CAREFULL WITH REVIEWS! LETS BE OPTIMISTIC!

[BLYND]

Iv played life is strange since 2015 when the first game came out.
this is my favorite story game franchise.
that being said we all knew on some level that chloes death in lis1 was the canon ending. just look at how much effort went into the 2 cut scenes at the end. one clearly got the attention. While im not happy with the direction they went with chloe and max drifting apart its not unplausable. having chloe come be some one who shows up when max is struggling and helps her in some way would be a great moment how ever maybe dont review bomb the game because of behind the scenes politics and some misleading marketing. if you go with the ending of chloe is dead. then the game (so far) feels like a decent path. had the devs came out and said we are going with the ending the og writers thought was the canon and just picked for us we would be less mad. we would want chloe back but be able to enjoy the game we did get. if we wan the franchise to have a chance to succeed and get more games maybe with out max and chloe something like true colors for example. we need the game to not be negatively reviewed so much all for the same reason that if your not a massive fan of the franchise wouldn't mean anything to you. we want this game to get more people into lis and playing the older games and funding new ones. we made our selves heard now lets make sure the games rating is reflective of what we got not what we didnt. so far the story is pretty good and has promise. slower first two episodes then lis1 but way more seemingly important decisions.

[Rachel D.]

try telling that to the chole and max fans, personally you can't just tell people to be optimistic and have more people to be invested in these games it's all on the people's choice at the end of the day but it's still appreciative your trying to keep things positive.

[BLYND]

I just feel that people arent giving what we have a fair shot. Max and Chloe would have been awesome but there story was never meant to continue in the first place. as stated by the og devs. them drifting apart was a bad idea but also not unrealistic. i think they shouldnt of given us both choices if they were gonna treat the relationship like this. it was the wrong move. but we should give the bay timeline a chance. and not tarnish the release of this game before its even fully out because we dont like that the story didnt go along with our head cannon. this game seems to be a decent follow up to the bay time line. and they should of planted there feet in the ground and said this is the cannon ending we cant make a game for both. and they could even scape goat dont nod since deck nine is basically just a fanfic with validation. the actual game we have isnt bad so lets not ruin it just yet.

[BLYND]

but yes it does feel disrespectfull if your a fan of them BAE time line. not discounting that just think we are over reacting and are just gonna make the situation worse if the reviews are mostly negative apon release because of our super fandom when was the last time marvel gave u multiple endings or disney. u cant make a sequal with out pissing some one off.

[Rachel D.]

Don't get me wrong people are playing the game (or watching the playthroughs on YouTube) but its not even actually inaccurate itself, the fans know itself and the former developers know that themselves and have come out actually saying that if im not wrong. But, I see what your trying to say when the game does come out critics or average people will review the game and put their opinions on it and it just won't be stopped.

[BLYND]

if the story we get is good but not what we wanted are we gonna bomb the game because of the dumbass devs? 99 percent of studios go through this ♥♥♥♥ unfortunately now a days. depressingly we have to accept it. i have a friend who i played it with that wasnt super invested just watched a play through 9 years ago with me. he knew nothing of the behind the scenes and because he didnt come in with a bias he some how enjoyed the game more then i did. some who is a super fan.

[MAVΞS]

People act like the game disrespects one of the endings, while the game introduces a dual-dimension concept. I mean, why would it be impossible for Chloe to be alive in one world and dead in the other? We're only at chapter 2, and people are already complaining about something "missing," when this could actually happen later. If you played the first two chapters, you'd notice that the two dimensions are very different, and not just because Safi is dead in one and alive in the other. It’s a solid theory to say that Max’s new power could be linked to the choice she made in Life Is Strange 1.

And even if it never happens, to me it’s still a good game so far due to a whole bunch of well-thought-out game design decisions.

[P1nkLem0n4d3]

Neither choice is "the true canon one" still if you have played the game. Why do people keep making that claim? Like, that's clearly not the case.

In terms of whether the game will be positively reviewed or not, that's simply up to everyone. It's just as wrong to promote everyone to have to like a game, and the exact opposite.

[Marshall of the Templars]

Alas, ever since Double Exposure was first announced, a very vocal segment of the fandom were against the game's mere existence... regardless of how it ultimately turned out.

The game not going in a direction that points towards Pricefield romantic bliss is merely the final nail in the coffin for that demographic.

[P1nkLem0n4d3]

Originally posted by Marshall of the Templars:

Alas, ever since Double Exposure was first announced, a very vocal segment of the fandom were against the game's mere existence... regardless of how it ultimately turned out.

The game not going in a direction that points towards Pricefield romantic bliss is merely the final nail in the coffin for that demographic.

