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>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)

Reminder: Do not respond to trolls from /v/

DEbros... not again...

Snora LOVE!

>>534905116
Who even cares? It's 90% DE posts anyway

>>534906265
>>534906682

>>534906265
>>534907085

>>534904543 (OP)
Reminder that LR, Lake, Gone Home, and Fear the Spotlight are non franchise games and are actually off topic discussion - baker admitted they want /lisg/ to cease to exist and want this to be a sapphic games general instead, so LiS2 and DE aren’t included because they’re butthurt over ships.

>>534906265
After counting, ~20% of posts in the last thread were DE posts. 149 out of 750.
That includes DE1/DE2 discussion, discussion about the future of D9/Square/the LiS franchise, screens from DE and model swaps in DE.
The two DE losers from /v/ made up ~10% of the thread alone just bitching about LR and close to another ~10% if you then count them shitposting and replying to themselves.
So even if you could up the DE posts, the bitching about LR and shitposting from the DE losers, you still only get ~40% (rounding upwards and being very definitionally generous). So actually you are a minority; Just looking at actual good faith DE posts alone, a small minority.

Statistically pricefield remains the most popular topic, followed by LR.

>>534908091
Majority of serious posters are entirely happy about this.

life is strange is a faggot/tranny game

>>534923050
yes, we're all about dykes here

>>534923050
based

Some more crumbs for you.
Deck Nine Games current project is a 'narrative' 'episodic' game, shocking!

>>534924764
Expanse 2 baby

>>534915345
>serious posters
2 people actually give a fuck about LR and the other ones nobody even discusses. You clearly do it out of spite and like you yourself said wanting /lisg/ to cease to exist, not even acknowledging two franchise games in the OP.

Why didn't Daniel just fly them over the wall? Why not also wait until nightfall so they're less visible?

>>534923115
Rachel is a whore who was fucking two men behind Chloe’s back and Steph was sucking Izzie’s cock for years

>>534925350
Before DE we discussed all kinds of relative games. LiS is just the parent.

>>534924764
Who is this?

>>534927920
Still, it’s off topic. This place shouldn’t be Life is Strange general if off topic discussion is allowed, D9 and DN general or narrative adventure games would be a more appropriate name. Though then again, that’s probably what the baker wants since they themselves had said for years they don’t want /lisg/ to exist and want this to be a lesbian games general.

>>534933961
>narrative adventure games
They won't do it because it'll open the floor to other games that lack homosexual themes and/or are afterthoughts e.g. Telltale games, Expanse, actual point and click games etc. If The Wolf Among Us 2 comes out, it'll bury all that.

>lesbian games general
That'll be like 2-3 posters bumping it with recycled fanart and no discussions lmao.

Since we're off-topic posting, Kenny for your thoughts?

>>534925350
>you yourself said wanting
Who even cares what she wants. Reality always flips on her expectations. Same schizo that wrote that crap about Joyce's ring, if you didn't catch on

>>534936531
Never played TWD game, maybe one day I will

>>534936531
Insufferable

>>534924764
Making a sequel to a flop that has been such a loss just a year after the original one with barely any marketing or communication with the fanbase surely is a choice, D9 is not going to survive that long desu

>>534938619
You won't regret it

What is Dylan doing?

>>534939310
being ugly

>>534936531
Based.
Best ending for him is to leave Clem at Wellington.
S3 fucked him over like Chloe.

>>534948984
She literally looks like a rat, the ugly version of Rachel

>>534950060
She's cute, but I'm wondering how she would end up looking up at 47 since we never see her in that timeline

>>534950364
If she kept a healthy lifestyle, I figure she would have aged as well as Karen did. But the stress of running a ranch could get to you...

>>534950965
Do you think ranch owner Dylan might have husband and kids, or ended up being a one-woman-show boss alone? Regardless of the situation, she must be haunted by what happened to Kat.

>>534952225
I'd love a scenario where she lived happily ever after but we know that'll never be a thing unless Michel gets wrangled somehow. I agree she'd be haunted by Kat's disappearance but I believe the biggest hurdle she has to overcome, or did hopefully, is committing and trusting another person because of Corey. That kind of abuse is a mothefucker and could've turned her off romance entirely. I don't want her to be all alone and I won't be surprised if they turned her into a lesbian but if they did, I kind of want her to have the relationship Karen and Joan have. Maybe with a kid or two to further the Mikaelsen legacy and have them as protags in the next game which has been posited here a number of times. Not a bad idea but they could a lot more than that.

That popular unofficial LR Merch site got taken down. Official stuff on the way.

>>534959654
>merch site of a flop game gets taken down
Shocker

>>534959654
check the trademark for LR made by DN, they plan to release books & comic books

>>534959654
>>534960516
You have no idea just how much I would spend on some official Snora merch.
A $100 Snora shirt? Done
A $500 premium collectors Snora comic? Easy
A $1000 reproduction of the sun pendant and lapus bracelet? Day one purchase

LiS really failed to capitalize on its queer, ship focused audience with official merch.
I REALLY hope that mistake is not repeated with LR.

>>534936531
Kenny is the source of all of Lee's problems in Season 1

>>534964029
>spending $1000 on any merch especially flop records of all things
Take your meds

>>534959654
They did allude to official merch iirc on that one LRSummerFest post, keeping all hush hush about it.

>>534964483
Not really hiding that you are just a tourist from /v/ rather than someone with an actual background in fandom stuff. Especially queer fandom stuff.

>>534924764
This is fake. He started in April, not March. At least try a little harder the next time. More interesting is that he added Cinematic reels recently, which implies he is looking for work.

>>534936531
They filter millions.

DE confuses me.
>LiS has a major focus on music
>LiS1 has one of the best licensed soundtracks in video game history
>BTS has an entire album made for it by Daughter
>LiS 2's best character is a musician and also has an excellent licensed soundtrack
>In TC, music is a major part of the fucking plot.
>DE ........

>>534967156
TC had an entire album recorded for it too,

>>534964737
The /v/ cope is getting old, anybody who willingly shells out a thousand dollars for video game merch is an actual idiot

>>534964936
It's from the guy resume, you can check it yourself.

>>534967156
I thought TC was pretty lame when it came to music despite it being what it seemed to promote itself as. The jukebox came off as top laziness in my opinion.

>>534967156
DE has Tessa Rose Jackson and the bar songs but no focus on music unless you count the zen moments. That's pretty much it. They could've done something with Gwen since her office is begging for music focus but no. I guess the imaginary date with Amanda listening to Revenge Horse is a thing? You can't even make Max play her guitar in DE lol.

>>534967568
Anon, it's obviously okay when DN does it because it's totally not a corporate money grab and it's for the gays

>>534968581
DN is progressive for scamming fans out of money for the gays

Who’s objectively the biggest whore in LiS? And Kate doesn’t count.

People are gonna say Rachel but I’d say Alex takes the crown. She definitely got ran through by men before TC.

>>534967156
ILLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [abrupt cut to post-ep2 credits screen]

>>534973936
Rachel considering she was probably screwing Jefferson, Frank, and Chloe all during the same time period.

>>534973936
Definitely Safi. She obviously wasn't joking when it came to those sex jokes. Manwhore would be either Vinh, Jefferson or Gabe during his angry years.

>>534973936
Kinda crazy how they gave Alex THAT character design when she’s canonically 80% straight compared to the other female protagonists.

>>534964936
Your comment made me look at this, and yes, the first piece of info is indeed from a may 2025 resume.
I also found his 2021 or 2022 resume and his work on DE was also under "Unannounced Episodic Narrative" so that really might be a sequel (or a totally unrelated narrative game but with I guess we'll see soon).

Second is legit too.

>>534974158
pls buy the cat dlc now

>>534976254
please come up with a new joke

>>534976254
actual early DE photo render of cat dlc for the retarded vinh stan reposter that will say he datamined this & all retards will claim "their friend" found new unused content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>534977103
Miso, my beloved

>>534977103
why is max so ugly

>>534976254
No I’m going to give DN thousands of dollars on ugly characters pls understand

>>534977709
Nora and Swann are super cute and really attractive in '22.

>>534977692
cry more, pricefielder

>>534968112
>the bar songs
Somehow the soundtrack from the Snapping Turtle, from the dead timeline, still ends up being one of my most played tracks

>>534973936
Experience shows that shelter kids go through way more bodies. So yeah, sadly, it's not even a question

lis newfag here, finished 1 recently and now bts. 1 is a very soulful game with plenty of jank, both technical and writing-wise. but you see what the devs were aiming for and forgive it, even when it's very heavy-handed. i'm a chloefag so was hyped to play bts. they did capture a younger chloe well. i liked rachel the bpd demon, even if she didn't live up to her mythic status from 1. their dynamic was fun. the central theme of bitter truths vs sweet lies worked well enough. the tempest is peak. eps 1-2 were damn solid, nailing some of 1's soul. but the quality fucking nosedives in ep 3. felt like square funding got pulled mid-development, with wildly inconsistent writing and budget across scenes. the story was already rushed but after the stabbing everything moves at a breakneck pace. a convoluted amber family subplot hijacks the narrative and doesn't land at all. suddenly relevant antagonists have absolutely retarded motives and methods. no notable characters face consequences, nothing has lasting impact, it's fucking absurd. the already flimsy plot needed 1 more ep or to be spaced out better, otherwise it's a painfully mid finale. i guess i would've loved a more nuanced bcs-tier exploration of chloe's descent into her 1 self. maybe timeskips showing chloe and rachel's evolution, seeing chloe run jobs for frank and damon, doing progressively more morally fucked shit, maybe pulling rachel in, showing cracks in their bond, more supernatural shit, more setup for 1 etc. the whole 3 years are just omitted. such wasted potential. imo the excellent farewell ep captured why chloe is the way she is more effectively than the main game. alternatively they could've made a blank slate rachel a protag, it was literally right there. oh well. don't really care about anthology sequels or spinoffs, so i guess for me the series concludes with the bay ending. it's beautifully directed, fucked up and tragic. perfectly ties up the character arcs i think. cried. was fun. love chloe.

>>534986737
All that and you still chose the wrong ending.

>>534987925
>wrong ending
Bay ending is better considering how much seethe the Bae continuation caused.

Long before I'd ever even heard about The Discourse, I preferred Bae ending because it felt more daring, narratively. I've read a hundred Donnie Darko wannabes where someone has to suffer horribly for the sake of the many. But I hadn't seen many that dared to say "No, that person's life has worth too; no matter what they could theoretically improve with their death, that's not a good enough reason to kill someone innocent."

Bay was the favoured ending by the devs for sure as it was pretty long and showed more of the cast, bae from what I remember was just Chloe and Max driving and was quite short

>>535011043
There were two factors that influenced the Bae ending being short, the more tangible one being that the original intent of the Chloe lives ending was for it to have an entirely different ending sequence that got cut for time and budget. And according to Michel, they went minimal with the replacement because they wanted the players to define what happened to Max and Chloe next, not the devs. Bay is the end of its Max's story, but Bae is the beginning.

But that was, as I said, making do with an unfortunate time crunch. Bay didn't get a bigger ending because it was preferred, it just happened to be the one that was feature-complete by the deadline.

>>535012185
>they went minimal with the replacement because they wanted the players to define what happened to Max and Chloe next
Crazy he said this yet players bullied him into making more content for years then getting pissed at the direct sequel they wanted

>>535012346
>Crazy he said this yet players bullied him into making more content for years then getting pissed at the direct sequel they wanted
This is retarded, because
>1. The content he gave to Max and Chloe in LiS2 managed to be minimal, non-intrusive to the game's own plot, but still satisfying by explaining they're out there, they're making it work, and they're together
>2. Michel had nothing to do with the sequel despite you framing it as some kind of retaliation/karma
>3. Double Exposure flopped.
Kill yourself, schizo.

