Yay, finally! I'm so excite. Ok, uhm... "Get The Hell Away From Us, Weirdo!" Janny Hate 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 hella gay and rewind 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 :
http://strawpoll.me/7322943
http://strawpoll.me/7360006
http://strawpoll.me/7365763
http://strawpoll.me/7424190
http://strawpoll.me/10008346
http://strawpoll.me/10009793
http://strawpoll.me/10032039
http://strawpoll.me/10035068
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>>140380294
Strawpolls from last thread
http://strawpoll.me/10062230
http://strawpoll.me/10068343
http://strawpoll.me/10072100
I'm so proud of /lisg/ for hitting the post limit
>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
>>140380294
Reminder: New dontnod interview with Michel and Cano: http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/410963
Also, moderation complaint thread over here: >>>/qa/511255
>>140380294
Fuck the janny. The only cool fascists are Nazis.
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
Someone on reddit pointed this out: https://vimeo.com/123383629
A short film called "Arcadia Bay" that features coastal oregon, visions, journal-keeping and polaroids. Apparently (according to the redditor) developed in 2014 and then released in April 2015 with no prior knowledge of the game.
Who copied who? Since dontnod changed the name to Arcadia Bay on the suggestion of Chris Divine, I don't think this can be just a coincidence. This amateur filmmaker must have copied the game, right?
The double/extra moon flickers away as Max and Chloe drive off to the junkyard into Jefferson's ambush where he shoots Chloe.
Chloe is going to die in the not too distant future in the AU.
Now this is just a theory but the moon incident is proof that Chloe is connected to the storm and looking at her state in the AU, it seems like it's her fate to die in 2013
The double moon, and everything else, happens because Chloe is deviating from her fate and the universe is handling that badly. The extra moon goes away because Chloe is heading to her death which then eases the universe again.
Max's tornado visions only happen in the first two episodes just before Chloe is in serious danger and then also in episode 1 when they're at the lighthouse even though Chloe isn't in any danger other than if she somehow ended up falling off the cliff but the freak snow happens right then so that vision might have been because of Max telling Chloe about her power right after which sets them on the path that is the rest of the game where Chloe's life is in danger quite a few times and also maybe just because Max tells Chloe about the supernatural stuff going on which sets the scene for altering the flow of time even more.
Probably grasping at straws but still.
>>140381036
Come back already
>>140380465
>>DARK KATE
>Kate is supposed to be the kind, true love waits, virginal character who is pure and without sin
>Actually a heavy drinker, hides bottles of wine in her dorm room. When she said "I don't get wasted" she was referring to her incredibly high alcohol tolerance. There are nights where she polishes off a whole bottle by herself, then baptises her panties listening to Dana fuck her “boyfriend of the week” next door.
>What about her friends, Stella, Alyssa and Brooke?
>We know Stella's a meth head. Drug habit impoverishes her, forcing her to work long hours in after school jobs. Came from an abusive family which gave her a strong desire for a good older male in her life. These desires have turned sexual, she would literally throw herself at Jefferson, if Victoria wasn't doing it already. As is, she publicly announces she wants to make a move on her teacher.
>Alyssa's an obese sexual predator, targeting virginal characters then dumping them when she's taken their innocence and they begin to bore her, as was the case with Warryn Graham. Summarily dumped him after he finally managed to give her an orgasm after two hours of trying, announced “It's over when the fat lady sings”. Attempts to add Max to her list of conquests, by plying her with the offer of wine. Publicly reads “50 shades of grey” style erotic literature when between virgins to deflower.
>Brooke is a pervert, who flies her drone around the boys dorm, using its high def camera to its best advantage. Obsesses over beta molestation victim Warryn Graham, she thought she'd have her turn after Alyssa discarded him. Secretly planning to “permanently deal with Max”, since Warryn's infatuation with her is blocking their true happiness together.
>>140381973
The intention could be that Chloe is linked to the storm. Most people assume this because the story suggests it. Chloe herself does, and Max to a degree.
But the second moon flickering off as a sign of "easing" the universal disconnect doesn't make too much sense because when Chloe actually dies afterwards, the storm still comes. And just fundamentally the idea that the universe goes all mad over Chloe but ignores everything else - even in a completely different timeline - is ridiculous.
The most "reasonable" explanation is that Max's accumulated time fuckery and especially the first fateful rewind sets all the shit into motion. So it just so happens, more or less, that Max has to in the end rewind to and not use her powers in that specific incident to undo her time fuckery. But Chloe is only circumstantially relevant here in that without her, Max would not have triggered her powers, or so we have to assume. This is what I think the devs actually intended. That Max powers cause the storm, and the powers are tied to Chloe by their "soulmate"-type friendship.
Other interesting explanations include stuff to do with Rachel and the Prescotts. The universe actually wanting to off Chloe is the most boring, simple and nonsensical (both logically and narratively) explanation, I think.
>>140383281
>The most "reasonable" explanation is that Max's accumulated time fuckery
the most accumulated time fuckery that happened was by far saving William. Yet the result was exactly the same, and only after a 5 year wait.
