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Torgo2727 posted:I don't see it. Man of man I love reading the Life is Strange reddit. There's a crazy rant almost daily and so manu wistful theories of how Farewell totes could feature Max swooping in to save everyone, and how we need a whole series of fanservicey Baes Being Cute games. My headcanon is that Max and Chloe eventually drift apart and break up post-Bae ending, because Max snapped and basically condemned Chloe's family to death. That's the kind of thing that puts a damper on romance.
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Arctic Bunny posted:X marks the spot where you finally meet Rachel in LiS1. I'd like to believe that insane natural disasters continue following Max and Chloe wherever they go and they spend the rest of their lives on an indefinitely long road trip drifting among small towns, using Max's time powers to fix problems before the temporal wave can catch up with them again. If anything that would make for a cool TV series. There's a ton of fanfic stuff out there that I will probably never read but it all sounds pretty wild, like one where Max and Chloe join a paramilitary organization.
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Jan 2, 2018 08:09
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Or the one where Max and Chloe are pirates and Victoria is a noblewoman who gets dragged along on their voyage. Oh and she has Kate as a handmaiden...
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Jan 2, 2018 09:06
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Now that just sounds cheesecake as gently caress, I personally am disgusted because Kate would NEVER be with Victoria she and Max have such great chemistry and would make like, the world's cutest couple it's so obvious!!!
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exquisite tea posted:I'd like to believe that insane natural disasters continue following Max and Chloe wherever they go and they spend the rest of their lives on an indefinitely long road trip drifting among small towns, using Max's time powers to fix problems before the temporal wave can catch up with them again. If anything that would make for a cool TV series. Yeah, a recurring thing in fanfic seems to be making Sean Prescott an evil mastermind who knew all about the storm and weird time poo poo, rather than the Occam's Razor approach that he's just a rich rear end in a top hat and lovely dad.
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Can't blame people for thinking the multiple red herrings might've been going somewhere. People who write fanfic keep a keen eye out for that sort of stuff. Not that I would know about that or anything.
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exquisite tea posted:I'd like to believe that insane natural disasters continue following Max and Chloe wherever they go and they spend the rest of their lives on an indefinitely long road trip drifting among small towns, using Max's time powers to fix problems before the temporal wave can catch up with them again. If anything that would make for a cool TV series. Look up a story called Play Crack the Sky, it basically explores this very concept (along with Max constantly being tormented by the version of herself she met in the Nightmare). It even takes the concept in the game where time basically stops completely whenever Max is about to die/screwed up horribly thereby forcing the player to rewind and basically turns it into a plot point. quote:There's a ton of fanfic stuff out there that I will probably never read but it all sounds pretty wild, like one where Max and Chloe join a paramilitary organization. I've actually read a bit of this one and while it's not bad it gets even weirder than that. Max evolves her powers and more or less becomes God, allowing her to slip through time and space at will (no photos required), create entire new worlds, revive extinct plants and animals and at one point literally raise the dead. Chloe, meanwhile, basically becomes Batman, arming herself with a wide variety of high tech gadgets and weapons to help her keep pace with Max while at the same time essentially leading a PMC in a shadow war against what's basically the Illuminati. It's as bizarre as it sounds. LiS fanfiction is weird (like most fanfiction) but you can find a couple of interesting ideas in some of them as well. Larryb fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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I finished this game yesterday. It was good. It's been a while since I played the original life is strange. So I forgot some things. One of those things were Nathan. So I helped him not get beat up. After that, I remember who Nathan was and told Samantha to stay the gently caress away from him. Luckily she headed my advice in the end and in the ending montage, she's walking away. I did not manage to get Rachel to see her birth mother but I did tell her the truth. Looking forward to Life is Strange 2. I missed the time rewind powers. Hope LiS 2 has it.
