/lisg/ - Life is Strange General #651

youtube.com/watch?v=N9QkVCpTokg

Reminder that Rachel is garbage and Max is best girl

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Yarrr! Arrr! This is going to be the best Life is Strange episode everr!

youtube.com/watch?v=19z8RzlatS4

Chloe is #1

Reminder to go back to your room and take your meds, Max

youtu.be/vrXpFh2IHZY
>we were younger

That's for damn sure

Well?

Before Episode 5's release:
>Lol Mari's theories're shitty.It's way more than shitty to become true
>Chloe has to die thing doesn't make sense.Don't worry they will come with unpredictable story
>We're gonna learn everything about Max's powers,Rachel and Prescotts even Nathan,spirit animals..
>Jefferson knows about Max's powers
>Nathan,Frank,David or Samuel's gonna save us
>Victoria's with Max,she'll save her
>(After seeing Cemetery scene from leaks) I'm sure it'll be Williams,Rachel's or Kate's grave.
>Rachel's the doe and Butterfly and probably we'll see her in Max's dream
>Blue Jay's Chloe

After Episode 5's release:
>Mari's shitty cliche theory became right
>We visited the SF art gallery for 3 seconds. FOR 3 DAMN SECONDS
>Jefferson became a silly bad guy from Disney
>David came to save us.He's a former-soldier but he can't even fight,just listens teenager's orders. Even he doesn't know she has some time travel powers.
>Victoria's with us in the dark room.Laying there and we can talk her or not.Just it.
>Nathan get killed,Victoria too
>Nathan knew something about the storm but they cut it.
>Warren explained Max's powers(!)(thanks warryn) We found out her power causes/related with Chaos Theory and storm.It's not like we didn't know or something.
>Storm is only coming for Bay because Chloe lives in there but Max's the one who keep changes the time
>Prescotts story erased.Nobody even mention their name.
>Rachel's story fucked too.She isn't or butterfly,bluejay just spiritualdoe
>Spirit animals thing died.Blue Butterfly's storm summoner just it.
>Chloe dies again in one of endings (unpredictable) It gives you a lesson: You shouldn't have used your power.And you shouldn't play this game.Now erase your choices and cry like a bitch.
>The other ending's short but it's less cliché than other.We saved Chloe,storm's hit the town and gone.That's it
>So, once again we got the fact that our ending always will be BAE>Bay

the way chloe says "yeah" always gets me
you can just tell how happy she is in that moment

NEWLYWEDS
youtube.com/watch?v=tq-TU7x5Sm8

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>yfw thread 666 is probably gonna end up on the hell is empty release date

Alejandro: "As far as I know, the LIS TV show is still happening."

Blackwell Podcast: "Have you guys thought about implementing decisions you make in BTS carrying over into LIS?"

Alejandro: We haven't really thought about that. Dontnod has moved on from S1 to S2. D9...uh...I think it'd be lovely for decisions from the prequel to carry over.

Alejandro: "If you listen to Burn it Down, it fits perfectly for both Chloe and Rachel. Everyone has high expectations of Rachel. But you see her admit to Chloe that she just wants to be herself. Finding Chloe is that person that makes Rachel feel different."

Jesus CHrist that's terrifying.

>slutty catholic school girl Kate
Vicky would literally have a heart attack

Zak: "When creating Rachel we wanted someone who could take Chloe out of her grief, out of her belief that there was nothing good in her life and that she didn't deserve to feel happy anymore. We wanted you to watch Chloe change and grow and become capable of caring about something, about someone. Someone who would empower her to transmute all the pain that she's been feeling for years into strength, so that she can be strong for Rachel, someone who hasn't needed other people to be strong for her before. Rachel gave Chloe a person she wanted to fight for, someone to be heroic for."

Zak: "For the Tempest, we wanted the player to feel how Chloe would feel as Rachel swept her off her feet. It says something about Rachel that's she's so comfortable and confident on stage that she's willing to turn the scene of the school play, in front of everyone, into a moment that will make Chloe feel special. In the next scene, we see that love consummated."

Zak: "We didn't intend to deliberately have Samantha represent autism but she does show signs of being...on the spectrum... Nathan's a character whom people in the fandom have diverse opinions about. Samantha was a way to explore that"

Zak: "I'm not a fan of Warren, Nathan or David."