>Input A gives C
>Input B gives C
>chaos theory
Fuck the janitor in his raw ass
>>140383281
I see what you mean and it does make more sense if the storm and everything is connected to Max rewinding and not just the universe wanting to off Chloe.
The elephant in the room is just that if you try to rationalise further or more in-depth than just "messing with time is bad and wrong" or why Max would even get the power to rewind if it just breaks reality when she does, you'll only get a headache and everything will begin to fall apart.
I mean, I will accept the notion that messing with time is bad and wrong and I do still love the game but the fact that the mystery can't really be looked into afterwards and theorised on just for fun without breaking everything is a bummer.
>>140382801
I want to get wasted with Dark Kate!
>>140384082
"Accumulated time fuckery" as in Max using her powers repeatedly to change stuff. William is a big fateful change, but it doesn't set into motion an odyssey of numerous further rewinds and Focus adventures like saving Chloe does for Max. AU Max never discovered or used her powers. The "C" still arriving in the AU is in this context more to be understood as an extension of all her previous time fuckery, since well, the AU existing in the first place is just another time fuckery in a chain of others.
But hey, I never said it makes absolute sense. "Reasonable" is in quotation marks for a reason.
>>140384280
Well, the powers (even disregarding narrative functions, writer intentions and interpreting it as a metaphor and stuff) are then just the manifestation of Max's profound connection to Chloe, coupled with a bit of Arcadian magic sprinkled on there. It's the magic of lesbian love, so to say. Not something the universe have given her, but a deep power she willed alive herself (although looking at it from the writer's perspective it definitely is something they gave her to have her suffer for their narrative ideas). And this can make sense because even if the narrative seems to want her to "let Chloe go", she can keep holding on too, and then the idea behind her power gets to be that you can and should try your all for the people you care about, and that you can make a change and overcome your regrets and stuff.
"Rachel and the Prescotts" is a cool bandname, I just realized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq00L6lWrU4
>>140385072
>trespassers william
>william
like pottery
>>140385281
You! Explain this pottery thing to me. I- It doesn't have to do with Harry Potter, d- does it?
>>140384890
Hmm, but if you're measuring time fuckery in "the times she used her powers to change stuff" and not in "how much stuff she has changed", then there is never any solution and it keeps spiraling out. Even the final choice is just another use of powers, increasing time fuckery even further.
>>140384890
Yeah, the message the game gives you about how it's important to treasure the people you hold dear and do everything you can for them is nice and one to put in the bag.
Not buying the idea that the rewind power is the power of love+friendship given actual power, though, even if it is a nice thought. It was for a bit of mystery magic and unique gameplay element and not overthinking it is probably best.
I think I will just give up overthinking and theorising completely since nothing good really comes out of it and the game already is clear in its message and what you should take with you from itunless we also take all the things Michel has said additionally into consideration because then it's just contradictions.
>>140385817
Nope. Pottery is a tool of refined art in a game, even greater thanimagination
>>140385817
>I- It doesn't have to do with Harry Potter, d- does it?
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
>>140385996
>Even the final choice is just another use of powers, increasing time fuckery even further.
Correct. Can't argue against that. The only thing I could say doesn't close the circle logically, but narratively. Where the Chloe incident is the origin of everything. So going back and erasing that inception to undo the time fuckery is at least narratively a fair concept.
>>140386059
Yeah, we will never make satisfying sense of everything, because the devs didn't have a grand idea here and there's plenty annoying little things that make our tasty theories (like "Rachel's Revenge" or "Occultist Prescotts") taste weird.
And while the narrative message can be cool (we can listen to our heart and actually make a change in Chloe's live - save her and be with her and say "fuck you" to the universe and by extension the devs crooked idea of moralism and adulthood "responsibility") in the end the sheer fucked-upness of both endings always is a downer for me no matter how I look at the story otherwise. So what I like to do most is either disregard Episode 5 entirely or make up neat headcanons that make everything paradisical to spite this fatalism crap where everything must always suck. One example is Max figuring out and solving everything a couple of hours, days, whatever after either ending.
>>140386209
>>140386216
Did someone here start it? Or is it more commonly used? Sounds like a dad joke, but cuter. I can see Max using it. God, her dad looks like such a dad joker and Max obviously loves that shit.
>>140387013
>Did someone here start it? Or is it more commonly used? Sounds like a dad joke, but cuter. I can see Max using it. God, her dad looks like such a dad joker and Max obviously loves that shit.
Is this one of those games that is better to watch than to play?
>>140387381
No, it's the exact opposite.
>>140387323
This guy looks like he's made the one or other dad joke in his life alright. Is he (in)famous for that?
>>140387890
He is THE dad jokerand also has quite a good imagination even if he might have gone too far in a few places.
>>140388273I don't think I've ever watched a full Star Wars film and never got the Indiana-Jones obsession either. Please no violence.
>>140387013
Do give you a real answer:
When George Lucas was making Star Wars episode 1, he said this quote:
"It's like poetry, sorta, they rhyme" in a behind-the-scenes documentary they shot here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc
He was referring to the story of the prequel trilogy and how its themes should echo that of the original trilogy. As we all know, the Star Wars prequels turned out to be complete ass and so "it's like poetry, it rhymes" is now a meme for any writer who's full of themselves and want to justify shitty writing by ascribing some greater significance.
