Hahn1900

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After DPC said there wouldn't be a 'Leah' situation in BaDIK and having Zoey as the MC of the Interlude.

Sure.

The MC could also just kill himself, while we're at it.

Just to have said it... I always had the gut feeling that the MC will die at the end of the game :D
The start of the game already gave me that vibe.... kinda like the movie "American Beauty"

When the protagonist starts to tell the story with lines like this : "Even if you lose your family or if your family loses you..."
and than... "As for now? Let me tell you what happened"

It is really like in these movies or books where the protagonist tells the story but its like a look back on his life which is now ending...

And i dont know... yeah BeingADik is completely different to Acting Lesson AND way more lighthearted and funny overall. DPC himself made it clear that this will not go THAT dark like AL... but... well... i dont trust him one bit ;)

Just a gut feeling... but in some years we maybe come back and my gut feeling was right about that :D
 

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Just to have said it... I always had the gut feeling that the MC will die at the end of the game :D
The start of the game already gave me that vibe.... kinda like the movie "American Beauty"

When the protagonist starts to tell the story with lines like this : "Even if you lose your family or if your family loses you..."
and than... "As for now? Let me tell you what happened"

It is really like in these movies or books where the protagonist tells the story but its like a look back on his life which is now ending...

And i dont know... yeah BeingADik is completely different to Acting Lesson AND way more lighthearted and funny overall. DPC himself made it clear that this will not go THAT dark like AL... but... well... i dont trust him one bit ;)

Just a gut feeling... but in some years we maybe come back and my gut feeling was right about that :D
To be honest with you, I hope it gets darker than it is right now, well-written drama that goes a crazy route, adds shock value and that's why games are remembered, and it's not like there's no characters in this game that can get in a lot of trouble, Sage with her parents (Mona coming back will hurt Stephen for sure) and Quinn misdoings, Quinn herself is self-explanatory and anyone meddling with her (like Riona), Bella has major 'skeletons in the closet' (or in her locked room, wouldn't surprise me one bit), Maya/Josy couple I just don't see going very far, Maya's crazy father will get her while Josy is enamored with the MC since day 1, and Jill, her family/inheritance/legacy will be put in jeopardy somehow... and like you said, the MC could be on the receiving end of any type of situations.

I replied that cause I just don't get the hate Zoey gets from some people, that's all.
 

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Lately I've been more into redheads than usual. And for the first time ever I was struck by how unbelievably lovely Arieth is in this particular scene. But ONLY in this one time. No other is she looking really good in, usually average at best.

But this one... Holy shit. Something just clicks here.

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I went through the rest of the game pretty quickly yet never saw any other good one. Such a shame really.
 

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Lately I've been more into redheads than usual. And for the first time ever I was struck by how unbelievably lovely Arieth is in this particular scene. But ONLY in this one time. No other is she looking really good in, usually average at best.

But this one... Holy shit. Something just clicks here.

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I went through the rest of the game pretty quickly yet never saw any other good one. Such a shame really.
Never thought Arieth as cute or anything, she's a joke of a character kinda (a broken one, though), but yeah in this picture she is, she doesn't have her usual dumbass grin so it helps.

Besides Sage for the redheads, Mona, even though she doesn't have a lot of scenes, is pretty cute too.
 

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Lately I've been more into redheads than usual. And for the first time ever I was struck by how unbelievably lovely Arieth is in this particular scene. But ONLY in this one time. No other is she looking really good in, usually average at best.

But this one... Holy shit. Something just clicks here.

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I went through the rest of the game pretty quickly yet never saw any other good one. Such a shame really.
She usually doesn't look this pretty, but she has a hot body. Check her in the pool scene in episode... Two, I think?
 

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Guys how important is it using a walkthrough/mod in this game, will I regret not using it since he recommends us not to use it, e.g. Fucking up and going down wrong path only to find out waaay down the Road.
IMHO it's worth playing the game the first time without a walkthrough to see how you react to the various situations. That's the way DPC intended it, and sometimes the unexpected outcomes lead to surprisingly interesting results.

That said, assuming you like the game at all I also strongly recommend playing the game again with a walkthrough. Once you see how things work behind the scenes you'll have a much better sense for what makes the characters tick and why things happened the way they did. It makes it much clearly how DPC intended things to come across, which isn't always apparent if you go in blind.

Plus there's a lot content that's mutually exclusive or otherwise easy to miss, so multiple runs are strongly encouraged.


Yes, kinda. I know MC will probably second guess his feelings towards Zoey and the LI we chose at the end of EP8, Zoey will probably throw herself at MC with all her might; there'll be drama between Zoey and the LIs and between the LIs and MC himself, but in the end I'm expecting for us players to have the choice to stop Zoey's advances.
I agree, but choice to reject Zoey's advances will be in Episode 12. It's the three episodes between now and then that I'm dreading.


