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

[jd8097619]

The first one is probable, there's precedent. The second one... uhhh, something tells me no. BUT some of us have been saying that Episode 12 will open on a Bella flashback, end on a shot of the nursery, then fade to present day where it's dark and mournful. Maybe instead of that, there's a montage of Bella waiting for James to come back over 3 years... hmmm... now that I write it out, that seems even less likely.... eh forget it.

Basically I'm thinking my latter suggestion of a Bella flashback animation with sappy music is possible because they've done something similar with Maya and Derek's mum but it was just standard static renders.

This I'm thinking could be animated simply because of how much DPC has teased it and clearly views it as a truly important sequence.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

Basically I'm thinking my latter suggestion of a Bella flashback animation with sappy music is possible because they've done something similar with Maya and Derek's mum but it was just standard static renders.

This I'm thinking could be animated simply because of how much DPC has teased it and clearly views it as a truly important sequence.

It's really only important to Bella players though, the same way the Baileys' opening is really just important to Maya players.

 

[grarg]

Always nice to see basic arguments being thrown in peoples faces be removed on a forum designed to have such arguments.

I guess we're not here to learn or argue. But just circle jerk.

Banned for a month for using...stats from another big AAA game in this forum, to compare to BaD. Swell.

Now, my simple replies to fanboys who can't think past their nose get removed?

Mods: you're shit. Or, you've got some whiny fanboys who can't hear their own words and live in ignorant hypocrisy. Either way, this game and forum attracts gleeful children who can't tolerate differing opinions.

 

[bonerland]

Basically I'm thinking my latter suggestion of a Bella flashback animation with sappy music is possible because they've done something similar with Maya and Derek's mum but it was just standard static renders.

This I'm thinking could be animated simply because of how much DPC has teased it and clearly views it as a truly important sequence.

It may be for a sequence when the New Year starts, or for the concert at the teacher's party, or when you win the tournament and celebrate.

 

[jd8097619]

It's really only important to Bella players though, the same way the Baileys' opening is really just important to Maya players.

For LIs sure, but as a whole I think DPC sees the "revelation" of Bella's backstory one of the most important narrative moments of the back half of the game.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

For LIs sure, but as a whole I think DPC sees the "revelation" of Bella's backstory one of the most important narrative moments of the back half of the game.

Sure, but he's probably overestimating how much of the playerbase cares about this particular mystery, just like Maya's loan problem.

 

[jd8097619]

Sure, but he's probably overestimating how much of the playerbase cares about this particular mystery, just like Maya's loan problem.

I think you're misunderstanding my point. It's not how much of the playerbase that I think care. It's how much I think DPC cares about it.

To me I think in DPC's mind this reveal about Bella's backstory is basically The Most Important Arc of Season Three. They've teased it all season with animations before (the animation at the very start of Episode 9 before the Tommy jumpscare) and it's the main reason people thought that the last three episodes have gone "nowhere" plot-wise (despite all the ways they clearly did).

 

[Discrepancy]

The first one is probable, there's precedent. The second one... uhhh, something tells me no. BUT some of us have been saying that Episode 12 will open on a Bella flashback, end on a shot of the nursery, then fade to present day where it's dark and mournful. Maybe instead of that, there's a montage of Bella waiting for James to come back over 3 years... hmmm... now that I write it out, that seems even less likely.... eh forget it.

The Bella flashback seems very probable, I wonder when we get to the "present day" if it will be the what's behind Bella's locked door, or if DPC will fast forward the story and let us hanging again and only show the mystery at the middle of the update or something

 

[Better Cock Spock]

I think you're misunderstanding my point. It's not how much of the playerbase that I think care. It's how much I think DPC cares about it.

To me I think in DPC's mind this reveal about Bella's backstory is basically The Most Important Arc of Season Three. They've teased it all season with animations before (the animation at the very start of Episode 9 before the Tommy jumpscare) and it's the main reason people thought that the last three episodes have gone "nowhere" plot-wise (despite all the ways they clearly did).

And I'm saying regardless of how much value he places on it, it's not going to land very well. As a big fat Bella simp myself, even I don't care that much about it. Not saying I don't care at all, but I don't believe the reveal will be as earth-shattering as DPC probably thinks. Again, like Maya's loan problem, that was a huge plotline running throughout the entire game that just barely concluded. Clearly very important to DPC. And a lot of people did not like it.

Unless the locked room reveal really is something mind-numbingly stupid like James' dead body or a drug lab, it probably won't be worth all this "hype".

 

[jd8097619]

And I'm saying regardless of how much value he places on it, it's not going to land very well. As a big fat Bella simp myself, even I don't care that much about it. Not saying I don't care at all, but I don't believe the reveal will be as earth-shattering as DPC probably thinks. Again, like Maya's loan problem, that was a huge plotline running throughout the entire game that just barely concluded. Clearly very important to DPC. And a lot of people did not like it.

Unless the locked room reveal really is something mind-numbingly stupid like James' dead body or a drug lab, it probably won't be worth all this "hype".

It probably won't land how they expect it to, but I think we're both in agreement that DPC is going to do exactly what they want regardless.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

For LIs sure, but as a whole I think DPC sees the "revelation" of Bella's backstory one of the most important narrative moments of the back half of the game.