>>140388437I will refrain from posting an angry Max, then. Even though I really think you should at least watch the original Star Wars trilogy because it's really good but my opinion is also heavily biased because I really like Star Wars even to the point where I don't find the prequels that awful other than 2Don't bother at all with the movies Disney is making now because they are just absolute garbage.
>>140388541
Thanks so much! Now I can appreciate it properly.
>>140389062Thank you too; while angry Max is adorable, I don't like having her angry at me! And maybe I will watch the original trilogy sometime. I did watch some of them (and played the lego game and some other star wars game I can't remember, I only remember diving down with jar jar binks(?)), but never completely, and I don't remember much of anything.
>>140390057
Is that Max Maul or Darth Maxul?
>>140390739
Cax Maulfield!
>>140390057
>Max is the villain
Michel pls.
>>140391143
Oh snap
Why are the graphics so bad in this game?
>>140391449
Unreal Engine 3 and a shoestring budget.
The art direction is really good, but it is not a technical looker by any means.
>>140387381
No video game is.
>>140393382
Victoria should be nicer to other people instead of bringing them down to forget about her own weaknesses!
>>140393469
She's insecure. :(
>>140391365I don't have my screenshot folder here, else I'd probably now post one from the nightmare sequence where everything is reversed, or an Evil!Max one. Take hm... this instead.
>>140394127
That's an interesting Max, for sure
>>140387890
>We will never see Ryan Caulfield react to Max's safe return and Chloe's new appearance or the news that the two girls are together
>We will never see Ryan dispense his own brand of justice upon Mark Jefferson
>>140394694
I think so. That's a cool shot too, with Chloe in the background, just before the vision and the train hit and everything goes all crazy; calm before the storm-esque.
>>140395410
>calm before the storm
>the storm
anon pls
Chloe doesn't know how to tongue-kiss!
She's probably never deeply kissed someone and thinks it's like a kiss on the lips, but bumping your tongues together instead.
>>140395410
Now you're making me look at and think about the composition and other artistic values in my Max screenshots instead of just what emotion they convey and being part of a collection for the sake of just collecting.
Digging your image there, though. Got a nice feel to it
>>140395760
I would think it's the opposite. She can do all the explicit stuff, but it's the more loving and gentle stuff she has little experience with. She would be incredibly shy with Max because it's something so much more than just a drunken/ high fling or attempt at stress-relief.
She would be scared of rushing Max and of her own ability to not go overboard, but in the end things work out find for the both of them.
>>140395760
I'd show you pictures of how good Chloe is at tongue-kissingbut everyone will yell at me for being tooLEWD
>>140396640
Do you have any pictures of how good she is athugginginstead then?
>>140396797
plenty
>>140395760
Thinking about it again, clearly what is happening there is that Max is full of shy anticipation and Chloe is way over-eager because Max is so tasty.
>>140396362
Max pictures should always be about Max first and foremost! So there's nothing wrong with that. But there are screenshots with definite artistic value (even without Max!) to be taken. I'm still disappointed we didn't get a "Polaroid" mechanic to go first-person viewfinder mode and shoot custom pictures of the world and stuff that would then be saved in polaroid format in some LiS folder.
>>140396364
Yeah, I agree completely.
I just think tongue-kisses to be more on the loving and gentle side of things and wanted a funny interpretation for her having her tongue stuck out like that.
>>140396640
Pricefield tongue-kisses are totally fine. There's one in the game after all!
>>140396362
You're evolving into an artist
>>140397086
Clothed hugging please.
>>140397096
>Pricefield tongue-kisses are totally fine
l-like this?
>>140397291
will this do?
>>140397352
Das it. I'm pretty partial to nosekisus myself.
>>140397086
>you will never curl up in bed with chloe
time to end it all
>>140397863
It will do fine.
>>140397096
>But there are screenshots with definite artistic value (even without Max!) to be taken.
I snapped a bunch of those too but replaying the game forMaxscreenshots once is more than enough for me.
>>140397238I studied art for 3 years and my magnum opus was a collage symbolising how much trash you have to wade through on the internet. I'm not an artist past the basics if even that
Did someone say screenshots?
>how it all begun
>>140399042
661 more than me. Rock on!
fuck, i finished this game 15 minutes ago and i'm still crying. will i ever recover from this /lisg/
>>140400330
>will i ever recover from this
No.
>>140400330
We have fresh blood.
Welcome to the support group.
Now lets get you initiated.
Lets start with this jpg
>>140398786
I consider your Max screenshots to be art! And I do have like 50GB of fine art, so I know what I'm talking about!
>>140398786
Even if you don't think you're an artist, you can always become a better one. I have faith in you.
>>140400683
wh
whuh
>>140401361
A scrapped ending where Chloe survives the bathroom incident and ends up in the hospital instead.
Why is there a black outline on your screenshots? Consolecutiepeasant?
>>140401718
i have no idea honestly. maybe because of borderless windowed mode
>>140401718
>spoilering doesn't work inbetween words anymore
4CHANNOFUN
>>140401832
Likely. Nice timing on that one though. Or did you just spam F12 there?
