I doubt Elena and Johny Boy are aware of the restaurant and stuff. I'm sure that's legit what he means.
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On the contrary, there are multiple alternate paths (Caleb fight, who you stay with after the Maya/Josy tantrum etc.) which represent alternate timelines/realities. Sliding doors moments are kind of the point of games with choices.
Anything DPC does is canonical.
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You're misunderstanding. Alternate path yes, not timeline. Also, that alternate path leads to the exact same place as every other path. So it's filler for one particular path. End result is the same as a very specific story is being told, we only have slight control as to how we end up at the same point. Illusion of choice
This is what I mean as canon. There is a canon story. That's not debateable. You will go on a date with Josy. You will move into Maya's dorm. You will be beaten up by Chad and stay with Jill. That cannot be changed. Canon. Anything else inbetween is how we get there. That's a path. So yes, end of the game, you may end up with Sage, I may end up Josy...but there is a still a set sequence of events that will happen throughout the story regardless of anything else.
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I'm not saying that John Boy may have used "community stuff" as a euphemism, but that that's what Elena told him and he just accepts it. Elena would be the one using it as a euphemism because she knows about it.
People have different opinions about that. And considering everything canonical even if it's true it doesn't mean anything because there is no "no canon". If you consider it what's canon for ALL routes at least it means something to say that something is canon or not.
Yeah, I know what you meant. I mean that both of them are unaware to Quinn's stuff (afaik) so he means it for real (and Elena didn't lie to him either), no euphemisms there.
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Absolutely not. The MC and his relationships are not at the same point in all playthroughs. And some events happen or not depending on your choices, thus leading to very different outcomes for some situations.You're misunderstanding. Alternate path yes, not timeline. Also, that alternate path leads to the exact same place as every other path. So it's filler for one particular path. End result is the same as a very specific story is being told, we only have slight control as to how we end up at the same point. Illusion of choice
- Jul 7, 2017
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It could have significance on the Sage route. It could have long term relevance on the Sage storyline. The routes have to diverge at some point.
It also could become a common plot element, just because the girls don’t see the MC if you’re on other routes doesn’t mean their actions won’t still happen. The girls clearly want to tell Chad and break them up. The scene where they see MC/Sage talking implies they’ve spoken about MC before. They’ve some vested interest in the Sage/Chad relationship and their entire motivation isn’t born of just seeing them together in that moment.
Theres more than one way to skin a cat. If DPC does want to make Mel/Sarah breaking Chad and Sage up a “canon” plot point shared across routes he can. Just because that is a scene isolated to Sages route doesn’t automatically make it irrelevant. The game makes a big deal about Bella letting you call her Bella... being able to call her Bella wasn’t part of the common “canon” before Ep5 because it only happened on her route. Come Ep5 the game finds another way and has Bella like you because you helped with Cathy.
Sage herself is brought back into the fold regardless of being fuck buddies. We obviously shouldn’t assume stuff seen on one routes is also true on other routes but to dismiss it entirely is also unfair because DPC has shown he will homogenise routes. There’s just no way of knowing what will and won’t stay on routes.
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If she has that huge of an issue with her family (assuming the Burkes), why would she study in the university where the whole family is, let alone be the HOT prez which may require her to have many many interactions with the ANO prez and the school counselor? Maybe she needs to depend on the father until she graduates then she can declare her independence. But there's also the scenario that in the end she loves MC so much that she can sacrifice anything for MC, just like Linette for Neil.
Regarding the canonical topic, to sum it up, my playthrough may be canonical to me but not to you. But to DPC, all are viable routes so all are canonical. In the world of BaDIK, there is a tree with alternate branches of what happens based on choices. No matter whatever choice the player makes, is considered valid.
- Aug 4, 2017
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I didn't misunderstand, I'm saying you're using the wrong terminology to describe your point.
I agree there are certain fixed points which are common to multiple paths. This doesn't make the points of divergence non-canon. It's almost certain the final love interest will be a result of the players choices, so it's obviously a branching story to some extent with alternate timelines/realities.
Kind of my point, talking about certain scenes being canon in a multi-path game is pointless.
Which is why for instance the Dr Who franchise doesn't regard anything as canon, so they can do whatever they want (even if the Whovians moan about inconsistencies).
