Thread 538069737

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>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, awkward photography student who discovers she can rewind time and—perhaps more urgently—that she’s very, very gay. At the heart of the story is Max’s reunion with her estranged best friend, the rebellious, blue-haired Chloe Price. Their bond becomes the game’s pulsing queer core as they unravel the mystery of Rachel Amber’s disappearance. What begins as a teenage reconnection blooms into a messy, tender queer odyssey about grief, desire, and the impossible choices we make for the people we can't truly live without.

LiS Series Steam Page https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36149206

>Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
(LR: B&R) – A spiritual successor to the original Life is Strange, made by Don’t Nod (DN). Set in Velvet Cove during the summer of 1995, it follows Swann Holloway and her chaotic, brilliant queer friends, Nora, Autumn, and Kat, as they form a band, fall recklessly in love, and try to carve out a space for themselves in a world that keeps trying to erase them. But something terrible cuts their youth short, and 27 years later, they return to face what was buried. It’s a hazy, haunted, heartbreakingly queer story about girlhood, memory, music, and the kind of love that doesn’t fade, even when everything else does.
Steam Page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902960

Discussion of the Lis Extended Universe, recently announced TV adaption, and other similar games is welcome!

Reminder: Do not respond to tourists from /v/

>>538069737 (OP)
The live action show is going to be a Trainwreck. You cannot feasibly cast Max or Chloe and have the fanbase be happy about it.

>>538069737 (OP)
Pricefield endures.

>>538069834
>>538069834
>>538069834
The actual thread.

Rejigged OP is fine.
Keeps LiS as the main subject while suitably giving LR it's place.

Which fucking thread is the real one?

/lisg/ prevails.

>>538072756
This one prioritises Life is Strange.

>Never believe that the anti Chloe trolls 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.

>>538073139
And also Snora content

>Be Deck Nine
>Get a contract with Square Enix to make LiS games
>Make Before the Storm, a prequel centered around the popular character of Chloe Price and her relationship with Rachel Amber as told by the first game
>It respect Chloe's character, with even a 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
>still contractually obligated to push out a DE2 despite crunch, lack of manpower, constant layoffs and the looming shutdown of the company

>>538073415
A Snora is fine too.

This is Charlie Covel, they are the showrunner, writer and executive producer of the Life is Strange TV show, can they save the project?

>>538074539
Hopefully they'll lean into the Gay.

>>538069737 (OP)
Reminder that LR, Lake, Gone Home, and Fear the Spotlight are not franchise games are therefore off topic discussion. DE and LiS2 are franchise games despite baker trying to erase their existence because of seethe.

>>538072756
This one, it was posted first

>>538074942
Dont care

>>538074942
They're not in the OP now.
It's been rejigged.

>>538047723
>Sophie Thatcher as Chloe Price

>>538076478
She would be a geeat candidate

>>538076478
Too smol and tits too big.
Otherwise good casting.

>>538075817
It’s an improvement that some off topic games were removed, but LR still needs to go and the other franchise games should be acknowledged.

>>538077325
No, LR is here to stay

>>538077774
Did I ask? This is /lisg/, not /lrg/. Nobody gives a fuck about that trash, couldn’t even last 100 posts on a thread.

I think price fielders in particular will be kicking and screaming about the TV show until the show comes out and it goes harder on price field than the game lol

What everyone will expect is the show to go bay but the general audience will be angry because that's just to many bury you gay show endings the show will get canceled last episode like Killing Eve if they go bay

If the show is good it would be nice to get fresh fans. Let's be honest the lis fans from the game are so annoying

>>538081067
Imagine the crash out of Bay ending and if they race swap Chloe.

>>538081067
I think they will have the same struggles going forward though unless they outright one and done it as the first game only. Otherwise it'll be LiS2 and who are these Mexicans all over again.

>>538081449
They will either do an anthology of each game or do the original game but continue it. Anthology will mean Bay ending, continuation means Bae. An interesting twist would be if they made BtS season 1 then LiS season 2 but I doubt they’d do that, I’d assume BtS will be in flashbacks or season 2.

>>538081449
Truthfully it would be the most clever to end on Bae so you can actually carry the story forward for another season with Max and Chloe. Because you are right. If they kill Chloe off season 2 would tank. If the TV series is a hit anything but the Bae ending would kill it. The bayers don't get that fans do not stick around once Chloe goes bye bye that's why lis2 didn't sell as well. Fans got attached to Max and Chloe and the TV audience will too. This show will get a massive LGBTQ following and they will be all hating on the show if it goes bay at the end because of how common bury your gays is in the television space

>>538082091
Keeping Chloe alive just for her and Max to eventually break up is hilarious

>>538081067
Either ending is fine but they could always go with an ending that incorporates the two. I don't get why people are already doomposting this much when it's not going to be a 1:1 adaptation although that doesn't mean it will be good. If the show itself is bad overall, then the endings won't matter as much.

>>538093170
I do think it's possible they go for the Ultimate Good Ending, but it's also clear that Square is extremely hostile to what the fans actually like about LIS. That said, I doubt Square has any actual say in the scripts, I just get why fans are negative, on top of usual video game adaptation skepticism.

