Life Is Strange: chapter 5 soon edition

I want Chloe to sit on my face

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I know I'm ready to be potentially emotionally punched in the gut!

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>>1883471
I'm ready to do whatever it takes to save Chloe.

>>1883489
This, I'm sacrificing Arcadia Bay and all it's inhabitants if need be to save her. Mind you the only people I actively hate are Victoria, Nathan and Jefferson, everyone else has something that redeems them for me so I wouldn't be that happy. But it's all or nothing now.

So how did Jefferson get to the junkyard so fast? Does he have the same ability as Max?

>>1883492
Seems likely.

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>>1883490
Let her go anon. This is some serious final destination bullshit happening now. I doubt there's any question whether or not Chloe is meant to die, just how many people are going to die with her.

>>1883529
Nah, the theme of the game isn't that it's impossible to change things, only that doing so comes with a price.

>>1883535
i'm all about coming with a price

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Can't I just show Kate the purest form of love?

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>>1883600
There's also this version.
For a second there I thought the artist was frostbackcat, sure seems like her style.

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>>1883604
Either way, I want her to experience pure love. No dicks in her vicinity. I'm sure God approves.

>>1883529

I still think that Max is MEANT to save Chloe. Otherwise, why would the she be bestowed those powers in the first place? Nathan would shoot her and be done with it.

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>>1883610
Both of those are continued, by the way.

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>>1883623
>I'm a couch
Now I'm certain the artist is frostbackcat.

>>1883624
Kate would be a loving, yet firm Dom, I'm certain.

>>1883628
You mean the "silk laces" kind?

>>1883628
So, the best kind?
>>1883635
I have no idea what that means.

>>1883638
You know, using silk to bind your hands together and all that. Using feathers too.

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Get fucked /aco/

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>>1883641

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>>1883642
http://maxmyhipstersock.tumblr.com/post/129806969776/lap-dances-are-always-great

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>>1883452
Good thing I just started taking anti-depressants again, then.

>>1883638
>So, the best kind?

Dunno, I know some people who enjoy the more abusive relationships.

>>1883641
How come you guys don't have insane mods that contribute to the hol/aco/st like /d/ and /y/?

It's so comfy here

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>>1883679
/u/ is love

>>1883614
Exactly this. If the moral is that Chloe is meant to die and you can't fight fate, then everything you do throughout the entire game would have been pointless.
Also, remember that Max had a vision of the storm before she ever used her time powers, so having that be a result of saving Chloe doesn't make sense.

>>1883791
I think it's something of a trope in these sort of time-editing stories that the person has to die to reset everything, because while they are going round trying to fix everything, they are in fact just fucking stuff up even further. When they die and reset everything they also reset themselves (so they are no longer dead). Happy end where no-one has any memory of the bad stuff incoming.

One can dream...

More likely, something Donnie Darko style.

So, Max dead, everyone else alive and well. Chloe has no memory of Max. Starts dating guy. Doesn't realise gay until 40 and married.
I added that part.

>>1883791
>Max had a vision of the storm before she ever used her time powers
More than that, the only reason Max is in the girls' toilet to save Chloe is the damn vision.

>>1883803
I hope Dontnod goes with something a little more original.

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>>1883806
It takes something special to pull off a unique ending with so many plot strands snaking off in all directions. Even Twin Peaks failed.

I think Dontnod are already over the odds of quality on this, especially moving on from Remember Me. But they may surprise.

I just hope the ending doesn't leave me totally miserable.

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>>1883679
/u/ is so pure and sweet it mellows even the mods.

Pic related.

>>1883806

Bu..but..my /u/ ending...

>>1883861
>Even Twin Peaks failed.
Gets a new season around the time the last episode of LiS comes out by the way.

I just want something to make me feel like a badass time bandit. I want my entertainment entertaining.

>>1883958
But suffering is entertaining.

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>>1883803
>So, Max dead, everyone else alive and well. Chloe has no memory of Max. Starts dating guy. Doesn't realise gay until 40 and married.

Nice try but if everyone is alive and well and Chloe has no memory of Max she still falls in love with Rachel.

Other than that, it's been confirmed there will be at least two endings and based on what people who worked on the game are saying it doesn't seem like there won't be a happy end.

I s2g if 4chan boards were Disney characters, /u/ would be Eeyore.

>>1883542
underrated post of the year

>>1884065
any source about the devs saying there will be at least two endings? i keep reading that it's been "confirmed" but never actually see proof

>>1884312
It's from the batch of leaks that were proven true. Sure, they could in theory change the story, but I doubt they would do it.

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>>1884312
>>1884360

I believe this was actually from analysis of the flags set in save files? For instance, there *was* a ChloexMax flag that could be set... and another - shudder - het flag. I think we can say that neither flag has yet been really used?

But just because there is a flag, doesn't mean it's going to be used. A smart developed will set flags in advance for literally everything they can think of, just in case they want to use it in future. Because once shipped and people have saves, you can't patch in new flags and expect everything to work out.

You end up with something like in Mass Effect, where the developers - I think they actually did put the flag in, but didn't remember to have the game save after the last FMV - had to, basically, ask players what they'd done last time when they started ME2. And that's kinda bad.