>>535012507
Fans pushed devs into making unneeded sequels is the point, DE is their fault

>>535013257
DE is Square Enix and Deck Nine's fault. Fans may have clamored for a sequel but not a single one of them demanded it be dogshit. That's on the people who made it. Blaming consumers for a bad game instantly disqualifies you from holding any opinion on anything.

>>535006353
I also like that daring aspect to Bae.
Being a fan of tragic romances, I was actually disappointed that Bay was not more dark. I think it should have leaned into the genre more and had Chloe/Max decide to end their lives together. Both to save the bay and so that they are not split up yet again by fate. Having one die and one just linger on alone really defies genre conventions in the worst ways.
In a tragic romance about two lovers who are constantly split up, any conclusion to that story has to bring them together. Either by them sacrificing their old lives in order to start new ones together (ala Bae) or by them choosing to be together in death. Bay just fails at this and so in my opinion is a failed ending to the narrative.
That is to say nothing of Bay as we have it making the horrible decision to basically undo 99% of the game. That is it's own failing in and of itself.
>>535012185
>Bay is the end of its Max's story, but Bae is the beginning
Another point in Bae's favor honestly. Bae just feels so much more open ended. You can imagine the story of Chloe and Max going in countless directions from them driving out of the Bay together.
But with the Bay ending, there really is no real narrative potential. Chloe and Max were written as foils for each other, so it is hard to picture anything beyond a Bay ending. Nothing that could be done without Max basically being a whole new character anyway.
Also, when you consider some of the shots in Bay and just some of the more upsetting implications of a Bay timeline, the only real story that you could picture for Max beyond what we see in that ending is her killing herself.

>>535013752
I agree that Bae is thematically better, but I don't think Max committing suicide would improve Bay at all. I don't find it romantic and I don't think Chloe would want Max to die. Max living is the only proof that week happened and she changed and grew as a person as a result.

For what it's worth, I also entirely reject the idea that Chloe dying would stop the storm because the Final Destination Death's plan shit is actually stupid as fuck. I can accept fucking with time causing the storm, but I think any timefuckery should make the storm worse, even if you're going back to undo whatever changes you made previously. Fate or destiny existing as a literal force is stupid because it negates choices in a game that is oriented around making them.

>>535016492
>I don't think Max committing suicide would improve Bay at all
The lovers who are unable to be together in in life and so choose to be together in death is a classic part of the tragic romance genre. It is such an old and common trope, because it is one of only two satisfying ways to end the story of a couple who are constantly torn apart (Bae being the example of them being able to make a horrible sacrifice in order to finally stay together). Any satisfying ending to LiS 1 from a narrative perspective then had to bring them together.
The Bay ending I'm picturing would be very different from the one we got. It would have Chloe/Max embracing each other, sharing their feelings for each other, admitting that they cannot bear to be apart, then finally taking each others hands and jumping off of the lighthouse cliff overlooking the Bay. We would not see their bodies or the reactions of the people in the town, the camera would just show the storm quickly dissipating while mirroring one of the shots of the bench from episode 1.
From the perspective of LiS 1 as a tragic romance, that would have been far more satisfying (since they would finally be together) and have a greater emotional impact.
>Max living is the only proof that week happened and she changed and grew as a person as a result
I do not think Bay Max grew as a person. I think the Max we see is heavily traumatized, overcome with guilt and fundamentally broken.
Even putting aside narrative or genre convention, it is a mean spirited ending. I do not really get why anyone would pick bay unless they REALLY heated both Chloe and Max.
>I also entirely reject the idea that Chloe dying would stop the storm
Well that is really its own issue. The storm and how it is linked to Max's powers is comically poorly communicated in game. I assume this element of the story never really got much attention after they pivoted away from the whole native American mythology stuff in the early story drafts.

>>535013752
>the only real story that you could picture for Max beyond what we see in that ending
is this:

>>535019213
Death is a preferable ending to that low quality 'fan' fiction.

>>535019632
Cry more, Max hater

>>534964737
>queer fandom stuff
unironically seek help.

>>535019213
Steamy and suggestive

>>535016492
>Max living is the only proof that week happened and she changed and grew as a person as a result.
She does and it makes even more sense that she honors Chloe's memory because of their whole ordeal. However, you're going to be rebuked often because pricefielders believe she cannot exist as an individual and a character without Chloe. Just like the schizo replying to you, no matter what you try to discuss, they will always try to push their own narrative, almost always something gay, leaving no space for growth. You'll be asked to back to /v/ too if you attempt any healthy discourse kek

>>534985410
They're all good for the most part:
https://youtu.be/T7tx5hTaXDQ?si=Ri0XT95Ssb31wnN0
I quite like Mood Bored, The KVB, The Begged & Borrowed, Far Caspian, Saccades and Delilah Forgotten. It's surprising how many of them were made for the game, just like some of the ones in TC, and they chose Tessa Rose Jackson instead for the main OST.

>>535028558
Bay is the boring ending, I just understand what DN was going for. I'm not particularly interested in seeing a continuation from that, though.

Max and Chloe together is more fun and has better narrative hooks. Their dynamic is why people loved the first game. If you get rid of that, you might as well have a new protagonist.

special message for square enix, your beloved Joshua is selling double exposure prototype builds

>>535032501
Both of them have always been boring since none of your actions directly affect them. LiS 2 at the very least doesn't suffer from that.

>Their dynamic is why people loved the first game.
Not at all.

>>535032829
You are making shit up again

>>535032501
This. But take in mind the other anon do not care about, I doubt they even care about Max even if they spew how you hate the character every now and then. They gave the game away so soon, they don't care about the game quality going into the drain as long as they can keep trolling to their perceived enemies, its pathetic as fuck desu

>>535013384
And also deepthroating Square Enix, a large corpo who's responsable for this mess in the first place and pushes scummy practices to spill money from those consumers, just because they aren't struggling like Dontnod make you look like a zero IQ moron

>>534977103
Again, either you post proof or I assume you are making shit up using a picture you downloaded from Square's website.

>>534924764
Like our boy Stauder said "This is all heading somewhere, should folks want more after Double Exposure." (Or not I guess)

>>535019213
Shame we never got to see them suck each other's toes

>>535036015
Somewhere what? They barely any coherent idea for DE1, how am I supposed to believe DE2 will be better? Also Johnny retweeted that D9 shill blaming fans for DE being a failure, its fair we shouldn't take him seriously

>>535039079
Sure! They were on full damage control mode after the mixed reception.
But the signs are here and DE2 is coming. It will be a glorious mess, I can't wait!

>>535040571
D9 is pushing to the finish line in the same way Telltale was when they were relasing the Final Season, they are now aware DE2 is not going to sell well and Square will give them awful marketing budget because they got hit by reality and need a scapegoat

>>535042740
Oh they're done after this one. Co-dev seems dead in the water.
I hope people start talking when D9 closes.

>>535033043
>LiS 2 at the very least doesn't suffer from that.
NTA but while I personally thought LiS was the best of the games, I did appreciate that in LiS2 your choices actually mattered and determined your ending. Most of the choices in LiS gave you similar outcomes no matter what and the ending was just two options where nothing you did previously mattered.

>>535045096
People will talk even before it goes down, if it does. Ladydev spilled the beans, Aysha deleted all her rants from Bluesky and probably they will say a lot more when its all out in the open, and the worst thing is the behind the scene fuckery is going to be a lot more interesting than the game's plot and narrative design.

>>535006353
Telling that in ten whole years these pricefield clowns still haven't come up with anything meaningful beyond fag ass pop culture references to justify saving their fave

>>535012185
>Bay is the end of its Max's story, but Bae is the beginning.
You don't even believe that crap yourself. Their story's been told, shown, and fully wrapped up. What's left to talk about? Just rehash the same thing over and over again?

>>535045096
>>535046637
What the fuck do you morons even wanna know? Jesus fucking Christ. That they were crunching away without a single word? That SE micromanaged every tiny piece of shit manually? Stop wasting your time

>>535046121
>Most of the choices in LiS gave you similar outcomes no matter what and the ending was just two options where nothing you did previously mattered.
I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they haven't perfected their consequence system during the first's development but I have no way of knowing if that's true or not. There's also other factors like Square's vetoes, their budget running out, how much the fans' feedback actually influenced the game etc.

>>535047208
Just remember pic related, anon. Same article with them going there is no canon ending and I quote:

"Of the 4 main endings, is there one you consider to be canon?

JLC: I think it's for us, the same for the Season 1: you don't have any canon endings in Season 1. Both of the two endings are fine. It depends really to your playthrough, and that's okay. I think it's the same for the second season. There are many more endings, right now, but none of them is canon. It always depends on your playthrough and, if you're happy with your ending, that's what we want to achieve. So there are no canon endings in Season 2.

MK: And I think it was really important for us that those four endings all felt somehow balanced. That there is not really, I mean—there was shades of gray in all of those endings. There is no perfect ending. It is a thing that we also had in the first Life Is Strange: that you cannot have everything perfect even with a rewind. And here that's the same idea; we didn't want just one ending to feel like everything is perfect and they're just together, happy. Because no, I mean with what's happening, what happened during the game at a point, it will be complicated for those characters because they are facing the world around them that is in some way against them. So you have to balance and decide what is the compromise you're going to accept."

>>535047743
You don't have to suffer alone, anon. Your anger is valid, we'll listen to you and maybe you can find some happiness in life again.

>>535048120
>we didn't want just one ending to feel like everything is perfect and they're just together, happy
there you go! he showed one of the endings in LiS2, and that it's not even remotely happy.
but of course, the fandom didn't get it

I sometimes think about how Amanda and Max shippers exclusively lustpost with no mention of anything to do with Amanda's actual character, and they're basically just the real version of what people used to accuse Chenrich shippers of being.

>>535049407
>but of course, the fandom didn't get it
I think most of the fandom got it, it's only a certain subset that can't drill it into their heads.

>>535050894
I just want you to know how deeply funny it is that you're now being forced to try and argue that it's actually the fan's fault that a terrible game like DE was made, because you can no longer argue that the game wasn't terrible, nor that it wasn't a flop.

>>535051103
No one brought up DE but sure.

>>535051367
You're transparent, anon. You've been trying for weeks to try and vilify Pricefield shippers for "ruining" Double Exposure's release, as if consumers can be blamed for a developer creating a subpar product and then choosing not to buy it.

>>535050135
They basically got the same treatment Chenrich did. There's zero point trying to discuss anything seriously - just look at the clownshow under every Amanda post. At this point, the only thing left is to weaponize how deranged the Pricefielders are. And unlike Chenrich, they've actually got ammo. Just drop a pic of Amanda sucking faces with Max and watch the meltdown unfold

>>535051895
All you're saying to me is that you're as mindbroken as my observation suggested.

>>535051562
Clearly you're confusing me with someone else and that's fine. I think you're a little too obsessed with this so-called Pricefield smear campaign.

>>535052227
Because it's sheer coincidence you started doing this immediately after the Amberprice spammer stopped posting again, which usually heralds a bout of falseflag posting from them. Wild happenstance.

>>535051562
Nah, I’ve been saying it. It was hammered over and over again that LiS was never meant to have a sequel, but fans pushed the devs into doing it. Devs did it because they were desperate for money but likely would’ve never had the idea had fans not begged.

>>535052370
Can you direct me to those Amberprice posts? I don't even know what would constitute as one.

>>535052618
SE likes money and they were pitching various Max (and Chloe) games in 2019.
They wanted DontNod to make it, DN refused.

>>534973936
>>535052618
>Devs did it because they were desperate for money but likely would’ve never had the idea had fans not begged.
This is nonfunctional levels of idiocy, anon. Explain how in your fantasy Square Enix both sees Pricefielders constantly clamoring for a sequel and are inspired to give it to them, but at the exact same time feel the need to strip out half of what the people clamoring for a sequel were asking for?

