Sneaky Swimming Edition
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Life is Strange is an episodic interactive drama from DONTNOD Entertainment. Set in the Pacific Northwest in the town of Arcadia Bay, the player follows the story of Maxine Caulfield and her seemingly newfound ability to turn back time. At the prestigious Blackwell Academy, Max must prepare with Chloe Price for the incoming storm of returning to her hometown after five years. Available on Steam, PSN and Xbox Live.
>Official Website:
http://lifeisstrange.com
>Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/4chanlisg
>/lisg/ Permalink:
http://orph.link/lisg
>FAQs, Old Threads/Strawpolls, Soundtrack/Music & Leaks:
http://orph.link/lisgarchive
>/lisg/ Community Written Fan Fiction:
http://orph.link/story
>/lisg/ Content Producers:
http://imgur.com/a/DOAKn
>Strawpolls (votespam anon a rude):
http://strawpoll.me/6706005
http://strawpoll.me/6755376
http://strawpoll.me/6783223
http://strawpoll.me/6784607
>>135749307
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWik0yKLV0
>that first scene
>that feeling of wonder and intrigue
>that sweet innocence
>you'll never go back
>>135759226
It's ok anonthere always the next thread to try again
>>135758964
Before Episode 5's release:
>Lol Mari's theories're shitty.It's way more than shitty to become true
>Chloe has to die thing doesn't make sense.Don't worry they will come with unpredictable story
>We're gonna learn everything about Max's powers,Rachel and Prescotts even Nathan,spirit animals..
>Jefferson knows about Max's powers
>Nathan,Frank,David or Samuel's gonna save us
>Victoria's with Max,she'll save her
>(After seeing Cemetery scene from leaks) I'm sure it'll be Williams,Rachel's or Kate's grave.
>Rachel's the doe and Butterfly and probably we'll see her in Max's dream
>Blue Jay's Chloe
After Episode 5's release:
>Mari's shitty cliche theory became right
>We visited the SF art gallery for 3 seconds. FOR 3 DAMN SECONDS
>Jefferson became a silly bad guy from Disney
>David came to save us.He's a former-soldier but he can't even fight,just listens teenager's orders. Even he doesn't know she has some time travel powers.
>Victoria's with us in the dark room.Laying there and we can talk her or not.Just it.
>Nathan get killed,Victoria too
>Nathan knew something about the storm but they cut it.
>Warren explained Max's powers(!) (thanks warryn) We found out her power causes/related with Chaos Theory and storm.It's not like we didn't know or something.
>Storm is only coming for Bay because Chloe lives in there but Max's the one who keep changes the time
>Prescotts story erased.Nobody even mention their name.
>Rachel's story fucked too.She isn't doe,or butterfly,bluejay or even shit.
>Spirit animals thing died.Blue Butterfly's Chloe just it.
>Chloe dies again in one of endings (unpredictable) It gives you a lesson: You shouldn't have used your power.And you shouldn't play this game.Now erase your choices and cry like a bitch.
>Chloe has to die thing comes true, Cemetery scene explained with that.
>The other ending's short but it's less cliché than other.We saved Chloe,storm's hit the town and gone.That's it.
>Epilogue: Use ur imaginations:)muh budget
>>135759217
I love the sense of eeriness and mystery from parts of the OST. I never really even paid attention to the music, aside from the licensed stuff when playing, because I was too busy thinking and watching.
Bad person coming through.
>As Max and Chloe are leaving the ruins of Arcadia Bay behind, there's one more tragic story unfolding
>Alice and Lisa stuck in Max's room, Alice hasn't eaten anything in days, the dorms are destroyed and no one comes looking for them
>"No one's gonna come save us, this is the end, we'll starve to death..."
>Alice...you can survive this and go back to your owner. All you have to do is... all you have to do is eat me."
>"What? No, fuck that. Lisa, you're my number one priority, I'm not eating you!"
>"Alice, think about it... how many times this week did you try to nibble my leafs? I'm a plant, Alice, you're a bunny, maybe it's time I accept my destiny... OUR destiny."
>"Lisa, I can't make this choice!"
>"No Alice, you're the only one who can"
>eat Lisa
https://instaud.io/kVV
>eat your own foot
https://instaud.io/kWb
>>135759746
Why do so many people portray Max in Rachel's clothes?
>>135759903
i wish endings had same quality as OSTs either.
>>135760029
I can't speak for others but personally, Max Amber is my favorite Max.
>>135760243
Don't get me wrong, I think it looks good and cutebecause Max always doesbut I was just wondering since it isn't Max's actual 'look' and such.
>>135760239
The use of Spanish Sahara was really good. Even though I think it would have been a fine song for the other ending, as Sbel's extended ending demonstrates.
But reusing Obstacles was an absolute dick move. Not only is it recycling music previously used which can create the impression that the ending it rushed/ not-intended to be chosen. It's replacing the positive context the song was originally used with (The end of Ep 1) and not making people associate it with the shit-heap that was Ep 5.
>tfw they know the ending they want is so shit but still do it anyway
>they try to explain it in the last 10 mins
>they try to guilt trip people in the last 10 mins
>all they have is a teen boy who cant do his science homework say it's you causing this
>that bullshit nightmare diner
>they forget they said Oregon sees tornados every few decades so its nothing new
>they forget the whole town has gone through a bomb shelter boom and is equipped to handle all this
>they forget Chloe has time to drag Max's body from beach to lighthouse
>everyone chilling at the diner instead
>we're supposed to sacrifice the one so we prevent this massive darwin award ceremony
>Chloe's spewing our memories will be real bullshit, forgetting only max remembers after going back
>they label literally not intervening, as sacrifice, implying some action is taken
>the whole game, time travel didn't fix shit, but this time it's different
>they forget max's trauma and having no one to talk to
>nothing makes sense
>but muh emotional ending
>tfw all this actually worked on over 50% of the players
>>135760786
Obstacle's fitting well with Chloe and Max tho, so i didn't mind about reusing song.
and of course if they had a suitable song for the other ending (which was they used in earlier episodes), they'd use that old song instead of spanish sahara for sure.