I'm playing devils advocate here. Also, with >>1883803
I'm hoping it'll make me more prepared from the inevitable emotional clusterfuck of an ending. Doubt it, though.

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>>1883945
Yeah. I'm intrigued about it, and hoping - but not expecting - it's going to be good. Twin Peaks lost it when it tried doing too much. It worked early on because the plot elements were clear, and in the first season a lot was obfuscated - but it didn't feel like it - which gave the impression more was there than there perhaps was. I'm not sure they can fix it with another series. But, hell, I hope they pretty much recreate the opening frame by frame, with the same theme music. So eerie. I amazed there are not more games inspired by the series tbh; that's the real mystery.

>>1884375
No it's from the location leaks.

There are clearly two separate branches that would make sense for multiple endings.

And no, the Chloe flags haven't been used to my knowledge as of yet. I expect it will be some kind of long-winded dialogue scene like with Kate and Frank where she'll bring up all the important moments and depending on what we did will change her behavior and most likely the ending of the game. We'll see, but I'm pretty convinced the flags with her have always been an integral part of the game.

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>>1884065
>Nice try but if everyone is alive and well and Chloe has no memory of Max she still falls in love with Rachel.

And there's your /u/ end that Dontnod probably feel pretty compelled to include in some form. You heard it here first girls.

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>>1884312
Games store page http://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/

multiple interviews with devs such as this:
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/03/10/life-is-strange-is-secretly-super-important-to-the-gaming-industry/138166/

Leaks we have http://pastebin.com/NT78qb0r

>>1884385
Except that makes no sense. Just because Chloe loved Rachel doesn't mean Rachel loved her back. Even if she did she also sexed two other people (men) at the same time. It obviously wouldn't be a happy end for Chloe, and much less for the players who don't know jack about Rachel. It would also invalidate everything we did in game (like earning relationship points with people)

The ending with Max dead is not happening you mcfreaking Eeyore.

Instead we get glorious runaway lesbians

>>1884384
>And no, the Chloe flags haven't been used to my knowledge as of yet.

Maybe not in any major way yet but they were. Depending on your choices she can set Max as her phone wallpaper, and also the kiss/drive in invite situation that results in varying outcome of your relationship with Warren. Those two are the most obvious ones that come to mind.

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>>1883803
I was just thinking more seriously about this.

I don't know if anyone here will have played Spec Ops: The Line - it's a 3rd person shooter with just men shooting each other after all - but they actually managed to do something surprisingly good with the story. And even though it's not an RPG of any sort, it's three endings, which are basically in the standard format of having a single decision give you one of the results without much reference to past events, actually work very well. I think it's partly because of the way it is presented.

The first choice you get, upon the big revelation that you've actually been going insane and hallucinating a big conspiracy, and therefore just murdered a lot of people on false pretences, is whether to shoot yourself, or your hallucination in the mirror (deny it is real?). Shooting yourself just ends the game, and you get the credits. It might sound abrupt, but it actually is pretty effective. Shooting your hallucination means you go outside, where you are apprehended by a bunch of special forces. Here you get another choice - which isn't really clear at first - which is to go quietly, or shoot everyone (the unclear one, you have to realise you still have full control over your character).

Here it works because it doesn't feel like you are just pressing a button, even though you really are doing just that. I felt that - after getting to know the character I had been playing, and deciding he was kind of well intentioned - knew that he would just shoot himself. So even though it might be regarded as a "bad end" when I knew I could get another "better" one (give yourself up, get help), it felt like it was the right ending for me.

So, what I'm saying is, if you present good and bad ends in the right way, the presence of the ones you don't experience doesn't cheapen the experience of the one you get. So if you want a cataclysmic clusterfuck of an end, you can be satisfied, others can get something a bit more mellow.

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Anyway

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>>1884412
Calm. I wasn't being entirely serious. Probably should have added /s. I'm seriously all aboard the Pricefield ship and I'll go down with it if I have to.

>The ending with Max dead is not happening you mcfreaking Eeyore.

That though I seriously wouldn't count on.

And why do I keep geting captcha with food in it ugh I'm hungry already.

>>1884460
The noses were completely unneeded.

>>1884488
Is complaining about noses in this guy's art a meme or what.

>>1884547
Who the fuck is the girl next to Victoria? Is she suposed to be Rachel?

>>1884558
That's Taylor.

>>1884489
Complaining about red noses in tumblr art in general is something of a meme.

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Just saw this. It's amazing.

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So which ship is best?

>>1885079
Not jut tumblr red noses, nips also draw some noses with too much white.

>>1885390
The canon one you posted. Most material and good chemistry. Max and Kate are a close second.

>>1885390
This >>1883453 anonymous x Chloe

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>>1885396
But-but muh tsundere hatesex.

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I actually believe MaxVicky was canon in Alt Universe. Game's co-director said we can.

>>1885390
Obviously best ship is actually my ship while the worst ship is your ship.

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>>1885406
Joke's on you because I ship everything here.
Unless you are a warrencuck

>>1885408
>spoilers
I could never do such a thing. It looks like I met my match however, excellent taste.

>>1885405
Eh, that reads as one-sided to me. It's funnier that way too.

