shazba
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What im talking about is this part "Aside from scrapping the idea that the game would be a prequel to Acting Lessons, the outline since hasn’t changed much. It has been expanded with more story events and sub-plots."
That means the main story of the game was already done before it was changed. So the story was written with Acting Lessons in mind and not much was changed.
Since the story was already made and not changed even after it was decided that its not a preguel to Acting Lessons that means that at end it must make sense with Acting Lessons in mind. And because of AL we know that the MC will be alone at the end just so he could meet Megan. We could assume that if it was made as a preguel for AL Derek would be Liam.
Who cares that now badik and AL are not connected the story was not changed because of that.
"the outline since hasn’t changed much. It has been expanded with more story events and sub-plots."
thats what i meant and what i was talking about. It makes the story pointless we know what will happen at the end. MC will be alone to sell crypto.
In a sense our choices wont matter at all just like in AL.
Even ignoring the points people have already made, I don't think your logic holds. The problems with the MC's marriage (in Acting Lessons) happened years after their wedding, whereas BaDIK is very unlikely to last beyond college (if that). It's been a while since I played AL (and I'm sure as hell not replaying it!), but as I recall the MC met Anna during college.
If I'm right, presumably the original story of AL would have been a specific variation of Anna's endings in proto-BaDIK. There's no reason to assume all the other endings would have to play out the same way. Even Anna could have had endings where she and the MC learn not to take their relationship for granted, thus averting the bad start to AL before it even happened. (And thus allowing Leah to continue her killing spree, you monster!)
Of course, I imagine this is the reason DPC discarded the prequel concept in the first place: it would be way too much work to write a VN with multiple endings only to serve as a prequel to a game with a single beginning. So I strongly suspect that even the early versions of BaDIK's story had already moved beyond the AL prequel idea.
You do raise an interesting point though. If Anna was meant to be a character in BaDIK, who would she have been? Assuming there's any validity to exercise, it couldn't be Maya, Josy or Bella. That leaves the side girls, Jill, and Sage. None seem like great fits, but I will admit I could conceive of Sage starting an affair to rekindle the MC's interest in her if their marriage drifted apart (assuming she'd already tried more direct methods, of course). And I could certainly see Quinn do it.
As I said, I think the prequel idea was thrown out early so there probably isn't a direct analog to Anna in this game. But it's a way of looking at our cast that I hadn't really considered before.
I knew I could count on you to bring reasonability. The way I see it is extremely simple, During Acting Lesson, He started working on an idea of how cool it will be to show the College Years of MC. or the main character could have been Liam
. The inspiration was simply the Dik fraternity. And very early HE decide to scratch off the idea to have any connection to AL. Probably for the reasons you just said, what would be the point of it if you know how the story end. So, new Main Character, nothing to do with AL.
The basic "outline" was life in a fraternity. And this is the part that has not change. and With the New MC, who has no restriction, because he has no connection to the previous Game. Everything is different, including the possible endings.
so in short, this is not the Hobbit, to the Lord of the Rings.
Maybe I missed something, but even though I understand DPC had initially intended BaDIK to be in the same “universe” as AL, I never had the impression that the MC of both games was ever intended to be the same character.My good man. I've never played AL, so I can't do anything with Megan and so on. The MC will not necessarily end alone.
But I must confess to my shame, that I should have followed my advice myself. After rereading, I realized that my theory about the time line is not a theory at all, but a fact that DPC itself mentions.
"So far, the only deviations are that some events have been introduced earlier than intended, while some events have been pushed back for later."
I assume that something bad will happen to the MC that it can survive. The trigger for that is probably Josy. No, Josy will not die. Josy has a past that Maya may know something about. In Ep2, we learn from Josy herself that she sees cheating as a way out of unhappiness under certain circumstances. Josy mentioned in EP6 in passing that she has already had experience with a threesome. And there are also other indications that Josy is absolutely not an innocent. If the MC finds out Josy's past, it will throw him off track and a disaster will happen. He will overreact again. Also from EP2 we know that Josy has not had any human contact for a long time. But that doesn't make sense. In EP1 she works in the mini market. Human contact. She also has her date with the MC in EP1. Human contact. Shit, even Steve's ass slap is human contact. So it turns out that parts of EP1, EP2 and EP3 don't fit together.
Why hasn't Josy had human contact in EP2 for a while? You don't have to make the argument that she was separated from Maya because Josy had human contact in EP1.
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Has anyone got a quote or reference that actually indicates DPC ever intended them to be the same person?
I mean, you guys aren’t the same mob who thought Jill was the mc’s aunt are you?
On a side note, holy shit I’ve never had so many posts deleted in one hit before! Not complaining, I think the whole thread was off-topic for the entire day!