VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[ZenoMod]

I dunno what's the 'ick' with free roams some people seem to have. Is it because you just want to masturbate so non-lewd parts of the game in general bore you? Is it because you spam-click to progress as fast as possible and then can't figure out what to do in these free roams? Is it because you don't like parties and would rather sit cooped up in Maya's dorm instead and watch some movie? Just curious, not trying to judge.

It's because a VN should be about reading the text and making choiches that happen to put the player into one of several branches.
And once one playthrough is finished, most of the players want to explore other branches too.
Ren'Py is the perfect engine for VN: it is precisely designed to let you skip already seen text in order to play different branches focusing only on new contents.

Exploring a big mansion, could be fun the first time. From the second onward is just a bunch of forced clicks chore. Boring.

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Besides in a VN which is this big, after years my memory just need a refreshment.
I would like to be able to spend my time just to read the plot to refresh my memory, and it could be done much faster if I wasn't forced to find the fucking kegs every fucking single time!

The kegs are just an example, of course.

This VN calls for being played multiple times and free roams are fun (or may be fun) just the first time.

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Plus the fact that the order in which you accomplish the various quest could result in missing some content, is just obnoxious.

 

[strayparanormal]

Must be dedicated routes:

Maya/Josy
Maya
Josy
Sage
Jill
Isabella
Quinn
Riona
Lily
Nicole
Nora
Jade
Cathy
Zoey
Heather
Sarah/Melanie
Camilla
and so on...

Not counting variations, like: Jill without cheating and Jill + Bianca.

How many hours do you have in to this game? Ballpark?

 

[Crusader of Romance]

I can't take the girls in the dorm seriously. Penny and Tara had potential, but now she's just comic relief along with Becky and the others whose names I can't even remember.

I have to give credit to the DPC though. The girls in the dorm make the BaDIK universe more alive, considering that these are the girls the DIKs sleep with. It would be weird if only the MC had sex in the game.

True. But it would be nice if there were some more "normal" girls too that didn't do things like take a snorkel up their ass. It's a bit weird that all girls at that school do crazy stuff.

 

[Crusader of Romance]

How many hours do you have in to this game? Ballpark?

Is there even a way to check?

 

[saynotoNTR]

How many hours do you have in to this game? Ballpark?

Hard to say... I haven't played all the routes if that's what you're asking. I don't have the patience. After EP.8 I picked the route I liked the most and stuck with it ever since. I play to have fun, doing all the paths and seeing all the cutscenes isn't fun for me, it's just tiring.

True. But it would be nice if there were some more "normal" girls too that didn't do things like take a snorkel up their ass. It's a bit weird that all girls at that school do crazy stuff.

When Tara debuted in EP.8 (the scene where she's talking to Leon and she sees MC for the first time and glares at him) I thought Tara was the dorm version of MC.

I thought she was the de-facto leader of the dorm girls in the same way MC was the de-facto leader of the DIKs. I was hyped for nothing, I thought we would have a female villain but then she turned out to be just a dumb blonde.

 

[Ano00]

sorry if i'm out of context,i didnt watched the thred closely to know,but dose anyone know when and if new update is comeing? cuz i think is like a year since last,ty

 

[shazba jnr]

Wait a minute, MC winks at Gina? How? I've had two dozen runs and I've never had this scene. He just watched her and said that she's one of the "unprepared" students.

Now you're the one disrespecting MC, dude.

MC doesn't wink at Gina (under any circumstances), MC canonically has a certain disdain towards the girls in the dorm. Why would a guy like MC wink at Gina?

Nah, that wink was taken out of context. He was winking at Derek thinking it was Derek's cheat papers in the toilet. It happens if you decide to cheat.

 

[Crusader of Romance]

sorry if i'm out of context,i didnt watched the thred closely to know,but dose anyone know when and if new update is comeing? cuz i think is like a year since last,ty

Most likely February or March.

 

[Ano00]

Most likely February or March.

thank you!

 

[ZenoMod]

Do bisexual men and bisexual women hate Mona in Veneto?

You're right, we do love "mona" too! Just not exclusively it...

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

If you play the game without interacting with them, you'll see that the MC is pretty indifferent to them, like zero fucks (there is very little canonical interaction between the MC and the dorm girls).

It's the classic case of the girls talking about the popular guy, but the popular guy doesn't even know their names. In EP.8 we see how flattered Penny is when the MC manages to remember her name. Even the dorm girls know that they are at the bottom of the MC's food chain.

The plot is centered on the girls from the sorority DIKs are friends with , MC doesn't live in the dorm, so he hardly knows them. The ground for getting to know them closely was not prepared, so there is no "you don't deserve my attention" here.

Nah, that wink was taken out of context. He was winking at Derek thinking it was Derek's cheat papers in the toilet. It happens if you decide to cheat.