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>>1885502
Well, the texts were after Max takes over the body of Alt Max, so it's not like that universe's Max treats Victoria the way our Max treats Warren. You can see texts between them before the switch and Max is friendly with her.
It does sound like Vicky is kinda infatuated with Max the way she acts though. She gets into panic mode the second she sees Max acting off to her and showers her with insecure texts.

>>1884432

This is the best thing ever

>>1884462
lelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelele

>>1885390
>>1885399
I second this notion

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>>1885549
that better?

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Still best possible end

>>1885611
You're the best onee-san.

>>1883452
I don't want to sound like a troll but I never read this game and why does everyone have this weird outdated fashion except for the blue haired chick who just looks like an average tumblr hipster (don't take this as a insult).

>>1885643
They're from Oregon so they can't help it. Also, the blue-haired girl is clearly a punk. The other girl's the hipster.

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>>1885745

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>>1885747

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>>1885748

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>>1885749
I think I managed to upload that in the right order.

>>1885750
I wonder if we'll find out if Chloe and Rachel were together or if Chloe's feelings were one-sided.

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>>1885936
Maybe. If Max gains a new power: pull fellow lesbians out of the past irrespective of whether they died.

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>>1885953

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reposting because reasons

>>1886084
It's been a long time since I've seen something so sexy, yet still so tastefully censored.

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this game is gay

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7 days

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5 days

>>1889492
>>1890599
Jesus christ, get it together, /u/.

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I don't know if I'm ready for this /u/. What if Max can't save Chloe?

Pls hold me ;__;

>>1891140
What if the only way to stop the storm is for Max to die?

Is chapter 5 the last episode?
I put off playing this because I hate playing episodic vidya and would rather play through it all at once.

>>1891193
That would make no sense. Max had her first vision of the storm before she ever used her time powers.
In fact, you could make the case that it was being shaken up by the vision that made Max go to the bathroom, thus starting the whole chain of events.

>>1891194
yep. I hope we get some dlc though.

>>1891195
It would be just like Donnie Darko though.

Question from someone who don't play the game: Is the game really "variable", like the first Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 (fuck me3, your choices doesn't actually matter)? Do you REALLY feel the consequence of your choices in game?

Because there's a chance the devs throw some bullshit at you, like no matter how you played, Max will end with that boy.

>>1891272
we don't know yet because chapter 5 will be our "Mass Effect 3". But until now our choices didn't matter that much, the overall narrative stayed on rails. But with the info we have i think the game has a Chloe route.

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>>1891272
I understand that publicly fantasizing about lesbian couples being broken by men excites you sexually (why else would you do it about a game you have never played and thus know nothing about?), but this really isn't the right place for it.

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>>1891342

Um, not that anon so I can't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that's not at all what they meant. It IS a genuine risk that Dontnod pulls something like that, and I can totally understand why one would want to know before committing to play the games - either so they could choose not to, or be prepared. I was holding off playing in case of bad end but that didn't go so well and here I am about to get destroyed by episode 5.

>>1891345
It's possible in every single piece of ongoing media. Reasonable people still don't go into, say, the Korra thread to talk about how it's possible the brown girl would ditch the dark-haired girl for the boy with the scarf in the upcoming comics.

>>1891347

That's totally different. Korra and Asami are a canon couple. Also, that's a TV show with a singular, linear, known canon. LiS is neither of these things. We don't even know if there will be a Chloe and Max end (let alone if it is considered "canon") because, well, obvious reasons if played episode 4.

>>1891360
I don't see how that matters any. Canon couples break up all the time. Just look at brown girl and scarf boy. Oh shit, I should go warn them right now.

>>1886111
Awesome, thanks for posting kind anon.

>>1891272
So far? Not a whole lot really, as much as other "choice based" games out there. There are two very important scenes where 4-5 previous choices are taken into account. But even if you have went for the worst possible variation, you can still talk your way out of it with no negatice consequence whatsoever. Having played the game I'm pretty convinced that a shoehorned het ending is not going to happen. It's highly likely that if you go for the lesbian romance angle you'll get a sad angle, but I can't fathom the main character seeking refugee in the guy's arms given of what we have seen so far. I can be wrong of course, but being as objective as possible, a shoehorned het ending is very unlikely.

>>1891388
Have you played pro-Warren? According to my friend who thinks Warren is cute for reasons I can not comprehend Max is pretty okay with the idea of dating him. From "ew I hope not" she goes to "Oh, okay" and doesn't deny going to a date with him
In fact Kate roots for Warren end and is super supportive about it

>>1891415
I was strictly speaking about Warren being shoehorned into a playthrough where one makes decisions against him and/or for Chloe. I can see a pro-Warren playthrough giving a het ending, but I very much doubt he would be forced on the player if he went against the idea.

>>1885953
...is that chloe's hand on max's back?

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>>1891419
That or some horrible fucking sea monster or something.

>>1891417
>/u/
>Uses "he" to describe player
Oh no you didn't

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>>1891426

Fucking hell, 4 days

>>1891583
Hyping yourself is the fastest way toward crushing disappointment.

>>1891272
There was an entire scene in episode 4 which only happened if you got a particular ending in episode 2. So I'd say it's better than, say, Telltale.

Seriously, fuck Telltale.