>>135759215
In a conversation with a friend regarding the soundtrack, he said American Football or Explosions in the Sky would have been great additions to the music
I think I agree with American Football
What track by them would you add?
I'm thinking Five Silent Miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6nGxkn5eY
>>135760775
That's fair. It is a borrowed style. It kinda works thematically for her since Chloe is pushing her into being a different, more confident person; like she's 'faking it till she makes it'. It's interesting when Max finally acquires her own style in Episode 5 at the gallery and she seems less cute and innocent (I suppose that's the point). She still looks good, tho.
Althought: The native american vibe of her gallery outfit kinda makes me wish the NA symbolism was explored more throughout the game.
>>135760786
The 'On The Road - Ending' combined with Obstacles was something a lot of people predicted. It would have been fine, if the context hadn't been artificially miserable and the rest of the episode hadn't been a shitheap.
Max and Chloe getting to drive off into the sunset together to a song with existing significance could have been really nice. They could have even used the credits theme in its place, and it would have had the same (or even greater) emotional effect, if they ran out of music licensing budget.
>>135762145
I wish there was more art of that outfit because it was cute, and something made by Max that displays her own style.
Although I get the feeling that the dreamcatcher may have been another addition that was originally Rachel's.
>>135762742
I'll ask a few artists that I have contact with if they'd be interested in doing that. I'd like to see more art of her in this as well
>>135762145
Her style is still somewhat similar to her non-style of undershirt with a hoodie on top just with a nice jacket instead of a hoodie but it does looks distinctively different still.
This might just be grasping at straws but her hoodie might somewhat symbolize her youth/innocence. I make this claim based on how Jefferson takes off her hoodie when he does his thing and how she changes it for something more 'mature' when at the art gallery. But I don't know, just throwing it out there.
>>135762145
>>135762742
Hey, Max's jeans, shirt and snuggly sweater combos are totally her own style too. Well, it is kind of generic, but who else dresses like that around her anymore? Let alone girls. Plus those quirky graphics.
>>135761164
>choose save the town over ur gf
>actually the developer wanted to make you cry with illogical tragic conslucion
>spanish sahara starts playin
>well well well. pretty good song
>and obviously it gives you hidden messages
>but whatthefuckeva ignore this and enjoy emotional pain
>...
>it includes every romantic movie cliché moments more than you can imagine..
>dramatic camera focuses
>looking at the sunset
>funeral scene
>so.. everybody's crying
>but wait. hold the fuck on
>blue butterfly lands on girl's coffin
>everybody thought that it just symbolizes the other girl's spirit animal although it wasn't seem like 'spirit'; wasn't even transparent like that ''jumpy doe''
>also according to what happened in episode 1-bathroom it wasn't just that
>tfw you realize this little shit is the harbinger of disaster, not Chloe
>suddenly main girl smiles at the camera with psychopathic eyes when she saw it
>holy shit. can't you fucking see?
>subtext is:rekcufrehtom gnimoc llits si mrots
>wtf is that mean?
>STORM IS STILL COMING MOTHERFUCKER
>but it's too l8
>story ended there
>because muh ambiguity
>and nobody get the message, just cried like a bitch
>tfw all this actually worked on Michel's shit eaters (plebbitors)
what did you expect anon?
>Played bay ending in collectible mode
>see photos of memories erased
How can anyone go further than that without realising it's the wrong damn choice?
>>135763349
>>135763350
For the gallery it's supposed to be a nice event so she dressed up.
But I get the feeling that she dresses in the hoody and stuff because it's all she knows. It's whatever her parents bought her and she just wears it without thought. Nothing wrong with that (I'm a guy and dress like that pretty regularly because it's quick and comfy), but she should get the chance to express herself. She is an artist, afterall. Which is what Chloe was getting her to do; stop being so worried over the tiniest things and just live life. Try new things and see if you like them, you never know. But while Max dressed like Rachel was cute, it was obviously not very Max-ish.
>>135762145
>she just escaped from the dark room and saved herself from that psycho
>also just saved Chloei'm still mad at that poor bitch (autopilot max) for not taking Chloe along with her
>and she gives you that 'calm smile' like anything happened
>>135763948
Because they believe they're making the 'right' choice, saving the many over the one.
The game suddenly boils down to a shallow trolley problem simulator, and they don't have a problem with that.
>>135764776
Michel accidentally admitted that Bay ending isn't right thing to do anon.
>>135761830
I would have added some punk for Chloe to listen to. Either in her bedroom, or maybe have a stereo set up in the Junkyard.
I know that a part of her character was to show that she's not as tough as she looks, but some music to reinforce her look wouldn't have hurt.
>>135763349
It's not a bad theory. I think some people wear hoodies for comfort. It makes her feel secure like say listening to music with earbuds in the Blackwell hallways.
>>135763350
It is generic. Chloe suggests that Max doesn't really have a style of her own yet after splish splash. The graphics are neat but she's getting a little old for it imo
>>135765003
haha :)
>Life is Strange has a general
Low quality game tb h f am just like all Telltale games
Also it gave that sense of socially-inept-script-writer w/ influence by 50 year old board member who probably came to meeting rambling about how his 12 year old daughter does X so "we need to add X in to make the characters seem more like real kids".
3/10 the porn makes up the 2 of that 3
>>135766985
thanks for the bump?
>implying I will give you a (You)
>>135766985
So why are you here then?
Raising hell in Arcadia Bay, making people give Chloe even more weird looks, and taking up the bed of her ruck.
Thank you for making this, Molli!
