Just finished this. Am I too late?
Turned out to be amemegame after all.
I like the chill hipster music tho.
Too late for what?
>>322482762
lel
I like the atmosphere the game creates, it's got a great aesthetic and the music fits amazingly well
I have a few gripes here and there but overall, this interactive story was a great experience and worth the 20€ I spent on it
too bad that in the end your choices never fuckin mattered
>I'm so WIPED from LAST NIGHT
whoa
>>322484946
Well going for a swim is good exercise buddy
>>322484470
I think that was the whole message of the game. Is you have very limited controls. It is cool to see how your choices change the world, but ultimately they are just cosmetic changes that don't affect the inevitable outcome.
I'm afraid the sequel will be shit.
>>322482180
>turned out to be a meme game afterall
Shut the fuck up retard
>>322485297
So long as they drop the dumb "the world is gonna end just cause" bullshit and just keep it on a "magical girl in school" basis I don't think it'll be bad
>>322485686
I do hope they'll go with something other than manipulating time.
I had a hilarious bug Frank gets shot in the leg and wobbles back into his RV, then I rewind and do the conversation so it ends well but the Frank who was shot is there and he is screaming while trying to remove the bullet while at the same time there is another Frank outside talk to me. I wish I had a video of it was pretty comical to have this serious conversation about finding Rachel when you hear muffled screaming from the duplicate Frank inside the RV. This is the result of the bug.
>>322482180
Last episode was a slap in the face and you could see it coming from episode 3.
When I finished ep4 and saw that they still kept raising the stakes instead of working towards a conclusion, I was sure that ep5 was going to be a dissappointment, but I didn't expect it so be such an immense disappointment.
It's like they decided on the most disappointing and painfully obvious "plot twist" and resolution possible, and then proceeded to fill up the remaining 2-3 hours of playtime with annoying minigames.
What the fuck was going on there?
Loved the game until ep3, but the ending retroactively spoiled the entire season and made me tend to dislike the game overall.
It really shines in some aspects like presentation and emotional involvement of the player, but the time travel plot is so immensely poorly written that it would have been better if they had just made a teenage thriller without mystery elements.
>>322482180
The last episode was good but the first three sucked and took too long to get there. I didn't really identify with Max blaming herself for the storm. She didn't give herself the power.
>>322486071
Reminds me of the Shaun bug. Too bad there's no video or yours. Sounds hilarious
>>322485963
I don't really care about the gimmick itself, I just want lots of cutesy self-narration and soothing voice acting
>>322486091
>if they had just made a teenage thriller without mystery elements
I agree
Did they already confirm a sequel?
>>322486091
>painfully obvious "plot twist"
I wondered why not more people blamed the teacher. When I played it was only something like 6%.
How can it be more obvious? Mr. Nice Guy who doesn't have a single flaw has the suicidal girl running away from her crying (he only wanted to help)?
Suddenly he has to take an ominous phone call? Such a major character with so little exposition?
And they threw such major red herrings for David as well. If they went a little lighter on him, it would've actually made him suspicious for me. But halfway through episode 2 it seemed like he's the good guy in disguise already.
But I just can't hate on the game. The atmosphere was really amazing. I loved the sit and chill scenes
>>322485284
>game constantly reminds you of 'butterfly effect'
>it was just a message mate
Don't give me that shit, they just fucked up
>>322486071
I had a bug in the last Episode when you go through her selfie back to the classroom, it would just get stuck on a black screen and Mr. Jefferson making creepy comments in the background. It made me really uncomfortable lol
I really dont understand you faggots.
I bought it, and played the first episode, and jesus, to enjoy this game, you literally have to be a 14 year old girl.
>we want the twilight audience
>>322486837
Because Jefferson dindu nuffin
Seriously though, while it was obviously implied he's the baddie or at least one of them, I actually got completely suprised by Nathan being an actual "bad" guy as well, not just some stupid tool
>>322485284
Having a message that interferes with the gameplay is a bad idea in a video game.
>>322487135
It gets a little better in the next couple episodes.
>>322487135
What?