Do people really think the MC, who thought he lost his best friend/first love, 'loved Josy at first sight when he saw her' after grieving, without knowing what grieving was (and while Josy isn't tattooed, she is similar to Zoey on a lot of points, being pretty much pure neutral), will simply push her aside like she's nothing when she comes back and tells him it was a big fucking Emma/Bert misunderstanding and that she comes back for him ?
Prior to the crossroad I'd have said of course not. But DPC made a huge fucking deal about how the MC needed to follow his heart and commit to a girl (or stop leading the girls on if he wasn't ready to commit). It was poorly structured but it happened. The MC made his choice.

So yeah, I'm going to be ticked off if the MC curls up into a ball at the first sign of temptation. I get that Zoey was his first girlfriend, but that means she's the metric for judging a new relationship. If he's going to make a big song and dance about committing to a girl, he damn well ought to be at least as committed to said girl as he was to Zoey. Her subsequent return may be an unpleasant dilemma, but it really shouldn't be a difficult one.

Alas, I'm not placing any bets on it playing out that way. :(


that definitely

MC won't decide a damn thing, just like he hasn't decided almost anything so far (the trouple is not his idea, the fuckbuddy isn't either, it's Jill who invites him and she comes to him when she's ready etc.)

I don't think Zoey will have such a proactive attitude right away, she will approach MC and he will be confused but happy about it.
To be fair to the MC, he did actually propose the throuple (assuming we pick that choice). He specifically followed his heart and asked for something very unorthodox, so we should give him credit for that.

Of course in the time since then he's put exactly effort into defining how the throuple will work and is more concerned with being able to date around than he is with deepening his ties with Maya and Josy. He doesn't prioritize spending time with them, shows no interest in helping Maya earn money to solve her problem the slow and steady way, takes so long to react to the rift between Maya and Josy that they've already patched things up by the time he offers to let them spend the night in his room, and can't be bothered to mention it to them when he finally decides to take the throuple seriously.

So yeah, he may also be due a great deal of anti-credit, but he did at least do one thing right. :p
 

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Prior to the crossroad I'd have said of course not. But DPC made a huge fucking deal about how the MC needed to follow his heart and commit to a girl (or stop leading the girls on if he wasn't ready to commit). It was poorly structured but it happened. The MC made his choice.

So yeah, I'm going to be ticked off if the MC curls up into a ball at the first sign of temptation. I get that Zoey was his first girlfriend, but that means she's the metric for judging a new relationship. If he's going to make a big song and dance about committing to a girl, he damn well ought to be at least as committed to said girl as he was to Zoey. Her subsequent return may be an unpleasant dilemma, but it really shouldn't be a difficult one.

Alas, I'm not placing any bets on it playing out that way. :(
You will probably have the choice to cheat, and then face the consecuenes later on. Now comes the hard part of the game, keep those relationships until the end :KEK:
 

Wizard_Shiryuu

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If the temptations are girls like Zoey and the vixens, staying loyal will be a cakewalk compared to choosing who to date in the first place. Hence my concern.
I'm not sure, obviously, but I think it's not over yet for some LIs you've already rejected. There are some moments in a DIK path with Josy that hint something might happen in the future, even if you didn't choose the throuple in episode four. Maybe this is true for other LIs in the future too.
 
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Prior to the crossroad I'd have said of course not. But DPC made a huge fucking deal about how the MC needed to follow his heart and commit to a girl (or stop leading the girls on if he wasn't ready to commit). It was poorly structured but it happened. The MC made his choice.

So yeah, I'm going to be ticked off if the MC curls up into a ball at the first sign of temptation. I get that Zoey was his first girlfriend, but that means she's the metric for judging a new relationship. If he's going to make a big song and dance about committing to a girl, he damn well ought to be at least as committed to said girl as he was to Zoey. Her subsequent return may be an unpleasant dilemma, but it really shouldn't be a difficult one.

Alas, I'm not placing any bets on it playing out that way. :(
Are exes not a thing in your universe? Just because you're no longer with someone doesn't mean there aren't internal conflicts about feelings toward them. It's not like exes getting back together is some rare phenomenon.

And it's not just about being a temptation, even if there's no intention for them to get back together they still have a significant personal relationship & history. Being with someone else now doesn't erase that.

I'd be ticked off if the MC didn't make a big song and dance about the return of his former best friend/girlfriend. Even more so if she goes on to confess she wants to have a romantic relationship with him.

The nature of the song & dance is the issue. Overblown histrionics like not talking to Maya & Josy for days would be poor. The MC contemplating his feelings for Zoey & how to respond to her would be fine.

I'd also say it's perfectly fine to give the player the option to reconsider his choice at Crossroads. I'd be somewhat surprised if that wasn't possible regardless of Zoey. We're only halfway through the game, two seasons of purely cementing your relationship with the chosen one(s) seems unlikely.
 

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If the temptations are girls like Zoey and the vixens, staying loyal will be a cakewalk compared to choosing who to date in the first place. Hence my concern.
You forget who the developer is.
There is more drama here than in a mexican telenovela. I bet just for drama's sake the Protagonist will be put into a forced situation between the ex and the new girlfriend regardless of what are our choices before. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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