Gayer Than A Fucking Rainbow (Pride Continued) Edition

Previous Thread: >>527674982

>Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
(LR: B&R) - A spiritual successor to the original LiS, made by Don't Nod (DN). Set in Velvet Cove during the summer of 1995, it follows Swann Holloway and her misfit friends: Nora, Autumn, and Kat. They form a band, hang out, and navigate the complexity of being gay. But something dark shatters their innocence and 27 years later, they reunite to confront the past. It’s nostalgic, aching, and supernaturally sapphic in all the best ways.
Steam: (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902960)

>Life is Strange
(LiS) - An episodic narrative adventure game by developer Don't Nod (DN). Set in the fictional coastal town of Arcadia Bay, Oregon, it follows Max Caulfield, a shy photography student who discovers she can rewind time and perhaps more pressingly, that she is hella gay. At the heart of the story is Max’s reconnection with her estranged best friend, the rebellious, blue-haired Chloe Price. Their relationship becomes the game’s emotional core as they search for the truth behind the disappearance of Rachel Amber. What starts as a teenage reunion becomes a haunting, queer exploration of grief, love, and the impossible choices we make for the people we can’t live without.
Steam: (https://store.steampowered.com/sub/56692/)

>Other LiS titles:
Before the Storm (BtS) - (http://store.steampowered.com/app/554620)
Remastered - (https://store.steampowered.com/sub/440247/)
True colors (TC) - (http://store.steampowered.com/app/936790)


Discussion of similar games is welcome!

>Commonly discussed non-LiS titles:
Lake - (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118240)
Gone Home - (https://store.steampowered.com/app/232430)
Fear the Spotlight - (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1959390)

Snora LOVE!

Pricefield is eternal.

>>528622282
squirtbros... we lost...

pricefield is dead

>>528622547
Always

DEbros... not again...

>>528622617

Nora love!

>>528622617
Caulmas is in!

>>528622959
Well, guess that's the only way to make them look less ugly

>>528622909
fixed for you

What's up with S2 fans? I tried looking up Blood Brothers fanart and literally all of it is like pic related

>>528623064

>>528622617
always was

>>528623080
this is the most based thing modern /lisg/ did. the seethe it caused was great

>>528622617
More like DE is dead kek

>>528623252
one of the worst things the game spawned

>>528622282
>>528622561

>>528623315
Even katfags can't pretend to like kat. Every post or image about her screams low energy and like you're trying to convince yourselves
Say what you want about Steph or Amanda or the other D-tier love interests, at least they and their fans are genuine. You katfags aren't fooling anyone. Literal worst girl in any life is strange or life is strange adjacent game

>>528623363
nice

>>528623389
literally no one did, that's why you have to reply to yourself now

>>528623418
i bet half of us wish they could be that cheap little toy

>>528623791
>Amanda
>at least they and their fans are genuine
Yeah, and the sky is yellow.

>>528623780
Based lesbian getting dick fetishist

>>528623476
Behind every smile of Max's is pain and sorrow.

>>528623987
francesco isn't like that, anon

>>528624017
Posting corporate written faction made with spite and comtempt towards the original game doesn't prove your point.

>>528624182
Michel does

NTA by the way

>>528624305
>completely misinterpreting Michel's tweets
>using DE at face value
Bad faith arguments should be mocked and laughted at, like they deserve.

>>528623252
There was a s2fag on twitter who made model edits like pic related for years, always thought he was a bit sus. Seemed a bit too obsessed with them and kept doing it when everyone else had moved on.
Then it turned out he was in love with his own brother and took his own life. And said brother broke the news to everyone LOL.

>>528624305
they should go full on misery and do it a la Manchester By The Sea

>>528624182
She's crying because Chloe is touching her. Probably trying to get away from her abuse but Chloe is saying "I'M NOT DONE YET YOU FUCKING BITCH! GET BACK HERE!"

>>528624305
>Michel does
If you were intelligent, you would understand that Michel is describing what source of inspiration he might use to tell a story, and given his track record on LiS2 and Lost Records, he would fully give the player options to either maintain or let go that relationship going foward.

>>528624305

>>528623879
>i bet half of us wish they could be that cheap little toy
all those nights with Alex...

>>528624697
Are you guys really that low effort? You come across as really pathetic lmao>>528624905

>>528624905
Souless character, thank god DN has the special french sauce

>>528625060
>soulless character
>posts discount store Max

>>528622212 (OP)
why is DE not in the game list

>>528622561
what is the squirt meme

>>528625217
DE sold millions
Amanda squirted
Everyone cheered

>>528624305
And on top of that, he said he'd never have chosen the 'sacrifice Arcadia Bay' ending himself, admitted she wasn't even part of the early pitches (unlike Warren, lol), said he hates when people just call her the 'blue-haired girl' because it totally misses the point of what he was going for… He really said a lot. And honestly, no one's hit pricefield this hard all year
Based Michel

>>528622282

>LR posting
Positive, creative, sapphic, optimistic
>DE posting
Negative, same shitposts every thread, constantly attempting to derail the thread

Honestly, everyone should just commit to not responding to DE shit and focus on LR.
I bumped LR up to the top of the OP for a reason.

>>528625831
>LR posting
Retarded fanart plus DE spiteposting

>DE posting
Actual screenshots from the game mostly

>I bumped LR up to the top of the OP for a reason
No one would've even noticed if you hadn't said anything - literally no one cares about that low-effort crap

I am suffering from IFLSS (I fucking love Swann syndrome)
Its terminal

>>528625469
>said he hates when people just call her the 'blue-haired girl' because it totally misses the point of what he was going for
I mean yeah, D9 completely undermines the character development she goes from LiS1 to 2, of course he would be pissed.

>he said he'd never have chosen the 'sacrifice Arcadia Bay' ending himself
Means nothing, a personal preference for an ending doesn't mean he would shat on the other one. Michel himself made many interviews in which he pointed out how choosing Bae was a form of keeping the important relationship you built with Chloe through all game.

>admitted she wasn't even part of the early pitches
Source on this statement? Also doesn't really matter, as we have seen how a product can change drastically through development and how Chloe became an integral part of the story, and how it was heavily inspired by "Blue is the warmest colour" graphic novel.

Again, you use nothing else but bad faith attacks because you have zero ground to stand your arguments. You are nothing more than a worthless troll who probably doesn't even care that much about the game, and therefore you should be mocked as the pathetic bitch you are.

>>528624305
he literally said he doesn't recognize his characters and accepted that they're borderline fanfiction

>>528627427
>bts
>i kinda accepted it
kek

Emmabros... we're still non-canon...

>>528627634
So basically, if DE is fanfiction, then comics and BTS are too. Take notes, shippers

>>528627427
So basically, if DE is fanfiction, then comics and BTS are too. Take notes, shippers

>>528628096
I would be willing to grandfather in BtS as canon. Despite its many problems.
But the comics and DE are basically all trash. The pricefield comic only seems better in retrospect now because of DE.
>>528628252
Timothy Treadwell vibes.

>>528628204
Fanfiction can be good if made by fans. DE is a case of spiteful hatefiction made by someone who really hated the game and wanted to shat on it while pushing their brand new OCs.

>>528625831
I got more fun out of DE than this shitty game
Like what is there even to discuss about LR? How corey fell in the abyss? Whether corey or kat gets possessed? Did Autumn and Nora stay with you to open kat's gay box of mementos? Who fucking cares

it goes

>>528628738
DE fun is mostly shitting on the game for being ass, which can get tiring quickly. At least with LR we have comfy posting and funsies.

>>528628738
Pretty much how everyone saw it. After Tape 1 it was all mood and no substance boring shit, and then Tape 2 just completely killed any hope

>>528629098
How did it killed any hope? Have you played the game blind?

>>528629142
Oh yeah, Tape 2 left everyone happy, anon

>>528629236
A lot of people were asking for Tape 3 already, as opposed to DE making people ew at the idea of "Max Caulfield will return" like a fucking Marvel movie.

>>528628738
>Like what is there even to discuss about LR?
Nora.
Swann.
Snora.
Nora cuddling Swann
Nora holding hands with Swann
Nora kissing Swann.
Nora dancing with Swann.
Nora marrying Swann.
>>528628775
I'm still shocked at just what a massive drop in quality there is between Steph's novel and Heatwaves.
Steph's Story is probably the best thing in the LiS franchise post-LiS (I think in no small part because the author herself is queer).
Heatwaves is almost on the level of DE (just with less spite), the only reason it does not attract the same attention because nobody actually bothered to read it.
>>528629098
Tape 2 was fine and has all of the best moments in the game (the dancing scene alone was better then the totality of LiS).
It is just dragged down by the large amount of screen time that Autumn has + an ending that had to undermine itself in service of setting up a sequel.

>>528622282
My comfort baby Amanda

>>528629515

>>528628402
>Timothy Treadwell vibes.
kek, I like to think they both went south and parted ways soon after

>>528628738
non-canon cat

>>528629515

>>528630547

>>528629478
I don't remember hag Swann and Nora kissing.

>>528629478
I imagine it has something to do with the writers and their usual genre.
Rosiee Thor who wrote Steph's Story write other lgbt and romance stuff, so likely not that new of a genre to write.
Brittney Morris seems to mostly write black superhero fiction and I guess that seeped into Heatwaves with Alex trying to play superhero to the local community but seems odd when you come off of playing TC

Anyone else strangely nostalgic for DE? Even the infamous low points like pic related are kind of endearing now (look at her smile lol).
Maybe we were too harsh on it at the time.

>>528631607
I'm not nostalgic for hot garbage, I'm nostalgic for Life is Strange and how good we had it back then.

>>528631098
Depends on the ending + I think you need maxed out affection in both '22 and '95.
You are obviously playing the game wrong if Nora is not Swann's first love by the end of tape 2.
>>528631517
Given the quality of Steph's Story, I don't know why they would not get her back for Heatwaves. Or even learn from this and try to get queer focused writers for LiS media going forward.
Just imagine how good stuff like the pricefield comic or whatever the hell that chenrich mess of a comic would have been had they been written by queer women like Rosiee Thor. It is an example of how good the franchise could have been had Square not had a problem with it being perceived as 'gay' (as if it is known for anything else).
>>528632021
We still have it good anon. Better then ever really.
LR is amazing and we are just at the very start of that franchise. It can also be as queer as it wants to be because DN own the IP.

>>528631607
To me this game is extremely comfy. Snowy vibes around one of America's favorite places, life-is-slow-and-pretty mood, Max is dorky and gorgeous at the same time, Amanda gives warm cottagecore lesbian vibes, and the 'dead timeline' soundtrack is still in my playlist

>>528631607
Maybe in a few years we'll look back fondly at it depending on how bad DE2 and/or anything else that comes after are. As it stands, it's currently The Room of the franchise

>>528632686
Slop enjoyer, you have no quality standards and you are easily impressed by a rehash of LiS but worse.

>>528632714
Really doubt that, DE doesn't have the care and sauce of something like LiS2 had, even if it was misguided. dontnod games will stand the test of time, D9 won't.