Deck Nine has been making LiS nonstop because Square Enix wants to profit off the brand they own. Eventually some suit would inevitably favor a sequel. It's the height of idiocy to suggest any kind of disorganized fandom rumblings influenced that - you've already seen from focus tests that Square Enix DOESN'T look at the wider fandom.

>>535051895
since what goes around comes around, let's just say it's payback, partly for how they treated Chenrich too

>>535051895
>>535054819
What was so bad about Chenrich that it devolved into coomposting?

Chenrich is overrated, is Steph was a guy it wouldn’t be nearly as popular

>>535055175
A couple anons hornyposted about them, and various schizos started attacking the ship over it

>>535050135
Because that's all they have is spite and coomer bait, since they are latching onto a character who is like a wet blanket. they really are the same individuals that probably would have shipped Amberprice and be in the Legion thing, deeply pathetic individuals.

>>535052165
They can't understand that many Pricefielders are also supportive of Alex and Steph being together, in fact the two couples meeting was like a cool fic scenario everyone was happy with. But they have to be divisive because that's all they have, their game can't stand on it's own two legs and therefore they are salty about it

>>535038812
Yes, full Tarantino style. Missed kino.

>>535055175
Nothing, there were some horny anons in the past but not that particulary annoying, apart from a lone moron who screamed and shouted at the idea of Steph's ex being a trans woman. It just faded into obscurity gradually, and so far much of TC good will has kinda went over as D9 fucked themselves with DE

>>535048120
>>535050894
>>535051367
>>535053024
Thank you anon for posting those, also one of those interviews make it looks like Stauder really ripped off Michel's original definition for the endings as a way to justify their piss poor job in carrying over those endings

>>535030172
Based.
I would even include The Reverie and The Garden.

>>535030172
It reminds me of TC and expecially Wavelenghts who have a shitload of good songs but they are used so poorly you kinda forget they are in there, nothing like Daughter's OST for BtS or LiS1 with Message to Bears, Obstacles, Jose Gonzales ect... and when you pair that with something as disappointing narrative wise as DE it just become pretty nose

>>535019632
Baesed

>>535058307
Those are good ones too I agree

>>535058881
One thing I noticed, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that you can't even interact with the music in DE. There's no way to put it on. Every LiS to date has done that. There's Max's guitar, two record players in the game and they're just props.

>>535060418
kek based

we're so back AI bros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1RKtdNidv0

>>535058881
I will say that Alex's hangout spots throughout TC are my favorite version of them in the franchise. What that game did right was atmosphere, and you got to actually appreciate some of the soundtrack. One idle thought I had and wished we'd gotten was for Alex's record player to cause "flashbacks" to memories of her spending time with other characters in the room while that song played.

Are comics worth reading?

>>535084034
Yes a lot of comics are worth reading

>>535084034
I got something worth reading for you... MY COCK!!

>>535084034
if you go in wanting to just see Happy Pricefield without any challenges or heartache, then no I wouldn't recommend reading the comics

>>535084034
It starts good and ends good. There's a lot of bullshit in the middle.

>>535088694
The problem isn't that people expected a happy lucky aftermath, plenty of fans were on board with the idea of Max and Chloe dealing with hardships and overcoming them along each other, as the better fanfictions post Bae did. The problem was almost half of the series runtime turned into a filler episode into an Amberprice perfect timeline who really overstays its welcome after the first four chapters and dilute the overall story. It has a final happy ending, but for the most part its a bit mid and wastes literal year of base Max and Chloe separated for those weird sheneigans

>>535090126
Well Rachel was the love of Chloe’s life

>>535090376
Before Chloe found out she lied on her back and that got her killed

>>535090556
She was in denial for months, you know she tasted Jefferson’s cum as she ate Rachel out

Why is Katy Bentz so cringe? She got herself into the 10-year Life is Strange event, yet the only actual cast member from the first game was the actress for Kate. Ten years of Life is Strange, and she wasn’t even in it.

>>535091801
>NOOOOO why does this person enjoy their most popular role and the fandom around it???
>CRRRRIIIIINGE

>>535091801
because Katy and Dayeanne are the only ones actually giving a shit about the franchise beyond getting paid

>>535091803
10-year of Life is Strange celebration, and 3 out of 4 voice actors weren’t even in the original game. Makes sense.

>>535091801
Compared to the others, Katy is a goddamn hero in the fandom. She's been the one arranging streams, get-togethers and everything else for the other cast members that don't give a shit.

>>535092182
10 years of Life is Strange and none of the OG VAs mentions it. Makes sense

>>535091803
They're absolutely banging out some sort of TC2.

>>535093426
I think Alex and Steph will show up in DE2.

>>535038812
>>535056050
Indulge, my precious deviants!

>>535094187
>Max’s photo from Arcadia Bay
Kek

>>535094187
Garbage, absolute garbage, thank god we have Nicefield around

>>535091801
I don't see the issue with that, Katy at least is doing something to keep some form of fan engagement after the debacle of DE

>>535094187
Holy shit!
Nice feet, Amanda

>>535094884
>garbage
>as he posts a flop records characters
Pot meet kettle

It tells a lot the troll have nothing to say about Amanda other than coomer crap, and how they see her as nothing more than a glorified bed warmer, kinda like D9 sees attractive lesbians as the key to sell a series rather than compelling writing and character development

>posting flop exposure
Kek, lmao even

>>535094187
that toe-sucking scene could've saved the sales
also Amanda's toes should join my mouth

>>535097031
get in line pal

>>535091803
Erika Mori and Han Soto appearing again makes me think how much of a waste TC was with the brotherly bond between Alex and Gabe. A LiS2 style road trip adventure between the two would have been so cool and their chemistry was great, yet Gabe is there to fill the obligatory starting victim role

>posting flop records
Kek, lmao even

>>535098279
If his ghost played a bigger role, maybe taking life in the memories of people who knew him to interact with Alex it'd have done a ton to flesh him out more, and better led into his ghost being there to guide Alex through her memories.

Buddy, DE was a flop so big a year later they had to bundle the Ultimate Edition of that game with the other ones at just standard 60 bucks price, and was reported to be a "large losses" for Square. If we take the shit abour Aysha saying the game was split in two, then the whole loss DE caused is probably also a failure to recoup production costs for another game which they expected to be a sure success

>>535094187
GIWTWM

>>535094187
To me, Max in DE was a character who was learning to own her sexuality instead of repressing it. Hinting at foot stuff and other things was a win for character evolution and good narrative texture. I only hope this side of her and other characters gets the development it deserves

>>535108610
Aysha, you aren't going to get a job at Remedy no matter how hard you try

>>535111414
aysha didn't write for max or any of the characters in the post that commenter replied to. you'll have to come up with something better, shipper

>>535112130
I know, don't remind me DE was a clusterfuck of horny hacks and Square's bullshit

bumpu

Chat im scared gamescom is almost here and that's the latest belief in the Fandom that the unannounced project is for lis and getting announced august 20 or October if dlc. Boys winter is coming

Is there anything DE2 could do that would dramatically shift the Fandom? Like what would de2 have to do to win everyone back? Its so hard to believe they went into de1 not realizing part 2 was going to have to fix and redeem itself in the eyes of the Fandom.

>>535138703
Nothing. They'll probably shove that bitch into the game just to please the shitfielders. Those idiots will be all hyped, calling it 'soul' even though it's gonna be DE-tier trash. But since there aren't that many of them, it won't help and sales will still flop. And instead of watching pricefielders seething, we'll get to enjoy their hypocrisy while they praise the hell out of it

>>535138703
The best thing they could do is not ship DE2 and make literally anything else.

>>535138703
It was all a dream...

bumpu

>>535138703
There's no fixing that
Even if they went back to the anthology, who'd trust them now?

>>535091803
>erika mori
What? All this time I thought it was the singer girl mxmtoon which did both the voice acting and motion captured for Alex...

>>535138703
The problem is that DE damaged the franchise in two main ways:
>The Pricefield breakup
This was so out of character and poorly done that the only real way to fix it would be to undo all of it, ala the 'Safi used her powers to break up Chloe and Max' theory. The damage here was to the characters themselves, so either a third party has to be secretly responsible or the entire thing has to be undone for Pricefield to be fixed. Just adding a bunch of Chloe into DE 2 without addressing this would not help anything and actually would probably make things even worse.
>The x-men shit
This is a pretty significant amount of damage done right to the core of the franchise. LiS is just not a series that is compatible with this idea in any way whatsoever. This is a big enough problem that I do not really think they are capable of just ignoring it, but actually addressing it would be a disaster. Undoing this is really the only option that they have to try and maintain some form of franchise integrity.

Looking at both of these problems. I honestly think the only way that DE 2 would be able to win people back is if they undo 99.9% of DE 1.
Start the game with everything having gone to shit regarding the x-men stuff and now people with powers are being hunted down and killed. Have Max permanently abandon the DE timeline and jump into a new one.
Basically have a totally fresh start with a slightly traumatized Max living in some cozy township outside Seattle in this new timeline. Finally merge both Bay and Bae together so that Chloe is going to be there regardless (married to Max if the player selects it, married to [comic] Rachel if not), bring back some fun supporting characters (Kate, Dana, Victoria, Gwen etc) and maybe include Safi as a romance option.
Make the game about Max learning to deal with her demons and finally settling down to live a happy, quiet life. Just a nice happy ending for her character and Pricefield, if the player chooses.

>>535094187
a life-changing experience for Max, no doubt about it

>>535162282
>The Pricefield breakup
>This was so out of character
Guys you can’t break up with the person you dated in high school, you’re soulmates forever

>>535162282
>Finally merge both Bay and Bae together so that Chloe is going to be there regardless
Also the hypocrisy of the general is hilarious, you all go on about how Chloe and Max breaking up is “not respecting player choice”, by making Chloe alive regardless is not respecting players who chose Bay/Chloe’s death

Two comments above really prove how low IQ the two turds really are, and how much Pricefield lives rent free inside their heads even more than those who ship them lmao

>>535161749
nah, mxmtoon only does the singing voice. Mori does normal VA and motion vapture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKrlPq07Z1U

>>535167842
I mean to be fair, what they replied to was literally about Pricefield.

>>535167948
Yeah, but they go out of their way to be butthurt about it. Even without the PF element, I just don't see DE2 working as a compelling game because there's little they can do now if they are going to shove it out in 2025 regardless of its quality or not.

>>535167313
This
And I wonder what would Michel say about this crap?! It totally twists his whole idea, the entire meaning behind the first game

>>535167937
Had no idea their motion capture was that advanced, no wonder the animations are all great in it

>>535169340
DE already fucked up by being a sequel of a story that was completed, as Michel and co established multiple times, merging the timelines is a shitty idea but they got stuck with that in the first place so they have to deal with it going foward, unless Square decide to make the LiS1 remake as a full reboot of the franchise

>>535169340
Michael’s vision of LiS intending to be a full complete story no matter which ending is chosen got thrown out the window years ago between rabid shippers and fans demanding a sequel and Square Enix needing money

>>535170809
"rabid fans" did not asked for DE to be this ass, and you know that, this is all on Square Enix lack of understanding for their fanbase and D9's spineless incompetence. Blaming fans only show how much of a tool you are

>>535171034
Selective reading as I clearly stated Square Enix is at fault for doing this as a cash grab, but fans are the reason they got the idea in the first place for a sequel as they consistently disrespected Michael’s wishes and begged for a continuation despite the story not needing one

>>535172702
There is zero fault on fans, you corporate-shilling bootlicker. The consumer is not to blame for a corporation's bad product. Kill yourself.

