Here's hoping it's good. I haven't played it (I might still pick it up, kinda mulling it over), but I've heard really good things and I hope the sequel's good too.
I agree that the first LiS was a self contained little gem, but I personally don't have an issue with them making a sequel, even if it's just using the game mechanic to tell a similar, but different story. I'm fine with that. I'm confident that the second one won't have as much of an emotional impact on me like the first one did, at the end of part 2, but i still enjoyed the puzzling of it. I could take or leave a sequel to be honest, though I am happy they've stated it won't be "The further adventures of Max" kind of junk. They let her story end, and that's good.Ezekiel said:Liked it, but after I finished it I wasn't thinking, "This needs a sequel." I wanted them to make an original IP again. But that's gaming. I suppose it's good that they can build a series and lean back on it as they take risks with original IPs like Vampyr.
Oooh, yeah that would work pretty well now that you mention it. Then if you didn't pay attention in episode 1, you will miss key elements that will help reshape the following chapters. That was one thing I did like about the first game, how if you weren't observant, you could miss little things that had larger impact. So if you, for example, don't actually pay attention to Girl A saying she's always loved her dad, and they've had a great relationship. Then you won't know that her variant is probably due to some daddy issues that were introduced with the timeline change.Ezekiel said:I think it might work better with Episode 1 establishing the normal world. That way, both the player and the protagonist notice things change in Episode 2. Just an idea.Happyninja42 said:I agree that the first LiS was a self contained little gem, but I personally don't have an issue with them making a sequel, even if it's just using the game mechanic to tell a similar, but different story. I'm fine with that. I'm confident that the second one won't have as much of an emotional impact on me like the first one did, at the end of part 2, but i still enjoyed the puzzling of it. I could take or leave a sequel to be honest, though I am happy they've stated it won't be "The further adventures of Max" kind of junk. They let her story end, and that's good.Ezekiel said:Liked it, but after I finished it I wasn't thinking, "This needs a sequel." I wanted them to make an original IP again. But that's gaming. I suppose it's good that they can build a series and lean back on it as they take risks with original IPs like Vampyr.
I still want it to be a reverse-engineering type of mystery though, like I mentioned in my above post. The more I think about it, the more I would really enjoy that gameplay. Though it might be tricky, since the protagonist would still have information about things that we, as the player, wouldn't know, having not lived in that world. Still, might be an interesting puzzle to tackle.
This.Happyninja42 said:I loved the first one, and it's taken one of the higher slots in my "favorite games of all time" list.
That does sound like a really bad ass idea.Happyninja42 said:I still want it to be a reverse-engineering type of mystery though, like I mentioned in my above post. The more I think about it, the more I would really enjoy that gameplay. Though it might be tricky, since the protagonist would still have information about things that we, as the player, wouldn't know, having not lived in that world. Still, might be an interesting puzzle to tackle.
I doubt it. I mean, I'm 40, and I played it and it felt relatively "universealy teenager" enough to fit any era. Some of the stuff they said, and how they acted, seriously reminded me of friends of mine from the 90's. I mean, Chloe herself was a terrifying hybrid of 2 friends I had, mushed into one girl. I didn't feel particularly "out of place" playing it. Sure, some phrases were "of their time" like go fuck your selfie, as we didn't have those back in the 90's, but the awkward socializing, fumbling to talk to person you are attracted to. Driftless uncertainty about what you will do with your life, all that stuff is pretty universal to the state of being a teenager. So I think, for the most part, the game will work just fine over time.Vanilla ISIS said:This is one of those games that will age terribly.
Playing this game 10 years from now will be like watching a "hip" movie from the 90's right now.
Sure, you might get some entertainment out of it but mostly because you'll be laughing at the dialogue and the art direction.
Hopefully they'll hire someone who's more competent to write the sequel.
Congrats, you've finally become old. See ya in the grave.Happyninja42 said:I doubt it. I mean, I'm 40, and I played it and it felt relatively "universealy teenager" enough to fit any era.
No dude, characters like Max and Kate have the same body proportation as Ellie from The Last of Us and she's fourteen. Maybe if they were vegan or something, because these girls are puny as hell. I live near a high school (apart from have been to one for four years) and 16-year olds are weird, freaky giants. I'll give you another game comparison; The characters in Bully look proportionally older than most of the students in Life is Strange, and again, they're only like fifteen.undeadsuitor said:Idk man, I have an 18 year old cousin and she looks just as young as Max does.Casual Shinji said:. Also maybe make the characters look their age, too, and not try to pass off characters that barely look fifteen as eighteen.
30 year olds playing 18 year olds in movies and TV shows have ruined our ability to judge ages.
I don't want it to involve them at all, good or bad decision. I can't see any way the "bad" choice doesn't end up with Chloe killing herself, or Max leaving her out of the guilt of what she had to do. And also I just, honestly don't want anything new to do with those characters. The story, either choice, has a nice finality to it. All of the temporal stuff is resolved, one way or another, so there's no reason to continue.SweetShark said:I really glad to hear this news. The first one was a good game.
However I need to ask:
Who else wish for a sequel who continue with the "bad" decision?