>>1891683
That, and the ending you get in episode two influences a lot of dialogues. It's felt satisfying to me so far.

>Seriously, fuck Telltale.
Yeah, can't say it feels very satisfying to save people in the Walking Dead (season two in particular) when the result is them staying quiet for a couple of hours before they're killed anyway.

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Kek

>>1891696
Exactly my issue with the second season of the Walking Dead. It's so fucking unsatisfying to the point where it became frustrating.
>Nick survives rapture to only die on a fence

>>1891699
Wow, a spoiler used for an actual spoiler.

>>1891704
I like to call the season "Everyone's an idiot except Clementine"

>>1891699

Never trust a Joey

>>1891714
Well, they are the kind of people who need an eleven-year-old to solve all their problems.

>>1891696
In Game Of Thrones, a child was being drowned in a fountain by a grown man in armor, and I let the child die. Then he just showed up alive in the next episode, with almost no explanation given. I had ZERO player agency. It was jaw-droppingly bad.

>>1891960
>In Game Of Thrones, a child was being drowned in a fountain by a grown man in armor, and I let the child die. Then he just showed up alive in the next episode, with almost no explanation given.

Reminds me of how in my LiS play through, Chloe pulls the gun out at the scrap yard & gets zero response from Max, even though it hadn't been introduced earlier.

>>1892362
I knew about the gun, but only because I had rewound time after she showed it to me (because I really didn't want to get kicked out of school).

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>>1892502
What?
I'm sorry but when was that? I can't remember at all..
[dif anon]

>>1892528
Episode 1.

>>1885643
It's made by French adults who can't into teenagers.

Also it takes place in 2013 for an unknown reason.

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I don't know if i'll be able to handle ep 5, the ending of episode 4 has me fucked up

>>1892528
If you come out of the closet, Chloe will show you her gun.

kek

>>1893557
>If you come out of the closet
It's the most important decision in the whole game.

i didn't. My chances of a good ending were lowered dramatically. I hope I can at least bullshit my way towards it in the last chapter.

>>1893393
I don't know it can be more heart wrenching than ep 4.

>>1893242
>background poster

fuck you.

>>1893586
It's more funnier if you think about how this room is Warren's

>>1892901
Or American teenagers anyway.

>>1893742
I don't get why people always get so obsessed with authenticity in media depicting teenagers, at least in the West. Why can't people just treat LiS like high school anime, which are perfectly enjoyable despite surely not being perfectly accurate field guides to the Japanese teenager.

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>>1893748
gotta bitch about something.

>>1893748
Because, obviously

Realistic = Good

>>1893760
In a game in which the protagonist can rewind time?

>>1893790
Yes, even in a game where a teenager can summon 4 different versions of Satan to defeat the greek goddess of night

>>1893794
To elaborate, i am a huge Persona fan and so is one of my friends, i prefer P3 and he prefers P4, we discussed about "why do you like one and not the other?", his argument was "because P4 characters are more realistic"

And this is something that i hear a lot, that "realism" always makes a game or any other media better, no matter how unrealistic the premise of the work itself is

I like LiS, even though some of the dialogue does make me cringe occasionally, and i have friends who disliked it because "that's not how real teenagers are" but i feel like they would probably hate it even more if they were realistic teenagers

For example, if someone made a character that is exactly like me in my teenager years, it would be like a Shinji Ikari who is edgy, pretentious, sarcastic and a lot more obnoxious in general (maybe with a better sense of humor, but that wouldn't make it better)

And that is a character i don't want to see

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>>1893794
Even in a game in which alternate universes exist? In which modern social norms, views, behaviours and the common mean of culture might not be the same as ours?
Silly /u/nicorn, this isn't /v/, this is /u/ where we cling on any form of subtext thrown at us and most of us have headaches because the goggles are too tight.
I know, I know, don't get your clit in a knot because I understand your anger.
>Why can't we have both?
Why? The reason is simple. It's not that common, not that well documented and certainly not helpful when grown men pretend they are you teenage girls.
Some can quite easily slip in that role we can see it in fanfics, books, movies, animes and so on but when they have programmers, coders, designers and such they put limits and restrains on the whole project.
>But it is the writers as well as the synchro that should be aware of the conversation!
It isn't uncommon for game companies to just scramble together 'something' which means noone knows what the other department is doing.

All I'm saying just take everything /u/-vidja related with a grain of salt.
Don't get your hopes high, try to bring attention to mechanics, mood, flow, bugs, etc. and appreciate the effort.

>>1893836
*your average teenage girls
Time to go to bed

>>1893836
Hey, i'm your side

i'm not obsessed with realism, having somewhat relatable and likeable characters is all i need, like i said, i like LiS even if i do have some problems with it, but i don't let them ruin my enjoyment

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>>1893842
Then I apologize for my unnecessary rant but sometimes I feel as though people take games too seriously.
I'm just glad we have a canon /u/ couple even if I didn't kiss Chloe because my heart still yearns for Kate.

>>1893790
>>1893794
>A game/book/movie contains some fantastic elements
>WELP I GUESS REALISM IS OUT THE WINDOW
>ANYTHING IS ALLOWED
>NOONE GETS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING BEING UNREALISTIC OR UNBELIEVABLE
>ALL THE CHARACTERS COULD JUST RANDOMLY TURN INTO CHAIRS AND I'D BE PERFECTLY OKAY WITH THAT

God I hate people like you.