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Arctic Bunny posted:and how we need a whole series of fanservicey Baes Being Cute games. I kind of agree with this in a way. Not so much from Chloe and Rachel or Chloe and Max, cause their story is mostly told with the cute love story bit told in BtS (just fill in that remaining hole between BtS and LiS and give us more Frank dammit). BUT there absolutely should be more video games where it's just about a cute romance, with everything that brings like the dating and flirting and all of that. No big epic fantasy nonsense, no Real World-esque drama, etc. Just a game where you're playing through a cute love story and... that's it. That's the whole thing. I don't think they will or even should do an alternate reality game where you actually do escape Arcadia Bay with Rachel and go on a road trip adventure, but I can see why that is an appealing idea to so many people. I think most game devs are worried that kind of thing wouldn't resonate with gamers, and you have to instead do some big action adventure romances that don't show cute details or that they have to give them a ton of drama. But I think the prevalence of fanfiction and fanart and shipping shows that nerds enjoy cute love story stuff plenty. BtS felt like a refreshing change of pace because you saw all the little cute real moments in a relationship without a big epic thing happening or a ton of drama (until episode 3 did the whole stabbing thing but episode 3 had a ton of problems in that regard anyway). precision posted:Just the fact that there is a reddit specifically for Life is Strange tells you everything you need to know about the Internet ruining your favorite games There's a subreddit for literally everything
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Larryb posted:I've actually read a bit of this one and while it's not bad it gets even weirder than that. Max evolves her powers and more or less becomes God, allowing her to slip through time and space at will (no photos required), create entire new worlds, revive extinct plants and animals and at one point literally raise the dead. Chloe, meanwhile, basically becomes Batman, arming herself with a wide variety of high tech gadgets and weapons to help her keep pace with Max while at the same time essentially leading a PMC in a shadow war against what's basically the Illuminati. It's as bizarre as it sounds. David Cage presents Life is Strange.
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Karpaw posted:David Cage presents Life is Strange. More or less, yeah. If anyone's curious enough to actually try reading this insanity it all starts here. Larryb fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Jan 2, 2018 14:26
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exquisite tea posted:Now that just sounds cheesecake as gently caress, I personally am disgusted because Kate would NEVER be with Victoria she and Max have such great chemistry and would make like, the world's cutest couple it's so obvious!!! By “she and Max” you mean Victoria and Max right? Right?! Because Kate? Nah. The fan art found by googling Maximum Victory proves me right
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:By “she and Max” you mean Victoria and Max right? Right?! Because Kate? Nah. The fan art found by googling Maximum Victory proves me right Hmm...dare I or dare I not?
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exquisite tea posted:Marshfield is OTP. I ship Alyssa's head/football. Max is such a homewrecker, tearing them apart like that.
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Frank/Beans OTP Seriously though, while Chloe's story is more or less finished (she either died for our sins or left for parts unknown with her partner in time), I think a game staring Frank would actually work pretty well as there's still plenty of aspects regarding his character that could still be explored (plus, he's basically a male Chloe Price in some respects). Larryb fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Feb 24, 2018 |
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Jan 2, 2018 18:33
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Larryb posted:Frank/Beans OTP But what would Frank's Unique Super Power (USP) be? Love of Beans? Besides, I feel that we might have too much of a good thing if we kept coming back to the Bay.
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Larryb posted:Chloe, meanwhile, basically becomes Batman, arming herself with a wide variety of high tech gadgets and weapons to help her keep pace with Max while at the same time essentially leading a PMC in a shadow war against what's basically the Illuminati. lmao whaaaaaaat
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Yvonmukluk posted:But what would Frank's Unique Super Power (USP) be? Love of Beans? Pompidou Power
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precision posted:lmao whaaaaaaat Yup, I might have misremembered a few details but that's basically what happens (story's called Near Light if you're curious). Yvonmukluk posted:But what would Frank's Unique Super Power (USP) be? Love of Beans? Persuasion maybe? He is a drug dealer after all (also his spirit animal would probably be a fox or something like that). True, it might eventually get tiresome if they kept coming back to the same well all the time but a game or two every once and a while wouldn't be a big deal. I just think there's some stuff that could be explored with Frank if they wanted to like his personal life (he mentions something about his dad in LiS), why he became a dealer, his relationship with Chloe and Rachel, etc. Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Jan 2, 2018 18:54
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did Max give back Chloe's dad back to life, please I need to know
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https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/948236327094571016
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Tired Moritz posted:did Max give back Chloe's dad back to life, please I need to know Story isn't over yet but no, when I mentioned raising it was some random kids that got caught up in a mission her team had been on (kind of a long story). She also weaponizes her power at a few points, specifically by gaining control of the time stop ability that occurred when she was trying to stop Kate from jumping off the roof in LiS (also by using her rewind to get the drop on people). It's one of the weirdest stories I've ever read. Off that subject but in retrospect Warren does deserve a little more credit. If he hadn't taken that picture on the night of the party then Max (and by extension, the rest of the town) basically would have been screwed.
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Life is Frank, the adventures of a dude selling pot, speed and GHB to high school kids. It'll play like that lemonade stand game on all the grade school PCs back in the day.
