/lisg/ - Life is Strange General #274

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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>>127057981
first for angry max

>>127057981
>What is your new year's resolution?
Treat every work of fiction I see with suspicion and weariness. Especially if it was made by French people.

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Here's to the last thread of the year. And to the coming year.
May it be prosperous and enjoyable to you all and may this community stay active. Creating and sharing content until we have the return of the characters we all know and love.

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Happy New Year from Kate's family!

>>127058147

Max you need to do something about those bags under your eyes, a girl needs to take care of herself.

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>>127058504
Stop ruining the tradition!

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Happy new year /lesg/.

Thanks for making the dark days of 2015 a little bit brighter.

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>>127058867
I post it to mess with all of you. :^)

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>As Max and Chloe are leaving the ruins of Arcadia Bay behind, there's one more tragic story unfolding
>Alice and Lisa stuck in Max's room, Alice hasn't eaten anything in days, the dorms are destroyed and no one comes looking for them
>"No one's gonna come save us, this is the end, we'll starve to death..."
>Alice...you can survive this and go back to your owner. All you have to do is... all you have to do is eat me."
>"What? No, fuck that. Lisa, you're my number one priority, I'm not eating you!"
>"Alice, think about it... how many times this week did you try to nibble my leafs? I'm a plant, Alice, you're a bunny, maybe it's time I accept my destiny... OUR destiny."
>"Lisa, I can't make this choice!"
>"No Alice, you're the only one who can"

>eat Lisa
>eat your own foot

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>tfw no Kate gf

>>127059178
>stuck in Max's room
>clearly on a porch
Immersion destroyed!

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Maximum Victory for the NEW YEARRR!!

>>127059334
Admit it. You were tearing up.

>>127059604
Alisa OTP. Plant over paw!

>>127060086
>rescue team kicks in the door to Max's dorm room
>"No one here."
>"Wait, look, it's a bunny! Poor thing, it's half starved to death. Looks like it's alive though."
>Spanish Sahara starts playing
>close-up shot of Alice being carried out by a firefighter. What little remained of Lisa is seen as reflection in her big, dark eyes

Forget the horror here...

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>>127059404

who here ready for another year of /cripplingdepression/?

atleast i still have my waifu, kate

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>>127060736
We're gonna make it friend.

>>127060736
Anon, you know Kate's never going to make another appearance. It's time to let it go.

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>>127060736

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>>127060736
>tfw Kate will never take you to church and show you the love of our savior Jesus Christ

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>>127060736
K8 4 U.

>>127060881
>>127061119
>>127061346
>>127061389
th-thanks lads

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>Kate with her hair down

This proves there is a God.

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it's 2016, I mean come on, the year of LiS 2 announcement

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>>127060736
Marry Christmas, glorious cunts!

>>127061964
>LiS 2
>No Kate
>No Victoria
>No Nathan
>No Dana
>Very slim chance of Max and Chloe appearing
>On the off-chance they do show up Warren will probably be there too
I'm positively excited.

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happy new year eurolisg

>>127062453
>>127061964
Kill yourselves.

>>127062453
>LiS 2
>No Kate
>No Victoria
>No Nathan
>No Dana
>Very slim chance of Max and Chloe appearing
>On the off-chance they do show up Warren will probably be there too

Fuck this gay earth.

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In real time, Max and Chloe would have been together now for a little over two years.
I wonder what they would have done in that time and what state Arcadia Bay would be in.

>>127063862
>what state Arcadia Bay would be in.
FUBAR most likely.

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>>127063862
They went to Max's parents in Seattle immediately after the storm. Max finished photography school while Chloe went to technical school to learn tattooing.

They went on a cross country road trip and now have a small apartment in Seattle. Max does photography work for local magazines while Chloe works at a tattoo parlor.

>>127064781
Sean would be about done fixing it up and selling off after 2 years.

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Kate and Alice spin-off when?

>>127065383
>tfw we will never see Max trick Kate into eating Alice
why

live

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>>127065461
Leave Alice alone. She's a good little bunny.

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>>127063862
Max is now a real life superhero, fighting crime in the big city and she wears an embarassingly sexy costume designed by Chloe.

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happy new year /lisg/!

>>127065461
End your life.

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happy new year /lisg/!

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>>127057981


I am putting together a flowchart (a-la-/mu/) of music similar to LiS

Currently working on a few different thoughts for the flowchart. If you guys have any ideas, please share. Current plan is 3 categories; Victoriaish, slowcore, and indie pop. To bad I have literally no motivation to work on it...

Pastebin of collected (unsorted) songs so far:
http://pastebin.com/MJrjdDpe

cunts BTFO

If you want to contribute, please contact me on steam, or reply to this post.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048865860

not-so Current Pastebin of game's music/progress:
http://pastebin.com/LaUcnMej

Thanks to photoshopgril for putting together the background image and the second chart,
polaroidgril for assembling the album covers/artist names/etc. onto the background image,
Dr. Zaius for helping in general.

I have a torrent of all the games music, Morali's OST, the Vortex Club party, all the licensed songs (most in lossless format), and all the albums they were taken from.

Magnet link:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4AF55CE2E1F48771E92E4CCE8E92156EC6A96152&dn=various+artists+life+is+strange+ost+2015&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.me%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

https://kat.cr/various-artists-life-is-strange-ost-2015-t11495485.html

Alternative download on MEGA, if you get it from here, please add the files to your torrent folder to facilitate easier downloads for others.

https://mega.nz/#F!LtpkTbhD!hjUsXMHSdmQTvzYFz3H7_w

Spotify playlist of the licensed music here:
https://play.spotify.com/user/pieisablessing2me/playlist/0hlcayMf9otvePDw2MZ6qk

who /maxgf2016/ here?

>>127068906
vampyr easter egg?

>>127068906
>what the fuck is this?
Poor quality bait.

>>127068906
No one wants to watch your movies Warryn.

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>>127065014
Was going to reply earlier, had to go do something.
I like that idea, and it's really similar to what my own thoughts were. It seems realistic. I also like to think Chloe's 2014 resolution was to quit smoking, and she's done it.
They go back to Arcadia Bay every few months to see how the reconstruction is going and to visit Joyce and David. Joyce got injured in the storm but she recovered after a stay in the hospital. Both of them and Chloe have a newfound respect between each other and they're the closest they're been as a family. David and Chloe still aren't super close and always seeing eye-to-eye, but they no longer argue over every little thing or use childish names.

>>127066220
That's an interesting idea. But it would mean Max would need to learn how to control her powers without causing horrible things to happen. I feel like she would be able to do it, but it would take trial and error.
Speaking of costumes. I saw art of her and Chloe wearing that stuff from that Miraculous Ladybug show. It's French but I was thinking of giving it a watch.

>>127068906
Nathan's video projector

>>127069014
>>127069269
Yeah, its from Nathan's room. It looks like Vampyr :o

>>127069467
>It looks like Vampyr

Fuck off, retard.

>>127068906
Isn't that The Cabinet of Dr Caligari?

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>>127069556

>>127069235
Except Chloe is dead :^)

>>127070605
I know the thread is a little slow right now, but you don't need to try to bait it into being quicker.

>>127070605
She's alive in both endings anon. Either straight away in bae or a bit after the funeral once Max snaps and goes back again.

>>127069716
Yes. Not sure why they didn't bother to look it up.

>>127069235
Except everyone else they know is dead and no one's going to waste their time rebuilding that shithole town.

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>>127070806
>>127071029
>trying this hard to deny to keep your lesbian shipping alive

>>127057981
>not Merry Christmas edition

Make a new one.