>>535171034
>"rabid fans" did not asked for DE
Yeah, and meanwhile those same "rabid fans" are pushing to do in DE2 exactly what SE did in DE. Irony much?

>>535173782
NTA, but cry more, fgt

>>535174670
You're the one crying that your game flopped.

>>535174845
I'm the one enjoying your seething. And judging by what's coming, looks like I'll be feasting on it for a long time

>>535174845
Stop replying to them, anon. They gave the game away for at least the couple of past threads now, they do not care about game quality going in the gutter as long as they can shitpost against their evil pricefielders enemies. There's no coherent argument or thought within them, they believe nothing and care about nothing, therefore they should be left as nothing.

>>535170809
That's why all his tweets this year were just quietly freaking out at the sheer madness of the pricefielders. Too bad he couldn't go full beast mode on them as he had to sell his own game, and sadly, they were his only audience

>>535173782
>corporate-shilling
You seriously have terrible reading comprehension, I’ve said over and over again DE is a cash grab but fans pushed them into making it, had fans respected that LiS would’ve never had a sequel it may not have happened
Also rich coming from a general that obsesses over mid records

>>535167221
They are.
>>535167313
Bay Max is canonically dead. Anything beyond is fanfic.

>>535179375
Riiiiight.
Fans blackmailed the CEO of Square to make this game, he protested saying "but we can't do it correctly, have mercy! Max's story ended with LIS1, we couldn't possibly continue her story, that would be mad!!" .

And those pesky fans threatened to gut everyone within D9 studio if the game isn't made.

>>535182359
Michel says no
Go cry somewhere else, Max hater

>>535167313
This general isn’t not representative of the average LiS player. This place is essentially reddit lite where it’s heavily Pricefield biased and alternate opinions are attacked, but looking at the game stats Bae/Bay actually has a fairly even split, Bay actually was slightly more popular ending if I recall. But I do agree, it’s hypocritical for Pricefield fans to believe by then splitting up it did not respect the Bae ending, but trying to reverse the Bay ending by making Chloe alive no matter what. I actually do think the two timelines would’ve been a better way to go about DE but I would do each timeline showing the respective endings of the game and the life after.

>>535167221
Just because you've been dumped for your whole life, is not an argument

>>535182902
Anon, stop giving them air, you should know by now they just leech on engagement and obviously bait posts

>>535183039
>This place is essentially reddit lite where it’s heavily Pricefield biased and alternate opinions are attacked
Pretty much, you can even tell who is who. The lack of a moderation and karma system only makes their gaslighting more pervasive. Why they feel the need to "correct" the place is beyond me.


>but looking at the game stats Bae/Bay actually has a fairly even split, Bay actually was slightly more popular ending if I recall.
It was about a marginal 2% difference in Bay's favor. It only skewed in Bae's favor in the remastered.

>>535183039
>>535183928
So here's the thing - shippers tend to extrapolate that 50/50 result onto, let's just say, some characters. But in reality, those characters have way lower favorability ratings, and just as much negative feedback. That's exactly why the two endings from the first game made it in, but certain characters didn't. And that's the answer to where she went. SE just really loves relying on their surveys all the time, that’s all there is to it

>>535187810
We know that Square is full of shit and relies too much on their focus groups because they have no idea what to do with LiS, but you reallu haven't shown any hard evidence to prove your claims, since you are a random anon on 4chan.

>But in reality, those characters have way lower favorability ratings, and just as much negative feedback
Chloe is a fan favourite, LiS1 and BtS were quite successful and the comic series with Max and Chloe was too, they also propped the ice cream collab, remasters and even that 2024 pride post with Max and Chloe related stuff, they should clearly know that

Ladydevheart said all the hate from Chloe in Square was because of some worded letter from some Square exec saying Ashly bad mouthed Before the Storm, which is bullshit as you can still read her old AMA on the main subreddit and she praise that game. And that said another older letter they were saying Rihanna Devries was badly received so they didn't want her on a prominent role, but if anything else it does seem like it was Deck Nine management who pushed foward and bowed down to any dumb shit SE asked.

Tldr SE is the source of this mess but D9 never meaningfully pushed back, unlike Dontnod who stood by their narrative decisions with LiS1 and 2

>>535189446
>i know that square relies too much on their focus groups
>MUH CLHORE is so popular, you have no proof
you seem to be struggling with basic causal logic

>>535192956
The argument is that Chloe is largely popular within the fandom and even outside people talk about her even if it is very divided. But the issue with Square's focus groups is that they are in no way representantive of the general fanbase or things that would make somethin unique or have a vision, like at all.
The nuSuperman has a scene in which focus groups hated to see Sup saving a squirrel, but Gunn kept it anyway because he had a creative vision and wanted to carry that portrayal of Superman.

You can bet my ass out if LiS1 had the same amount of focus group and invasive comitee oversight DE had, it would have never been that huge captivating success and fanbade it got

>>535190047
Which is funny because Hannah Telle also said she didn't like how Max was portrayed in BTS (before Farewell).

>>535194768
Just another confirmation that it's not about personal drama, who said what, or any of that. It's just one character's universally loved, the other is not so much. That's it

>>535190047
I remember reading actors' unions, SAG and those pesky writer's strikes played a part too.

>>535195336
That would be like cutting down Vi from Arcane because she's not as universally loved as like Jinx, even though she's a popular enough character. Same for Chloe, you can't pretend a just Max sequel would work when you made it following focus groups that do not represent the broad fandom to neuter down Max's personality and shit on Chloe's character development.

>>535183039
>But I do agree, it’s hypocritical for Pricefield fans to believe by then splitting up it did not respect the Bae ending, but trying to reverse the Bay ending by making Chloe alive no matter what.
Whatever your stance on Chloe and shipping bullshit, I think it's important to acknowledge what you're saying here though: if it's unfair and hypocritical for Pricefield fans to be asking for an ending that wound up with Chloe alive no matter what, you're also admitting they got done dirty by Double Exposure subverting THEIR ending. You can take issue with their unreasonable demand, but it should be acknowledged it's stemming from an objective disservice done to them by the developer.

>>535200453
Merging Bae and Bay, who cares if Chloe is alive in that situation if the bay people are also saved?
They're acting as they chose to kill Chloe, not saving the bay. So weird.

>>535200838
Yeah, that line of reasoning is genuinely weird. Everyone gets to live and they are upset that Chloe is alive. Yall need help

>>535200838
Remember the comment "Is Chloe dead? It's important to me that she's dead."
Not "It's important to me the town is alive." It's important to them that a character is dead.

https://youtu.be/A5AoQdzaT8A
Max/Nathan, lol

>>535207167
It always was about getting rid of Chloe, saving the town was always a convenient excuse to make a moral justification, even if many of those people couldn't care less about Joyce, Alyssa, Kate or Warren. The people who choose Bay on the ground of saving the other characters usually do not take that lightly and do seem to feel for Chloe, even choosing Bae in a second playthrough.

People who gleefuly say stuff like that not only did not care about Chloe, it's unlikely they cared about the core of LiS in the first place and I doubt they'll care enough to play a second Max game

https://x.com/PlayLostRecords/status/1955660646722253013

I know this is stupid bs but at least is something fun since the main LiS account does jack shit

Sunshine for EVERYONE

Snora LOVE!
Nora LOVE!
Swann LOVE!

>>535239412
>Lazuli by Beach House start playing in the background

>>535239412
They’re going to end up divorced

>>535240064
Correct; Nora will be divorcing her wife and remarrying with Swann.

>>535200838
>>535207167
So what's the problem, really? The character was literally written to be divisive. And she is. A lot of people don't want her in the game, especially not next to Max, who everyone loves. But you're losing your minds and seriously suggesting doing exactly the same stuff you accuse the other side of - just to bring her back at any cost

The post above is another low IQ attempt, ignore and post more Snora content

>>535240030
Honestly just an amazing moment. LR deserves GOTY for that alone. Nothing else comes close.
>>535240252
She already hints at signing divorce papers and clearly resents her wife.
I for one am looking forward to seeing 40-something Swann and Nora fully rekindle their relationship. I NEED more of these middle aged lesbians in love.
>>535241459
>The character was literally written to be divisive
Technically true. But a more accurate framing would be that she is a filter.
There is a reason why gamergate incels have been crying about Chloe since the first episode of LiS 1 came out but she is generally beloved by the queer fandom of the game.
>who everyone loves
Max was a mediocre vessel for a player self insert. Swann shows how she could have been done much better and in a more likable way, she is basically Max++
Comic Max was honestly far more interesting than Max herself ever was in game.

>>535242815
One day these threads will be filled with an endless stream of Snora posts.
That will be a good day.

>>535243291
you wish, schizo

>>535243061
>Max was a mediocre vessel for a player self insert
I think Max worked well but she's clearly her own character with a set of well defined character values, not exactly a self insert character like you would do for a RPG game. Swann is like if Max was a lot more shy and socially ankward

Wall to wall Snora!

>>535241459
anon, just so you get the level of schizophrenia here - the next five posts after yours were all written by the same person

Snora LOVE!

>>535242815
Do you think that Noras feelings for Swann remained for the entire time, or was just seeing her in the Bar a trigger of reawakening?

>>535248850
Well all of the girls forgot almost all of that summer, per the pact they made.
But we know that Swann at-least still had some memory of Nora since if you go down her romance path, Swann will be wearing Nora's sun symbol in '22. I think with Swann it is also kinda hinted at her never really getting over the emotions of that summer, so she has never really been able to be in a relationship with anyone else.
I have to imagine that it would have been much the same for Nora. She was probably better able to deal with everything since she had clearly done her best to just put up a mental wall around everything that happened.

So while this is basically just all personal opinion. I think Nora had some buried feelings for Swann that she never forgot. But it was seeing her again that brought everything back up to the surface.
Swann on the other-hand deep down always had a candle lit for Nora. To the point that it kinda harmed some aspects of her life.
It would not be a sapphic romance if it were not complicated and tragic.

>>535248850
Based on the way you can interact with her, Nora is likely slowly remembering her time with Swann, and before that she even send her a message and tries to found her profile online. I guess this is also a way to escape her life and the divorce with Melissa

>>535243291
Make your own general. Oh wait, Flop Records doesn’t have enough fans to sustain one.

>>535244572
Lmao yeah, it's that same one from that Joyce’s ring meme

>>535251559
You can tell it’s just one person posting LR, replying to herself like it's a debate. Anyone who genuinely liked the game bailed ages ago

bumpu

bumpu

bumpu

Watch the linkedin profiles of Deck Nine people. Layoff coming.

>>535276397
You'd be better off watching SE's profiles, clown

>>535251559
Just ignore this one prick.

>>535248850
They likely remained though I think the promise "broke" when Autumn caught wind of the package and they all started remembering the memories with strong emotions attached to them first, with the strongest having already bled through over 27 years, however fuzzy they were. Works either way if she loved Kat or Swann. Also we know that either woman has differing levels of remembrances of that summer with Autumn already knowing a lot/her burn marks, Nora's piercing, Swann's tattoo etc. I'd like to think the girls' bond was so strong that not even The Abyss could fully erase it.

>>535277016
No such luck anon. Its never those people who suffer

>>535276397
That guy who has; [Unannounced project - to be published 2025] is clearly looking for work.

Principal animator. If he is being fired. What does that mean. Is he a important person? I also see another person who is animator is also clearly looking for work. She also updated her portfolio. Do they drop these people late in projects or what?

>>535286963
Their job is done so they're getting laid off to save costs.

>>535276397
Not surprising. DE2 is their last crunched effort and they can't sustain another one, so they are laying off all non useful stuff, since the co-dev failed to attract new project pitches, wouldn't be surprised if Frost is the next one to jump ship as he seems way too smart to be at D9

Swapsies.