What's the rarest pairing that's not total trash and has potential? So not Grahamfield but something like Pricemarsh or Chaseprice or Amberfield.

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Christian Divine: I chose to let Warren beat up Nathan, so he could have his alpha moment. A scary alpha movement too, it shows Warren's got something pretty hardcore inside him too.

Christian Divine: Max being autistic is up to how the players played the game. There's no canon for describing all the characters.

Christian Divine: I was surprised that the omelette or waffle choice was so difficult for people. I prefer omelette's and waffles to pancakes.

Power of Pricefield cured alt!Chloe from her paralysis giving her the ability to move her hand and give the thumbs up,

archiveofourown.org/works/10279478/chapters/22757045
This is probably one of the cuter AU where Max and Chloe never met fanfics I've read

Always kiss the Price

I am going to cry if that music plays in the Farewell episode.

Michel: I’m a vegetarian. I prefer waffles to omlette.

Michel/Luc: “We can't say anything about S2. We’re working hard on it (even on a sunday!)”.

Luc: My favorite scene is waking up in Chloe's room in EP3 and deciding when to get out of bed. To me it speaks to the core of the game, which is to enjoy the moment.

Michel/Luc: The flag in Chloe's room was originally going to have swear words written all over it ("the worst swear word even") but Square said no. So we placed it upside down as a different form of protest.

Michel: What would we change about the game? We're really happy with the game we made, I don't think we would like to change much things. I think in EP5, we could've improved Jefferson's monologue in the dark room because it's a bit long. I think, like in the game, you shouldn't look back into the past and try to change things.

Michel: We were surprised about the polarized reaction to Warren. He was just a regular teenager with hormones, trying to flirt and being pushy...and slightly creepy. He's just a general portrayal of most male teenagers in this situation. Ultimately though, he is a good person with good intentions. I relate to Warren in that he made mistakes in the past but is ultimately a good person. I really like him. I know alot of people aren't fond of Warren, but the pictures in Warren's locker that we see in Max's nightmare, they are not representative of the real Warren. The locker is just a representation of Max's fears and insecurities that you can have about someone.

Michel/Luc - Regarding, cut content (escaping from the hospital): "It was planned for EP5 to have Max escape from Hospital to save Joyce and Warren, like she saves people when she's walking through the town. But we found it wasn't necessary in the end".

Michel: We chose blue hair for Chloe because we liked the look. Idk where Chloe got her necklace.

Michel: The homeless lady was just a homeless lady.

Chaseprice according to ArchiveofourOwn

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
instaud.io/kVV

>eat your own foot
instaud.io/kWb

It's kinda the perfect song when you take into account what they became in LiS
Show how simple and fun things were as kids then contrast with how messed up things got later but also how they'll make their way through the blizzard eventually

Michel: Regarding the endings, we always planned for 2 endings. We really wanted this final choice, the whole game was building up to this choice, who is more important: Chloe or the people in the town? You have to sacrifice something.

We think growing up and having to choose to sacrifice something was really important. If you want to grow up you have to sacrifice something.

We are still happy with the endings. I know some don't like them, but they're still how we want them to be. Maybe they're imperfect but you have to choose to sacrifice something and deal with it. It's what we wanted, that bittersweet not perfect ending, you can't have everything. Even with time travel, you can't have a perfect ending and a perfect life. In real life, we can never have it perfect. The game expands on this.

When you sacrifice the town, some asked why there's no epilogue. We didn't want to decide for players what happened after. YOU'RE LEAVING THE DAY AFTER THE STORM (he didn't shout this)

Of course lots of side relationships don't get tagged. I've seen WardMarsh and ChaseChristensen and WardWatson as relationships that are mentioned in the story

Blackwell Podcast: Bay or Bae?

Luc: Bae

Michel: Bay or Bae? It's a hard one. I think both are great ways to decide...it's easy for me to choose bay.

Christian: (paraphrased) Both exist. Both are canon. Given the tentative idea of time travel, there could be parallel universes.

Michel: He's not wrong (when told Christian's answer).

Michel: The supernatural elements were not the main force of the story. They're there to strengthen the story and the characters, it's not a sci-fi game but it made the game bigger because of the supernatural elements.

lol. I love this!

