Who would you cast for the show?

Who would you cast for the show?

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Doesn't matter who you cast, as one of them will be replaced with a mm-hmm das rite black girl.

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probably the main character since making it a deuteragonist or a side character would be "discrimination"

Bleach and ammonia

Funny, they will tell you to come here.

>This literal plebtier "feels" tumbrl bullshit of a "game"
Bleach and cyanide

i see you never played it

It's always incredibly obvious when someone hasn't played the game.

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I played it. It was trash.

The writing was atrocious and tried WAY too hard to be "relatable to teens XD" and don't get me started on how terrible the antagonists are.

>"Wow what a twist, Mr. Jefferson was EVIL all along!"

What a fucking joke this game is.

>Can't even reply properly.
>Reddit spacing.
>"tried WAY too hard to be "relatable to teens XD"
Oh, so you're just plain retarded. I can accept that.

Danny Wallace as Jefferson, he looks just like him.

He looks like the beta version of Jefferson. Jefferson is actually hot. Take it from an autist who has watched the game streamed roughly 200+ times. Every girl thinks Jefferson is hot. Danny Wallace falls short. Maybe if he got fit.

At least I'm not butthurt over a shitty tumblr-bait game.

Out of curiosity - why do you think the game is good? I legitimately can't comprehend how one can have such bad taste.

Not him, but I played the game and while it has some nice ideas overall it has incredibly laughable writing and every character is either a creeper, a robot or straight up retarded. Chloe is also one of the single most unlikeable characters I have ever encountered in any piece of media.

I can't see Chloe without imagining Coach pounding her. Fuck.

Why play that trash when you can play superior kino like Beyond Two Souls starring Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe and enjoy an actual good story?

David Tennant then. Girls love him, and he can do good and bad really well.

There is no one pretty enough to play waifus Max and Chloe

Kate is best girl

Well you know how you think the writing is bad? I think it's good. It's as simple as that. But to elaborate, the way the story unfolds in intriguing, and the events are compelling. They did a great job at portraying Chloe as a real flawed character. Most retards think the game wants you to care about her. But the reality is, the game purposely exposed a bunch of unlikable traits from the very beginning. But they mixed them with a certain attitude that some people find attractive. So, like any real person, some like her, and some don't. But regardless of if you like her or not, she still elicits an emotional response out of the player. Because you're either angry that she isn't a better person. Or you pity her for her shitty life.

I could go on, if you want.

>He unironically likes this """game"""
youtu.be/LFlMoAasW4A

Perhaps. He'll have to avoid making goofy faces though.

I want to make Kate an honest woman

>He unironically agrees with a video that uses youtube poop style editing, and fails to grasp the time mechanics.
>This immature 9gagger is a good judge of character.

>no replies because you're right
What about the complete lack of logical use of her powers? And Jefferson's laughable motive?

>tfw I just bought this in the summer sale and managed to get myself spoiled on Sup Forums

I should know better than to go on Sup Forums before I consume every media on the planet

Max can be played by a gook, right?

tfw I quit playing this game for two months because I was so sad she died

>What about the complete lack of logical use of her powers?
What do you mean?
>And Jefferson's laughable motive?
How is his motive laughable?
>no replies because you're right
I would disagree with him, but I'm already in the middle of a disagreement, and he's not saying anything new. "Laughable writing"? Half of the shit people laugh about in the game, was intentionally absurd. But they don't recognize it. This game is inspired by Twin Peaks, and a lot of shit they characters say are meant to be a little off, or outlandish, or wacky.

Seth Rogen and Andy Samberg. Really shake up those gender sterotypes and shit, son.

is Life is Strange the most kino video game, bros?

I'll amend my statement to bad writing then, pedantic cunt.

The first 4 eps are.

There hasn't been news about it for a long, long time. I doubt it'll ever happen at this point.
Probably for the best, considering the studio division that was responsible for making it.

>What do you mean?
Most problems in the game are completely dependent on an idiotic use of her powers, which ties into overall writing problems.
>How is his motive laughable?
>"I am a psychopathic serial killer but also a passionate art teacher and my purpose in life is to perfectly capture lost innocence by kidnapping girls and drugging them so that there is literally no emotion in their face and no loss of innocence is portrayed"

That tiny girl who gets hit in the head with vollyball as max.

Why do the porn models look better than the ingame models?