>>535276397
Everyone who works with mocap at D9 seems to be looking for work. That just means they are close to death right? Because to make future games they would need those type of people

>>535294807
that's weird. I thought they were banking on becoming a sort of mocap studio. Selling their mocap services to other developers

>>535292074
cute

>>535307727
This scene broke me. They captured the moment of after a funeral perfectly.

>>535294807
Can you confirm that? If D9's mocap folks are going to be laid off, then its truly over for the studio since it was the only thing that was keeping them afloat

>>535308363
Yep. Once that's done, the quiet part begins. The finality hits.

Which one had the best soundtrack in your opinions?
For me it's: BtS>1=2>TC>DE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XIRj_Iq3cw

>>535317309
just getting home, going to your room. Usually when you're down you play some vidya or watch some fun stuff, but it just doesn't feel right

>>535318327
BTS > 1 > TC > 2 > DE
BTS had everything

Happy birthday Vicky

>>535333958
wtf was his problem

>>535333958
Soulless

what hogwarts house would Max and Chloe ibe in?
What about Rachel and Victoria?

>>535336256
Nah, he was fine

>>535336887
Max and Chloe are definitely in Gryffindor though Max could fit in in Ravenclaw. Rachel is in either Slytherin or Hufflepuff and Vicky is in Beauxbatons instead.

>>535336887
Chloe Gryffindor
Max Gryffindor or Ravenclaw
Rachel and Victoria are both Slytherin

Can we not talk about the transphobic wizard

>>535336887
>Chloe - Gryffindor
>Max - Ravenclaw
>Rachel - Slytherin
>Victoria - Slytherin
>Warren - Ravenclaw
>Steph - Hufflepuff
>Alex - Gryffindor
>Ryan - Gryffindor

>>535336887
What DnD race/class would they play?
Max, Chloe, Rachel, Victoria, Warren, Kate, Steph, Alex & Ryan?

>>535333958
this side-by-side just highlights how pathetic fanart really is

>>535336887
Luna Lovegood would be a Romance option.

>>535350315
Max - human cleric
Chloe - tiefling barbarian
Rachel - drow whor- I mean rogue.
Victoria - high elf sorcerer.
Warren - gnome wizard
Steph - Aasimar bard
Alex - half elf bard

>>535358185
Oh, Ryan is a half giant fighter.

>>535350315
>>535358185
I don't even know what Steph would be.

Have you signed your name, /lisg/?

>>535362497
I wish it was a real place.

I just realized that I haven't thought of /lisg/ in weeks. My Bloom and Rage phase is over. This is goodbye. Until next time, queers.

>>535362497
Not seeing any DE references there.

>>535365192
Thank you for finally leaving and not contributing to off topic discussion.

>>535365923
No space for fanfictions written by out of touch executives

I miss UEposer anon, still there's a lot of album covers he could recreate, and I was waiting for that Puscifer's Money Shot one

>>535368302
well, turns out pricefield was just a fanfiction born in the minds of people with the brains of children. maybe that's why it keeps fading away around here

Pricefield got that one chick married to her dream girl so that's at least one point in its favor.

>>535368908
I finished teh lofi kat crapjob,
I goings to try Black and Blue R.Stones!

>>535369895
Are we talking about the cute coffee shop couple that post here from time to time or the Chloe/Max full time larp couple?
I would consider both of them a win.

As a total Swann both in personality and apperance. Fingers crossed Snora helps me find my Nora.

>>535372945
I hope you find them.

Nora LOVE!

bumpu

bumpu

>>535362497
Too much Amberprice. At least we can all agree that those guys are dumb?

>>535402967
I think amberprice can work as a ship, but only if we are talking about comic Rachel. Her comic version is basically a new character and seems like a nice enough match for Chloe.
BtS Rachel is just vile and the game basically evens stops dead to just explicitly tell the player to your face that Rachel is bad for Chloe.
Having dealt with many amberprice fans over the years. I'm pretty sure most of them are just fans of 'toxic yuri' and do not care about how fucking nightmarish and abusive a relationship like that would actually be in a series as grounded as LiS. Plenty of them also just hate Chloe, so they do not really care what the relationship would actually look like for her.

I mean, I may ship Victoria and Kate. But even I basically only ship AU versions of them.

>>535402967
Yes

>>535403628
>BtS Rachel is just vile and the game basically evens stops dead to just explicitly tell the player to your face that Rachel is bad for Chloe.

Every single Amberprice fan celebrate a couple that only exist in their head. They just ignore the actual story. I don't mind them. But those that seriously argue that Amberprice is better than Pricefield tend to be annoyingly dumb

>>535403628
>>535404575
>people say that BtS is fanfic game that doesn't count compared to LiS1
>still use fanfic Rachel as an argument for why Amberprice doesn't work

>>535405237
It works even less in LiS1

>>535405237
The people who ship Rachel and Chloe are exclusively BtS shitters.
Rachel is not even a real character in LiS 1 and we know hardly anything about her. How could you possibly judge Amberprice just off of LiS 1? It just does not exist and we do not have enough to extrapolate a relationship based off how she is portrayed in LiS 1.

bumpu

Cute and canon

>>535405237
This general is almost all Pricefielders, everything is fanfic if it doesn’t fit their narrative. Crazy they’re so threatened by a ship where one is dead before the first game even began.

>>535407096
The issue is Rachel was made out in the original game as a character who seem perfect on the outside but it's full of flaws and she had hidden motivations you peek as the story goes on. But with BtS and expecially the comic series, all those flaws are minimized or drastically erased for a Rachel Amber that's like the least complex and more superficial version of her original self

>>535416795
Yeah, they're still kinda traumatized by that ship. Same with Warren, honestly. They're still fighting him to this day, lol

>>535416924
Rachel in LiS 1 was basically just Laura Palmer. And existed for the same broad narrative purposes as Laura Palmer.
The decision to expand on her was I think the single biggest mistake that BtS made. The game would have been far better as being an exclusive Chloe focused story, with Rachel only turning up at the very end and not even having any dialogue.

BtS Rachel, comic Rachel and LiS 1 Rachel are all fundamentally different characters; In so far as LiS 1 Rachel can even be considered a character.
Comic Rachel basically does not have a personality beyond being Chloe's partner and BtS Rachel is a highly manipulative bpd demon who seemingly does not even actually care about Chloe and is just manipulating her.

>>535417772
ComicRachel is the worst offender because she was made to be the "perfect Amberprice timeline", taking what was originally conceived as her being a front of the best student gets taken at face value, and that just make her a very generic character. Now, if Rachel retained at least a chunk of her original flawed essence, it would have been an interesting dynamic to see within the story desu

>>535417679
Warren got shafted harder than Chloe in DE yet I have not seen a single "fan" of him shred a tear or care about his fate.

>>535419472
Most people realize that it’s normal to not have people you went to high school with still be in your life a decade later

>muh high school argument
The contrary is also normal, plenty of couples have also stayed together for decades, but again you are a troll and you shouldn't be taken seriously since you don't care about the declining quality of a game.

>>535422037
Stop being a pussy and actually reply to the post next time, I don’t even think DE is a good game I just think there’s a major overreaction to Pricefield being broken up, shippers are acting like D9 killed their families
Most people who dated in high school aren’t still together, it’s a fact especially ones that faced a lot of shit together it’s not uncommon for people who have faced trauma together to eventually split

>>535422308
Anon, why are you disrespecting my headcanon in a game where there are no canon endings??

>getting mad because the post isn't directly replied
kek
Also D9 likely killed themselves and the franchise in the process, if the anons saying new layoffs impacting their mocap team are true
but Max and Chloe by the original devs endured trauma together and even rebuild their relationships with people who disliked, like David Madsen or Victoria Chase

>>535422037
>plenty of couples have also stayed together for decades
Only 12% after 10 Years from high school for mixed-gender couples
And ~2% for lesbian couples - median duration of high school lesbian relationships is about 14 months

All this drama about relationships/dating when it’s literally player choice if Chloe and Max dated or were just best friends after the Bae ending.

The game breaks them up regardless and then forces the narrative to go up and romance Amanda. D9 removes player choice from the original game and only gives the option of "how do you want Chloe out of the story?" But again, those people are deeply unserious and shouldn't be taken as expert on anything
Also that other anon should return back to /pol/ where they belong kek

>>535424223
>The game breaks them up regardless
Either friendship or romance they aren’t together anymore, but fact is people saying they “broke up” is not true as the nature of their relationship is entirely up to the player.
>then forces the narrative to go up and romance Amanda
All the romances in DE are optional, just because you don’t like that Max has romantic options in the game doesn’t mean it’s forced when again, it’s entirely up to player choice. I rejected both Amanda and Vinh because they did nothing for me personally, devs should’ve went with Safi as a love interest - she and Max had actual chemistry.

>>535424889
I hope you are getting money for constantly bringing up these dumb talking points. If not, get a life dude. Because no one is really that dumb

>>535425837
>no one is really that dumb
Says the people on this general who were convinced Chloe and Max got married.

>>535426205
It’s kind of funny for a group of people who scream about “respecting endings” that they’d be convinced pricefield was married especially when people could’ve chosen for them not to be together

Anyone who chose Bay or platonic Bae is a waste of skin with no media literacy.
Bay Max necked herself a week after the funeral.

>>535427290
cry more, Max hater

>Never believe that the two trolls on /lisg/ are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge.
>But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Chloe have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors.
>They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

It fits like a glove, and so far it's the best rebuttal towards the two low life morons that plague this thread

>>535426739
They'll bring up the LiS 2 picture as proof, which is fair but will conveniently ignore anything that may or may not happen after that. It wasn't even explicitly stated that they were lovers during that time, they could still be just friends. Michel's tweets later on don't really count, or at least his headcanon, after he washed himself off of the franchise.

>>535428394
And they were just friends. The game gives no romantic subtext and it was done that way on purpose. Michel himself pointed that out multiple times. Everything else is just fan headcanon. But schizoshippers gonna schizo, they treat their own fanfic as gospel truth

Literally proving's my Satre quote in those two comments above kek y'all should marry since you seem made for each other

>>535427290
>chose Bay
>no media literacy
It’s a choice based game, anon. We all know if it was up to you the game would be a Pricefield lovefest with only one ending but the point of the ending is that neither choice is easy. Bay is the slightly more popular ending too if you look at statistics, you sound like a retard if you think 53% of people didn’t understand the game because they didn’t make the entire game about a ship.
>>535428394
NTA, but great point. By 2017 if you chose Bae Max and Chloe were still hanging out, but it is never explicitly stated whether it’s platonic and romantic - because it’s the player choice. It’s clear reading here most people don’t actually care about player choice.

>>535427290
This is kind of true. Bay Max would not have survived.

>>535431981
All of those issues are rendered moot because DE was never supposed to exist and it was clearly pushed out by Square Enix wanting to make a bank (and failing) on the first game popularity, a game that by the original intention was a self conclusive story. But as time progresses, many more fans have been significantly more engaged with the Bae ending than Bay, and long term the fanbase that choose Chloe to live is also the most engaged in the remastered ans even DE, which had both a surge of people choosing Bae over Bay. A large chunk of those who go for Bay pick it up because they believe its the better conclusive ending and therefore they do not further engage with the fandom, including those who really hate Chloe as a character and choose Bay because they get themselves on in seeing her die

>>535432845
Max canonically is alive in 2023 no matter which ending you pick

>>535431981
Just some facts checking.
In LiS 1, Bay is at 52% but it's been years since choices have stopped being updated, making this data a bit debatable.
However in the remaster, Bae is at 55%.

So no, nobody can say what the more popular ending is. They're both valid and them being at 50/50 is awesome.