>>538091821
Did they use Joyce's ring?

>>538082091
If the showrunners are paying attention (they're not), Last of Us Season 2 should be a red flag fire klaxon that killing off half the reason your show works is a REALLY bad idea.

>>538099184
They did

They always repeat the same two ot three talking points like fucking parrots, it's weird yet makes a lot of sense, they can't exactly create anything worthwhile on their own so they have to vilify others

>>538070258
Pricefield lives!

>>538082091
I don't get why some bayers can't seem to understand this. The last of us lost so many viewers after Joel died. If they want this to be a success they will have to either pick sacrifice Arcadia Bay or not show a ending. There’s so many people out there who will fall in love with Chloe.

>>538123759
Success depends on pushing the queer.
Wednesday is kept popular because girls ship Wednesday and Enid.

>>538124689
Obviously. I personally don't care about romance at all. But I want this to be a success. So they'll need to push queer love like crazy.

>>538123759
>so many people out there who will fall in love with Chloe
not according to the focus groups apparently

>>538125436
Focus group are not general audiences and fandoms, and they are worthless if there's no strong creative vision behind it but just yes men and comitee. LiS was successful because it wasn't afraid to be bold and creative even if it was a risk, DE took ALL the wrong lessons from LiS1 by recycling the story but sandwashing it and shitting on it at the same time

People who defend those should be mocked and laughted

>>538047723
another one

Time for Emma Myers or Cailee Spaeny as Max as well

>>538123759
It depends on what they’re going for. If it’s a limited series Bay is the better ending for that, if they want more seasons about Max and Chloe they’ll probably do Bae.

>>538130228
Or they'll do what the original was supposed to be and merge the timelines so no one does or just Max dies.

>>538130716
>what the original was supposed to be and merge the timelines so no one does
That would’ve been a terrible ending and cheapens the stakes, plus I never even heard of this. I know one ending had Max get shot instead of Chloe and that was the hospital ending but the devs scrapped it.

>>538131051
That's the one I was talking about

>>538131925
Yeah but the timelines were never merged. Both Chloe and Arcadia survive, but Chloe won’t remember anything Max did that week since you go back in time. I think “Sacrifice Max” is probably a worse ending, sacrificing Chloe vs the town creates the highest stakes.

>>538131051
>Max get shot instead of Chloe and that was the hospital ending but the devs scrapped it
it was meant to be the other way around

>>538128539
Almost great desu

>>538129706
Cailee would have been perfect if she was just a little bit younger. Her character in Civil War is a knockoff Max

>>538129706
>he thinks both chloe and max will be white

>>538128539
This is amazing, Soapy is the perfect cast for Chloe. I know shes a bit shorter, but give her some extra high heels for her boots and its golden. We should dogpile Amazon and SE just like those idiots who were asking to cast Troonter Shatter as Zelda, except make it actually work this time.

You guys think they'll keep the early 2010's period or make it contemporary for the show? The only benefit I can think of setting it in recent times is Kate's video getting viral on tiktok or some other. Makes it more permanent. Also, the music. In the spirit of the early 2010's and PNW, Jonathan composes it again, we discover more hidden gems or utterly butchered but gives emerging artists a shot at discovery?

>>538129706
I think I read somewhere that Emma said Max is her dream role and LiS is one of her favorite games, she would be great.

>>538140180
Emma seems a young talented actress and I could see her doing a good Max impression, but we don't live in a fair world so we're going to be stuck with Milla Jovovich's nepo baby

The show’s gonna be awful isn’t it

>>538142145
Of course it is. It should have been animated not live action

>>538142145
You can bet your ass on it

>>538132686
not surprising pissfielders twisted it that way. they've always fantasized about Max dying one way or another - they hate her that much

>>538142145
It’s gonna be redundant at best. Especially with time travel there’s so much opportunity for them to completely fuck the whole thing up. At least the threads will be funny.

>>538138450
>Also, the music.
Anon, I...
https://www.thegamer.com/shawn-mendes-life-is-strange-tv-series-music-producer/

>>538143986
He's not involved anymore, that was when Legendary was still attached to the project

>>538143131
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>>538143131
I mean, they don’t see Max as being a person or having any sort of identity so checks out.

>>538142145
This seems to be almost certain

>>538144729
They really don't. But the funniest part is, that pic's literally the first thing that pops up when you google 'LIS hospital ending'. Like, even if you forgot, the info's two clicks away. But nah, they'd rather keep posting about how Max dies

>>538145759
remember, all fanfictions and headcanons are canon but some are more canon than others kek

>>538146263
>>538145759
>>538144729
>one anon misinterpret one scrapped ending detail
>suddently the trolls go out like vultures

It literally proves >>538073214 is fucking right about the kind of filth that still infest this thread

Did you got your vinyls signed anons?

>>538147967
>filth
>just because you can’t handle different opinions

>>538148256
GTFO, cuck

>>538148256
Would love to see Ruth, Nat and Adam live someday. Hopefully DN hires them again to compose for their other games.

