Farewell Edition.Previous >>570038668> Life is Strange(LiS) - Don’t Nod’s teenage trauma simulator set in Arcadia Bay. Max Caulfield, shy photography nerd and disaster lesbian-in-waiting, gets rewind powers after reuniting with Chloe Price, her blue-haired best friend and emotional grenade. Storms, grief, desire, and one choice fandom will argue about forever.> Before the Storm(BtS) - Deck Nine’s Chloe prequel. No time powers, just grief, rage, and Rachel Amber entering Chloe’s life like a lit match. Theatre kid drama, flannel feelings, and two girls staring hard enough to warp weather.> Life is Strange 2(LiS2) - Don’t Nod’s road-trip sequel following Sean and Daniel Diaz after tragedy forces them to flee across America. As Daniel’s powers grow, Sean must guide him while facing racism, grief, poverty, state violence, and life on the run.> True Colors(TC) - Deck Nine’s mountain-town feelings bomb. Alex Chen reaches Haven Springs, uncovers grief, secrets, corporate rot, and the curse of feeling everyone else at full volume. Bisexual lighting, Steph Gingrich, rooftop yearning, excellent jackets.> Double Exposure(DE) - Max returns, older, sadder, and allergic to a normal semester. At Caledon, Safi is murdered and Max starts shifting timelines. Mystery, academic lesbians, timeline nonsense, and Max as reality’s chew toy.> Reunion(Reunion) - Max and Chloe back together, because soulmates make causality file complaints. Rewind returns, Caledon remains cursed, and the series circles back to them. Closure, pain, gay nonsense, and two women finding each other however hard reality tries to split the bill.> Lost Records: Bloom & Rage(LR) - Don’t Nod’s spiritual cousin, split between 1995 and 2022. Swann, Nora, Autumn, and Kat make a band, a pact, lose each other, and drag VHS secrets into adulthood. Riot grrrl vibes, forest weirdness, charged friendships, past waiting in the trees.Other related games discussion welcome!
>Official Websites:https://lifeisstrange.com/https://dont-nod.com/en/>Life is Strange Series Steam:https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36149206>Lost Records Series Steam:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902960>/lisg/ Permalink:http://orph.link/lisg>FAQs, Old Threads/Strawpolls, Soundtrack/Music & Leaks:http://orph.link/lisgarchive>/lisg/ Community Written Fan Fiction:http://orph.link/story>Compilation of Fanfics:http://orph.link/fanfic>/lisg/ Content Producers:http://imgur.com/a/DOAKn>Art of LiS:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=265yHETXRXo [Open] [Embed]>/lis/ sings:Obstacleshttps://web.archive.org/web/20200324102651/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjPsOkijFh0Glass Wallshttps://www.mediafire.com/file/1y584yhvq5p2y35/Glass+walls+lisg+edition.mp3No Belowhttps://www.mediafire.com/file/cpi79dyuahemkd4/Lisg+sings+no+below+all+v.mp3
>>570749265>later that day
Stop dying.
>>570755852>Stop dyingthe latest pissfield game completely killed off whatever interest was left in the franchise. no wonder the thread keeps dying
>>570750147Cute
>>570755852I want to be Kat's brother-in-law
>>570755852No more lost records. No more Dylan. Sad face.
>>570764808No more games are coming. People lose interest. Weird how that happens.
>>570776367In light of yesterday's stats on fandom fragmentation and how little the player bases of each game actually overlap, it’s glaringly obvious that pandering exclusively to the pissfielders in the latest game was the exact catastrophic mistake that caused this dead end
>>570782467>Pandering was the mistake>fails from the very games following the first LiSits so obvious this never should have been a franchise.
>>570782467It's not just your obsession with Pricefield as a fanboy in the closet, it's the fact LiS was not designed to be a franchise type of game
>>570782467Really grim the way things turn out when you pander to a small subset of fans that can never be pleased.
>>570787316Most seems pretty content
>>570782467Yep, that's pretty much it. The baffling part is that SE absolutely had to know these overlap numbers beforehand. The decision behind Reunion can literally be chalked up to nothing but pure idiocy>>570787316That's another fatal mistake. Pandering to that crowd always leads to a grim ending
>>570787316>>570790321Grim. Sure is grim. Grim. Grim.