Someone is very angry in this thread.

>>1893817
>like a Shinji Ikari who is edgy, pretentious, sarcastic and a lot more obnoxious
Er, so, basically nothing like Shinji then, who is depressed, repressed, introverted, and socially awkward?

>>1893817
>no matter how unrealistic the premise of the work itself is
Because "realism" of the work consists of several different elements, of the way they work together, and of the way the suspension of disbelief holds up.

For example. Let's say I'm reading a gritty fantasy book. With magic and dragons. Does a character throwing fireballs at his enemies seems out of place? No, because in that particular universe throwing fireballs at your enemies isn't unrealistic. That particular universe treats magic as a norm. However, a person falling from the roof of a five-store building on a stone floor and walking away with a sprained ankle would, in fact, be unrealistic, because there's nothing to indicate that the most basic laws of physics don't work in that universe.
But in an over-the-top anime with explosions, huge muscles and copious amounts of epicness, characters might blow the universe the fuck up and viewers won't bat an eyelash. Because it fits the laws that the anime established. As long as actions and events, generally considered to be "unrealistic", fit the laws of their respective universes, audience shouldn't have any trouble believing them, because they fit in with the rest of the story.

Forgive me if my explanation is a bit messy, but in short, just because one part of a game, show or book is unrealistic, doesn't mean that everything in that game/show/book should be unrealistic. And also, "unrealistic" doesn't always equal "out of place".
With LiS, for instance, I feel like I've time-warped to early 2000's, though that might be because I've never been an American teenager.

>>1894108
I was mostly talking about the way characters act, maybe i have really low standards but i usually don't mind a lot of "unrealistic" stuff that people complain about, as long as it's not something extremely ridiculous like characters turning into chairs for no reason, but i can deal with characters not acting like real teenagers perfectly fine

>>1894084
I guess it wasn't a really good comparassion, but it's mostly because of emotional outbursts, being whiny and having problems with my father while wanting him to accept me

anyone watched the finale trailer? is Dontnod trying to shove Warren and Max into our faces? not surprised considering the still-OOC het route they give you. disgusting.

Max's words make me feel that she will either go way back in time even before she moved to Arcadia Bay (hence the airplane scene) or she will rewind back to the bathroom event. i kind of fear for Chloe's life a bit now......

>>1894145
>is Dontnod trying to shove Warren and Max into our faces
You mean like they did in the last trailer where it turned out they didn't and they just erased Chloe from that scene to not spoiler shit?

>>1894145
Why whip yourself into paranoia? You'll know in a day.

>>1894151
Maybe even earlier since someone in New Zealand apparently already downloads it.

>>1894145
>anyone watched the finale trailer? is Dontnod trying to shove Warren and Max into our faces
That one scene? Seriously?
I'd rather be pissed how the trailer was mostly scenes from previous episodes.

>>1894150
i don't trust people who self-insert themselves into Warren aka the writers. didn't they say at the beginning the relationship between the girls is "ambiguous"? i surely hope they've changed their minds by now but i won't keep my expectations up. the trailer just makes Warren look like the one true romance route. Chloe's reaction to Max kissing her can also be intepreted as the stereotypical " oh it's just a dare no homo" kind of thing. i don't fully trust these writers. but let's just wait and see...

>>1894155
Welp, time to hide this thread then. Whoever starts the next one, could you please avoid spoilers in the OP?

>>1894183
>i don't trust people who self-insert themselves into Warren aka the writers
what the fuck are you talking about?

>>1894196
Every character you don't like is a self-insert. Especially if it's a guy.
/s

>>1894196
didn't the writers/creators released an interview where they said Warren is not at all creepy and is just an awkward loveable nerd who has to deal with the "friendzone", and that a lot of people can relate to him?

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/first-love-and-awkwardness-inside-the-mind-of-life-is-strange-co-director-michel-koch-423

>>1894202
That doesn't make him the writers' self-insert. That just means that the writers either failed to write the character the way they wanted him to be, or they're bad at judging people.

>>1894208
Or are misleading them and he's actually a real creep.

>>1894208
the though of straight men writing about and defending creepy straight boys who have to deal with "the friendzone" then suddenly gets the girl (though it's optional, i hope) bothers me. smells like self-insert to me.

>>1894212
>misleading
How can you "mislead" people who have the ability to play the game and judge the character for himself?
And, really, I don't understand why /u/ considers Warren "creepy". He seems like a mix between your generic awkward guy that doesn't know how to behave around people he likes and a white-knighting not-quite-alpha male. Which, coupled with the forced romantic crush, makes him unrelatable and mostly unlikeable for me, but not creepy.
Then again, I don't really pay attention to him. Maybe I've missed something.

>>1894219
Well there is some speculation regarding him related to a leak. So I hardly can bring that up now, right?

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>>1894202
People who can relate to him don't realize what an annoying creep they are. "awkward loveable nerds who have to deal with the "friendzone"" my foot. So entitled.

>>1894221
what leak? please, do tell.