He made it like that. DPC baited the player again and again with Bella's door topic, the constant hints about her mental state, and the MC's line in the past tense "I wouldn't kiss her, I would cry for help." He elevated this topic to one of the most important plot mysteries, and players have high expectations for Bella's arc.
It would be funny if there was nothing particularly serious behind that door, or just another problem that would resolve itself.

 

[Ray_D]

I think you're misunderstanding my point. It's not how much of the playerbase that I think care. It's how much I think DPC cares about it.

To me I think in DPC's mind this reveal about Bella's backstory is basically The Most Important Arc of Season Three. They've teased it all season with animations before (the animation at the very start of Episode 9 before the Tommy jumpscare) and it's the main reason people thought that the last three episodes have gone "nowhere" plot-wise (despite all the ways they clearly did).

The expectations for this revelation are unrealistic, especially on the part of people who have been theorizing about it for years. I think it's fair to say that the revelation won't satisfy many players. Personally, I don't care what happens; I have no expectations for episode 12.

As for chapter 9, it's a glorified freeroam, not a chapter.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

It probably won't land how they expect it to, but I think we're both in agreement that DPC is going to do exactly what they want regardless.

Too bad he gives no real regard to player feedback. But I guess if he did, he wouldn't be DPC

 

[jd8097619]

He made it like that. DPC baited the player again and again with Bella's door topic, the constant hints about her mental state, and the MC's line in the past tense "I wouldn't kiss her, I would cry for help." He elevated this topic to one of the most important plot mysteries, and players have high expectations for Bella's arc.
It would be funny if there was nothing particularly serious behind that door, or just another problem that would resolve itself.

Honestly, I would genuinely find it brilliant if the "mod kill screen" for this one was the moment the door opened you got a static render of the fire from Acting Lessons.

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Honestly, I would genuinely find it brilliant if the "mod kill screen" for this one was the moment the door opened you got a static render of the fire from Acting Lessons.

Or let it be Leah inside.

 

[Darkwen]

Or let it be Leah inside.

im not going in there Maya can save her own ass

 

[jd8097619]

Or let it be Leah inside.

"We had a child, but our nurse said they had died in the night. We were never allowed to see the body."

*cut to reveal that BaDIK is actually a sequel to AL*

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

im not going in there Maya can save her own ass

Boo, Maya hater.

"We had a child, but our nurse said they had died in the night. We were never allowed to see the body."

*cut to reveal that BaDIK is actually a sequel to AL*

Fun fuct, BaD was planned as AL prequel.

 

[Ray_D]

First of all, that moment in Ep 10 only grants + or - RP with Maya, nothing else. The choice of what you say there is not remembered in the game.

Secondly, even if he did add a variable to that moment when Ep 12 is released, it won't do anything for players who've already done Ep 10 because it doesn't retroactively get activated if you chose the more reassuring response way back when you last played Ep 10. The game doesn't know you did it if the variable is added retroactively. You'd have to go back and play Ep 10 again or cheese it by editing the save but only if you're made aware a variable was added. Also, to my knowledge, DPC never has never retroactively added a variable.

So only things with variables matter as the game remembers these and calls back to them later. If there's no variable then it doesn't which means that choice of what to to say to Maya there doesn't matter at all.



You have got to be joking with this.

The emojis in her messages are proof of absolutely nothing when it comes to be any sort of determinative factor about the future of the throuple. She's doing it because she likes him but the game doesn't track or remember this in any potentially meaningful way, it's just a visual aesthetic for the text exchanges.


Well, if DPC had always intended for there be a way to solo relationships then he clearly didn't plan on making them a significant part of the game. It's 11 episodes in and they still haven't started and who knows if anything will even happen with them in Ep 12. I sincerely doubt that anything's going to happen in the episode such that a solo relationship has begun by the time it gets to the NYE party and even if there is some sort of rift, I doubt we're seeing them break up and then openly get with the MC solo in the short space of time this episode likely covers.

So if anything is happening on that front it may still not be unti S4 before there's any real movement on it and it probably won't get much in the way of content with the few episodes it will have.


Alternatively, perhaps it could be that the MC still has a chance to say it to the other girl. After all, they still want to talk more about the things that have been bothering Josy and they said the MC should be included in that, so it's possible that him saying ILY to one of them gets brought up and you have the opportunity to say it to the other girl there and then. If you haven't said it then this would be the chance to say it to both and maybe there could even some RP attached to it, like if you say it to both at the same time you get +5 and if you say it to the girl you haven't said it to then you get +1 for each.

Ultimately, the MC saying it to one girl first doesn't have to be a be-all-end-all choice because it can just be chalked up to the MC taking the opportunity with that girl when it presented itself and feeling the same for the other girl but just not having had the right moment for it yet.

That writing style? You're not Holey Juan, are you? Nah, nah, that wasn't the right name. What was it? Bacchus, right? The prophet of Maya or some shit like that.

 

[Titus Thau-Yuros]

That writing style? You're not Holey Juan, are you? Nah, nah, that wasn't the right name. What was it? Bacchus, right? The prophet of Maya or some shit like that.

I have heard much of this one. A prophet who preached much but was entirely off based with every claim they spoke of, also annoyed others if I remember right.

Sounds like a sad lad. Should hire Madam for a night of wonder song.