>>528633414
>a rehash of LiS but worse
That's LR

>>528633561
No, that's DE. LR doesn't go out of its way to
>discount Blackwell academy
>discount Chloe but she has shapeshifting powers now
>discount Rachel Amber but she barely matter and has zero personality
>the Storm is back again
>copypasting lines from the original game

You really have to be a bad faith moron to believe that

>>528633524
>dontnod games will stand the test of time, D9 won't.
TC could, it's not an entirely horrendous mess but it could've been more. BtS not so much because of its inconsistencies but it has its moments; the soundtrack will though however

>>528633414
I never said it was better than the first game or that I didn’t have issues with it. The post just asked how I felt, and I answered honestly. Guess that part stood out more

Just throwing it out there that "cottagecore lesbian" sounds more like some dude's fetish than a person.

Just throwing it out there that Kat looks like a 12 year old girl and everyone knows it no matter how much you try to gaslight yourself and others into believing otherwise

>>528635186
You are kinda being weird with this comment anon, is there something you might want to tell us?

>>528633916
>LR doesn't go out of its way to
Oh, yeah
>nostalgic setting
>queer teen protagonists
>supernatural undertones
>dealing with trauma
>fucking shit
>recycled emotional beats
Basically the same shit just on a smaller scale and without the same impact or originality, and charaters that stand out

Forgot to add 'discount' in front of each one, so you can do it yourself

>>528626669
based swonnchad

>>528637513
I made very specific calls, and you can't do nothing but do vague posting because otherwise you can't defend DE on its own. Pathetic as fuck, clown.

>the same shit just on a smaller scale and without the same impact or originality, and charaters that stand out
You just described DE lmao

>>528639495
Notice how I haven’t said a single word about DE. But funny how you feel like your point isn’t valid unless you drag it in
>I made very specific calls
It’s either redefining terms or flat-out ignoring that it’s clearly a direct sequel. Nothing to analyze, really
>Pathetic as fuck, clown
Pure seething
>You just described DE
See, you feel the need to bring it up constantly to back your claim
>lmao
Seething again

>>528641356
A "direct sequel" who was aggressively marketed as a game open to newcomers that wouldn't require knowledge of the previous one, and worked on by a company who never did the original game, whose original develoepers always made clear its story was done and concluded. To use that as an argument already is a losing point, and show how much of a bad faith clown you are.

>>528642379
>aggressively
Lol
>marketed
Marketing spin doesn't rewrite narrative structure
>original develoepers always made clear its story was done and concluded
Shouldn’t have sold the franchise to a greedy ass corpo.
That's a really weak argument, what they wanted. Better not to use it, honestly
>bad faith clown you are
Still seething

>>528625310
>Amanda squirted
>Everyone cheered
>>528625602

>>528643821
>Marketing spin doesn't rewrite narrative structure
Then explain why it was marketed that way? Because they wanted a new audience to justify DE being a soft reboot of the franchise, and to keep the direct sequel because they wanted their cake and eat it too.

>Shouldn’t have sold the franchise to a greedy ass corpo
You clearly have no idea how the publishing gaming world works, do you?

It's obvious you don't care about any form of engagement but trolling, and I do feel bad for someone as pathetic as yourself. Be better.

>>528625310
>DE sold millions
more like it lost millions kek

>>528646701

>>528646942
DEbros... is this true...?

>>528646771
>Then explain why
I don't work at SE, ask them
>You clearly have no idea how the publishing gaming world works
See? Came full circle and answered your own question.
"The original developers always made clear its story was done and concluded but that's how the gaming world works"
Stick around /lisg/ a bit more and you might actually pick up some basic logic
>someone as pathetic as yourself
>Be better
Anon...

>>528646942
And next you'll say Amanda isn’t a serial squirter either

What in the mother of fuck is happening

>>528649449
You are here to troll, you cleary do not give a shit about either LiS or Lost Records so just fuck off to /b/ or /v/ where you belong.

>>528653985
Ah, running out of arguments, I see
>you cleary do not give a shit about Lost Records
That's for sure - LR is not a LiS game
>fuck off to /b/ or /v/ where you belong
Clearly never been to /b/. Not even sure I've been to /v/ either. On /lisg/ sporadically since the first game, by the way.
What about you, pedo?

>>528622212 (OP)
I burn dykes clits off for being dykes

>>528653985
lis is a slop franchise & I hope trump will just ban it alongside all other gay games

>>528649837
>Amanda isn’t a serial squirter

>>528658075
look at her holding it all in

I hate how DE brought all those trolls out of the woodwork, even with Lost Records they are not going to give up. I miss the old /lisg/ desu

Come on /lisg/, on 3! 1, 2, 3! Moses has hypothermia!

>>528658302
She just needed to pee in that scene. You idiots are making it way too dirty.

>>528663275
She definitely needed to "pee" after seeing Max alright

>>528658742
It's actually improved a bit since LR came out.

>>528663275
a hint at watersports?

>>528658742
>>528658742
Old /lisg/ was definitely way comfier.

>>528648532
Unironically, not entirely true. Looks like it actually broke even on development cost but it didn’t turn out to be profitable. That’s what bummed Kiryu out.
LR’s a whole different story though. Especially with those brutal PS+ numbers. But the stock ticked up a bit, probably thanks to some internal news. Guess they’re staying under Sony’s wing for now

>>528670126
>Looks like it actually broke even on development cost
Not really, otherwise it wouldn't be categorized as a large loss for Square. The game did so poorly it lowered the company income for the February March period, and given how all stores take a 30% out of every game published, DE probably is taking a lot even to recoup its production costs.

>>528670126
You have no sales data, no budget data.
You should wonder why SE hasn't release the Q&A from their february session yet.

>>528669015
kek

>>528672070
You probably don't read too carefully.
'Large loss' means that performance fell significantly short of estimates, which resulted in a profit decline compared to the same period last year. That's why it’s being considered a large loss in relative terms.
And spare me the talk about store commissions, they’re already factored into the forecast from the start
>>528673182
Ther was the Q&A session in February?

>>528674082
Thank God those times are gone forever

>>528675351
Based
Lyla>Cassidy or whatever her name is

>>528674515
Yeah we know it flopped, and you have no data. We also have seen the questionnaire from Square as well as the two focus groups, but not much info on what they are planning to do next. Maybe they'll finally announce a production date for the live action show but it could take years too.

>>528679448
Fixed

>>528675695
>Lyla>Cassidy or whatever her name is
contentious...

>>528680775
Why is Lena Headey in LiS2?

>>528656061
>>528657898
Lmao. Maybe that’s why they switched to cottagecore lesbians, mentioned above, instead of dykes - much cozier PR

>>528681886
she thought it was imagine me & you 2

>>528682421
Is the movie any good?

>>528682781
It's been a while since I've watched it but I liked it. It's kind of a run of the mill "will they won't they" kind of romcom with an added lesbian twist but it's really sweet and heartfelt. It handled Piper's character's struggle really well, though it felt like snap of a finger ordeal initially. Lena's straight but it's the most "natural" she has been if that makes any sense. Has one of the best kisses when they finally do it

LR MODELS RIPPED YET?

>>528675695
Lyla has 1 scene and a brief appearance as a voice.
Cassidy>Lyla

>>528689809
Cassidy=Lyla
They're both great.

>>528690523
Cassidy at least has a proper romance and decent screentime, even if underutilized. On the other hand, Lyla is the biggest waste of potential Dontnod ever did to one of their characters.

Do the people here ACTUALLY like Double Exposure or is just out of spite for the Pricefielders hating it?

>>528697981
Last I checked, 7 out of 10 people played for over 10 hours and liked it

>>528697981
I don't think anyone who actually played it here, probably only like 5 people at most, liked it. I imagine they played it for themselves to see what all the hullabaloo was and were massively disappointed regardless if they're a pricefielder. I don't outright hate it but I wouldn't say I liked it either, it's a 3/10 at most with about 5 things good about it and that's being generous.

>>528658742
In fairness, it has been much better since LR came out. Between the announcement of DE and the release of LR, /lisg/ was basically unusable for me.
For the most part /lisg/ is back to normal now, we just have like 3 DE era trolls still hanging about. If people just totally stopped engaging with them, they would be gone within 3 threads.
>>528679448
One of my favorite recent AI-Anon creations.
If someone commissioned an actual artist to redo this, I would use it in the OP.
>>528697981
>Do the people here ACTUALLY like Double Exposure
No.
>is just out of spite for the Pricefielders hating it?
It is more just for attention than anything.

bumpu

>>528676851
The stuff like that (sales data, survey/focus group results) is internal. Nobody's gonna share that with you. Only the publisher knows the exact sales numbers, unless they accidentally leak them online like Sega did recently. But you can get a ballpark idea from aggregators, and sometimes journos actually get it closer than you'd think.
As for their plans, there’ll be an announcement one day, same as last June. That’s when we’ll find out

>>528722940
[But you can get a ballpark idea from aggregators, and sometimes journos actually get it closer than you'd think
Yes, and we have seen that; DE is a large flop

>>528658302
>>528664270
>>528667358

>>528723598
souless prop that is being spammed by one anon

Lost Records official merchandising is on the way, just a little bit more patience

>>528730572
I NEED Snora merch. I will pay an embarrassing amount of money for Snora merch.
Ship keyrings, sun pendants and snora graphic tees are such an easy gimme.

>>528730572
HURRY UP

recommending Navigating With You (2024) graphic novel, reading now and it seems pretty Life is Strange coded

Snora LOVE!

>>528738834
whats the meaning of this?

>>528741575
Kat sitting on (my) cock

>>528723205
>large flop
That's LR, anon. Tha PS+ numbers are devastating

>>528744119
LR did as well as DontNod expected, in fact they were on track to met their sales expectations, but that's why they don't have the same ballpark and insane expectations than a Square exec.

>Ah, Anon! Doth thou believeth in truest love?
wat doeth

Bloom&rage in glastonbury?

>>528746702
that and vans warped tour baby

>>528741575
Somebody asked for Kat riding a giant cock.
I provided.

>>528744315
Only a complete idiot would buy into a shit like that. Nobody plans to spend eight times more on development than they’ll ever make back, just like no one's releasing a game expecting a 60% drop in players between the two parts

>>528748190
Its likely that a good portion of the budget was covered by the PS Plus deal, therefore the game doesn't have to be a massive success to do well. And also that stat is based on an analysis that only take into account like a tiny percentage of all PS platform users. On PC for example, LR had gained players for the second Tape.

>>528749496
>And also that stat is based on an analysis that only take into account like a tiny percentage of all PS platform users
"data from over 3.4 million active PSN accounts..."

>On PC for example, LR had gained players for the second Tape
"So while we can’t confirm a surge in player numbers on PC, the comm..."

So, basically, another one of your lies

>>528744315
>but that's why they don't have the same ballpark and insane expectations than a Square exec
Squeenix are right to expect these games to sell more than the pathetic number of copies they're selling now.
DE/LR sales numbers aren't sustainable, it's literally throwing money off a cliff when you consider the opportunity cost. Any rational publisher (i.e. not Dontnod) would think the same.

>>528751163
>data from over 3.4 million active PSN accounts
>As of March 2025, the network had approximately 124 million monthly active users
Literally 1.3 percent of total PS accounts

>So while we can’t confirm a surge in player numbers on PC
It says can't confirm, learn to read and watch the SteamDB numbers, LR did have a bump of players in Tape 2.