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precision posted:lmao whaaaaaaat Rainbow 6 Siege Season 3 is sounding hella good.
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DeathChicken posted:Life is Frank, the adventures of a dude selling pot, speed and GHB to high school kids. It'll play like that lemonade stand game on all the grade school PCs back in the day. I'd play it. Other potential options: - A game about Max during her Seattle days (though what would her pre-Rewind power be?) - A game about Rachel (though that's pretty much guaranteed to end on a bad note no matter how you spin it) - A D&D simulator starring Steph Gingrich - Possibly a game about Victoria if they fleshed her out a little more - A direct sequel to the first game, though this is probably the least likely option of all. While the Bae ending might have more story potential you could probably do something with the Bay ending as well. For example, maybe have Chloe pop up during dream sequences like William did in BtS (or just be with Max as her snarky ghost sidekick), gradually appearing less and less the more Max starts to come to terms with Chloe's death. Larryb fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Larryb posted:I'd play it. A D&D simulator staring Steph and Mikey would be great, having a full on fantasy world you control but having Steph narrating it all and having it cut back and forth between the fantasy setting and the real life table would be awesome and hopefully silly. Steph ended up being a great character that was only made for BtS so I'd be all about more of her. If any of that leaked stuff is true, it's kind of sad we missed out on a bunch more Steph stuff in episode 3
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Any future game in the series is probably going to be framed by whatever direction LiS 2 takes, and I'd rather it'd just be interesting and provocative enough to take people's minds off of Arcadia Bay for awhile.
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exquisite tea posted:Any future game in the series is probably going to be framed by whatever direction LiS 2 takes, and I'd rather it'd just be interesting and provocative enough to take people's minds off of Arcadia Bay for awhile. True, while I will miss the Bay hopefully DontNod will be able to catch lightning in a bottle twice and the LiS 2 cast will end up being just as good as the ones we've come to know and love. That game is also going to be the first real test of the series' staying power. If they can make it work without the original cast then I could see this becoming a franchise of sorts (basically a series of weird episodic stories with little if any connection to one another). With any luck we should finally be seeing something regarding that at E3 this year. Honestly, at the moment I'm more interested in finding out what the deal is with LiS 2 (or maybe they should just call it Life is Strange 3 at this point) than I am regarding the bonus episode in BtS as aside from the choice-based gameplay, episodic format, multiple endings and some sort of special ability (which might not even be time travel related this time) we have no idea what to expect out of this. By starting from scratch the developers more or less have free reign to do whatever they want with this game (and for all we know it could take place in the distant past, the far future or even an entirely separate universe from the original). Looking forward to seeing what they come up with. Larryb fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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I can't believe how long it took me to put this together... So Chloe spends the prequel wrestling with the emotional fallout of William's death, right? And then at the end of the game, she's presented with the decision of whether Rachel should know about what James was planning to do to keep Sera out of her life. And Sera puts the consequences of revealing the truth into perspective with this phrase: If you tell Rachel the truth about James, you'll be killing him for her. The final choice is about whether Chloe can bring herself to put Rachel through the hell she's endured. Whether she can take her friend's father away just as she lost William. Brilliant. That's bloody brilliant. You could even go as far as saying that Before The Storm is about the sins of the father. Get a load of Nathan who spends the three episodes paying for what an amoral piece of crap Sean Prescott is. Not only does Drew blame him for what his dad's doing to the community, he's mocked by the man himself who then refuses to let the authorities step in and get him the treatment he needs. However... Even when Chloe witnesses the nightmare of abuse Sean has been inflicting on his son just before the play begins, one of the things she can say is "You should be careful what you wish for when it comes to parents." She was foreshadowing the final decision she's forced to make at the close of Episode Three. Eshettar fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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There's something especially twisted about James Amber, who commits monstrous acts to ostensibly protect Rachel's own innocence, that primes Rachel down the eventual path of Mark Jefferson, who is himself obsessed with preserving and cataloging that last moment of innocence. Amber, Prescott, and Jefferson are all on the same continuum of powerful men who use their status to invade and violate the lives of young women.
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So what you're saying is that the villain from Before The Storm is a reflection of the villain from Life Is Strange? Or a negative image? Perhaps even a photo negative? When you think about it, Chloe's story and Max's story go together like poetry verses. They rhyme.
