Finished playing it, loved it. Amazing stuff.

I think I picked up the motivations for most of the key characters, but I have a couple of questions about Oscar Masan.

What did he do that made his sister/family hate him?

Why was he so lonely?

Why did he give away the pharmacy?

Where did you find this information?

edit - cripes, how did this become three threads? Can someone delete the other two?

PS - I think I found most of my answers in the other thread.

Yeah it's starting to make more sense now.

I interpreted it in a different way. I assumed that he had attempted to come out to his sister (and maybe the whole family), but she just couldn't accept it and wouldn't allow her son near him after that. I suspect that if Terrence had been abused, he would have just sold the house and taken the money rather than moving there with his family.

Where does the game suggest something about sexual abuse? I must have missed something...

I think the following linked article covers it rather well. I see no other reason why Oscar would make sure to sell his pharmacy (which he had more or less turned into a soda/ice cream shop by giving out ice cream to little kids) and say that he did so to remove the "temptations".

http://clockworkworlds.com/post/58411117679/the-transgression-you-can-do-better

I'm pretty sure this is it, neighbours tell stories some of them turn into ghost stories. Also with the amount of secret rooms its no wonder people thought Oscar was weird. Great red herring though, that hasn't been done in a while.

I just finished the game and missed all of that backstory. I would have flipped my shit if I paid 20 bucks for this game. Not that it was bad, just...not 20 buchs worth

I disagree, I regret only paying 10 dollars for it and wish I assumed better of the game and its developers. At least I bought it directly from their site instead of steam, which gives them a bigger cut

@bunnymud said:

This is a tricky one. I payed 20 bucks, and honestly, I would have payed double that. The thing is, this is not a video game. This is not fucking Pac-Man. This could be classified as an experience, a piece of interactive storytelling... and I have no idea how to price that.

What i picked from this is that he was perhaps addicted to morphine which would explained why he sold the pharmacy to distance him self away from his habit.

Oscar's timeline from what I could tell: Abuses the dad as a kid, gets cut off by the family, feels bad, leaves everything to the dad, commits suicide via morphine.