This is what I call constrictive criticism, which I love to pay attention to.thats exactly my concerns , especially the stuff with megan/aka the mother
(i hope cooper dont get to know the sisters ...)
plus the forced olivia stuff
the mc is to ...trusting .. to say it polite
at some point we get revenge on cooper - but to be forced to fool around with megan ..
should be avoidable
same goes for the porn thing with jessy
(and maybe going the gigolo path for/with Sandra - which -if - should be avoidable too)
so many girls - so much "forced" stuff
dont get me wrong - i love the game , just wish for more "freedom of choice"
I understand what you're saying, and indeed they are many characters (too many maybe, lol), it's impossible to like them all, of course.
It would be great to have free choice in all, multiple paths and almost infinite interactions, but doing that would be a really complex job if not impossible. So we must be careful to choose wisely where there are paths that split, what this entails, how you will interact in each case, with which characters, etc...
In some secondary characters it will be (and is) possible to choose whether to continue interacting with them, as is already the case of Charlene and Katia, where you can choose to finish the path with them; the same will happen with other secondary characters, what happens is that we want the player to at least interact with them for a while, to know them not only at first sight, but their way of being, their life, their interests, etc, and then you can choose whether to continue or not.
In other characters that are part of the main plot this option will not be given because it would not make sense, but there will be multiple paths for them.
But keep in mind that these things take an incredible amount of planning (ending up with smoke coming out of your head, lol).