Soulmates

>>535419385
Rachel was not meaningfully a character in LiS 1. There are only a few details we can extrapolate about her from LiS 1.
She is a manipulative sociopath in BtS.
So I think you have to sympathize somewhat with the comic author, since the only way they could have included her in the comics -in that happy relationship with Chloe- was by sandblasting away all of her personality. She is nothing in LiS 1 and utterly toxic in BtS, so to meet that mandate for a happy amberprice timeline in the comic, they had no real choice but to create comic Rachel; Effectively a brand new character.
>>535420048
Chloe would never do that. That's evil.
>>535427290
>no media literacy
No genre awareness would be more accurate.
In the tragic romance genre the only two options for the star crossed lovers trope is for the characters to either die together or make some horrible sacrifice in order to start a new life together.
Bae is really the only ending that is in line with genre conventions. Platonic Bae is not even worth addressing but has some real lesbophobic undertones (as you would expect from non-queer dudes writing a sapphic romance).
>Bay Max necked herself a week after the funeral
Pretty much. Even BtS showed this being the case.
>>535433817
There is thankfully a very solid chance that the 'DE continuity' will be totally undone by either DE 2 or by whatever company buys the LiS IP after DE 2 flops.

>>535436592
>both valid
But anon told me anyone who chooses Bay has no media literacy!

>>535441134
Broken up

>>535443006
Shocker, people in a general have different opinions and are not an hivemind

>>535446349
Not in any universe or timeline that actual fans care about. DE is an irrelevance. Every who got fired deserved it.

>>535447747
Obviously, I’m making fun of the anon who said that.

If someone went back in time and told me that a direct LiS1 sequel would feature:
>college setting
>teacher max
>winter & snow
I'd thought that would be the coolest premise.
I fucking hate how they messed this up so fucking bad, so much

>>535475169
>they messed this up so fucking bad
What, winter college wasn't comfy enough? Or older teacher Max didn't look that good?

>>535480461
But MUH CHLOE

>>535480705
That's what I'm saying. Whatever they claim, whatever fake excuse they throw around - there's only one thing they truly care about

>>535484186
Max didnt feel anything like a teacher at all, felt more like still a student.

>>535487109
Examples?

>>535488276
There's literally no scenes whatsoever where Max is in a lecture / presentation / meeting / etc.

Also Loretta, a student, trying to bully Max in that interview & snitching scene was weird.

>>535480461
>college is a rehash of Blackwell but less interesting and less lived in
>Max doesn't even teach once despite being in the role, feel more like another student
>story heavily rehashes Lis1 but with worse characters
>soft reboot that shit all over the message and themes of LiS1
>Chloe is character assassinated and Max is inconsistent too
>gameplay is ass, new powers become boring soon
>mistery is ditched for a Rachel Amber copycat
>tons of bugs and glitches, most of them won't be fixed anytime soon
>feeling like a game written by people full of themselves and out of touch Square Enix executives
Not very hard to point out

>>535489051
>Also Loretta, a student, trying to bully Max in that interview & snitching scene was weird.
Funny, Loretta in interviews seems like she was supposed to be Victoria Chase 2.0 but got dumbed down to walmart Juliet Watson because they can't really have a character having some negative traits if its not a villain, and even with those she's unremarkable

>>535489051
Oh, so there are no scenes of her actually teaching? And we're supposed to see her being a teacher? When she's dealing with her love life? Or with supernatural stuff?

>>535489850
>And we're supposed to see her being a teacher?
Yes we are, fucking imbecile

>>535490342
Yet these are the same people who claim Bay ending pickers have zero media literacy when they couldn’t even figure out Max was staff at the school. It’s actually comical.

my god. it's the same tired crap from the shitfielders on repeat, stuff that's been answered months ago
>MUH CAMPUS feels empty
yeah no shit, you saw the massive area they had planned - both on-campus and beyond, tons of locations, interiors and all. had to scrap or gut most of it thanks to SE's budget cuts
>Loretta feels like Victoria and then suddenly doesn't
Aysha already explained what happened. she didn't say why though. but that reveal's still coming

Comment from >>535428309 should be out put at the start of every new thread because otherwise those weirdos never stop

>>535490342
Shit, I forgot 'when'. Whatever, you're too dumb anyway

>>535493747
This isn’t reddit as much as anons here would like it to be, free speech is allowed.

>>535497961
>This isn’t reddit
Yeah, but half the people commenting here are basically from Reddit. You can tell by some of the posts - it's obvious which Reddit clown wrote them

>>535505298
We never recovered from seething reddit Pricefielders that came during DE.

Nora LOVE!
Swann LOVE!
Snora LOVE!

Like no other, you can't be replaced
Like no other, you can't be replaced
Like no other, you can't be replaced

>>535506627
Do we even want to? I mean, this is the best time here since the first game

>>535492686
>but that reveal's still coming
hmm...

Reminder that the same people were swearing up and down that we were mere days from a reveal of DE2/the DE DLC for The Game Awards... in December 2024.

Hannah is somewhere. Americans where is this?

>>535526661
Judging by the shape of that landmass in the river, I can only assume she is at Three Mile Island and is attempting to incite some kind of nuclear incident.

>>535526453
Ah yes, Cada was so disperate in being right lmao

>>535519859
I find it very funny when the redditors tell anons to go back to /v/ and all the esl/phone posts from them. Really can't wait for the shitstorm that's yet to come.

>I dont care about the decreasing quality i'm here for the seething
That's the most low IQ and pathetic way to stay inside a community, whats the point if you don't even care about something outside of trolling?

>>535533692
Have you ever been in spaces that are somewhat positive towards DE? Tiktok, parts of Twitter, some small discord servers. They aren't trolling. They are just young or dumb. Or both.

>>535534832
There aren't many and in the grand scheme of things are bit irrelevant. Also those on Twitter tends to be the most annoying and incapable of taking any other opinion at face value

>>535526661
Portland.

Way too much of LiS fanart is lewd, if not down right perverted

Someone buy me lost records I can pay in... other ways...

love LIS1.

mixed feels on BTS.
mixed feels on TC.

hate LIS2.
hate DE.

simple as.

overall, was ok franchise till it lasted i guess.

>>535552343
It'll last!

>>535552343
>tc over lis2
Shit take

>>535559902
This

But they'll never be able to really appreciate or process LiS2 properly.
It messed them up way too much, lol

Do you know what happened in august 2018? LiS 2 at Gamescom.

>>535566337
She is British, good-looking looking and a woman. Her body count must be in the dozens. Never going to marry or have kids either.

Cassidy

>>535573007
needs a haircut

>>535573620
which part...?

>>535573897
Shave her bald and start from scratch, we just need a fresh canvas at this point.

>>535559902
>>535565282
LiS2 only got so much hate because fans were pissed off it wasn’t a sequel to the original, there is some in irony in the fact that the sequel ended up causing so much seethe. It’s actually not that bad of a game, it’s the second best in the franchise - not as good as the original but it’s way better than BtS, TC, or DE.

>>535576954
Eh, it still has its flaws. A well-meaning but intensely on the nose first episode did a lot of the early damage as well, which harmed the reception to later episodes. I know I certainly warmed up to it over the years but I definitely see why so many were put off.

>>535576954
>>535578020
The longer downtime between each episode hurt it the most imo.

>>535566337
Dead on arrival, hype isn't there and they know DE2 is likely D9's last low effort before they close down for good

>>535578746
I do agree that long wait times were a bad idea, I’m guessing it was worked on as it went but I do think 2-3 month wait times probably would’ve helped with reception rather than the longer ones we got, didn’t it take like 16 months for the entire game to be completed?

>>535582536
Thereabouts, from September 2018 - December 2019. It took longer because they had to keep creating new assets for each episode which paid off visually since the game is beautiful. It's funny now since most streaming shows nowadays take about as much time in-between seasons.

Hannah is in Europe, girls. See you tuesday.

>>535576954
LiS is a dyke franchise. The two beaner brothers and their terrible game only confirms this

>>535597896
She wasn't enough to save DE, she aint going to save DE2 at all, and more wasted money for Square

More Dylan content yay

>>535603590
Temu Rachel Amber

>>535606404
Careful with words, anon

Yo Swan! you buying Windows 95 on Thusday?

>>535597896
Back to try some new candies!

>>535597896
Watch them put that thing in the pre show

>>535573007
She would have been better in any other game. It is a crime she is trapped in LiS 2.
>>535573620
>>535573897
I think she would look better without the braids and if you really trimmed the back short. But broadly I think she has one of the best hair styles in the series already.
>>535597896
I look forward to more DLC in the vain of the cat.
>>535599383
>LiS is a dyke franchise
If I could, I would put this in bold in every OP.

>>535599383
>LiS is a dyke franchise
you wish fgt

>>535618324
Deal with it.

>>535622918
Max isn’t even gay, she’s bi

>>535627645
Quite clearly not in the first game, at least her heart isn't in it. DE isn't relevant to this discussion.

>>535627645
Something that makes zero sense give the genre that LiS 1 is. Max being "bi" was just a product of the time that the game came out + some latent lesbophobia from the cishet male writers (to say nothing of Square themselves).

Thankfully it is something they addressed with Swann. Effectively just a redo of Max, just done far better and without repeating those sorts of horrible mistakes.

>>535628527
>cishet
ywnbaw

>>535628380
>Quite clearly not in the first game, at least her heart isn't in it. DE isn't relevant to this discussion.
In the first game she has a male love interest option and the opportunity to kiss him, also I didn’t even bring up DE, lives rent free in your head I guess

>>535630002
Even if you choose to follow that line of curiosity, she's still more interested in Chloe.

>>535630002
Warren was elevated to romance due to some fans requests and the episodical nature of LiS1, but in the grand scheme of things he wasn't supposed to be a LI at all and his relationship with Max is clearly not on the same weight as Chloe

>>535630202
>>535630342
The point is that Max’s bisexuality shouldn’t be erased, even if she’s female leaning she still has expressed attraction to men

>>535630202
>>535628527
You sound like one of those schizo homos that hates bi people. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Max being bi.

>>535627645
Not the anon going on a weird tangent, but my wife is bi too, but will still make gay jokes about herself for the bit.

>>535630423
Max is a lesbian in the closet who pick up comphet behaviour, at least with how the game portrays it. Regardless if you kiss Warren or not, he will always be in the nightmare as one of the people who tries to hurt her, meaning deep down she's scared of him as a friend. Of course there's the general narrative of the whole sexual abuse and misogyny within the game

>>535630528
Nope. But she simply isn't.

>>535597896
Except there's no confirmation Square Enix is at Gamescom this year.

>>535630528
>>535630786
Sexuality is a spectrum rather than a fixed position, take it a rainbow. Some people preferences swing towards more of the yellow than red, some swing in the middle and some are in the red, but there's not clear boxes.

Is de2 getting announced at gamescom what we thinking bros im ready for some chaos. D9 has an unannounced 2025 project that's what the linked in said. Either gamescom or a surprise dlc drop in October. What's everyone thinking? I want the chaos of part 2

>>535630905
The official program of Gamescom has like Final Fwntasy demos on there tho

>>535631184
I want to see Keno ratio D9 and the LiS accounts like never before, or have some former dev spill the beans so badly

>>535630202
A third wheel like Warren is just nonsensical in a tragic romance.
Look at Romeo & Juliet. That story just would not have worked as a tragic romance had Romeo fallen for another maiden, but still somehow ended up killing himself over Juliet.
Had LiS 1 not come out when it did and had it not been published by Square, Max and Chloe having feelings for each other would not have been put up to player choice - and the game would have been better for it.
>>535630342
>some fans requests
I think you mean Square requests. That is what ended up elevating Warren from creepy "friend" to romantic option.
The central narrative drive of LiS 1 was inspired by Blue is the Warmest Color. Warren being elevated to a love interest is just lesbian erasure. It is one of the reasons that looking back, LiS 1 has this really uncomfortable lesbophobic undertone.
>>535630423
Bi erasure is not a thing in gaming. If anything bi-ness most often results in homosexual (typically lesbian) erasure in games.
Gaming could do with a great deal less bis.
>>535630528
I don't hate bi people at all. I hate lesbian erasure, in gaming that is just typically done in service of bis.
It is just another reason why Lost Records was such a breath of fresh air. It has been such a long time since any game I know of offered romantic options that were anything other than player-sexual bis.
>>535631184
I'm betting on a photo mode and another dlc along the lines of the cat dlc.
Kinda hard to make any sort of meaningful dlc (let alone another game) when you purged basically all of your writing staff after DE flopped.

