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Jun 27, 2013

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I laughed at the end when I saw 25% would steal from the Handicap Fund but only 6% would let the dog get run over by a truck

I mean there's lines you just don't cross.

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Jun 27, 2013

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I was quite pleased with the game when Max saw something up on a high shelf and just got a chair instead of loving around with time travel to get at it.

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Jun 27, 2013

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AriadneThread posted:

there's no way that money is for legit purposes tho

I mean even if that's true, what it'd be used for isn't for legit purposes either.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Highly Unnecessary posted:

Because there is zero benefit to killing Frank's dog?

Actually if you do it does it mean that Frank doesn't see you leave after going over his trailer? He only noticed because the dog was barking in mine.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Highly Unnecessary posted:

I just checked and yeah Frank doesn't notice. However at that point you can't rewind no matter what choice you make so you unless you're on a second play-through there is still no obvious benefit to it.

Max does think "That dog could come back" after you do it so the "You might get caught" thing was pretty clear to me. I still ain't gonna do it though, I'm not a monster.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Air is lava! posted:

I don't think when Max throws the bone towards the street she does it deliberately.

Not the first time anyway...

Air is lava! posted:

I didn't even think either of them where David. Think about it. Chloe stole his keys. Obviously she wouldn't do that if he needs them that night. But I am bad with voices so I don't know.

I'm pretty sure the Guard who watches the Truck drive off isn't David. Else why would deleting the message of their Answering Machine do anything?

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Jun 27, 2013

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Sakurazuka posted:

I don't hate Chloe but she's definitely lacking in awareness that like half the lovely stuff that happened to her is her fault, on the other hand she has a good reason for going off the rails and loving up.

I like that you can make that point in her car and she kind of agrees. Young Chloe is adorable, maybe Alt-Chloe will be cool too?

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Jun 27, 2013

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I'm fine with you not getting to choose things like that though. It wouldn't make any sense for Max to not try to save them, I mean she isn't a heartless monster. Well.. unless you killed Lisa and the Dog. You monster

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Jun 27, 2013

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I'm pretty sure it's not going to end that way because that'd be utterly poo poo.

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Jun 27, 2013

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exquisite tea posted:

I've completely left myself in the dark about this game but now that a few episodes are out I'm thinking about getting into it. I really liked Gone Home, My So-Called Life (the show) and most video games about the mundane. Without spoiling anything, did the series more or less stay on that track or veer off into some retarded Square-Enix direction?

The game is managing a nice blend of down to earth character development and time travel weirdness.

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Jun 27, 2013

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I love how no one gives a poo poo if you just root through their laptops and phones.

Max Caulfield: Future NSA Director

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Jun 27, 2013

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Warren helps you build explosives with no questions asked. When it comes time to bury the bodies I know who I want on my side.

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Jun 27, 2013

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exquisite tea posted:

Just got done with the second episode, taking my time playing through the story. Is there a link somewhere that describes the inner mechanics behind talking Kate down from committing suicide? It felt like that entire conversation was super-intense for me based on my earlier decisions but now that it's over it'd be cool to read up on what speech checks you need to clear. I ended up saving Kate's life, but I had to go through like five conversation points including more obscure poo poo like her dad's letter and the Bible passage she liked.

The way it works is like this.

Every time you don't help Kate in the game you have to get one more question right on the roof to save her. If the Bible passage turns up it means you got too many questions wrong and that is your last chance to save her by answering Matthew. If you get that wrong she jumps.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Paladinus posted:

I don't think this is how it works. She positively reacted to all my answers prior to the Bible quote, and I always helped her throughout the game. Or did I miss a chance to help her somewhere?

I'm pretty sure you don't need to help her at all. As long as you nail the last bit with the bible passage. But that only shows up if you're not going to save her otherwise.

Zyklon B Zombie posted:

I think you can only fail one of those questions, and you auto-fail a few of them if you didn't help her. I answered everything right and didn't get to the bible question which I think is the last one.


You can pass every one, but there's only one answer that'll talk her down rather than the two 'right' options if you helped her. If you didn't tell her to report to the Police the only right answer is "I’m looking for evidence". If you took a photo instead of helped the answer is "I was scared". If you want to feel slimy, the only good response to not answering your phone is "It was on silent" despite that being a lie!

So helping Kate makes it more likely for you to talk her down, but doesn't guarantee anything.

Fans fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Jun 2, 2015

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Jun 27, 2013

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Paladinus posted:

Yes, but arguably she's changed her mind about the first quote because of suicidal thoughts. That's why I picked it.

The quotes about how people with money won't get away with it in the end. Kate has good reason to feel this isn't true.

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Jun 27, 2013

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RightClickSaveAs posted:

I didn't see this covered yet, but how different is the game if she lives? Is she away in a hospital somewhere like was speculated? There's a surprising amount of seemingly unique mentions to her death if you're not able to save her. I haven't gotten far enough in my second save yet to see what happens in the alternate case.

Yes the speculation is right, also people treat you like a hero and are rather proud of you. But maybe they do that in both, I haven't done a replay.

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Jun 27, 2013

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It reminds me of Sliders. I'm looking forward to Max and Chloe having to fight the Communist Scourge in the world where Max accidentally killed Hitler.

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Jun 27, 2013

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So was giving this a quick replay over the weekend and I'd forgotten that Max never calls Chloe for the five years she's missing. It's never really explained why either, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that they wouldn't Text or anything what with being best friends, but I'm not really sure how Max's powers could gently caress things up like that either.

