beddo said:
GrumbleGrump said:
I don't know. I've heard it's absolute garbage and saw a lets play of the first hour and it seemed like dogshit.
That seems like a pretty snap judgement, I don't see what you think is wrong with the game as you don't provide much detail.
Have you tried many episodic story based games? If you like Telltale games you'll probably like Life is Strange.
The general problem with modern Telltale style adventure games is that you can get more or less the same experience from a let's play than from playing it, since most of the content is conveyed through dialog or through barely interactive cinematics. So in the end the let's plays give you more or less the same experience of a first playthrough.
That doesn't mean that the format is inherently bad, just very susceptible to spoilers. Besides, if the game has a good story or characters (or both) then the game could still be fathomably good.
Too bad Life is Strange lacks both of those things. I know because I saw playthroughs of the entire game [footnote]Specifically, the Life is Dranks series by BroTeamPill[/footnote].
First: Choices in the face of the enormity of Time.
Never mind the fact that the time traveling renders essentially any short term choice meaningless, not to mention that when Max gains her ability to rewind time by looking at photographs, then every choice the player makes is moot and completely pointless. [footnote]Yes, the game tries to acknowledge this, in a somewhat weaksauce way. It still makes no difference to the player.[/footnote] The entire ending is the shining example of this. Hell even the timeline jumping ruins a lot of things.
Second: With great power come great responsibility.
Max misuses her time traveling powers to an
outstanding degree. She discards the alternate timelines only because what she did to change them didn't work the
first time. She didn't try to come back and fix them through other methods. She even neglects trying to warn people of the fucking town ending Tornado coming. Why? Because she's simply a dumb teeny hipster. Which brings me to:
Third: Teenagers are dumb, bratty and terrible.
The characters aren't all that likeable or even that complicated. Max, as I said, is just some typical youthy hipster that has a generic hipstery hobby (photography) and is super deep, in that annoying, Facebook wisdom kind of way. Her friend, Chloe, is just the typical rebellious punky teenager that does drugs 'cuz she just so ?cool?, as in bitchy. Too bad she couldn't score anything that could make her likeable or at least less generic. There's also that one kid whose only purpose in the entire game is to be ?friendzone guy?. Then there?s the asshole rich kid that the authorities thinks is super nice and proper but is actually a scumbag. There?s the weird ass janitor who, surprise? Doesn't actually do anything besides being weird.
Fourth: You're no police detective, kid.
Max and Chloe are so stupid that they laugh off the idea of calling the cops on rich asshole kid, because "they are his personal security force". Even when they have a motherfucking
corpse on their hands. He has been at the very least an accessory to murder. They even plan to
murder him (well Chloe is, because she's fucking dumb) instead of reporting him to the cops!
Fifth:
This is Warhammer. Deploying cluster cringe bombs, danger close.
The dialog is fucking terrible. At best it?s perfectly functional. At worst it absolutely makes me pissed about how someone didn't think this isn't terrible dialog. "We are SO invisible!" "If you can crank up that IV up to eleven?" "He's not a real Step-f?hrer?" "I think we made that dog our *****. Get it?" "She's dead! Such sad!" "Those whales are like... Beached angels" "Oh my god, are you cereal?"
That's discounting the visual cringe, using various internet memes scrawled at varying locations across the game. Hell, just look at Chloe's room. It?s a veritable fountain of visual cringe. Or really, just Chloe in general.
So no. Life is Strange is not a good game for me. In fact, I find it ranks just above David Cage's absolute bullshit.
