What do you think about Life is Strange?

Many people say its vastly superior than Telltale games but for me it was disappointing and I think its overrated as hell.

Max was such a boring protagonist, Chloe was even worse and just obnoxious, the dialogue was cringeworthy, choices didn't seem to matter that much (ok this is similiar with telltale games) etc. I wasn't really invested at all (unlike say I was in Lee and Clementine's story, or Bigby's or Fiona & Rhys etc.).

What do you think about the game?

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  • Oh, don’t get me started on Life is Strange. Once I start, there’s no stopping the truckload of shit that I will dump on this game series.

  • I guess what was good in Life Is Strange (the original game) was the ambiance,the music and the game messing with your emotions.I gotta say,even if i like Life is Strange : Before The Storm because i'm a fan and i like these characters the game was completely pointless,i guess i'm happy because we got more Chloe but people were disappointed because episode 3 didn't deliver as much emotions as it should have.

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    I'm half and half when it comes to the comparison between Telltale and Life is Strange. I personally enjoyed LiS except for Episode 5 and I loved Before The Storm.

    The thing is that Life is Strange is just overall better at branching the choices than many of Telltale's games but allot of the time you'll probably find that games such as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead Season One, Guardians of the Galaxy and Batman: The Enemy Within have far superior story branching than LiS. Plus, when it comes to story branching, Life is Strange made every decision moot when it came to the finale as nothing you did really shaped Max or the ending and they were even more biased than Telltale was with their endings.

    Max is a pretty generic character, what we know about her is that she's an antisocial photography student who stopped speaking to her friend after leaving her home town, what makes her character interesting is really just her power to time travel, which never gets an explanation. Chloe is an easily dis-likable character but in all honesty, Before The Storm made me love and sympathize with her character greatly, I hope the 'Farewell' bonus episode does something for Max. However, compare these to the Telltale's characters:

    • Lee - a man who murdered a Senator who was sleeping with his ex and now has responsibility over a young girl in a post apocalyptic world.
    • Clementine - a young girl who has lost everyone she cares about and has to learn the harsh realities of the post apocalyptic world.
    • Javier - a man who lost allot of his family and is now responsible for taking care of the family he has left in a post apocalyptic world where humans have become the main enemies.
    • Michonne - a woman who lost everyone she loved in the post apocalyptic world and is struggling to overcome the shadows of her past.
    • Bigby - The Big Bad Wolf is now a detective and guardian for a community of hidden magical creatures that still resent him for his past misdeeds.

    What I'm trying to get at here is that Telltale's protagonists are far more interesting, at least in my personal opinion, they've got more context to their story, they have allot of development and they have memorable personalities. Of course, some characters such as Jesse and Mira may not strike as very interesting but they still have the personality and story that immerses the player.

    I partially agree with the dialogue, but being a Teenager myself, I can't say that it was completely off in it's depiction, however, I do feel like allot of the dialogue was largely hindered due to the lack of emotional expression from the characters' voices, faces and even body language, it doesn't help that the lip-syncing was rather off-putting either.

    What ruined Life is Strange for me was the time travel puzzle sequence that was prominent throughout episode 5, it made me feel nauseous and I found it largely unnecessary and like you said, they didn't exactly capitalize on most of the choices we made but Telltale doesn't always do any better, The Walking Dead: Season Two for one, has the worst story branching I've seen thus far, which choices literally being resolved minutes later and never being brought up again, and don't even get me started on A New Frontier, Michonne or Minecraft: Story Mode Season Two.

    Overall I still very much enjoyed Life is Strange but I think that people heavily overlook all of Telltale's games apart from The Walking Dead Season One.

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    Oh, this is going to be all too fun.

    Life is Strange is one of the most overrated games ever made. I CANNOT see why people praise it as one of the best games. It looks to be a video game adaptation of the Twilight franchise.

    It has horrible characters like Max and Chloe, two protagonists that are beloved because....why again? Chloe is one of the most selfish generic assholes I would never be friends with, she blames all her friends and family for her problems when some of them are actually on her, she treats David like shit for no reason (There weren't any signs that David was a dick to Chloe BEFORE her) and thinks it's okay for Max to choose to save her over Arcadia Bay where her mother was still there. Max is just wtf? There is nothing cool about her, she is a coward, she was forced to be on Chloe's side all the time, her dream self pointed out her stupid decisions and true Max thinks none of that is her fault.