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Eshettar posted:So what you're saying is that the villain from Before The Storm is a reflection of the villain from Life Is Strange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc
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While Sera kind of had a point, I don't think it's quite the same in this case as whatever William lied about probably wasn't as bad as James hiding Sera's existence for 15 years (including keeping all the letters she sent Rachel), paying her to stay away and even going so far as to hire a drug lord to discredit/kill her when she tried to sue for shared custody. It just didn't seem right to not only let him be rewarded for his crimes but in a sense also turn Chloe into his accomplice . To use James' own words against him "[He] was given the greatest gift in the world, the chance to be your [father]....and [he] squandered it". I just don't think a man who is willing to sacrifice someone he once claimed to love just because she's now become inconvenient to him really deserves to be a parent (though to be fair if what he said about their early life was accurate, Sera's habits actually were putting Rachel in danger). Plus, can you really say that a happy family life based entirely on lies is actually true happiness? Unfortunately Rachel might have been destined to wind up in Jefferson's hands no matter what (remember in the William Lives timeline she never met Chloe but still wound up going missing). All your choice really determines in the end is how Rachel spends the last 3 years of her life. Larryb fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Related to the alternate timeline, that was another situation where that whole thing felt WAY sadder after having played BtS. Alt-Chloe never meeting Rachel at all is kind of sad after having that whole story in BtS.exquisite tea posted:There's something especially twisted about James Amber, who commits monstrous acts to ostensibly protect Rachel's own innocence, that primes Rachel down the eventual path of Mark Jefferson, who is himself obsessed with preserving and cataloging that last moment of innocence. Amber, Prescott, and Jefferson are all on the same continuum of powerful men who use their status to invade and violate the lives of young women. I find Frank an interesting character in these discussions because he's the only major reoccurring adult man in the game that isn't portrayed the same way as the others you listed. Well I guess besides Samuel but he's more like a Yoda-type entity than an actual person
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That's because Frank and Samuel exist on the fringes of society and don't play into the existing power structure. Every adult male of status is shown actively making life worse for everyone in Arcadia Bay, women in particular. Well, the drama teacher and very first Amberprice shipper was okay, I guess.
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Macaluso posted:Related to the alternate timeline, that was another situation where that whole thing felt WAY sadder after having played BtS. Alt-Chloe never meeting Rachel at all is kind of sad after having that whole story in BtS. It now kind of makes me wonder how the whole Amber family situation went down in that timeline without Chloe. Did Rachel ever find out about Sera or just spend her entire life in blissful ignorance (at the very least her parents seemed a bit more proactive about looking for Rachel at any rate)? Though for all we know, in that timeline Sera could have turned her life around early and she and James were still happily married. And you're right, William, Frank and Samuel seem to be the only reoccurring adult males who aren't total assholes (and I guess David to a much lesser extent, though a lot of the things Chloe said about him weren't exactly wrong either). If you want to go into minor roles, Ryan (Max's dad) seemed ok as well though we never actually met him outside of photos and texts and Kate's dad was one of her few supporters during that whole mess with the video. Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Despite Principal Wells informing Chloe that her expulsion from Blackwell is a consequence of her own irresponsible behavior, she seems to spend both games paying for the misdeeds of others. It's easy to chalk the tragedy of Life Is Strange down to the Prescotts but what you should keep in mind is that the authority figures in Arcadia Bay allowed them to become powerful by looking the other way. Principal Wells and even certain members of the police force are paid off by Sean Prescott and this environment is what allows the Vortex Club parties to exist as an ideal hunting ground for Jefferson and Nathan to capture young women and bring them to the Dark Room. Had someone in power made the decision to put their foot down, none of this would have happened. Nathan would be yanked from school the instant he threw his desk at a teacher, those parties would be strictly monitored and thus Kate would never have wound up on the internet...and without the presence of an unfettered Nathan and the out-of-control parties, Rachel would still be alive. The final choice in Life Is Strange tends to be framed as whether Arcadia Bay should be wiped off the map in return for Chloe's survival. But you might also consider it in terms of whether another innocent girl should pay the ultimate price for Arcadia Bay's sins even though someone who loves her has the power to stop it. (If you check Max's timetable in her room, she'll make a comment about how one of the teachers recently left the school due to depression. Is this the same teacher who issued a complaint about Nathan's behavior which was then ignored because Sean Prescott weighed in with his threats of a liable suit? So the Prescotts are pretty much the reason for her depression and Wells looked up at the sky and whistled while this was happening on his watch? Niiiice...)
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