>>135765153
I agree with that
I can see her dancing around to something like Bleached
Not super punky but it has that attitude
why is chloe so amazing?
>>135767604
>Adventures of Max and Chloe storybook never
Just kill me.
>>135767902
She's the product of good parents
>>135759226
Why's Chloe trying to usurp Kate? That's not very nice.
>>135769604
>you will never be as cool as chloe
help :(
>>135770743
I know anon
and that's why we'll never get a max
>>135770743
You can be cooler than a stoner NEET, anon.
>>135767604
>You just got out of work
>You decide to stop at Two Whales Diner and treat yourself before going home to rest
>You're sitting at the table, the waitress takes your order
>You get your food. It's warm and smells delicious
>Just then see the door burst open
>From outside you hear two girls shouting something
>The head waitress loudly sighs, clearly agitated
>Before you can register what is happening, there is a goat with his front hooves in your lap, standing on his hind legs, and eating your meal
>A girl with blue hair, followed by a girl with brown hair (That is desperately trying not to laugh) come running up
>The blue haired girl is reprimanding the beast eating your dinner and trying to pull him away
>All while the waitress angrily yells at the girl
>You are suddenly blinded as the brown haired girl photographs the scene
>You decide you'll just eat dinner at home from now on
>>135769604
So nice to see peaceful stuff like that.
>>135775039
>>135759972
She's 2cute to be bad
>>135758964
>tfw school has started back up
Eventually I will put together a flowchart of similar music, like the /mu/ ones. Got a few ideas working, but to busy to do anything with them.
If you want to contribute, please contact me on steam, or reply to this post.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048865860
Thanks to photoshopgril for putting together the background image and the second chart,
polaroidgril for assembling the album covers/artist names/etc. onto the background image,
Dr. Zaius for helping in general.
I have a torrent of all the games music, Morali's OST, the Vortex Club party, all the licensed songs (most in lossless format), and all the albums they were taken from.
Magnet link:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4AF55CE2E1F48771E92E4CCE8E92156EC6A96152&dn=various+artists+life+is+strange+ost+2015&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.me%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337
I will be seeding this for the foreseeable future, so even if it says no seeds, leave it up long enough, and I'll come online. PC can't be on 24/7, you know?
https://kat.cr/various-artists-life-is-strange-ost-2015-t11495485.html
Alternative download on MEGA, if you get it from here, please add the files to your torrent folder to facilitate easier downloads for others.
https://mega.nz/#F!LtpkTbhD!hjUsXMHSdmQTvzYFz3H7_w
Spotify playlist of the licensed music here:
https://play.spotify.com/user/pieisablessing2me/playlist/0hlcayMf9otvePDw2MZ6qk
It's better than the official one. Really.
FLAC rip of official OST from the limited edition, courtesy of polaroidgril.
https://mega.nz/#!GxISxYjC!__ao7xDyUPLOXwxHJxmtK_-cN2n4gDXNCgAaY7tDPRQ
I think /lisg/ is going to die. A lot of the time nobody is posting or talking and whatever discussions do come up fade away quickly or are just the same thing over and over.
It's a good run, but I fear it's about to come to an end.
>>135779062
>>135779062
I've seen a few of these, where they concept are for the AU or just some fan stuff?
There was one where Max was drunk, and she seemed proud in the photo. If they were concept art then I'm glad we didn't stay in the timeline long. It didn't seem like a good place for a majority of the characters.
>>135779290
>>135779332
all fanart
>>135764071
>>135765551
But she likes her shirt and jeans. She said so herself!
I agree of course: she will probably want to dress more maturely in the future, like in the gallery - but I wouldn't necessarily say her "style" changes dramatically; the gallery outfit is a pretty natural progression from her usual stuff, for the most part (the boots are a bit surprising, but otherwise it's a similar layout with more muted and better coordinated colors).
I mean, it's not like she never found a style and would now completely have to (re-)invent herself. She did like those clothes and despite the growth she is still that person too. She will probably find more elegant ways to make her deer shirts work though. And get rid of the shoes. The shoes are truly tacky. Like, "what the fuck?"-levels tacky.
>>135779087
I've been busy, so I haven't really been contributing to the thread. ): Lets not let it end!!! I love you guys!
>>135779332
It's fanart.
>>135779568
>>135779695
Oh good. The thought of Max being a Vortex Club slut was a bad one. Really well done art though since I really thought it was something planned to be in the game.
>>135779629
Now that outfit is something that would make Chloe's heart flutter and that would make Vanessa question where her daughter was going!
It's been said in the past that Max's gallery outfit is a mix of her own style, Chloe's (the boots), and Rachel (the necklace with the dream catcher).
I think saying Max doesn't have a style is taking it too far (She's the only person to dress that way that we see), as you said. It's more that she has a style but is afraid to leave that comfort zone, but as she matures she tries new things or ways to do them. So it's more evolving and adding to her style than building it from scratch.
>>135779087
We'll make it. After Vampyr flops Dontnod will have to quickly announce season 2 to stay afloat.
>>135765153
I want this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmSgP711jfI
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEK65xAIM4E
for Chloe
>>135782150
other choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZmczruZDr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW3eAlWxgDc
>>135781690
That still baffles me. They've found a niche they're (somewhat) good at and they decide to switch back to an action game after their last one rendered them bankrupt. Normally I'm all for taking risks but in this case they really should have just taken the safe route and done a sequel before they even thought about doing Vampyr.
>>135779087
Well, it doesn't help that a certain J guy STILL often steps in, deletes entirely on-topic discussion AND gets people banned for it too.
With VPN/proxies/DIP and help of the archives/4chanX we could spite the fucker and keep the discussions going through deleted posts, but the motivation is just not there and neither are the numbers I'm afraid. Plus, last thread I saw renderanon come in again after a while who has always contributed to more in-depth discussion, but that didn't turn out too well either.On that note, this post will probably get deleted and me banned, so... don't you forget about me.