>>528752085
Cant believe you are that dense motherfucker... SE main dumbassery is trying to reach LiS numbers again, but that's not possible anymore, narrative adventure games are a niche genre now. Dontnod is actually being smart for once and understanding they have more chance to sell it better long term under a subscription service, than the overpriced editions made for DE in the first place.

>People still fail to comprend why Squenix bitch as western studios sales
It isn't about selling well or bad.
Crystal Dynamic is an stupid company that spent the money of the success of the first Tomb raider reboot into opening many studios as posible and when they became free spent their time helping on one vaporware(Perfect Dark) and a TR game that has been in development more time than 2013.
The Hitman devs too, with Mindseye drama.
The only ex-squenix europe that was competent was Eidos and is a shame that Embracer is also shiting on them.

>>528752956
The genre is dead and Dontnod are being extremely coy with what they're saying publicly.
>Backed by a strategic partnership with Sony, the game's sales are in line with forecasts, in an increasingly selective market.
This is a defensive way of addressing the game where they're avoiding say anything negative while also being careful not to lie to shareholders.
A forecast is NOT the same thing as what they hoped the game to sell. It's a projection from an external forecasting agency or market research firm prior to release on how much THEY expect the game to realistically sell, similar to how mock reviewers work. Being in line with this forecast in no way indicates that Dontnod are happy with the sales.
The fact that they bring up "an increasingly selective market", "long-term sales potential" (remember this phrase from LiS2?), and are begging on twitter to work on other IPs make it clear what is going on. Investors aren't stupid and they know too, which is why the stock price is still down the drain.

>>528752621
>Literally 1.3 percent
It’s called a representative sample

>SteamDB numbers, LR did have a bump of players in Tape 2
The peak was caused by the full game being released, that doesn’t change the fact that 60% of people didn’t come back after the first part

>>528752956
>Dontnod is actually being smart for once and understanding
You never take Michel’s dick out of your mouth, do you?

Daily I love Swann post

>>528723598

>>528755535
>and are begging on twitter to work on other IPs
That was their official statement call, not random DontNod devs asking to work on other IPs.

>Being in line with this forecast in no way indicates that Dontnod are happy with the sales.
So far Michel and the CEO seems to be satisfied, at least based on what they said so far. Guess we'll have to see what they are going to say next time if it did met their expectation on sales.

>"long-term sales potential" (remember this phrase from LiS2?)
And LiS2 is now being the second best player keeping LiS game after the original game, if SteamDB numbers are to be taken into account. It might have been a flop at launch, but it has gained a fanbase long term sales going foward, more than every D9 LiS game right now.

>>528756738
>It’s called a representative sample
That site doesn't show a proper metholody on what accounts and why such number of users has been selected for the sample. And to be fair, keeping a 40% active returning players for Tape 2 isn't even a bad number, if anything I can see Dontnod adjusting down the line to have the games be made as a single relase rather than two tapes.

>You never take Michel’s dick out of your mouth, do you?
And what do you do exactly? Do you want Dontnod downfall so the only content we receive is low effort slop from Square? I do want to support their efforts, I do want better games and I want to hope Lost Records can do well enough in its niche market.

>>528723598
>>528763792
This is so garbage lmao

UEposer anon, FrankDP1 has turned you into a superstar on the main subreddit kek

I just can't, she's so pretty lisgbros

>>528764862
Chloe is a lucky gal

>>528764789
Frank is a racist piece of shit, but his hair mod is good

Are you having a comfy summer anons?

>>528764862
>>528765232
Nora >> Chloe >>> Izzie > Steph > Cassidy >>> Swann > Victoria > Alex > Dana > Max > Kate > Kat >>> Autumn > Rachel
Here's hoping the next LR game once the B&R series is concluded has a really masc butch romance option. Bonus points if she is kinda punk.
>>528765927
It is freezing. But I really like cold weather, so it's fine.

>>528763986
LiS2 is inflated due to episode 1 being free. Its peak (excluding bot mayhem day) is ~5.5k, significantly lower than any other LiS game.

>>528764789
Hahaha well he did provide the mods for it. I'm satisfied as long as one person gets to see the shit I post here kek

>>528765927
hella comfy so far but I'm melting though

>>528766101
Anon was talking about long term retention, not peak at relase. For a narrative adventure game, LiS2 is the second behind LiS1 and overshadowing DE, TC and BtS combined.

>>528764862

>>528766070
Jesus Christ dude Izzie is a non character and the only reason you like him is because he's a tranny like you.

>>528766472
Yes, LiS2 is inflated even now due to episode 1 being free.
There are numerous players who play whatever free content is available in games like this, don't pay to play the rest, and move onto the next free game.

>>528767610
Finally someone says it
Anyone who isn't one is absolutely disgusted when they find out steph got defiled by it. Thank god ryan exists

>>528767610
>>528767928
Fuck off to /pol/

Fear the Spotlight love!

>>528769117
Im not from pol. I fully support gay rights in all forms. Trannies are not remotely related to that. It's acute narcissism and metastasized itself to the actual good cause of the LGB.

>>528763986
>That site
What site? I don't think I gave out any link

>And to be fair, keeping a 40% active returning players for Tape 2 isn't even a bad
You went from denial to acceptance real quick. Nice!

>the only content we receive is low effort slop
Low effort slop that's exactly what we got from Dontnod. Just another one in the pile. It's been like ten years and they still haven't managed to put out anything solid, let alone something that’s not a total failure.
Maybe they should take notes from Sandfall Interactive on how to actually make games, lol. That’s who Sony should’ve bought really

>>528764180
Jealousy and bitterness.
Pricefielders pretending to be LR-fags look pathetic

>>528767725
LiS2 is currently higher on steam top sellers than DE.

>>528769414
>I fully support gay rights in all forms
>Trannies are not remotely related to that
You are delusional and weird, clearly you do not give a shit about gay rights, because any ostracization of trans people mean that cis gay people are next on the line.

You are a worthless human scum, and you should be mocked and laughed as the waste of brainpower you are.

>>528769649
Yeah, even with a free episode, 2 is actually doing surprisingly good on it's own with that number of players long term even if its not LiS1 level of hit success.

>>528769117
Just don't engage with tourists. They are only looking for a response and they will leave if you deny them one.
Same deal with all of the DE shitposters. Don't engage with them and they will eventually leave.
>>528769372
It took a year or so, but I finally included it in an OP!
Hopefully it will not take another year to finally move away from the /lisg/ moniker and adopt something more broad and fitting to all the types of games that we discuss in these threads.

>>528769754
The two aren't related, man. One involves loving someone else. The other involves surgical mutilation, synthetic hormone injections and pills, and demanding the entire human race alter their language rules to accommodate your mental illness.

I am not surprised whatsoever that norafags belong to a certain group of people
>>528769754
>any ostracization of trans people mean that cis gay people are next on the line.
No, that association has done more harm than good for gay people. They were well on their way to being accepted before this other "issue" blew up and ruined it for everyone

>>528769508
I thought Vampyr was a solid janky AA game, and it's a shame they didn't take the opportunity to work on a sequel, as it could have been their own pillar outside of LiS. Jusant was quite nice desu, as for the other projects it's clear that Dontnod did the rookie mistake of expanding too early with too much stuff too quickly post the success of LiS. Their latest reorganization makes a lot of sense, but it should have been done way earlier

>>528769997
>Don't engage with them and they will eventually leave.
Goddamn right, we should make it a lot more consistent rule.

>>528769997
I'm also not a tourist. Been coming here for years after playing through the series helped me overcome alcoholism.
I just don't like trannies.

>>528771383
For as much as it will help. I will include something about not engaging with DE shitposters and /v/ - /pol/ tourists in the next threads OP.
DE would not even be mentioned anymore if people would just stop taking their bait.

More FtS content it is. The game is quite sweet towards the end, and very LiS-eseque even if at heart is a Silent Hill homage

DEbros... it's time we take our stand...

>>528771903
Based game
I look forward to helping Safi get revenge on Gwen in DE2

>>528771805
It sucks that it did not end up being quite as sapphic as the trailer made it seem. But I'm happy that it did actually end up delivering on those LiS vibes.
I hope at some point we can get an actual sapphic horror-romance (Signalis does not count).

This is the Life is Strange general. Please stay on-topic by discussing games in the Life is Strange series, such as the latest game Double Exposure.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

>>528772842
Personally, I'm fine with it. You don't need to have everything slapped in your face and I'm glad the game actuallly took the time to develop both Amy and Vivian within their interaction with the haunted school and nightmares.

>>528773287
I'm not saying that Fear the Spotlight is bad. It is obviously good as a SH 1 inspired game.
I just like romance focused narrative games. A horror-romance seems fun.

Autumn love!

>>528773659
There's this game called While We Wait Here, unfortunately it doesn't have any sapphic romances in it but is very LiS esque mixing a diner management simulator with choices and consequences. Pic related are the closest thing to a Max and Chloe duo

>>528774183
I have never heard of that one to be honest.
Next on my list of these sorts of games is 'We Know The Devil'. It sounds like a lite-horror game with several different paths based on what sapphic ship you pick. I have some high hopes for it.

>>528772781
gigachad

>>528774983

>>528772447
she seemed over the whole maya thing by the end, feels like she's gunning for her dad next

>>528775171
Literally who cares

>>528775106
Man, I really want to see how Max and Chloe spent their time in Away. To see the photographs Max took, the art Chloe made with Joan would be really great and the sagacious gay ass wisdom Stanley and Arthur imparted

>>528775610
/lisg/ cares of course!

>>528775684
They spent it yelling at each other >>528624017, it probably even involved physical abuse. How romantic.

>>528775684
That's some nice content for a fanfiction depicting Max and Chloe post LiS1, trying to deal with the aftermath of the storm and trauma with the help of the people they met along the way.

>>528775171
Imagine if she shapeshifts into Max and has a threesome with Chloe and Warren
It's in character for her after what she did to Lucas' son

>>528776593
I thought I heard something....

>>528776841
She heard that one DE troll talking shit

>>528776248
Aw man, I like LiS 2 but the road trip format would definitely work in Max and Chloe's favor better. Their truck breaking down and they either hitch a ride with Brody or meet Hannah's gang and they train hop for a spell; with their own version of the campfire scene. I really want to see them work through the trauma with David too where he graduates from step-douche to dad

>>528776264
2 chloes. 1 green haired and the other blue

>>528777220
Biggest weakness of 2 was the babysitting / brother bonding plot and it was supposed to be the strongest selling point of the game. A road trip story however needs an engaging main cast dynamic to carry on given all the rest is constantly changing. Daniel is just not as interesting as it would be going with Cassidy, or Lyla.

>>528777576
They should make us choose which Chloe to shoot
I know which one I'M picking

>>528777871
love this bisexual social worker

>>528777871
*scrolls up on phone* Sorry Swann did you say something? *ignores what you say* Do you mind if I take this call? Thanks. *walks away*

>>528777618
The brotherhood actually is a strong positive of the game because of how inherent it is. The obligation you have for family is actually a good theme in the game. The babysitting is annoying I agree, it would've been better if you were dealing with teenage angst instead imo. A lot more tension and opposition to steer Daniel to the moral side with him so angry at the world. Could wildly change the endings too if he decides to surrender and is the one that goes to jail instead. However, at the end of the day, it's still better if the player was the one with powers. The game could've had more interesting puzzles and better player agency when it comes to you actually using them to inflict harm.