>>570790321What confuses me so much now is the fact that they didn't do anything for those who bought True Colors, the books and comics notwithstanding. I remember it just barely breaking even but that's still a sizable amount of people they should've tried to bring back as well.
>>570791548The books and comics sold poorly
>>570791548I think they're >>570792402 right. The fact that the game barely broke even, combined with the low sales of the tie-in merchandise, finally convinced them that they had to make a game with Max. From a commercial standpoint, that choice was actually justified, since only she had the pull to get people to pay attention to the game in the first place.The real issue is that the execution was completely butchered. Instead of fully investing into making this specific game as good as possible, they wasted resources on what they envisioned as stepping stones for a soft reboot pipeline. As a result, they cut and castrated this exact game, leaving a lot of ideas, mechanics, and features completely unimplemented
>>570793673From what I can see if they had made a game that would have made Pricefielders happy from the start the franchise might have survived. Like it or not, you need every sale. Especially when no one is buying narrative games these days
>>570794950And they really should have added characters from the previous games in DE. Victoria from the OG, and Riley from TC. That would have attracted people from all of the bases
>>570794950If they had managed to keep them happy as part of the broader audience, then yeah, obviously, the chances would've increased. But making only them happy would never have been enough, for obvious reasons.That's exactly why I thought they would just add some fanservice into the sequel to DE, but sequester it into a completely separate route that wouldn't affect the rest of the game. Instead, they handled it in the most idiotic way possible. And well, the outcome speaks for itself
>Don't Nod actually dying by November if their next game isn't a hitQuick, pitch Lost Records 2
>>570790321>The decision behind Reunion can literally be chalked up to nothing but pure idiocyFollowing the poor story behind DE wouldn't have been a success either without any major changes. The fault is all on SE wasting so much money on a two parter story, but then not willing to just reboot the second part from the ground up rather than making a shitty low effort course correction
>>570800345SE stopped caring the moment DE failed. They put zero effort into the series afterwards. They had already written it off as a loss, even though it was one of their one making.
>>570799856Not lesbian walking simulator. That doesn't seem to work
>>570795543That wouldn't work and you know it. But it wouldn't be that hard to make both groups happy. Try and do the story of DE, just better and integrate Chloe in it somehow. Drop Vinh and Amanda as LI as they weren't popular.
>>570817705>integrate Chloe in it somehow. Drop Vinh and Amanda as LI as they weren't popular.Well, in the end, they actually performed better than she did.
>>570819697So good that they were essentially dropped from the sequel
>>570821623Because the decision regarding the sequel was made completely ignoring the actual player base, and that disconnect naturally reflected in the grim outcome
>>570819697There is virtually no difference between the games in sales numbers or ratings. Only differences is that Reunion has good reviews from the players. And they brought nothing by being added
>>570823939Love this new cope.
>>570823939>There is virtually no difference between the games in sales numbersA 2.5x difference is "no difference"?>Reunion has good reviews from the playersGood reviews only from shippers, you mean>And they brought nothing by being addedYeah, as if she added so much value herself. Just look at the massive wave of hype surrounding Reunion right now - it’s literally all anyone is talking about
>>570825570>A 2.5x difference is "no difference"?Source not found
>>570823021Which playerbase? There wasn't any hard majority of people that cared about Amanda, let alone Vinh
>>570827001The source is literally every single aggregator out there>>570827964Obviously the one that showed up in bigger numbers to buy a game featuring them as love interests, rather than a glorified pricefield fanfic
>>570828447>Obviously the one that showed up in bigger numbersDE flopped hard, they weren't enough to save the series
>>570828720RE flopped even harder
>>570828447>The source is literally every single aggregator out thereSo you failed math. Fair enough
>>570819697>they actually performed better than she did>>570828447>Obviously the one that showed up in bigger numbers to buy a game featuring them as love interests, rather than a glorified pricefield fanficHonestly, I love stumbling upon their old posts where they were circlejerking over DE's low numbers, screaming that it happened because their precious fave didn't get enough respect or screen time - only for life to come at them fast.Like that brain-dead chlorefag Adnan. Back in February, he was openly mocking other characters, bragging about how his fave was gonna steal all their screen time. Cut to March, and he's completely seething and blaming DE for the total, pathetic failure of her comeback
>>570830994This fucking guy lmao. Definitely in the Top 5 of pissfielders lolcows.