>>135780542
>So it's more evolving and adding to her style than building it from scratch.
Yeah I would go with that. The Chloe/Rachel/Max thing sounds likely. The jacket is similar to Chloe's too.
How she ever decided to wear Ed Hardy-esque black skull sneakers (in 2013 on top of that) remains a mystery to me.
>>135783067
They supposedly have two teams, one working on narrative-heavy games and the other on more action-based. Supposedly. Remember Me was released a year and a half before LiS - and LiS was only continually produced afterwards. This also means they could already be working on LiS 2, which they probably are. Early production phase, maybe only concept stage, but whatever - seems obvious to me that they are planning to hold on to this franchise. No hopes yet though. In fact, no hopes ever again unless season 2 is actually good through to the not-bitter end.
>>135782150
>>135782909
Some of the music from the older Tony Hawk games would have fit in really well.
It would also fit in with Chloe's skateboarder aspect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_phS0jaP8
>>135783813
Vampyr has 'flop' written all over it. It looks like a dollar store Bloodborne.
>>135785656
kekekekek
>>135783298
That jacket looks great on her. Pictureing her next to Chloe and you get a ying and yang kind of thing with the tan and black.
>>135783813
Is it even going to be worth it without the characters we like? Can Dontnod create a new cast that's just as identifiable, original, and memorable without making it feel like they just changed names? And what will the dilemma be, they obviously screwed up time travel so unless they retcon and alter how it works that is out. And then if they did change how it works it would just piss people off more about S1.
It's still early in the series so they can easily make it into something else, but I'm skeptical after seeing their previous performance.
>>135782309
Damn it, Chloe.
>>135762742
>>135788990
>500x213
REEEEE
>>135789461
Going from left to right I like 1 6 and 8 the best.
Green and white are pretty colors on Max. Plus it seems a wee bit Irish.
Render anon here. Getting into the lewd territory.
>>135789917
I see nothing lewd. Yet.
How do i make cool renders too
found an early concept of joyce
>>135790568
It's not something you acquire overnight, anon. It took me 7 years to get to this level.
>>135791040
you're not fooling anyone
>>135791385
so i cant make my own lewds?
>>135792249
Sure you can. It just requires patience and dedication.
>>135791040
What's up with her neck? Did a Vampyr™ bite her?
>>135793268
>She survived a shot to the head, the thing that's supposed to kill even Zombies
Chloe once again confirmed for best
>>135793268
Ready for the flesh pit zombie brah.
>>135796000
Yes
>>135796316
NO WARREN
>>135796398
YES WARRYN!
>>135796517
Please go, pricefield only ty
>>135796597
THE KISS WAS SO HOT!!!
>>135796715
You're triggering me :(
>>135795893
>>135796316
>>135796517
GET OUT! OUT! OUT! OUT!
>>135796815
Aw, okay. Have a Victoria.
>>135796985
Thats better I guess, no chloe though
>Victoria will never say lewd things to me in French
why live
>>135797275
I hope you're not planning on trying to take her from Max.
>>135797378daguerreian
>>135797406
You cant stop me!
>>135797471
*orgasms*
>>135797632
The best kind are from Vicky.
>>135797614
Hope you're not too attached to your town...
>>135797970
Worth it for the bae
>>135798065
She's already taken.
>>135798212
Dont remind me :(
>>135798353
>>135798353
One more thing: NO EMOJI!
>>135798845
Let me be cute ^_^
>>135799039
You are pushing your luck, mister.
>>135800032
Sorry sadface
>>135796715
Max has that "I am so tired of this bullshit" look on her face
[/spoiler]post victoria
>>135803051
>>135760786
>It's replacing the positive context the song was originally used with (The end of Ep 1) and not making people associate it with the shit-heap that was Ep 5.
This kills me. I still haven't been able to listen to that song again.
It's funny that both endings return to a previous lovely moment of the series only to slap you in the face with how badly it's drifted. Bay ending returns to the bathroom, only to demonstrate that the engaging atmosphere of intimate high school drama has been completely absent the entire episode. Bae ending returns to Obstacles, the song that introduced all the mysterious intrigue surrounding the town and everyone in it, in a context where the town and the mystery and the town and everyone in it don't matter at all anymore.
Nighty night *Turns off light*
>>135780068
But she was, that was like the whole point of the AU.
>>135805397
I figured as much just by the little bit of info we got like the texts from Victoria and the fact she was actually hanging out with Nathan. But I thought when I saw the pictures that we were going to get actual confirmation in the game. Like looking at Polaroids or reading journal entries about Max's various partying, drinking, and sexcapades. I'm glad we didn't because the longer we stayed in the AU the worse things got.
It's amazing to see how different she was just because of one event and how it was actually better for her (and for Chloe) in the long run that a bad event like William's death take place.
>>135808660
of course they are
it says right there
>>135812678
Is it her birthday already? Well, one of her birthdays?
Max can't tie shoelaces
>>135789917
>Max sitting in Chloe's lap
Nice. There's not enough of that.
>>135805397
>>135805756
She was in the Vortex Club, but I wouldn't say she was your typical "Vortex Club slut". She stayed in contact with Chloe (even wrote her on pirate paper), her relationship with Nathan and Victoria seems pretty tame, she has only been at Blackwell for a month and a bit and so it's not like she could have become some established party persona. In fact, Courtney is still skeptical of having Max in the club at all. She still doesn't want to be called Maxine, is still supportive of Taylor, obviousy still into photography. You could even go into more ridiculous things like make-up, haircut, journal, phone, etc. - Max retains much of her original personality, she's just in with a different crowd, probably because she's less shy - something she becomes in the original timeline as well.
>>135818152
Total slander.