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Happy new year Life general thread thingy

>Still miss Max
>Still miss Chloe
>Still hate the endings
>Still crippled by the depression after the game

Hopefully 2016 goes quick so I can be positive for a few hours again in 2017

>tfw you are 26 this year and still being emotionally affected by video games

I miss Pricefield. Post cute please.

>>127071549
>Hopefully 2016 goes quick so I can be positive for a few hours again in 2017
Even if Season 2 does come out in 2017 you know it's going to end up being shit. The only question is when it will start to suck.

>>127071171
That's why they rebuild it. It's a chance to build something that doesn't suck and isn't reliant on the Prescotts.

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>>127071549
>still being emotionally affected by video games
Same here, anon. I'm 24 and this game killed my emotions.

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>>127071549

>>127071760
A waste of time and money. The economy was already going to shit with the town's ecological problems. Most of the people who might have felt any connection to the town are gone and the survivors would be better off moving on.

>>127071549
>tfw you are 30 this year and being emotionally affected only by a video game

Why are real people so generic.

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>>127071209
It's not shipping when it's the canon pairing, you silly Warrencuck.

>>127071209
You are aware of the fact that there is no ending where Max gets together with Warren right?

>>127072721
Is somebody holding a gun to your head forcing you to reply? I genuinely cannot see any reason for doing so other than an eagerness to shit stir.

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>>127072949
>>127072721
How easy it is to bait Chloefags :^)

>>127073106
le trolled! xD

>>127071549
>>tfw you are 26 this year and still being emotionally affected by video games
>>127072226
>>tfw you are 30 this year and being emotionally affected only by a video game

What is wrong with being emotionally affected by video games? This one even had mocap and voice acting, not being emotionally affected would actually be weirder. Not that you should care either way.

Have a happy new year bros.

>>127069235

Scarf-sharing when?

>>127073106
Not gonna lie, I thought the cat was a rat when I saw the thumbnail.

>>127072226
Go to bed, gramps.

>>127073106
Katefag/Vickyfag actually.

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>>127073386
NOW

>>127073456
>kate
But that's a sin!

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>>127073774

>>127073774
If you don't sin, hesus died in vain.

>>127072721
The only cuck in the game was Chloe, family.

Ignore it.

>>127074184
>not being a fan of dyke mcsuperbitch is trolling now
"ok"

>>127074184
You know the posters of /lisg/ don't have it in them to ignore anything.

>>127074184
>d-don't disagree with my opinions ;_______________;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PQHjAGW4IA

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Well /lisg/ the year's over (Or will be in a few hours). Favorites of 2015:
Game
Movie
Album/ Song
Anything else you discovered this year that you liked or that you want to share

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>>127074402
YEAHH!!! Rip apart Warryn, Nathan!Wendigo!

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>>127073771

cute. CUTE!

>>127074620

>Game
I've only just started on the Witcher 3 and Bloodborne so I can't really comment on those. I guess I'd settle on MGSV. It is definitely flawed in a number of areas but I still had a lot of fun with it and in a year of disappointing releases it still delivered a worthwhile experience.

>Movie
Probably The Martian or The Force Awakens. The former was the first good Ridley Scott movie in ages and the latter was a nice return to form for the Star Wars franchise (though it went a bit overboard with the parallels to A New Hope).

>Album/Song
Don't really listen to much music so I'll just settle for the soundtrack to Life is Strange. Obstacles, To All of You and Mt Washington were my favourites. I also liked Glass Walls and Progress to Power from the Episode 1 and 5 trailers.

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this thread is SIN

>>127074620
>Game
Dirt: Rally
>Movie
Spectre (pls no hate)
>Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SK_17K-5sM
>Anything else
I discovered a genuine love of girls with blue coloured hair

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>>127074620
>Game
Until Dawn and LiS
>Movie
Mad Max and The Revenant (leaked online early).
>Album/ Song
I'm a kpopfag, so my fav album/song is F(x)- 4 Walls.

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>>127075490

>>127074620

>Game
Most fun is definitely Rocket League, LiS probably the most memorable though.
>Movie
Not a big movie guy, South Park season was fantastic though
>Album
The licensed songs in LiS. Haven't been into that sort of music since high school but now I'm getting back into it.

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>>127075492
>Spectre (pls no hate)
I fell asleep on that movie. lol

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>>127074620
Game: Life is strange (I've mad as much peace with the endings as I ever will- the anger is not just disappointment and longing for what could have been). Only other new game I've played this year is World of Warships.

Movie: The Martian. Going to see Star Wars next week, my mind is open but I already know about some things in it.

Album: Skill in Pills by Lindemann. Favorite song off it was Yukon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1hcNMOyBaU

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happy new year guys.

i'm fucking tired, going to sleep

>>127078010
Night and happy new year, anon!

>>127077676
Not sure WTF I just typed in that first part. I meant to say "I've made as much peace" and "The anger is now just disappointment and longing for what could have been."

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>>127078913
I make mistakes too and after I read it again, I'm like FUCK!

>>127080779
Max, your nose...

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>>127081019

>>127080779
>>127081183
I want to lick the blood from Max's nose

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>>127081802

>>127081934
not in any creepy Mr. Jefferson ways, I assure you it's purely sexual.

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>>127082000
>it's purely sexual.
Yo....

>>127082123
Yes. I just want to lick up all of Max's nose blood for my own sexual kicks.

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I don't believe you can get time travel powers by consuming someone else' blood.

>>127082876
I don't want powers, I just want to lick up her blood to appease my penis.

>>127082876
I snickered at the filename

>>127074620

Game: GTA 5 and LiS

Movie: None really. Maybe Lucy? Is that from 2015 though. Can't remember

Album: Too many to list, but Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk is good.

>>127071706

I hope Season 2 doesn't come out so we can sail the Pricefield ship forever ;_;

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>>127074620
>Game
LiS
>Movie
Creed
I saw basically none though
>Album
Carrie and Lowell
>Anything else you discovered this year that you liked or that you want to share
LiS changed my life. Made me realize there's no point in living in fear of failure all the time and I'm happier now than I have been in a long time. I love you guys.

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>>127074620
>Game
Gotta go Witcher 3 holy shit that game is amazing in every sense of the word.

>Movie
Birdman.

>Album
An oldie but I've been falling back into listening to the Jet Set Radio OSTs, and fuc kme if JSRF hasn't been ma jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZIej-ZraE

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>>127084465
Regardless of who/what the next season has. The Pricefield ship will never sink. It will sail the seas, pirating and plundering our hearts, forever.

>>127074620
>Game
LiS and Bloodborne, obviously for different reasons.
>Movie
Twinsters. Although it'd probably be Carol if I'd seen it yet.
>Album
Pinkshinyultrablast, or maybe new Sleater-Kinney
>Anything else
They FINALLY got off the boat, just to go on hiatus and be published irregularly again and shitty CG animation in the meantime. At least I got to see Farnese for the first time in 3 years. If there's one character I love more than Chloe.

>>127085289

I hope so..

Episode 6/DLC/Epilogue when!!!!!!!

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>>127085471
Never

>>127085471

https://www.fanfiction.net/game/Life-is-Strange/

It's the best you will get

>>127085583

;______________:

>>127086018
I'm not a fanfic guy but.. I will make an exception to this. I will just convince myself this is CANON

>>127058538

But that's what makes her so plain. Like biscuit. From a tin. Wrapped in bubble wrap, crumbling from every knock.

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Fuk u, Michel. :/ Making it seem like Pricefield had a supper ass happy ending.

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>>127086586

Aren't we supposed to be about celebrating people's lives rather than their deaths?

>>127086741
Yeah. So let us celebrate the lives of the residents of Arcadia Bay.
You were good fisherman, townsfolk, and workers.

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>>127086741
>>127086841
Alright.

>>127086841

Shame they had to die because some hipster qt had to have her punk poon.