>>528777763
Chloe deserves love and cuddles, rather that a cold death by gunshot in a bathroom

>>528779643
I wish they had made Daniel older and closer in age to Sean. I really like the game but Daniel is so young he almost doesn't feel like a character and I personally find his voice annoying af

>>528780304
It's hard to suspend your disbelief when he's at the weed farm because it's hilariously jarring at times. I agree that they should've been closer in age, maybe 1 or 2 years apart. I want to add too that by doing that, it can paint Esteban as a great father if one of the reasons for Daniel's good morality is taking his lessons to heart. It just takes away from Sean being a father figure however.

>>528771480
Good for you, anon

>>528773276
You can see that the majority of the discussion here is still about DE one way or another

>>528775171
>she's gunning for
I need to rewatch it, but I’m pretty sure Aysha hinted at who she’s gonna gun for next

>>528775684
>spent their time in Away
From what Michel said, things didn't go well - and if you've played DE, it hits even harder. No spoilers though

>>528775896

>>528786754
>From what Michel said, things didn't go well
That's not what Michel said, his whole tweet was about how Max and Chloe stick together even despite the trauma is still there. And DE isn't canon, as he pretty much said he wouldn't recognize Max as a character in the game.

>>528786754
>You can see that the majority of the discussion here is still about DE one way or another
Shitting on the game and trolling made by a couple of disgruntled morons? Such high level discussions lmao

>>528787282
Souless copy of Chloe, no matter how hard you push her she's still beat by the amount of fanarts and post made for Kat and Nora

>>528776030
She broke off on her own after all that, just to find what makes her happy >>528624305

>>528787282
the beautiful safiya llewellyn-fayyad!

I see the troll is more active than ever, they are so desperate to make it feel like Safi is a popular character. Keep doing your stupid shit and defend a failed character from a flop

>>528787808
Unlike Safi, she was just a functional character, no point even comparing.
The amount of fanarts is just the same talentless clowns who spent years drawing pricefield. Now they’re trying to cope with their ship's death somehow.
This flop didn't win over anyone fresh really.

>>528787349
he said that they stick together cause they they don't know the other way, but that doesn't nake her happy at all

No captain spirit post, maybe they just forgot their passwords. They don't use social media much these days.

>>528766070
Alex > Max > Steph > Chloe > Nora > Dana > Dylan > Rachel > Izzie > Victoria > Kate > Swann > Kat > Autumn > Cassidy

>>528766070
>>528794086
Joyce > Eleanor > Claire > Joan > Karen > Ms. Grant > Gwen > Rose > Charlotte > The Mother at the gas station > Doris > Lisbeth > Yasmin > the rest

>>528795393
Joyce is a shitter.
>Yeah, I guess I'll just give up on my daughter who's still not over the death of her father and marry the guy who's beating her.

>>528788489
Holy shit! Look at her arm - she's literally tearing it out! Max still doesn’t wanna deal with that trainwreck.
She didn’t do that with Amanda!

>>528786754
DE is not relevant to any actual fan of the series.

>>528795770
nuh uh

>>528800126

>>528788996
The seethe is strong with this one

Jus someting stupid I made

>>528809818
Those late fees are a bitch!

>>528800126
nobody gives a fuck who you think is a real fan

>>528810862
Seethe.

>>528797120
Kek

Someone should do a comparison.
Though it looks like it was done with free cam, I don’t remember seeing that angle

John Chen or Karen
Who's the worse parent?

>>528823618
People will say John, but the man was overwhelmed and exhausted. He may have left his kids with no one and nothing, but at least his motivation for doing so was at least somewhat understandable.
Karen abandoned her healthy and loving family because she wanted to "find herself" and write poetry in New York, which she also failed at. It was 100% pathetic selfishness.

>>528823618
That's a hard one. John was so beaten by the unfairness of it all and wasn't able to shake the grief which led to his kids to suffer; Alex more so with her prolonged stint in the foster system. Karen couldn't handle the nuclear family thing, said she suffocated and was in the same situation as John where she won't be there a 100% albeit, in a more vain fashion; ostensibly presented as her attempt for self-discovery but felt more like she's shirking her responsibilities as a parent. Insofar as to cite her religious upbringing as a factor for doing so which is understandable. The one thing Karen has over John however is that her kids had Esteban, who could've so easily done what John did if he weren't so strong-willed. If I remember right, John eventually wanted to reconnect and so did Karen which doesn't make the both of them bad people, bad parents sure but they both had their reasons. It's easy to say John because of what happened to Gabe and Alex but Karen's actions resulted in both her kids losing a mother in a worse way; to make you feel abandoned and unloved

bumpu

Kat is cute. I rest my case.

>>528848473
pedo reported

So DONTNOD montreal going through layoffs including dropping the Cinematic Artist for Lost Records doesn't bode well for the future of that franchise.

>>528851898
it's joever

>>528851898
The sales met expectations

>>528851898
Fuck, this is awful to learn.

>>528855843
No, it's actually wonderful. We're going to celebrate just like we did with D9's layoffs

>>528856365
There's nothing to celebrate here, unless you are some jaded wannabe nihilist who cream at the idea of this genre of games flopping. The Lost Records team did a phenomenal job with the game and unlike D9 they deserve better and to get good, stable jobs going foward, this industry is eating itself apart and I wouldn't be surprised if a full crash comes sooner than later.

>>528851898
Jesus how horrifying. Wasn't Mary also the one who helped cast the VA's for all the girls or was that another Mary?
Still, that's super shit. Going forward I just hope we can get more B&R, although at this point it seems kind of lost. Or maybe I'm not huffing enough copium.

>>528859613
It seems like layoffs happens regardless if a game is a flop or not. Just the other day Bend Studio got forced by Sony to lay off at least thirty percent of their workforce while also announcing work for a new game at the same time, all of this is fucked and a consequence of an industry that doesn't know what to do. Wouldn't be surprised if at some point Square also set a wave of layoffs for their western branch too within their reorganization plan

>>528769754
Lmao, just don't join the 41%

Besides, troons should be removed from society for the safety of it

>>528861642
Nazis and bigots should be the ones removed from society

>>528860206
DaysGone2bros... is it over...?

>>528860206
Yeah I get it's industry standard at this point to have layoffs. Nature of the beast when dealing with shareholders and huge corpos (t. Corporate slave).
Still doesn't make you any less sad. I'd wager a good amount of people and DNM earned their wages with their work, and it kinda instills fear moving forward.

>>528869339
It's a lot more easier being a smaller indie dev team than working for a new studio securing funding for future games knowing that regardless of your perfomance, shareholders and higher ups will cut you down as it doesn't fit their numbers. Hope the people impacted by the layoff can land on their feet despite all.

Dylan love!

long overdue

Simple Snora Thing
Do your absolutes worst, pick the littlest holes you can!

>>528851898
I really hope thst artist girl who drew those four uggos got laid off too

>>528876420
time to toke up brah

>>528851898
Lmao apologize bitches >>528755535

>>528879042
Ok LR is a flop so what are we going to do, accept more low effort slop from Square? Are you going to gloat that for the rest of the time? Really having an hard time understanding your logic

>>528879557
You're talking to a schizo who doesn't play video games. They're only here to defend DE because it's blatantly unpopular for very obvious reasons so they can feel contrarian and get lots of attention for doing it.

>>528879681
My bad, let's get back to the usual scheduled program

>>528879557
No, I want Dontnod to ditch LR and do something better
It's clearly not resonating with players and if they keep trying to push it as an IP then it will be the death of them

>>528851898
See you in heee-eeeeeeeell!
You'll fit in well!

>>528735382
See, the problem is that I like Life is Strange.
But I don't like "Life is Strange" coded

>>528864372
Ah yes.
"Nazis" are when people don't like degenerates.
How funny

Bigoted and proud

>>528864372
The people who defeated the Nazis were bigots who hated degeneracy.

>>528876931
You can't fire Midjourney-4, anon

Hella

>>528884328
>midjourney
Of all the criticism you can make to LR, the AI generated character one has always been the weakest one. Expecially since they showed a lot of many different human made concept art, and the 3D artists who worked on their models had a good chunk of experience working on Vampyr and LiS2. But hey, whatever makes you feel happy bud.

>>528894340
Gay

>>528895008
Dyl so purty

>>528897821
Cute

>>528897821
Max with glasses, never thought about that before. Imagining her with oversized windsor glasses

Making me hella twice in one day? For shame.

>>528914179
your ship is dead

>>528914380
Unkillable. D9 tried to kill it and all they destroyed was their own franchise and studio.

>>528914628
As long as we live, this ship will thrive.
It cannot be tossed aside and killed.
That is for weak people

>>528914628
>SE is doing fine
>D9's still going
>sequel plans are still on
>from what focus group peeps and the showrunner have said, the universe is set to expand
>the people who killed off pricefield got promoted
>DN's having mass layoffs

>>528918654

>SE is doing fine
They are in a three year restructuring, won't be surprised if they lay off people as well

>D9's still going
After laying off people and begging for co-dev stuff, sure thing they are going to be fine when the next game is another crunched mess that flops

>sequel plans are still on
Expect the next game to be a course correction that wont make anyone happy, leading to another flop and more layoffs

>from what focus group peeps and the showrunner have said, the universe is set to expand
No source, also there's no official live action showrunner yet. Also, whatever they shown is probably going to be changed because otherwise is going to flop too.

>the people who killed off pricefield got promoted
That's a nice way to say they got laid off from D9 kek

Please put more effort in those troll posts, it's getting boring

The french union pretty much revealed who got hit by the layoffs, it was a scummy move from the management trying to cut corners:

>Don’t Nod Montréal: we have been informed of the lay-offs of 9 colleagues and the "temporary suspension" of 7 others in order to "reduce costs across the group". We support the colleagues affected. The STJV strongly condemns Oskar Guilbert’s catastrophic management of the company

>In France, the union fight succeeded in drastically limiting the number of lay-offs and in obtaining acceptable departure conditions. We encourage and support our comrades and colleagues who are organising the industry across the Atlantic! Direct action gets the goods

>>528920872
classic oskar

>>528920872
>kevin bruner's comeback under the disguise for a french grandpa
classic! who would've foreseen this?! give it 3 months, it will be telltale v2 with the fate too

>>528919962
>They are in a three year restructuring
>Pic-related
they're doing fine

>After laying off people and begging for co-dev stuff
they restructured and shifted focus. given how narrative games are at rock bottom popularity-wise, and with the whole industry in crisis and giants like Microsoft shutting down studios left and right, D9 actually got off easy

>the next game to be a course correction that wont make anyone happy
no major course correction coming, I'm sorry

>no official
he said to wait it out

>nice way to say they got laid off
the only person from the narrative team behind the pricefield takedown on D9’s side, Deandra Warrick, now works at one of the biggest studios around, the one that’s recently expanded across 2 continents and 3 countries. and she's working on some of the most anticipated AAA titles coming up in the next few years

>troll posts
the thing is, you're so deep in denial that even when reality straight-up pisses in your face and everyone else can see you're soaked head to toe, you still pretend everything's fine. last June, even after the announcement, you kept insisting there was no way they'd make a new Max game without pricefield. and since April, you've been claiming LR's sales were meeting expectations. So here's what 'meeting expectations' looks like >>528851898

Steph's Story Audiobook, narrated by Katy Bentz is on sale for only $3
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798212377997

>they restructured and shifted focus
Their management is still toxic and full of incompetent morons, do no prentend getting rid of the DE team will save their asses when the next game inevitably bombs

>no major course correction coming, I'm sorry
No source on that, so your word is worthless

>he said to wait it out
And they said that our choices will be respected, sure.