>Page 10
I want to hug lis grills.
The eternal question:
Do you want tohugMax orbe_Max?
>>135822926
hug
>>135779087
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>135822926
Hug. Very closely.
>>135822926
hug
of course
>>135822926
tfw if I was maxchloe wouldn't be interested
tfw if I went to hug maxI'd get Warrened in the parking lot
>>135823159
That thumbnail makes it look like she's sucking a pacifier.
>>135825482
Cute!
>>135825562
That would be the opposite of cute anon. Max is a grown woman.
>Cringey Dialogue
>Shit ending
>Almost all of the characters are unlikable and uninteresting
>Spend most of the game faffing about
>Time stuff hardly gets explained
>Devs had the audacity to put shitty 2008 memes in their game
Why does this have a fanbase ?
>inb4 Defensive Fan-girls
>>135826551
>Why does this have a fanbase ?
cute grils
>>135826707
>Cute
They probably would be "cute" if the graphics didn't make them look like wax figurines
>>135826904
That's just sfm, ingame looks cuter.
>>135827005
I was talking about in-game. Plus that SFM picture you have there doesn't look all that different.
>>135815534
I just think it's a cute picture. There aren't many pics of Victoria with a joyful smile.
>>135827207
>doesn't look all that different
It looks like someone put the output of sfm through bilateral (i.e. surface) blur in PS.
>>135826551
We were tricked into thinking things had depth when really they were just vague, and we were suckered into thinking the story would go somewhere since we had months between episodes to think of all the great places it COULD have gone.
If this game was released all at once instead of episodically (which it absolutely should have been since there is absolutely nothing in this story to justify an episodic release, and doing so only filled people's heads with possibilities much more interesting than the obvious one that everyone could predict from the first episode) then no one would give a fuck about it.
Well played, Dontnod.
This is a den of bitterness, hatred, and qt grills.
>>135822926
I already am Max and people find me adorable.
>>135827489
They really don't look that different at all though, unless I get a side by side comparison then I probably won't change my mind
>>135827615
>suckered into thinking the story would go somewhere since we had months between episodes to think of all the great places it COULD have gone.
that typically happens with episodic story-heavy games. Thats why I wait until the full thing releases, so that this doesn't happen to me.
>>135827615
I think I most definitely would give a fuck even if I hadn't played it episodically. And I mean, tons of new people do play it non-episodically and get obsessed too. The obsession throughout had more to do with the "mystery" and for that part I agree the game would have done way worse if released in one piece and wouldn't have attracted the sci-fi and "theory-crafting" crowd as much. The episodic format here was kind of a cheat, especially because they failed to keep to a schedule on top of that, but it still would have been a game that stood out to me even without that format.
Just disregard posts like that. We get them nearly every thread. Sad cunts, the lot of them.
Imagine if episode 5 was good.
This thread would not be around any more as we would have nothing to bitch about.
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>>135829629
It was good. Fuck explanations, private detective shenanigans, spirit animals, logical-coherent stories. That nightmare sequance was the best part of the game. Until that gainax-esque self-reflective mindfuck this game was like a weaker Dreamfall for me. Now I think it's on par with The longest journey in the adventure games hall of fame. Mulhulland Drive and Twin Peaks kind of shit that nightmare sequance was. Delicious
>>135830363
Michel please. The nightmare sequence was utilised so fucking badly. The start was fine, but then it doesn't seem to know what the fuck it's trying to do besides creep out the player and stumble towards the final choice.
The rest of the episode was rushed, miserable, full of plot holes and arbitrary character stupidity, a complete tonal shift with a depressing fatalist message.
>>135830363
>That nightmare sequance was the best part of the game.
The nightmare was a cool idea that dragged on way too long and overstayed its welcome. Its clear as day that it was extended beyond the intended length to act as filler content.
>>135831460
The classroom part was fine. It was a neat bit of surreal horror and being forced to respond lovingly towards Jefferson was one of Dontnod's few moments of cruelty that was actually brilliant. But as it went on it became increasingly obvious that they just wanted to rip off Twin Peaks and Spec Ops: The Line. I actually groaned a bit during the reverse hallway scene because they'd well and truly gone beyond simply paying homage.
>>135831804
I'll never be impressed by surreal for the sake of surreal. The classroom was easily the most embarrassing part of the nightmare for me.
>>135831804
The nightmare should just have been like Classroom -> Dorm corridors -> Diner with an AU Max that makes a little bit more sense -> Floating Chloe and Max gallery
An the rest of the time and budget should have spent on proper epilogues instead.
>>135832152
Along with dialogue for characters besides Max and Chloe. Unless you count Nathan in the bathroom (which is just a repeat of Episode 1) no other character gets a genuine final word. The very last conversation with "Kate" is just a meanspirited fuck you that's completely at odds with Episode 4's hospital scene.
>>135831804
That they then didn't have Rachel in there or even at least brought back more of the themes and imagery we have had throughout the game just kills it for me. It could have been an otherwordly or otherwise magical realm with all kinds of tasty surrealism, but in the end it's simply a fever dream of Max that doesn't really tell much or even tries to tie in to the themes and motives of the game. It got boring pretty fast that way.
I would be hard-pressed to declare any Episode 5 scene my "favourite". There's really not much at all to enjoy there. In other episodes I always had multiple things I would point to.
>>135832982
Having Rachel appear - or at least Max's image (or many images) of Rachel - would have been a really good way to actually sell, eg, the dark room segment of Max seeing different sides to the people she knows and feeling insecure about her place among them. Would have given Rachel a bit more purpose as a character, being the social chameleon who everyone loved but no one really knew, personifying that feeling of never really knowing someone or being certain of how they feel about you - being blindsided that Jefferson was a creep, being scared that Chloe doesn't love you back, being unsure about Warren's intentions. You can never know someone with complete certainty, and no one will ever know you with complete certainty, so you have to learn to move forward on faith without letting fear hold you back or letting others' judgements hurt you too much.
