Life is Strange | Spoiler Thread
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Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Dark room, on the couch
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Yeah, checked, no jacket. Of the list before:
Intervened to help Kate(yes). Reported Nathan(no). Comforted Victoria(yes). Took the blame for Chloe(yes). Told Kate to wait for more proof(no). Answered her call(yes). Didnt try to shoot Frank(yes). Saved Kate(yes). Blamed Mr. Jefferson(no). Stole the money(no). Kissed with Chloe(yes). Sided with Chloe(yes). Kept Franks dog from harm(yes). Chloe has Davids gun(yes). Frank is friend(yes). Max pulled Warren off him(yes). Said yes to Chloe(no (assuming this is about the assisted suicide)). Warned Victoria and she believed(yes).
I didn't report Nathan, Told Kate to tell the police, blamed Nathan, left the money, and didn't kill chloe. So it's probably none of those. All the rest were the same.
Intervened to help Kate(yes). Reported Nathan(no). Comforted Victoria(yes). Took the blame for Chloe(yes). Told Kate to wait for more proof(no). Answered her call(yes). Didnt try to shoot Frank(yes). Saved Kate(yes). Blamed Mr. Jefferson(no). Stole the money(no). Kissed with Chloe(yes). Sided with Chloe(yes). Kept Franks dog from harm(yes). Chloe has Davids gun(yes). Frank is friend(yes). Max pulled Warren off him(yes). Said yes to Chloe(no (assuming this is about the assisted suicide)). Warned Victoria and she believed(yes).
I didn't report Nathan, Told Kate to tell the police, blamed Nathan, left the money, and didn't kill chloe. So it's probably none of those. All the rest were the same.
Was Nathan ever suspended in yours? If you blame Nathan but didn't report him in the beginning, is he suspended? Because that's the only logical thing I see. The only two things in your list of five differences regarding Nathan are you didn't report him and then blamed him instead of reporting him and then blaming Jefferson. Maybe in both cases he doesn't get suspended and so doesn't go to the Dark Room during the day.
Those are the ones I did differently, I helped chloe in the assisted suicide and I let Warren beat up Nathan, I got the jacket in the bunker.
edit: oh I didn't take the blame for Chloe!
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Huh, and LiK also stopped Warren and still got the jacket. Maybe a combination of factors put the jacket there. Curious.
Yup! We both got suspended.
Edit: I think... I'm pretty sure.
Edit2: What the heck! I coulda sworn he was suspended, too, but I replayed the scene and he wasn't. Huh. I guess that's it.
Third Strike
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So unless it's a combination of the minor choices, it seems that Nathan being suspended is what triggers the jacket in the Dark Room. Interestingly, the fresh tire tracks seem to be there even when the jacket is not.
Neat.
Neat.
You Know Nothing
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I chortled when I noticed Daniel DaCosta's "m'lady" shirt in the last episode.
I've been wondering about this since Episode 1 as well. Anybody know the answer to this?
I chortled when I noticed Daniel DaCosta's "m'lady" shirt in the last episode.
I didn't understand that. It's like they want you to feel as if Daniel personifies that stereotype, but that stereotype is entirely negative so even if he did it's not realistic that he would wear a shirt with it. It's like wearing a shirt with a racist caricature on it. I don't understand what was going on there.
Maybe he wears it ironically.
It would be so cool if you could unlock a dev comment mode by finishing the game and then getting dev comments in dialogs and at visible points in the game where you can move that play while the original game sound is muted. I'd dig it.
You can rewind, the lack of butterfly just means there are no (long-term) consequences.
Holy shit. If one game needs a dev commentary, it's this one. Similarly to how Donnie Darko is the only film I've ever listened to the Director's Commentary on. They're both tightly constructed, layered narratives.
A director's commentary might be difficult in terms of taking into account your different choices? But maybe not.
Oh, this sounds super plausible.
I hate this and wish you could turn it off. Would be so much more compelling if the game didn't tell you you unlocked a new dialogue choice every time you spoke to someone.
if they could patch that in, that would be nice.
hell, i'll settle for a post-mortem interview once Ep 5 comes out. I'm curious about the development of this game.
That would be really cool. I'm "currently" (it's been almost 2 months since my last session) playing through Alan Wake with dev commentary for the first time, and it's a really neat feature. Hearing the devs say what their intention was with something, and pointing how they were trying to convey those intentions through that particular scene is very entertaining.
This is actually the only game where I like this feature, it ties well with the gameplay. Having actual consequences for your action makes it so exploring all the dialogue options before settling with your decision doesn't really mean anything, it's not "cheating" like it would be in other story driven games. When Jefferson said something like "you should have taken a picture" I was devastated. It was such an obvious best choice at the time. Of course, it didn't really make that much of a difference in the long run, but it's nice to see that the implications of each choice aren't as obvious as they might seem to be.