Why not make these interviews all one document and put it in the OP instead of spamming the thread? Same with leaks thatvget reposted every thread

Yeah, that one's really good. There's even some fanart based on it.

Ken
Yeah that's the pic that got me into the fanfic. Author commented at the end of October that they are planning on finishing it which is nice
They wrote another one which is about Rachel and Chloe dating but Chloe dumps her for Max (inb4 triggered Amberprice)

>triggered about a fanfic
who cares?

That one is great. I just wished it would update or finish.
There's some absolutely adorable scenes written and the characters dynamics are great.

This is what Kate would look like after few years of Chloe's influence (and kisses). Of course, needless to say, she's still straight edge.

That's not bad at all

>Pricemarsh
Unlike to think the omegaverse fix I posted brought this to the surface

Yup, the lyrics perfectly describe their journey. I love it! Spanish Sahara is fantastic too!

Where is punk Alice???

Holy shit! BOTH Hannah and Ashly?!
That's like a Christmas wish come early! Farewell Episode is going to be incredible.
Please keep in mind that it's not going to be some kind of epilogue or anything. It really seems to be just younger Max and Chloe before everything. Happy moments with them and possibly their facilities. It also doesn't mean there's going to be a sequel with them (As nice as it could be, I don't see it happening.)

>tfw no fics about Chloe impregnating all of Blackwell

>pic
Mah hart, mha sole

Is Victoria the cutest girl?

oops. Possibly their families.

It's one of my favorite Max and Chloe comics. If the Farewell Episode did something like that, it would be amazing. But I'd very extremely surprised if they did anything to hint to the future. Especially if they hinted to one specific ending. Which is why a sequel can't happen unless there's a big change of heart of a new ending established.

Kate thinks so

What will Deck9 do after finishing and releasing the Farewell episode? Have they made any other games besides BtS? I would love more Chloe and Max content from them.

It's a good song but the ending it plays in is entirely unacceptable
All it hints to is Max going mad... which I suppose would be fitting for it
At least she still has the photo so she can save her Chloe

Proper San Francisco ending

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_Nine

youtube.com/watch?v=Jp61fSZBaG8

C-cute

when did that happen?

Kek
That's so awkward
>It's nice Max we're having
>WOAH! --bzzt--

BtS is DN's first story game and I'm not familiar with what else they have made and do not know what they will do after. DONTNOD is working on S2 which will be something new, like they have it would be for the past two years. Maybe after that at some point in the future one/both/SE will want to return to S1's characters. But like I said, that would be a pretty big change in sentiment from any of them.

Not sure if I like that one better.
Or the one where Chloe surprises Max at the gallery after having some money saved up.

there will absolutely be a sequel with Max and Chloe. Why would they not cash in on the opportunity? We called a Rachel prequel years ago and it came true and there was even less of a reason for BtS to ever be made.

youtu.be/TAkQOuqs9kU
>I'm not living
>I'm just killing time

I like to think that in the LiS Gender Swapped Universe. it was Chris who went missing and Ryan who lived.

None of them went missing the genderswapped AU though
But I guess Chris is a real qt like Kate so he could have been a target of Mistress Jefferson

lol Chris is such a vulnerable looking femboy

Because the devs of both games have said they do not want to favor one choice over another. Nothing suggests that stance has changed.
DONTNOD remains neutral on everything (Even when it's stupid to do so at times) and Deck Nine turned down doing a sequel because they didn't want to make specific choices seem canon. It's why they chose to do a prequel instead.
I think that's a safe approach to things, especially if some idiots may try to say "Well more people picked Bay so we could reach a larger audience by making a sequel based on that." Not that I think they would foolish enough to show Max without Chloe.
If there's going to be a sequel with them then it won't be for a long time and after it becomes what they want to do.

>DONTNOD remains neutral on everything
The lead writer literally said he's a Bayest and he's shown time and again how Warren is his self-insert
Only Luc holds him back from being even worse

So Rhianna DeVries's voice is how Chloe thinks she sounds.

While Ashly Burch is how Chloe sounds to everyone else (from Max's PoV)

>why wouldn't they make a sequel with a character that dies in 50% of the endings of the previous game, a choice of majority of the players, after they specifically said they won't do it and also after they just made a game that split the fanbase even further.
Gee, I wonder

Michel may have his own personal ideas about the game and the endings but he has never forced them onto others. Nobody at DONTNOD has. He's said in the past how he's glad so many people chose to save Chloe because it shows how well they wrote her and Max's friendship/relationship.