>>135830337
>most people are here out of love
Disgusting
Max's nightmare was a cool idea, but the execution was flawed.
Max's time travel shenanigans distorting reality is a much more interesting concept than "lol you fainted and had a bad dream".
>>135834960
They even present that in the opening of it with Max worrying she's fucked up time in the classroom scene. Once again, Dontnod teases a red herring that's WAY more interesting than the reality. Just why?
>>135833553
The nightmare is certainly supposed to be all about Max and her growth, the lessons she's learned, overcoming insecurities and all that. And while I had hoped it to be more about the supernatural stuff, be supernatural itself, that's fair enough seeing as how the game was always about the characters and not so much the mystery. But as you rightly say the nightmare doesn't even really sell that all too well. It wouldn't even need Rachel for that; seeing ourselves from another perspective could have been great all by itself. From the doe's perspective for example - which is unaffected by our time power and could have shown Max who she is, what of her remains through these timelines. Or just what they already had in there: Chloe's voice coming through to us, driving home the idea that Max shouldn't lose herself in her internal fears but face reality. No idea why they cut that.
As it is it just seems like an endless shitfling with that confused "Other-Max" conversation on top, which Max then breaks out of and is just like "that was so terrible!" when it should have been a liberating experience...
>>135835201
>As it is it just seems like an endless shitfling with that confused "Other-Max" conversation on top, which Max then breaks out of and is just like "that was so terrible!" when it should have been a liberating experience...
Pretty much the problem with the entire conclusion. The game sets up all these obstacles, and everyone just succumbs to them rather than overcoming them.
>>135835982
The tornado being the central obstacle that is introduced at the very beginning and in the end still just totally fucks everything no matter what you do or have done.
I guess at least the game is consistent like that. :v)
Just going to post this here and file it under my "Predictions for Shits and Giggles" folder for archiving.
Season 2 protaganist
>Male
>Aged 18-25
>A somewhat distant member of the Prescott family
>Time rewinding again with a new gimmick added to it this time
The Setting
>Couple years after the Season 1
>No save importing, endings are vaguely referenced if ever, so it is not clear which one is canon.
>The plot revolves around the young Prescott uncovering the secrets of his family
>The light sweet comfy atmosphere of the Season 1 makes way for a new eery goth atmosphere balanced with comfynessPS: Hello to my future self
>>135836938
My predictions for season 2:
There is no season 2.
Screencap this.
For real though it'd be hilarious if, after all this self-inflicted punishment for getting too into theorising possibilities during release of the game, we conceptualised a second season a million times more interesting than what Dontnod came up with and are disappointed before it even begins.
>>135836938
I like the idea overall, but just for sake of discussion, two points about this:
>>No save importing, endings are vaguely referenced if ever, so it is not clear which one is canon.
1) The endings are "everything is basically fine" or "the town is destroyed". It's probably hard to keep it vague if you need to mention the town at all ... mention of a hugely destructive event (or lack thereof) would give it away. Unless you set it outside of Arcadia Bay and just never mention the town ... but that might ruin the point of the story you're suggesting.
2) It doesn't matter either way, because both endings occur in Season 1. It's not that both endings COULD occur - it's that both endings DO occur. In the very first run through the bathroom, Nathan shoots Chloe, so the storm doesn't occur in that timeline. And at the end of the game, even if Max focuses back to the bathroom, the Bae ending timeline still continues with an autopilot Max (we know from Eps 4/5 that alternate timelines continue on just fine when "our" Max's consciousness jumps out). So the developers could just pick which timeline they want to run with, and go from there.
>>135835043
To make you buy 2-5.
Season 2:
Playing as Max some time later, but each episode is a Sliding Doors alternation between the timelines of either ending so we play as two Maxes unaware of each other but both are unhappy with how things went down, and everything eventually comes together to something that's actually fucking satisfying in the 5th episode.
>>135837787
I think they've made it fairly clear that if they do make a Season 2 (and from all accounts, there's no reason to assume they won't), it won't have anything to do with Season 1. They keep mentioning various anthology series that they have in mind, so it's unlikely Season 2 would contain any of the same characters, settings, powers (probably?), etc. Just a similar tone/atmosphere/style.
But there's still plenty of time for them to change their minds. And, hell, maybe Square Enix will force them to work on something more direct-sequelish rather than going completely off on some tangent?
On a side note, didn't Alejandro hint that they might be thinking about making a simple little Hotdawg Man themed mobile game? That could be cute. :3
>>135838489
Hotdog Man is the worst forced meme I've ever seen.
>season 2
>Import season 1 save
>Walking around
>See newspaper
>Headline is either "Small Oregon town destroyed in F6 tornado" or "Young woman murdered in small Oregon college"
>Your choices matter. :^)
>>135838048
>we know from Eps 4/5 that alternate timelines continue on just fine when "our" Max's consciousness jumps out
Well, we know that one timeline must go on without her, but that's always the one she also ends up back in as far as we know, making the easy to assume there's only one existint line at any time. There's no confirmation in this season that multiple timleines exist or persist, but I agree they could easily canon that with the second season, so memory-keeping is not necessary either way.
>>135838489
I also think by now it's certain there will be another season. Probably episodically released throughout 2017. And I would be lying if I said I wouldn't play it regardless of them trying to tie on to the first season proper or only thematically/tonally/whatever.
I don't remember the Alejandro hint, or only very vaguely, but I'm more excited for Love is Strange right now.
>>135839260
>season 2
>import season 1 save
>no mention of the ending
>or anything at all
>protagonist is just seen eating breakfast at one point, matching whatever Max had for breakfast in episode 3I'd actually almost respect a 'fuck you' that blatant
>>135839668
>I also think by now it's certain there will be another season.