    It's full of plot holes someone doesn't bother to point out like:

    • Where did Max's rewind power come from? It is and will always be described as nothing but Ex-Machina cause the game never bothered to explain. Theories don't mean shit to me.
    • Chloe managed to get a car from a motherfucking junkyard, a place where no fixable cars are supposed to be. Also, she knew how to fix it without reading any tips.
    • What was Jefferson's motivation of drugging and killing teenagers again?
    • Max ran out of power when she was about to rescue Kate but she recovers it when she, Jefferson, Nathan and David end up at the principal's office. Also, she used a freeze power which was never used again later on.
    • End of Before the Storm Episode 1. WHAT. THE FUCK. HAPPENED???
    • Max's first time using the rewind power brings her back to class where she was previously located but when you use the rewind power again, she stays in the same place where you stand right now.
    • When you sacrifice Arcadia Bay, both Max and Chloe just walk away from town, not searching for survivors or even their friends and family (Chloe's mother). Is that a heroic thing? Everyone who chose that option in the first playthrough is no hero.
    • Rachel had a crush on Frank but Before The Storm never pointed that out or explained why. We never even see both of them talk face to face.

    The dialogue in this franchise is nothing but cringeworthy, WHO THE FUCK USES "HELLA" or "WOWSERS"? I swear those devs don't know shit about teenage or college life. The endings of the original game ruined all the decisions you made and Before The Storm just created more plot holes.

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    Wow you really hate this game a lot don't you ? Also i really don't understand why Deck Nine made the second game.And why it actually exists seeing as the second game just created more plot holes like you said.

    AronDracula posted: »

    Oh, this is going to be all too fun. Life is Strange is one of the most overrated games ever made. I CANNOT see why people praise it as o

  • It didn't even need to exist because:

    • It won't have anything to do with Season 2 since Dontnod confirmed it will be a new story.
    • It told a story about characters that everyone knows what their fates are. Also, Rachel's backstory didn't add anything, they managed to make act like a bitch just Chloe and Max. It's just stupid.
    iFoRias posted: »

    Wow you really hate this game a lot don't you ? Also i really don't understand why Deck Nine made the second game.And why it actually exists seeing as the second game just created more plot holes like you said.

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    I thought Life is Strange was great. The story, the indie music, the mellow atmosphere, the relationship between Max and Chloe; it all added up to a great experience. The endings, though, could've been better. And the origin of Max's powers could've been revealed too.

    I wouldn't compare LiS to Telltale Games. They're different styles of games. I like them both equally.

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    I liked the first game but ever since BtS came out and the series became popular its become a bit overrated. Plus, I don’t really think it’s fair to compare LiS to TWD

  • Even if I cringed a lot of times because of the dialogue and at the part where Kate was about to commit suicide I couldn't concentrate because of the lip syncing. I really liked it until the sacrifice option came and fucked up everything. Since the ending I've been thinking: Max knew that the storm was coming, couldn't she warn everyone to get the fuck out of Arcadia Bay so the storm wouldn't kill anyone. Everyone would believe her because of the signs: the dead whales, two moons, etc.

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    Where did Max's rewind power come from? It is and will always be described as nothing but Ex-Machina cause the game never bothered to explain. Theories don't mean shit to me.

    Did it need explaining? Does it need explaining why Aladdin rubs a lamp and genie pops up to grant 3 wishes? I personally don't think an explanation was needed. It was supernatural.

    Chloe managed to get a car from a motherfucking junkyard, a place where no fixable cars are supposed to be. Also, she knew how to fix it without reading any tips.

    I don't see the problem. I have known a few people who have found junk people have chucked out and made use of it. Chloe knows about cars as shown in BTS when she cut David off when he was trying to tell her about something related to the car or whatever it was. She obviously learnt how to fix up cars somewhere in her life. It doesn't need explaining. That's like saying "how did Glenn know that sparkplugs can turn car windows into tissue paper". It's just not important enough.

    What was Jefferson's motivation of drugging and killing teenagers again?

    He explained this in his weird disturbed way, that he was obsessed in capturing the image of drugged students/people as when they are helpless like that, their expression is pure and true instead of posed. The killing part only occurred after it all went to shit for him

    Max ran out of power when she was about to rescue Kate but she recovers it when she, Jefferson, Nathan and David end up at the principal's office.

