ename144

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You're exaggerating the problem. Throughout the season, Tremolo has been asking himself who he should stay with. Yes, it was really implemented in the end quite crumpled.
But how was it supposed to be done? You ,guys, have too high expectations for the game and the engine having serious technical limitations. The funniest claim for me is that the сhoice system doesn't always work. Certainly. Not in all AAA-class games does the choice system play a role at all (we will recall the Mass Effect), and in such a technically backward engine as renpy, it was apparently not possible to implement all the variables and make a different path for each solution. It's a lot of work. The work already took 7 months, if hundreds more variables had their own variables, everything would have been confused in a heap.
Sure, choice is always going to be an illusion, but it has to be a good illusion. The MC did indeed keep questioning his own behavior in Season 2... and then went right back to whatever he was doing. He never actually took any of those questions to heart. Then one morning Heather compares him to Tommy and suddenly he has a "revelation." That's what creates the disconnect and ruins the illusion.

I understand there will always be resource limitations, but that's part and parcel to being a game designer. You need to save your powder for the most important choices first and foremost. To continue the Mass Effect analogy, the decision to limit the ME2 teammates to a single side mission apiece (rather than being part of the team) in ME3 was a shame, but a good allocation of resources. The decision to limit the ME2 teammates to quick holo-cameos before the final battle was a more questionable allocation of resources. The decision to end the trilogy with a simple Red/Blue/Green choice of poorly explained options has to rank as one of the worst allocations of resources in video game history.

We're nowhere close to Mass Effect 3 here, thank heavens. Still, this episode was called "Crossroads;" choosing not to spend resources fleshing out those diverging paths is a highly questionable move IMHO. If DPC wasn't willing or able to handle all the options he had written himself into, it would have been better to scrap the idea of a single crossroad and instead allow each path to find its own turning point. For example, Jill vs Bella would be decided after the doubles tennis match. Sage vs M/J would be decided when Sage asks the MC to help her help Maya. That sort of thing. Then let Becky's party be the point where the MC will take stock of his partying habits and decide whether he wants an endless stream of flings or to buckle down and commit to a serious relationship.

We still end up with the MC committed to a path, but now it feels like a progression of his actions rather than directive from on high. I don't think that would require all that much more work than what we got either, and it would flow a hell of a lot smoother. Sure, I'd still be worried about resetting Maya's subplot and Zoey's roll in Season 3, but at least I'd have a lot more faith in the game respecting and adapting to my most important decisions.
 
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NotTheReal16

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Also does anyone know what Others means at the end of the game? like that keep us open for a potential relationship in episode 9 or does that close all the current relationship option doors? Cause I find odd we gotta chose now when there's still a whole 3rd season left to play.
 
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cold_arctus

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Sorry, but I will ask again. Is there a way to just update the game? I don't want do download all the game again.
okay am i missing something? last time when i saw episode 7 released, it had an update file. I don't see that with episode 8. I only see the full game to download.
Win MediaFire link is dead... file is missing. All of the other links are slow as f.... so won't even bother trying it from those... anyone got a full DL stashed on a GDrive or some such ?
is there any update patch where u only dl season 8?
Here you go...
https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-v0-8-0-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-6985459
 

Valoryn

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HOLY SHIT!!! DPC WOW!!! The unexpected... WOW!!! It hit me big coz I played the Sage route. Oh the complications that will come. Now that I think about it, any route will lead to this complication. Well done DPC, so well done!
 

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Scrappy mod android port with dark assassin reposting this is the kinda thing i get mad about they make an android port and dont even try the port ... Now i really have to wait like a month or 2 before somone fixes this and reuplods cause i only owne a phone and a. Cant fix it myself qnd b. Can only ever play android i was so pumped to get chapter 8 and im locked into 4, due to a this cursed dating app/ text messages
 

Valoryn

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Also does anyone know what Others means at the end of the game? like that keep us open for a potential relationship in episode 9 or does that close all the current relationship option doors? Cause I find odd we gotta chose now when there's still a whole 3rd season left to play.
"Others" mean you close all paths to the main ladies and you choose to fuck around all other side chicks (i.e. the strippers, Jade, etc.). You keep yourself open except to the main girls.
 

NotTheReal16

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"Others" mean you close all paths to the main ladies and you choose to fuck around all other side chicks (i.e. the strippers, Jade, etc.). You keep yourself open except to the main girls.
Nah thats actually annoying. Can I use the cheat mod to change things so i can get jill at the end?
 
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Well i ain't gonna say episode 8 was bad but fuck me i was let down hard by having to choose a girl.

So what now episode 9 will have almost no sex scenes? Other than the ones with the girls we choose? No hoeing no quinn no jade no nora no strippers I was here for the sex as much as the story.

Good plot twist with sage though.
"Others"
 
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Ilhares

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Now see, I've got a pure M&J playthrough, and Maya did not want it, he pulled out and blasted her ass, and let if fly into the hottub during the spa scene, rather than finishing in Josy. I think there's some subtle choices that affect all of that.
Meanwhile with the latter they couldn’t stand each other although I get the impression that Tommy’s dislike for Josy was far stronger than her dislike for him.
I think with Josy it's because she's younger, and he (Tommy) got saddled with having to deal with her when he didn't want to a fair bit, and she was a killjoy for him. Or, my personal pet theory, he had the hots for her and couldn't act on it. He didn't want her attending B&R.

And then she went and kicked him right in the sack, which was awesome. I don't think there's any real love between those two at all.
Why go to a movie theater to watch movies when you can torrent the newest movies ...
Because I like the local theatre, it has a big screen and a good sound system, and there's almost never anybody there when I go to watch the ones I want to see.

Torrenting them comes later, if they were good.
 

Valamyr

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Whoa, filesize has really gone up for this game! Thankfully the torrent seems decently seeded and Ill do my part.

This episode must be huge!
 

Valoryn

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Nah thats actually annoying. Can I use the cheat mod to change things so i can get jill at the end?
If you didn't go the Jill route from the start, you will need to tweak a lot using the mod and it might cause the game to crash. It's better to load your Jill route playthrough and continue there or start a new game using Chick route focusing on Jill.
 

poser002

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Does anyone know if there is any money at the dorm party? If so where is it at? need one dollar but cant seem to find any.
 

NotTheReal16

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If you didn't go the Jill route from the start, you will need to tweak a lot using the mod and it might cause the game to crash. It's better to load your Jill route playthrough and continue there or start a new game using Chick route focusing on Jill.
I did go for Jill from the start but idk it doesn't let me play old save files from pervious updates so it might've corrupted some of my choices
 
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