Why is that? Last news I heard was just that mistranslation/slip up from that interview with the malpracticing script doctor.
>>135839847
Multiple people at dontnod have made comments about wanting to do another season again and again, they already said they were throwing ideas around months back, lately they have been stressing the idea that they have two teams at their studio, only one of which working on Vampyr. Plus all the franchising they have been doing? It could still end up Square denying them, but I can't see that being the determining factor. LiS from the beginning was never meant to get this big, Square did pick it up without putting any financial or editorial pressure on dontnod, the game was a success beyond expectations and everyone involved seems more than happy to make more of the same thing... I can't see why there wouldn't be another season. Duuno, seems like a certainty given everything we know - something preventing a second season would have to be something we don't know.
>>135839847
Not that guy but;
Remember Me was a total failure in terms of sales, and IIRC they went almost bankrupt afterwards but with LiS they recieved a huge unexpected fame and recognition and sales, so why would they "betray" Life is Strange by not continuing the franchise in a way?
Did somebody say Season 2?
>>135838831
How could you!
>>135839668
> There's no confirmation in this season that multiple timleines exist or persist ...
I agree, though I think the natural assumption is that the alternate timelines persist. Otherwise the persistent timekeeping between the various timelines is a bit convenient. They set them up in a very "life goes on" kinda way, stuff happens in them even when "our" Max is busy elsewhere.
Plus I'd argue that the game basically implies this to be the case with other-Max's "one of the many Max's you've left behind" line. We know that this is just a manifestation inside Max's head, so it could just be an unreliable narrator, but I think, at the very least, it lets us know how the developers were thinking about the alternate timelines.
>I don't remember the Alejandro hint ...
It was during the charity live stream at the end of last year. I can't remember exactly how it was worded, but I remember that we thought it sounded like a "watch this space" type hint. That was like 4 months ago now though, so it seems more and more unlikely ...?
>>135838489
kek I got warned for this post because I used an image of Max, Chloe, Kate, Victoria and Rachel drawn as various animals ... too furry for /vg/? Since when? Guess we all better be careful to stop posting the various spirit-animal representations of the various characters. Le sigh.
>>135841279
>Le sigh.
>>135840630
Well Jefferson is kinda like Kira Yoshikage. He isn't that scary if Max is expecting him and she knows how he looks like, because of her powers
>>135841710
He may not even be an actual threat physically, but just the idea that he could be roaming around could scare Max. Even more so if that art of her brain that likes to torment her gives her hallucinations and nightmares.
Making him the main villain for S2 would be stupid, but as a sideplot it could work.
Just sitting here minding my own business and suddenly get hit with the feeling of opening up the main menu with dat music and all the excitement of when it hadn't turned to shit yet...
Christ. Fuck that stupid storm and whoever thought it was good or necessary in a story about being a teenager.
S-She is safe now
;_;
>>135839847
>Why is that?
LIS was a critical and financial success. The developers have stated that they're keen to make more, albeit it focusing more on making the series an anthology type thing.
Basically, from all accounts, they want to make more, and the game was an overwhelming success. It's pretty much a given that there'll be more LIS games, even if we assume that particular quote from that interview was just a mistranslation/slip.
>>135840514
I thought I heard that the whole "bankruptcy" thing was a bit of an exaggeration. They certainly were having money issues following Remember Me, but I thought this just meant that they had to alter their development plans going forward (hence why they went for the episodic LIS concept rather than straight to another full-release game).
The thing about Vampyr is that they must have started working on the concept before LIS really took off, probably before Ep1 was even released. The original concept video was posted in mid June (~a month after Ep3), and they already had a publisher at this stage. I can't imagine that these developer/publisher negotiations happen very quickly. They must have had some idea that they were going to have their second team working on something months before this video was released.
So I assume Dontnod was already gearing up the initial stages of development for Vampyr before LIS became a hit. And it's being made by their second team (though it's not entirely clear how the teams are broken up ... I assume there is a fair amount of overlap/reshuffling between games?), so it's fair to assume this isn't some indication that they're not making a sequel ... merely that the structure of their company means staggering development cycles between different projects.
Or something.
>>135841279
>They set them up in a very "life goes on" kinda way, stuff happens in them even when "our" Max is busy elsewhere.
Yeah I agree, I just always took that as restructuring of realities rather than jumping, but it's anyone's guess.
>"one of the many Max's you've left behind"
The devs definitely meant to allude to multiple timelines with that for one reason or another, but I don't buy into that, mostly because there is no confirmation and I just don't particularly like the idea. As you say this is just a figment of Max's dreaming mind and can then just as well be interpreted to represent "the decisions you would have had to live with but don't because you escaped them using your powers". I. e. they still are "versions" of Max that she "left behind", but not behind in another reality - behind in her conscious, in as much as she cleared her mind of all the stuff the chose to rewind, when maybe she should confront herself with that shit even when it isn't "real". But yeah, I just don't like multiverses in popular fiction, but if it allows for them to give us a second season that more closely ties into the first, I'll gladly eat that up.
>too furry for /vg/?
The deleting, warning and banning of people doesn't follow rules in this thread anymore.
>>135843428
>>135844836
Ree
>>135841279
>"one of the many Max's you've left behind"
I took that in a less literal sense. Like it's the many versions of yourself you might have become if you hadn't 'cheated' and used your rewind.
Or even just an accelerated version of growing up and becoming a different version of yourself - you're not the same 'you' as you were last week or last year. .
>>135844836
At least it's not Michel
>>135822926
I'll be Max and hug Chloe!
>>135845268
I honestly just think it's the inner "evil" Max trying to scare Max. Like saying she's created a new timeline for every rewind. So there's Maxes that just killed Chloe and has to face William and Joyce, Maxes that have been killed by Jefferson, Maxes that have been beaten by Frank for pouring his food on the floor, etc.