    Max actually says "my head is killing but i think i can rewind again now".

    Also, she used a freeze power which was never used again later on.

    Because on that occasion she was trying harder to rewind than she had done previously.

    End of Before the Storm Episode 1. WHAT. THE FUCK. HAPPENED???

    That doesn't bother me either. I personally think this is just something to nit pick.

    Max's first time using the rewind power brings her back to class where she was previously located but when you use the rewind power again, she stays in the same place where you stand right now.

    Ok so say this is an oversight. Let's talk about the millions of games and films that have had errors in.

    When you sacrifice Arcadia Bay, both Max and Chloe just walk away from town, not searching for survivors or even their friends and family (Chloe's mother). Is that a heroic thing? Everyone who chose that option in the first playthrough is no hero.

    This was a terrible ending and i think it was obvious the writers didn't make any effort into it because it's not the "canon" ending most felt sacrificing Chloe was.

    Rachel had a crush on Frank but Before The Storm never pointed that out or explained why. We never even see both of them talk face to face.

    Because she didn't hook up with Frank until after BTS. It was during 2011-13 when that happened. I'm pretty sure there was a date on one of David's files that indicated this.

    It's fine you don't like the game Aron, i loved it though. It's not everyone's cup of tea, mostly because i reckon it's to do with the teenagey-high school type feel that it has. Despite the awful lip syncing problems, and questionable slang used in the game, i felt the praise it got was well and truly deserved. All of the characters were developed a damn sight better than anyone from ANF i can tell you that! I cared more about someone like Dana the cheerleader than ANYONE from ANF and that is saying something when she was only a minor character! The story kept me engaged from start to finish with the whole mystery behind Rachel's disappearance and who was involved etc. Episode 5 was admittedly a let down but nothing is perfect and i accept that. Choices felt like they mattered most of the time unlike the majority of Telltale's games after 2012.

    The thing i liked most about the game was the beautiful soothing game score and the general scenery of Arcadia Bay as well as the emotional moments during the game that i am a sucker for. I still prefer TWD S1 over LIS, but both are brilliant games for me.

    AronDracula posted: »

    Oh, this is going to be all too fun. Life is Strange is one of the most overrated games ever made. I CANNOT see why people praise it as o

  • Did it need explaining? Does it need explaining why Aladdin rubs a lamp and genie pops up to grant 3 wishes? I personally don't think an explanation was needed. It was supernatural.

    I don't think leaving a major point unanswered was good idea in my opinion. Look at TWD Season 1, Stranger's station wagon wasn't left to be there just for convenience, for Lee's group to find food.

    That doesn't bother me either. I personally think this is just something to nit pick.

    Nope, Episode 2 and 3 never solved Rachel's actions at the end of Episode 1. She kicked the burning garbage can and that blowing wind came at the same time Rachel screamed. The wildfire also went nowhere in the story.

    Max actually says "my head is killing but i think i can rewind again now".

    Then why doesn't she try to rewind if she fails to save Kate? Cause she looked fine after a few minutes talking with Kate.

    It's fine you don't like the game Aron, i loved it though. It's not everyone's cup of tea, mostly because i reckon it's to do with the teenagey-high school type feel that it has.

    I know, I just thought it was just an okay game, until I met the fanbase. They did nothing but make things worse. I remember someone telling someone else to kill themselves if they hate LIS or prefer other games over.

    Despite the awful lip syncing problems, and questionable slang used in the game, i felt the praise it got was well and truly deserved.

    I understand why people like it but I just don't see why they consider it one of the best games ever made, cause there is nothing SOOOO great about it. I had no connection to any characters except Kate Marsh, there are a lot of plot points that went nowhere, the dialogues were just awful and the endings destroyed every choice you made in the entire game. The whole point of this game was just kill Chloe Price, game over. What's also confusing is that people love or feel sympathy for Chloe for some reason. Chloe always blamed her friends and family for her problems when most of them were caused by her, she treated David like shit for no reason in BTS and thought it was a good idea to hang out with assholes like Rachel instead of focusing on school.

    All of the characters were developed a damn sight better than anyone from ANF i can tell you that! I cared more about someone like Dana the cheerleader than ANYONE from ANF and that is saying something when she was only a minor character!