>>140401973
just good timing
>>140400330
Only if you read fics and create a headcanon so that Max, Chloe, or whatever characters you liked get proper closure and happiness.
That's the closest you're going to get to recovery.
>>140400886
Thank you for the kind words, anon. My Max folder now feels just a bit less pathetic
>>140401216
Thanks for bolstering my morale.I'll get back to writing my minimum of 1000 words per day after tomorrow even though it's creatively taxing.Writing is art in some way, right? I can't draw, paint or sculpt to save my life
>>140402392
*insert screenshot of Max lifting her mug as a toast*
>>140402910
>Writing is art in some way, right? I can't [...] sculpt
Eh; poetry, pottery - all the same.What kind of writing? If you don't mind me asking.
>>140402910
Writing is art in my book.If you ever write something LiS related, we'd be happy to read it.
>>140399305
>decided to sacrifice Chloe
>the polaroid image of the heavenly sunset
Enough to bring me to tears.
>>140404295
Aw. There.
>>140403534Just short stories
>>140403661
I'll try writing a LiS thing in the weekend, then. I just don't know what I'm most afraid of in that regard: Not getting the characters right or Michel possessing me halfway through the process.
>>140404710
we'll keep you safe from Michel, anon.
>>140404534
>that image
It just keeps happening
>>140405178
I'm thinking the thing will be a cozy and comfy something that can't possibly become tragic.
>>140405238
It's just another bad dream Max.
>>140404710
Just a few tips: Don't fall into the trap of calling characters numerous things, just their names are fine nearly all of the time. And don't try to force phrases from the game into the dialogue (Wowser, hella - I'm looking at you, Rowan).
There's a lot of gaps in the established story so be creative to fill them in and have fun! Or make everything and everyone miserable if you plan on making a game out of your fic. I have my own plans to eventually type something out as well.
>>140405591
Good to hear. We've had enough tragedy.
>>140381973
>>140383281
>It's Max's overuse of her power that's causing the tornado
>Solution is to go back to bathroom and let Chloe die
>Because if it wasn't for that meeting in the bathroom, Max would have never discovered her power
>So apparently the idea is to make a timeline where Max never discovers her power
>But we already did this (alt universe/w Wheelie Chloe), and the same paranormal events were still happening at exactly the same times
>Let's ignore that for the moment, and point out Max discovered her power as a direct result of seeing Chloe die
>Presumably, Chloe not dying would have the same effect (actually a better chance) at stopping her from discovering her powers
>But this is what we actually did in the first rewind, went back to the bathroom and engineered a scenario where Chloe didn't die, so Max wouldn't have to rewind
>Ah, but that was after Max had already rewound once. Maybe the butterfly photo takes you back to the first time Max enters the Bathroom.
>Except that we had to re-take the Butterfly photo the second time we went into the bathroom, so that photo should lead to the second time Max entered the bathroom, where she already has her powers
> And they already established with photographing Kate and David, that you don't get to keep the photos after a rewind (except for the purposes of the optional photo collection thing, you don't keep them in game).
>So the photo must lead to the post-rewind bathroom
>Whateva, let's ignore that for the moment as well and assume the photo does take Max back to the first time she enters the bathroom
>Then since this is the first time in the bathroom, doing exactly what she did the second time, triggering the alarm and saving Chloe, would have prevented her from discovering her powers. Since letting Chloe die the first time around is actually what led to Max discovering her powers.
>>140405638
Poor Max would probably be scared to sleep after everything. She'd try her best to stay awake for days before giving in and falling into another nightmare. But the first night she comes clean about the entirety of the dream with Chloe, and falls asleep in her arms, the nightmares will be gone.
>>140391449
But they're not?
>>140405710
Since the readers (you) are going to already be familiar with the characters beforehand, I'd find it pretentious and frankly just tedious to refer to Max as "the brunette", "girl in the hoodie" or whatever that isn't just "Max" when we all already know who Max is.
>>140406162
Or we assume the first bathroom scene is part of the vision. Or that the polaroids represent "pieces of time" and thus identical moments when used after the fact (that's why they can't exist without the correlative moment in time). Or we just say shit doesn't have to be logical, magical realism and all that, and that it would fit in a magical narrative for the origin to be where we can undo stuff. We've been over that; It's obvious that shit ain't logical because the devs straight up admit that it doesn't always make sense. Clinging to magical realsim may be lazy BS for the writers, but for us... we have to do something to feel closure, right? And if you can't find logical closure...
>>140406532
Chloe fought her out of one nightmare already. They'll make it.
>>140407015
Refer to her as "The QT" throughout the entirety of the story.
/joking
>>140381973
>>140407390
>to french hacks's logic, in original timeline Kate shouldn't have died aswell right? but even if you couldn't save her same things will happen.
>the doublemoon was completely ''nah just put foreshadow to fooling fans. actually it was just for a showing freak weather'' just like how Max teleported herself into the classroom when she activated her powers for the first time issue.
>when Max had created/jumped into the different timeline (when she saved William) storm had to came before five years but.. it didn't happen.