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>>127085425
Referring to Berserk? I've never read/ watched it, but glad to hear it's started back up for those that like it. I saw a lot of people rejoicing about them getting off the boat.
Unfortunately I don't think I will ever see Ryuuko, the only character I like as much as Chloe, again. Although I was pretty satisfied with the ending of her story.

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>tfw I'll never see Max sit on Victoria's face.
Why live?

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Awaiting another year of depression and anxiety.

Happy New Year.

>>127074620
>Game
LiS. Just realized that's one of the few games I actually played all year
>Movie
Interstellar, though I saw other movies from older years that I liked more
>Album
Arca - Mutant
>Anything Else
Starting a game-making partnership with a friend of mine
In a band that's getting some traction but I feel really bored of the music we're making
Realized I have serious gender dysphoria and I don't know what to do
Feeling more creative than ever but also more sad than ever and I guess that's just the way it goes

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>>127087630
Whoa, Victoria calm down.

>>127086741
You've summarised in a sentence exactly why Episode 5 is so wretched. Whereas before the series had a sense of optimism in spite of the darker elements, Polarized just went balls out with its over-the-top edginess. Victoria's role is like a twisted mirror image of Kate's side-story where (completely logical and sensible) efforts to help her end in her death for the sake of shock value. The episode doesn't celebrate the characters at all. It's just obsessed with killing them all off.

>>127074620
>Game
Probably LiS or Rust
>Movie
Hmm, I'd go with The Force Awakens since it's the only movie I saw at the theatre
>Album
In Times by Enslaved
>Anything else you discovered this year that you liked or that you want to share
I discovered I have 2 half-sisters. Fun stuff.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EAST COAST!
MAY IT BE HELLA!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR /LISG/!!!!!!!

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>>127090634
Happy new year anon.

>>127090627
>>127090634
Happy New Year, family

Happy new years guys, I love you all.

>>127092131
Love you too :)

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>>127086741
>You are my treasure

Makes me choke up just a bit every time.

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happy new year /lisg/

let's dance!

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>>127092951
>let's dance!
Happy new year :))))

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>>127075492
>Dirt: Rally

muh nigga

Game: Undertale and Life is Strange kind of tied cus both really fucking hit me just in the right spots this year.

Movie: [spoilers]Mad Max[/spoilers]: Fury Road

Album/ Song: Mountain Goats Beat the Champ/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVY5_FB2i0

>>127086110
Lisg sure makes for a lot of exceptions.

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>>127093214
Max may finally be ready

>>127074620
>Game
LiS honestly, despite everything
>Movie
Force Awakens tied with Carol. Very different reasons.
>Album/ Song
Nothing new this year but a whole lot of stuff I discovered this year. LiS's soundtracks for a start, loads of 80s synth wave stuff too.
>Anything else you discovered this year that you liked or that you want to share
Finally explored the countryside around here because the LiS par made me want to go walking. Whilst out there, I got lots of thinking done and it helped me get over my shithouse ex and also come to terms with some medical bullshit I had to think about.
In all, really fucking glad I played this game with you all.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I love you all

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If you want something cool, head over to
>>>/a/
Congratulations. You are now tang

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/r/ing the comic where chloe is making max find the bottles in the garbage then she gets bored immediately and max lets her die

>>127094051
i really am looking forward to seeing carol. Kind of refuse to see it in screener form though.

>>127094478

Are Chloe and Max the Rei and Asuka of Life is Strange?

>>127095919
Max is like Shinji. She comes back to something/ somewhere she once knew, but has a lot of self doubt. She battles her enemies and herself and comes out stronger.
Chloe is like Asuka. She has a rough and tough exterior, but under it is a scared little girl who just wants to be loved again. She is needlessly angry because she's scared she'll appear weak if she isn't.
Rachel is Yui. She fucked up big time and caused the whole mess, but she's also a protector and the reason the journey was able to happen anyway

>>127096305

Is Kate Rei?

>>127096305
>Rachel is Yui. She fucked up big time and caused the whole mess
I'm pretty sure Rachel isn't responsible for Jefferson's crimes, Nathan's assistance or Sean's unwitting financial support.

Was anyone else annoyed at the start of episode 2?
I played them a day apart, and after the first episode ended with Chloe saying "tell me everything" I was confused waiting half of episode 2 to eventually infer that they just decided off camera to go home right after that and not talk about it again until tomorrow.

>day 5 of post LiS depression
>still can't find the energy to even fap
>everytime I try, think of Max in the dark room
>lose boner instantly

>>127097949
i didn't fap for over a month after finishing LiS funfact

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>>127097949

You can always fap with your heart

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>>127097949
Maybe this will help?

>>127097949
I still can't fap to LiS characters. If I read something lewd it has to be passionate and consensual.
I don't want to see anything of the characters getting abused, hurt, etc. Especially because numerous of them already were in the game.
Took me about three weeks after finishing playing to be able to fap again. I just didn't have the urge.

>>127097949
That's rough anon. I managed to start moving on from the post-LiS depression after about 2 days. Don't think I was incapable of fapping but I didn't feel like eating much for the first 24 hours or so. I don't even want to imagine what it would have been like if I hadn't learned about Mass Effect 3's ending in advance.

>>127098337

No that's even worst. Max shouldn't be treated like that. She needs care and love and, you know, someone to hug her after all those shit she been through

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>>127074620
>Game
Haven't played much this year. Mostly watched walkthroughs.
LiS, Homeworld (remaster is a cashgrab don't buy)
I'd name Killing Floor 2 as well if TW didn't pull that shit on us. MFW

>Movie
Fury Road. Gushing praise is justified.
Haven't watched SW or Carol yet.
>Album/ Song
New BBNG singles make me hype for 2016
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=967RRWqVZqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091kyYmjVjo

>Anything else
>tfw ruble=rubble
>tfw compatriots are fucking insane
New Year resolution:
>buy a gun

Also< >tfw your dream car these days is a Prius

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>>127098847
Is this better?

>>127098991

Better. But I can't fap to that. No way.

Fuck, why do I keep thinking about fapping. I should just stop.

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>>127099053
>stop fapping

I've heard that's bad for you.

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Speaking o Life is Strange and Anime equivalencies/ similarities.
I was watching TFS and their latest episode had the part where Krillin has the remote to kill 18. My brain immediately went to LiS:
>Option 1: Press button, kill person you care about (That you fall in love with in the future) but avert a terrible thing that's about to happen
>Option 2: Let that terrible thing happen but give that person you care about a chance to live a better life
Granted it's more complicated than that. But the fact I thought of that worries me.
I cannot escape the grasp this game has on me. Even when I try to turn off my brain.

>>127099908
Just wondering, has anyone done a pic of the Imagination Lord doing Goku's Super Saiyan 3 transformation? The one where he shouts "And this is to go even further beyond!"

>>127094875
>/r/ing the comic
I'll post it when I get back home in about 7 hours... I swear I had the comic on my phone but I can't find it now

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>>127099283

The things that used to turn me on, rape, molest and torture, doesn't work on me now.

I used to dislike lesbian porn, but now I'm not so sure.

Sigh are there any.. Girls that are like Max? Skinny, petite, short-haired, plain looking.

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>>127101075
>rape, molest and torture,
What the fuck, bro.

>>127101075

>Sigh are there any.. Girls that are like Max?

irl or porn?

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>>127101075
Please get out, sir.

>>127074402

Holy shit, I'm dying

>>127097497

Yeah, just another example of this series' clunkiness. Plus talking about how Max has been researching time travel all night, having all these walls of text for us to read, but the devs going "n-no, you're not supposed to question where her power came from, it's just magic to tell a story!"

>>127101712

What do you think...

BOTH

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>>127102808

Shyla Jennings is the closest I can think of, though she has long hair.