    Nothing to say here. I hate both games equally.

    Choices felt like they mattered most of the time unlike the majority of Telltale's games after 2012.

    Nope, Tales from the Borderlands did have choices that actually mattered.

    dan290786 posted: »

    Where did Max's rewind power come from? It is and will always be described as nothing but Ex-Machina cause the game never bothered to explai

  • Hella, amarite?

    AronDracula posted: »

    Oh, this is going to be all too fun. Life is Strange is one of the most overrated games ever made. I CANNOT see why people praise it as o

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    Forgot to reply to this as well.

    It has horrible characters like Max and Chloe, two protagonists that are beloved because....why again?

    I don't think they are horrible. Max comes across as a shy, yet quirky maybe even geekish girl, Chloe's character doesn't need explaining because it speaks for itself and many don't like her (Kenny number 2 perhaps?). Their relationship as best friends relates to a lot of people. We get an image of their past lives through dialogue as well as Max's parents and friends from Seattle, the interests/hobbies both characters have. We certainly get a lot more from Dontnod than Telltale give our characters these days.

    Chloe is one of the most selfish generic assholes I would never be friends with, she blames all her friends and family for her problems when some of them are actually on her, she treats David like shit for no reason

    She is selfish, she is an asshole numerous times but again me being the positive polly here, i see the good things about her more than the bad most always target and i often understand why she acts the way she does. She lost the most important man in her life and people won't know what it's like to lose a parent unless they themselves have experienced it. I lost my dad 6 years ago and the pain never really goes away. You get over it but inside there is always something missing. Chloe dealt with her loss hard and though she shouldn't blame others for her messed up life, it's her way of letting her grief out, same as the way Kenny behaves most of the time in TWD. Chloe acknowledges her faults and apologises to Max for the way she acted over Kate in one scene and her final dialogue at the end of the game she herself goes on about what a shitty person she has been. David did not deserve the treatment he got from Chloe i agree but looking at it from her point of view, this was a guy replacing her dad whom was completely different to her kind, loving father and instead a very strict, former army soldier. He was shown to slap her depending on your choice in LIS and Chloe states "that's the last time" which implies he has slapped her before which he has no right to do whether she deserved a slap or not. Given the way David got into Max and Kate's faces when we first saw him, he did seem like an asshole who was hard to live with so i can understand how Chloe felt having someone like him replacing your dad like that. I also see the good in David as well especially in Episode 5.

    and thinks it's okay for Max to choose to save her over Arcadia Bay where her mother was still there

    That's not actually true. She begs Max to do the right thing and goes on about how selfish she is and even says "My mom and stepdad don't deserve to die in a fucking diner". She never once said it's ok for Max to choose to save her over the bay.

    Max is just wtf? There is nothing cool about her, she is a coward, she was forced to be on Chloe's side all the time, her dream self pointed out her stupid decisions and true Max thinks none of that is her fault.

    The character of Max was never intended to be "cool". Her cowardice to decisions at times is a realistic human trait and the player doesn't have to be on Chloe's side all the time at all. But regardless, they are best friends and friends don't always agree with each other anyway. Max thinks none of what is her fault? Max blames herself for everything that had happened. She says so a few times.

    Anyhoo, as i said before, it's fine that you don't like the game. Everyone reacts to games differently obviously. It would be a boring world if we didn't all have our own views. I just disagree with pretty much most of what you said. At least we both support Kenny though right? :)

    AronDracula posted: »

    Oh, this is going to be all too fun. Life is Strange is one of the most overrated games ever made. I CANNOT see why people praise it as o

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    I don't think leaving a major point unanswered was good idea in my opinion. Look at TWD Season 1, Stranger's station wagon wasn't left to be there just for convenience, for Lee's group to find food.

    Fair enough.

    Nope, Episode 2 and 3 never solved Rachel's actions at the end of Episode 1. She kicked the burning garbage can and that blowing wind came at the same time Rachel screamed. The wildfire also went nowhere in the story.

    Fine but for me it's not a big deal.

    Then why doesn't she try to rewind if she fails to save Kate? Cause she looked fine after a few minutes talking with Kate.

    Because she couldn't. At that time her powers weren't working because she overdid it before getting to the roof, something she clearly said in the scene.

