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

[Casiope]

I share the criticism of many here about the interlude: for three years, we have been pushed to prove our commitment to potential love interests. The timing of introducing a new one right after the choice was made is way too late.

I understand the reasons behind the standalone: Dr PinkCake needed a pause between important episodes in order to experiment with a new narrative style; but this breaks the dynamic with the feeling that the crossroads was flawed. Once again the creator favors drama (the unexpected ex who comes back for love) to better disrupt the players' intentions.

Another negative point is the constant arrival of new characters to the point that even regular players get lost. Maybe it's time to deepen the existing ones rather than adding Becky, Bianca, Vixxens… I worry that this extensive cast may dilute the writing process.

So, by mimicking Life Is Stange series, Dr PinkCake undercuts the authenticity of Being a DIK. One thing is for sure: with a universe that keeps expanding, the creator shows no inclination to put an end to his game.

 

[bobbo69]

So help me understand this. What exactly were you expecting after it's been mentioned time and again before the interlude release that it is just filling in Zoey's backstory and that it's not going to move forward the main plot at all?

I don't follow up on threads like most of you do, so, I wasn't aware of it, I knew about a new girl, but that's about it.

 

[Kame-Sennin]

someone please help start a new game in interlude, i can't import even after copying save files from season 2 in appdata saves folder of season 3

 

[StingerWolf]

While I haven't played the other two games, I have played AOA and I still haven't finished it yet, but I enjoyed it in the beginning, but it got like too story heavy for me. All the girls seem to have sad backstories and there's hardly any nudity or sex scenes. It's all about protecting Valery from the cartel. And the dev is such a cocktease with Jenny, who I really like and want to do stuff with yet I haven't done anything with her at all, aside from maybe that titty fuck or whatever it was towards the beginning (I think you can do that Jenny, right?). Also all the grammatical errors and misspellings... I really want that game to be good but it seems like the dev forgot what kind of game he was making and got too into the story of the cartel and Valery.

I agree that the MOB story is very misplaced, but you get more than enough sex with Jade and while is is not my main LI, her scenes are damn hot no just vanilla crap. Last time the Scene with Vicky was great. We are slowly getting there.

 

[JNolan92]

I agree that the MOB story is very misplaced, but you get more than enough sex with Jade and while is is not my main LI, her scenes are damn hot no just vanilla crap. Last time the Scene with Vicky was great. We are slowly getting there.

Oh. Yeah I'm not a fan of Jade so I wasn't trying with her lol.

 

[bebiho]

Personally i would say City of Broken Dreamers, Intertwined, The Unbroken and The Author, Chasing Sunsets are some of the titles that can surely compete with BaDik on several fronts. I agree with you DPC brings a high quality overall package but you should be fair to compare devs and their products, there's some very good startups with hardly any patreons that you try to measure to work of an accomplished dev with astronomical funding compared to them.
I'm in no way trying to talk bad of DPC's work, i just think there's several artist that deliver a comparable quality, often less content but it's just hard to compete with DPC on that front, but writing and visuals just as good or better (Badik been running 2 years already so it would be a miracle if there's no newer stuff around visually better then BaDik in earlier episodes)
And then there's some promising startups that sadly been stopped like Fallen Roads and Fix the Future for instance...
And fair is fair, Acting lessons compared to BaDik is another level aswell, devs grow overtime resulting in bigger or atleast better products.

Chasing Sunsets and COBD do have great art and is on par with BADIK visually. I agree. These VN may also have better writing. But their overall "package" is a tier below. If they could add some in game mechanics that enchance the experience then we having a different conversation.

To me COBD have the potential to be on pair with BADIK but PhillyGames lack the ability to add game mechanics that enchance his VN, if you compare Depraved Awakening to COBD, the only difference is art quality. Same setup, you just read the dialogues and click.

The thing that sets DPC apart to me is his developer growth from Acting Lessons to BADIK. He has added so much to "enchance" his games but also kept the "fun" and suspense experience that we all fell in love with Acting Lessons, you cant wait to see whats in store for next episode. The only other developer who does this well is Drifty with Leap of Faith. If he continues on his current growth pace, he may get up there.