"I like skater boys,too bad they dont like me"

>>535630827
She is indeed bisexual, are you saying her attraction to men is her lying?

>>535631838
Warren is not a skater, but there's a picture of Chloe skating as a young kid, wonder whats that

You don't show up at Gamescom for a cat DLC.
We'll know soon enough now.
Hannah was/is in Paris, that is a fact. Maybe she's just traveling and enjoying life but the timing is funny.

>>535631776
>Bi erasure is not a thing in gaming
You’re right, because Max is canonically attracted to men and women. Shipper schizos like yourself are the ones erasing Max’s bisexuality

>>535631776
>I think you mean Square requests. That is what ended up elevating Warren from creepy "friend" to romantic option.
Dunno if it was Warren but Michel and co clearly said to have expanded his role due on fan feedback

>>535632419
Good for you if your Max is bi, doesn't mean all Max are. Don't know what is so difficult to understand.

>>535632390
This is the exact shit y'all were saying before TGAs last year.

>>535632390
She is right now or she was? Because Gamescom is in Cologne, a German city that is not close to Paris at all

>>535632419
As I said, LiS 1 as it rests is pretty lesbophobic. The erasure of Max's lesbian identity in service of a more marketable bi-ness is a symptom of that.
Max's bi-ness should be erased since it is inherently problematic. Thankfully, that is something that the community did long, long ago.
In pop culture she is pretty universally recognized as a lesbian figure and we are all better off for that.
>>535632431
Add him beating up serial killer jr in order to give him more screen time is different from adding a male love interest to a character that as originally conceptualized as a lesbian in order to try and sell more copies - at the behest of a publisher that is well known for its bigotry.

>>535632873
Not me, there was no way at TGA.
But a lot happened this year.
So if it happens, it happens, what's the problem?
We'll know in two days, no big deal.

>>535633140
>"Bro it's totally happening!"
>"You have done this exact song and dance before"
>"W-Well that wasn't me. I mean, maybe it WON'T happen. But it will. But if it doesn't, that doesn't make me wrong."
Fucking whatever, dude.

>>535632897
She was today or yesterday. She has two days to go there, plenty enough.

>>535633268
I'm just pointing the funny things.
Like all those devs resumes, actors meeting, D9 project...
It's nothing serious, you seem a bit tense. Breathe, girl.

>>535632945
>LiS 1 as it rests is pretty lesbophobic
Be fucking serious, Chloe is clearly the favoured love interest

>>535633778
I haven't seen any of the mocap dev posting links about their layoffs. Do you have proof of what >>535294807 said or is it just trolling?

>>535633807
And?
A games intended love interest being gay does not mean that it cannot be lesbophobic.
It was written by some cishet guys and inspired by 'Blue is the Warmest Color' of all fucking movies. It is basically impossible to not have some level of lesbophobia when that is your starting point.

Thankfully this is something that seems to have been mostly addressed in LR. As someone with an eye for this stuff, the only edge cases I was able to find was the leaning into of the 'doomed sapphic romance' trope (with no option to subvert this ala Bae) and the fact that besides the use of 'bi' no other sexuality labels (lesbian) are ever explicitly stated.
There is some work to do still. But I think they clearly involved actual queer people more in the writing of LR then they did with LiS 1 and it shows.

>>535633807
they are a bit off the rockers, I get the Snora love but they come across as ridicolously dismissive of the impact for Pricefield and some of their claims are well, a bit out of dept

>>535634418
LR isn’t even a franchise game, it’s not relevant to the discussion of Max’s sexuality and they’re two completely different games. I didn’t bother playing LR but almost every character seems to be a dyke except for the chick that looks like an uglier Rachel, Max is canonically attracted to men and women, she’s bi no matter how you spin it, I personally see her as bi but slight preference for women but nevertheless bi and it’s ridiculous you’re calling a game where the female love interest is one of the main characters and favoured by the writers “lesbophobic”

>>535634418
>It was written by some cishet guys and inspired by 'Blue is the Warmest Color' of all fucking movies
The original graphic novel existed before the movie and LiS came out, and it was written by a now trans man queer author, this accusation is wacky as hell. But I do agree that LiS1 was a product of its time and clearly it cannot be recreated by just putting random folks from the nearest Manchester pub in a focus group room

>>535634348
This one wasn't me. I put some screen usually (though I admit I didn't post Hannah's plane ticket because who cares).
It's true though that some D9 devs updated their resume these past few months.
Some animators and mocap people made 2025 reels.

>>535634647
LR is relevant because it is made by the same devs who made LiS1 and 2, so fuck off

>>535635032
LR has zero correlation with Max or the Life is Strange franchise, same devs means nothing
That’s like saying the way characters are in the Mario games should be linked to Zelda games because Nintendo makes both, that sounds fucking retarded

>>535634558
I don't dislike pricefield. I would not have put so much effort into this general for the best part of a decade had I disliked the ship.
I just think that it is a product of its time. Hamstrung by both a homophobic publisher and writers that had no lived experience of the type of relationship they were writing.
Pricefield being as impactful as it was despite all this is amazing. But it is not 2015 anymore. In LR we can play a game that does not shy away from the queerness of its leads and allows for a lesbian relationship to actually exist in game, rather than just imply that one may exist off screen.
Pricefield is like a Ford model T. It was great in its time, even revolutionary. But it is a museum piece now; We have Snora.
>>535634647
>LR isn’t even a franchise game
We are talking about the devs, /v/ incel. Keep up.
>almost every character seems to be a dyke
Should be the standard desu.
>favoured by the writers “lesbophobic”
Utterly irrelevant. Blue is the Warmest Color (the movie) is hella lesbophobic and it is about a lesbian relationship.
My point is that it is almost impossible for lesbophobia to not be present when cishet men write a sapphic romance.

>>535628380
>>535635032
>de isn’t relevant to max’s sexuality discussion despite max being the main character in the game
>but lr is because they were made by the same people despite having no connection to the characters or franchise
LRtards and Pricefieldfags are so fucking stupid it’s unbelievable. Go back to plebbit already.

>>535635971
>We are talking about the devs, /v/ incel.
This entire discussion has been about Max’s sexuality and you dragged flop records into it despite that have no correlation to the conservation, the /v/ cope is getting old too, get new material
LR has absolutely nothing to do with Max being bi

>>535636049
They can't. Only here they can spew nonsense there without any consequences

>>535636427
Plebbit has the same mentality they do though.

>>535636281
>Max being bi
This

Max being a lesbian is not canon

>>535636826
But that tweet means her being bi isn't canon either. It's expressing that you decide the orientation of the Max you're playing.

>>535637070
>you decide the orientation of the Max you're playing
tell that to shitfielders

>>535636049
DE isn't relevant because it is made by a developers who never understood LiS and never worked on the first game, and they were all fired for it

>>535637070
Well they still proved the point that you saying Max is a closeted lesbian is incorrect

>>535637474
I'm not that anon, just wanted to point out you're fucking up your own argument. I've always considered Max bi and Chloe a closeted lesbian

>>535637582
I’m not even the anon who posted that tweet, just saying people saying Max is a lesbian are wrong, I actually agree with you that lesbian Chloe makes far more sense

What a shitshow, LiS is truly dead as a franchise if this keeps going like that

>>535640149
The queen is dead, long live the queen!

I'm tired of the bi or lesbian discourse. If we go by lis1 only she thinks several boys are cute throughout the game. However she also has never kissed or dated a boy. Here's the real answer. She didn't know her sexuality in lis1. Everyone debates the bi vs lesbian when Max didn't even know what she was. You could read her either way as bisexual or a lesbian who felt just basic surface level attraction to guys but nothing more. But Max's label? She didn't know herself she clearly didn't know she gay when the game began

Slightly off topic but regarding the devs favoring a love interest I do feel like that happens in every franchise game. The closest to them being equal in my opinion was probably TC but even though you could see the writers favored Steph.

Let's get hype in the chat for the chaos of de2 part 2 announcement at gamescom grab your popcorn bros get ur ass ready

>gamescom leaks
> de2 is being announced
> chloe plays major role
> safi theory
> max and chloe have sex 3 times 2 extra sex scenes were added after backlash
> Safi dies off screen after a car accident

>>535649440
>chloe appears
>lisg calls it goty
Calling it now.

>>535649710
Just don't cry later

>>535650559
you can bet on it

>>535649710
I don't want sex scenes. I don't like seeing characters I like lewded even if it's canon.

>>535631838
it's called character development, anon.

>>535649710
No Amanda, No Buy

>>535632897
It's very close

>>535630786
Imagine marrying a bi.
There isn't many more shameful things to do.
Next step for you - cuckold or divorce

>>535665553
Based

>>535669462
>>535665553
Soulless

>>535650559
They need to do more than that to save the game desu

>>535652993
Well, at least we know one of the trolls is some very dedicated chinese user, there aren't many of them

>>535656867
i kinda want your wish to come true, honestly. just imagine the seething if every romance route gets a sex scene, except pricefield

>>535670357
yet another proof that pricefield stans have bird brains. first off, it's japanese. second, that screenshot's been reposted here since october - good luck finding the original poster

>>535671532
Pricefielders lives rent free in your brain anon, and you don't care about LiS as long as its all about troll. It's pathetic as fuck desu

>>535671532
Pricefielders embarrassing themselves has always been an /lisg/ tradition

>>535671532
>it's japanese
Kinda ironic, considering this cuckbrain drops 'desu' in every post, even when it makes zero sense

>>535671817
more like they've become my personal clown show this past year. ten years in and the meltdown is still going strong. new game dropping soon, better stock up on popcorn and salt

>>535672669
Anon... "desu" has been a word filter for t b h for almost a decade now... See: desu

>more like they've become my personal clown show this past year
Proving >>535428309 right once again, the two don't care about anything and they don't care to engage in meaningful discussions. For the love of god please stop engaging with them

>>535669462
Amanda is my comfort baby

>>535665553
I don't think the loss of the 10 fans who liked Amanda will matter. But I'm sure she will be a part of the game and a romance option. And that will be part of the reason of why the game will fail

>>535672669
And now it's obvious it’s the same one who's been seething over Amanda

tranny general
tranny game
tranny everything

>>535685389
TRVTH NVKE

>>535685389
trannybros... did we... lose...?

>>535672275
And it looks like they're not planning to quit anytime soon

>>535676760
>part of the game
I would bet money none of the characters from the first DE come back except Safi and Diamond

it's chlover...

How much of this is fake?

>>535701037
All of it

>>535701037
Not much, apparently. From what I gathered from two people who were at the focus groups, everything matches up, except for the DLC and anything related to Safi.
But judging by how active they've suddenly become, the idea that something's coming around Christmas is starting to look more and more legit

>>535702893
Are you the same anon who claimed to have met someone saying that Hannah left Denver unhappy for something that happened in the studio?

>>535701037
>set in comfy Caledon
>super hot Amanda and Safi as romance options
>Vinh replaced with literally anyone, who even cares
>chlorine either dead or rejected
Best LiS game incoming!!!

