LiS is TECHNICALLY Multiplayer.

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I had a revelation of sorts while responding to a troll on a forum. While it's true that you go through LiS playing as/inhabiting one character (Max), your choices are recorded, shared with DontNod's servers, and calculated with everyone else's choices to give you the percentages you see when looking back through your choices. Real people made those choices so it begs the question: could a bot speedrun LiS and turn the percentage in one choice's favour unnaturally?

[Jaxx]

I wish there could be a multiplayer

[Ogami]

Originally posted by The Adm|nistrator:

Real people made those choices so it begs the question: could a bot speedrun LiS and turn the percentage in one choice's favour unnaturally?

No. Since every account can only upload ONE decision statistic. Meaning, if you let a bot play your game it overwrites your previous uploaded decisions and stats. So it will alsways just count as the decision of 1 user , no matter how often the bot plays the game.

Theoretically you could do this by creating like 10000 new Steam accounts, buying Life is Strange on them and then let a bot play those with certain decisions.
But why would you do that?

[Jaxx]

Maybe he is rich and crazy?

[tukkek]

Life is Strange is not multiplayer in any sense of the word. Not technically, figuratively or otherwise.

[Jeckenn]

I think maybe it is time for developers like Dontnod to take a look at developing their games for multiplayer. They would need to do a lot of research and see how multiplayer could make the adventure genre better/more fun. Do we just want to play together and collaborate on the choices?

Like I said a lot of research needs to be done to determine exactly what needs to be done to make multiplayer as good as it can be for the genre and so it does not take the genre in the wrong direction so that it becomes not as much fun...

[tukkek]

Is there any story-driven, choice-based multiplayer game at all? I mean there's RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin, which you can play the campaign in multiplayer - or even the old Neverwinter Nights GMing mode but that's a whole different style of gaming.

The only thing I can think of right now is Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. That's definitely a MMO adventure game but it's also a very different beast compared to Life is Strange.