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That is just wrong. I will give you an example with Fate/Stay Night where there are common story elements that happen no matter which route you take you just get there in a different way with slight variations. Each experience of the same story is different yet the same and everything is canon, even the dead ends. That game has over 70 endings and every single one of them is canon. Just because something happened in 1 route and doesn't in the others doesn't make it non-canon, it just means it happened in an parallel version of the same events with different choices. This way you account for choice and what some people might do but others do not. You cannot cherry pick what is canon and what isn't just because you might not like some of the choices on a personal level. Also just because you do not see an event happen in the other choices, doesn't mean it will not come up later in the story, you would just have less context. Visual Novels do this all the time, you can get the complete picture if you do all the routes with all the context.You're misunderstanding. Alternate path yes, not timeline. Also, that alternate path leads to the exact same place as every other path. So it's filler for one particular path. End result is the same as a very specific story is being told, we only have slight control as to how we end up at the same point. Illusion of choice
This is what I mean as canon. There is a canon story. That's not debateable. You will go on a date with Josy. You will move into Maya's dorm. You will be beaten up by Chad and stay with Jill. That cannot be changed. Canon. Anything else inbetween is how we get there. That's a path. So yes, end of the game, you may end up with Sage, I may end up Josy...but there is a still a set sequence of events that will happen throughout the story regardless of anything else.
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Exactly Mindern, I said this before also (you may have missed it) that it's possible that if not on the Sage route, you'll find out that Mel/Sarah still made the call to Chad and just lied to him, thus leading us (in the story) to the same point where Chad believes (rightly or wrongly) we're the reason the break up.
Branching paths are all well and good, but the more you add (keeping them completely seperate from any other path) it very quickly doubles, quadruples etc the work and thus makes times between updates exponentially even longer. I'm all for that but I can image many people would get annoyed at the wait time. Far easier (as many AAA game devs do...Mass Effect series being a classic example) to have these little snippets, but in other paths they still happened (albeit perhaps in a slightly different way) so as the overall story still flows in one direction and takes you to the same place.
- Dec 20, 2019
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One problem here, as much as I believe that will happen for those who did not go Sage route, it hasn't happen. The way you said it is like it has already happened in Episode 5.
Maybe this is why DPC sealed your fate in chapter 6 of AL, so that he can end the story in peace with what's already available and not provide more variables to even more endings.
- May 17, 2020
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a game based on choices must have this complexity, at least sometimes.
otherwise everything becomes like the last chapter: where if you did everything, you have a picnic with Maya and Josy, talk to Sage in the garden (one of the best scenes of the game) and then you deal with the problems of the DIK.
while if you have been "bad" in the whole chapter you speak only with the DIKs ...
- Dec 13, 2018
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So, as far as this "canon" stuff is concerned, there is technically a canon series of events that happen regardless of player choice, and whilst all the moments and events based on player choices are canon in the sense that DPC made them and they're part of the story, they form part of each player's own individual canon story where they play out these events in their own way.
Take Sage, for example. The canon moments with her are as such:
However, whilst this game does have canon events which happen for everyone regardless of the path they're on, we can't really say that there is a definitive canon version here because the story is going to be whatever the player chooses to make it. Even Quinn's drug business will surely enter the MC's sphere at some point and there will likely be choices to be made that will affect her and it, thus affecting its trajectory, so it too will not have any kind of fixed "canon" path.
Take Sage, for example. The canon moments with her are as such:
- Meeting her in the cafeteria
- Meeting her the next day
- Getting the guitar back from her
- Seeing her at the DIK party
- Spying on Chad for her and then meeting her in her dorm room
- Sparring training with her
- Chatting with her in the Prep mansion
However, whilst this game does have canon events which happen for everyone regardless of the path they're on, we can't really say that there is a definitive canon version here because the story is going to be whatever the player chooses to make it. Even Quinn's drug business will surely enter the MC's sphere at some point and there will likely be choices to be made that will affect her and it, thus affecting its trajectory, so it too will not have any kind of fixed "canon" path.
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I think the Third years don’t know about the hooking. If I had to guess I’d say Sage and Arieth have no idea about either the drugs or the prostitution. Heather and Elena clearly know about the drugs, but one of the conversations between Heather and Quinn (at the pool) strongly suggests she doesn’t know about the hooking.
I think the hooking was Quinn‘s idea and she got her Other ‘Daughters’ involved, with Sarah, Riona and Melanie. (I think those 3 are second years).
On another note the question of when Sage, Jill, Heather and Elena graduate. I think they are in their final year. The language in game about this does imply ‘the end of next year’ but I think that means the end of this school year so ‘the end of this next school year’. Or they mean next year as in the calendar year will tick over in a few months. I don’t think it’s very clear if the school is a 3 of 4 year one. And it would also be odd for Sage to be handing off the presidency to Quinn when she essentially has 2 full years left in the job.
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are you sure about the last point?
if you are in the pact with Mata and Josy I don't think you will stop with Sage
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Not sure what you mean by that.
my fault
if MC's proposal to Maya and Josy has been accepted, it seems to me that after the PREP party MC no longer talks to Sage
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Seems like I got a lot of reading to catch up on, but now that's exactly how it is very well put the voices of reason
The branching is the most complex part of the game for DPC to do I wouldn't want to be in his shoes for that just playing all the damn routes is a strain enough making sure you've tried every option to see any differences and oh boy there certainly is.