Right, forgot about this, I'm rarely cheating on the medterms. Don't want to upset Bella, or Better Cock Spock will kill me

 

[Lord Bradley]

Thanks to everyone who quoted my free roam post, you guys were too many to tag in the same post, but I read them all! You let me understand your perspective better now, but I still like to play free roams even after multiple times. But I gotta agree that if order of things done means you miss stuff that is not good and should be ironed out going forward. I'm sure it's not "gotcha" trap by evil dev, probably just hard thing to do with so many variations especially if once you code the game you have certain vision in my how things should go, but players of course always find a different way to do stuff eventually. In fact, I would like more cool free roam things added like that elusive piss sheriff - moment like that sticks with you for a long time and if it just happened every time in VN format it would not carry the same weight. Also stuff like catching someone cheating feels more impactful when you stumble upon them while opening room rather than it just happening (examples here are Bianca's husband cheating (free roam) vs Gordon seeing Beth kiss another dude (automatic)). As long as phone have "map" on what is available to be done tho, I'm not sure I would like it as much if it was only self-discovery. So let's hope things are balanced like earlier chapters - some free roam, some chill VN plot with interesting choices. <3

 

[Crusader of Romance]

I checked another similar game I play a lot and I have over 120 hours in that game on Steam. Together with what I played before getting the Steam version I must be at over 200 hours on that game and I have played Being a DIK at least as much, proberbly more, so that's the closest estimat for me. Over 200 hours.
I own Being a DIK on GOG but since music was cut from season 1-2 I keep playing the version from here from before that update.

 

[saynotoNTR]

The plot is centered on the girls from the sorority DIKs are friends with , MC doesn't live in the dorm, so he hardly knows them. The ground for getting to know them closely was not prepared, so there is no "you don't deserve my attention" here.

MC could be more friendly, though. He has canonically ignored Gina twice already. Once at mid-test and once at the Halloween party when he's dealing with Oscar. What does it cost him to wave to her?

 

[Crusader of Romance]

MC could be more friendly, though. He has canonically ignored Gina twice already. Once at mid-test and once at the Halloween party when he's dealing with Oscar. What does it cost him to wave to her?

*Punches Oscar in front of Gina* "Oh, hi Gina. I hope you're enjoying the party!"

 

[saynotoNTR]

*Punches Oscar in front of Gina* "Oh, hi Gina. I hope you're enjoying the party!"

Where is MC's chivalry? After Gina sees such aggression, he should calm Gina down and make it clear that she is welcome and that she just needs to not call anyone a bitch and everything will be fine.

Seriously, though. He could have told the girls that everything was fine and that they could continue partying without any problems, politeness always.

 

[ZenoMod]

My first ever playthrough was without mods, afterwards i kinda thought that you get better results with minigames (it was mostly about being able to "win" against caleb but wasnt even needed for that lol).

And all my 20+ playthroughs afterwards were with minigames enabled.

Some are okayish or even decentish, i like the party planning and mansion repair somewhat, liked brawler in the beginning too but meh.

A few days ago i did another playthrough without minigames and realised HOW MUCH MORE FUN it is without all of these annoying, repetitive, shitty low effort minigames

I would turn minigames off, but the problem is:

With minigames on: you achieve or fail some goals based on how good you were on minigames (e.g. if you were good at mansion restoration, you save Rusty's car - and you need that for some content after).

With minigames off: whether if you achieve or fail those goals is either hardcoded, random selected, or depending on an apparently unrelated choice (e.g. with minigames off the only way to save Rusty's car is to turn down the VIP pass).

This is the most well known example of how DPC punishes who dares turning his amazing minigames off...

God knows what other content we can miss without minigames, so I prefer to play with minigames on, and just cheat on them!

 

[Lord Bradley]

*Punches Oscar in front of Gina* "Oh, hi Gina. I hope you're enjoying the party!"

I hope Tommy kicked his ass after since I can't punch him myself on non-Dik routes. The behavior of a weasel who is nice and then turns coat and spouts some toxic bullshit while he was simply told other party was not interested is unacceptable, regardless who MC would be defending in such situation I would support it.

btw Gina is the girl that was double-teamed in dorm party in case some people forgot (MC can spy on her in one of the rooms, no further interaction)

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

MC could be more friendly, though. He has canonically ignored Gina twice already. Once at mid-test and once at the Halloween party when he's dealing with Oscar. What does it cost him to wave to her?

He don't even know her, because they didn't interacted. I suppose he don't even know her name, like this thread for a long time.
What a pity, after all, the waste of a hot goth chick.

 

[donglelitus]

I would turn minigames off, but the problem is:

With minigames on: you achieve or fail some goals based on how good you were on minigames (e.g. if you were good at mansion restoration, you save Rusty's car - and you need that for some content after).

With minigames off: whether if you achieve or fail those goals is either hardcoded, random selected, or depending on an apparently unrelated choice (e.g. with minigames off the only way to save Rusty's car is to turn down the VIP pass).

This is the most well known example of how DPC punishes who dares turning his amazing minigames off...

God knows what other content we can miss without minigames, so I prefer to play with minigames on, and just cheat on them!

Why would you want the VIP pass? You like the oily manatee?