>>570830994>>570832340Holy ravioli you guys truly are seething hard. DE flopped, RE flopped, both games are trash and you can't get them out of your head because you loved the DE slop and you can't accept both SE and D9 acted like the spineless bitches they are kek
>>570830994
>>570833704>nobody even mentioning that they liked DE>"Y-You like D-DE and s-slop"This fucking guy
>>570833813>>570833981you act like a married couple. weirdo behaviour
>>570833981More to that, no one in their right mind has ever expected anything competent or consistent from SE, and literally nobody has ever viewed D9 as an independent actor
That someone would be this obsessed over DE is just insane.
>>570835225Yeah, it’s been literally two years since the announcement and you're still seething
>>570835225Pretty tame compared to shitfielders in all honesty.
>>570828447>Obviously the one that showed up in bigger numbers bigger numbers that couldn't reach TC number with fucking Max Caulfield returning
>>570840163>bigger numbers that couldn't reach TC number with fucking Max Caulfield returningOG sells 10+ million copies. Her return sells less than 200k in two years. Have there ever been a bigger fall from grace?
can we talk about kate marsh instead
>>570842947She should remain white
>>570842947she intentionally had sex with the guys then tried to blame dem drugs
>>570845108go away mark jefferson
>>570842947America's Sweetheart
>>570843149White is right
>>570842627It should have come out five years ago
wake up
>>570840163well, chlorine's return fell even shorter of reaching those numbers. what’s your point exactly?>>570842627this decline was preceded by 10 years of franchise stagnation, with every subsequent game selling less than the previous one. if you want a real 'bigger fall from grace', look at BtS - it sold 7 times worse than the game before it. there has never been a sharper drop within this franchise
>>570842947They're never going to live down Nigger Marsh.
>>570891992>it sold 7 times worse than the game before it. there has never been a sharper drop within this franchiseBtS didn't had a 30 million dollars budget and on top of that it made enough money back to convince SE to keep investing in them as a cheap studio for making LiS titles
>>570899482>BtS didn't had a 30 million dollars budgetBecause it didn’t have to do the heavy lifting of R&D, creating assets for several games ahead (a burden that fell entirely on LiS2), character design, or building most of the locations from scratch - pretty much exactly like RE>it made enough money back to convince SE to keep investing in them as a cheap studio for making LiS titlesAnd that is exactly what became the beginning of the end for the entire franchise
>>570903354LR really is just lost potential
>>570903354Interesting thing about DE and Reunion is that most who bought those games did not buy LR. Only 31 and 33 percent bought it. So slightly more Reunion players bought it, but not really a meaningful number.
>>570817705>That wouldn't work and you know it.Incorrect. That was actually the only viable way to achieve higher sales than DE.>But it wouldn't be that hard to make both groups happy.Pray tell, who exactly are you including in this second group?>Try and do the story of DE, just better and integrate Chloe in it somehow.That is precisely what they did. They gutted the narrative threads that were meant to serve as a continuous overarching plot for future installments, and then crammed her into what was left of the script. And, predictably enough, it all ended in a complete and utter disaster>Drop Vinh and Amanda as LI as they weren't popular.The love interests from the previous game naturally had to stay for a multitude of painfully obvious reasons
>>570909213Its so funny how you have been in permanent pain after Amanda and Vinh was thrown into the trash. Mostly Amanda I would guess, because no one cares about Vinh. If Amanda was gone from DE it would change nothing, if Vinh was part of DE but not a romance option he would just be a character people hated.
