Life is Strange - What do you think of it?

[DietCherry]

Steam had a sale on Life is Strange a bit ago, and I just got through the game, im curious to know if any of you have played it and what your thoughts were.

I read somewhere that a second season is in development for it. Does anyone know if this is true?

 

[Dunsparce]

 

[wagglyplacebo]

Its hipster trash with a good concept but shitty everything else, if you legit enjoy this game you probably drink pbr's and talk to other people about how much of an "artist" you are.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

It was basically "walking lesbian hipster simulator," and the rewind factor meant that there was literally no challenge whatsoever. Seriously, even casual shit like Angry Birds offered more of a challenge. The only moderately challenging part of the game was when you have to save the shy Christian girl from committing suicide, and that's only because it's the one part of the game that doesn't give you an infinite amount of mulligans.

I didn't hate it, though. I think it had a lot of faults which I won't really get into because I'm not in the mood to sperg about video games (well, more than I already have in this post), but I also ended up hundred percenting it.

I'm hoping that the sequel fixes a lot of the stupid shit from the first one. It had the potential to be game of the year, but misses the mark due to the selective ineptitude of the developers and writers.

 

[Watcher]

 

[Ruin]

All I know about it is that Tumblr creams their panties over it because "omg dykes."

 

[Ronald Gaygun]

It's hipster trash with kinda crappy dialogue but Chloe is cute and it's the only piece of media I've seen that references Primer so i'm obliged to love it.

 

[DuskEngine]

Time travel is never a good plot device.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I played it... I actually enjoyed it. It's kind of an awkward game with some awkward dialogue at first but the ship seems to steady during the later part of the game before the rushed final episode kind of spoils some of it. I really liked Episode 3, for example and it's one of those weird situations where the strongest part is actually the middle rather than the ending. It's very much a product of people who grew up in the 80s and 90s writing it.

Ignore the tumblr side, who pushed Max and Cloe together (along with the devs if you chose to do so) and... yeah, it's still a bit of a hispter-drive but sometimes you need to step back and just experience a story.

Life is Strange is cliche ridden, there's some awkward moments and even outright cringe. To me it was a guilty pleasure waiting for the next episode to release, there only needs to be a tiny hook to grab the next part of the story.

Soundtrack doesn't actually suck either, even if it's bands you've never heard of or will hear of again.

 

[LucasSomething]

The choices are 99% useless, it's full of plot and gameplay holes, the characters are cliche and predictable, everyone talks in some hella fucked up language and just like Legend of Korra literally nobody would remember this game if it wasn't for the lesbians but... for better or worse, the narrative entertained me more than most "interactive movie games" that usually bore me to death. Rewinding time is fun to mess around for awhile until the game decides to say "Fuck you, here is a forced choice to remind you that never had control over anything."

Your enjoyment over the game will depend a lot on how you see Chloe. If you think she is fucking bitch that blames everyone for her problems (which she is) then you will likely hate the game. If you think she is just a poor misunderstood girl who is the victim of the story and everyone else is evil (like Tumblr thinks) then you will sympathize with her and like the game. Sounds extreme but it's kinda of true, a bunch of choices are basically "side with chloe vs screw chloe".

At least we got this:

 

[Quijibo69]

I think it's like 8 bucks on the ps4 store now and I think that price is too much. I'll wait tell it's a buck or less.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Your enjoyment over the game will depend a lot on how you see Chloe. If you think she is fucking bitch that blames everyone for her problems (which she is) then you will likely hate the game. If you think she is just a poor misunderstood girl who is the victim of the story and everyone else is evil (like Tumblr thinks) then you will sympathize with her and like the game. Sounds extreme but it's kinda of true, a bunch of choices are basically "side with chloe vs screw chloe".

I'm actually going to speak up a little in defense of this, I actually played both ends quite a bit, it actually gives you a far richer story. Don't play the game as purely "I can only do this path, or this path." The good thing about the story is it being broken down more to episodes meaning certain events you can be a little bitchier.

Play both paths and it really changes the dynamic and allows the writing to shine through a lot better. They behaved, at least for me, more like friends who'd lost touch, and both had changed a little. Chloe more extremely than Max. Max also grew slightly during the story going from a seeming holding pattern in her own life to pushing herself a little, but not to the same extremes as Chloe wound up. By the very end they were good friends but no more.

I didn't even know about Max and Chloe being able to dyke out until far after I'd finished Episode Five, and it requires you to do far too much during the entire run that didn't feel natural to me, or my playthrough, I'd hit one or two of them, but again it was part of my "human" playthrough and was mostly there to get Chloe to back up and laugh at her shit talking being turned around on her.

I actually think they did that on purpose, which makes it a tiny bit clever.

So, I say don't play Life is Strange in a binary way because when you do... it does honestly suck. You either play the golden girl, or the cold bitch. Mix up the two, as the game gives you, and the story shines a lot brighter, for all its faults.

 

[TsumTsum]

I like the soundtrack and that's about it.

I thought Chloe was a self-centered bitch therefore 99% of the game's "emotional twists" didn't affect me. She was so disrespectful to everyone around her (like her well-meaning step-father) with no apology ever from her and it really really rustled my jimmies. I would have much rather spent the game with Warren or Kate.

The game could have done way better if Chloe wasn't such a horrible character. Many of the people I watched play it on youtube also expressed their pretty strong disdain for Chloe.

 

[Weenus Salesman]

It's okay. I'm not a huge fan of Chloe (because playing with guns and around train tracks is always a good idea), but the concept is pretty interesting. The illusion of choice irks me though, as it's plagues almost all games like LiS.

 

[The Great Chandler]

I like the soundtrack and that's about it.

I thought Chloe was a self-centered bitch therefore 99% of the game's "emotional twists" didn't affect me. She was so disrespectful to everyone around her (like her well-meaning step-father) with no apology ever from her and it really really rustled my jimmies. I would have much rather spent the game with Warren or Kate.

The game could have done way better if Chloe wasn't such a horrible character. Many of the people I watched play it on youtube also expressed their pretty strong disdain for Chloe.

Basically every Tumblrina personified with one person (and ADF's affinity for guns).

 

[I-chi]

It took this long for a thread to actually start up about this game?

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[Mantequilla]

I honestly really like the game, although looking back at it it really is "Tumblr: The Game".
Even then, I enjoyed the development of certain characters, the music and some of the atmosphere.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I never played it myself, but I watched the Super Best Friends playthrough of it.

 

[DumbDosh]

This clip sums up my thoughts.

 

[I-chi]

I only know about this game by watching a Canadian asylum escapee drink himself to near death over the course of a couple months playing it all out. Just to clarify.

That being said, the characters are absolute garbage and the story comes to one of the single most disappointing resolutions I've ever seen in a video game ever, but I guess it's saying SOMETHING that I got that invested into what was going on just to see it through. Didn't pay a cent for it though.