There's no reason to believe things work that way and it's another thing left up to the player in the end. And I will very quickly accept the theory that there is only one timeline/ universe.
>>135843660
>though it's not entirely clear how the teams are broken up ... I assume there is a fair amount of overlap/reshuffling between games?
They say it's broken into action-based and narration-heavy games, so I would assume there's a reasonably clear staff divide to go with that, but then they are a pretty young studio. Michel worked on both Remember Me (action) and LiS (narration), and their two main directors both worked on LiS together. Plus those titles weren't developed simultaneously, so they must have started splitting up after they had already begun on Vampyr and got LiS - as one of their many proposed games - accepted by Square. The splitting must have been a deliberate effort though, since they were actively proposing games while presumably working on Vampyr. So the obvious question is what is the team that worked on LiS working on now if not a second season.
>>135846979
Do you think the LiS staff get bullied by the rest of DONTNOD?
>>135847856
If anything, it's the other way around.
>Oh we made a critically acclaimed game that sold over a million copies. What did you do again?
>>135847856
Michel gets swirilies and keeps having his lunch stolen out of the fridge.
He's the Alyssa of the office.
>>135846823
The thing I dislike about evil Max is that it feels like a cop out.
>Hey we spent 10+ hours making you attached to Chloe
>Oh fuck this will make one of our endings awkward
>How can we fix this?
>Better introduce a pile of self doubt in the last 10 minutes!
>>135846979
Different game styles, but I assume there is room for a massive amount of crossover between the teams. Especially when it comes to developing the game's art assets, animation, sound, etc. Vampyr is on the same engine as LIS too, so the software guys and level creation team are probably just as capable at contributing as anyone else.
I wouldn't be surprised if the "teams" were more of a fluid "Theseus' ship" type situation, with various permanent staff members moving between projects at different stages where required. I imagine a lot of the LIS team shuffled onto Vampyr, at least temporarily, following Ep5. Especially if they're permanent staff members (though I think lots of game developers work on contract?), they're not just going to be sitting on their hands waiting for their "team" to sell an idea for a new game.
When is DONTNOD going to deliver our Kate Cinnamon Simulator?
>>135849296
But even Max is freed from that self-doubt my herself/ a vision of Chloe. We don't end the nightmare on a note of "This is all your fault!" we end by seeing how happy Max and Chloe have been during the week, as well as how they have supported each other.
If they were attempting to create self-doubt with that part of the nightmare, it had the opposite effect on me. It proved to me that Max is good and that saving Chloe, and continuing to save her, was the right thing.
>>135849651
I really have no idea, but it can't be THAT fluid, else they wouldn't talk about teams in the first place would they? They are most likely still in the writing stage though, so the LiS team probably is working on Vampyr right now.
Or whatever - I just want season 2 and 2017 seems realistic enough!
>>135849987
I think it was designed to be neutral, to allow the player to project their existing feelings onto. I know that some people see the Pricefield museum to be Max 'saying goodbye' to Chloe, losing each moment one by one on her way to undo the week they shared together. Whereas obviously for others it reaffirms their love for each other and it being worth it to keep Chloe alive.
>>135850509
I'd say late 2017 (Oct-Dec) or early 2018.
Even if Vampyr flops hard, I would think they have money already set aside for development of S2.
And if there's two different teams the LiS team may work on Vampyr at the start to get things rolling and then go back to their own project.
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>>135851040
I got that feeling of saying goodbye as well, but by that point I was getting aggravated since I knew what choice was coming and was not impressed. And I decided since Episode 3 that if the choice came to Chloe vs Arcadia Bay, I was picking to keep Chloe alive. So I was ignoring any notion of saying goodbye to Chloe, as was Max's diary.
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>>135852435
Chloe had to once again prove she was all talk by being startled and backing away. And then the only way to get a real kiss is right before you kill her.
At least there's tons of art and fics to try to make up for that particular travesty.
>>135853440
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>>135853556
>And then the only way to get a real kiss is right before you kill her.
DELET THIS
IT IS MY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH
>>135853556
Travesty indeed.
>>135853556
>chloe stubbing out a cigarette on max's ass
thanks for that mental image
>>135854276
What are you doing in the general? Come back when you're done with the game anon
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>>135854412
She forgot to put it out.
>>135854276
Don't hang around here if you don't want to be spoiled newfriend.
In fact get out now before someone dumps one of the many green text pastas explaining exactly why you should be disappointed and angry with the ending.
Working out every reason you feel pissed off with the ending is literally life is strange's longest lasting gameplay element, and something you should at least attempt for yourself to get the authentic experience.
>>135854276
>Going into a general for a game that is finished
>Before you have finished playing it
You're doing it wrong.
>>135856508
I'm sorry but there's only one true cookiegirl.
>>135856821
I'm sure Kate would be fine with having tea with Max instead
>>135854346
And then Joyce walks in. Not that she'd be surprised.
>>135857096
Kate lives on the second floor, Max must be standing on a ladder or she found a way to hover
>>135858981
>>135859212
Oops, she was just standing on Chloe all along
>>135859212
>Kate hears a loud crash, looks outside, and sees Max laying on the floor with a ladder, and a crushed Warren
>>135860706
Why all the lewd?
>>135861145
They've earned it. And it's not like that classroom would be in use.
>>135861145
That's a rather odd way to say more
>>135861693
Yeah okay fine
>>135862405
That is way too lewd for me, man
>>135862739
How about this then
>>135862935
wtf spoiler that shit if you dont wanna get banned way too lewd for /vg/
>>135862935
Hug are good, nice and comforting
>>135863012
>>135863128
Hugging is the best cure for depression.Music and ice cream come in close second
>>135863634
>tfw no Max to hug
Post em