    I know, I just thought it was just an okay game, until I met the fanbase. They did nothing but make things worse. I remember someone telling someone else to kill themselves if they hate LIS or prefer other games over.

    I can see why you would feel that way. The people that said that they should kill themselves if they hate LIS are fucking idiots and you and i both know that. They are just immature morons. Not everyone is like that though obviously.

    I understand why people like it but I just don't see why they consider it one of the best games ever made, cause there is nothing SOOOO great about it.

    Well that's where the matter of opinion comes into it. Which is fair enough. It's not a perfect game but then neither is any other one either. As far as a story, characterisation, setting etc goes, i rate it highly. Not so much for some of the game's glitches or lip syncing as i said before.

    I had no connection to any characters except Kate Marsh

    I felt like every character had some form of decent development or something interesting that explains a bit about their background and that is one of the key things i look for in story told games like this. Fair enough though if you didn't. It's perhaps that because the game wasn't interesting to you when playing you may not have felt anything for any of the characters. But it's cool.

    there are a lot of plot points that went nowhere, the dialogues were just awful and the endings destroyed every choice you made in the entire game. The whole point of this game was just kill Chloe Price, game over.

    I replied to the same point in my other post about this i think.

    What's also confusing is that people love or feel sympathy for Chloe for some reason.

    Again i explained this in my other post too. She lost her dad the way she did which is a major reason people felt sad for her so i wouldn't say there was no reason for it. There's also Rachel, her other best friend who went missing and people obviously felt sympathy for her with that too.

    and thought it was a good idea to hang out with assholes like Rachel instead of focusing on school.

    Well teenagers will be teenagers right? I think most of us bunked off school back in the day so again this is realistic. I wouldn't say Rachel was an asshole though but again i see why you'd think so.

    Nope, Tales from the Borderlands did have choices that actually mattered.

    I said the majority of their games. I enjoyed Tales for it’s humour and characters but i still didn’t think it was an outstanding game

    AronDracula posted: »

    Did it need explaining? Does it need explaining why Aladdin rubs a lamp and genie pops up to grant 3 wishes? I personally don't think an exp

  • When people use that argument about how "cancer" the Life Is Strange fanbase is honestly i just think it's stupid,it's not cancer at all when you compare it to the Kenny fanbase from this forum who would be willing to insult you just to defend a character,there's even people on reddit who talked about how they didn't like episode 3 because it felt rushed so yeah i've seen worse.

  • I like it because it's an original property, unlike telltale games. Though I don't believe the series is superior to telltale games.

  • I think this is the most controversial question you could have asked. People will have their pitchforks and torches ready by the end of the week.

    But to answer, I didn’t really like Life is Strange. I enjoyed the first episode, after that I have no clue what happened, I just lost interest. Flash forward, I binge the season to get ready for Before The Storm. I regretted that decision.

  • I remember playing the first episode after that we waited so much time for the second one there's even a website (4chan ?) who leaked the second episode before it was finished.after that i myself too began to lose interest,luckily i had the chance to be there when episode 4 came out that episode was amazing.

    I think this is the most controversial question you could have asked. People will have their pitchforks and torches ready by the end of the

  • The one thing I dislike about episodic games is the one thing that’s inevitable: wait times.

    I’ll give props to Life is Strange, with the graphics and scenes they had, the waits were usually worth it. I didn’t really like the style of the characters as much as I did the style of the scenes.

    Branching off here, The Walking Dead Season One had different locations every episode, much like Life is Strange. They both had hubs that you could explore and characters that you could have a conversation with and it wouldn’t be the “Hey Ben. Hey. See ya. Yeah.” , it would sometimes be a worthwhile conversation whether it contributed to the story or not. With Life is Strange, you could be real clever about Max’s rewind power and use it for those conversations. That’s something I really disliked about later Telltale games, specifically A New Frontier. It lacked hubs, it lacked new locations, and it lacked conversations that could really flesh out characters.

    iFoRias posted: »

    I remember playing the first episode after that we waited so much time for the second one there's even a website (4chan ?) who leaked the se

  • Not all Kenny fans are like that thanks. I could equally say the Jane fan base is cancerous but i won’t go into that.

    iFoRias posted: »

    When people use that argument about how "cancer" the Life Is Strange fanbase is honestly i just think it's stupid,it's not cancer at all whe

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    I know,just saying the Life Is Strange fanbase is not that bad,i remember arguing about the Last Of Us fans that's..Something else.

    dan290786 posted: »

    Not all Kenny fans are like that thanks. I could equally say the Jane fan base is cancerous but i won’t go into that.

