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

[BorgiaBou]

I will admit, as a Jill super-fan, and even though I have nearly 2800 screenshots of her (included in a collection of nearly 35,000 total)

Dude are you okay cuz from what you say here you seem a bit lala...

 

[sixart]

Dude are you okay cuz from what you say here you seem a bit lala...

Overboard ?

 

[tg]

OK, this is my first tier ranking. I think this is pretty much how I see them, both within the game, and just visually. That other teir list prompted me to make this one, since I wondered just how difficult it was to decided. Turned out, it's very basic to do an acceptable tier list...

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

Dude are you okay cuz from what you say here you seem a bit lala...

I like to keep screenshots of things in these games, I'm not the first, won't be the last. If that's "lala" to you, fine, but guess what else is fine..more than fine even, is me hitting the Ignore button on you.

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

Overboard ?

Nothing overboard about it, so I have screenshots of VN girls. Big deal. My girlfriend/long-time partner of 13 years doesn't seem to care.

If people want to make a big deal about it, I guess I'll start Ignoring anyone who does, to the point where I am in this thread talking to myself.

 

[J.A.L.]

 

[Jimayo]

So yeah, if you don't like the drama, I don't know what about this game lures you in, because I'd say the story (for better or worse) is the strongest draw card here.

Characters. I like the LI's. And the less forced not so artificial, soap opery fuckiing drama is entertaining.

 

[Animesh Anomitra]

Soap operas are worse than reality t.v.

We'll have to disagree on that.

I could name a number of games on this site that are way better written.

Please do - it's going to be ages before the next update and I'll need something else to play.

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

We'll have to disagree on that.


Please do - it's going to be ages before the next update and I'll need something else to play.

Probably won't have the update until mid/late spring, perhaps later than that. Hopefully we'll still get two updates next year (guessing May/June and November/December as the bookend updates). Just speculation

 

[sixart]

Nothing overboard about it, so I have screenshots of VN girls. Big deal. My girlfriend/long-time partner of 13 years doesn't seem to care.

If people want to make a big deal about it, I guess I'll start Ignoring anyone who does, to the point where I am in this thread talking to myself.

Nothing of the sorts... I just don't seem to understand what is it in this that would make someone ( now YOU ) a lala
Speaking for myself... I don't collect anything like this as you and many others do ! Does that make me a lala too ?
I wouldn't care if anyone collected 350000 ( numbers can go up ) it's not my business ! Maybe this is what makes me a lala !!!

 

[Deleted member 2741684]

Dev warned me that this game can cause sadness, why I didn’t listen.

I do hope this game wouldn't ends up like "Acting lessons". The last two episodes of "AL" causes only "sadness"...

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

Nothing of the sorts... I just don't seem to understand what is it in this that would make someone ( now YOU ) a lala
Speaking for myself... I don't collect anything like this as you and many others do ! Does that make me a lala too ?
I wouldn't care if anyone collected 350000 ( numbers can go up ) it's not my business ! Maybe this is what makes me a lala !!!

I have many screensavers put together; about 5000 pictures of landscapes and cities of Japan, the screensaver for the VN girls, at one point I collected images from World War I & II. I like having variety. Yeah I'm a little off my rocker, I'm bipolar schizoaffective who has had many times in psych ward, so I guess that gives me an excuse to be a "lala."

Still ignored his (I guess) stupid ass though.

 

[Jimayo]

Dude ever since you've composed your first message on this thread, you've been absolutely nothing but abrasive and negative. You call me princess but you're the one with the little pink panties on wedged high in your asscrack. Take your 3rd grade insults and suck em up that same ass. Get the fuck outta here with your negative shit and stop trying to pick fights with people on an internet forum.

Says the one with his panties in a wad. Cry some more.

 

[weirdscix]

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good for Maya. I would bitch-slap massive chick MC for being a wuss (if he didn't punch Tyballs after prep party, then another hard one).

although some DIK status choices make one appear petulant and immature; and sometimes creepy.

Yeah, Bella is one of the worst

 

[PashafromRussia]

 

[BorgiaBou]

I like to keep screenshots of things in these games, I'm not the first, won't be the last. If that's "lala" to you, fine, but guess what else is fine..more than fine even, is me hitting the Ignore button on you.

Dude you are obsessed you have 35k, once again 35,000... that's definitely some lala shit... i mean i have some screenshots but i dunno like 100 or something not 35K...

 

[bottomfeeder]

This is the hardest things I have to do in this game coz I can't not romance her on every route I play

 

[McGreed]

This is the hardest things I have to do in this game coz I can't not romance her on every route I play

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Yeah , that scene was sad as fck.

 

[Meghead]

Sometimes I don't understand this good/bad system, It is understandable that smoking weed on the roof can be considered a good/bad action, but why banging the teacher who shows interest in you is seen as a bad choice, she is the mom of our rival(sort of) if you are on the Jill\Bella route, bj scene with Cathy in the car did not have this dik\chick choice at all.

I dont get it.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Of those games, I've only played Deluca Family, Depraved Awakening, City of Broken Dreamers, and Leap of Faith and I gotta disagree.

All of those stories are richer, and potentially more intriguing. They all want to tell a better story than BaDIK's simply slice of life in college tale.

But in my opinion, they are not written "better":

• Deluca Family is intriguing, but the writing is shit. The characters all sound like one guy writing everyone's lines (they are all fucking crazy). It was enjoyable at first but only the rich potential for the story is interesting, the actual writing is amateurish.
• Depraved Awakening is a typical Film Noir with x-rated sex. It's just one big cliche and by the end I fast forwarded. It's not badly written, but I couldn't bring myself to bother reading any of it again.
• City of Broken Dreamers I thought rivalled BaDIK except when the last episode came out I decided to play the game from scratch. Before I even got to the new content I was bored, because while story is interesting, the writing is not interesting.
• To me Leap of Faith is an embarrassment. It's just one guys wet dream and the characters are all shallow as fuck. And by shallow, I don't mean the character is portrayed as a shallow person, I mean the characters have hardly any depth, and what depth they seem to have feels like it's written by a 12 year old.

Once again, the stories of the above games are more complex and intend to tell something much bigger than BaDIK, which is just a college sex romp with character entanglements. But fuck me if it's not better written than all of those I've just swiftly critiqued.

Every line uttered by each character in BaDIK hits a chord. I have re-played the game countless times and still laugh at the same jokes. The writing is spot on.

People say that even DPC admitted that writing is his biggest weakness, but that's never put into context. He actually said his method of writing plays to his strengths (i.e. writing character dialogue) as his weakness is writing a narration based story and even suggests a narrator ruins the immersion.

So it obviously comes down to personal preference, but I'd prefer a simple story told well compared to a great story told poorly, and I don't believe there's an example on this site of a great story told well.

Fair enough, as those are your opinion. Our opinion diverse greatly (most especially on LoF), but this is all subjective and there's no right or wrong, despite what some think.

Having said that, I'd say BADIK is even more cliché than DA, just a different genre (college humor vs. film noir).