Elaborate
>>322487135
to each his own faggot
>>322487040
Well maybe they realized that having and ending where all your choices are accounted for is a bit too ambitious and would take another 6-8 months to develop and is not feasible. So it has Mass Effect 3 syndrome. I knew it was never going to have a super robust customized ending so I wasn't particularly disappointing.
>>322487135
it's not fun when you just rush through the game
I spent almost 4-5 hours per episode because I wanted to scooby doo all areas and they really had some cool art in there
>>322487075
lol fucking jefferson
>>322487364
it just feels like an after school special aimed at teen age girls through and through.
I've never seen such a gallery of unlikable fucking millenial cunts in a video game before. Jesus christ man. it made me more mad than it should honestly.
>>322482180
to be quite honest
I think life is strange was the best game of 2015
>>322486091
>it would have been better if they had just made a teenage thriller without mystery elements.
this tbqh
>>322487723
But that's the point dude, it's supposed to be a contemporary representation of the teenage life in this certain part of the USA
Hence the memes, the cringeworthy dialogue and all the hipster culture
>>322487731
Mine too t b h, Witcher 3 and Bloodborne were just more of the same and didn't give me quite the feels
How does this image make you feel?
>>322487924
It makes me feel JUST
>>322487915
but are real people really like that though? Im sort of a normalfag desu, but fuck, no one i know seem like such self obsessed, selfish and childish cunts as the characters in this game.
I refuse to believe that is an accurate representation of youth in america.
Even if it was, why do you then enjoy it? Can you relate to them?
Did anyone actually ever help this bitch?I enjoyed making friends with TayTay
>>322487924
This made me feel glad thatRachel is in fact dead
Noone takes my Chloe
>>322488164
watching herfall to her deathin the last episode was entertaining.
>>322487135
It kind of reminded me of old adventure games, in that a lot of the fun comes from just walking around and seeing your character chew the scenery and interact with shit. The puzzles are obviously dumbed down but I really enjoyed how detailed the world was. It definitely surpasses the telltale games in this area.
>>322488164
Fate wants her to suffer, and in the end, who are we to go against fate?
>>322488150
some characters were a little over the top, but nothing really got me enraged
I'm pretty sure things like the cliché rich kid psycho and the religious girl like Kate don't really exist these days, but other than that?
>tryhard whiteknight beta nerd? check
>annoying bitches? check
>wannabe punk? check
>bullied fat kid? check
>annoying jocks? check
Nothing out of the ordinary tbqh
>>322488150
Fuck if I know, I live in Germany but yes, I feel it is pretty accurate, even if not only applied to America
Here in Germany I often come across these hipster-y DUDE WEED LMAO types with undercut and lip piercings and everything
It's just that the game does pronounce these archetypes a little strongly which may in fact be a bad thing but for me, it just made it more enjoyable
I mean it's like a fucking shojo manga, americanized
You got literally everything
>the chad
>the cheerleader
>the slut
>the trashy whore girlfriend who isnt so trashy after all
>the rich kid
>the slightly autistic aspergers protag who thinks she's unpopular for some reason
>>322488514
practically the same I was going for
Bae or Bay, OP?
>>322484470
Just like real life.
I made a thread about this a while ago but everyone ignored it so whatever I'm going to post it again
>there's a giant tornado miles from the city
>you are safe at a light house approx. 3 miles to the right of the city
>only 2 teenage girls (one of them being unconscious) manage to get there on foot and survive
just drive the fuck out of the city and you're safe. this makes the end not quite believable for me ...
>>322488930
Maybe they just wanted to follow the doe
>>322488708
the game was made by frenchies so maybe they were overplaying what they've seen in American high school movies while at the same time projecting their own national stereotypes into the game.
these kids do exist, but a high school is not made up of themalso if you're as qt as Max it's literally impossible to have no/few friends
>>322488930
Growing up on the Oregon coast, where this game takes place, and having a tsunami drill every monday for my entire life made this town (which reminds me so much of Yachats) not evacuating seem like a bit of a stretch for me too.
THEN AGAIN. We never took those drills seriously and you always see those volcano and major storm documentaries where like half the town refuses to budge because of doubt or some retarded need to cling on to their material possessions or some shit.