All that stuff about Michel being some lord of tragedy that only wants to make the character suffer, and is only held in check by the other writers, is a meme. Don't take it seriously.

His face says otherwise

Hi.

I want Chad Ryan to protect him

>he has never forced them onto others
No he just gave his ending more closure while leaving the other one incredibly vague

>sacrifice sacrifice growing up you cant have it perfect sacrifice life lessons sacrifice and deal with it GIVE ME THAT BAFTA

Wow, cute beanie! Consuming paper and smoking is not good for your health!

Regardless of percentages (because those change), Bae Ending is the one ending of the two that's consistent with the rest of the game and Max's actions.

That doesn't mean there's going to be a sequel game, but SE can capitalize on Max and Chloe in other ways like novelizations of stories about them. Something that's relatively cheap to make and that people will like. There's an obvious want to see their story continued but nobody right now wants to commit to it and cut off a part of the player base.

would you hit it?

The unevenness of the endings is a problem but that's not Michel trying to stick it to people who chose Chloe. Originally, both endings were going to be equally vague.
When they changed the Hospital ending to the Bay ending, they went overboard with the stuff they put into it. They should have balanced it out by lengthening the Bae ending but it seems like they were out of time/money by that point.
Anyone saying it's the "right" or "good" ending because it's longer is an idiot. The Bay ending may be longer as a scene, but the rest of the game supports Bae.

Cutest girl
Has cutest girlfriend

>but SE can capitalize on Max and Chloe in other ways like novelizations of stories about them. Something that's relatively cheap to make and that people will like. There's an obvious want to see their story continued but nobody right now wants to commit to it and cut off a part of the player base.
I would buy the FUCK out of some Pricefield comics.

Deny it all you want, it's going to happen. You can think there's some "artistic integrity" or whatever but the fact of the matter is that the game would make a profit, that's all that's required these days. You don't find it a little telling that there's this Farewell episode in the first place? While I'm pleased it exists, it's clearly a test run to see what the market for another Max and Chloe game would be. That's why you had to pay extra for it. I don't know numbers or anything but I'm fairly certain there's been enough purchases of the deluxe version to show SE that there's a profit to be made from another Max/Chloe game. It's laughable that you think a small company like Deck 9 or DONTNOD is going to say no to work. Even if they did, Square will just get another developer. If something is popular enough, it gets sequels. It's just how the entertainment industry works.

watching their happy faces is always so magnetizing i could do it for hours, fug

I don't think that's the case at all. The Farewell Episode is a bonus because it's not vital to the story of LiS or BtS. It's not some test to see how much interest there is because they already knew there was interest.
Money is not everything in this case. Not when two LiS games are being made now and neither is a continuation or when making such a game would be telling ~50% of players of the first that they are wrong.
SE handing off the IP to another company wouldn't be wise either. We lucked out with Deck Nine since they are fans of the original. Another company may not care about anything but the money, which can result in something awful and feeling forced/soulless.

>Maybe after that at some point in the future one/both/SE will want to return to S1's characters.
I would love that. They have created such a massive fanbase with S1 and BtS; it would be pretty stupid of them to forever abandon the amazing characters we all love. Maybe they would find a way to canonize both the Bae and Bay endings in a sequel - like making separate episodes for each ending.

Officially approved publication of something like Ouroboros or an all new post-Bae story. Complete with illustrations and excerpts from the characters' journals.

>giving Michael another 12 hours to fuck around with these two
Pls no

lol if Farewell was supposed to "test" anything they would offer it as a standalone DLC

With my fist

Must Protect Chrissy

Sounds like way too much work to be viable and a game set after Bay would be fucking awful. No way to put it nicely.
If they were going to actually make a sequel then I think it would be best to do like Vale did before Portal 2, patch the ending of the first game to set up for it. Create a new ending, that saves both Chloe and Arcadia Bay, and make that canon and the basis for continuing the story. That way technically neither side is proven right and the new story isn't bogged down by having to go along with one of two endings.

Great Caesar's ghost I want this so fucking bad.