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King_Moc

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Eurgh, stop complaining everyone. Why on earth would you want them to just remake the first game anyway?
 

El Toporo

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I'll give it a chance since Life Is Strange completely blew me away, but I would be lying if I said that the reveal didn't put a damper on my hype.
 

Hadok

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it looks great.
yeah that too but eh, too early to say if there will be recurring supporting cast or not. I do hope so.

"As Sean and Daniel travel towards Mexico, they will meet an entirely new cast of characters and pass through numerous new settings."

maybe they will pass through Arcadia Bay ;)
 
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I was wondering why the thread blew up, and seeing that mod post in the OP as well as the pages of arguing makes me realize what I think a LiS game is about and what I love about it is really different than what some of the fervent fanbase gets out of the game.

This game has such an uphill climb for me. LiS is one of my favorite games, I love the writing and characters, the setting, but I really want something new and to be wowed again. Lightning doesn't strike twice, and seeing this in the Pacific North West again, with the reddit leak someone posted a while ago referencing certain characters and locations, I just wanted a clean break (which, again, reading through the tread puts me as an outlier of the fanbase). And, with at least this trailer being focused as on the road with only these two characters, I'm worried we won't have a large and detailed supporting cast; seriously, the supporting cast made LiS for me. I can't think of any other game other than Mass Effect where I can name so many characters and give you their story/background.

I'm rooting for the game, and even if I don't get out of it what I got from LiS, which is probably impractical, I'm looking forward to it all. That said, I can't decided if I'm going to wait until it's all done and play, or play the episodes as they release this time.

I'll say, I liked the music in the trailer, and visually it's a step up from LiS. (If there's one thing I wouldn't mind coming back for this game is the musical themes. They were so great.)
 

alpha

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limit one (1) woman per universe

I don't feel like this is quite a fair thing to say yet. If LiS had like 6 games and all of them were about men except for the first game then sure, but so far we are at two female leads (Max in LiS and Chloe in BtS) to one male lead (Sean in LiS2).

I think it's okay for them to make an LiS game about a guy, and it might even end up being a more refreshing take on the usual male main characters we see, given how well they approached a female lead.
 

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Did anyone actually read the blog as well as watching the trailer?

The main characters of Life is Strange 2 are brothers Sean (16) and Daniel Diaz (9), two brothers living a fairly normal life in Seattle, Washington state. Following a tragic event, their lives are forever changed. Now on the run from the police and threatened with both separation and incarceration, Sean decides to take his younger brother and seek a better life in their family's home town of Puerto Lobos, Mexico.

At a time when Mexico gets hammered thanks to American exceptionalism and racists (insert Trump comment), maybe it's an interesting concept to be painting Mexico as the place to "seek a better life"? How many games represent Mexico? How many games try to tackle what might be police brutality/unfairness?

Imagine being one of the devs working on this and having to browse this topic with a big red warning and people (arguably) unfairly tearing your project to shreds just because it isn't necessarily about romantic relationships?

Man, poor show Era. You can display some lack of interest in something without being so hyperbolic/toxic.
 

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Did anyone actually read the blog as well as watching the trailer?



At a time when Mexico gets hammered thanks to American exceptionalism and racists (insert Trump comment), maybe it's an interesting concept to be painting Mexico as the place to "seek a better life"? How many games represent Mexico? How many games try to tackle what might be police brutality/unfairness?

Imagine being one of the devs working on this and having to browse this topic with a big red warning and people (arguably) unfairly tearing your project to shreds just because it isn't necessarily about romantic relationships?

Man, poor show Era. You can display some lack of interest in something without being so hyperbolic/toxic.

Good post
 
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