>>570909464I couldn’t care less about either of them. Romance options are always major choices. Leaving a choice-based game without its major choices is a surefire way to guarantee a flop - especially when you are already forced to cut continuity just to wrap up the entire franchise.You only need to turn your shipper brain on for a single second to understand why Reunion failed so miserably
>>570909213>The love interests from the previous game naturally had to stay for a multitude of painfully obvious reasonsMaybe for you, but since D9 has no artistic integrity or vision and is mostly a bitch to whatever SE says, they were more than happy to ditch them
>>570910009>Maybe for youNot for me. It's an industry standard for choice-based games. Romantic pathways dictate core branching, affect character endings, and drive player engagement metrics
>>570910409Stop trying to sugar coat it with "m-muh industry!" we all know you are here seething because your fave got shafted by D9 being what they are.
>>570910593He really can't help himself. He's obsessed over Amanda. So many good characters out there and he picks such a boring one.
>>570910593There is a very good reason I suggested you turn off your terminal shipper brainrot at the very beginning of this conversation. Clearly, that is a cognitive feat far beyond your capabilities.As a result, the fact that the 'fix' you've been whining for failed spectacularly even when compared to an already underperforming game is destined to remain a perpetual source of your psychological trauma
>>570908982Dontnod really needs to focus on making games and find a publisher. Their add game is just sad to behold
>>570910921Their brains literally can’t function any other way. Just look at that dumbass Adnan >>570830994 if the game flops, it’s because his precious fave wasn’t in it. If the game with her flops even harder, it’s because she wasn’t in the previous one. Everything with these clowns always boils down to pathetic shipping.>>570912274>Dontnod really needs to focus on making games and find a publisherYep, and we already damn well know exactly how that's gonna end.
>>570912274It's really too late for dontnod. November isn't that far away
>>570912529The problem with Adnan is his genuinely substandard intellect. People here used to ironically mock those who couldn't grasp the narrative nuances by referencing 'Adnan-level brainpower', but after actually reading his twitter, it becomes clear that it wasn't an exaggeration. He literally parrots the exact same talking points as teenage girls in the fandom, entirely oblivious to how ridiculous he looks. Yet, his pretentiousness remains intact, as he genuinely fancies himself to be doing actual journalism
>>570913870Why aren't you doing better journo work than Adnan then? You could surpass him if you made a profile of aggregator news LiS related
>>570915068>Classic demagogueryAdnan-level brainpower
>>570915814No really, if you do better than him you should attempt to find your place in the community rather than being isolated into the /lisg/ echochamber
>>570912274They are still working on the Netflix game, so at the very best they are going to layoff tons of people in Paris to keep that project going
>>570916313>The "do it yourself" fallacy>The critic's fallacy>WhataboutismLooks like the /lisg/ echo chamber is doing a solid job of protecting you from being exposed as someone even more brain-dead than Adnan
>>570917114Anon, just stop being stuck here and go out in the broader LiS community. You clealry have enough arguments to demolish Adnan and replace him, and it would be a net positive
>>570917354lmao, there is nothing to 'demolish'. nobody's watching him or reading his crap anyway
>>570917354Is there anyone else who primarily covers LiS like Adnan? It's been so long since there was a good game that I can't imagine there's much competition.
>>570925427calling it covering is a massive overstatement. he's just a generic content leech and a pissfag on top of that
>>570925659>pissfagYou are obsessed with Pricefield, almost like a Pricefield fan stole your car or burned your house
sex with rachel cosplayers
>>570927015That's literally Rachel Amber holy shit
>>570925659Yeah, he's a content aggregator, which I would still call covering but not journalism.
>>570927015Face is too plain. She’d be a much better fit cosplaying one of those high school sluts from the first game. Dana, or the other one, forgot her name.
>>570927460sorry you cant see the vision bro
I think Dana's underrated. I would've stepped up.
well /lisg/?
>>570929841She was born that way.
>>570929841She's not lame
>>570927460better than the actual casting though
>>570931552She could have been Chloe
>>570931552Jesus...
>>570931552still would ngl
>>570934098>picks 5 feet 2 Maisy Stella to play 5 ft 9 Chloe PriceI can't help but seethe a little
>>570936017keep seething
tatum's pretty cute
>>570936017Its a tv show, her height won't be an issue with lifter shoes and the correct camera angles
>>570931552you know for sure that pussy be stankin
>>570936596They're not going to bother, don't kid yourself.
