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Life is Strange: Episode Five Oct. 20
Man of the Waves
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Square Enix announced that they are publishing a Dontnod developed game called Life is Strange
It will be an episodic adventure/mystery game where "choice and consequence play a key role in how the narrative unfolds." The developers have stated that environmental storytelling, a la Gone Home, will be a highlight of the game. Also, the main character has just discovered she has the ability to rewind time and unmake whatever choice she just made.
This is Max Caulfield
She has just returned to Arcadia Bay, Oregon after five years to reunite with her friends Chloe and Rachel.
This is Chloe
Chloe lost her friend and her dad five years ago and hasn't really gotten over it.
Rachel Amber is missing, thought to have run away by everyone, but Chloe. Together, Max and Chloe will try to find Rachel and uncover the mysteries of her disappearance and of the town itself.
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Interview and Gameplay Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzdwnRICzaoReleases January 30th, 2015
http://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/
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Probably helps that I actually really liked Remember Me, even if it did get a bit cheesy from time to time.
It is possible to care about other people.
Yes. Too many female protagonists is definitely a problem that video games have. Absolutely.
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Life is Strange looks pretty good already, so I hope they nail the music again. Between their first game and Gone Home (which this has already been compared to), they'll need to step up their soundtrack game.
I should say that I haven't played any of those games that you listed other than Papers, Please? so I'm not sure the correlation.
It's from Square Enix so I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's episodic... So if the first episode doesn't sell 12 million copies, does that mean we won't get episode 2?
I think is a more likely view point as opposed to @Rami seriously believing the video game world is dominated by so many female leads you literally have to sweep them out in to the street, lest you find yourself buried.
edit- As to this game, it looks great and I am getting a wee bit of a Shenmue vibe. At least I hope I am. I love having a living world to run around in like Shenmue's.
Plus it takes place in a coastal town in Oregon, so you just know you're gonna be looking for sailors at some point.
The video mentioned that they already have a planned release schedule, but I guess it could conceivably be canned prematurely. I doubt SE put that much money into Dontnod and a new IP, though.
They also talk about how episodic games tend to generate more money based on people going back and buying previous episodes.
That viewpoint is more "You just haven't played enough games from the genre" as opposed to "WTF dude?!".
And I'm willing to give @Rami the benefit of the doubt that he just hasn't played or heard of all those games as opposed to him being a sexist ass.
It remains frustrating how quickly the pro-women brigade emerges to leap on anyone making any sort of comment that could possibly be construed as not 100% more women in every piece of media ever.
I'd like the engaging character (generally not the player character) in an 'emotion heavy' game that isn't a girl or young woman. Which in no way suggests I don't want female characters. Where's my gender reversed Booker/Elizabeth? Why are little sisters only sisters? Because nobody would give a shit about boys right? Gotta pick that vulnerable sex. The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, TWD, Beyond Two Souls etc.
It's great if you want to trawl through the super indie files that even 99% of 'gamers' will never hear about. But the big studios and the big budgets are still basically supporting extremely stereotyped female characters in the majority of cases. It's absolutely an easy way of eliciting sympathy from the players. And while I won't deny that some of these games are quite well written (at least in parts) a lot of these girls are largely interchangeable between them to be quite honest.
But anyway, it was an offhand comment I never should have made and I apologise.
The game will release on the 30th of next month.
Thank God they didn't have to sell out
And pretty much everything in the first part of the game (when establishing characters, setting, etc.) revolves around being a teenaged girl (and all the problems there-in), so I don't think those other publishers really looked at the story the game is trying to tell.
The game looks like "What if someone made a TellTale adventure game set in Dawson's Creek/Portlandia with the memory remix sections of Remember Me?" so far. So thumbs up.
They needed a publisher, and thankfully they didn't have to make compromises to get one
We can be thankful they didn't put Lightning in the fine print.
Good trailer, though.
After reading into it, it seems like the kind of game I would enjoy. I'm keeping my eye on this one.
That's EXACTLY what happened when another group of French people made Blue is the Warmest Color.
"Do you like me, Emma-Onēsan?"
EDIT: Quite frankly, that video makes me want to buy the game just to spite the fuckwads that wrote such an awful, hateful thing. It's like, they wanted to make it look like they were doing parody, but it was just a spiteful hit job. The game itself looks really... nice? I dig the themes, though I'm a little burned on storytelling games after TWD Season 2.
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I'm hungry for story-telling games after playing TWD Season 2.