>chloe was always dying because she was always in trouble not because universe tried to get rid of her. also her deaths don't stop the storm (because everything started in bathroom when Max enabled her powers) in episode 5 after Jefferson killed her storm was still coming
>when final are choices appeared one of choice is clearly saying ''actually your powers caused it all this shit but you can fix everything by using your powers for the last time''
so no need to reading to much anon.
it's clearly shit writing.
>>140407481
Rowanred pls go.
>tfw you will never sniff and bury your face in Chloe's beanie
>>140407390
>Or we assume the first bathroom scene is part of the vision.
>>140397096
It makes want to kill myself when I think of people sacrificing Chloe without the kiss.
I hope they all die, violently.
Can characters like Max and Chloe even be surpassed?
What chance does Season Two have?
Anything will pale in comparison.
I hope those french fucks are brainstorming real, real hard right now.
>>140408205
>I hope they all die, violently
I hope they get in a similar situation to the one from ep5. Maybe not as dire one, but something analogous.
>>140381021
>"It made sense to make a game about choice and consequences," Koch added, "because it's really interesting to question this idea of 'should I try to fix everything, should I try each time I have an outcome that I don't like, I got back in time and I try to fix it to have a perfect life.' Which is at the end one of the main themes of the game, that you cannot have, and sometimes you just have to accept the sacrifice, accept that sometimes not everything will be completely perfect, and move on with your life if you want to grow up... It was interesting because we had this, I think this good blend between the gameplay, the storytelling, and the message of the game."
>tfw Michel's damage controls are in overdrive
Dang, renderanon, someone drew your render.
>>140408205
That's pretty mean of you, anon. Some people are just retarded when it comes to romantic cues or prefer stories about friendship even if it's a slight struggle against the game to do it.
>>140408683
Woah...
>>140408394
I don't think season 2 will surpass max and chloe in terms of likableand huggablecharacters
>>140408205
>those ignorant people who completely missed every details
They couldn't ignore nightmare sequences though.
>>140408931
Every time I think that, something new comes along.
>>140408604
>you just have to accept the sacrifice, accept that sometimes not everything will be completely perfect, and move on with your life if you want to grow up.
''grow up yeah also grow up blah blah blah your choices matter blah blah blah accept sacrifice. oh also GROW UP''
i had enough from this shit
>>140409068
>>140408931
What if we get a qt nerdyboythis time. :3oh god I felt so gay typing that
>>140407015
>>140407481
Refer to her as "a Max" constantly.
A Max is sitting on a Max's dorm bed with a Chloe, bathing in the last golden rays of a setting October sun. A Chloe slowly grabs a Max's shoulder and and turns a Max to face a Chloe. A Max looks on puzzledly as a Chloe leans into a Max with a Chloe's eyes closed. A Max slowly closes a Max's eyes as eventually a Chloe and a Max connect a Chloe with a Max mouth.
>>140408042
Yeah, one of the scenes where they outright admit that it doesn't make sense.
>>140408205
Chloe is waiting to beat them up in the afterlife.
>>140408394
Statistically, chances are low. Most here have other characters they like and stuff, but seldomly does anyone come close to Chloe and Max. And while dontnod and Divine had some idea about how these characters should end up, in the end there's a lot of emergent qualities there that you can't just repeat even if you are good at creating characters.
>>140408604
Ha. At least he admitted they have room to improve.
>>140409256
Then I'll wait a while longer.
Max was smiling at the funeral she's already forgot Chloe and is a grownup now haha. :)
>>140409319
>Max Max Max Chloe Max
Please don't."her" is a word too.
>>140409256
Stop writing "colon three" then.
I swear, I'm about to have an aneurysm every time I see it.
>>140409507
"her" is not an appropriate pronoun to refer to "a Max" with! Only "a Max" is worthy of a Max.
>>140409481
Max is obviously trying to hold back tears and if you look closely at her eyes, you can see that it's not really working but the screen fades to black milliseconds later because you French fucks just love your ambiguity.
>>140409768
Is "a shit" appropriate for Jeffershit?
>>140380294
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
>>140409970
That's "Mr. a shit" for you!
>>140410167
>>140409768
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It is perfectly all right to refer to a Max by 'her' and 'she' too.
>>140409481
>he put a hidden message to his ''tru art'' ending
>but he doesn't aware of that somehow
sure michel
>>140410250
Ok... I thought it would make for a funny fic!
>>140410279
>filename
>not "her fury is the fury that will burn the heavens"
Missed opportunity.
>>140409256
>Season 2
>Mari becomes Co-game director with Michel
>Camera focuses on 3 qt boys while they were having threesome
>tfw Mari's wishes come true
No thanks
>>140410614
her fury is ur mummy's dummy, michel
>>140408838
AND SO THEY FUCKING RUINED THEIR EXPERIENCE OF THE GAME
THEY HAVE NO IDEA OF THE DEPTH THE WOUNDS LIE
>>140410582
It would be funny for two sentences or so and then it'd go old.
It only really works in 4chan posts because then it's just talking about a person like Max and/or poor grammar itself is the joke or at least part of it.I need to stop going off on tangents
>>140411150
I still had a good experience with the game and would love to be able to experience it all again like it was the first time even if the ending stings a lot. Max and Chloe's relationship is very special no matter if you get and go for it all or are blind and end up building an interpretation that might not be fully accurate. T-there's also no need to yell, anon. I'm sorry. Please don't hurt me.