>>1894218
"Self-inserting" is an act of writing yourself into the story as one of the characters. Meaning you write a character in a way you'd want to act in that story. It's usually coupled with said character being a huge Mary Sue.
It's kinda hard for a character to be a self-insert when there's a whole team of writers, not to mention that I highly doubt that adult, professional writers want to be friendzoned nerd.
More likely they tried to write a nerdy guy who was supposed to be your "true bro" but overdid it. He would've been much more likeable as just a nerd, without that whole not-quite-alpha male thing. And without the crush.

>>1894222
relevant image there. since the writers also can't seem to tell he acts like a creep, i don't have a lot of faith in them.

>>1894219
It's in his behaviour, his "look I got beat up for you", in his constant insistence, not getting the hint at all, acting "wronged" when you chose Chloe over him. I wouldnt mind him if he didnt push and push. Its incredible unpleasant and puts you in a tough spot because yeah he is nice, so you don't want to be rude.
The fact that he is "friendzoned" shows a lot of it. The word friendzone alone is already pretty shitty.

>>1894224
a lot of the times when straight male writers write about nerdy "friendzoned" boys who "deserves" the girl they are writing about themselves so...

>>1894223
OK, but be warned.
One of the optional pictures is a photo of a locker with photos of swimsuit models with Max's head pasted on them as well as a creepy Max doll in it.

>>1894230
is this one of the optional photos for episode 5

>>1894230
If that is true you bet your assit's actually the fat guy who drew you, no way they would turn the "loveable dork" into an actual creep

>>1894232
Yes

>>1894226
>It's in his behaviour, his "look I got beat up for you", in his constant insistence, not getting the hint at all, acting "wronged" when you chose Chloe over him
Ah. Well, you're right, it's kind of annoying. I wish players were given a choice to tell him to sod off. Better yet, not force players into established relationships (but then again, the whole game revolves around your-childhood-friend-that-was-introduced-as-a-childhood-friend-without-giving-you-any-backstory-or-a-chance-to-bond. Or YCFTWIaaCFWGYYABoaCtB for short).

>>1894228
>a lot of the times when straight male writers write about nerdy "friendzoned" boys who "deserves" the girl they are writing about themselves
But you don't know enough about writers to make that statement.
My point is, if you dislike the character — it's fine. But you're calling him something he may or may not be and making unfounded assumptions about people you don't know.

Also, I don't see anything about him "deserving the girl" in that interview. It seems to me like the writers are trying to explain his personality, but it comes off as "my headcanon versus your headcanon".

>>1894233
But Warren knows how to work photos~

>>1894233
>it's actually the fat guy who drew you, no way they would turn the "loveable dork" into an actual creep
I would've bet on Samuel if not for the locker part.

>>1894240
Samuel a creep? Excuse me, Samuel is the only sweet person on fucking campus, along with Miss Teacher, don't ruin that

>>1894241
So I guess I'm the only one creeped out by his voice, obsession with Rachel and a silk scarf in his room, huh.

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>>1894242
Calling it now - Jefferson needed someone to clean up the scene of the crime, so he used Samuel. Samuel took Rachel's scarf as a memento.
>>1894155
New Zealand seems to get stuff early from time to time. I wonder why.

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Too much Warren in that trailer.

>>1893754
You gotta spoiler that shit, not everyone played ep5 yet.

I fukcing hate Chloe, all she is is a shitty friend

>>1894253

>father of your best friend fucking dies
>fuck off to Seattle or some shit
>don't call for five years
>not even tell her you are around again

Max is such a loving friend. They deserve each other

>>1894253
Not like Max is such a great friend either.

I am not ready for this evening.
Not at all.

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>>1894260
I imagine nobody is.

>>1894226
>Its incredible unpleasant and puts you in a tough spot because yeah he is nice, so you don't want to be rude.

Dyke.
Life.

>>1894260
I bought it for the 360 so I could share.
>4 am

>>1894260
Is there an exact time of the release? I'm thinking about going to sleep but, damn, all this hype prevents me from doing the sensible thing.
>almost 2 AM

>>1894295

Supposedly 1am GMT? so my friend claims, but I dont know whether or not he's just trying to get my hopes up.

The wait is almost over....

So her love of photography, her pension for snooping. I see photojournalism is Max's future.

>>1894377
Assuming she lives through the day.

>>1894378
She will.....she will and save Chole..oh god please save Chloe.

>>1894383

I dont even want to think about it.
Im worried as it is.

>>1894384
Reminder...

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

I'm prepared that the game will go full Donnie Darko on our asses. So should you. Just to save you from further pain.

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Fuck, I thought it would take longer. How am I supposed to go to sleep now?

>>1894397
Just play it?
And tell me if Kate is alright at the end of the episode!

Fam it's saying it's out now, but it's not there. Am I freaking out. I just wanna cry like a little birch. Oh god I just want to FEEL!

Massive spoiler:

Sorry, Arcadia Bay and all its inhabitants, but if you didn't want me to sacrifice you to the giant storm to save Chloe, maybe you should have considered being as adorable as her.

>>1894421
I dunno. The other endings has its perks too, I mean Vicky and Kate are ripe for the taking in it.
But I like that you stayed true to your conviction, sis.

Seriously though, how do I stop that fucking fire at Two Whales?

>>1894398
She was fine in my ending. Only if you sacrifice Chloe.

