First time a "game" made me cry.

[Angrypillow]

I've seriously never had a game have this much of an emotional impact on me. Played all 5 episodes from start to finish...I've never sat and done any one thing for that long in my life. Now that it's over, I don't want to do anything else...watch tv, play other games, anything...I'm just sitting here staring at my screen dumbfounded and emotionally drained.

I didn't think it was possible to be this attached to pixels. I can't even adequately describe the mental/emotional rollercoaster this experience took me on. I don't even want to play the game a second time, because the original experience was so powerful I don't want to cheapen it.

This has forever changed how I view games. I can't thank Dontnod enough.

[Stark]

I know that feel bro...

[wtfcopter]

I know that feel too, it was the same way for me

[Jeckenn]

Yes that is why Life is Strange is a masterpiece it WILL make a grown man cry!

[Angrypillow]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

Yes that is why Life is Strange is a masterpiece it WILL make a grown man cry! :LIS_star:

I've had some pretty dark experiences in my past, and as a result I'm generally not an emotional person. In many ways that part of me is usually cut off. For a game experience to have woken that....that really says something.

[Stark]

Originally posted by DoHHeartstopper:

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

Yes that is why Life is Strange is a masterpiece it WILL make a grown man cry! :LIS_star:

I've had some pretty dark experiences in my past, and as a result I'm generally not an emotional person. In many ways that part of me is usually cut off. For a game experience to have woken that....that really says something.

it's the same for me

[HJP1]

I know the feeling! It's always been easy for me to connect with characters, and for tvshows/games to make me tear up or cry. So playing this..wonderfully beautiful experience absolutely destroyed me. It's been more than two weeks since I finished my first playthrough, and until today most of my day consists of LIS related stuff. (listening to the soundtrack, watching letsplays, posting on the forums, etc..)

And playing again is a good thing, btw. You'll see lots of small details that you missed, and notice so many new things about the characters now that you know the whole story. You don't even have to make different choices and it will still be worth it.

[Angrypillow]

Originally posted by _HJP_:

I know the feeling! It's always been easy for me to connect with characters, and for tvshows/games to make me tear up or cry. So playing this..wonderfully beautiful experience absolutely destroyed me. It's been more than two weeks since I finished my first playthrough, and until today most of my day consists of LIS related stuff. (listening to the soundtrack, watching letsplays, posting on the forums, etc..)

And playing again is a good thing, btw. You'll see lots of small details that you missed, and notice so many new things about the characters now that you know the whole story. You don't even have to make different choices and it will still be worth it. :LIS_butterfly:

In all likelihood I may end up playing again, but it will be a while.

[Capybara #PS5 Expedition 33]

It's a masterpiece of feels rides ^_^! 5th-6th time for me maybe, but I never cried so much before from a game. Noooot even close. Previous ones being FF 7-8 (maybe 9 can't remember), MGS 3-4 and MGSV.

I can't seem to enjoy other games well after playing LIS. Its all I think about since I finished month ago. Playing it again is awesome but the first time is always most spectacular.

[Legend]

ikr the game makes people sad and happy at the same time is masterpiece of emotions

[A Temu Vape]

This game was a damn rollercoaster of emotions for me.

It's been what, two months now?
I still feel empty.

[76561198268928911]

Same here. Two months since I finished it for the first time and I'm still thinking about it every day... *sigh*

If you ask me when was the last time I cried before this game I couldn't answer because I just don't remember.

This game will ♥♥♥♥ your feelings and you won't want it to stop.

Game of the century.

[Weiner]

I feel same, thanks for describing my feels, thats why it is awesome game. I must take a little break before playing it again. I am replaying songs from soundtrack and still thinking about the game. Thinking about what play now, when it ended :(

[Jeckenn]

As for playing LiS again, I have 183 hours into it on my Steam account and I can't begin to even count how many times I have played it. I came on board just after episode 2 released and back then when we were waiting for the episodes this community had an almost magical feel to it. Everyone had their theory as to what would come next and we traded theories back and forth on a daily basis. I look back very fondly to those days because it really was somewhat magical, you could come on to this forum and find several new theories to debate every single day I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LOVED IT!

