The hella rad Life Is Strange thread

Ms Dapper · May 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YznXuKwJtMg

Life is Strange is an episodic adventure game where you control Max Caulfield, a student at Blackwell academy who realizes she can reverse time. Like games such as The Walking Dead and Wolf Among us this game is very much built on player choice. However due to Max's powers she can undo her choices to make things work out for the best, or so she thinks.

Anyway I figured I'd make this thread because I've been enjoying the hell out of this game and episode three should come out sometime this month. So yeah, talk about the choices you made, talk about Victoria being a Mean Girl's character and talk about Chloe being hella cool.

Grey Ghost · May 2015

I don't care what anybody says
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is one of the best sci-fi films ever

Grey Ghost · May 2015

Also real-ass episode 2 ending spoilers

I totally failed to save Kate and I feel really bad about it

DaMoonRulz · May 2015

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I don't care what anybody says
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is one of the best sci-fi films ever

Dumb-azz

Ms Dapper · May 2015

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Also real-ass episode 2 ending spoilers
I totally failed to save Kate and I feel really bad about it

I managed to save her but that has to be one of the tensest moments in a game I've had in a while

Grey Ghost · May 2015

Ms Dapper wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Also real-ass episode 2 ending spoilers
I totally failed to save Kate and I feel really bad about it

I managed to save her but that has to be one of the tensest moments in a game I've had in a while

What are the triggers?

did you pick up when she called you earlier in the day? I declined it and I think that pretty much screwed me way before I got to the point where I could talk her down

Ms Dapper · May 2015

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Ms Dapper wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Also real-ass episode 2 ending spoilers
I totally failed to save Kate and I feel really bad about it

I managed to save her but that has to be one of the tensest moments in a game I've had in a while

What are the triggers?
did you pick up when she called you earlier in the day? I declined it and I think that pretty much screwed me way before I got to the point where I could talk her down

You take her call, erase the url at the bathroom, talk to her and tell her to go to the police and remember her favorite Bible verse.

It's insanely hard and I kind of lucked into it.

Man of the Waves · May 2015

Ms Dapper wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Ms Dapper wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Also real-ass episode 2 ending spoilers
I totally failed to save Kate and I feel really bad about it

I managed to save her but that has to be one of the tensest moments in a game I've had in a while

What are the triggers?
did you pick up when she called you earlier in the day? I declined it and I think that pretty much screwed me way before I got to the point where I could talk her down

You take her call, erase the url at the bathroom, talk to her and tell her to go to the police and remember her favorite her Bible verse.

It's insanely hard and I kind of lucked into it.

I told her not to go to the police, but I reminded her that her father still loved her.

But, yeah, that was one of the most tense parts of a video game I've ever played and it was in a episodic game no less. Bravo Dontnod.

Weaver · May 2015

I need to play season 2 of this, I got distracted after I finished season 1 but yeah this game is wonderful. Also Ashley Burch does voice work in this.

Peter Ebel · May 2015

Oh, I thought this was about shit in life that was strange.

Man of the Waves · May 2015

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Oh, I thought this was about shit in life that was strange.

Dontnod isn't exactly the best at naming games.

Ms Dapper · May 2015

Some fanart:

Beef Avenger · May 2015

I hear this game is filled with nightmare people

Ms Dapper · May 2015

Beef Avenger wrote: »

I hear this game is filled with nightmare people

I would say the worst thing is probably the lip synching, which seems to have gotten better in Episode 2.

OmnipotentBagel · May 2015

The dialog in this makes me think of the Spookyfish episode of South Park. "Goddamn it Cartman, stop saying 'hella'!"

Beef Avenger · May 2015

Ms Dapper wrote: »

Beef Avenger wrote: »

I hear this game is filled with nightmare people

I would say the worst thing is probably the lip synching, which seems to have gotten better in Episode 2.

(I was just making a giantbomb joke)

Ms Dapper · May 2015

https://twitter.com/LifeIsStrange/status/598472961163546624

Ms Dapper · May 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-GtSdhm1g

Grey Ghost · May 2015

I just fired this new episode up
Little easter egg from the very beginning

on the Arcadia Bay PD web page, among the missing persons, is a Winston Smith, missing since 1984
Polite chuckle, Life is Strange devs

Grey Ghost · May 2015

Well sorry guys but I guess this is where I have to stop playing Life is Strange because I can't find my way out of the fucking starting area of this episode

Ms Dapper · May 2015

Unfortunately due to a combination of work and vacation I can't play unti Friday.

Grey Ghost · May 2015

Damn this goes places

WotanAnubis · May 2015

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Well sorry guys but I guess this is where I have to stop playing Life is Strange because I can't find my way out of the fucking starting area of this episode

When in doubt, rewind time.

Although I'm guessing you already found your way out, I still think it's helpful generic advice.