>>1894441

Put sand on the fuel.

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>>1894483
Did anyone else not kill the entire town? I'm going to replay it and sacrifice them next.

>>1894500

I had to save the town. I don't know how I could kill Joyce and feel remotely good about a Chloe ending.

I still kissed Chloe though.

>>1894510
In fact you only kiss Chloe if you sacrifice her

Well I'm not exactly happy at the end, but also not mad (unlike /vg/) because I expected it. Besides the "Sacrifice Chloe but being gay for her" ending leaves a future possibility that Max might hook up with another girl in the future now that it's finally confirmed that she's bi.So Maximum Victory and Marshfield kinda won this one, huh?

>>1894514
>In fact you only kiss Chloe if you sacrifice her

I think even then it's only if you picked the gayest options. Apparently you don't always get that bit (and apparently there's a "kiss Warren" option I never even saw).

>>1894514
>So Maximum Victory and Marshfield kinda won this one, huh?

I wouldn't mind either option but Max having gay nightmares about Victoria and Chloe kissing is a videogame highlight of 2015

Okay, so do you get to have something close to a happy end with Chloe or is that not possible? (Feel free to spoil away.)

>>1894519
Her love for Chloe is on a subconscious level.

Still killed her though. Kate is best girl.

>>1894520

Only if you destroy the town.

>>1894520
Basically it just leads down to sacrificing Arcadia Bay and not her. Then you hold hands and drive off into the sunset after the storm blows over, literally. Fucking worth it.

>>1894520
you can save her, and drive off together at the cost of letting arcadia bay get destroyed and who knows how many people die, or you can kiss chloe and sacrifice her to save the town.

>>1894519
Kiss Warren only appears if you were nice to him. And if you kiss him you lock yourself out of the Chloe kiss.

>>1894522
Mah neechan. And it's the perferct set up. Kate might still feel a bit shit about the video and Max is grieving Chloe. They can comfort each other.

Seriously though, is there any possibility that the devs will release some sort of DLC in which Max can pick a girl or, god forbid, Warren? Or am I just being too delusional? After finishing the game I noticed that saving Kate and having Victoria was pretty pointless because you have little interactions with either of them throughout most of the game.

I only sacrificed Chloe so I could see some Kate-and-Max-hugging-time like when you can comfort her when you turn in the Everyday Heroes photo to Jefferson. I want some of that Marshbooty.

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>>1894531
Kate is great

>>1894523
>>1894524
>>1894525

Thanks! I'm so glad to hear that. By the way, people (and here) are saying that you can kiss Chloe if you chose the option to sacrifice her. How do you make sure that kiss option come up?

>>1894536
Not sure, but my guess is you have to choose to kiss her earlier in the game for her to kiss you before you go back in time. I picked all-gay dialogue options towards her and she kissed me/confessed her love to Max. It shouldn't be too hard to get it since nearly everyone in the thread chose to kiss Chloe.

>>1894536
Be pro-Chloe, probably kiss her in Ep 3 too and well just choose to sacrifice her. The kiss is scripted, not a choice. It just depends on your values.

Fuck those endings, this is exactly what I didn't want from this game
I did enjoy the Chloe/Victoria make out though

I did it, I killed everyone for the yuri

fuuuuuuuuck.

I'm in tears at both endings. I'm fucking devastated.

Can someone post the screenshot of Chloe x Victoria kiss? And if possible, Max reaction?

I'm such a heartless person for picking Chloe, I know if I had to make choice like that in real life, I would choose the town over one life. But I can't help but sacrificing Arcadia Bay leaves an open ending for season 2...... if they're making that. Sacrificing Chloe just feels like Max's story has come to an conclusion.

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>>1894510
I figured that Joyce and David would rather die themselves than lose Chloe. I'm sure Kate, Victoria, Brooke, Warren, Taylor, Daniel, Frank, the homeless lady I didn't warn and the hundreds of others I sacrificed would have reached the same conclusion had they been able to witness Chloe's cuteness.

>>1894593
It feels surprisingly good, doesn't it?

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>>1894593

>>1894646
>tomorrow
Gross, now redo it with Yotsuba and it could be considered.

>>1894631
In my very honest opinion, the Chloe ending sucked. At least you're rewarded with a kiss if you sacrifice her so the rest of the town can leave in peace. In her ending they just hold hands and drive off.

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>>1894630
Sorry it's only 800x600, using a small resolution is the only way I can run LiS properly.

Max's face doesn't really change that much but she squirms around in her seat a bit, if that's worth anything.

>>1894649
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>>1894652
Good enough for me! Thanks, sis. Somehow, they make a good couple for me.

>>1894653
I could probably do it if you can gimme the 4ch icon so I can slap it on.

>>1894654
They really fit together well. Victoria likes Chloe's tattoos, apparently.

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>>1894655
Sure thing, here you go.

>you only get the confession and kiss if the lesbian dies
Are developers so blind they just don't notice what they're doing? Or are they so inexperienced they think tragic lesbian love is somehow new and original?

>>1894593
Worth it.

>>1894650
Did you really want Chloe and Max to start making out on the graves of everyone they knew?

>>1894660
It's not like those feelings disappear if you didn't sacrifice Chloe. They'll just start their relationship once they're away from a place where everyone's dead.

