How? I know I would not find the least bit of enjoyment in this game if I didn't have the ability to mod/change/cheat almost everything. I open the cheat console every few minutes because the abhorrent DIK/CHICK system is such an immense abomination that it manages to constantly fail to reflect my personal choices, instead putting me in a corner and limiting my experience to a degree it just becomes frustrating. To the point I have been playing this game for over 2 years and only a few days ago got to the Quinn and Jade threesome.
I did try to play without mods once only to keep having Bella and Jill shoved down my throat despite my best attempts at keeping them the fk away from me. Using the mod to make sure their path is closed off actually enhanced my experience since I almost completely stopped seeing their scenes. I dunno how things are gonna be in the next few updates since I've read you are forced to choose a narrow path but I hope the game is still moddable like it has been so far or I'm gonna lose out on a really good game. No point playing something you don't enjoy no matter how great it is.
TLDR: Could never find enjoyment playing BaDIK without heavily modding/cheating. Jealous of those who can. Fearful that the game won't be as customizable going forward.
Meh. Most of these games are just about learning the "behavior system" regardless of personal choices. "This thing is 'DIK' behavior and this thing is 'Chick' behavior. You do the "DIK" stuff to get to certain characters and the "Chick" stuff to get the other ones. Simple enough. It's the games that don't have a clear system that I just drop outright. I understand it can break immersion if too much of it deviates from what someone would do on their own but I feel like the story is good enough to still feel immersive and has a huge enough of cast of characters where you can pursue someone that does fit more with what you want. Unless your goal is to see everything or very specific characters, then ... idk hold your nose while playing? I mean there are a lot of characters to choose from just by being "Neutral" too. Or is it something like, what you'd personally do makes you end up on the "Chick" paths but you want to see the "DIK" characters?
I might get crucified for this but I also don't see the appeal for Bella. Maybe if the MC was older, more mature, or just not a complete idiot but it's just such a mismatch that it's just not very believable for it to be anything other than a fling. Plus her proportions are just ridiculous, it always takes me a second to register what I'm even looking at. Jill grew on me at some point after avoiding her route as much as I could until ep 8.
I use scrappy's mod, btw. There's a pretty good chance that it will still be moddable. It's not like Season 3 is going to be an entirely different game engine. DPC just made a new launcher because the file itself was getting way too big. Ep 8 was a nightmare to download for basically anyone that wasn't one of the first few to get to it.
Also, you could always just skip through the parts you don't like right? That's what I do. Though if you don't like the game, then it what it is. I mean at the end of the day, it's about a dumb kid going to college and joining a frat. American Pie-esque hikinks will ensue. Dickhead behavior is to be expected. Different people get different reasons to play it but this is the game's core premise.