking points.
IF there are more side consequences this makes it more complicated.
I am sorry if this is not clear enough. Go look at the programming needed for just the TWO paths we had.
It was insane and that is why it is 18gb. Ren'Py is not super great for this. It is hard to work with, ESPECIALLY with all that DPC has going on.
He has said himself that he would like to do another game, presumably before he dies of old age.
He is a solo operator if he is to be believed.
It is too much work to maintain a decent schedule. He is already tired on this. His writing is not his strong point in his best moments, and yet he did a pretty fantastic job here on this last chapter, yet.... it shows writer's fatigue.
He won't make 4 more chapters. I doubt he makes more than 2. I predicted a year ago he wouldn't do 12, that he would stop at 10. It is just plain old fatigue.
Peace