You can only drag mysteries for so long until people became annoyed, and this one is getting too long already. I think we will have confirmation soon.
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Holy Bacchus
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It could certainly go in one of 2 ways; either it was deliberately set up to seem dark and foreboding but it will be totally benign and a clear signal that this game is not going to go the same way as AL, or it will still be benign but in order to lure people into a false sense of security so that a dark twist later involving a different character hits you harder because you didn't see it coming.
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the reverse also works though, indeed it tends to work more: as long as there is mystery, interest remains.
the best solution would be to carry all the stories forward with the same speed, but for now it has not been so, and I have no reason to think things change particularly.
the hypothetical happy ending with Bella is the one that has to overcome more objective obstacles, this makes me think it will be the story that will take longer to define itself. then it may be that the mystery of the husband is solved relatively shortly (from the previews I would not say in the next chapter, therefore at the shortest in 5-6 months), but it will be long.
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Regarding Bella's mysterious locked door all I'll say is that if doesn't turn out to be something really serious or impactful then that entire plot point will fall completely flat on it's face given the build up and attention it's been getting.
I have the walkthrough mod installed and I do have the mod error fix too but what will happen once I update the game from 0.5 to 0.6?
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I don't care what's in the locked room.
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But what does "serious or impactful" mean, exactly? It can mean different things to different people, and for me it would be enough if it did turn out to be a room full of her husband's things that she's keeping in the hopes he'll one day return. This would be "impactful" from an emotional standpoint as it would reveal her character to be someone who's holding on to the past too much rather than moving on in order to live in the present and embrace a new future. This would give her character some much needed depth and be more than enough for a story like this without having to take Bella in too dark a direction.
Also, just because it's perceived that this has been given a lot of attention doesn't mean that it has to be particularly game-changing. It could just have been DPC deliberately sowing seeds of suspicion of a dark twist in order to have bit of fun with people who think this game is going to be dark like AL, but it isn't, and so this could turn out to be something very simple and not at all dark.
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Which makes very little difference to anything...sooo....
Yeah, I agree. But at some point you have to solve some things and open others. Shift the mystery a bit, so it doesn't get old. The boots are kind of that, but you have to show the room at some point, even if we don't get to what happened to the husband yet.
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I agree with you that I would like the "mystery" to have a plausible solution, but not that it proves to be a waste of time.
to be emotionally meaningful for us players it would mean that we should become so involved in Bella's bond with her husband to feel it too. it seems very difficult to me. 80% of the players do not care about either Bella or her husband, the remaining 20% only care about Bella, and the husband is just an obstacle.
it is as if in the letter from MC's mother there was written "only" how much his mother loved him, sentimentally important but for the plot it would be an absolute disappointment
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It doesn't have to be game changing just significant enough in an emotional way for either her, the player or both. A lackluster reveal would not only be disappointing, it would undermine the interest/curious players might have in it as a result of the build up.
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now would it be the fault of the players?
DPC deliberately created this mystery, making everything about Bella a series of "unspoken" facts. so it must be VERY SIGNIFICANT at least in making us understand the relationship and the problems between Bella and her husband, otherwise it will have been a waste of time.
I don't understand what you mean by game-chancing .. any truth about Bella's marriage can only be considered as such
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The interest/curiosity has been completely drummed up by the players. DPC showed a locked door and everybody's minds (at least here) went wild with theories about miscarriages, a KIA soldier husband, Bella being another Leah, sex dungeons, etc.
DPC hasn't really done anything to make this locked door seem like it's as big a deal as people here make it out to be, so if it turns out be nothing much, then they haven't undermined anything.
This is what you call a "red herring". The TV series "24" did it all the time, in every season, where the first major villain/crisis was never the main one. You knew to expect it but it didn't diminish or negatively impact that show in any way so I don't see this being such a bad thing if it turns out to be nothing major.
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felicemastronzo
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everyone chooses the red herring he prefers ...
There are only two clues to Bella's story: the locked room and the nocturnal dialogue with Jill
it doesn't seem like so many clues to me that one of the 2 could be completely meaningless
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Didnt facepalm you but its just different opinions. City of Broken Dreams for example, I definitely would say that its probably one of the best written stories on here but it still isnt as fun as Being a Dik for me. Again, better written, animated and more creative maybe but the joy i for one have with Being a Dik is just way above it for now.
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I'm not talking about the dumb theories/shit posts that are always posted here, I mean the fact that DPC has had MC personally check out the door multiple times only to always have it locked, showing Bella to get akward when near it, showed her in the room but the camera angle from within facing her so that players only see her but not what's inside, and even going as far as to asking Jill about it. If it isn't somewhat significant why bother giving it this kind of attention?
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I'm not saying that it's meaningless, just that it might have less meaning than people are prescribing to it.everyone chooses the red herring he prefers ...
There are only two clues to Bella's story: the locked room and the nocturnal dialogue with Jill
it doesn't seem like so many clues to me that one of the 2 could be completely meaningless
People (mostly here) have seen this locked room and assumed it might mean something dark and possibly sinister for Bella's story, but DPC hasn't hinted at that at all. They've given it a mystique, yes, but if it turned out be something as simple as a room full of James's things, then it still has meaning for Bella and her story, and any disappointment people would feel at it being that simple would be because of what they built up in their head and not because of anything DPC to suggest it was more than that.
And it would have significance if it was just a room full of James's stuff because that's significant to Bella and her story. So it's not that it would have no significance at all, but that it wouldn't have quite the significance some people might think it might have.
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but it must be meaningful for the story, for us players, not just for Bella.
a room full of her husband's belongings reveals nothing to us. we all expect the husband to have clothes, hobbies etc.
it has to add something to the story, not fill the playtime
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Because for some reason the MC is a total nosy bastard with no respect for other people's privacy lol. Like seriously..in the real world...none of his godamn business what's in that room is it? He walks around like he owns the fucking place. This part of the storyline really annoys me actually.
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i dont know dude. By having jill suddenly stop shortly before going to the kitchen just to turn and slowly try and look into the locked roomwhile having a sad/worried face can be considered as DPC teasing the mystery and obviously emphasizing it but i do agree that people are possibly setting themselves up for dissapointment