It's true that BaDIK does not have a "great story" from a literary standpoint. None of it is particularly original, either. I think what most of us appreciate about BaDIK and call "story" is just the collection of situation and conflicts that each character in the game faces. So many characters in BaDIK (not just the MC) have their own motivations, interests, and worries, and the story is how they all come together and conflict with each other in compelling ways. The reason they are compelling is because most players like the characters, so we feel invested in what happens to them.
Many of the situations are melodramatic (ie, a bit like a soap opera) and often predictable, but thanks to the music, the funny, well-written dialogue, the great artwork, etc., we don't care. We care about the characters and want to know what happens to them.
The only porn game I know that seems to have much story, in the sense that I think you mean, is maybe "City of Broken Dreamers" or something? Nothing else really comes to mind, though admittedly I've played only 30 or 40 titles here.
I know lots of players come to fap (I'd be lying if I said I didn't, but I need a game to get me in the mood first
), and it's true that BaDIK takes a while before the sexy times get started. It's not until the MC gets to college, has the fight with Troy, and runs into Quinn and Camila in the HOTs bathroom that we have more than a few seconds of tits and ass. I don't know what
Count_Chocula is looking for or why BaDIK didn't grab him, but if it's the lack of fappable activity for the first several minutes, I would simply urge him to make a lot of DIK choices and stay with it until that scene with the MC, Quinn, and Camila. The sexy times come pretty regularly after that and they are generally very well done.
And I agree. If this was mainstream, the story is horrendous, terrible, you could even say garbage.
To quote you, "there is nothing fantastic about the story".
But to say, compared to other AVNs or any other games in this site that the story isn't good, that is just ignorance. In my humble opinion.
To be able to make readers, such as me, be emotionally invested into the characters says a lot.
Like, I can't emphasize enough about how other VNs in this site is getting carried by their lewd scenes just to milk money from down-bad players.
I'm one of those who play VNs mainly for the plot, and the lewd scenes are just a plus to me.
And this is what made it special. You could say that there are a chosen few where other VNs have better render quality and/or story. But overall, the soundtrack, render quality, game-mechanics, branches, and story, add those categories and BaDIK has a better overall rating.
I bash DPC a lot because of the convenience of his stories, but there is a reason why BaDIK is a success, popular, and why this thread has 10K pages.
People often conflate the "plot" with "writing".
BaDIK's plot is borderline forgettable, but the writing is fantastic.
I've never, in my life, read a book twice. Once I've read a book, the twists and turns laid out for me, while the book may be memorable, I won't go back and read it again.
Other acclaimed stories here (CoBD being the immediate one to come to mind), I replayed it from the beginning after the last release, and it was a chore. I knew where the story was going, and the plot was initially interesting, but the execution was significantly lacking. Sure the graphics are good, but the dialogue is hackneyed, the scenes are boring, and I find the sex scenes to be very uninspired.
BaDIK, on the other hand:
Reliving the mc's day to day experience at college, making out with Josy, catching up with the gang, pissing Bella off, playing mind games with Quinn, flirting with Mel and Sarah, getting on Heather's nerves, hanging out at the HOTs (because he's a snowflake), headbutting Jill in the eye with a dildo, getting Nicole to sign his cock, playing footsies under the table with Jill, DnG, spanking Sally's ass, twice, hanging out with 4 naked girls in the sauna, thrashing Jill at tennis, "accidentally" groping Jill after tennis, fucking Quinn on the roof, drinking fuck loads of beer, fucking Riona on the balcony, serving Champagne a la Dick to the girls in the sauna (you know you loved it Heather), drinking tequilas with Lily without any salt, painting the fence, doing yoga, repairing the mansion, DnG, putting wieners on Sage's head, hanging out with Nicole at the bar, fucking the shit outta Nicole and Sandy, getting high with Quinn, rolling with Lily, watching Becky puke her guts up, sharing with Riona and Cammy, getting caught fucking Sage by Riona and Quinn, destroying Tybalt in tennis, working out with Josy, cleaning up at the Pink Rose, struggling to choose between Lily and Nicole, throwing piss into the back of Derek's head, helping Sage with her bucket list, finally fucking Jill...
That shit I can read again and again.
DPC knows how to fucking write.