This also changed a little bit when it came to the reasoning. A lot of people were against it at first because they didn't want anything having to do with LIS 1 be the next game, so seeing a LIS 1 sequel had a lot of alarm bells going off for people but for very different reasons, mainly that they were afraid that it would make LIS 1 worse.

[D'oh Boy]

I think by choosing to bring Max back for a sequel, the devs created a trap for themselves. It's not realistic for them to create two different versions of a game to account for the two possible endings from the original LiS. So no matter what, Chloe had to be absent from this game (or at least most of it). It remains to be seen if the devs fumbled the ball with how they chose to remove Chloe if players come into this from the Bae ending, but right now I don't see anything so egregious as to discard this game completely.

Is a breakup an original idea? No. But I feel the little we've seen from Chloe's letter in the game justifies it a bit. She's always been an emotionally volatile character, whether or not she loves the person she's pushing away. I don't think the breakup is forever; there will be a reconciliation at the end to bring Max and Chloe together again, perhaps on a more mature path.

Honestly, they probably shouldn't have made another game with Max, but if that had to happen, Storytelling 101 dictates she needs to be missing something in her life and trying to get it back in this game. Everything can't be perfect the whole time or there is no character arc to experience, no journey of discovery. So far, the game appears to be planting seeds about ghosts of the past and dealing with an uncertain future. So of course Chloe has to be away for that to work. That doesn't mean she can't find what she's looking for, whether if it's with Chloe or someone else.

Personally, if I were in charge, I'd have put them at a crossroads in their relationship as they think about who they want to be as individuals and as a couple and have Max accept this residency while Chloe chooses to go be a roadie with a concert tour or something. While they're self-actualizing as human beings outside of the roles in their relationship, they could check in with each other over socials while Max is free to have her adventure. But that's me brainstorming about a game I don't know the destination of, so maybe it would work, maybe it wouldn't.

At any rate, I could be naive, but I really think people just need to take a deep breath and wait for the full game before getting out their pitchforks and torches. I love Max and Chloe together, and I want them to have a happy ending. Every relationship has the potential for speed bumps and detours. That doesn't invalidate anything that has come before or mean they still won't grow old together.

[JC Denton]

I'm not going to be optimistic or pessimistic, the game just isn't very good, and seems like it was written by people who didn't want to be there. I don't owe positive reviews or good PR to a vendor that isn't living up to expectations. This industry really needs to stop insulating itself from legitimate feedback, or demonizing said feedback.

[MAVΞS]

Originally posted by JC Denton:

I'm not going to be optimistic or pessimistic, the game just isn't very good, and seems like it was written by people who didn't want to be there. I don't owe positive reviews or good PR to a vendor that isn't living up to expectations. This industry really needs to stop insulating itself from legitimate feedback, or demonizing said feedback.

people saying it's not a good game never give real arguments

[JC Denton]

Originally posted by MAVΞS:

Originally posted by JC Denton:

I'm not going to be optimistic or pessimistic, the game just isn't very good, and seems like it was written by people who didn't want to be there. I don't owe positive reviews or good PR to a vendor that isn't living up to expectations. This industry really needs to stop insulating itself from legitimate feedback, or demonizing said feedback.

people saying it's not a good game never give real arguments

What sort of argument are you expecting? It isn't a good game, it isn't something you can measure, I can't show you a graph that demonstrates this game only has 3.4 good game points and falls short of the universal standard 5 good game points needed to reach good game status, it isn't an objective measurement.

It's telling that the dominant topic of the early access period is people debating whether Deck9 made it bad out of malice or incompetence though. I don't recall seeing that happen on many good games.

[Rachel D.]

Originally posted by MAVΞS:

Originally posted by JC Denton:

I'm not going to be optimistic or pessimistic, the game just isn't very good, and seems like it was written by people who didn't want to be there. I don't owe positive reviews or good PR to a vendor that isn't living up to expectations. This industry really needs to stop insulating itself from legitimate feedback, or demonizing said feedback.

people saying it's not a good game never give real arguments

You can't diss people's opinions or their arguments their gonna always come back with something my guy besides a game is always gonna have a side where someone will not like it, that's just it.

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by Rachel D.:

Originally posted by MAVΞS:

people saying it's not a good game never give real arguments

You can't diss people's opinions or their arguments their gonna always come back with something my guy besides a game is always gonna have a side where someone will not like it, that's just it.

I honestly think if they just made it so that Chloe was still with Max, but out of state for some reason, like say, a mutual Friend's wedding, Max couldn't make it due to Work at the University, so Chloe went for the both of them and could update her on what is happening at the wedding with pics and a phone call that we only hear Max talking.......that is all they had to do and, i know i would be happy about it.

But sadly.....nope, they either didn't have the imagination to think of that or they just wanted Chloe gone.