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Release Dates for Remaining Three Life is Strange 2 Episodes Announced
- Thread starter NeoRaider
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Yeah the amount of time between episodes is pretty ridiculous. Feel a little burned buying it on day one.
Damn can't really fuck with those gaps. Probably just gonna replay Episode 1 and check out the rest in December
Really weird how it's taking that long. Hopefully the additional delay is because they need to create new environments for each episode or something.
I can see the original LIS games being easier to do in a timely manner because of location re-use. If this one re-uses anything, though.. boy.
I can see the original LIS games being easier to do in a timely manner because of location re-use. If this one re-uses anything, though.. boy.
How has this one been received? I feel like there's been a lot less talk about it than with the first season and BTS
Glad to know in advance at least and I've been enjoying LiS2 thus far, but woof, that's some wait.
The episodes are longer, the assets are better, and the game has an overall larger scope (doesn't take place in the same environments, doesn't feature the same characters from episode to episode, etc.). What LiS1 has over LiS2 in scale was the time manipulation, and how the game had to account for your ability to use it at any moment and for some puzzles.
Very well. But the big gap between episodes is part of the reason there's been less talk about this than when Life is Strange 1 really picked up in terms of word of mouth.
The thing with Life Is Strange 1 and Before the Storm is that they recycled a lot of the environments, but this is a road trip so they have to keep building unique sets. I think the vision for this project has just outstripped the actual realities of what's possible within the confines of the episodic model.
It doesn't help that Telltale collapsed since this debuted and it hasn't really resonated with fans of the original. (Even though I think the first two episodes have been excellent!)
It doesn't help that Telltale collapsed since this debuted and it hasn't really resonated with fans of the original. (Even though I think the first two episodes have been excellent!)
I would say the game itself has been fairly well received, but a lot of things outside the game (price increase, much longer wait between episodes, Telltale collapse etc) has led to fewer people talking about it over longer stretches of time.
Pretty much this, yeah. Also, despite being a road trip story, the scale of the game is still largely small and intimate, which makes the longer waits feel somewhat inexplicable, even if they're totally justified on the development side.
Should have just released it non episodic at this point, It's hard to maintain interest in an ongoing story with such gaps in playing.
Last epsiode arrives on my birthday.
Guess i know what im playing around then. But jeez 15 months is too much. Just release the game as a whole ackage
Guess i know what im playing around then. But jeez 15 months is too much. Just release the game as a whole ackage
That's not bad. Nevertheless, the wait seems too long. I usually fool around in games like that, but even I won't spend a whole three months finishing a single episode.
Hot damn, those gaps.
I was a huge fan of Season 1 and Before the Storm, but haven't jumped into S2 yet... and seeing that schedule I probably won't until the final episode is reasonably close at least.
I understand the game is a lot more work to produce as production values went up a lot and all that, but just for me personally, such huge pauses between episodes would be too much. Feels like I'd forget half the decisions I've made and the things that happened. ;)
Good on them for putting out a schedule though.
I was a huge fan of Season 1 and Before the Storm, but haven't jumped into S2 yet... and seeing that schedule I probably won't until the final episode is reasonably close at least.
I understand the game is a lot more work to produce as production values went up a lot and all that, but just for me personally, such huge pauses between episodes would be too much. Feels like I'd forget half the decisions I've made and the things that happened. ;)
Good on them for putting out a schedule though.
I don't mind the wait too much. LiS 2 has, at least from a technically level, really impressed so far and I think this is still a reasonable time frame to release all the episodes within. I imagine i'll play each episode as they release, and then replay 1-4 right before 5 comes out and do a big marathon.
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I understand that. But SE should have waited more before releasing first episode. Releasing first episode while having next 2 almost finished should have been their priority.
It's been "well-received", but honestly I don't think the story and characters are grabbing an audience like the first one did. They took a big risk doing something totally different from LiS 1 and BtS and I don't think it's paying off.
The first one in particular had a lot of replay value with using the rewind mechanic in different ways. Season 2 just doesn't have that.
I mean I am totally fine with the developers taking their time and not rushing anything. It's not as though there aren't tons of other great games coming out to occupy ones time with.
The first episode was really solid. Although it feels like more of a slow burn then the original, the storytelling feels vastly more mature and elevated.
The first episode was really solid. Although it feels like more of a slow burn then the original, the storytelling feels vastly more mature and elevated.
If they can hold to that schedule, better to get out in front of it and announce it now, but those gaps are disappointingly large, and it being so far off makes me even more skeptical they can actually hit it. And I'm sure there are good reasons why it's taking so long, but if feel like they need to be better about communicating what is making a game that does not feel substantially more complex than LiS1 take so much longer
they're doing a really good job so I'm not upset. there are more than enough good games in the mean time
loool. I got the game very cheap at least cus there was no way i was paying $40 for it. However having to wait for over more than a year to play it is some straight up bullshit.
The game looks good at least.
The game looks good at least.