>the only person
Don't care, at least she's not at D9 and she's not even the key lead behind that game writing decisions

>the thing is, you're so deep in denial that even when reality straight-up pisses in your face and everyone else can see you're soaked head to toe, you still pretend everything's fine
You seem very bitter and angry anon. Are you pissed when we mocked DE and laughted at the devs being laid off? You are a miserable wretch that only find joy in trolling and pretending to be le smarter in the room, but ultimately you aren't different from the people you shit on. LR might be a flop but Im glad it exists despite DN mismanagement, while you are here pissing and seething. Stay classy, worthless worm, and keep seething.

Should I? I've played the others but I've steered clear from this one because of the bad reviews

>>528927375
>the next game inevitably bombs
they're subcontractors now, doing mocap work

>No source on that
once it's allowed, the source will show up. that's all for now

>And they said that our choices will be respected, sure.
the guy who was talking about the tv show didn't say anything like that

>at least she's not at D9 and she's not even the key lead behind that game writing decisions
she hasn't been at D9 since like mid-2023, if I remember right. and the key writing decisions that still make you mad, she already made them

>You seem very bitter and angry anon
no
>Are you pissed when we mocked DE and laughted at the devs being laid off?
no, but I remember saying in the comments back then that it goes both ways. and that's pretty much how it turned out

>LR might be a flop
>DN mismanagement
ah, acceptance - nice

>keep seething
why would I? my ship is not dead

>>528930108
FitGirl repack anon. Just keep the 25 bucks for games like Fear the Spotlight, Lake or Gone Home, do not waste them on DE.

Enough of trolls, thankfully we have Kat turning Nora into Max for some reason

>>528930108
Pirate it and play it until the end of chapter 2. If you feel it's worth your money after, by all means buy it but do know the game's quality drops dramatically right after. Imo, it's only worth it at a 75% discount.

Caitlyn having tea with Max while Chloe and Vi play a drinking game with shots of cheap rum.

Caitlyn beating up Vi while Chloe yells at Max

>>528940636
Why do you hate love?

>>528876931
Yes fire whoever is responsible for them and promote whoever made hawt ahh bish dylan

>>528940758
Abuse is not love, anon

Vi & Chloe having a boxing match while Caitlyn & Max cheer for their girlfriend.

>>528940995
Corey doesn't like Dylan to be treated like that

>>528941673
Vi & Chloe stop the boxing match and start beating their "girlfriends" instead

>>528942894
What is with you?

>>528943140
They are a /pol/tard, ignore them since they have no qualms being here

>>528942528
they villain-batted this guy so fast in tape 2 lmao

>>528943426
He was always a villain desu, they just didn't want to repeat another Nathan apologists scenario

Top 10 best songs across the entire LiS franchise? I want a Life is Strange Greatest hits mixtape.

>>528946823
The Reverie

>>528950246
This is dangerously close to lewd. This thread is for wholesome only. I'll let it slide this time, but I'm watching you.

>>528950591
Seriously, fuck off

>>528952396
Nah.

>>528952396
?

>>528952396
This
We'll post whatever we want here

>>528622212 (OP)
Gays whose whole personality is being gay are boring, selfish twats.

>>528959964
yeah, the OP clearly written by the mentally ill person

Does Gone Home fit here?

>>528931539
>Enough of trolls
when you're out of arguments

>>528946823
all the greatest hits are in the 1's ost already but I'd go:

Jonathan Morali - Golden Hour
Syd Matters - To All Of You
Local Natives - Mt. Washington
Sparklehorse - Piano Fire
Milk & Bone - Natalie
Novo Amor - Haven
Wolf Alice - Bros
Daughter - A Hole In The Earth
Syd Matters - Obstacles
Jonathan Morali - Max and Chloe

Honorable Mentions:
Ben Howard - Black Flies
Foals - Spanish Sahara
Sarah Gillespie - Out of Line
girl in red - girls
Steph Gingrich - Steph's Song
Mood Bored - Lucky

>>528946823
LiS1
>José González - Crosses
>Local Natives - Mt. Washington
>Message To Bears - Mountains
>Syd Matters - Obstacles
BtS
>Ben Howard - Black Flies
>Daughter - Burn it Down
>Daughter - Dreams of William
>Daughter - No Care
>Speedy Ortiz - No Below
TC
>Gabrielle Aplin - Home

Syd Matters might have the most iconic (Obstacles), but the fact that Daughter made a whole album for BtS makes them THE artist for LiS imo.

bumpu

>>528996801
Swonn's expression of pain really makes it

ehhhh

>>529002534
Poweful and poetic, thank you anon!

/v/ is making fun of LR
I'm doing my part trashing it too to make sure even more dontnod employees get fired and we get a hot bitch to romance in the next game, or even better, they ditch LR as a series

>>529003596
/v/ will trash every game they consider "woke" because they have not any critical sense and work as a hive mind rather than intelligent folks. They don't give a shit about game making process and are the most entitled motherfuckers on the planet, let them yap.

>>529002534
ugly and pathetic

>>529003596
keep up the good job, anon. dontnod is getting exactly what they deserve

>>529002534
GAGA OOOH LA LA
WANT YOUR BAD ROMANCE

>>529005062
Speaking of Gaga, would be nice to have some Lost Records themed recreations of her albums, expecially with of the girls under make up

>>529007478
Good Lord, what a cringe thing to say.

eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>529002592
de nada

>>529005062
she does give off Gaga vibes, but only slightly

>>529007478
not really feasible, someone else might try them though

>>529012510
Guess that's on Bananon then. btw what album have you used for this one?

>>529018786
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out. It's a far cry from it though

>Guess that's on Bananon then
Hopefully he can pull it off. Although, I'm surprised no one is doing fan art of an imaginary B&R debut album. There's so much potential there

>>529019567
There's surprinsingly few of them, but I like this one of mid aged 25 to 30 year old Nora as a rockstar

>>529019987
Yeah that one's great, gives me Brody Dalle vibes. We definitely need more music-related fan art

>>529020752

>>529021249
Hell yeah. I remember trying to do something like this with the bar stools as the drum set for Swann kek.

this is the /lisg/ general please keep your mid records posting out of here

>>529025802
LRbros... is our game... mid...?

>>529025802
Too late for that

>>529026319
Your game is a flop

>>529033146
You're a flop

>>529025802
/lisg/ is for most anything a bit Queer and narrative now. We evolve with the times.

>>528622212 (OP)
Accidentally saw this thread on the front page, I totally forgot LiS was to get a proper sequel, so is it worth playing, how it's compared to first one.
Quickly skimming through the thread it looks like they went with "funny energetic characters from the first game become gloomy sad pieces of shit in the sequel" correct me if I'm wrong?

>>529039214
you're wrong

>>529039214
you're both right and wrong. You're right in the sense that DE Max is a fucking bore compared to OG Max. You're wrong because they choose to just not include any of the other characters from the first game in DE.

>>529039214
It's a poor rehash of the first game, down to another storm, nightmare sequence and even an expy of Rachel Amber. The first two chapters are worth playing or watching since they set up an interesting story only to horrendously fumble right after.

>they went with "funny energetic characters from the first game become gloomy sad pieces of shit in the sequel"
Max is the only one to return. The new characters are stand-ins for the writers to pour their personalities onto you but they're far from gloomy. They're not all bad but a good few of them serve literally no purpose at all and are just fluff. The best and worst of it all is that Max isn't quite herself in this. She's matured, less mousy and level-headed but at the cost of her running away from her trauma which she actively fought against in the first game. In this game, she just ran away from it all.

>>529039214
You're wrong, but in the sense that DE is not gloomy and sad, but the narrative equivalent of a straight to DVD sequel movie made to cash in the popularity of the first one, think about Highlander 2 or the various Disney home video sequels.

missed collab

Why would Frank do this to Warren?

>>529043272
They deserve eachother.
Unless he's going to replace Vinh with Nathan next.

>>529043272
cursed

>>529041162
So funny how y’all suddenly switch sides just to spite DE. LiS1 Max used to be a snoozefest for you and now suddenly she wasn't. I wonder what could’ve happened!

>>529041512
A little less seething and you could’ve had a rational take

>>529042321
Another victim of excessive cultural absorption

>>529046063
Anon, you are the one seething at this point.

>>529047420
Why did he lie so brazenly and so shamelessly? The game bombed and most of his colleagues got booted out the month after relase, he only made things worse considering we got the Mallory twitter thread which was ratioed to oblivion

>>529047843
>>529047420
All I can ever really think is that they had it planned for Chloe to return in part 2, big reveals about how nothing was what it seemed etc.

But, it's as if they expected people not to take their game at face value,

>>529048772
Still hard to understand why he felt the need to go under Keno and friends discussing that Peter Conlin thread under a DontNod post celebrating national girlfriends day, and telling fans in that condescending tone they weren't going to them wrong. And then DE came out, and Mallory did that post who made even more of a mess on things.

>>529043272
Lmao. They actually got this cuck Frank to make another anti-pricefield mod. That's the second one, after the one with Safi

>>529056592
How is making Warren x Vinh anti-pricefield?
They're cute. That's my kind of pride month.

Side Raven
Side Sun
Side Moon
Side Moth

>>529062607
this shit is so fucking bomb

>>529056592
makes you think about what he's actually after

>>529058898
cause that's the one character they were dying to see in this game, i'm sure

>>529062607
Kino kino kino!

>>529062607
Your GRAILZZZZ HAVE ARRIVED

Let's say sunshine for everyone
But as far as I can remember
We've been migratory animals
Living under changing weather
Someday, we will foresee obstacles
Through the blizzard, through the blizzard
Today, we will sell our uniform
Live together, live together
We played hide and seek in waterfalls
We were younger, we were younger
We played hide and seek in waterfalls
We were younger, we were younger
We played hide and seek in waterfalls
We were younger, we were younger
We played hide and seek in waterfalls
We were younger, we were younger
Someday, we will foresee obstacles
Through the blizzard, through the blizzard

>>529075397
It glows at night, it's just the start
I'm not surprised, it shook us up
We like to keep, some places wild
Like battlefields, where no one fights

The road that we share, the air that we breathe
The treasures we hide, here and there
The ashes of love, the signals of hate
The planes in the crumbling sky

And if someone calls or shows up at the door
No one will be there to answer anymore
We have it on tape now

It glows at night, it's just the start
I'm not surprised, it shook us up
We like to keep, some places wild
Like battlefields, where no one fights

>>529075397
That song is agonizingly comfy. It's almost uncomfortable how hard it invokes nostalgia, if that makes sense.