>>570830994That's not even the funniest part. When the first brutal review dropped, he immediately made a post about it as usual. And right there in the replies, those cultists started whining like, 'who could even write a review like this, it must be a hater!' They had absolutely no idea what was coming for them, lmao>>570910858Anon, a fictional girl has been living rent-free in your head for 2 straight years.Seek help
>>570948373You are the one seething about her. We are just happy that Max and Chloe got their happy ending
>>570952870keep seething
>>570917052Yeah, right. Tell Michel to hit me up when he runs out of lunch money. I saved a few bucks by not buying Flop Records
>>570936017She's just the wrong person to play Chloe
Raoul Barbet has just left Don't Nod, he was the co-director with Michel on both LiS1 and 2
>>570961917Took him that long? He hasn't done any Dontnod related work since being consultant for Jusant back in 2023
>>570956821I don't know why you're lying about not owning Lost Records.
>>570961917The heck you talking, he left years ago to prioritize his cinematic studio,
>You're reading ________ x F!Reader >You're a cis man and you're reading ________ x F!Reader
>>570687287The fic is "inside our heads" by semidark.https://archiveofourown.org/works/4456538
we dyin?
>>571006816Yes, the anti-pricefield seething isn't enough to keep threads up and most Pricefielders (and shippers in general) seem to have left based on the little images that are now posted
>>570996106He left in May, Google it.
>>571007328looks more like that last pricefield fanfiction game completely killed off whatever interest was left
>>571007676Did you wake up early today? Usually you don't get started for a few more hours.
>>571007859the main thing is that you’re ready to seethe at any time of day
>>571007676I think its more likely your posting has driven off any user who wants genuine discussions about the franchise.
>>571010423I posite that pricefield shippers are pathologically incapable of engaging in substantive discourse, a limitation inherent to the very architecture of the shipping mindset.
>>571011336alright then, let's NOT talk about Pricefield. What do you think the next Lost Records should be about?
>>571010423Oh hey where have I seen that before...
>>571011336I have yet to see any substantive discourse from you.
>>571011906They can't, because their mindset is always dead set on spite against pricefielders, they can't help themselves
>>571014204You are living in a world of your own making. Seek help.
>>571011424It should have Dylan as a supportive older character to keep continuity with the first game, but also a new main character who's somewhat related to her and explore more of Velvet Cove
>>571011424they should ditch lost records and make a game about kindred matthews
>>571015715Yes. It shouldn't directly carry on with Swann etc, but should definitely tie in and provide some closure.
>>571017472Why not carry on with Swann? They really need to learn that keeping the same characters and setting would help them, instead of asking people to invest in brand new characters each time
>>571011336It should be about Dylan trying to save her sister
>>571025347They can always do the Alan Wake 2 thing and have 50% Swann in the Abyss, 50% new MC in Velvet Cove for the next game
>>571032431Yep, exactly like the original concept for DE2
>>571032431That would work
>>571040930Then why did you think it wouldn't work in DE2?
>>571041198Because the other character had to be Chloe, no wait that didn't work. Because DE flopped and there was no audience for it, no wait that's not right. Because SE and D9 no backbone slop, no wait that's not it either. Huh, guess it could've worked.
>>571044649
>>571046570I love this hag so much.
