VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[LizaS]

I dont' get why the MC just doesn't just outright say it, to Maya or to Sage.

This is one of the things me and a lot of people dislike. DPC wrote it this way for convenience. If Maya knew exactly how Quinn uses the girls for money, she would know right then and there that Quinn is toying with her and would never get any free tuition unless she becomes one of 'em. No plot, no drama.

This has been an occurring theme in the game. For example, when Rusty asked Tommy who Maya was in front of Derek and Tremolo, Tommy was about to say she's Josy's bestfriend and then Derek interrupted Tommy before he said that and said she is his sister. More convenience for the plot to happen.

 

[ename144]

Yes. and that's what the "branching" is , nothing New , You already know this. I always considered you among the smart ones, so obviously you don't have unrealistic expectation about this branching right?. You don't think the game gonna be fundamentally diferent based who you chose to end up with?! You know it's not the case, surely it will have different experience and will have unique content of each branching, But this is already Exist.
The Branching, is already Exist in the game, it was just not Enforced.

And there are example of it in the game, We can experience it, what it's like and what it is mean. One of the better example is Episode 4. We have 3 different starting point, each with its own "unique" content, but each of them lead to the same Dik Party. The core of the game is gonna be the same, How We get there, and what can we do after we get there, will be the difference between the Branching paths.

Episode 8 has its multiple examples. The Josy & Maya path, is already a Branching, we dont have several scene with them if we not part of it. MC does not go to shopping with Derek, don't prepare his room for Josy and Maya, and dont have the birthday trip . And You dont have anything wiht them in the Dorm party.
But we do get, the mandatory scenes, We have the Study group scene, When Jill show up, invite all of us to her concert. or the Ending, When we visit Sage parents.
The same can be said about Jill. She invite you to the concert, but she does not invite you to her friends.

In the First 8 Episode. everygirl , regardless of Main Girl or Side Girl, all of them were in one big Bubble. We could literally go to one room to an another and Fuck each of them.

Episode 5 : You visit Bella to talk with Cathy, Then Cathy suck your dick, you go back, and at night you making out with Jill, Sextext with Envy, and the next morning do Joga with Jill and Bella ,, making out with Jill again , then go to the Sauna and making out with Bella. after You visit Josy and Maya, and "hangout" with them, and then You Visit Sage, and Make out with Her. . Basically a god damn Harem Game. And only after all of this , MC goes back to the Dik Mansion and give his speech, which is the Main Story, the final ending of the episode. - The Game Allowed us to play this way.

And Now, this is What the Branching will not allow us anymore.
I have no reason to think DPC meant it any other way. Now We only will get the specific scenes with the Girls we are on their path. You could play it already in a Branching way, in that case you did not get some of the scenes. And The episode would feel shorter.
I guess that's what DPC meant when he briefly mention about the challenge of the Branching. Each girl, or path have to have enough content, but it can't be at the expense of the Main Story.

I already write to much , Sorry . But The Way I see it, in Episode 9 , The Main Story, is the Halloween Party- as it should be- How We get there, and What possibilities will be there will be the difference between each Branch.
Jill and Bella for example have no reason to attend at the Party if MC is not dating with them. Josy ,Maya, Sage, are different in that case, because they are part of the Hots, But what We can Do with them there, is also will be depending on whos paths we are on. It's no longer will be a Fuck fest, Except in the "Others paths" .

Main Story.
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Jill Path.

Bella Path.

Others Path.

Surely, you didn't think it will be in any other way do you ? !

Honestly, I don't know what to think. DPC has talked a big game about all the branching, but as we said, what he's actually discussed so far isn't anything new. Why the disconect?

Maybe he's overhyping the same old formula to drum up business. Maybe he's building a crazy elaborate Schrodinger's Halloween Party. Maybe he doesn't realize people ever used the solo-path options he already coded into the game. After the Interlude I don't think DPC is bound by any notions of what *I* consider a good idea, so I'm just curious what the truth will turn out to be. Sadly, it will be a long wait.

