Arigon

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This is my biggest issue with this game. You can shape the character somewhat, and it seems like he's your character but all of a sudden Pinkcakes makes him do whatever he wants even if it's OOC, like running away from Sage.

I also love the MC telling everybody that it's time to grow up and stop relying on daddy, and then daddy comes and furnishes our house for us.

It's the nature of these games I guess though it's not unique to DIK, I don't think there is a relatable MC they're all cunts.
Definitely very close to hitting it on the head.
There are a few main characters that I think are likable, and those are the games I like the best.
A far worse offender than DPC though has to be ICSTOR with his fucked up MC. Just saying.

It would be asking a great deal from someone like DPC who has demonstrated his control freak nature in AL and here, to actually let the MC make choices that really matter, and to really control who we pursue. It just seems like it would be against his very nature.
ah well, good post Xerxes.
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I reckon Tybolt has blown his chances with Jill. By forcing her hand with the blackmail, he's only pushed her interest further away. She even laughs along with Josy at TYbolt prosthetic teeth being knock out!

Rusty, he definitely made a bad first impression, I mean he should have at least read Romeo and Juliet! And although we didn't see it, we got the second hand story from Jill that they did have a date and he blew that too.

But the new and improved Rusty definitely seems Jill's type, even more so that the mc. So I'm gonna say Rusty.

I do wonder if all the "shipping" motherfuckers will get their day. When DPC's magnum opus finally comes to an end, will we get an epilogue coving every single character, LIs and others. That'd be cool. Of course not every one of them should be paired off, just generally how did they fair at college and what direction did it point them onto in life.
That part made me think, if today (bah in BADIK's present) Jill is hyper naive and her dates are barely funny, what would it have been like 2 years ago, when she admits she accepted on insistence? Could it be that Rusty really got bored and fed up to the point of having to "escape" with his friends?
I don't see any of the DIKs blocking a brother, not even Tommy ....
 

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This is my biggest issue with this game. You can shape the character somewhat, and it seems like he's your character but all of a sudden Pinkcakes makes him do whatever he wants even if it's OOC, like running away from Sage.

I also love the MC telling everybody that it's time to grow up and stop relying on daddy, and then daddy comes and furnishes our house for us.

It's the nature of these games I guess though it's not unique to DIK, I don't think there is a relatable MC they're all cunts.
Hey, they're not all like that! The one from Depraved Awakening and Acting Lessons for example are good decent MCs provided you don't make them act like assholes.

As for our MC...well, "cunt" can be a little extreme, but yeah, sometimes, I just can't sympathize with MC.

* When explaining his backstory with Zoey (or whatever his ex gf was called), dude literally continued to beat the guy he fought right after he already floored him, and yet to this day, he still thinks his punishment was unfair

* He storms out of Maya's dorm and spends much of episode 4 sulking after finding out that her and Josy are girlfriends, nevermind the fact that he was dating both of them and possibly sleeping around with other girls, all without any option to stay and talk things out right then and there. Granted, Maya has a part of responsibility for leading him on at first, but Josy has told him from day one that she was in a relationship.

* And...yeah, the rebound guy thing is dumb on the DIK path. They've been literally fucking each other as soon as Sage because she was suspecting that Chad was cheating on her, and it's now that they broke up that you worry that she might be seeing you as the rebound guy?

He's still not as much of an asshole as most MCs at least. Even the DIK version of the character has plenty of nice moments with other characters outside of our choices, and even when he goes through the phases we mentioned, he thankfully grows out of them rather quickly, so there is that.
 
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shazba

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Hey, they're not all like that! The one from Depraved Awakening and Acting Lessons for example are good decent MCs provided you don't make them act like assholes.

As for our MC...well, "cunt" can be a little extreme, but yeah, sometimes, I just can't sympathize with MC.

* When explaining his backstory with Zoey (or whatever his ex gf was called), dude literally continued to beat the guy he fought right after he already floored him, and yet to this day, he still thinks his punishment was unfair

* He storms out of Maya's dorm and spends much of episode 4 sulking after finding out that her and Josy are girlfriends, nevermind the fact that he was dating both of them and possibly sleeping around with other girls, all without any option to stay and talk things out right then and there. Granted, Maya has a part of responsibility for leading him on at first, but Josy has told him from day one that she was in a relationship.

* And...yeah, the rebound guy thing is dumb on the DIK path. They've been literally fucking each other as soon as Sage because she was suspecting that Chad was cheating on her, and it's now that they broke up that you worry that she might be seeing you as the rebound guy?

He's still not as much of an asshole as most MCs at least. Even the DIK version of the character has plenty of nice moments with other characters outside of our choices, and even when he goes through the phases we mentioned, he thankfully grows out of them rather quickly, so there is that.
Nah, I hated the mc in AL. He was a cry baby old man who went total fucking bonkers because someone died. The whole game felt creepy to me, an old man chasing tail ~20 years younger than him... Good luck to him and all, but he can fuck off as far as I'm concerned.

At least the mc in BaDIK even cracks jokes about his dead mom. :ROFLMAO: That's how you handle grief! :cool:
 
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I ain't never played a massive chicky so I can't answer the question.

But chapter 4, should be the answer, because I'm pretty sure, whiny bitch is not a characteristic of a CHICK.
A massive chick MC pursuing Maya but not Josy would be rightfully upset that Maya lied about being in a relationship. The fact it was with Josy would be a cruel irony. He can even admit to overreacting and being a snowflake in his conversation with Derek afterwards, so I don't really see this as being all that unrelatable.