Btw thanks for the game suggestions I will check them out =)

 

[Laport Deminis]

Maybe it's time to deepen the existing ones rather than adding Becky, Bianca, Vixxens… I worry that this extensive cast may dilute the writing process.

Now, Casiope, this is a declaration of war. Becky & co has been the best thing this game had and it's the best we are going to have. ¿Negative?

Who is going to suck your dick in a bathroom while you make fun of her?
Bella? Oh come on don´t make me laugh.

Who is going to cheat on that dumb Oscar in a gloryhole with her friend while Sarah lick your ears?
I don't see any LI having a boyfriend who could cheat anymore so that's a no.

Who is going to dance in the middle of a room with her tits jumping for our pleasure?
Well actually i can think of a lot of candidates... but, who has the honor of beign the first?

Wich of this girls has shown their entusiasm in taking two dicks at the same time and yet dont have a sexual desease?
Noone but our blue eyes goth chick.

And you want them to remain unfucked by MC's cock?????
You cruel, cruel, cruel fox.

I don't accept different opinions on this subject. The Vixxns will be fucked whever they may be.

 

[Laport Deminis]

But being serious...

It always came to the same problem. I think a lot of people should consider that they are not the only players of this thing. While you maybe don't like something other people do. Since the goal of the game is to please a diverse number of players it has more sense to include something than to remove it.

When you ask to remove something you don't like you are being completely indiferent to other people preferences. If you want every scene and all the content for your prefered girls and complain of the girls you don't like and ask to remove them, even if other people like them... that's kind of selfish, innocent selfishness but still.

Instead we should considerer to accept what we don't like, others may do. Yeah, we will get less content with our particular preferences but everyone will get something and that's more valuable than to some people geting everything. Therefore we will share the game with other people.

I don't like sex scenes with Riona or Quinn couse they are not my fetish. But a lot of people love them so I find perfetely fine to accept the next update gets delay two weeks or one month to include content for them. Couse the game is not made to please me exclusively.

If you don't like Zoey, ok. But bro, there are like 20 girls in this game.

Edit: This stament is not aplicable to Madam.

 

[lipe2410]

I don't accept different opinions on this subject. The Vixxns will be fucked whever they may be.

Here you gain my love

I don't like sex scenes with Riona

And here you lost it

 

[sixart]

https://f95zone.to/threads/being-a-dik-interlude-season-3-dr-pinkcake.25332/post-7679664

Sold

But if B&R and so Fuckface lives in New York ( City or State ) what's the question and theories about Zoey shifting her ass approx 2800 miles away chasing a dream ??? You cannot be so delusional that you ( or anyone else ) think this could work in a long range type relationship OR the other would wait for you a year or so without any motivation ( talk ) ... So again WTF is here to theorize about ?

 

[Dnutz]

I'm thinking early. He has already written the script for the new episode (I think so). The title is ready, several animations and renderings. But in any case, you should not expect it before July.

damn my hype needs fuel am i right, the waiting game is a killer for the soul, but im hopeful

 

[vogelbeest]

Edit: This stament is not aplicable to Madam.

But but but... there's people out there that follow BaDik just for her! All two of them will be greatly disappointed!

And here you lost it

Just wait for that theory that Riona is Madam's daughter gets some proof!
(or just be happy you don't have to share... ah well, atleast not with everybody)

So again WTF is here to theorize about ?

Im not saying it's to prove Riona is Madam's daughter, but......

 

[PinkmeX]

Again, you're conflating lewd scenes with content and focus. I'm not expecting the MC to get more lewd scenes with a LI if he picks her. I'm expecting him to act differently towards that LI and towards others if he picks her. That's well within DPCs power to do, especially now that he doesn't need to make the one or two lewd scenes LIs get available universally.

But that can't happen if the MC's response to Zoey is essentially the same on all branches. That's what I'm worried about.

I think you've hit it dead on here. DPC himself was at the crossroads after episode 8.