>>538147967
>one anon misinterprets a scrapped ending detail
>one anon seethes so hard that becomes a meme across the entire game community
>one anon pushes Joyce’s ring schizo theory like it's divine truth
>one fanartist burns out and drinks himself into a psych ward within a year of DE dropping

How dare people act like we're all collectively insane. It's always just one anon doing something wild

>>538073671
I remade this

>>538151740
>>538151568
Magnificent work.

>>538150759
>always just one anon
that's one less than the number of /v/ tourists, lol

>>538161020
A slippery slope to psychosis.

>>538150759
>that one anon is also the vinh stan...

>>538162224
>fan favourite
>Max cosplaying as Chloe who can be either dead or broken up in a very out of character way
>sold with the overpriced scam DLC and two weeks early access editon

What the fuck they were thinking?

>>538162224
This is still obscenely funny, knowing that at least one person in the marketing department was fully aware they were about to release the bomb of all bombs and was just eating popcorn on the side.

>>538162893
I wonder if Izzy, Lucy and co could have forsee how badly it would have went

It can be fixed

>>538165450
I think they’re going to overcorrect by a lot, personally.

>>538165515
I’ll take too much pandering over not enough. The magneto safi plotline isn’t interesting enough to grab me on its own.

>>538162849
They weren't.
>>538165515
>I think they’re going to overcorrect by a lot, personally
There's no team left to re-write it, they're just sending it.

>>538166316
>grab me
nobody cares about you, fgt

>>538166316
I care about you, fgt

>>538166407
>There's no team left to re-write it
There's Jonathan Zimmerman and Iris Daughterman, one of them was on BtS and TC. If there's someone to rewrite DE, then its them and good ol' chatGPT

>>538166458
Then flop I guess, I’m a relatively reasonable member of the target demo.

>>538162849
>sold with the overpriced scam DLC and two weeks early access editon
>What the fuck they were thinking?
When the main sales spike died down (around winter), I ran the numbers - like, if the game was just $30 with no Ultimate Edition or whatever. Turns out the route they picked was still profitable at that point. So yeah, they did think ahead about how to milk a game that was bound to flop

>>538167065
>Turns out the route they picked was still profitable at that point. So yeah, they did think ahead about how to milk a game that was bound to flop
And still it ended up as a "large losses" with a fanbase that's fractured and pissed off, which surely is what the franchise needed for a soft reboot lmao

>>538167330
brain-damaged shipper still thinks the big corpo lost harder than he did.
you can't make this up

>>538168165
Every balding uncle from r/pricefield should be awarded with this

>>538169035
Of course Square will surive, good luck finding the next dev after D9 tho

https://x.com/P1vsTheWorld/status/1964390489215684943

It's almost out, cocksuckers

>>538171674
If the tv show takes off, a new dev will appear overnight. If it flops, the IP gets tossed on the shelf and they'll move on to the next cash cow

>>538172251

Michel and Luc part one interview is out now if someone is interested instead of dumping AI slop

https://youtu.be/RbSf61TSVXk

Speaking of balding uncles - any based anon here who also lurks Reddit? Or at least peeked in there yesterday? How's the reaction to the tv show announcement over there? Are they seething already, or writing ten-paragraph essays about how 'sacrificing MUH CHLOE' is narratively bad?

>>538180580
They've been fancasting for literal decades and now that it's finally greenlit, they're turning against it like clockwork citing the usual stuff like how it's stupid to make a show about choices and the like. A handful of users are looking forward to it though and guess what camp they're in.

>>538180580
O B S E S S E D

>>538182810
Fans have more than one reason to be wary until proven otherwise, given how the franchise has been handled lately, and how video game adaptations can be very hit or miss. Guess we'll found out how its going to be handled anyway

>>538182810
Listwt is crashing out in a way that's rather embarrassing. They've pre-decided that the show is going to choose the Bay ending and used that premise to pre-hate the show. Yet the actual production company is treating Max and Chloe as equally important (noting that its both of their story). So raging out this early feels premature (and frankly immature).

>>538184902
I hope they do a limited series and end it with Bay for a generational crash out.

>>538184902
Twitter is garbage. They get the queer writer in just to write the bay ending? I do not think so. They will do something new

I love how barely anyone is touched by this TV show xD

That's good. There is no point getting excited.

>>538189130
Yeah, that KAOS show they did was Queer AF, and I doubt Charlie Covell would sign up for a show that's intended to end with a 'bury our gays' ending. They're not some struggling writer begging for work. To get Charlie to sign-up, I'd hope and expect that they have a significant bit of input into the vision.

>>538191164
Do you believe is a positive sign? I noticed they have been made not only showrunner, but also exec producer and writer as well, meaning they I'll have at least more influence than your average Stauder, on paper

What will they do with BtS? Make it season 2, or a flashback episode?

The ai slop spam is so fucking cringe it might've killed the thread for me, which is crazy cause not even two shit games in a row managed to
See you never fools