Spoiler: Cosmetic poll - Riona

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It's Riona so it's not like any of the costumes are going to look bad, but none of those options is all that great. 1 is probably my favorite look overall (it's a good color and is definitely cute), but it's underwhelming for a Halloween costume. 2 is just flat out inferior to 1. The others come across as if Riona completely forgot to buy a costume, so she threw on some cat ears and figured no one would notice if she wore skimpy enough swimwear.

I mean she'd probably be right, but still, it's the principal of the thing!

The only choices I know of with color coding are those major ones you get after having attained permanent affinity - such as selecting your action with Derek at the party (helping him get revenge or not), or the test answers in the bathroom. There are 3 choices. DIK, Neutral, Chick. If you're a DIK, you can only select DIK/Neutral. If Chick, then CHICK/Neutral. Neutral affinity can select any of the above.

Not true, actually. Bizarrely, Neutrals can only choose the DIK or CHICK options, not the Neutral options. That's probably because the Neutral options require permanent Affinity and Neutral Affinity only becomes permanent after you make the final choice of Episode 8. So I'd expect those filthy Neutrals will be able to pick Neutral options in Episode 9, but like so much of Season 3 that's still speculative.

Re: Acting Lessons
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Ain't that the truth!

How likely is it that Josy will end up the new head of the HOTs by the end of the game?

Sage is graduating at the end of the year, so she needs to hand the reins over to someone else, and that someone would've been Quinn if she hadn't spent her days burning every bridge she had. So who can Sage turn to? Many of the other HOTs are in on the conspiracy, so some fresh blood would seem like a good choice.

Josy is an eager beaver when it comes to the HOTs, and she's also been shown to be good at dealing with people. She played Quinn like a fiddle on their first meeting, and outwitted her a second time in order to get Maya accepted. So it would seem like Josy has the social skills to be Sage's successor.

What other likely candidates are there?

I'd say the most obvious candidate is Elena, but AFAIK we don't actually know what year she is. Lily would probably be a great president if she'd prioritize the well-being of the sorority, but I have no idea if she'd actually do that. Josy has potential, but she'd need to get much better at telling people "No;" it took the MC's support just for her to cut short Becky's receiving line in Episode 8.

So I don't see a clear candidate, though almost anyone would be better than Quinn (unless Quinn has a serious revelation somehow).

 

[PashafromRussia]

I see talk of who will take over the HOts and DIKs after Sage/Rusty leave, but does anyone really think this game will cover MC's second year? I just don't think that will happen. I think it ends at springtime at the latest (hopefully to include spring break) and maybe there will be hints of MC taking over the DIKs in the epilogue but no way DPC does multiple years at B&R and certainly not all 4 year. Only a significant time jump would work, but I don't think everyone wants that. Players want to escort their MC along the journey, not lose vast tracks of time to a jarring time jump, only to be given a brief recap of what happened to MC during your story coma.
Show don't tell.

Unless multiple years are key to the story DPC is trying to weave, I think end of 1st year is the perfect time to conclude the game. MC will have experienced everything B&R can offer. He will have landed an LI, grown up, learned, and "followed his heart." He can leave for the summer holiday with an open and uncharted future. A second year would just be rehashing old territory, only this time it will be a matured MC musing at the antics of a new big dick pledge going through hell week, fucking teachers/students/staff/MILFs etc., and solving people's relationship and financial problems along the way. It's more fun to be the hero in the story than to be the wise old man giving advice.

In my opinion, the most important problem of the game is that there are a lot of empty and filler episodes in it. For example, this was episode 8. We could easily delete it and nothing would have changed! The Сrossroad could have been committed in episode 7 as well as confirmation of the theory that Sage is Jade's daughter. There is a problem with this. How many episodes will be fillers in the future, and which plot ones. We can already assume that episode 9 will be a plot. Too much has happened in episode 8 to let everything down. But what will be 10, 11 and so on?