Granted, an MC pursuing Josy when he knows she is in a relationship would be somewhat unlikable - but a massive chick MC wouldn't have done that.
 

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Nah, I hated the mc in AL. He was a cry baby old man who went total fucking bonkers because someone died.
Are you talking about...that one event at the near end of the game? Because somebody dying like that because you had to let them die (still upset by the fact athletic mc couldn't save both), as well as the kidnapping (IIRC, been a while since I played the game I admit) can be fuck somebody up.

But yeah, you do have a point about his relationships. The one with Megan in particular, and the way she enters a relationship with the guy who literally gives her a home to sleep in does give...kinda creepy vibe when I think about it, and the age gap doesn't help.
 

Arigon

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I reckon Tybolt has blown his chances with Jill. By forcing her hand with the blackmail, he's only pushed her interest further away. She even laughs along with Josy at TYbolt prosthetic teeth being knock out!

Rusty, he definitely made a bad first impression, I mean he should have at least read Romeo and Juliet! And although we didn't see it, we got the second hand story from Jill that they did have a date and he blew that too.

But the new and improved Rusty definitely seems Jill's type, even more so that the mc. So I'm gonna say Rusty.

I do wonder if all the "shipping" motherfuckers will get their day. When DPC's magnum opus finally comes to an end, will we get an epilogue coving every single character, LIs and others. That'd be cool. Of course not every one of them should be paired off, just generally how did they fair at college and what direction did it point them onto in life.

Unlikeable visually, or through his actions?

Visually he's pretty much on par with all the other weird looking mc's out there, and his actions, depending on your style of play, I thought he was more or less an ok dude.

One thing that I find typical in most of these games, is the mc is usually just a shell. He doesn't usually have too much of a personality, that way you can imagine your own preference there. In the games where they make the mc more aggressive, he almost always comes across as an asshole, but if they make him too nice, he comes off as a pushover.

It's rare (as in I've never seen it) that the mc is given a strong, positive personality. Maybe a backstory event that provides a strong emotional link to the mc would be useful (and the mc's sob story to Bella didn't really cut it), but that'd need to come up early on in the game at the risk of losing an audience that are there primarily for the porn.

CoBD probably does it better, but then really the mc is such a cliche, typical film noir character (DA took that to the extreme).
I think our current Rusty may well be the only choice for Jill, as I don't think our MC could ever really be that guy.

Better MC
Philly Games does make his characters a cliché, yet they are far more relatable as such. I liked Depraved Awakenings much much much better than DPC's freshman effort of Acting Lessons, and City of Broken Dreamers, the MC is much better than our whiney self indulgent proto DPC cunt here in BaDIK. When we can relate and laugh more with what our wingman does than what our bitch of a MC does, it demonstrates that there are issues.

Just a couple more games where the MC is better written:

Drifty Games- Leap of Faith- a great MC.
Life Happened- Main Character is not a "good" person, but you get a hand in his life and you live through some of his history.
Rebirth- You are making your character who he is, with certain constraints because you're a vampire :D

Good post Shazba
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Although I enjoy Quinn's character, she's not a nice person.

If she was your girlfriend, she would:
  • Treat you like shit
  • Fuck other guys
  • Do whatever she wants and not even tell you about it half the time
  • Make stupid decisions
  • Steal your money
  • Make you feel like everything is your fault
  • Never apologise for what a cunt of a person she is
  • Only show you affection when you're asleep
  • Not give a shit about anything that you think is important
But other than that, life with her would be great!
 

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Although I enjoy Quinn's character, she's not a nice person.

If she was your girlfriend, she would:
  • Treat you like shit
  • Fuck other guys
  • Do whatever she wants and not even tell you about it half the time
  • Make stupid decisions
  • Steal your money
  • Make you feel like everything is your fault
  • Never apologise for what a cunt of a person she is
  • Only show you affection when you're asleep
  • Not give a shit about anything that you think is important
But other than that, life with her would be great!
Sex life with her, maybe. :LOL:
 
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goldenrule91

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Although I enjoy Quinn's character, she's not a nice person.

If she was your girlfriend, she would:
  • Treat you like shit
  • Fuck other guys
  • Do whatever she wants and not even tell you about it half the time
  • Make stupid decisions
  • Steal your money
  • Make you feel like everything is your fault
  • Never apologise for what a cunt of a person she is
  • Only show you affection when you're asleep
  • Not give a shit about anything that you think is important
But other than that, life with her would be great!
Super cute, I'm in :KEK:
 

TrollTimes

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So, so far being a DIK is still way more fun than being a CHIK? This path has most of the LIs and it definitely involves being faithful to them, but from what I'm seeing, so far, we're not given much incentive to. Especially when it comes to Jill, who's still severely lacking in content and as explained by others better than I could, her character arc ain't integrated to the main storyline like, say, Maya's.

The emotional payoff seems to be the main reason to play CHIK, but only god knows how long that will take. Personally, I'll only go for a CHIK path as soon as we get that first time with Jill.
 

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I think Arieth dumbness needs to be fine tunned a bit. I understand she's meant to be dumb as a comic relief, but I don't believe she doesn't know how to cook canned soup while in college.
 
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