>>1894661
Rather than making out there, the least they could do was mourn and part with some last words or something. They just drove by everyone without a care in the world, almost as if they didn't just let a huge storm kill everyone they love just for the sake of their relationship.

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>>1894657
Harder than I expected, and if this is too shit I'm going to be trying something else.

>>1894500
Wait, did Warren even know Chloe in that timeline?

Funny how this was basically a Qualia rip off

>>1894669
If you want my honest opinion, the resize looks a little "forced". But it looks alright.

>>1894671
Qualia had a better ending though

>>1894670
I'm pretty sure they knew each other before she got expelled from Blackwell. It's probably the same for Kate. That, or they went to support Max and the Price family.

>>1894676
Yeah, drastically.

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>>1894672
Yeah I was feeling that too when I looked at it. This makes me wish I could use better editing program

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No regrets.

I am in floods of tears. I wasnt ready for that ending.
I knew it was going to come, I fucking knew that would be the ending. I knew they'd make us make that choice.

If Id have picked her, she's have never forgiven Max. She wanted this
Why do I hate myself so much then

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Jesus all the feels...
Man the song in my head wen i choise saveArcadia Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTA0DSfrGZ0

>>1884420
we need this with chapter 5

>>1894734

I literally despise myself for that choice.

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>>1894733
Oh, I don't know about that.

>>1894740

They dont even kiss in that ending. It feels like a copout ending, just smiling and driving past literal corpses, including the building that probably holds Chloe's mum.
It feels way too out of character for both of them, much as I really dont want to admit it...

http://i.4cdn.org/vg/1445340089911.webm

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>>1894741
Funnily enough, I think the "Sacrifice Chloe" ending is the cheap copout one. They don't want to untangle the knot they got themselves into, don't want to live with the decisions they've made, just travel back in time to before it all began and everything turns out A-OK.

Also, killing off a major character is the cheapest, easiest form of drama and I'm tired of it.

>>1894744

That's the issue for me I think. Them riding off together feels out of character, much as its all I want.
Chloe's death feels like a bit of a copout in terms of writing too, but jesus christ it sucker punched me hard.

I dont know which ending to take.
One feels wrong and one is leaving me in tears.

>>1894745
The Sacrifice the Bay ending would've worked better if they'd put some actual fucking effort into it.

So I prefer to think that, between Max and Chloe watching the tornado and Max and Chloe driving away there's this entire cut scene where they dig through the rubble, find some survivors, find some who didn't make it. I mean... Two Whales is still mostly standing. I assume Chloe at least quickly checked in on her mom, y'know?

>>1894746

I assume as much, but like, there's still a corpse on the street you know?

The whole time I was watching the funeral I was like THEYRE GONNA REVEAL CHLOE STANDING THERE RIGHT. SHE SURVIVED THE SHOT RIGHT. THEY'RE BURYING RACHEL AFTER I FOUND HER BODY, RIGHT. RIGHT!?
Then it panned one way and i could see the headstone and 'Price' on it and I started crying again.
It shouldnt hit me so hard when I saw it coming from the get go but holy fuck im broken right now.

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I wasn't ready for it to end, guys

Am I the only one who saw Max up on the cliff there and half expected her to jump off?

In her place, I know I fucking would have done.

mfw the Warren decision percentages
>10% left
>30% hugged him
>60% kissed him


What the fuck man

>>1894733
>Funnily enough, I think the "Sacrifice Chloe" ending is the cheap copout one. They don't want to untangle the knot they got themselves into, don't want to live with the decisions they've made, just travel back in time to before it all began and everything turns out A-OK.
Gotta agree with that anon here. So, the tornado was caused by Max fucking up time, not by Chloe surviving, right? If it was, what kept Max from just going back to that restroom, saving Chloe and making all the right decision from the first try? I mean, fuck, they didn't even try to discuss any other possibilities.

So, as someone who's only followed this game from afar, let me make sure I get this right. We've got two possible endings and they are:
1. Get a kiss and a confession from the love interest, but sacrifice her to save everyone else.
2. Get a maybe relationship, but cause the death of everybody else including family and friends.

One more thing. I know /u/ most likely isn't the best place to know that, but if I understand things correctly hetfags can have their happy ending by sacrificing the lesbian, right? Or maybe endings don't get any variations no matter which choices you made earlier?

So, is this yet another one of o/u/r cautionary tales? Or is it just my yuri paranoia/victim complex/whatver-you-want-to-call-it making me interpret what's being said here in the worst possbile way?

>>1894808

At Chloe's funeral, there's a shot where it seems like Max is moving a bit closer to Warren, which had me worried she was gonna go for a hug despite turning him down and kissing Chloe goodbye in my game. Maybe for filthy hetfags, she takes his hand or something.

>>1894791
What's the percentage breakdown on the final decision?

>>1894813

When I did it, it was 49% Sacrifice Arcadia Bay, 51% Sacrifice Arcadia Bae.

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I honestly expected the game to track your rewinds and base its ending on the amount of "oh-I-fucked-up-better-rewind-right-now"s you got. This... feels kinda cheap.

>>1894814
>51%
No regrets.

>>1894815

I have every single regret