>>535703825
Pretty sure it was that anon who figured out her location from her Insta stories

>>535703825
No

>>535705929
I mean the one who said that Hannah was somehow displeased. They even said this:
> As for the source, I spoke to someone close to the location, but that's all I can share
And posted pic related as the place Hannah was in Denver

>>535702893
anything about the co-protag some other people mentioned?

>>535706418
I thought they said that in March

>>535707378
Yes, they said they were trying to locate Hannah's insta pics back then and got involved with someone close to the area

>>535706884
Seems fake desu, no way D9 is capable of handling multiple main characters at once

>>535701037
At first I thought all of it. But now I think it's all true, but it seems like it will be a full game. So I'm wondering if the dlc got merged with the game to give it more content. If there ever was a dlc.

>>535712786
What makes you think that?

let's hear it from our man in velvet cove, gertie

>>535735172
>I'm dying in this fucking country ass fucked up town! Shit flying in my mouth, the fuck I can't see, pollen, let's get the fuck out of this country motherfucker.

>>535735828
>

Ladydevheart is back

>>535736672
What is she saying?

>>535736672
Grabbing popcorn for tomorrow.

>>535736672
Spill the tea!
Spill the tea!
Spill the tea!

>>535737554
>the comment has been deleted

>>535737554
Well shit, looks like we are getting a DE 2 announcement soon.
Thankfully, it also looks like D9 is finally dead. They have always struggled to get non-LiS work, so it seems like the leadership is just progressively liquidating the studio in order to keep getting a paycheck for as long as possible.

Who wants to take bets on what sort of mess this dispassionate, rushed, contractual obligation will be?
Will they try to take the franchise down with them by leaning into the x-men stuff?
Will they try to course-correct and shoehorn in Chloe?
Will they have the balls to try and end on another cliff hanger?
Will they kill off Max?
Will they try to ruin Alex/Steph?
Either way, it looks set to be an even bigger shit show than DE 1. So I'm looking forward to enjoying some popcorn in Velvet Cove.

>>535737554
interesting

>>535738356
> kill off Max

This is too preposterous, even for them.


But honestly, I'm starting to think they might do nothing at all. They might just realise that there is no saving this mess

>>535737554
If design people are let go next, she knows something. I have officially lost all hope. This will be a disaster

>>535740158
I could see them doing it.
D9 has always had a real ego. Since they are done for, I could seem them wanting to 'close the book' on the series by killing off Max.
Probably by having Max sacrifice herself, pulling a reverse version of the Bay ending in order to save Safi and wherever DE 2 is set.
>They might just realise that there is no saving this mess
After the reception to DE 1, they have to do something. You have to imagine that there have been Square suits breathing down their necks for DE 2's entire dev cycle.
Shoehorning in Chloe seems like a safe bet. I could even see them making the Chloe cameo a DLC in order to try and and soften just how bad this game is gonna flop. 'Preorder the deluxe edition and get the Chloe DLC included! or buy the DLC separately for $40!'.

>Be Deck Nine
>Get a contract with Square Enix to make LiS games
>Make Before the Storm
>It respect Chloe's character, with even a cool bonus DLC episode with her and Max as kids
>Successful enough to grant them other works and grow as a company
>Make Double Exposure, a sequel long requested by Square to cash on Max's nostalgia
>Shat on Chloe's character development and her bond with Max, trying to replace her with D9's shallow OCs
>It bombs so badly it starts a domino effect leading to D9's downfall as a gaming company

That's a well written tale of hubris, success and ego if I see one lmao

>>535744548
Watch her be in DE2 for all of 5 mins.

>>535744548
It's so sad honestly. Lis has always been niche so none of the other games ever did as well as lis1 but I enjoyed the games.

All they had to do to avoid this was just either make a game with a new lead or return to Max and Chloe one more time I mean one game is called before the storm you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see there's another game you could make titled after that would hype up the fan base

Instead they shit on pricefield by breaking the Fandom's most popular ship up off screen. I know there are pricefield haters here but nobody can deny that was a bad move. They made a game with both endings with promises they were respecting both endings only for this to be a twisted truth

It didn't have to go down like this. D9 would have likely been fine if they just either made a game with a new lead or one last Max and Chloe story

Its truly hard to grasp how this happened.

>>535747950
And anons here will still say it was an amazing game as long as you can date Chloe

>>535751085
Dont assume knowledge about strangers

>>535747992
Hype up? Anon, what are you even on about? BtS sold six times less than the previous game. No other entry in the series ever dropped off that hard. That alone showed the hype was gone and the series was done for - it's only been downhill since

>>535752686
mad cause its true

>>535747950
perhaps

>>535753065
LiS1 was lightening in a bottle. No sensible person expected any other game to match those numbers, nor even come close.

>>535765082
>LiS1 was lightening in a bottle
NTA but I do agree with this sentiment. Every blames DE for killing the franchise but the truth is it’s been on a downward spiral since BtS’s release, the devs will never be able to recreate the success or story they had with the first one. While I feel hardcore Pricefielders overreacted to the break up and acted like it was the worst thing to ever happen to them, it was a lazy cash grab done by D9 to try and bring people back to the franchise, people only focus on the lack of Pricefield in the game but the writing all around was terrible. The easiest solution would’ve been just to jump timelines from one ending to the others to avoid pissing off fans but I really don’t know how they’d write an entire plot about it, honestly it probably would’ve been terrible either way. It’s not like any game after LiS had good writing anyway.

>>535766276
lis 2 had better writing than 1 desu same with LR

>>535772561
>LR
Not relevant, not a franchise game. I personally was bored to death with it, I made it about 1.5-2 hours into the first episode before giving up, I only tried it because of how much this general glazed it which I now realize is likely just because everyone was so pissed off about DE when in reality it’s also a shit game.
>LiS2
That’s debatable, I do think LiS2 was closest to being on par with the original but some parts fell flat. I think they should’ve made the story a little tighter, some parts felt long winded.

Life..... is strange.....

Fucking finally

bumpu

>>535779809
Enjoy anon

>>535774175
>Not relevant, not a franchise game.
Relevant because it was made by the same dev team of Michel and co behind LiS1 and 2. Keep crying about that, but Lsot Records is here to stay, also Nora best girl by far

>>535792228
>the same dev team of Michel and co behind LiS1 and 2
then why 2 isn't in the OP?

>>535794865
It does not share key thematic elements with the other games included in the OP.

>>535786687
>LR on 30% discount for one time gets more engagement than DE on discount for almost all year
love it

>>535794865
Because shitfielders are hypocrites. They only care about LR to spite-post, still seething over DE. They don't give a damn about Michel either

>>535794865
It was there until the fatass started creating the threads again. It'll pass.

>>535800851
If LiS2 gets added instead of DE, I have no problem with it

>>535801221
DE is never getting added.
LiS 2 is a fundamentally different game from the others in the OP. Go look at the Halo general and you will not find Oni in the op, despite it being made by the same devs. Lake has far more in common with LiS 1 and LR than LiS 2 does and even that is an edge case mostly there for soft launching.

>>535794865
Because the baker admitted that he wants to change this place to sapphic games general have /lisg/ cease to exist. But you are right, they’re defying their own logic by claiming same devs should be in the OP.
>>535799009
It’s called Life is Strange general - it being a franchise game should be enough in it itself if we have non franchise games.
>”but it doesn’t have thematic elements or lesbians!!!”
I really don’t give a fuck, just because you’re pissed it doesn’t have women kissing doesn’t mean it’s not a franchise game. If LR and the other games nobody talks about are in the OP, at least include the actual games that relate to this generals namesake.

>>535802256
That's a good example, actually. I hope we can get more plans for Lost Records in the future, as Dontnod do want to turn it into their own "Dark Picture Anthology" series

>>535792228
>Relevant because it was made by the same dev team of Michel and co behind LiS1 and 2. Keep crying about that, but Lsot Records is here to stay
Well my post was about writing in Life is Strange games, something that LR is not and will never be no matter how badly you wish it was yes in this discussion it holds zero relevancy. “Keep crying” is a hilarious cope when you won’t include LiS2 and DE in the OP because of it having no lesbians and being pissed over a fictional ship breaking up in the latter, imagine being that assblasted you can’t acknowledge actual Life is Strange games.

>>535803553
We already had a discussion about that, and the majority vote concluded that /lisg/ should remain as a title for the future. OP is just all talk but no bite, so it’s not like its going to hurt you personally

>>535803834
DE fucked over Dick 9 as a company, it doesn't deserve to stay there

>>535803903
>the majority vote concluded that /lisg/ should remain as a title for the future
And I agree, but non franchise games shouldn’t be in the OP or at the very least the real franchise games should be added back.
>>535804019
You act like BtS and TC were some wild successes. BtS people agreed was mid aside from episode 2 and TC was boring as fuck, the franchise has been on a downward spiral since the first one.

>>535804019
deck's irrelevant
square stays, your ship's dead, you seethe

>>535805646
Square will have to deal with the aftermath of D9's burnt corpse tainting the franchise moving foward, I know you don't care but that's the reality. As out of touch as they have, they have a fucked up IP that's not going to work out well

DE gave us comfy Caledon, comfy soundtrack and beautiful mature Max, so I am all for a sequel if they keep all three in the next game. Don't care much about Chloe or any other love interests, I just want a proper, optimistic and satisfying ending for a story, cause I want Max to be happy.

>>535819693
based Maxchad

>>535819693
Couldn't have said it better myself

>>535819693
>>535819767
>>535820158
Low IQ slop and corporate bootlickers gets the bat, enjoy the game that's going to put the franchise into a grave. Also Max was already fine and accepting of whatever happens in the two original LiS endings, we didn't need a executive conceived fanfiction to continue that

>>535821121
you can get the fuck outta here any time, faggot, if you don't like something

>>535821398
No

>>535821121
>Max was already fine and accepting of whatever happens in the two original LiS endings
Interesting, people here go on about how Max would’ve offed herself post Bay.

>>535822816
>kat
Take off topic posting back to /v/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeisstrange/comments/1mu1skc/de_this_community_is_ruining_peoples_experiences/

You can really spot the ones seething about DE in the general in this thread.

>>535825392
That guy almost makes some good points sometimes, but he just seems too dumb to really understand anything. Typical Double Exposure fan.

>>535825392
I mean, it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people here are plebbit tourists that came during DE’s release and never left. It’s became a cesspool here.

So is it happening today? What do people think? De2 confirmed by ladydev and by unannounced project 2025. Ladydev says 2026 is likely release but a trailer could drop now. They've also got some things releasing October like the collection on ps5

A trailer could drop now for 2026 release. Or they could wait until end of the year. What people thinking? We in for anything or nothing

>>535825392
DE being bad for one reason or another is the majority opinion everywhere, not just here. That makes you a contrarian. Unless you don't give a shit about the game. In which case, you're just a troll.
Either way, fuck off.

>>535825392
>The hate has absolutely, unequivocally, undeniably, categorically, 1000% nothing - zilch, nada, zero - to do with MUH CHOLE
What a clownshow

>>535826986
Expanse 2 baby

>>535824412
That's just her haters. It literally hurts them to even imagine she might be doing fine and actually happy

>>535826986
Let's watch the gamescom stream and find out.

Chloe reveal in a few hours baby

>>535824412
Dont assume knowledge about strangers, just because one anon think Max is going to kill herself post Bay doesn't make it a common opinion.

By me, I thought Max would have accepted Chloe's death and kept her wishes to go foward as a photographer, maybe even taking a different road to pursue with how she styles things up as opposee to Bae!Max, who has Chloe at her side. Hell, Bay Max has all her best friends like Kate, Dana, Brooke, Alyssa being alive, and their shared experiences can help her through.

>>535827818
I'm to scared bro.