>>140411382
I was merely jesting!
...Although, the dedication to keep it up through a whole fic would be kind of funny to me itself.
>>140412237
My brain would collapse trying to do it, that's for sure.
>>140412230
=kek
What is Max's favorite dinosaur?
>>140412230
You're stupid and deserve to be killed by the furies.
>>140414206
Brontosaurus
>>140414206
Lickalotapus
>>140414339
That's Max's name for Chloe.
>>140412230
I for one forgive you since you are able to forgive yourself.
>>140414630
>>140414630
Chloe probably calls Max something dumb like T-Max back because she isn't into dinosaurs.
>>140410847
Fun fact: Mari never actually wanted gay threesome in S2.
She was actually being ironic while shittalking people who wished for Max and Chloe to get together because she believed Chloe was too traumathized to form a new relationship and those who shipped them were selfish pigs.
Or something
>>140414946
>selfish pigs
also gay perverts.
>>140414946
Does she not realise that a large part of the reason Chloe was so traumatised was the lack of Max in her life? Max coming back gave Chloe a reason to stay in Arcadia, she said so herself
>>140414840
She looks like such a dork when she smiles but she is just so gosh darn adorable no matter what
Pretend I've been living under a rock since October 2015;
Have we heard ANYTHING AT ALL regarding S2 / LiS2 ?
>>140415830
Maybe word about it soon. Maybe.
>>140415830
New cast
Might be announced in a few months after Dontnod finishes up Vampyr
That's about it.
We actually hit the bump limit last thread! I'm so proud of you guys!
>>140416126
nothing could give me more satisfaction than watching Vampyr fail as miserably as it's setting out to.
Is that one fic with Max, Victoria and Kate still going on? It was written by an anon from lesg.
>>140408604
>it's really interesting to question this idea of 'should I try to fix everything, should I try each time I have an outcome that I don't like, I got back in time and I try to fix it to have a perfect life.
Except they didn't address this at all. Instead of realisticly exploring the consequences that would naturally flow from wanting to change your life time, they crowbarred in external effects (the tornado, as well as powers that fail at a critical moment, and characters suddenly becoming retarded and ignoring obvious alternate possibilities).
The one place they came close to covering this alledged theme was the episode 3/4 AU where you have wheelie Chloe. And frankly even this is a pretty facile example, both incredibly unlikely (it was equally likely William Price would buy a winning lotto ticket and they'd all live happily ever after), and easily avoidable (find any photo of Max pre the crash, focus, and have her ring Chloe to warn her. Even the act of calling without warning her might perturb the the timeline enough to save Chloe from the crash.)
Overall they managed to lead players to make a sacrifice at the end, but not the one they were hoping for.
>Sacrifice player's patience
>Sacrifice player's intelligence
>>140417108
w-what if Vampyr is a massive success?
>>140417803
I, for one, am trading my imagination in to Michel to get my feelings back. I'm tired of suffering.
>>140417803
it won't be.
even if it is remotely good (maybe even lis good), it'll be compared to bloodborne. and we all know how that'll turn out.
Finally all that janitor drama is over
Good night /lisg/Love you
>>140419114
Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, deleting posts in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, anon - that is the price we have to continually pay.
>>140417357
Life is Triangular - it's in the OP. Nova (the author, currently busy with other writing as far as we know) did say it's going to be continued at some point, but it's been quite some time that he himself has even been here, I think. Don't hold your breath.
>>140419671
Night Night Anon.Je t'aime
>>140417803
i need more info but so far i find it pretty off putting.
>>140419114
How so?
>>140419695
>that fat Juliet
>>140422887
Girafftoria.
Nice butt on Dana. Rachel is way too big and her eyes are wrong and overall these are just not accurate representations.
>Page 10
>>140412230
That's not a weasel!
Kate isgreat!
I want Max and Victoria to date!!
WHERE IS NOVA?!?!
Kate isperfect!
>>140432930
>Kate will never appear in another game again
>She will fade from memory
So what will be season 2 based on
Newfriend btw
>>140432923
y-you might want to start considering other fics anon. Just in case.
LiT will still be a beautiful memory.
>>140434990
l-like what
I wouldn't mind a similar game with no super powers, one that just let's you live as another normal person, but I don't think any company did a decent one of these any recently.
>>140433669
>fade
NEVER
>>140434620
Welcome to the board. We've got no idea really. About the only thing we do know is it's almost certain the old cast won't come back and Dontnod wants Life is Strange to be an anthology style series with different casts each season. Some have suggested that Max and Chloe might come back by popular demand, especially if Vampyr turns out to be a flop (which is quite possible considering what happened with Dontnod's last action game).
>>140435780
Have you read all the other Maximum Victory fics?
This was recently posted in one of these threads and I liked it: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6520777
This is another recent one that is on-going and includes actual dating: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6566380?view_full_work=true
>>140434990
>a beautiful memory
I will in the near future have a little surprise for fans of LiT! Now don't get too excited - unfortunately it doesn't have to do with actual updates to the story (and I hope Nova will return one day to see it too), but it's something to honor its memory at the very least.