>>322489175
No I mean the other people in the town
Like what are they gonna do? Stare at the tornado?
Get the kids in the bus, get the fuck in your pick up trucks or whatever and then gtfo.
There are a few lines of dialogue here and there with emphasis on the wrong words which make me think this game really needed a voice director, if nothing else than to give the actors context for any line they were about to say.
>>322488930
You saw the lighthouse get fucked up in your vision, why would you assume you'd be safe there?
>>322489261
Sadly I'm no qt girl,I kinda wish I was though
>>322489453
Like what?
>>322489664
>You saw the lighthouse get fucked up in your vision, why would you assume you'd be safe there?
I can't remember the episode but in one of her flashbacks she literally said that it is safe on the lighthouse (which seemed absurd to me at the time because we saw it getting crushed by the boat, but I just rolled with it)
>>322488930
It's pretty weird that the tornado actually turned out to be "just" a physical tornado that you can flee from.
After all the buildup, I thought it was a metaphor for the end of the world/universe, as it appears to get worse if you fuck with time too much - making the tornado a mere symptom of the universe falling apart.
Now all of a sudden you're safe by just taking a step to the side?
If they start off the sequel with "turns out you can't just drive away because the tornado is actually a mere symptom of the universe falling apart", I swear to god I'm gonna hurt someone.
Worst ending in the history of fiction
>>322489664
>Like what?
It's hard to remember any when prompted, but I know there were more than a couple.
I remember Justin's "but I'm high" line in the diner didn't seem to have the proper emphasis in context for the line before it.
>>322488164
ffffffffffanks max
>>322489828
Pretty sure it was only in Ep.5 where she told Chloe the lighthouse would be safe, after she came back from the past
I guess the devs just forgot it wasn't gonna be safe or something
>>322489964
Eh well, I found the voice acting to be pretty good for what it's supposed to be
Maybe I just don't pay enough attention to notice these things, I was busy cringing at most of the lines
>>322490167
Just like they forgot Nathan was supposed to drive an SUV?
>>322489960
>If they start off the sequel with "turns out you can't just drive away because the tornado is actually a mere symptom of the universe falling apart", I swear to god I'm gonna hurt someone.
I hope they don't cling to the "the universe wants Chloe's death", so that even when you get away with her, she gets killed eventually.
I would still take BaeOverBay tho, even if it was only for an additional 10 minutes
>>322490339
they're frenchies, they don't know anything about cars.
>pick up truck
>suv
>minivans
>who gives a shit? xD supid mericans amirite :DDD
>>322490502
I'm pretty sure they confirmed the sequel won't have anything to do with the first season
>>322488842
Bae
>>322490849
This is the best way to go. Have it happen somewhere else, maybe a few cameo characters, or references to Blackwell and Arcadia bay.
I hope the polish and include more game play elements and puzzles.
Has anyone gone full autist and compiled all plot holes and inconsistencies in the season? I'd love to read them in a list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBAVQmbNbBs
I might play it in Jap if you can have english subs, seems like it's just like my japanese animes
>>322491215
>go through 5 episodes of saving half the city
>everyone dies anyway
>>322491441
It does the slice of life thing well enough. Ordinary grill gets time powers.
>>322489664
>Sadly I'm no qt girl, I kinda wish I was though
My name is Max irlbut I'm not a girl
>>322491531
>everyone dies anyway
That's up to you though. Needs of the many, etc/
>>322491663
Well, you can play pretend, maybe put on a wig?
>>322491724
>saving this town full of degenerate scum
It serves the need of the many other people on the planet to purge the vermin that lingers in Arcadia Bay
>>322491724
>That's up to you though. Needs of the many, etc/
everyone who chooses Bay need toend their lifes to be honest family
I WASEATING THOSE BEANS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqFKt3TTUxk
>>322492180
keked
>>322482762
The rewind clearly works on a global and not universal scale
>>322482762
gold
>>322493047
I dont think that makes any sense. What would that even mean? Earth spins backwards with the time but everything else in space keeps going like normal. Im pretty sure that would cause even more problems.
>>322491836
>Well, you can play pretend, maybe put on a wig?