IRL Maxes exist, just creep around the liberal arts departments at your local universities.

>>127103736
>liberal arts departments


Owww man I'm in the engineering school.

>>127097949
Take up photography and become Max. It's the only way.

>>127074620
>Game: Life is Strange
>Movie: Ex Machina
>Album/ Song: Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

looking for more games like lis, strong on story, light on gameplay, voice acting is a must, any sugestions?

>>127104918
There is nothing like it. The Walking Dead is mostly shit. Gone Home is similar on story, two young lesbians. It takes place in one house though. So, yeah. Gone Home is probably the closest.

>>127105080
yeah, i know about telltale stuff but the games that look interesting to me are unfinished

>>127104474

Try to get some qt photographer or painter to introduce you to art.

the internet lied to me, just finished the game and there are plenty of lesbian subtext but nothing openly gay
maybe i did something wrong tho

>>127105370
you did yeah

>>127105447
wut do, i tried

>>127105541

The secret to the sinful homosexual ending is to let Max sink into Chloe's juvenile delinquency at least 3 times in order to degrade Max's moral compass enough to engage in something so vile. But it's okay, because the kiss only happens if you do as God always intended and send the dyke to her fiery doom, so it's really a story of redemption.

>>127106452
will try that, not sure bout the sending the dyke to her fiery doom part bc i really like her but thanks

>>127105541
>>127106952
try looking it up

>>127105265

I have no problem with Art, I already play a lot of music.

But does Max.. Really exist?

>>127107028
first thing i tried but things like "life is strange how to romance chloe" or "life is strange chloe max romance" only bring up tons of lesbian fan art and speculation forumthreads

also is it just ending or can you develop and have a relationship with chloe durring the game?
bc if it's just about a kiss if you let her die it's really not worth it for me

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>>127074620
>Game
Has to be LiS. Even though the endings were shit, I still can't completely stop thinking about this game. I don't think any other game made me feel like this, hell, not even other medium.

>Movie
Movies were shit this year, I haven't seen TFA yet though. So from what I've seen, I probably liked Sicario the most.

>Album/Song
LiS had some good music that I would never listen to otherwise, because I prefer electronic music. So I have to say that LiS OST was my favourite this year.
>Anything else
I finished college and got my first job in 2015. I have no goals in 2016, which feels weird.

>>127107313
every shy and quiet artsy girl is max inside
assuming you are not talking about time travel superpowers

>>127107324
>bc if it's just about a kiss if you let her die it's really not worth it for me

That's literally all it is.

>>127107428

I wonder if there are any girls above 21 who are still like Max..

>>127107313

Finding a girl as innocent and naive as Max will be hard but I know a few girls that look like max and are into photography.

>>127107509
well isn't that a fucking disapointment

>>127108253

I don't think Max is innocent or naive. She's just withdrawn and reserved, deep down she knows her shit

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/life-strange-interview-co-directors-talk-success-their-favourite-scenes-fan-feedback-season-two-1533435

>A second season would work but the story of Max and Chloe is told, their character arcs are closed. Whichever choice the player made, Max reached the end of her coming-of-age story, now she has grown up. She made her pivotal decision and the player helped to create her character, her feelings, her relationships... we like to think that we did our job as storytellers and game designers, we helped the players to meet their own personal version of Max and Chloe

See that sinking ship? Yeah that's USS Pricefield

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>>127109339
>we like to think that we did our job as storytellers and game designers
I'm sure they do.

>>127110108

Pft, and I'd like to think I'm a decent human being, but that doesn't un-kill any hookers.

>>127110495
yes it can anon. just use your imagination :)

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>>127109339
>we like to think that we did our job as storytellers and game designers, we helped the players to meet their own personal version of Max and Chloe

>>127109339
>>127111351
So in their mind Max and Chloe's relationship is shaped by the player? I guess that'll make the warrencucks happy.

>>127110495
Well you could always turn yourself in. That'd be a decent act.

The game made me feel so alone. Never gonna have a gf :`(

Chloe Price: 1994-03-11 - GPA 1.7
Rachel Amber: 1995-07-22 - GPA 4.0
Victoria Chase: 1995-08-14 - GPA 3.9
Nathan Prescott: 1995-08-29 - GPA 3.7
Kate Marsh: 1995-09-12 - GPA 3.9
Max Caulfield: 1995-09-21 - GPA 2.8
Warren Graham: 1996-11-20 - GPA 4.0

I noticed that Max dropped the unused weedkiller bomb material into the principal's trashcan. That's going to raise some fucking ruckus!!

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/life-strange-interview-co-directors-talk-success-their-favourite-scenes-fan-feedback-season-two-1533435

>A second season would work but the story of Max and Chloe is told, their character arcs are closed. Whichever choice the player made, Max reached the end of her coming-of-age story, now she has grown up. She made her pivotal decision and the player helped to create her character, her feelings, her relationships... we like to think that we did our job as storytellers and game designers, we helped the players to meet their own personal version of Max and Chloe.

>You will never see Max and Chloe again

This made me depressed even moreso

>>127105370
Pretty much this. Max and Chloe's sexuality is never firmly established (both show romantic/sexual interest in male characters in multiple places in the game, for example), so while there is plenty of (sometimes obvious) lesbian subtext, there's still some subjectiveness to it. The developers have been pretty consistent in say that it's mostly just down to how the players want to interpret it, though they frequently hint at muh lesbians too.

The two will kiss at the end in one ending if you did enough pro-Chloe stuff throughout the game. That's really THE only moment where they push it to proper gurls-on-gurls.

At the end of it all, if you want to play a straight Max, you can. Most of the subtext is on Chloe's side anyway.

>>127112123
>Chloe Price: 1994-03-11 - GPA 1.7
>Rachel Amber: 1995-07-22 - GPA 4.0
>Victoria Chase: 1995-08-14 - GPA 3.9
>Nathan Prescott: 1995-08-29 - GPA 3.7
>Kate Marsh: 1995-09-12 - GPA 3.9
>Max Caulfield: 1995-09-21 - GPA 2.8
>Warren Graham: 1996-11-20 - GPA 4.0

Ha. Given that we know that Chloe is actually pretty smart (both from what we learn about her in the original timeline, and from her straight A's in the alternate timeline), this makes Max look like the village idiot. The loveable village idiot. :3

>I noticed that Max dropped the unused weedkiller bomb material into the principal's trashcan. That's going to raise some fucking ruckus!!
Prolly not. She doesn't drop the bomb in there, just the pieces, yeah? And most of them are just normal bits and pieces, or items from next door. Even if the Principal saw it all, I doubt he would be thinking "that's a bomb!" so much as he would just be thinking "why did the cleaner move some of that trash into my bin?"

>>127112259
>At the end of it all, if you want to play a straight Max, you can. Most of the subtext is on Chloe's side anyway.
Careful there. I don't think that's a very popular opinion in this general. Still I actually do like the idea that a friendship between Max and Chloe could be so deep that Max would be willing to sacrifice everything to keep her best friend alive.

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>>127112123
Missed Kate's birthday by 2 days.
Chloe was born when I graduated.
From Uni.

FUUUUU~~

>>127112448
The game strongly steers you into being romantically linked with Chloe ("I wish I had kissed her", "Is this friendship....or love?") but you can just be really good friends.

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>>127112427
> I doubt he would be thinking "that's a bomb!"

If the principal did not have a extra-sheltered youth he would be thinking "who put the ingredients for a fscking bomb into my trash?"

When I was kid we discussed this kind of shit every month at least once and weedkiller was easily obtained; never made one though.

Given that TERROR is suspected these days when someone brings a homemade clock to school, poor David is bound to destroy his circadian rhythm.