Pink said that there will be a mini-game with party planning and we can assume that all future parties will be dedicated to a specific event.
Episode 9 - Halloween,
Episode 10 - Thanksgiving,
Episode 11 - New Year/Christmas,
Episode 12 - Valentine's Day
Thus, certain jumps in time may be eliminated. After all, in fact, season 2 is one big filler and it does not have such saturation as it was in the first season.

 

[felicemastronzo]

I see talk of who will take over the HOts and DIKs after Sage/Rusty leave, but does anyone really think this game will cover MC's second year? I just don't think that will happen. I think it ends at springtime at the latest (hopefully to include spring break) and maybe there will be hints of MC taking over the DIKs in the epilogue but no way DPC does multiple years at B&R and certainly not all 4 year. Only a significant time jump would work, but I don't think everyone wants that. Players want to escort their MC along the journey, not lose vast tracks of time to a jarring time jump, only to be given a brief recap of what happened to MC during your story coma.
Show don't tell.

Unless multiple years are key to the story DPC is trying to weave, I think end of 1st year is the perfect time to conclude the game. MC will have experienced everything B&R can offer. He will have landed an LI, grown up, learned, and "followed his heart." He can leave for the summer holiday with an open and uncharted future. A second year would just be rehashing old territory, only this time it will be a matured MC musing at the antics of a new big dick pledge going through hell week, fucking teachers/students/staff/MILFs etc., and solving people's relationship and financial problems along the way. It's more fun to be the hero in the story than to be the wise old man giving advice.

In reality there is little to reason and ask for

we know that it is Sage's last year (for that reason alone it makes sense to talk about who will replace her), what sense does it make for the game to go beyond the presence of one of the 5 LIs?

anyway we might find out who replaced Sage and Rusty in the epilogues of the game anyway

If it were for me
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Who are you from the audience?

 

[Walter Victor]

we know that it is Sage's last year (for that reason alone it makes sense to talk about who will replace her), what sense does it make for the game to go beyond the presence of one of the 5 LIs?

DUCK!!! Incoming theories! Tinfoil hats are being donned and entrails of goats being examined even as I write this.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

In reality there is little to reason and ask for

we know that it is Sage's last year (for that reason alone it makes sense to talk about who will replace her), what sense does it make for the game to go beyond the presence of one of the 5 LIs?

anyway we might find out who replaced Sage and Rusty in the epilogues of the game anyway


Who are you from the audience?

I that's a pointless question (no offense) assuming the game doesn't go past MC's first year in which many players think given the story's pacing/plot. Any sort of time skip of considerable length will likely be left for the end of the game/epilogue. I just can't imagine the game's story managing an MC still at B&R while two main girls have already left via graduation. At the story's current pacing I don't even know if we'll be make it to a 2nd semester.

 

[sixart]

DUCK!!! Incoming theories! Tinfoil hats are being donned and entrails of goats being examined even as I write this.

Rabbit !!!

 

[whiteumax]

Title of the game suggests I should try to become dik but game has options to become "chick". my impression so far has been DIK=rude and aggressive and CHICK=reasonable and compassionate. Should i try to become dik or not?

 

[Finisher69]

Why is there no black LI in BaDIK? Is DPC racist

For the people who took this seriously, I meant it as a joke. I did put some lol emoji's at the end, but they weren't rendered

 

[sixart]

For the people who took this seriously, I meant it as a joke. I did put some lol emoji's at the end, but they weren't rendered

 

[DiGidro]

Title of the game suggests I should try to become dik but game has options to become "chick". my impression so far has been DIK=rude and aggressive and CHICK=reasonable and compassionate. Should i try to become dik or not?

I think DIK more Straight and Impulsive, CHICK more Soft and has a sense of empathy (compassionate). Both type take lead for helping DIK community, so they seemed both reasonable, and both of them can start fight with jocks (if i not misremember fight in gym), so they kinda aggressive.