So I got my hours replaying those first episodes over and over again because each time I did I would notice something new and either add to my current theory or come up with an entirely new one. Then I would post it and the debate would begin.

My theory had Sean Prescott as the guy behind it all and he was doing it because he had found out that a female student at Blackwell always carried the time powers that Max has in the game. The girl before Max was Rachel Amber and when she died the powers transferred to Max.

The theory was that Sean Prescott needed a professional photographer to be able to take the right picture that would allow the transfer of the powers from the girl who currently had them to his own son Nathan Prescott. The picture had to be taken at the exact moment the current girl with the powers died and it involved Cross Polarization Photography. So that is why Sean Prescott had Mark Jefferson hired at Blackwell because he needed him to take the right photograph.

Anyway I won't go into it because we all know how it turned out and it is nothing like that, but I wanted to talk about it a bit to show what we were all experiencing back then when the conclusion to this masterpiece was not known.

This forum is still very good but back then it was indeed a magical place and it is rare to find a community like the one we had when we were all speculating on the outcome of this masterpiece story that is Life is Strange....

[Capybara #PS5 Expedition 33]

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

As for playing LiS again, I have 183 hours into it on my Steam account and I can't begin to even count how many times I have played it. I came on board just after episode 2 released and back then when we were waiting for the episodes this community had an almost magical feel to it. Everyone had their theory as to what would come next and we traded theories back and forth on a daily basis. I look back very fondly to those days because it really was somewhat magical, you could come on to this forum and find several new theories to debate every single day I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LOVED IT!

Anyway I won't go into it because we all know how it turned out and it is nothing like that, but I wanted to talk about it a bit to show what we were all experiencing back then when the conclusion to this masterpiece was not known.

This forum is still very good but back then it was indeed a magical place and it is rare to find a community like the one we had when we were all speculating on the outcome of this masterpiece story that is Life is Strange....

I need to play LiS more xD, just a day or two without it feels like torture . I only got around 83h :D.

I kinda wish I had been part of this magical theory ride with LiS :(. Instead I was with the MGSV's 3 years of painful waiting party with loads of theories too ;). It was one hell of a ride there and MGSV didn't end as I hoped at all. We had such a long time to come up with theories, that some guessed the ending. So it sort of removed the epic feel of it, instead of having being surprised by it. But it was really special to be part of those debates and fun to guess what will happen etc. Fans can come up with some of the craziest stuff, I loved it.

[Angrypillow]

Originally posted by Gatsu ♫Foresee Obstacles♫:

Originally posted by Jeckenn:

As for playing LiS again, I have 183 hours into it on my Steam account and I can't begin to even count how many times I have played it. I came on board just after episode 2 released and back then when we were waiting for the episodes this community had an almost magical feel to it. Everyone had their theory as to what would come next and we traded theories back and forth on a daily basis. I look back very fondly to those days because it really was somewhat magical, you could come on to this forum and find several new theories to debate every single day I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ LOVED IT!

Anyway I won't go into it because we all know how it turned out and it is nothing like that, but I wanted to talk about it a bit to show what we were all experiencing back then when the conclusion to this masterpiece was not known.

This forum is still very good but back then it was indeed a magical place and it is rare to find a community like the one we had when we were all speculating on the outcome of this masterpiece story that is Life is Strange....

:LIS_butterfly:

I need to play LiS more xD, just a day or two without it feels like torture . I only got around 83h :D.

I wish I had been part of this magical theory ride with LiS :(. Instead I was with the MGSV's 3 years of painful waiting party with loads of theories too ;). It was one hell of a ride there and MGSV didn't end as I hoped at all. We had such a long time to come up with theories, that some guessed the ending. So it sort of removed the epic feel of it, instead of having being surprised by it. But it was really special to be part of those debates and fun to guess what will happen etc. Fans can come up with some of the craziest stuff, I loved it.

This is one of the reasons I waited for all the episodes to be released, and why I avoided all feedback until I had played the game in its entirety. I'm glad I did.