>>127112427
>Chloe is actually pretty smart
Debatable. She certainly isn't a very practical or sensible thinker and the game doesn't demonstrate her alleged scientific prowess. All she really gets to do is make a one-off reference to Chaos Theory (probably the same dumb train of thought as Warren) and we find a few books relating to time travel scattered around her room. Max researches the exact same thing as well so it's hardly extraordinary.

To be fair though, with the possible exception of Nathan none of the kids really get to show off their supposed skills. Warren's chemistry and understanding of quantum physics doesn't reflect his high GPA and we have to just take their word for it that Rachel really was this super-smart girl. Victoria does seem to be quite studious but Courtney's ghost-written paper is a strike against her. We're also told that Max has a "gift" but none of her photographs really stand out as particularly impressive (could be due to the game's visuals). Nathan at least does have some visually-interesting photos despite his grades taking a downturn.

>>127110495
Mr Plinkett, why don't you do a review of LiS?

>>127112229

I will never forget Max. I promise. In fact, I plan to find a girl just like her. She's totally my type.

>>127112839
>Debatable.
No, I mean that Max literally states that Chloe used to be a straight A student before her father died (when you look at her crappy report card in her room in Ep1).

I think the biggest problem is simply that which is common in media - the writers have no idea about any of this stuff themselves, and just fake it till they make it. Having Chloe or Warren just drop random lines about pop-sci level quantum mechanics might sound kinda cool to the random-joe off the street, but if you know much more about the subject it comes across as exactly what it is. The writers obviously intended us to THINK Warren is smart, that Max has some gift of photography, etc, and that's really what matters I guess.

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>>127112839
Graham is more like Weathley DESU

Also these are grades from high school. Let them test their mettle at uni, it's a whole new ballpark (head's gonna explode etc).

I like Max telling Nathan in the diner that she needs drugs because that's how she stays up all night studying. WHAT!

>>127113069
It's kind of a shame because one thing I liked a lot about Episode 1 and to a lesser extent 2 was the little details about Photography as a subject. I never studied it in my life so it was kind of neat hearing Max and other students discuss famous photographers and techniques. It could well be that the devs didn't really know all that much about the topic but I found it sort of educational.

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>>127113035
Good luck anon.

>>127113075
Isn't Blackwell meant to be more demanding than most high schools though? I got the impression it was a sort of gap between high school and uni designed for gifted students (and some with rich families).

>>127113254

Yeah erh, I will join some 'cultured and sophisticated' art club. Guitar is a big no, probably faggots strumming their fucking acoustics. Photography.. Nah too many people comparing lenses.

Literature? I don't know. Tell me.

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>>127113346
It seems to be but we don't get a "cram school" impression at all. Max's curriculum seems light. Cinematography would demand that people are mostly in their room or the library and dumping stuff into their brains, freaking out in the hallways due to "above my head" problems and cancelling social life and weekends to get ahead. The science room should be full (ok, that's expensive to do) None of this is hinted at.

The most demanding thing at Blackwell seems to be a pervasive and unsolvable "bullying culture" And that took me some time to pick up on (not sure why), which I imagine is why the school is called "Blackhell" and principal keeps the bottle nearby.

>>127113467
I have no idea man, it never worked for me. It all depends. Ask some lady that's nearby, she might give some advice.

Sports club? Not US "team sports" though. Martial arts. Dancing classes fer sure.

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>In his mid 40s
>Doesn't look over 30

What's his secret?

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>>127112123
>Kate Marsh: 1995-09-12 - GPA 3.9
>Max Caulfield: 1995-09-21 - GPA 2.8
Born 9 days apart from each other and both residents of Arcadia Bay. Could Max and Kate ever have gone to the same school or kindergarten as each other?

>>127113221

I find it really weird that we are genuinely meant to just buy that Max's photos aren't shit, when the visual style of the game itself is very impressive and in-game photos from other characters are pretty cool.

>>127114129
I don't see why not but then they would have known each other very well, AB not being very large. Then their interaction would have been different.

>>127113794
>The most demanding thing at Blackwell seems to be a pervasive and unsolvable "bullying culture" And that took me some time to pick up on (not sure why), which I imagine is why the school is called "Blackhell" and principal keeps the bottle nearby.

Honestly, what evidence really is there aside from what happened to Kate? I mean yeah that's a big deal, but it's a single incident that was based on an unknown crime and resulting misunderstandings as to it's severity.

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>>127114219
We are meant to buy that she has three different types of TIMU POWERU, so I don't consider this a big problem storytelling-wise.

>>127114219
The problem is the visual style gives a lot of the photos that hand drawn sketchy look and we've only got Max's monologue (and Jefferson's critique) to inform us which photos count as good. Aside from the Dark Room photos the only ones that really stick out to me are Nathan's macabre black-and-white pics and to a lesser extent Kate's contest entry.

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I want to _____ Chloe and Max

>>127114008

>"hey erh, where can I find a short hair, plain looking girl who likes to do nerdy stuff, look and speak like she's sad and moody all the time?"
>"oh you mean Joey? You can find her in the painting class.
>goes there and see her
>holy shit that's who dontnod based off their design of Max from

THEN WHAT

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>>127114460
Congratulate

>>127114289
Daniel, Alyssa and possibly Luke are on the receiving end of school bullying. Dana gets locked in her own room by her best friend over a prank played by Victoria. Warren is also implied to be a bullying victim judging by the graffiti written about him and his vicious retribution against Nathan.

>>127114289
That's another DONTNOD storytelling problem where they don't bring that over all too well.

In the very first hallway scene this is brought up numerous times. I thought it's just the usual high-school retardation showing itself but then..

> School is called "Blackhell" according to principal
> Principal ready to give up, drinks heavily
> Quite a few people behave like jerks in need of attitude adjustments in the very first hallway scene
> Anti-bullying posters
> Victoria and her minion club in dire need of immediate arse whipping
> Retarded cliques of retardation
> Prescott suppress evidence of misbehaviour
> Plan to put up cameras being seriously considered
> Kate is just another bullying victim and basically background noise, which is why people are kinda indifferent to her plight
> Juliet's article talking about how Kate's suicide attempt is what it took to get people to acknowledge Blackwell has a fundamental bullying problem

So Blackwell is a school for just 12th graders only?
Everyone is just there for a year?
What good can come out of just a years worth of education?
Is this really a thing in US?

>>127114460
explain Dune to

>>127114630
I thought it was two years. Nathan, Victoria and I believe Dana and Brooke were there the previous semester.

>>127114486
"Hey Joey I have heard people talk about your paintings. Wanna discuss techniques later with some coffee?" Then make her feel all nonthreatened and warm (unless you are torture-and-rape anon from earlier), then invite for an evening out.

She will then tell you that you are really nice and stuff but that she already has a bf and will be engaged next week ;_;

>>127114854
>bf

>>127114129
Yep. I'd go out on a limb to say that it's basically impossible that they wouldn't have met. Plus, a handful of other Blackwell students are supposedly from Arcadia Bay as well, despite nobody seemingly mentioning that they probably would have known each other previously. It's weird as fuck ... until you remember all the other similar little details that Dontnod seemingly just didn't put any real thought into.

Kate is probably supposed to be from elsewhere. The "Hometown: Arcadia Bay" line in her school file is probably just another flub (there are a few in those files).

>>127114359
Three? She only has two. Her regular rewind and the focus power.

People keep brining up when she stopped time in Ep2. I think this is pretty clearly just a slightly different manifestation of her regular rewind powers though. She's exhausted, trying to push time backwards, but it's just not letting her ... resulting in time freezing rather than moving backwards.

>>127115139
If you want MOTSS, I am not sure.
Same probably.

>>127114854

>someone likes a girl like Max
>someone likes a nosy, seemingly stuck in her own world girl

What, I thought I was special man. I thought Chad go for Stacies.

