ename144

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Tommy's a user, in more ways than one. He manipulated Rusty into getting what he wanted because Rusty seems like someone who's quite easily led.
Tommy's certainly happy to benefit from Rusty's wealth, but it's hard to tell how much leading that took. We know there are a few things Rusty never indulged Tommy on, so how much of the rest was stuff he needed to be manipulated into rather than merely wanting to do it himself?

Based on the Episode 5 flashback, I get the impression coasting on his family's coattails was not a new thing for Rusty. Likewise, the decision to create his own fraternity (with blackjack! And hookers!) seems to have been inspired more by Tybalt than Tommy. I'm sure the DIKs wound up with less blackjack and more hookers than they would have without Tommy, but that's the nature of being someone's friend: they take your advice to heart.
 
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So this doesn't have much to do with anything, but after playing through this a couple of times I decided to go back and try to play through the game trying to be as much of a loser as possible: basically, avoiding friendships and physical affection as much as possible, failing tests, getting beaten up, and so on. You still have to kiss Josy and Maya, but you can avoid even kissing anyone else in the game. It makes for an amusing run: as far as the girls go, Sage especially tries to throw herself at you multiple times, and eventually questions whether or not you're gay. Cathy's dialogue reflects how you're not a very good student at multiple occasions, and if you try to help the one classmate with his work, your answer ends up being wrong.
 
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So this doesn't have much to do with anything, but after playing through this a couple of times I decided to go back and try to play through the game trying to be as much of a loser as possible: basically, avoiding friendships and physical affection as much as possible, failing tests, getting beaten up, and so on. You still have to kiss Josy and Maya, but you can avoid even kissing anyone else in the game. It makes for an amusing run: as far as the girls go, Sage especially tries to throw herself at you multiple times, and eventually questions whether or not you're gay. Cathy's dialogue reflects how you're not a very good student at multiple occasions, and if you try to help the one classmate with his work, your answer ends up being wrong.
I got second-hand embarrassment and pain just from reading this. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
 

DMoney1000

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I got second-hand embarrassment and pain just from reading this. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Happy to help. And really, if you enjoyed the ride so far - as I have - it makes for a funny change of pace. I mean, if DPC gave you the option of playing a huge loser who can't handle girls throwing themselves at him, you might as well give it a shot for grins, right?
 

ename144

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Happy to help. And really, if you enjoyed the ride so far - as I have - it makes for a funny change of pace. I mean, if DPC gave you the option of playing a huge loser who can't handle girls throwing themselves at him, you might as well give it a shot for grins, right?
Agreed. Over the years I've played many games that offer lots of small choices, but BaDIK is one of the best at keeping track of and responding to all those choices (even if it's only in small ways). It's a genuinely impressive experience.

The downside is that a lot of the changes blend into the game well enough that you only notice them when you replay the game and do something different. Well, that and the fact that those occasions where DPC can't adequately deliver enough variation on certain choices irk all the more. So far the ratio has been far more hit than miss, though, and I'm hopeful that will remain the case long enough to reach the end game where big plot branches can finally be dealt with.
 
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Sheet420

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It's 100% impossible to keep track of updates from the developer with how much this thread is being spammed. Can someone fix this?

Or can we at least let N7 post the updates so we can actually find them?
 
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