>>529058898
Frank, since you're here, I want to thank you for the this mod

>>529058898
>>529080484
That hairstyle slaps. And fits the Pride vibe too

>>529080691
>>529080484
Disgusting

>>529080691
>>529080484
Souless, thankfully Frank also fixed that

It truly tells a lot that Amanda is just posted out of spite here, when like 80% of the fandom doesn't give a shit about her after DE to the point there's barely any fanarts. Guess in the end, Chloe still won as she gets fanarts and post even when D9 tries to bury her away

>>529080484
>>529080691
SOVL

>>529080892
>>529081348
Uncanny valley shit

>>529081757
fuck off with the bootleg Steph

>>529081757
Seriously, Frank. You put more effort into that dumb hairstyle mod than into making Chloe look even remotely decent

>>529082179
Not Frank, but there's only so much you can do if the plan was to replace a model whose rig was based on another character. If you think you can do better than him, there's nothing that stops you from taking Blender, Zbrush or Unreal into your hands

>>529082501
Says a lot, honestly. Even knowing all that, you still prefer choking down low-effort garbage over handling something actually decent with a shred of dignity. Game's trash, but sure, let's shove her in there, doesn't matter that she looks nothing like herself and could pass for a corpse from last week. Gotta humiliate yourselves over it anyway

>>529083968
>could pass for a corpse from last week
Chrolebros...

>>529083968
Learn Blender. Learn Unreal. Learn Zbrush. You don't like Frank work? Show him you can do better or GTFO.

>>529084319
MFG
You’ve seriously got like two brain cells. You still don’t get what I’m saying. But honestly, that explains why you happy to humiliate yourselves and eat shit like this

>>529084873
Learn modding anon. You don't like Frank? Do better, nothing is stopping you.

>>529084873

Least obvious troll

>>529085117
I don't know what was so hard to understand about what I said, anon
Looks like you're a literal moron. I’m sorry

>>529085519
Skill issue

Lisg bros...

>>528622561
It's never over squirtbros

>>529084242
also kek'd at this one

>>529085915
he’s saying that if things can't be done perfectly for good reasons, settling for mediocrity, even out of spite, isn’t the way

>>529086559
MOAR??

>>529086559
what is she so afraid of?

>>529086969

>>529087189
Thanks anon.
Found it myself already, her ass there is straight-up perfection.

>>529086095
uncanny valley stuff

>>529087189
Based

>>529087130
My dick
>>529109460
Comfy

>>529109460
Souless

>>529109460
Oh Caledon, Oh Caledon...

>>529120478
Sovl and based

Is there a mega folder or a torrent containing all of the LiS novels anywhere to be found? The only all inclusive pack I manage to find is in russian...

>>529125710
they're all on Anna's Archive

square enix was shoving amberprice down everyone's throat

>>529129602
And yet it didn't worked. The AmandaXMax, SafiXMax or Vinh ships haven't even reached a single fraction of Amberprice at its peak, which in turn is just a third of the Pricefield popularity.

>>529131597
>AmandaXMax

>>529131851
Nobody really cares about her outside of trolling reasons, and even those individuals aren't active in making new artworks or content centered around the DE characters

>>529134372

>>529134481
Truth hurts, anon

>>529134481
Squirter

>>529134372
I don’t get why you’re so hung up on that fanart. If anything, it just shows how immature and not-grown-up the fandom still is. But if you really want to go there, the bitter truth is - no matter how many artists keep drawing Amanda, it’s still more than the number of new artists who started drawing Pricefield after DE. That’s what you should actually be worried about

>>529138280
Nice trolling attempt, but zero evidence on the matter. Pricefield fanarts and post are still made and new artists have popped out, like Moosh and Glacier Clear, haven't seen that same amount for any of the DE characters

>>529138280
Same with LR. You literally can't find an artist who hasn't drawn Pricefield before.

>>529131597
so it worked, Amberprice is the most popular ship after Pricefield, which is iconic as it is still top 30 of fictional lesbian ships 10 years later

>>529145678
D9 got rid of Zak Garris and lost a shitload of talents, they can't really recreate that same amount of magic again.

Dylan needs to get all those moles checked

>>529143492
Evidence of what? That Pricefield didn't get any new fans after DE?

>>529143576
No surprise. They were catering to an ever-shrinking Pricefield fanbase instead of even trying to reach a new audience

>>529154645
>Evidence of what? That Pricefield didn't get any new fans after DE?
DE didn't get any new massive fans, period lmao

>. They were catering to an ever-shrinking Pricefield fanbase
Literally believing in a fantasy made up by a troll user lmao

>>529154854
>DE didn't get any new massive fans
and it’s still more than what pricefield gained, lmao

the cover of some coomer comic caught my eye, can you guess why

Imagine how sad your life has to get to become someone who spends all day defending a game he didn't play for the sole purpose of shitting on ANOTHER game you also didn't play, but hate for no discernible reason. Being that trapped by your own mental illness would be horrifying if you had any lucidity to recognize it.

>>529157210
hmmmm... something about that girl on the right...

>>529157210
lulwut

>>529157210

>>528622212 (OP)
Has everyone seen this kino?
https://youtu.be/yNZLharcK1o?si=bxt2seEgwP5uK0ZL

>>529157586
Nailed it, anon.
You just perfectly described what pricefielders have been doing since October.

>>529157086
DE barely gets any traction, and when it does its 80% of the time people thinking its mid or straight ass, nice victory kek

>>529154854
>a fantasy made up by a troll user
did you actually see some big marketing campaign aimed at the public? all I’ve seen them on social media begging disillusioned pricefield fanbase to join, 'hey, come check us out, we’re gonna drop a game soon where choices really matter' and stuff like that

>>529157941
>Channen
>Alex Chen
Very original OC I must say

>>529161025
7 out of 10 people who played for at least a few hours liked the game. At least, that’s what the numbers say

>>529161124
There's nothing wrong with that, if anything they should have done more of that on TikTok. I know strikes were on when they were publishing LR but they really need to get their priorities straight when it comes to online marketing.

>>529161561
The numbers also say DE was a large loss and that 7 out of 10 was mostly people who played the early access, before realizing the whole product was ass in the end.

>>529161751
People tend to forget that the early access was long enough to get counted in metrics, and that it very carefully clipped off just before the entire plot started derailing.

>>529159159
They were talking about you anon.

everytime i try looking up 'keno' in the archives for a drawfag in another general, i get results from this fucking general about some random shit no one cares about

Kenobros... we won...

>>529161751
>DE was a large loss
You mean financial loss? Because there aren't any actual numbers like that. Just some things the execs have said, if you interpret them a certain way. And none of it shows up in the charts, like this one here >>528926125

>>529157210
>coomer comic
Any lewds from there?

>>529161581
>if anything they should
They should start by learning how to actually make good games, with characters people genuinely connect with. Not just cautiously trying the same tired formula over and over again like it's gonna magically work this time

>>529164992
>You mean financial loss? Because there aren't any actual numbers like that
Holy cope anon, stop pretending to deny reality, DE bombed otherwise they wouldn't have had to layoff all devs a month after DE or keep the game in perpetual discount afterward

>>529167901
I didn't say the game didn’t bomb, read more carefully. I said there are no numbers confirming that SE actually took a financial hit because of it

>>529169232
Of course Square didn't take a big hit, but I was talking in the freat scheme of things they have a franchise that is clearly flopping versus all their others IP that sell well like Final Fantasy

Game about Alex, Steph and Ryan on a cross-country road trip when?

>>529178745
No way Ryan leaves Haven Springs

>>529178745
After DE2 sells like gangbusters to help fund it!

>>529179363
In my headcanon Ryan feels ostracized from Haven after the truth of his dad spreads around, and the shame makes him feel unwelcome. So he gets a job as a park ranger up in the Midwest to spend a few years away and find himself, and Alex and Steph tag along on the drive up for moral support.

>>529180583
Feels more like he'd dedicate his entire life to regain the trust of the town, undo the sins of his father, and emancipate/reclaim the Lucan name. Which he eventually does (with Alex and Steph's help), in memory of his mom and all the lives that were lost. Maybe even finding the courage to forgive his father later. He could do all that after a brief respite in the Midwest like in your idea.

Pricefield is eternal.

>>529182125
the prop, the bore and the thighs

>>529195354
And lewd clavicle

Weird how so much of DE's marketing framed itv like it was going to be a fucking game of Cuedo. Suspect profiles and such.

Honestly, building up evidence and accusing somebody in the final chapter without any nonsense would've worked.

Squirt queen is eternal.

>>529202443

>>529202443
>mom! look! I posted it AGAIN!

>>529196569
I still remember how those idiots were daydreaming about turning Amanda or Safi in to the cops as the suspect and riding out of town with MUH CHLOE on a motorcycle.
Look at them now. A year’s gone by and they’re still seething

>>529202443
Amanda looks beautiful here

>>529212197
That sounds awful

>>529212197
You are the one still seething about the game tho, no matter how hard you nlame us.

>>529212197
It really shows what kind of reality they live in. For them Max is this clueless mess who screws everything up, and then Chloe swoops in to save her. Like, almost every fanfic they write is built around that idea. Which is super funny considering in the first game, she couldn’t wipe her own ass without Max

>>529202443
Amanda squirting all over /lisg/ with no survivors

>>529231476
Still seething hard anon, its so funny.

>open up /lisg/
>endless DE shitposting
Why are we still even discussing that shit, when we could be talking about hairy Chloe pits?

>>529049194
>..Anonymous
>06/27/25(Fri)16:40:32 No.529064774
>>>529056592 #
>makes you think about what he's actually after
>>>529058898 #
>cause that's the one
The only way I can make sense of this is he replied to someone saying d9 hates lesbians so I think he was trying to say no we don't hate lesbians we'd never do you wrong like that he was thinking of Amanda and Max and realized to late the convo was about pricefield which is why he got weird and his next response after this was saying talk to square we passing your concerns to square

But it's still weird. Mal still has been gone from socials ever since

>>529231961
I don't think it was like that, his response on the nonsense part seems like he had directly seen the discussion around Conlin thread, because he then made a response like this:
>'As someone who grew up queer and lonely, I would pick Chloe every time. I think at the root of that there is a feeling that resonates a lot with the fans and why they feel so strongly about it.

Dude knew what they were talking about and played it coy before the shitstorm happened

>>529231850
She better dye those pits or else

>>529233528
The better part of a decade ago now, I actually started writing a lewd fanfic about Max worshipping Chloe's pits
I gave up when I could not decide if Chloe would actually have dyed pits or not.

>>529233963
This action will have consequences...

>>529231850
I think Chloe has a bit of hair but not too big, she cut them off but in a very laid down manner. I would be more interested how the Bloom&Rage girls have their own pits and how that changes from '95 to '22.

>>529235220
I don't know if I should rewind time or see how this plays out...
>>529235814
While in game this is not the case. In my heart, '95 Nora has jungle pits.

>>529235814
Swann falls way deep into the goblincore hole and has never shaved since moving to Canada

>>529242350

>>529242484

>>529247432

most attractive faces in lost records
1. swann
2. kat
3. autumn
4. nora

>>529248997
I don't get the Nora X Kat ship, they don't seem to have much chemistry as a duo together and its mostly Nora being horny. But she works a lot better with Swann, and Swann with Kat also

>>529237097
I mean, Swann seems to have totally socially isolated herself (excluding her job) once she moved to Canada. So I would basically consider this soft canon.
>>529242484
I have got to see short hair Nora with buzzed sides now. I think she could really pull it off.
>>529249037
Nora > Swan >> Kat > Autumn
>>529252128
Well Nora actually seems pretty close to Kat. Especially in tape 2. She is even basically cradling her on floor before the girls start dancing.
It is kinda funny that Tape 1 sets Nora and Autumn up as close friends, but they never actually seem to like each other outside of their introduction. By the end of things, Nora seems closer to Kat then she does Autumn.