The fact that I'd still have apeniskinda ruins the mood
>>322493651
>not being futa max
Cmon now
>>322493582
>I dont think that makes any sense.
If it didn't, then everyone would notice when the days of the week stop matching the rest of the world.
>>322491836
>>322491918
All I mean is that if you want to save everyone, the option is there.
>>322493651
>implying a girl can't have a penis
>>322493582
ok
maybe her position remains bound to the Earth's gravitational field
remember Interstellar how gravity travels through time?
maybe it's like that
>>322491441
>play the game in japanese
>better VAs
>no meme dialogue
>no Actual bacon with Actual eggs
>>322493582
If Interstellar told us anything, then that gravity - and hence, gravitational pull - works across dimensions.
So Max is still affected by the Earth's gravity while rewinding time
>>322494413
Yeah but why did she end up in her chair again when she first reminded?
I completed it last night and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The atmosphere was great and I liked the characters. However it was super earnest and some of the dialog was really dodgy, like it had been written by David Cage.Also Jefferson being some irredeemable raper guy was pretty stupid. The game is full of arseholes but you can understand why (Nathan being a mental with daddy issues, David being a war veteran who thinks he's doing the right thing). Yet here's a horror villain with a fucking rape room/art studio/bomb shelter.
>>322494576
Because she rewinded outside the logic of everything
>>322494698
Jefferson seemed pretty mental as well judging from the way he talks in the last episode
>>322494698
He is an artist
It is not really far-fetched
>>322494862
>>322494698
he just has a fetish
>>322494376
Yeah. It doesn't have to be that complicated. Gravity doesn't need to travel through time for this to work. Gravity is constant, and Max is clearly still being pulled by gravity the whole time she is reversing time.
>>322494576
I think she has the option whether or not to take take the same actions and movements while traveling back.. Maybe she didn't figure out how to move independently while rewinding until later.
Either way, that has nothing to do with her not being effected by gravity.
>>322488164
imagine the booty on her if she lost some weight. hnnngh.
>>322494376
Good enough for me, no time travel plot can be 100% perfect. Subject is so messy so sometimes you just need to decide that its like it is at some point and hope its interesting enough idea so people dont get too stuck with the technicalities.
>>322495442
It was worth it just for the
>welcome to my domain
Line
>>322495442
I too think it was a good idea to just mystify the whole topic instead of trying to explain it since this would've ended ridiculous.
This way I can just accept it
>>322494576
Visions seemed to be different than the actual power, maybe someone/something actually gave the power and the visions were somekind of guided message rather than her controlling the time.
>ready for the mosh pit Shaka brah
>>322494376
>>322495442
I think when most people come up with this specific time travel problem, they don't realize that you need a frame of reference for the concept of motion to even make sense. There is no universal center point around which everything moves, and every object is moving in relation to every other object.
It's just that the simplest frame of reference is the Earth.
>>322495907
>You'll never hit the mosh pit with Max and Chloe
;_;
>>322495789
If you're still talking about the thing about ending up in space by traveling back, it's not the plot's fault you're making it more complicated than it has to be.
>>322494576
>>322494832
That's what drives nuts about the game:
Even if you *want* to fill in the blanks, come up with theories, look for clues, to answer some of the more glaring plotholes, there's always some detail that kills any attempt to make sense of the mess that is LiS
If they were at least consistent in their bullshit. But it's clear that they made shit up on the spot throughout the entire game. It's insulting.
Max' position during rewinding is absolutely crucial to the whole time-travelling philosophy that the story runs on. If she goes back, then time is disconnected from space and you can only choose a point in time you rewind to.
If she can stay put, then we're looking at actual hyperdimensional movement - just that Max cannot (yet?) harness the true powers that were given to her.
What I just said may be bullshit on a scientific level, but I just wanted to illustrate that this is not something you can be inconsistent with. It's an essential point about the underlying assumptions about time travelling and the audience already has to make huge concessions in terms of suspension of disbelief here.
Being inconsistent here means you just don't give a fuck.