I never even considered letting her die.
>>140437782
Can't wait for it, anon!
>>140438149
Even when she asked you to euthanize her? How did you deal with her reaction to your refusal?
>>140434620
Vicky will have da power and start shit cuz she is queen.
![supermax__by_qtori-d9novhv[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/kul3MDX.jpg "supermax__by_qtori-d9novhv[1].png")
>>140437782
Can we call you thesuperNOVA?
>>140438737
>you will never smoke with alice
just fuck my shit up senpai
>>140438674
You are punny. That is good.
>>140438897
You too.
>>140439136
T- That is not an answer but I'll take it!
>>140439280
Everybody asleep? You will regret that!
>>140439136
Janitor's back at it.
>>140441142
I'll respect the janitor's decision on deleting that. That was pure filth.
>>140441371
Have you read the fic? The paralytic have sexual needs too!
>>140441371
>being this ignorant
>>140438634
I complied with her request then. It was clear we were going to leave that timeline soon, and after some thought I realized she would likely die (Along with her parents) shortly anyway when the storm came through.
It was sad, but I knew that it wasn't going to matter much in the long run.
That Chloe didn't have much of a chance, but the original did and I wasn't going back to let her die when she was lonely, scared, and angry at the world.
>>140441806
Let's just post the actual fic link.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/4456538
JANITOR TRIGGER WARNING: Contains consensual intimacy where one party is paralysed but still wants hot monkey sex.
>>140442614
Makes sense.
>>140443139
How is she simultaneously so badass and so cute?
>>140444112
She can't keep getting away with it!
>>140441029
Max looks a little weird.
>>140444112
We already solved this. Max's cuteness and Rachel's badassness rubbed off on her.
>>140444527
But as long as Max is around, who will stop them?! Not only is Max a pro herself at getting away with it, she also has time powers and is the guardian of Chloe.
>>140444635
SFM will do that to you.
>>140445140
Wanted: Maxine "Max" Caulfield and Chloe Elizabeth Price.
Crime: Being too cute.
Do NOT approach, the cuteness may be too powerful and harmful to your health.
>>140438737
Hella hardcore hare
>>140447000
>Do NOT approach, the cuteness may be too powerful and harmful to your health.
>>140448445
>>140448618
I guess everyone is asleep
>>140442828
>Just that.
JUST.
I hadn't yet read that one and that last paragraph fucked me up there for a second. Stupid internet radio had to play a melancholical song for that part too, didn't it?!
I love mjr's writing, but I hate the idea that the alternate timelines persist. Max and Chloe are totally back to how they are supposed to be and doing the lewd how it is, too.
She's right about Max going back being selfish though. As opposed to the ending choice, this one actually is selfish. Not only because she escapes Chloe's request and the consequences of her actions, but because Chloe was genuinely happy and prepared to die here. She had given her ultimate peace and freedom, but could herself not live with this reality.
Of course, there are things like the storm that was still apparantly coming and the realities of having euthanized Chloe there (i. e. facing her parents and all that), but front and center here is Max's desire to be with Chloe that forces her back through the photo.
>>140451851
Yes
Night /lesg/Don't die on me
>>140453214
>>140453586
Just remember that Chloe does not like sharing brushes
Good night janitor
post rachel pls
>>140455168
>>140455438
>How to get your ass kicked by a Time-Goddess and a punk: The post
>>140455168
>>140455438
That's not nice anon.
Okay I'm Michel
What would I need to do to sell as much copies of season 2
What features and main selling point would it need?
Picth me ideas
Go!
>>140455168
>>140455679
>>140455818
Make it episodic but like hitman where its every month
More story and lore
More characters and choices
More comedy and drama
More twists
Slap that at 20$ for all 8 episodes and you're good
>>140455818
make it an fps where the enemies are chloes
>>140456094
Lmao if this was a mini arcade game Easter egg or even an app I'd buy instantly
>>140455168
>>140456094
>>140456298
Do not bully Chloe. This is for your own safety, Max will not take kindly if she hears.
>>140456553
See if Victoria cares
>>140456553
Okay then. The enemies can be Kates instead.
>>140451994
>Chloe was genuinely happy and prepared to die here.
This is a good point. And the rest of AB seems pretty good too. Victoria and Nathan are out of their designated villain colour schemes, Max is popular and driven, Warren's getting sniz on the reg. The only flaw was Chloe dying, but at least she went out on a high note. But Max just undoes it all and settles in shitty normal reality where Vic's a cunt and Warrent won't leave her alone, just to listen to Chloe dying lonely and afraid on a dirty bathroom floor.
>>140457068
Max wouldn't take any of her shit. Not for blocking the door, not for what she did to Kate, not for riding Jefferson's dick, and certainly not if she tried something with Chloe.
Max is fierce!
>>140457689
I don't think much was better in that timeline. It was different, but still equally crappy.
Rachel (And almost certainly Kate) are dead which means Jefferson still has his grasp on Nathan, Max's relationship with her parents seems to have deteriorated, Chloe is dying and her parents are suffering a tremendous emotional and financial burden that will not end, David is not in a position that allows him to monitor Jefferson and eventually track him down (Meaning Max may still be in danger), and to top it off the storm is still coming.