But I agree that Nora/Kat is an awful ship.
Snora is just such an amazing ship that I have to imagine it is the dev intended romance. Nora and Swann just compliment each other perfectly, both in '95 and '22.

>>529252128
DN intentionally wrote a horny 16 year old.

Do I even need to comment on that?

>>529253975
It make sense for her age, and they keep it only with Nora as the other girls are nowhere as horny as her

something stupid for ya'll

>>529252128
You kind of have to fill in the gaps for the ship to make sense. Aside from the fact that they can kiss, Nora admitting her feelings for Kat in '22, the bracelet for Kat and the furtive glances they share, it looks more like an unreciprocated crush; we're also missing a chunk of the hangouts from their perspectives. We only got to see Swann's. Nora flirted with all of them but I don't remember her pining for Kat, people misconstrue her concern at the cabin as something more imo. Kat is more into Swann if anything.

>>529253975
In fairness, I think they handled her really well in '95. Especially from a relationship angle.
I'm sure that sort of awkward queer flirting and false bravado is relatable to a good chunk of /lisg/. So much so that I'm convinced that most if not all of her relationship dialogue on her was written by actual queer people that were once awkward, horny queer teenagers themselves.

>>529254749
Kek, great work, waiting for the other music related covers

>>529231476
>For them Max is this clueless mess who screws everything up, and then Chloe swoops in to save her
This

>>529257643
I think that is just a very popular dynamic in sapphic ships in general.
If you consider Max to be a self insert for an assumed queer player/reader, then having a badass punk gf that comes to your rescue is just inherently appealing for many of the people who like these ships. It is a ship dynamic that goes back to at-least Xena and Gabrielle.
Give it a year and I bet a solid 90% of snora ships will have that same dynamic, with Swann in the role of hapless self insert and Nora as the self confident and competent girlfriend who saves her.

This is less a reflection of how pricefielders see Max/Chloe and more you not seeming to get/like sapphic shipping.

>>529258260

>>529257643
absolute insane take, max is very competent in the first game, she still is in DE but insane pricefielders can never see that since there's no chloe to "ground" her

>>529260004
Dude, Max is competent but she was never a Master Chief, a Kratos or a Lara Croft level of main player attraction. She has a clear defined history, and most of that is her dynamic with Chloe which is literally the point of the endings. Pretending she can stand on her own with a game like Double Exposure, a game made purely to cash in on nostalgia for a poorly conceive soft reboot, is the real mental illness.

>>529262408
>which is literally the point of the endings
>>529259567

>>529262408
I agree their dynamic and history make the game but max actually shone more in absence of chloe. sure chloe was her driving force but you can substitute her with anyone she cares about and the story still works. chloe is not the end all be all of max's life

>>529257643
You guys keep seething, but DE is a flop and you do is being bitter about the fandom rightfully shitting on it

>>529263832
>max actually shone more in absence of chloe.
Not really, the game was a bomb and many seems to agree Max while nice is definitely tackled on a story it could be any other character

>you can substitute her with anyone she cares about and the story still works
They literally tried to do this with Safi and it failed, her and Chloe dynamic is one of the key factor behind Life is Strange's popularity.

>>529265638
I was talking about the first game

>>529262408
>Master Chief, a Kratos or a Lara Croft level of main player attraction
even the r34 numbers tell otherwise lol

>>529266965
Coomer shit doesn't count

>>529271924
On the contrary. That's what really moves the game

>>529276009
sex

>>529276009
Again, coomer shit only matter to coomers that jerk off to a offbrand Max. In reality, given how DE performed, it's such a niche it has no impact on people interest for the game

>>529277804
Does it really surprise anyone that DE shitposters are gross coomers?
Probably why they have such a poor grasp on Max and Chloe and why the idea of a Max game without Chloe was doomed to fail.
They are basically just a new version of the Rachel fanboys that endlessly posted about how much they hated Chloe after BtS came out.

>>529278583
Hideous

>>529276009
where's muh chrole?

>>529278671
They’re kind of obsessed with romanticizing toxic relationships

>>529278831
Not in the game

>>529278583
Pretty much this. And I'd say the only coomer shit I approve is the one that at least is still in character

>>529277804
Yeah, go ahead and tell that to Sandfall Interactive, clown

>>529266119
Of course he got it. But they’ve always ignored anything that doesn’t line up with their version of things.

>>529279326
Fuck off, you goon brained DEmented slop sucker

The amount of trolls popping in and out of this general lately is exausting, mostly because you can clearly tell they do not give a single fuck about the quality of future games or narrative storytelling, they feel like they have to own PFs but ultimately have really nothing to say about the franchise, games or fandom. I'll take the discussions on Lost Records any day of the week over this trite bullshit.

>>529283724
>The amount of trolls
Keep seeing trolls everywhere just 'cause someone doesn’t love pricefield and you’re gonna drive yourself nuts with paranoia. No wonder some of you end up in psych wards like Uber or that Italian chick

>they do not give a single fuck about the quality of future games or narrative storytelling
Don’t lump it all together, hon. Everything you're seething about has nothing to do with the quality of future games or narrative storytelling

>>529283724
>they have to own PFs
You own it yourselves. Those meltdown screenshots are straight-up /lisg/ gold now

>>529283724
>I'll take the discussions on Lost Records
You’ll need to find a second person first if you want to have that discussion

>>529283724
>The amount of trolls
Keep seeing trolls everywhere just 'cause someone doesn’t love pricefield and you’re gonna drive yourself nuts with paranoia. No wonder some of you end up in psych wards like Uber or that Italian chick

>they do not give a single fuck about the quality of future games or narrative storytelling
Don’t lump it all together, hon. Everything you're seething about has nothing to do with the quality of future games or narrative storytelling

>they have to own PFs
You own it yourselves. Those meltdown screenshots are straight-up /lisg/ gold now

>I'll take the discussions on Lost Records
You’ll need to find a second person first if you want to have that discussion

Stop giving engagment to those slop posts, they mean nothing and care about nothing, therefore they should be left alone to rot. Less garbage, more comfy posting.

>>529283724
the trolls and pricefielders are two sides of the same coin; one coping with the state of the franchise and the other too set in their ways to give anything that isn't their ship the light of day. we all want a happy ending for max and chloe in a game however, the comics gave us that but it wasn't by DN so it's ignored and it's on the pricefielders if they want to continue to screech at it. pricefielders are not the only ones to have their franchise and ships get shat on and they will not be the last; with a franchise that deals with the unfairness and uncertainty of life, it's ironic that the fanbase is the way they are. not defending D9, SE and DE but take the good with the bad and try to enjoy what we have now. I do hope LR sticks it out with the layoffs

>>529290620
Even I can’t tell if this is a troll or not.
A pricefielder using their brain - we don’t exactly see that every day here.

>>529290620
I've pointed it out several times myself but always get shot down, there's a few anons in here who are so blindly fixated on Pricefield that they aren't paying attention to what they're saying and have just turned into a different breed of schizo. Like that one who for a while start railing at Chengrich for some reason.

>>529292051
>Even I can’t tell if this is a troll or not.

>>529292240
that's just how it is in online communities. I wouldn't be surprised if they're playing "characters" because it's fun and it is pretty common

>>529292240
>Like that one who for a while start railing at Chengrich for some reason
The one who jumps in with that Izzie crap every time Chenrich is mentioned?

Lets be real for a second: trolling and spiteposting has accomplished nothing here, there's nothing more to discuss because in LiS, Square has essentially given up in trying to communicate with the fandom, DE is a poorly written mess that really has not much going on to care, and a lot of people that really feel burned out and stopped caring about Life is Strange as a whole. All that has been said about LiS has been said, there's not going to be a big new wave of fans leaving the franchise shrinking. How do you even fix that?

>>529293063
There was some anon that was really obsessed with Izzie, to the point of even stalking Deadra Merrick and revealing her second Twitter account, probably a deranged kiwifarmer

>>529293471
True Colors was ironically a step in the right direction. Re-embracing Dontnod's vision of LiS as an anthology series, but taking baby steps by incorporating a couple fan favorite characters from prior entries. Maybe at times it played it a little TOO safe, and it certainly deserved to be double the length it was, but in spirit we got what a new LiS should have been: a new character using the supernatural as a means to interact with and cope with the real problems that a young person faces in their growth.

But somebody, or several somebodies, went foot-in-brain mode and decided clearly the solution was to fully bank on nostalgiabux while ALSO destroying the nostalgia they were dependent upon to sell the game.

>>529293063
>The one who jumps in with that Izzie crap every time Chenrich is mentioned?
I wouldn't have called that anon a troll at a glance, to me they just seemed way too parasocially attached to Izzie and were projecting their feelings toward their IRL person they knew onto the character.

>>529294391
Jesus, is that true? I hope not, that's fucked up.

>>529293471
with what we have now, realistically, it's all or nothing with the TV show. everything hinges on it now. if it's a big success with whichever ending/direction they adopt, it will save and continue the franchise but possibly at the cost of its quality. they could go with a faithful adaptation and use that going forward if the reception is great. they could make it their own and amalgamate every single game into the show and if that's a success, that's going to be the future. if it's not, well that's all folks

>>529294910
I think its best shot, personally, is incorporating the lost plot threads in Samuel, the Prescotts, etc. in a way that can create a new climax where Max doesn't have to choose between Chloe and the Bay. Not necessarily a golden ending where everyone lives, but one where the Storm primarily destroys property and kills a much smaller number of people. Nathan and Sean Prescott and the people in diner would probably still need to die for weight.

I'd need to think on it quite a bit. But I think somewhere in there is the right idea.

>>529293471
>>529294631
TC was okay. I don't think the trouble was including characters from prior games. In fact I'd love cameos from someone like Dana or Juliet in other games. I think they went too much in the comfy slice-of-life direction, even more than what people are accusing LR of doing.
Fucking nothing happens in the majority of TC. A whole episode is dedicated to the LARP which ultimately doesn't matter as Ethan doesn't show up for the remainder of the game.

>>529295328
That's a good idea, but the show was in development production hell for at least years, and probably is being actively rewritten as we speak. Realistically, it would only come out as bad as the Halo live action and then cancelled after one or two seasons, with no virtual impact on overall franchise.

The Last Of Us show at least had an involvment from Druckmann, who's worked on the two games, but there's no way Michel and co get involved with the process.

>>529295328
they can definitely reintroduce those cut content to make the show more definitive and more in line with DN's original vision, which they should hire as consultants on the show. their metaphorical aspects could alienate the general audience however and I fear that's where some parts of the show will suffer. every last thing will have to be explained and the mystique will be lost. a new climax should definitely be something they tinker with, most adaptations ignore the originals anyway or at the very least write a variation of it. if they're going with a multi-season show then that's how it's going to be, maybe even do a proper dual timeline continuation.

