It´s just that two months ago in the game, when the school year started, Sage wasn´t interested in helping someone, and suddenly she is... I suppose that she was an orphan two months ago too, since that´s the reason DPC gives for Sage wanting to help someone and choosing Maya as his charity project... It´s not "It´s too late for the HOTs so I´m going to forget them and save Maya" since she doesn´t know about the problems of the other HOTs. If she knew, it´s supposed that this Sage wanting to help people around her would have helped her sisters time ago. After all, again, she was an orphan last year and the year before too, when she met Quinn and the others...
I think it´s just that for DPC, at first Sage and the HOTs were just a bunch of clichés, and after a few updates, the game and the story became bigger than DPC himself expected, and he had to give Sage (and also Quinn and the others) a personality. Problem is, the foundations of those characters are really bad. I like Sage (and even Quinn) now, but it´s because I choose to forget how they were during the first season. But Maya is just a bad character now, and then too. She´s just a spineless doll face (she didn´t even had the guts to say the MC the she already was in a relationship) waiting that a white knight, whoever, comes to solve her problems. I understand that Quinn, that is the opposite, a girl that solves her own problems even if that means risking ending up in jail, despises her. She´s beyond redemption as a likable character. But she has a pretty 3D model, that´s true.
There are a lot of separate issues here. Sage doesn't offer to help Quinn because Quinn goes to great lengths to downplay her need for money. That part can't be chalked up to lazy writing, it's a well presented side-effect of Quinn's personality.
Sage being completely oblivious to Quinn's vice racket... that's more in the lazy writing zone. I can suspend my disbelief to a point; we've seen things Sage hasn't, and she
has been distracted by the Chad situation. But there's a limit, and once it's clear she believes Maya's story there's no excuse for her to continue giving Quinn so much free rein. This is made all the worse by the way the game portrays Sage as a wise leader - criticizing Rusty for living in a bubble and the like - when she has in fact been a horribly negligent president. To her credit Sage does realize she dropped the ball with Maya (especially if Maya asked to switch mothers), but she's still underestimating the scale of her screwup.
Now as far as DPC changing his mind about the HOTs, I strongly disagree. It seems very clear DPC always intended us to dismiss Sage as a vapid party girl early on, then realize her depths as we got to know her. That's a classic trope, and Sage is hardly the only person who's initial impression is misleading.
On Maya, you're welcome to dislike her, but dismissing her as waiting for a white knight to solve all her problems is flat out wrong. The whole point of joining the HOTs was to solve her problems
on her own. Maya wouldn't even tell the MC about her problems until Episode 4 (if you're on her path) or Episode 6 (if you're not). Maya's mistake is looking for a get-rich-quick scheme to solve her problems in one fell swoop rather than attacking it over time. Maya is a very passive character and I'm as sick of her being stuck in the damsel role as everyone else, but she is not simply mooching off other characters.
You know, it occurs to me that this is exactly the sort of exchange that seems like an innocent joke about incest games now, but would take on a whole new meaning if it turns out Bella had a miscarriage. Just saying.
Though ... I think Tommy knew about Maya. I think in Ep 2 or 3 when they're having a party in the basement (when you do body shots off of Sarah and Mel) right before then Tommy seems like he's about tell Rusty about Maya like he's familiar with her in relation to Josy but Derek cuts him off.
That could either mean 1. Tommy was just going to say, "Yea, she's this really hot blonde" and Derek got uncomfortable so he brought up that she was his sister or 2. Tommy knew Josy and Maya were going out and was about to say something like, "Yea, she's my stupid step-sister's girlfriend". Derek probably cut him off for the same reason though, he just got uncomfortable about his sister being mentioned at all. Since, I think at that point Derek still didn't know Tommy was Josy's step-brother and wouldn't even imagine Tommy knowing about that relationship. Could be remembering wrong. I'm replaying the game while waiting but only got up to ep 1 because I haven't had time the past few days. Probably reading into it too much but that party scene was also the foreshadowing for Sage being a Burke. So who knows?
I'm pretty sure Tommy was going to say Maya was a friend of his step-sister. Josy's family had all met Maya, they just didn't know she and Josy were a romantic couple.
Hey guys. I was thinking of getting into DPC's other game Acting Lessons. Just wanted you opinions. It's it as good as Being a Dik? Because I honestly don't how you can top this one.
Is it same style and humor?
Acting Lessons. Sigh.
Okay, here's the thing. AL is a very well-crafted game with excellent character work and a lot of good bits. But it's also a fucking bait and switch. The game is not what it presents itself as for the first 6 chapters. The end of the game not only takes a famously dark turn, but that turn doesn't flow out of the events leading up to it. It just pops up out of nowhere and completely changes the tone of the game, practically wallowing in misery by the final episode. The endings can have some nice, bittersweet moments depending on how you play, but the emphasis is mostly on the bitter half.
As long as you know that going in, I think you'll be fine if you want to try it (assuming you can handle dark stories, obviously).
