The effect that users "honestly hate the first part of this game"??
Thanks for your reply. In response to your question, I suspect just rewriting the bits where Marcus interacts with the prefects while drunk would go a long way to addressing this (and hopefully wouldn't take 1-2 years). He's just a nasty, mean drunk and imho there's nothing funny or entertaining about it. It's just unpleasant. A good example of this is where he mocks and mimics a character's stutter, which is just pretty gross.
Up to you though obviously. I just noticed a few posts that mention how unpleasant he is at the start and was wondering if some people are put off from buying the game because of it. I've paid for the game myself and think it's well worth the price but this did limit my enjoyment, and that might be the case for others too.