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>>127115178
>Three? She only has two. Her regular rewind and the focus power.

She also has bullet time power.
And maybe vision power.

Also

> Get a feeling like something is sardonically laughing inside my head
> Look to the right
> This book on my desk and has been for some time.

Is the universe mocking me?

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>>127114854
>Knew a girl who was a mix of Max and Kate (religious and really kindhearted)
>We got really close
>Was too afraid to ask her out
>She started dating someone else and eventually married him

Life is....suffering

>>127115314
I like them.
They may be good at programming.

>>127115178
>Kate is probably supposed to be from elsewhere. The "Hometown: Arcadia Bay" line in her school file is probably just another flub (there are a few in those files).
There are mistakes but there's nothing to contradict Kate being born in Arcadia Bay. The way she refers to her church and David's files on her regular attendance gives the impression that she's part of a local congregation. It may be possible that her family moved to a different town like the Caulfields did but there's nothing to contradict Arcadia Bay being her childhood hometown.

>>127115496

My ex was like a hybrid of Chloe and Max. Instead of indie folk you have stupid punk rock bands. And painting instead of photography.

>>127114580
>>127114519

Oh yeah, I guess I kinda forgot about all that stuff. They never really went anywhere with it, in the end it comes off as generic background fluff present in literally anything set in high school. Shame.

>>127088653
This so much. You don't need to know more about the game to realize that their writing is gruesomely lackluster. "People dying" is literally ALL they rely on for tragedy. They don't explore the "dark themes" they have always talked about, they don't delve into the psychological depths that some of their characters seem to have. That is all implied but then amounts to empty promises and betrayed hopes.

Kate's problem is not a religious or existential crisis. It's literally whether she jumps to her death or whether you can somehow coerce her out of it. If she does, she's dead (and the devs consider her story "told"), if she doesn't everything's suddenly perfect for her again.
Chloe's real deal from the get-go is not to do with her psychological problems and in the end none of those are resolved. In fact, she develops more. Whether she stays alive or dies is the only thing that truly is to her, and that's all that is resolved in the end.
Victoria and Nathan had potential to be about so much more, but then just end up in Jefferson's fridge in some of the most ridiculous perplexing fashion.
Jefferson's obsession is laughably portrayed and developed and the only thing that makes him "significant" here in the end is that he starts killing people.
Rachel in the end is just dead.
The powers and mystery and "ominous atmosphere" and the storm in the end revolve solely about people dying or living.
William is just A/B dead/alive.
Even the fucking plant can only live or die.

Everything in the game ultimately revolves around itself without ever going beyond one of the most naive interpretations of "life" as it presents itself: that "death" is "bad" and that "life" is "good". That is not "strange" at all - that's what every 3 year old will tell you about "life". That's the very basis upon which humans can even go on living their meaningless lives; a natural understanding everyone has to begin with. In the end there is no message or story here.

>>127115795
>Kate's problem is not a religious or existential crisis. It's literally whether she jumps to her death or whether you can somehow coerce her out of it. If she does, she's dead (and the devs consider her story "told"), if she doesn't everything's suddenly perfect for her again.
I was worried about that from the end of Episode 2. There was very little hope of Kate having any relevance or even making another appearance after Episode 2. Episode 3 confirmed that and it was only due to fan response that they inserted a token scene for her in Episode 4. Making her a determinant character wasted a lot of potential for Kate. I'd have actually been interested to learn more about issues with faith and family.

>>127114736
>>127114630

It's just a weird inconsistency. Safe to say, it's not a one-year school, since many kids were there the previous year and Chloe was kicked out two years ago.

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David's Autism Simulator when?

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>>127115496
Always make a move anon.

> Meet girl at friend's marriage
> Not too pretty but cute
> Invite her to dance
> She says yes
> Dance is worse than Max autism awareness campaign
> Well that didn't go too well
> Another dance?
> "I don't think so"
> Okay.jpg
> Leave party
> Years later
> Meet her brother
> She has married some arsehole
> Has kids
> Divorced
> "I'm sad to hear that"
> Talk about how she cold-shouldered me mercilessly back then
> Brother says "You are wrong. She was totally into you, dude"
> TFW

>>127112427
>>127112839
>>127113069
High-school GPA doesn't make you "smart". Chloe is not really portrayed as being particuarly intelligent. The contrary actually with how she walks right into Jefferson's trap, stumbles over her own thoughts trying to plan out getting to Frank's keys and her "Yeah... Uh, what exactly do we do?" line in the investigation puzzle. Part of it is definitely to show how her unconcerned, "unconcentrated" personality, but between her years of sitting around drinking and blazing and not using her head much I don't think the games intention is to make her out to be a "smart" character. The "unconcerned genius" type thing where she has a scientific or mathematical affinity I guess is in there to some extent, but then we are talking about a different kind of "smart".

>>127116261
That's not the autisms, he has been in Dick Cheney's retarded War on Stuff and never came home.

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>>127116662
> stumbles over her own thoughts trying to plan out getting to Frank's keys
It's like a plan a Jedi Knight could come up with in a Lucas movie

> Uh, what exactly do we do?
But that's for storytelling purposes mainly. It gives the player something to do. If Max was wallflowered all the time, the player would drop the game. This is also why Chloe gets to click around on computers and Max is tasked with fetch/investigate quests instead.

> years of sitting around drinking and blazing
That's just 2-3 years, a blink of an eye (though a long time for a 19-year old)

>>127115178
>It's weird as fuck ...
It's really weird in general how this game is deliberately set in a small town for the sake of that atmosphere, and yet everyone behaves like total strangers who are stuck living away form home and with strangers, trying to acclimate to that weird and new environment.
Talking to Taylor at the party, it felt like we were fucking studying abroad in Europe or something the way she talked.

Even with shit like the Prescotts, the general attitude towards Nathan is all over the place. Half the time people act like he's just some asshole nothing more to it, and other times they kindasorta acknowledge that some kind of intervention is required and that Sean simply won't have it.
I don't come from small town America so what do I know, but any small community I have been among, people like Nathan are just common knowledge. Everyone knows everything, and they also just know not to talk about it because there's a huge taboo and a change-fearing attitude that it's good enough as-is and no good would come of stirring the pot.
But in Arcadia Bay, everyone seems to simultaneously talk about it constantly like they're aware, but not understand what's happening at all.

So what's the story? Is it about people who get unfortunately overlooked (because they're assholes like Nathan or pariahs Kate), or people who are actively ignored even when we know better (like the acknowledgement of Nathan and Kate's issues that were actively buried)?
Like, if it changed depending on which character you spoke to that'd be fine, but every single one of them presents the same neither-here-nor-there attitude. Ms Grant talks like the most aware and even she simply discusses it as if Sean snubbed her offer to fix his rickety spice rack.

It's just really weird because it's such a classic corruption in small communities, where everyone knows what's going on but don't know what they could do about it even if they wanted to - cops scared to arrest their buddies, etc.

>>127115795
>That is all implied
I'm not sure I'd even go so far as to give them credit for implying it. Sometimes I fee like we're just inferring it from happy accidents.

>>127115795
>Even the fucking plant can only live or die.
Oh god, THAT'S what the plant meant!

But for real, you've really hit the nail on the head here anon, I hadn't thought of it in these terms before but spot on.

It reminds me of a shitty YA series I read a while back that started out looking like some maybe okay scifi in shitty YA clothing, then by the end just devolved into "and then THIS character dies, and then THIS character dies!" and there was an author's note talking about how her editor convinced her to not be scared of killing off characters and how it was making her a better writer and shit. Christ.
When did we start fetishising death so much? Why is that now an "instant depth, just add water" go-to? It's so goddamn lazy. It's fine for GoT and Walking Dead because those stories put the effort elsewhere into crafting a universe BUILT around ever-potential death. But the rest of you have to try a little fucking harder, save the death scenes for when they're fucking earned.

