That's part of showing how shitty Brent is as a person. The mc got rich off of HIS tip(in his mind) so of course the only way someone would help a friend out with money is if she offers to sleep with him(because that's what he would want if she came to him).
Well duh, you don't ask people who don't have money for money.
Of course she was going to ask Guy because he has literal millions in his account, that Brent needed.
I just hope it doesn't end badly. I think my favorite moment in the game so far is the "best girl I know" speech, but I've been in one and watched several relationships where the woman doesn't know how to handle a relationship where she is treated well - starts causing problems trying to provoke an abusive response and eventually just blows it up and runs away. I hope that's not Nicky's fate on the nice path.
If we haven't talked in a while and the first time you speak to me is trying to seduce me for money, then yes, I'm going to be pissed at you. This wasn't some friend asking another friend for a favor. This was Nikki and Brent asking Guy ( who they thought was a sucker) for money with no strings attached.
Personally my favorite scene in the game was when Nicki came back and gave her explanation of everything.
If you haven't talked in a while, which is something that both sides are responsible for, then why is it exactly problematic to you that a friend reaches to you when they're in serious need of help? Should they first make some casual meetings and act as if they don't need help? Because this would be far more manipulative than the alternative.
I'd be a little sad that Nicky didn't know me well enough to just ask, and I'd probably give her shit for that and tell her her boyfriend sucked but only in a friend giving another friend shit kinda way, and then I'd give her some money. Even at this point in the story, I'd try to help Brent - not for his sake, but for Nicky's. I wouldn't just hand him cash but I'd try to find him a decent job, maybe give him some cash to help with the move and getting an apartment etc - preferably somewhere far away. Neon won't let us play the kind of rich guy who makes him disappear in other, even more permanent ways - but I'd still take steps to make sure that Brent stopped popping up unexpectedly.
Yeah that's the problematic part guys . However much people try to minimize this... she did came dolled up and playing on that angle, even if to her credit, she could have obviously gone more aggressive and desperate with it. Yeah I'd have issues with a friend trying to ask me money, if instead of bluntly doing it, he or she would try to play seduction tactics to get it.
if im not mistaken they only didn't talk for awhile till after she got the money. so the part of your argument where you say they haven't talked for awhile makes no sense to me. They were working together and talking together every day for the most part till he quit his job. I think it was only maybe 2 weeks they might of not talked . 2 weeks isn't that long , also guy wasn't making an effort to reach out to her when he moved and quit. Now if it was when she returned your argument would make more sense to me. Tho id still disagree.
So, you think if a friend shows up at your door, doesn't even bother to say "Hi" but instead blurts out immediately that they need a favor, this is somehow a more socially conscious approach that shows that they hold you in higher respect and don't just see you as a tool to address their needs?
But it wasn't just reaching out. If you need something, just ask; there's no need to play on my emotions to try and get it, which is what Nikki was clearly trying to do.
They didn't talk since Guy quit the store and while Guy is mostly responsible for that, communication goes both ways.
Uh ? Do you show up in a sexier outfit than usual to ask a friend a favor? Unlikely right ? Again i get being uncomfortable and having trouble making such a request ... but something weird was going on. I still think that it's a shitty way to try getting a favor from a friend. Beyond that i get her despair and the pressure she had from brent, but it still a bad move.
But that's what she did. She visited him, they spend a while together and she has asked. Was she seriously supposed to do it right from the door, without bothering to spend any time before to catch up and trying to have fun, and that would somehow make you think less that she was seeing Guy as just a tool to address her problem?
That was Brent's idea. I think it's perfectly fine to get pissed off at him for trying to get money using his girlfriend's ass, but you're effectively leaving out his role in this, and focusing all anger on Nicki who, as we know from the story, simply isn't very capable of telling her shit boyfriends "no".