>>571044649>DE flopped and there was no audience for it>SE and D9 no backbone slopyou got the correct answers. Nobody cared about Diamond and the post credit scene was one of the most criticized aspect of DE as it seemed like Life is Strange was turning into a knockoff MCU
>>571048310>Nobody cared about DiamondWell, Reunion's numbers clearly proved that nobody gave a shit about Chlorine either, yet you were desperately begging them to shove her into the sequel like a cheap plug>the post credit scene was one of the most criticized aspect of DETrue, but it’s equally true that, right after complaints about the technical status of this piece of trash, the most frequent question in Reunion's comment section is why Diamond’s storyline and the related arcs were completely abandoned>it seemed like Life is Strange was turning into a knockoff MCUThis is a long-debunked bs
>>571046570Asking Professor Caulfield for an extension on the final
>>571049214You really are delusional if you think anyone would have cared about Diamond. I mean over 50 percent of the people who bought Reunion didn't even play DE. The idea that you could have pushed out some game with Max and Diamond to set up even more games and it would have sold is just delusional. I want you to say that you think it would have sold more. Just to prove how delusional you are
>>571058342Anon, you must be a complete idiot if you genuinely think this is specifically about Diamond or her popularity. It's about continuity.The fact that over 50% of the people who bought Reunion didn't even play DE, while the game itself still sold several times worse, means only one thing: the entire pivot concept was an absolute failure. They essentially discarded the vast majority of DE's player base overnight by offering them zero incentive to stay, and they naturally failed to replace them numerically with newcomers or old-fandom shoppers who showed up strictly for the fanservice.As a grim result, the concept of Max plus a new cast and universe expansion has already proven its commercial superiority over the concept of "fanservice for the sake of fanservice." Reunion's disastrous numbers have officially delivered a mathematical death sentence to Chlorine as a commercial brand - her return failed to capture even half of the audience that DE commanded
>>571060726>As a grim result, the concept of Max plus a new cast and universe expansion has already proven its commercial superiorityDE was a huge flop, it bombed and its the whole reason SE and D9 switched back to Reunion. You are so obsessed in your spite fueled hatred for Chloe and Pricefield you cant even imagine why a similar project went as badly as it did
>Don't Nod confirmed ngmi past 2026 without some sort of miraclei thought y'all bought Lost Records what
>>571062116Only 31% of the people who bought DE bought LR. For Reunion its 33%.
>>571062116They still have the Montreal team working on Netflix stuff, I unfortunately expect layoffs and who knows if the next game will be enough
>>571061750>DE was a huge flop>you cant even imagine why a similar project went as badly as it didYour mental gymnastics are fascinating. And all of this just to defend your fave's honor
Lost Records would've infinitely better if Nora took cock
>>571062858She did but the guy was so bad at it turned her off it. Gonna need Gus to let her see the light.
>>571062858Like, cut a dude's cock off?
>>571062858Nora likes pussy, redhead pussy
>>571062705It doesn't take a genius to see that DE flopping the way it did, and SE/D9 being as spineless as they are, did a 180 on their original plans
>>571071541And that was precisely the mistake, because RE flopped even harder
>>571071882Continuing the original plans wouldn't have been better than RE, but keep seething
>>571072463That is a purely hypothetical scenario. In reality, your fave’s return lost to that exact direction by several times over. That is precisely why you can’t seem to calm down here
>>571072761Why does Chloe and Pricefield triggers you so hard? You've been doing this for a year and more, its getting tiresome
>>571072761it's not though. Multiple people who's only experience with the franchise was LiS and DE played DE and expressed their disappointment with the game.
>>571073415Couldn’t care less about either of them, I only care about the results. I’ve always said that pricefield is overrated garbage that would eventually tank the entire franchise, and I was proven right. And I finally have the hard data to prove everything I’ve been saying all along
>>571073617Hmmm I wonder what they were disappointed with...
>>571074387You only see what you want to see. You have been told multiple times that DE have been out longer and had some pretty major sales and had the bonus of being the return of Max
>>571073617that's not true. even if you look at steam user reviews without filtering out the blatant review-bombing, 7 out of 10 people still liked the game. and if you filter out those who played for less than an hour, the rating safely climbs to mostly positive
>>571074782My guess is, with the fact that their fave wasn't shoved into the "absolute worst game" of the franchise, lol
>>571075238>if you remove the people who dislike the game from the steam reviews, the game is actually likedkindergarden logic
>>571075992I could tell
>>571074934Ah, my favorite excuses are rolling in. What happened to that 'pricefield sells' crap? Why on earth would pricefield suddenly need years of deep sales just to surpass the 'worst game that nobody liked'? Make it make sense
>>571076237your reading comprehension is utterly abysmal. i explicitly said filtering out people with less than an hour of playtime - meaning bots and review-bombers
>>571075238Honestly, reading those negative reviews just helps to remind me of the level of maturity of the general gaming populace. I keep forgetting there's literal balding millennials with Adnan-tier brainpower along with a younger generation afflicted with the same thing.
