MiltonPowers

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wow for me in each episode the free roam parts are the most fun and exciting im surprised so many ppl don't like them.
I don't mind the free roams once (could live without them at all, but once is doable). But if you're playing multiple paths and have to go through them many times (for me 10), they get very annoying.
 
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Better Cock Spock

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yea, totally sure she wont tell Sage.
i am not sure about Quinn can save Rio in a few days. maybe dpc want the Rio saving for season3 ending
i hope not
Save Rio at the end of Season 3??? That'll be like two months later in the game. Even a week would be too much time. Plus why the hell would Vinny keep her for an extended period of time, that would tell him Quinn doesn't give a fuck and Rio is useless as a bargaining chip. This demands an immediate response, the only real variable is if you and Quinn are close, to determine how long she'll take to tell you (ASAP or after Thanksgiving weekend at most).

I've said it before, this plot point is way too big for a story like this. I know Acting Lessons has poisoned any hope that DPC can tell a story without some sudden, dark twist, but kidnapping Rio and actually going as far to injure, torture or even kill her would have the entire game come to a grinding halt. A lot of people don't care about Maya and her contract issue, but everyone is forced to deal with it no matter what. Killing Rio—or anyone—will be received similarly, which makes something like this rather pointless beyond shock value and retreading old territory.
 

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It will come out in 2025, with each EP he is adding 800 more renders, maybe it has more animations than the last EP.
This is how branching works, each newer episode has more and more variations. It is ridiculous to compare older streamlined episodes with newer branched ones with various outcomes based on past choices. I always throught it would be either December 2024 or January 2025.
 

Better Cock Spock

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This is how branching works, each newer episode has more and more variations. It is ridiculous to compare older streamlined episodes with newer branched ones with various outcomes based on past choices. I always throught it would be either December 2024 or January 2025.
By the time we get the penultimate episode, DPC will have created an entire universe to account for all the branching. And then that's when he announces the Being a DIK remaster before he finishes the last episode :HideThePain:
 

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This is how branching works, each newer episode has more and more variations. It is ridiculous to compare older streamlined episodes with newer branched ones with various outcomes based on past choices. I always throught it would be either December 2024 or January 2025.
Damn we need loki to fix those branches
 

MiltonPowers

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But is it that branched? And, even if so, is it more branched that it previously was? OK... From ep. 1 to 3, it was more or less linear, but, episode 4, for instance, there are some common scenes but almost half of it is branched in 3 -- Sage, Derek, and Bella paths. Than, from ep. 5 onwards, there was already a Maya & Josy branch separated from the rest (at least for me, who was playing the others, but it's, at least, a double branch). There were also scenes that, even if you could get them in the same path, you have to play twice because they were mutually exclusive -- like sick Sage/Jill's date. Even when the scenes were not branched, there were always moments alone with a single girl, like, the Sage moment, the Jill moment, and so on; the difference now is you have to play the game 5 times to get all the scenes.

This "branching" in the episode 8 was an illusion; another master trick of the great psychologist Mr. DPC to have an excuse for increased development time. Take ep. 4, for instance: it was developed in ~4 months. OK, it has almost half of renders and animations of newer episodes, but, doing a gross calculation, newer episodes could be developed in 8 months.

And the newer episodes are not that complex compared to the complexity of the past. Take ep. 9, for instance, an endless freeroam with flashbacks with minor variations. Then, in each path, you have some moment with your loved one -- oh, my god! This is so complex! But it's not. The difference, in the past, is you could do all the scenes in the same freeroam -- or not, because it was already branched! So, nothing changed except for a subjective psychological illusion that things are more complex now than in the past (and a change in development time, of course...).

(And, no, I won't do a map of all the branching since ep. 1 to prove my theory... Everyone believes what everyone wants to believe... That's what I believe. Of course, there's an increase in complexity *in every game* as time passes by, but the idea that there was an increase in complexity -- more than the normal -- from ep. 8 onwards is an illusion.)
What has got more complex is the dialogue/pathing/variables after Ep8. Trying to make sure that the main storyline stays sensible and true no matter what path your own. Example if you are talking to the HOTs, some dialogue will be different whether you are with Sage or Lily or noone. But, surely in nearly all of the cases the render would be exactly the same (I'm not a Dev, so I could be wrong). But, he wouldn't have to do 5 different renders of the same scene.

DPC actually does change some of that dialogue to reflect your choices, which really helps with the immersion and why so many people love it. Unlike some other Devs, where the main storyline has barely anything different no matter which girl you're with and feels really disjointed.

But this has been the case since we had to choose, I don't believe there has been any significant rise in complexity since that point. (No more than any other AVN where choices matter anyway).
 

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Not everything has to be a twist, Ruin Johnson, a lot of time the most likely outcome is the right choice. It will also be the perfect moment to do it because it will be a tragedy in the lost potential, her and MC relationship just about started, the MC still hasn't completed the quest to make her squirt, her relationship with Quinn was not resolved one way, or another.

Her possible demise has more weight in how it affects the rest of the cast. Where does Quinn go after the fact? How does a MC that was romancing her vs a MC that is just friendly with her reacts? Does Sage find out about some of the things going behind her back and now blames herself for not noticing them sooner to 'save' Riona? Is Camy so depressed that her old friend Mona comes back and tries to reach out to her?

There is plenty of narrative value, not excluding elevating Vinny above the rest of the villains in the game, its just that I don't see DPC going the murder a LI route again after the shitshow he created the last time.
I see it the same way as you. DPC has already hinted at it. The MC player has to make a choice.

Riona is kidnapped, the MC tells Derek to get Maya to safety and the MC Storyteller said who doesn't want to keep someone they love safe. That generates 3 possibilities.

1. The MC helps Riona.

2. The MC helps Maya

3. The MC doesn't help either of them.

That looks a lot like Branch dependency to me.
 

Better Cock Spock

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What's the matter, don't you want gorgeous 60fps fuck scenes? Better jiggle physics? Improved lighting? Just look at what we could've been getting since Episode 1!
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Cammy's been redesigned beyond just darkening her skin, but also the lighting is less harsh, the hair more detailed. She looks a lot less like a plastic doll, much more lovable :giggle:
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Episode 1 doesn't have a lot of jiggle in it, but at least Jade's tits actually press into MC, rather than just clip through him.
Obviously this scene is the jiggliest in the entire game to show off the new 60fps capability. Sage is just mesmerizing here :love:

It'll just take 5 years minimum to remaster the game, in addition to all the reworked scenes, new events, DLC bonus skins, and Twitch Streamer Mode where the audience will vote on where you cum! And it'll be a $60 game on Steam only :HideThePain:
 
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