I don't think I will be playing BAD for longer. First, obviously, every update has become 1 and a half year longer. Some progression with certain characters will take us 3 years to happen or even longer.
I absolutely agree that the game takes too goddamn long to make.
I realize some of that is because of how complex it is—
how many alternate timelines is DPC juggling by now?—and that’s legitimate; I have no beef about that; that’s a feature not a bug. I’ve played too many games where your “choices” are bullshit, with no consequences whether you say the nice thing or the rude thing, and you’re forced to fuck every girl the developer throws at you. DPC has fully embraced alternate paths, and that’s the only reason I’ll play this game dozens of times, whereas other games only need one runthrough—assuming I don’t quit first from frustration or boredom.
But some of that is because of three things that only DPC gives a shit about: detailed, high-quality renders, including 60fps video; minigames; and, increasingly, recording his own music for the game. (Though I get why he’s recording his own music—it’s hard to find quality community-commons stuff out there, and artists who don’t mind that their stuff is being used for a porn game.) This shit takes a lot of time! But some of you
love the minigames, so that part’s your fault.
Some plot have been taking part of the game for too long.
Also absolutely agree. I haven’t played ep 11 yet, but the spoilers make it clear
Maya’s student-loan deal was resolved pretty damn quickly—whether Tremolo stole the documents or not. Pretty much
every plot thread that we’ve been fretting over for years can be wrapped up just as easily. But isn’t that typically the case with mysteries?—they’re all annoyingly simple once they’re solved, and all fan speculation regularly blows it way out of proportion. These mysteries got stretched out over
years now, so we falsely suspected it was something proportionally huge and dark… and no they’re not; none of em are. Shit, the game’s about college kids who think
everything’s a big deal.
Oh, and he is still adding new characters, that he will probably spend some time on. Lets not even forget about that.
I haven’t. Zoey got added to the game in a big way—and just after Tremolo picked a girl! I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another one coming. Probably Yoga Girl. My wife thinks she’s gonna be like the Mother in
How I Met Your Mother—she’s a big mystery for most of the show, Ted falls for her in the very last episode, and there’s your happy ending… till the producers fucked it up and killed her off, which I’m still annoyed at. Maybe she’s the potential happy ending in case Tremolo fucks it up with the other girls; maybe he’s
destined to fuck it up, one way or another, with every last one of them. Don’t know yet!
That should piss everyone off. But hey, it’s DPC’s game to fuck up… once he completes it in 2035 or so.