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Well, this is a clear distortion and falsification of facts on your part. There's a clear difference between mini-games outcomes and real choices which is given to player throughout the game. And those choices are separated between major and minor ones.
Turning mini-games off doesn't prevent player from getting the same outcomes in compare with playing with mini-games on. It's so obvious... Cheating on regular classes only gives you a +1 DIK point and nothing more. It's not tracked in any way. Only major choice of cheating on midterms is tracked, cause this event have a particular variable, and it leads to a known consequences (one of 3). As a coincidence it was a major choice.
In short - turning mini-games off changing the gameplay style and speed, but doesn't change the story and the plot. It's almost the same as changing resolution or setting the volume of music.
I'm not ignoring it. But so far it brings mostly a cosmetic differences here and there. Well ok, it prevents MC from getting a lewd scene with Quinn. But... that scene changes really nothing, while MCs answer on Quinn's question changes a lot for her sub-branch in a perspective. Then it brings a couple of different renders and dialogue lines during date with Sage - even less significant. And I heavily doubt that it will change in the future. Even in case with such major and really important mini-game like mansion renovation. While our conversation started from tennis match... You suppose that the tennis match outcome is changing MC's past or what?
I'm not fixated on anything. I just trying to constantly remind you that game is not an abstract thing, it's a product which have a a lot of limitations in different directions due to game engine, programming as is, pryncipals of operation and development as well as developer view on it. The Season 1-2 is a finished product, period. Update at THIS moment is only possible to fix and adress some bug, but since no bugs were found for years already it's quite unprobable. And bug fixing updates are not equal to altering the plot and story or code itself ones, like by adding/modifying variables, etc. So, just accept that a bunch and set of variables transferred and remembered in the end of Season 2 are cemented till the game development is finished. DPC may change something in first two seasons after he will complete the whole game - would do a remaster, for example. You like to quote DPC, so find out some of his quotes about it too.
I know what example you're going to bring up now, but, firstly, current (3) season is still in development, and secondly, the feature that DPC added required the consistency. Some lewd scenes were forgotten and skipped, and he fixed it in episode 10. This is not a hint that anything can change spontanely in previous episodes and seasons. This was just a bug fix routine, which some interpreted in a wrong way (you). You see, if you as a developer indroduce feature like the "with whom MC get laid with" function - so that the player gets a kind of memo, then not indicating that the player had put his dick into Quinn is a bug, not a trick or an attempt to confuse the players. It's quite logical that such list would be used in situations like truth-drink-dare game with J&M in EP9. It's convinient and usefull. And it also adjusted a bit the Hell-week tasks capabilities and win/lose possibility for particular scenarios and requirements and players playstyle. Because situation when you have a Quinn in your "list" in the phone and when it's not counted when you tell truth to girls about how many your MC fucked before is strange and looks like a bug. But you continue to construct your deductions and theories even in such straight forwarded situations and circumstances. Did DPC altered in some way Season 1-2 because of it? Nope, he just fixed the bug for the previous episode (9) by introducing the new feature in episode 10 during the whole season 3 development process.
Haha! I knew it!
I won't even comment this, because it's just such a nonsense... You're not building MC's past in any way, it's predefined and lies in core of the plot. You're going through the current events and outcomes with your current choices which will lead to the different future final (endings). Some choices are blatantly marked as a MAJOR, while the rest are not and you mostly can't know and predict which of those choices and decisions besides the ones that marked as "Major" may become very important at some moment, while some will bring only cosmetic differences, easter eggs or nothing at all (call them abandoned).As I mentioned above - current branching with LIs, their permutations and all accumulated choices throughout the game are quite enough, but you want/expect to add multi-branching based on multiple past of MC here as well. Good luck... Don't forget to get this idea to DPC and most of us won't see game finale due to death of old age
... not remembering details about something from the past makes a person dumb or what? I suppose that everything about Lynnette for Neil is a kind of memories that are painfull and the ones he want to forget rather than remember. While memories of his son is a different thing.
Regarding naked... you suppose that Neil should shared such a details with MC about his mother? It would be kinda embarrassing even when mom is alive, and it's mostly inappropriate when she is dead for almost 2 decades. MC is reading Lynnette's diary where she describes all from her person perceptual and experience.