At least in the original timeline Max knows what's going on and isn't let to fill in the blanks or be shocked at discovering what is different about herself and others.
There was nothing wrong with Max reverting the changes. There's no evidence that the timelines continue and only Max would remember if anything was changed. She's the one with the power and has no obligation to give up her own happiness for minor improvements in others lives. Everyone has the power to be happy, Victoria needs to be nice and Warren needs to move on and get the hint.
Goodnight, /lisg/
Stay comfy and do not give into the trolls and shit-stirrers
>>140458557
>Nothing wrong with reverting the timelines
We were exceptionally lucky dontnod weren't more intelligent, or they'd have hoisted us with a real moral quandary. Something along the lines of:
>Change history 5 years in the past slightly alters the timings/circumstances of pretty much everything
>But some things are incredibly sensitive to change
>Including how the male's contribution to the DNA of a new life during conception is selected
>(I wont elaborate on that because the janitor is an emotionally fragile thing)
>Anyway as a result, Max has unwittingly "rerolled" the DNA on a bunch of kids, defacto killing them and replacing them with other new lives
>Now she can undo her changes, but those new kids will have their lives extinguished to be replaced with the old ones. Who's to say the new kids don't deserve to live too?
So what to do?
>Restore the timeline? (Wipe out a bunch of babies and children)
>Keep the timeline as is? (Leave the babies and children you already wiped out dead)
i hope season 2 isn't about different characters somehow... i want to be with max and chloe forever and ever
>>140459971
Theoretically Max might have actually done that. We just can't confirm it since the game doesn't have any characters under 5 years of age.
>>140455818
>>140456094
make it fps where the enemies are warryn,jefferson and ur NPC
>>140460131
Always in our hearts and our imaginations. Where they can be free from the torment imposed on them and where they can happily live their lives together.
>>140458557
True, but I think the point that it is selfish stands. For one, Max didn't yet know that Jefferson, or anyone, was napping girls. And she doesn't check on Kate here either. So for her, the decision is different. Yeah, there's shit in this timeline too, but as far as she knows things are still happier for most of everyone. I'm sure William and Joyce are happier broke together than scraping by apart. Chloe is less mad at the world and more content and can be happy despite her hardships, rather than broken because of them, and ultimately genuinely accept death.
This is not an obvious decision either, but it feels selfish for Max because Chloe is at peace, William alive and the only things that's legitimately worse in this reality is the fact that she doesn't have Chloe anymore and to deal with this reality and the consequences of her actions in it now.
But then what does "selfish" even mean? Is it even meaningful here? As you say, she has no obligation to compromise her own happiness, and she is not responsible for all this crap either. mjr (or at least her Max) has the same notion of being responsible for this reality when she isn't at all. Gaining the powers in the first place was unintentional, and so was focusing into that picture. From there Max did what everybody would do: not let a person needlessly die when you can prevent it. She never actively tried to create any new timelines, let alone "perfect" ones. She carries no blame for anything that happens in this reality and frankly, it's not her reality to deal with. So erasing it is the natural, the human choice - "selfish" or not.
You can't be responsible for an entire universe. Should she later also feel compelled to solve all problems this world faces because they exist "because of her"? No. The only thing that is valid here is self-preservation; returning to where you belong. So yeah, more than agreeing that there's nothing wrong with reverting, I'd go a step further and say it is only right.
>>140451994
>t fps
>>140457689
>>140458557
>>140460741
Are you talking about a fic or.. ?
>>140460131
>reminder that don't get mad at the HAHA lord because he actually saved our girls from french hacks' shitty 'Forced tragedies of Life' writing
>>140460131
>tfw replaying the game one episode at a time
>at episode 5 again
>not playing further will just leave everything hanging
>playing to completion will force me to say goodbye again
I would say the only winning move is to not play but not playing is not winning anything when this far in again
>>140460860
No, the AU. Did you euthanize Chloe? What do you think is the moral, psychological, ethical or whatever quality of Max reverting this timeline inevitably?
>>140461042
Episode 4 is the true end. Max and Chloe act like idiots and face the music like real teenagers trying to play detective would. They dead. The end. Still a better conclusion than episode 5.
>>140461360
lehciM ffo kcuF
>>140459971
>>140460403
I honestly don't see dontnod having the intelligence to go there. They just aren't thoughtful enough to go for a hard science style conundrum that's internally generated by the scenario.
And they definitely wouldn't have passed on the chance for a chance to dump another trauma on Max and make her cry again.
>>140461052
Let's be honest, Max what would do?
1) ''Oh okay you wanna die there's no cure for your disease anyway, I don't give a shit if your parents' suffering cuz that's your choice afterall''
or
2) ''I know you mad at me for not doing this but I'm not gonna give up from you that easy. No matter what happens I'll always be with you 'till the end ''
>>140462109
or 3) Fuck all of that Chloe, I've got time powers and I'm going to melt this whole fucking universe and make us one where you're healthy and have hella abs and everything is fine.We may have to walk up to one of my teachers and shoot him in the head while he's sitting parked in the school car park, but life isn't perfect.