For those curious, the YA series I'm talking about is Across The Universe by Beth Revis. But skip it and read some real science fiction, it's shit and offers nothing new.

>>127117029
>But that's for storytelling purposes mainly. It gives the player something to do. If Max was wallflowered all the time, the player would drop the game. This is also why Chloe gets to click around on computers and Max is tasked with fetch/investigate quests instead.
There's no reason Chloe can't come up with a plan now and then and still delegate Max to carrying it out.

>>127117068
Dammit I can't compete with this kind of analysis.

It's like dontnod have pulling in a set of memes and story devices and glued them together haphazardly with forced dark ending added. Closer examination reveals that the result depicts a world that just wouldn't work.

>>127115795

Makes sense. The game treat death as the ultimate bad end.

I feel like, a lot of actions done by Max is done trying to get people not killed.

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>>127094875
>>127100743
And here it is.

>>127117713
This is just adorable!

>>127117706
And still she fails.
Actually, she fails in all timelines.
She fails even from the get go with Mademoiselle Amber.

>>127117479
If you look at something that uses a series of deaths reasonably well like TLOU, each one builds into the protagonists development to justify the emotional climax (Joel's choice at the end). Here, the deaths just feel like shock for the sake of shock, tragedy for the sake of 'look how dark and serious our writing actually is'. Kate/Victoria have no impact at all on Max's development. Neither does Chloe's death, in either ending Max has the same final 'reaction'. The whole experience feels so hollow and manipulative.

>>127115442
>She also has bullet time power.
Re-read the full post you replied to. The bullet time power is just her regular rewind being used slightly differently.

Fair enough about the vision power though. But given that it's not something she can seemingly control, I'm not sure it makes sense to call it a "power"?

>>127115537
>There are mistakes but there's nothing to contradict Kate being born in Arcadia Bay.
I mean, the fact that so much of Kate's life doesn't make sense could be considered contradictory. For example ...

>The way she refers to her church and David's files on her regular attendance gives the impression that she's part of a local congregation.
But if she has been attending this church her whole life, that would imply her parents are still living in town ... in which case, why would it take them so long to visit her at hospital, why would they write letters and communicate via email, why wouldn't she still live at home given her mother's worry about her studying at Blackwell, etc.

The girls have already been living in Arcadia Bay for at least a month, so there is no reason why she wouldn't have started to fall into a routine at a new church by that point.

>It may be possible that her family moved to a different town like the Caulfields did but there's nothing to contradict Arcadia Bay being her childhood hometown.
It's possible, it just feels like a bit of a stretch to me. But even so, it still wouldn't really make sense that they wouldn't have met each other in kindergarten, elementary school, or even just the local haunts, given that it's such a small town.

I think it just makes more sense that the already-mistake-riddled Principal's files were just filled out by someone who wasn't really keeping up with the character backgrounds.

>>127115795

Come to think of it, I think Warren and David are the only main characters at all (depending on how you define 'main') who don't get a death scene the second their role in the story is done. They can die too, but you can't continue with them dead.

But Kate's story ends, okay she can jump now.
Victoria's had it out with Max, time to optionally die.
Nathan's revealed as no longer a threat, off you go useless.
Jefferson's petered out, boom headshot.
Frank's no longer important, well at least Pompidou won't eat his corpse.

To some extent, I think this is just trying to cheat the 'choices matter' angle.
>Are we done with this character? Okay, put in an optional death scene.
But it also obviously shows a scary lack of awareness for how much potential was left in them, and lack of awareness of how to ACTUALLY make choices count or feel appropriate (we've previously talked at length about how leaving Frank dead just feels ridiculous).

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>>127117549
There is no plan.

To get into the RV, Max goes into the diner and randomly wings it. She's lucky that both Nathan and the police officer are there to give hints as to what to say to Frank.

Of course underneath it's just backtracking exploration of a small graph, but still---

>>127118331

Fuck, thanks for reminding me, I've been meaning to finally get that game for months and been desperate for something new to play for weeks.

>>127116662
>High-school GPA doesn't make you "smart".
I didn't mean to imply that it does. I was simply making fun of the fact that everyone has (near-) perfect GPAs (or were capable of it before blowing it off) except for Max. It's cute. I didn't mean to start some "book smarts vs street smarts" discussion.

>>127118454
>She's lucky that both Nathan and the police officer are there to give hints as to what to say to Frank.

I love Nathan's "oh and don't you even think of relaying this information to that police officer over there to learn more, no siree!"

>>127118454
>Max goes into the diner and randomly wings it
And she has the nerve to be all "bitch I got this" to Chloe.

For real though, multiple times in that episode Max used her power 'against' Chloe, it's weird that it never gets brought up given Chloe seems to have issues with feeling like an inadequate fuck up - compared to Max specifically, if Joyce is a reliable source.
And yet in the finale, it's only Max's feelings of inadequacy that are dealt with - and her feelings only reflect that at this point she still knows fuck all about anyone, including the girl she supposedly loves, and just reveal her as being extraordinarily immature and ignorant for someone on the cusp of the climax. She's gone from judging Chloe's kind of behaviour to feeling a need to live up to it, wonderful, such growth.

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PLINKETT REVIEW WHEN?

https://youtu.be/ABcXyZn9xjg?t=1662

>>127117136
I do give them credit for it, but I can see how you wouldn't want to. Definitely not all of the good stuff about the game was intended, a lot of it is accidental, but even so it still takes something for happy to even be able to happen. A total hack won't accidentally write a great story, or even just have a great character in it. I think the gaps dontnod left in many things and only developed environmentally or otherwise hinted at is deliberate and takes some skill to do as compellingly as they did here: that we can infer so much to most of everything even though in the game and story itself it is practically shapeless and essentially meaningless.

>>127117479
"Death" is so mundane and boring, I have no idea why writers think to need to rely so much on it. And then even more here; with Chloe dying over and over and Max's power creating and destroying universes at will, the death/life dichotomy means even less that it does to begin with. It just gets really fucking dull here. "Oh, where's Victoria gone? She was right next to me just now..." - Of course she's fucking dead. Nathan? Dead and buried. Chloe's dead for like the 6th time. The David versus Jefferson thing is literally a celebratory orgy of that ridiculously shallow death-fixation. The devs were probably laughing their asses of when scripting this shit, knowing they can just scream "Boo! Dead!" at people and they will praise them for how "emotional" it is.

>>127119205
Hello Reddit.

>>127118463
Oh, yeah, I find that adorable too. How Max struggles with school work (partly because she's not the smartest, partly because she's not the most dedicated). I didn't want to start that discussion either, I was just saying I don't think "smart" is something dontnod particularly wanted people to associate with Chloe. The idea definitely is that she could apply herself and not be a high-school dropout if things were different for her, and vaguely that she does apparently have some science smarts. But not that she would be a very cerebral and thought-ful type by any stretch.

>>127119287
>The David versus Jefferson thing is literally a celebratory orgy of that ridiculously shallow death-fixation.
I really can't believe how hokey that was. And it was right at the climax of Jefferson's whole plotline, when we're supposed to be getting into 'shit gets real' territory with everything else. Great tone setter.
The whole episode was just impossible to take seriously.

>>127119582
>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorfHadTheFlu
I like to think that somehow this trope was in effect. That scene was literally unbelievable. I realise that serving in the US Army doesn't automatically make David a Navy Seal. But I can not believe for even a minute that he would repeatedly perform THAT badly in a fight against an untrained middle-aged art teacher. And a little throw-away line that he wasn't a very good soldier or something to that effect doesn't make it any better. There is no way he could have survived overseas if he was really that incompetent.