Maybe it starts at a new branch of a previous timeline? Might explain why she just suddenly gets powers in the middle of class for no real reason, though not why she doesn't know about them. Also if there's a time Max would go back to "The time my best friend was killed" would be it.

Fans fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Jun 15, 2015

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Jun 27, 2013

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precision posted:

The world before the Internet and cell phones was weird man.

Yeah it was, but Max wasn't in a world before Internet and Cell Phones. She left town in 2008. Well into the time of cellphones and Facebook.



Rosalind posted:

One might even say that life is... strange.

:argh:

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Jun 27, 2013

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Larry Parrish posted:

New episode drops any day now... :pray:

Estimated time is July 7-14th. So about two weeks!

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Jun 27, 2013

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Larry Parrish posted:

That's any day now my man.

Well when you factor in the time travel who knows how long it is.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Neddy Seagoon posted:

Oh god, I'm so sorry little plant. :negative:

Don't worry you probably destroyed it completely by altering the timeline

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Jun 27, 2013

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Considering all the animals in the bay are dying, big or small I think getting carrots is the least of its problems

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Jun 27, 2013

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Torgo2727 posted:

"Alright, Max, as long as I stand perfectly still and don't touch anything, I won't destroy the future."

City destroy storm entirely made up out of the exasperated sighs of Max's who saw what bullshit they'd caused this time.

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Jun 27, 2013

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GreenBuckanneer posted:

Sure, you could play it that way, though it's kind of implied to be more especially with the comments of her being really good with her tongue.

You have missed many advances in the art of kissing it seems.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Seems this episode is going to go full weird as Max plays around more with the time stream.

Didn't think the End of the World party was literal

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Jun 27, 2013

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PunkBoy posted:

So apparently Warren remembers the basics of CQC? What???

Maybe he's a robot sent back from the future to kill Max Caufield. Would explain the stalking.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Sounds like a Final Fantasy sequel. In that beyond the title of the game it's got gently caress all to do with the previous one.

I'm ready for this time travel story to go off the rails and disappear up its own butt. Bring on Episode 4.

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Jun 27, 2013

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For those wondering, it seemed pretty obvious to me that he had to kill Rachel because she woke up during the photo shoot. Max points out that Kate was asleep for the whole thing, while one of Rachel's photos is the moment she wakes up

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Jun 27, 2013

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Also the theory that Jefferson is Nathan's dad doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Wouldn't everyone know what the most famous man in town looks like?

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Jun 27, 2013

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exquisite tea posted:

My favorite of the lesser known options is from Episode 3 when Chloe asks if you want to sneak into the pool through the girl's or boy's locker room. You can then reverse time and just pop out of the door at her. Must be a trip for Chloe constantly seeing Max teleport all over the place.

She's already sick of your poo poo if you do it too. It's great.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Your lover has been murdered and they're disposing of the evidence, let me just stop everything to hear who won a photo competition I'm not even in

Max you can be a real dick sometimes

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Jun 27, 2013

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Junkfist posted:

Additionally I know you're very upset that Victoria, that bitch, is getting undue attention but this should probably be put in perspective considering THERE ARE TWO loving MOONS OUTSIDE

Actually since Jefferson is the killer maybe Max should have paid attention to that one.

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Jun 27, 2013

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The alt timeline had to be destroyed not because of what happened to Chloe but because Victoria is Warren levels of stalker as your friend

Such a world could not be allowed to continue existing.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Air is lava! posted:

Another thing I really gotta give the developers credit for, is how the alt-Price family is visibly drowning in depth, but still do their very best to stay together. That felt quite depressing. Does it really cost 1500 dollar a week to do physical rehab? Poor Chloe must have thought her family was better of if she died in that crash quite a few times.

Looking it up I got an average of around $300-500 a week, but Chloe is likely far more expensive than the usual due to her condition. I'm so glad we have the NHS, gently caress healthcare bills that's completely ghoulish.

So what do people think about Samuel? Does he actually have a clue of whats going on or is he just a bit of a hippy? He was dropping some pretty heavy hints this time round.

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Jun 27, 2013

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Monicro posted:

Polaroid cameras don't need darkrooms :smugbert:

But she's friends with Nathan in that universe, who has fancy film cameras she can borrow

^^ Well and that. Be a pretty poo poo photography class that doesn't have cameras you can borrow ^^

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Jun 27, 2013

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CottonWolf posted:

I don't get who's putting the graffiti everywhere. It doesn't make sense for it to be Jefferson, it's not his style, and it appears places he can't possibly have been. There's one bit that seems to appear in Chloe's car ('You are going to die') between the scene transition from The Dark Room to the Vortex party. Either it's just for effect or it's tied to the supernatural stuff that's been going on.

Max does some time travel graffiti when she goes back to save Chloe's Dad. If you mark a butterfly on the fireplace it turns up for a while before finally going when you let her dad die. Since changing the timeline seems to make everyone just go along with it, someone may be messing with the timeline we're not seeing.

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Jun 27, 2013

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I only just realized I'm an idiot for not thinking who was actually taking the photo of Nathan with Rachel's body

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Jun 27, 2013

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Also the text you receive that makes you go check on the body was obviously not Nathan in retrospect, because it's spelled correctly while Nathan has always written like poo poo in all his other texts.

This is going to be a tricky fifth episode I think. I got my bets on it starting With Jefferson trying to find out how much you and Nathan have told people before he gets rid of you both. Meaning you'll have to work with Nathan to escape, which may be pretty tough if you let Warren beat the poo poo out of him like I did

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Jun 27, 2013

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SirSamVimes posted:

And we have no idea how long it would have gone if Max didn't stop it.

Yes we do, that's one of the options.

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