>>571071384Swann is for Kat only
>>571077365Look at that, a wholesome moment - shipping truly unites generations. Too bad it only unites the low-IQ ones.Honestly, I had the exact same impression from reading through that garbage, unfortunately
just say chloe is bisexual on twitter and you get impressions out the ass
>>571077250Reviewbombs means people would have to buy the game in mass, and you can't do that as reliably with Steam, and bots gets cleaned up once in a while, so it's not an argument to take seriously. As a whole, DE gets the review it got because it's not a particualry good game, and it wasn't really liked outside of the echochamber that like it
>>571077365>noooo my double exposurino cope and seethe slop consumer
>>571088574But I didn't consume reunion.
>page 10
Pricefielders killed the franchise
>>571107526Square Enix are not Pricefielders.
>>571109739Pricefielders still killed the franchise with it’s boring garbage ship.
>>571110701You should have bought 2 and True Colors, anon.
>>571088407Trying to construct a 'logical' defense of your fanfic, you are just denying reality. The quantitative data regarding negative reviews is well-known, as is the exact mechanism behind how they are manipulated. In this context, your mention of Steam purging bots is hilarious, especially since the moment you were offered to manually filter out that exact garbage (users with less than an hour of playtime), you immediately threw a tantrum.Your 'echo chamber' point is also comical. No matter how many flaws DE might have, it is clearly not a 1/10 or 3/10 game, or whatever absurd scores the shippers bombed it with. Likewise, RE is nowhere near a 90% positive game, because it is objectively a lower-quality product. Hard sales figures are precisely what represents an exit from the echo chamber - it's the real world, where games appealing to different audiences perform in direct opposition to their artificial ratings
>>571121536no lies detected
>>571121536DE & RE are both 4/10 games. There just that bad coasting of the success of the first game. DE shamelessly reusing plot lines from the original without doing anything to improve of make them different. RE by bringing back Chloe for the nostalgia pop. Still not as bad as LiS2 which is Dontnod completely misunderstanding who the people who ended up being the target demo for the franchise ended up becoming.You can disagree and be wrong that's your choice.
>>571121536And no matter how many times people tell you there is no meaningful differences in sales between the games you will stick to that because that is all you have
>>571126863what people? what the hell are you even talking about, you clown? all the data is available to everyone. the fact is, the pricefield fanfic sold several times worse than the 'most terrible and unpopular' game in the franchise. and that's all there is to it
>>571129547Please, give it time. In a few years the sales will be almost equal!
>>571130083Pathetic. There isn’t a single shred left of all that 'only Pricefield sells' bravado
>>571130295You are so obsessed with Pricefield you might just be as mentally insane as those ones
>>571126009The biggest mistake remains LiS2. It really was a sign that dontnod failed to understand the audience and when they finally wanted to do a franchise again it was 10 years too late
>>571134023LiS2 is solid, but trying your second game in the series to be as different as possible from what people liked about the first game is a huge risk. I wonder if things were different if they just established Life is Strange as a one off, and made the next game with a full different title
Tell Me Why should've been Life is Strange 2 imho
>>571151246True
>>571141075I thought something similar, that it would have been better if they used a different title even if it was still the same world. Square wanted a franchise, though, so I don't think it would have been an option.
Its a bit sad that we are not getting anymore Life is Strange games
>>571151518Final Fantasy (another Square Enix anthology) took like three games before they experimented with the story format with Final Fantasy IV.Don't Nod should've stuck closer to formula before doing their road movie. Tell Me Why should've been LIS2. Twin Mirror could've been LIS3.And that's before the fucked up episode scheduling.
>>571160397I genuinely think 2 is a really good game, but you're right that it wasn't the right sequel in a business sense. I think Don't Nod looks at the core of the first game as a coming-of-age story, which fits LiS2 as well, it's just that wasn't the full fan perception. A lot of them were looking for stories about girls/young women and romance. That's a rare situation to find yourself in in the gaming industry. I wouldn't be shocked if Square had suggested a game about boys for the sequel.