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>>127119582
>David! Kick the table!!!!!
>SIR, YES SIR!

I think the devs must have just been getting a bit loopy by the end of it for the episode to turn out the way it did. They've talked about how hard episodic development is, maybe the stress finally got to them.

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>>127120153
They should have written a coherent story from the very start, goddammit!

>>127120320

Even if you know where you're going, if you fumble the execution right as it's all supposed to come together, you'll wind up with a piece of shit.

But yeah, whatever happened, someone really fucked up.

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>>127120080
I-I like their hats.

>>127120153
I think it was more that they were stubborn and unwilling the to change, despite all the people that were saying they would NOT like those endings. They had the story's start and ending planned out and then filled in the gaps.
In that macro scheme of things it may work...but once you go into any bit of detail and examine how Max's power actually works, her character's feelings, etc, the whole thing becomes deeply flawed. I cannot blame fans that told Dontnod to fuck off with their nonsensical binary "Pick your tragedy" and instead created their own endings and, did so much better.

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>>127120080
Not sure about the right, but isn't the one on the left wearing a VDV beret? Get him out of the water and toss his ass out of a plane!

>>127120504
The whole thing is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSAEhGnRg5Y

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>>127118382
Yup. And it wouldn't even have been all too difficult to make our choices count with many of these characters instead of just having them die at some point somehow somewhere. Victoria could have helped us for a change in the Dark Room, Max's promise of "we will both make it out of here, trust me, noone's going to die tonight" actually holding true and them being more supportive of each other actually leading somewhere. Maybe make it so that we can set Victoria free who then goes to Nathan and (depending on playthrough etc.) he then comes to try and stop Jefferson.
They can then still have Nathan die, but in front of us, giving us his apology in dying trying to actually prevent what evil he has helped come to be. That'd be using his death to show his remorse and guilt is ultimate and genuine, not just a way to as you probably rightly assume write people out of the picture and consequence.
"Death" can be used as a device in the context of a story to help tell the story, but death as the story itself or the primary pivot, conceptual or emotional, is just lame.

>>127119582
I really think they did find it funny playing with him dying in so many and so ridiculous ways in that scene. And they thought people would find it funny too. Well, it kind of is, but it's funnier that this scene is parodical for how the whole story gets reduced to something equally ridiculous in the end, where the characters ultimately also merely represent "so many and so ridiculous ways to die".

>>127120567

I feel like even on a macro scale it doesn't make any damn sense.
Sacrifice Chloe or sacrifice Arcadia Bay? What does that even mean? What does that even say about anything? People read into it every which way, but it's still just an ambiguous mess of a conclusion. Hell, the 'every which way'ness of it all just goes to show.

>>127120567
The conclusion is
"It might have been good"
if they had not started off with trying hard to deliver a senseless dark tragedy in the end and then had filled in the story with well-structured storytelling based on characters that have consistent motivations and backstories, an environment that makes sense and a time travel logic that can be made to work. Oh, and if they had concentrated on less disparate story elements that cannot be tied together no matter what (indian magic, mystery butterflies, ghost does, twin peaks elements, biblical omen, family drama, highschool drama).

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>>127120994
>Max's promise of "we will both make it out of here, trust me, noone's going to die tonight" actually holding true and them being more supportive of each other actually leading somewhere.

This is what I thought would happen, making her off screen death feel so fucking cheap and stupid.
But it also would have been a really intense bonding moment for players who weren't believed by Victoria and didn't get that reconciliation at the party. And a Victoria who refuses to believe Nathan's capable of wrong is more dangerous to Jefferson and actually worthy of kidnapping than a Victoria who's been turned against him like everyone else.
This was just so badly handled compared to how it could have been done, it's insulting.

As far as Nathan goes, I actually feel like if he dies it makes sense for it to be off screen since he's a pretty pitiful character at his core and that suits him. A heroic death would just feel wrong to me. But it's down to the nitty gritty of the execution really, so there's a million ways it could work. Unfortunately, as with the above Victoria example, Dontnod excel at honing in on the few ways it absolutely won't. Like how Warren's "rescue" of Max and Chloe from him in ep 4 is actually played really interestingly and doesn't triumphant at all, despite still accomplishing that superficial goal of getting Nathan out of their hair.
But there 100% should have been playthroughs where he was alive. And, when dead, maybe potential to bring him back, or at least interact with him in the past or talk about him in a way that actually emotionally acknowledges the new information given in the voicemail instead of just awkwardly regurgitating simplified exposition over and over again.
And the circumstances and reasons for his death were just way too murky. "I killed him tonight because he fucked up with Rachel 6 months ago" fucking what? Again, the circumstances of his death could have beautifully tied into the Victoria situation.

Can we all agree that the plot line isn't the best, but the immersion, sound track, art style and voice acting along with the plot is what makes LiS so great?

>>127121726
Nathan was squandered. The reason for kill him, as you said, was stupid.
Now if he walked into the Dark Room during the storm and saw Victoria and Jefferson. He would have went ballistic and fought to save her. Which would then end in Jefferson killing him.
The story really could have been wrapped up, without the forced tragedy, by having Max go back to the bathroom in Episode 1 and talking to Nathan. Using all the knowledge she gained and setting the week on a different course where nobody else has to die. Then using the rest of the week, after explaining to Chloe, warning people about the storm.
The story still has sadness in it (Because of what happened to Rachel, Kate, and William. Plus we know how pained some characters are), but you used stuff you learned and are able to save a good portion of them in some way.

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>>127121726
This is pretty well expressed. Do you guys visit literary analysis classes or what?
>>127122186
> the plot line isn't the best
Dmaning with faint praise, and yes all the rest (all that remains) salvages the boat.

Although I still haven't gotten over the passage to dark room and how do you get a bunker underneath a barn that has obviously been sitting there since the mid-40s in the middle of a forest?

>>127122596

Didn't they build the bunker in the barn recently. You know, funded by Nathan for Jefferson

>>127122596
Huh. Good question.
Maybe you lift the barn up or disassemble it into walls and a ceiling, and move it. Dig out the ground and build/ install the bunker. Then reassemble the barn over it.

>>127121726
>As far as Nathan goes, I actually feel like if he dies it makes sense for it to be off screen since he's a pretty pitiful character at his core and that suits him.
I agree. I actually like how they handled Nathan here to some extent. He has been doing this shit together with Jefferson for months now. Rachel has died at his hands. He knows it's all very wrong and the guilt destroys him psychologically. So what "excuse" could he ever have, what reason to go on with it - do Kate, potentially even plan Victoria?
Because he's a coward; he's more afraid of what will happen when the world knows about his morbid side than he is of death. He rather holds on to convincing himself that what he has with Jefferson is good for him and that dying when Jefferson wants him to is "ok" than dealing with the world knowing that he is, in fact, an "evil Prescott". That it's all true, that he is a bad guy, that there are corpses in his basement. He refuses to accept that, to deal with that. This could also be a reason why he doesn't warn Victoria but Max. Max already thinks he's bad. Seeing Victoria recognizing that side in him would crush him because he'd realize even the one person that stood by him only did because she didn't really know him.

So this cowardly voice message, him just accepting his death in shame and guilt and defeat, is somehow fitting, maybe more so than the "revolt" against Jefferson that I was suggesting there would be. But it is also more tragic, whereas the revolt would be optimistic. Dying in shame and guilt over the "bad side" of yourself - "giving up on yourself" - versus dying in realizing the "good side" of yourself - "fighting your demons".
And I mean, the call was a little revolt. There was still fight in him, so I'd rather they'd gone all the way with that and not some wacky "he did it all but didn't really want to and he tried to help but he didn't really want to help".