He had two options. One was to actually commit to different paths truly being different, which would have resulted in less, but higher quality content on a particular path. That however would have exposed him to endless wrath of mindless drones who would've come up with brilliant complaints such as "6 months for 1 hour of playtime, what a fuck", while ignoring that it would actually offer more since the replay value would rocket up.

DPC has been shown to be wary of such masses, as evidenced by the fact that poor Zoey didn't get any dick in all her time apart from ol' fuckface, so he decided to take the much easier path. Namely, slap some Zoey-shaped drama over the problem, which will mostly unify the paths again, and he can go on as he was thus far. He is clearly aiming for as much of broad appeal as he can get.

Personally, I'm not too ticked about it, as I'm here mostly for Quinn, and her "path" hasn't suffered from this yet, but it's certainly starting to hurt the overall quality of storytelling. Of course, based on everything we've seen Quinn is not that likely to get some type of nice ending, but a man can hope.

 

[Laport Deminis]

Here you gain my love

And here you lost it

"'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" (As long as you get to fuck in the middle)

there's people out there that follow BaDik just for her! All two of them will be greatly disappointed!

That's a sacrifice I am willing to make.

 

[AchedCroissant]

I'll prefer a DPC version of Scooby Doo's Hex Girls

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A man can dream, right?

I hope the MC dresses up as Scooby and the bestiality tag will be necessary

 

[Deleted member 2461802]

I hope the MC dresses up as Scooby and the bestiality tag will be necessary

get help

 

[AchedCroissant]

get help

No

 

[hakuna-matata]

But being serious...

It always came to the same problem. I think a lot of people should consider that they are not the only players of this thing. While you maybe don't like something other people do. Since the goal of the game is to please a diverse number of players it has more sense to include something than to remove it.

When you ask to remove something you don't like you are being completely indiferent to other people preferences. If you want every scene and all the content for your prefered girls and complain of the girls you don't like and ask to remove them, even if other people like them... that's kind of selfish, innocent selfishness but still.

Instead we should considerer to accept what we don't like, others may do. Yeah, we will get less content with our particular preferences but everyone will get something and that's more valuable than to some people geting everything. Therefore we will share the game with other people.

I don't like sex scenes with Riona or Quinn couse they are not my fetish. But a lot of people love them so I find perfetely fine to accept the next update gets delay two weeks or one month to include content for them. Couse the game is not made to please me exclusively.

If you don't like Zoey, ok. But bro, there are like 20 girls in this game.

Edit: This stament is not aplicable to Madam.

I don't think anyone hates Zoey. I most certainly don't. What we don't like is 4 months of development time that could have been used for Episode 9. Who really cares about seeing her time in San Diego? The episode was pretty borring. It was the first time I felt like I couldn't wait for the episode to finish. The only exciting part about the Interlude was Sage yelling a MC at the end of the episode. With epsidoes taking longer produce, by now, DPC would have been probably half way done with Episode 9.

 

[Laport Deminis]

in what's by all intents and purposes the mid/late part of the story,

So? What's your point here?
Besides being an ode to artistic conservatism...
There is no reasonable reason whatsoever that an artist to limit himself to their previous creation. None. Actually it's the oposite, he should free to create new things.

You know, long-lasting ones who weren't just shoved into the game for drama,

Drama = story.

Always has been. A story without drama is the most boring, uninspiring thing I can ever imagine. Just imagine Titanic without the fucking iceberg. Imagine Romeo and Juliet if it was a completely ok relationship. Imagine Hamlet with his father alive... anyway.
Every significat character in this story has a purpose as a story character in the way he could generate drama. Quinn for example it's there to antagonize the MC, to generate conflict, therefore drama, with Sage Maya Josy Mona etc.

Like, your argument would work if you were talking of Quinn,

You mean the one you like? Yeah... I see what's your problem there.

Who can say with a straight face that, going forward, they'd rather have DCP work on her and her drama than on whoever they picked in the crossroads.

I just did man. Totally straight. I am happy other people gets what they want.

 

[StingerWolf]

Oh. Yeah I'm not a fan of Jade so I wasn't trying with her lol.

Neither am I use the mod, so I see all scenes, and hers are damn hot.