  • And with those words...I was summoned.

    Actually I cannot believe it..but I agree with dan on everything he said about LiS and the sequel.

    The wind thing at the end of episode one of BtS was artistic license to show Rachel's anger and flood of emotions about seeing her dad kiss that woman.

    The fire was important as it represented Rachel's power over Chloe. Fire blinds us with beauty. When Rachel is stabbed and in danger of dying...the fire goes out. The situation has changed where it is now that they have an equal level of control in the relationship represented by the idea that Chloe could destroy Rachel's family in an instant if she tells her the truth.

    Sure LiS and BtS are not perfect....hell I could write less cringey dialogue in my sleep....but the story is sound, and unlike Telltale, the devs for both of those games have not forgotten the idea of hubs...interactions with minor characters...and feels. Oh and let's also address the elephant in the room...they do not cheat you on episode length either.

    dan290786 posted: »

    Not all Kenny fans are like that thanks. I could equally say the Jane fan base is cancerous but i won’t go into that.

  • Let's not forget the best part of the game : The tabletop game,that was amazing so happy they bring it back in episode 3.

    And with those words...I was summoned. Actually I cannot believe it..but I agree with dan on everything he said about LiS and the sequel.

  • It’s as i said to you one time, that if we aren’t discussing Kenny, you’ll probably discover that we may have a lot in common :)

    And with those words...I was summoned. Actually I cannot believe it..but I agree with dan on everything he said about LiS and the sequel.

  • Oh, you mean Life is Tumblr? :D

  • Life is strange is just boring to me, the characters are boring and the atmosphere is even more boring... But I guess the game just isn’t for me.
    I also think the dialogue is bad and the main villain of the first season was terrible. Saying that Lis has feels is something extremely subjective.
    Bts seemed pointless, we never learn why Max got the powers...
    And the ending where you kill the whole town just to stay with Chloe is completely ridiculous.

  • For me Life is Strange was an ok game but I do have my problems with it. I want to start off with Chloe. She was one of my favorite characters in the game and it annoys me of how they killed her off in the last episode. I mean come on, the point of the whole season was to keep her alive. And even if if you do keep her alive, all of Arcadia Bay gets destroyed. Also why does Chloe allow Max to destroy Arcadia Bay just to let her live? I mean she cares about her mom, stepdad, and all the friends she made at Blackwell. It just seemed out of character for me. Another thing that bothers me is the illusion of choice. Alot of people say that Life is Strange choices matter more then Telltale games but I just don't see it. All the choices in the game don't really have a good impact, pretty much the same amount of impact that Telltale games have. For example saving Alyssa five times should have been more rewarding for the player. And there's no choice that saves Chloe that doesn't destroy all of Arcadia Bay. One of the things I wished for was that there would be an explanation to Max's time travel powers, since it seemed pointless after episode 5. I really wanted to love this game since I heard and watched other people play it. And I tried to have Max make friends with almost everyone in the game. I was really disappointed. Now I'm not saying it's bad because it does have it's ups. I liked some of the characters that were introduced in the game. Max I thought was a really well done character for being a geek girl. Chloe's character I loved because of her style. The ambiance was good and I loved the music that played. Because I was disappointed though, I didn't bother buying LiS Before the Storm when it came out. But later on I bought it because my mom ended up enjoying playing the first two episodes of Life is Strange so I had her play episodes 1-3 of Before the Storm before playing episode 3. My mom and friends enjoyed playing Before the Storm so I might end up playing it in the future.

  • Fair enough. I certainly didn’t find the game, characters and atmosphere boring at all but its as i said, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. The dialogue had it’s cringe moments but I appreciated that they were attempting to create new slang words i guess. Jefferson i thought was a great twist being the villain. And the feels are subjective?? Well those that aren’t into the game would obviously feel that way but i hit me hard in some places because the moments were very realistic to me.