 

[Naxer]

I'm the only one who is coping worst with the wait due to the interlude? I can't help but feeling than we kinda wasted too much development time for too little meaningful content. For me, my "waiting time" started just after the realease of episode 8, and the Interlude just delayed next real realease.

 

[dalli_x]

I that's a pointless question (no offense) assuming the game doesn't go past MC's first year in which many players think given the story's pacing/plot. Any sort of time skip of considerable length will likely be left for the end of the game/epilogue. I just can't imagine the game's story managing an MC still at B&R while two main girls have already left via graduation. At the story's current pacing I don't even know if we'll be make it to a 2nd semester.

I can see why BaDIK will end after the first year of college. The MC will become a father.

If Sage and the MC become parents, the MC's future is secured because father-in-law Stephen has enough money.

If Jill and the MC become parents, the MC's future is secure because father-in-law Old Royce has enough money.

If Josy and/or Maya become parents with the MC, the MC will find his family and his life will be secured.

If Isabella and the MC become parents, Bella will swing the axe because she won't need the MC anymore.

When Quinn and the MC become parents, the MC has to earn the money by prostituting his ass.

 

[felicemastronzo]

Title of the game suggests I should try to become dik but game has options to become "chick". my impression so far has been DIK=rude and aggressive and CHICK=reasonable and compassionate. Should i try to become dik or not?

If you consider choice at its extreme:
being Chick means always avoiding violence, not falling into any provocation, being ready to present the other cheek, avoiding any legally or morally risky situation, basically it means being my grandmother
being DIK on the other hand means never backing down from any confrontation, never thinking about the consequences if it looks funny, basically it means being my cat

it's actually more complicated than that, because you can be CHICK by doing the worst things that come your way (drugs, prostitution...) and be DIK without...

 

[felicemastronzo]

I'm the only one who is coping worst with the wait due to the interlude? I can't help but feeling than we kinda wasted too much development time for too little meaningful content. For me, my "waiting time" started just after the realease of episode 8, and the Interlude just delayed next real realease.

this is just an impression

in the end the interlude is less "wasted time" than many other moments in the game (Bella's flashback? Madame? etc etc)

 

[znar25]

While I would certainly love to have a black LI in this game, calling DPC a racist is... a bit of a stretch to say the least.
This is the guy who had Liam in his previous game. A racist can’t create such a wholesome character AND make him black.

Liam was goofy but I really liked him. Brought a tear to my eyes a few times. And I only played that game once.

 

[znar25]

this is just an impression

in the end the interlude is less "wasted time" than many other moments in the game (Bella's flashback? Madame? etc etc)

My opinion only. I appreciate the skill and hard work that went into Interlude, but it cost the game months of lost time to deliver CH9.

 

[znar25]

this how true Diversity and Representation look like.

OMG, that looks exactly like my visit to H.R. the other day.

 

[znar25]

The interlude is a kind of mini-episode played from the point of view of Zoey and which serves as an independant short piece to better introduce the ex-girlfriend's return. In the next episode, the usual main character (aka Tremolo) will resume the story.

I am sure my Tremolo paths will waste no more than about a minute to resolve that issue. On to more important things....

 

[godkingxerxes]

this is just an impression

in the end the interlude is less "wasted time" than many other moments in the game (Bella's flashback? Madame? etc etc)

The other flashbacks and even the Interlude as well does give us needed or potentially needed background info as the story progresses.

The difference with the Interlude, it took a lot longer to develop than the flashbacks, also IMO it came too late.

Bringing back Zoey after us choosing our path, doesn't appeal to me, the choice is made, I don't need hand-holding, I'm a gamer, I can live with the consequences.

Madame is a collection of lewd scenes, might be the worst lewd scenes, maybe outside of the dreams, and that's also because they have that click to jizz option so you can't skip through em.