That said, options are never bad, so it would be nice of them to add the option to turn it off.
Daria Morgendorffer
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Developer's commentary has been one of my biggest wishes since I started playing episode 1. It is just always so interesting to see everything from an insider's perspective and I would love to experience this game that way.
It's absolutely a choice thing, and I think it works better in Life is Strange than it does in any of Telltale's game's. For example, in The Wolf Among Us, you couldn't turn it off either, and that meant you could ignore certain decision if a little 'So-and-so will remember that' notification didn't pop up.
It's similar in Life is Strange. So you can go up to Person A and say 'hey, you look great!' and nothing will happen. Then you can go up to Person B and say 'hey, you look great!' and the little butterfly will appear, basically saying 'Person B will remember that!'
Well... Why tell me? The game is just making it abundantly obvious which parts of the dialogue are meaningless flavour-text, and which parts are plot-affecting.
You're right that the rewind mechanic softens this hugely. It's a great mechanic, turning the dialogue choices into a 'game' more than ever before. But I still feel the 'you just did something important' notifications undermine the integrity of the universe-as-story. Surely everything you say should be important? Or any info could affect the conversation if you rewind?
On-topic: it's going to be really interesting seeing where Episode 5 goes. I feel like none of the Telltale games embraced the 'there could be 10 hugely different endings' ethos that episodic games enable.
Like, in linear narrative-focused games, a developer would have one deadline to come up with 6 endings, as well as a whole 10-20 hours' worth of storyline content. But in episodic games, they have staggered, small deadlines. Theoretically they could make 2-3 drastically different variations of the last episode, with your choices in eps 1-4 influencing which one you get. I suppose this would mean 2-3x the development phase of the earlier episodes, but that would be fine for a more 'unique' story/adventure.
Hmm...
I remember there being a Butterfly if you rejected her request. But I might be remembering incorrectly.
but there is a bra on the stall wall
Twist: it's Rachel Ambers bra.
Twist: When Warren was beating him up and Nathan says "Get off me brah" it was about a bra he had trouble removing. He finally got around to it in the bathroom stall that night.
It's totally ironic, as expected of teenagers in washington.
Isn't Arcadia Bay in OR?
Yeah, but they're like...2-3 hours from Seattle or something like that. Max is from Seattle, at least.
chrominance
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This was confusing to me as well.
Nathan is too gun happy. It makes it hard for me to have any sympathy for him. That dude is sick.
I wonder what causes the two different dialogues you can get when you enter the junkyard at night. I noticed someone's lines were different than mine's when I checked out ending reaction videos today. Here are the two possible options from what I've seen:
Chloe: Max when we find Nathan you better rewind so I can kill him over and over
Max: For gods sake Chloe you have to be quiet! We could die, okay?
Chloe: God I want to kill that little psycho
Max: Hey I cant focus if youre yelling please
Seems minor but it's cool that the character dialogue develops differently in such detailed fashion.
Chloe: Max when we find Nathan you better rewind so I can kill him over and over
Max: For gods sake Chloe you have to be quiet! We could die, okay?
Chloe: God I want to kill that little psycho
Max: Hey I cant focus if youre yelling please
Seems minor but it's cool that the character dialogue develops differently in such detailed fashion.
In the alt timeline "Mad Max" sounds a bit like Chloe in the real timeline reading through some texts.
Fairly certain I got all of those lines. I didn't realize you were supposed to follow Chloe at first so I spent some extra time there wandering
alt max was the best, especially with her blowing her parent's money and being a dick to Alyssa
Max rewinding time and saving William gave her a confidence and ego boost.
And Alyssa deserved it.
I think you guys are putting too much thoughts into it, he's just a teenager wearing a internet meme shirt, it doesn't mean much
I went on Something Awful and found this interesting gem:
http://i.imgur.com/EE5fi5u.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EE5fi5u.jpg
The graffiti between Max and Chloe. Kinda hard to see.
Here, take a version with some contrast for easier reading: http://i.imgur.com/w5xfO2c.png
Yep, theres a pretty popular theory that Max is stuck in a time loop and those messages have been written by her.
A good video on the topic.
I've seen that, and I guess there's some plausibility to it.
If you go from episode to episode as well, Max sounds older in each episode, at least to me. Then you've got the homeless woman who says she's been there for a thousand years and Max has no problem with that.
I guess if you wanna get nuts, you could say Rachel Amber is Max from the timeline Max swapped into, and yeah...that's where your mind goes wild.