>>571159947I'm happy we are not getting corporate slopified Life is Strange games
>>571161457>I think Don't Nod looks at the core of the first game as a coming-of-age story, which fits LiS2 as well, it's just that wasn't the full fan perception. A lot of decisions make sense in LiS2 when you look it from the perspective of the devs looking back at the core of LiS1 and trying to do something that is opposite in many ways but still keeping the coming of age angle.
Don't Nod really wasted time with Vampyr instead of going straight into Life is Strange 2
>>571162886The fact that their contrarian impulse led to a good game is pretty impressive.
>>571171521What do you mean. That game sold better
>>571186139Well yeah, because it’s a better game
Bump
>>571193913How did they waste time if it's a better game
>>571110701This
>>571208830could've spent more time developing LIS2 so that the episodes came out on time
science and faith (warren + kate) will save /lisg/
>>571239550They are both black now
>>571246074At least they’re not as clapped as the ones they cast for the main roles
>>571246074That's why they are a perfect match
>>571246539Tatum is cute tho
Plebbis is seething over DE again, fag ass frankcp is seething over stauder. Showing up in this fandom once every few months was definitely the right call, literally nothing changes here, lol
What I find interesting is how few people from the Before the Storm days are still around. Only about 8% of those who bought Before the Storm ended up buying Double Exposure. That's an enormous drop-off over time. Honestly, I can understand why they decided to bring Max back. Anyone looking at those numbers must have been panicking.
Honestly it's interesting to see Don't Nod fans realize a harsh truth in 2026 that the Kamen Rider franchise learned in 2005: critical acclaim means nothing if it doesn't make enough to make your next project.
>>571255737>frankcpKek, kinda weird he's not shilling his mods for reunion here which are awful. I remember him seething, saying he won't buy it. Guess that didn't take.
>>571255862that 8% drop-off isn't surprising at all. BtS was precisely the game that marked the beginning of the end for the franchise. a large number of people still bought it purely out of inertia - despite the fact that it already represented a seven-fold drop compared to the original game - but the vast majority of them had no intention of sticking around long-term. BtS made them realize that the magic was simply gone
>>571256461Before the storm didn't stand a chance, 2017 game releases were stacked relative to that bum ass mobile game.
>>571256417Well yeah, they made him cry like the little bitch he is
>>571255737The same five people complaining over and over again doesn't really count. Unemployed English majors have to find something to do with their time.
>>571257048>>571256417>>571255737Pointless drama between a dumb modder and a SE shill. Captain Loren will do anything to try and get attention
>>571257048LMAO. Well, to his credit, that description is literally what happened to her in the end. Pottery.
>>571257141Said the same two anons defending DE on a 4chan board when the rest of the world is like >>571255862 moved on from D9's slop>>571256461BtS was profitable enough to give SE the incentive to push D9 in making more LiS games, drop off or not.
>>571257419The fanfic with your fave's return flopped. Keep seething
>>571257419>now admits the world just doesn't care for blue-haired bpd cases in video gamesHold on now, what happened to that big pricefield community that the first game developed?
>>571257048He's responding like a mature person and this person is trying to create drama. Lol. Try harder
>>571257815keep seething, frank
>>571257815>pretends to be "mature" when his username is visible>seethes like a petulant child when on herekek whatever you say frank
>>571257267The point is, if captain Loren of all fucking people can make someone cry and post excuses, that guy is a massive pussy. In any decent place, that kind of spineless behavior wouldn't just get a man's face beaten in - people would literally piss on him on top of it, and they’d be absolutely right
>>571257141pretty much, yeah
>>571258232What is wrong with these people
>>571258338Terminal pricefield brain rot
anyone play Until Then
>>571258232He says with -2. Grow up uncle. DE sucks and Pricefield is pretty rad. But time to find work and stop spending your time like this
>>571257883>>571257939I'm not Frank. But he's a cool guy. Captain Loren on the other hand has been going on for a year about how the Life is Strange fanbase needs to be kinder. Was this kind? No. Lol.
>>571261767sure, frank. sure.
I’m NOT Frank and I’m totally NOT seething!!
>>571258232This is so cringe
>>571258078You seem like you are getting an hard on on your kinks>>571257815This. She's a drama hungry cunt, and now that LiS is over she has to find something else to leech, and drama slop is the easy low effort way