Zay · May 2015

I find myself wanting to play this because the end of episode 2 is kind of what I want from all episodic games, but at the same time I've been watching the best friends playthrough of it and that LP has been very good so I'd basically want to skip the first two episodes

I am conflicted

Shadowhope · May 2015

I was hella thinking about foreshadowing in the game.

Episode 3 spoilers:

Chloe's foreshadowing is obvious in retrospect. Wanting to take the handicapped fund, parking in handicapped spaces, wanting to take the rolling chair, of course she ends up handicapped.

I think that there's some major foreshadowing going on between Max and David. Around Chloe's house, there's a lot of evidence of David being a hunter. Like, the picture of David having just hunted down and killed a deer. And the deer head in the garage. Also, David's guns were shown in the first act. Meanwhile, Max's spirit animal (in a figurative or literal sense) is a deer.

I have a bad feeling about that.

TheStig · May 2015

I keep seeing this thread and thinking "We already have a 'How's your day going' thread. Do we really need two of these?"

Shadowhope · May 2015

TheStig wrote: »

I keep seeing this thread and thinking "We already have a 'How's your day going' thread. Do we really need two of these?"

Because (episode III spoilers):

There are two timelines now.

One thread per timeline.

:hydra:

Munkus Beaver · May 2015

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I don't care what anybody says
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is one of the best sci-fi films ever

Stop trying to use your standup material in the forums.

Munkus Beaver · May 2015

This also seems like a game I would want to play when I get my money situation sorted out (long story) and when I don't feel like two tons of no fun in a one pound bag due to the medication I have to take right now (nothing is fun to do, NOTHING)

Shadowhope · May 2015

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

This also seems like a game I would want to play when I get my money situation sorted out (long story) and when I don't feel like two tons of no fun in a one pound bag due to the medication I have to take right now (nothing is fun to do, NOTHING)

Uh, this would not in my opinion be a good game to play while depressed, not in any way, shape or form.

Munkus Beaver · May 2015

It's not a depression thing.

scherbchen · May 2015

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Well sorry guys but I guess this is where I have to stop playing Life is Strange because I can't find my way out of the fucking starting area of this episode

Thank the gods I am not alone!

This continues to be the prettiest game.

Also I am quite sad now because 6-8 weeks for episode 4? So cruel.

scherbchen · May 2015

btw best line from ep 3!

release the krak-can!

so bad but I love it just the same.

Shadowhope · May 2015

Wow.

Replaying episode two, I decided not to answer Kate's call.

In the junkyard, I read the piece of paper that said "I want to die."

Max says "Jesus, who wrote this?"

I immediately recieved a text from Kate.

I'm not sure if it's deliberately scripted like that, but wow.

Ms Dapper · May 2015

Just finished episode three finally.

Man, that's some ending.

-Tal · May 2015

I'm thinking about giving this game another shot

the writing displayed in the giant bomb quick look reeeallly put me off but it has been well received by people whose opinions I trust

Ms Dapper · May 2015

It's odd, the writing is both the thing I find myself recommending the game for but also doing the "Well you see, sometimes it's the worst."

Oh also Episode 3 spoilers.

I’m going to wait on a lot of what I’m thinking to see how they treat Chloe in a wheelchair because that could go super fucking bad.

Anyway I just gave a heads up to a friend who is in a wheelchair due to an auto accident (she was like 3 at the time) that this episode may be triggering for her.

Sterica · May 2015

Ms Dapper wrote: »

https://twitter.com/LifeIsStrange/status/598472961163546624

The Max vs. School Security versus mode is good, right?

-Tal · May 2015

I would actually love it if life is strange had a completely dissonant multiplayer mode

Shadowhope · May 2015

Ms Dapper wrote: »

Just finished episode three finally.

Man, that's some ending.

White jeans.

The darkest timeline.

Shadowhope · May 2015

-Tal wrote: »

I would actually love it if life is strange had a completely dissonant multiplayer mode

This got me thinking about time travel in a multiplayer FPS.

The things I can think of:

Rewind to put yourself back where you were a few seconds earlier, with all of the health, ammo, etc that you had at the time.
To be able to fire time-frozen bullets. You could step into a hallway, unload a clip, and the bullets would hang there in the air. You'd scurry back into cover, and then someone would come up the hall, and you'd unfreeze the bullets, and the bullets would move forward in time and hit the person.
To be able to step into the past for a couple of seconds and move around that way. The game would track where people were and what they were doing, so a jump a minute into the past could put the player into the middle of a firefight that occurred at that location a few minutes before. They player would be unable to kill people in the past (because reasons), but they could get hit while running around in the past.
The ability to drop time traps. Players would run into them, and be momentarily slowed down. But after emerging, there would be a second self still stuck in the trap for a short period of time. The player could either move on and continue to fight, or they could guard their time-trapped self. If their other self gets killed, they die too.
As time travel weakens the space time continuum, you'd start seeing "ghosts" on the battlefield and energy distortions that could damage or confuse players, weird effects everywhere.

Life is Strange FPS, lets do this.

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