yeah iam afraid too of the forced drama thing... and lets be honest here, DPC forced drama on the players all the time and didnt give the chance to avoid it by implementing an "active" MC. In Acting Lessons were several scenes where i was thinking "my god give me the chance to say or choose something".
In BeingaDik this was even more the case... at so many times i cant even count it anymore. Especially with the whole Maya/Josy thing. You cant even avoid getting intimitate with Maya and Josy, no matter what. And of course, the reason for that is the drama happening after the appearence of Josy. DPC wanted that. As i get it, most of the players would rather chase after Josy in the first place and not Maya for example. But you cant make a choice here... and in the end, you either get both or not even one of them.
But that is only one example for big drama that is forced on the players without any chance. There are many other things, some bigger than others in the game where i would handle things in a whole other way than the MC, and where i was thinking "why cant i get a chance to influence things here?"
dont get me wrong... EVERY game around here has this... and of course its not possible to give the players choices all the time and build up different routes for everything... in this departement BaD is already unbelievable complex. Like now there mus be about 25 different endings at the end of the game
If this is even enough...
So overall, if i think about zoey there is one major thought i my head... "why bring her back if she will not cause big time drama?" So... if we really get a chance to just say no to her in the first place, there wouldnt be a point in bringing her back like this, and even spending her a whole episode (interlude or not, lets face it, the episode around her will not be really short, at least amount of content like episode 1)
So DPC decided he want her back in the story, and not just like that... she will become important, no matter what. And i dont see any other way than causing big emotional drama...
And i just dont like it, cause i dont give a shit about zoey. But iam sure we will get forced drama here... hopefully iam wrong about that, but my experience with DPC both games so far and the way he is "causing" drama in his games is nearly always the same... the player cant do anything about it. Besides which girl we chase and if we are a "dik" or a "chick" (with no effect on the story), we all are just "riding along" overall, these type of games are more like an interactive movie, we can only inlfunce a little bit whats going on, not the whole plot, and not the "major" drama along. thts sometime a little bit annoying, but i can deal with it... its just not possible in another way. And i BaD we get already more "choices" that matter like in any other game i played so far on this site.
My guess? There will be two inital ways like this will go at the start of season 3.
First... we get a chance to pursue Zoey and actively fuck up the relationship we are in at this point. That said it doesnt mean we will get Zoey initially.
Secondary, we can say no to her but she doesnt want to hear it and will go after the MC anyways in such an aggressive way that she will cause jealousy for the girl we are in a relationship with and will jeopardize everything cause the MC will be too passive in this thing. (i already can see poor Jill fidgeting in presence of the ex and getting very insecure and MC is jsut standing like a statue, but i would like to see Sage's reaction
maybe kickass?
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Both ways arent anything iam looking forward too. But i would bet that it will come like this. So either way, forced drama.
Really really hope i will be wrong about that... but again, i dont think so cause why bringing back zoey than anyway if she will not bring big drama with her for the MC?