>>322496087
I just randomly entered the thread sorry m8
>>322496134
You can also not be an asshat and just enjoy the game
It was obviously not so blatantly bad put together that it threw people off, because plots like these exist
>>322496134
Except that she doesn't travel back that far without some frame of reference. It's always her immediate area. When it's using a photo, its inside the frame of that picture.
It's mystical time travel, not scientific. So it doesn't need to follow those rules, just be internally consistent, which it is, usually.
>>322494698
Yeah game also shows you why David dislikes / is not teamplayer like he tells you at some point.
I hope everyone got to experience "kick that table!" in the last fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn-d92-mtWA
>>322496763
I made a weebum of it since I enjoyed it so much
>>322496763
>>322497631
I saw all that shit until I finally saw the button prompt next to the lamp.
Also the game wouldn't let me rewind at one point so I had to reload the last checkpoint and sit through all that unskippable dialog again.
>>322497998
It's skippable though if you've already seen it IIRC
>>322497631
Love it, some of the other takes are pretty funny too but nothing really tops this one.
>>322495907
>>322496513
>You can also not be an asshat and just enjoy the game
Did that (and I thoroughly enjoyed it) until the end when everything fell apart and it became apparent that the writers didn't have a fucking clue what to do themselves. Now - if you allow me to exaggerate a bit: all I can see is flaws.
>It was obviously not so blatantly bad put together that it threw people off, because plots like these exist
Most time travel plots make a few basic assumptions and go with them. Usually it's either "Destiny" or "Butterfly Effect", with a teaspoon of multiverse vs. single-universe on top.
LiS just takes whatever is convenient at any moment and hopes that noone's gonna notice, which apparently worked
>>322496569
>just be internally consistent, which it is, usually.
>usually
See above. I really don't need a scientific explanation, I just want consistency. I made that clear in my previous post as well, although I may have gone too much into detail and sounded butthurt
>>322498089
Only if you rewind, not if you have to reload a checkpoint
>>322498409
Right, it's been a while since I last played it
>>322497998
>>322498089
Something like this happened to me too, something bugged when I was first rewinding and I got stuck to a "game over screen".
Nothing could be skipped until I got to that point again, I suppose since its "unsaved progress" and going back to checkpoint deletes it.
>>322484470
Having choices that effect the overall outcome is overrated and would have ruined the story.
Name ANY other alternate endings that would improve the overall story.
>>322487561
Because you're doing it right. Most MLG gamers have to speedrun everything for some odd reason. It sucks when I play a co-op game with my friends who rush through levels.
>>322498872
I liked the idea of the ending that when you do a 100% run you get a special ending where Kate shows up in the bathroom and Nathan gets the fuck out of there before Chloe shows up so Chloe never dies in the first place
>>322491090
>not groping her tit
lost some huge potential there.
>>322499291
>Implying Max hasn't abused her time travel powers for that a dozen times already
>>322498872
Not using your powers could have prevented the storm.
Have the option to continue the game in the universe where William is alive.
There are so many possible alternative endings.
I liked LiS but if you're giving the player options and tell the player that the choices they make matter, at least make it so that the choices actually matter.
>>322499282
that'd be pretty neat.
>>322499470
>There are so many possible alternative endings.
that wouldn't have been
I mean, as alternative endings. But there's only one real ending to every story.
>>322496763
that was fucking hilarious
i read somewhere that the reason the save chloe ending was shorter than the other was because of time/budget constraints and the writers had wanted to flesh it out more, anyone know if thats true
>tfw I never watched or played the Bay ending because I thought I couldn't handle it
after watching so many mmm watcha say parodies of chloe dying I think I'm ready now tho
>>322499102
does anyone know anylets playerswho played the game like this and found the clues and figured out the ending/mr jefferson?
all I'm seeing is the same bullshit sprint-throughs
>>322498872
That's not my fuckin job.Doing shit like "Oh nothing ever happened cuz time travel"(which is like ending when everything turns out to be a dream) or "fuck the world, don't change the past" ruins the story.
>>322499884
Then you clearly don't know what interactive story is.
And all that bullshit that devs said in the game "EVERY CHOICE MATTER", except it fuckin does not.
>>322482180
so glad i torrented this shit instead of buying it
>>322494384
It's prolly gonna use jap memes