>>529295964
>Realistically, it would only come out as bad as the Halo live action and then cancelled after one or two seasons, with no virtual impact on overall franchise.
yeah that's the worst case scenario for sure, it was crazy how that show missed the point. the fact that we still don't know who the showrunners and writers are doesn't bode well

>>529297298
It could be also a lot more easier for them to just take the Riverdale route and just ham it up in the worst possible way

>>529295410
The LARP chapter was a nice change of pace imo, if anything it added a little bit more gameplay into the mix and lazy foreshadowing to Jed's ultimate role in the game. The sentiment is sweet but it is placed awkwardly right in the middle of their investigation. The comfiness was just right just that it's undulating with the solemn dark town secrets parts; comfy introduction of Haven then Gabe dies, chapter 2, the spring festival then Alex gets shot etc. It should've had a more constant flow since the game wasn't released in an episodic format.

>>529303218
TC pacing is all over the place desu, easily worse than Lost Records, and the larp geniuenly overstays its welcome

>>529302525
oh god no, that trend of turning light-hearted fare into something gritty and subversive is so bad

>>529304178
Does it? At best it felt like maybe 30 minutes. People really overstate its presence, the beefiest parts of it in the first place are when you goof around in the Lantern, with Steph, and Ryan being all the monsters. It wasn't too long, the game as a whole was just too short.

>>529304627
I felt like those thirty minutes were longer, mostly because it was a filler episode that ultimately served nothing as Ethan ends up having zero relevance in the story

>>529305143
Ethan is a character. It's a simple role, but it's not NOT a role. Through him you learn more about Gabe and the kind of father he was, you get an outside perspective of Charlotte to more sharply contrast the internalized shame and pain she feels in the following mindscape exploring with her. You also get an opportunity to flesh out the town further and get some more interaction with the townies to make Have feel more alive.

Then there's the foreshadowing mentioned with Jed, but also a chance to reflect more of Alex's character and the way she views herself, reflecting how she can position herself in comparison or contrast to Ethan's more brash hero.

Saying Ethan isn't relevant to the story because he isn't part of the finale is just not understanding what stories are.

>Through him you learn more about Gabe and the kind of father he was
All of that is already established through the first chapter and second, it really doesn't add anything substantial the story hadn't already talked.

>you get an outside perspective of Charlotte to more sharply contrast the internalized shame and pain she feels in the following mindscape exploring with her
I agree the Charlotte anger scene is probably the best out ot TC, but I needed a game with more of that, choice between taking away an emotion and seeing the consequences for it. The fact it is only used two times and its very inconsistent in action as well as having zero long term impact on Alex is a big shame.

>You also get an opportunity to flesh out the town further and get some more interaction with the townies to make Have feel more alive
If anything Haven Strings is significantly more emptier than in other episodes and makes the larp feel pitiful.

>>529305527
That anger Charlotte felt towards Ethan was a good piece of writing on D9's part because it's so real and rational. Not a lot of people are willing to confront that feeling and instead internalize it like Charlotte did.

>>529306850
The facial animation is also pretty on-point because you can pick up well beforehand that Charlotte visibly becomes unhappy (post-Gabe's death) whenever Ethan shows up or is mentioned. It's never called attention to but it's always there.

>>529306685
>The fact it is only used two times and its very inconsistent in action as well as having zero long term impact on Alex is a big shame.
I always rationalize it as Alex getting better at using her power and getting more in tune with her emotions, it's pretty weak but it's one of the few ways for it to make sense. Her loading off an emotion to someone or even divert it to an object was something they should've done to further flesh out her powers desu.

>>529306973
Its a shame that we aren't probably going to get those details anymore, Webb Pickersgill directed the mocap for TC but has now been relocated to directing co-dev and all the slighty competent writers have been fired, Garris included

>>529308265
>Her loading off an emotion to someone or even divert it to an object was something they should've done to further flesh out her powers desu.
Seems like its a recurring pattern with D9, they have a decent to good idea but they totally waste it and do nothing groundbreaking with it

>>529232495
Actually check the thread on Twitter again. Dude admitted outright he had no idea Peter said anything then he said what you mentioned. He had no clue and said that only after having fans explain what Peter said. That's why I think he messed up he responded to the d9 hates lesbian comment I don't think dude had any idea this was about pricefield even with the pricefield picture from dontnod because as soon as Chloe was mentioned he backpadalled and suddenly was saying how he was passing our concerns to square which obviously meant shes not in the game but we letting square know just like how d9 people said we can't do patches unless square gives us permission and funds.

>>529313560
Tldr dude messed up and misunderstood because as soon as Chloe was mentioned he started talking about square and how they're listening it sounded very bad back then because the stuff he said about chloe made it clear she wasn't in the game as he kept saying we passing this on to square when people asked him about chloe

>>529313745
He made pic related in the same thread as he was talking with people, and to jump in to reply would have mean he must have seen what the previous argument by Keno and co was about Max and Chloe relationship. Dude was lying from the very beginning and put out the "Square is listening" as a saving grace

Hag Max is best Max.

>>529320692
Wife Max is best Max

They filtered millions.

>>529325046
You have to be heartless to not be able to see passed Chloe's bitchiness and sympathize with her.
You have to be brainless to sacrifice a town for her though.

>>529315615
True enough I think I just want to believe he didn't lie on purpose. It's still crazy to me he said this and same day Mal tweeted what she did. There was so much infighting at d9 over Double Exposure

>>529315615
Square is listening is also funny to say during their promo campaign of ignoring Chloe's existence lol

>>529325046
Kenny over that bitch, Acradia Bay over that bitch
Simple as...

>>529325046
You can tell if someone will be annoying based on if they hate Kenny or Chloe

>>529321483
I love this fan art. Probably my favorite of them.

>>529320692
Yes

>>529325046
Based. Both done dirty by their respective series worst entries.

>>529297298
> the fact that we still don't know who the showrunners and writers are doesn't bode well

It's not announced officially but we have the leak that it's Margot Robbie's Production Company, Lucky Chap. Their filmography has been decent so far, with some award-winning material. And they focus on having women in the writers room and behind the lens so I imagine the showrunner might end up being a lady.

Unlike Halo, the Dmitri guy who's been producing the show is insistent that studio execs play the damn game before they even talk to him about ideas for a show. Hopefully that means some respect for the source material. But time will tell. Often good intentions still have shit results.

Info sourced from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeisstrange/comments/1dvb9o6/all_life_is_strange_live_action_series_everything/

LiS should never be done in live action. Ever. If it has to be adapted (it doesn't and shouldn't), then get whoever did Pantheon to animate it.

I still laugh when i think of how obsessed we all were about chloe last year when the first de trailer dropped. The whole wedding ring thing. Seeing Chloe in the camera lens. Square and d9 must have been panicking. All anybody talked about was Chloe. They shockingly underestimated her popularity

>>529337707
>All anybody talked about
Literally 1 (one) question at live events

>>528622212 (OP)
LR is a flop and will never be a franchise game

>>529295410
TC and LR barely had plots, the games were both 95% filler. You could've cut out all the filler and just made them each 3-4 hour single episode games. I will never get the glazing LR gets here when TC rightfully got shit on for the same thing.

>>529344726
>I will never get the glazing LR gets here when TC rightfully got shit on for the same thing.
People here only pretend to like LR and shill it as. a franchise game because they are pissed over DE broke up Pricefield, I would bet you a million dollars if Pricefield was still together in DE with the exact same plot otherwise nobody here would talk about LR

>>529339957
You know they curate questions before they're allowed to be asked at live events, right?

>>529346868
Oh right! Otherwise that girl who took Rachel plushie would’ve totally gotten bold and asked something, no doubt

>>529320692
>>529327896
DE Max is incredibly hot
>>529344726
>TC and LR barely had plots, the games were both 95% filler
This
It's honestly wild that anyone thinks that TC was a step in the right direction
>>529345148
>nobody here would talk about LR
Not like anyone really talks about it here anyway, lol

>>529294631
>seemed way too parasocially attached to Izzie
I like a character that got unfairly treated by the TC writing lead. I also like her in an unpopular ship with another character. Sue me.
>projecting their feelings toward their IRL person they knew onto the character
Maybe?
I'm willing to admit that may have something to do with why I like Izzie so much.
But it is not like I'm posting about her multiple times a thread. She is just a character I like and I post about her when I think it fits into the current discussion.
People just freak out about Izzie specifically because I think she is a better Steph ship than Alex + personal aspects of who Izzie is. If it were any other character, nobody would care.
>>529344726
TC and LR were much more about vibes, emotion and character than some big driving narrative. This may be an issue of personal taste, but this is a style that I much prefer.
It is basically an evolution on the slower parts of the first 3 episodes of LiS 1 when you are just chilling with Chloe and taking in the world. That is what I like about these games. I would much rather another vibes based game that is 95% 'filler' over a game that attempts to copy the narrative driven (and poorly received) final 2 episodes from LiS 1.
>>529345148
DE could have been focused exclusively on Chloe and Max getting married and I would still be posting about how much I like LR and prefer snora to pricefield.
LR is just an objectively better game with far better characters. DE never stood a chance, even if it had leaned hard into pricefield pandering.

>>529349562
>People just freak out about Izzie specifically because I think she is a better Steph ship than Alex + personal aspects of who Izzie is. If it were any other character, nobody would care.
I'm not gonna shit on you for preferring a less popular ship anon, but even if you didn't notice it there was a long stretch where you DID start spamming Steph+Izzie if anybody mentioned Chenrich at all. I'm trying to be diplomatic and say it wasn't a conscious decision but you seemed to be pretty consistently trying to drown it out.

>>529325046
Don't drag Chloe down by associating her with that faggot Kenny

>>529349562
>I like a character that got unfairly treated by the TC writing lead
there isn't anything to treat unfairly. She's an ex of Steph and there's nothing more to it. She only got a character in the Steph novel

>>529349830
/lisg/ is slow at times. I don't consider keeping the thread bumped by talking about my preferred Steph ship to be spamming. It is seizing on a topic.
If Kate or Victoria were talked about more, then I would happily interject with some chasemarsh posting. But few people really care about that. They only care when Izzie is involved.
>>529350628
If you do not know about the drama around the writing lead of TC and the shit he pulled with Izzie, then you do not get a seat at the table.

>>529349562
>LR is just an objectively better game with far better characters
You have to be getting paid by DN to promote the game here.

>>529352451
This or they are simply obsessed with being annoying

LRbros... are we... shills...?

>>529352451
I love LR. Deal with it.
But, if DN did want to compensate me then I would work for snora merch.

>>529331858
only time will tell if it'll turn out well and/or if SE decides to shit the bed. I do hope that dmitri and his story kitchen company get to stay on

>>529352451
I just like the game anon, its not like I'm being paid to do so

what'll it be anon?

>>529361531
pancakes, eggs, bacon and a black coffee brother

>>529361531

>>529312040
Exactly, it's disappointing. They could've done so much with Alex and even Max in DE. No idea why they're so averse to their protagonists training and stretching their limits power-wise. Max doesn't even try to experiment in DE. They could've taken notes with Daniel and the metaphor of growing up too fast with his powers. I'm sure they could fit in something.

>>529355101
>>529357250
Saying it has better characters and storylines than LiS is simply untrue when the game is majority filler. You could cut out hours of the game and it would still be the same.