    I think they did a much better job than Telltale have in the last few years is all i am saying. I haven’t been invested in a story game like LIS since TWD S1

    Box Tv posted: »

    Life is strange is just boring to me, the characters are boring and the atmosphere is even more boring... But I guess the game just isn’t fo

  • The choices “felt” like they mattered as your choices were brought up frequently through dialogue, more noticeable than Telltales these days i think is the best way of putting it. A choice that had an affect for example is if you didn’t report Nathan to the principle and then accused him at the end of episode 2, Max gets suspended but it is Nathan who gets the suspension if you had reported him. It’s noticeable things like that where the choices made it feel relevant. Even when talking to the minor characters, things you say to them is later brought up in episodes and it’s good how they remembered the smallest detail to bring up in conversation. It reminded me of the way TWD S1 was at times

    Menofthe214 posted: »

    For me Life is Strange was an ok game but I do have my problems with it. I want to start off with Chloe. She was one of my favorite charact

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    I like how they didn't forget about Kate after episode 2 if she's alive.

    Edit : They apparently added the scene with Kate at the hospital because the fans liked Kate so much i didn't even know that it's amazing !

    dan290786 posted: »

    The choices “felt” like they mattered as your choices were brought up frequently through dialogue, more noticeable than Telltales these days

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    Yeah I understand it's not for me, it was a cool twist but the way he was developed in ep 5 was bad... I don’t like some new Telltale Games either, although I am really enjoying Batman.

    dan290786 posted: »

    Fair enough. I certainly didn’t find the game, characters and atmosphere boring at all but its as i said, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Th

  • I didn’t know they added the hospital scene because the fans loved Kate but i am glad they did! It made the episode longer too

    iFoRias posted: »

    I like how they didn't forget about Kate after episode 2 if she's alive. Edit : They apparently added the scene with Kate at the hospital because the fans liked Kate so much i didn't even know that it's amazing !

  • I actually agree with you about Jefferson in episode 5. It kinda came out of nowhere his psychotic behaviour and shouting at Max along with his creepy talk about capturing her in his images. At the same time though i guess we have to acknowledge that he was hiding the “real” him until ep 5.

    I haven’t played Batman but a lot of people seem to like it. I just don’t want to buy anything else from Telltale anymore though. I may watch some lps on YouTube sometime to see what the fuss is about though

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    Yeah I understand it's not for me, it was a cool twist but the way he was developed in ep 5 was bad... I don’t like some new Telltale Games either, although I am really enjoying Batman.

  • Graphics and animations look like clay. It looks like Telltale Guardians with 1/10th the budget

  • I think that is strange how there are people that can feel so much love in their heart and there are those that cannot and are hurting people in one or another way.

  • I acttualy like it

  • I really love Life is Strange I just wish that we got some explanation to why Max had the ability to rewind time because that was never explained.

  • Life is Strange is truly unique. Very insightful. Max was a cool protagonist character. So was Chloe and others who showed personality.

    Even though why the reason of Max's time rewind ability was never explained, I was alright with not knowing. Some things are best left a mystery or unknown.

    The animation of the game was breathtaking and the music really can touch your soul.

    Confession: When Kate was about to commit suicide, I chose my dialogue choices carefully and went with my gut and despite my efforts, she leapt. Online I looked and saw every dialogue option I made except for the last one was the right one (hand of God). So, I could have continued with the game but because of that one miss, I'd have saved her. I restarted and choose the right option and saved her life.

    I know, I know I should've went on despite of that one choice, but after the abuse Kate went through in the game, I felt she deserved better and I'm glad I what I had done.

    Aside from that, Life is Strange is truly one of a kind.

  • I hated LiS...until I didn't. My first playthrough was a quick just get it done deal because I picked the game up for 5 bucks on humble....but seeing everyone talking it up...I went back and played it the way it should be...reading the journal and exploring every thing....it was an entirely new game. When we get to the Dark Room...it sent chills...Preacher's talk about evil and all that ...but this, this was raw evil. Jefferson was a serial rapist without the rape part....he just stole their innocence and kept the moment they understood that life was unfair as a photo. David had the right idea...someone like that needs killing. Also the game's outcome, there was no fair way it could end. Either you sacrifice Chloe who you love...or you let Acradia Bay die...killing your classmates...Chloe's mom...and the good folk you met. LiS should have been called Life is not Fair...and that is the truth.

  • Life is strange is a great game. And I am excited for the 2nd game, more than TWD.

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