I want them both to collectively pee into my mouth

Honestly, I don't think it should be done in live action. It should just be done Tintin style, with the game's VAs. They also need to rewrite it, keeping only the characters, setting, atmosphere, tone, and Rachel Amber mystery intact. Almost everything else should be scrapped. Max should still have a supernatural power, but it shouldn't be time travel; that works best in a game format, not a TV show format. All of the attempts at explaining things scientifically should be scrapped, and the ending (and all the themes of the story) needs to be entirely redesigned.

Kate is a mediocre character. Her only defining traits are "sweet" and "religious". That's all she is. There is nothing to her beyond that.

sam hyde

They did a great job at writing Chloe as a generic "rebel" against her poorly written stepdad who's motivation for being a shit head is just being overly paranoid.

>"they mixed her unlikable traits with a certain attitude that some people find attractive"

That "attitude" is, like I said, generic whiney teenage angst. It doesn't work. She isn't a good character.
Honestly, I wanted to like the game. I didn't go in hating it. But how can you honestly say that the writing is good when the characters say shit like "Going beast", "Check out the Max! Come to thrash?", "Totally bogus", the list goes on. It's ridiculous. That's not how teens in the pacific northwest who go to a highschool of art act. You know how I know? Because I was one of those teens when this game came out.

I think the game had a lot of potential that was squandered, and I wish I had liked the game.

Unfortunately, I have good taste.

It's the only game I've ever played that seemed to broach the entertainment/art divide which has been left behind in every other medium. As a literature major, it seemed like something one could confidently put on a school curriculum decades down the road - a bildungsroman easily comparable with widely prescribed books like Catcher in the Rye.

>and every character is either a creeper, a robot or straight up retarded
just like real life

I would say Ellen Page to play Max but she turned 30, like, yesterday.

Who is the modern equivalent? I'm so out of touch even though I'm only 21

You can prevent her death...

Not quite, that would be The Last of Us. I love Life is Strange to death, but it has a lot of flaws. Scenes are often structured in very awkward ways, there's no overriding themes or ideas, there's no clear point to a lot of the things that happen (like Kate's suicide). It's good and I've been more than a little obsessed for the last year, but objectively, it's just an 8/10.

Life is Tumblr.

>Most problems in the game are completely dependent on an idiotic use of her powers, which ties into overall writing problems.
I'm still not following. How did Mr Jefferson's rape and murderous behavior depend on her misusing her power? Or Kate jumping off the roof? Or Chloe almost dying 4 times? It would seem to me that her powers help fixed all those problems. Not cause them.

>"I am a psychopathic serial killer but also a passionate art teacher and my purpose in life is to perfectly capture lost innocence by kidnapping girls and drugging them so that there is literally no emotion in their face and no loss of innocence is portrayed"
I still don't see how that's laughable. I mean, in real life, people do fucked up shit for worse reason. For example, I just watched that documentary about pedophilia in Hollywood. Basically they were friendly charming managers by day, and pedos by night. Charismatically tricking parents to leave them their children. All because they were horny.

In Jefferson's case, it makes perfect sense that he would target a place where everyone is so hopeful. Because then he would have subjects for his photos. And the drugs were to get the girls to remove whatever vanity they had, so he can picture them in their raw emotional state. They weren't always completely out of their sense. But just hazy enough, that they couldn't quite recognize the camera. Leaving them completely candid.

Not really. What kind of school did you go to?

Not the guy you're responding to, but there are two aspects to the writing. There's the dialogue and there's the structure. The actual dialogue is definitely awkward - though it pretty dramatically improves in episodes 3 and especially 4. The structure, on the other hand, is pretty alright. Every scene has a clear point - a definite plot or character destination it's reaching for.
Strongly disagree on Chloe being a bad character. She's absolutely a whiny angsty teenager, and I'm not going to argue that the game ever tries to justify her being a whiny angsty teenager - rather, it just wants you to understand why she's that way. The alternate timeline in episodes 3/4 really drives home why she is the way she is. She's a strong character because the writers knew exactly why they wrote her the way they did - what her background and motivations for acting that way are - and they very effectively communicate those things as you learn more about her (and especially in the alternate timeline).

one based in reality and not ignorant nostalgia

Oh, and I'll also just point out that words like "hella" are actually common slang on the west coast.

It's honestly pretty easy. I don't know how people fucked it up. As long as you don't say "your mother cares about you" at the end (she doesn't), you should be able to save her.

Any good Pricefield SFM porn?

Because it was a quickly, cheaply developed game. Dontnod was running out of money as they were developing it. The hair in-game is also garbage because of UE3 limitations.

I mean, there's lots. Like, lots. Paheal and that other site... rule34.xxx or something?

>Rachel still alive in the prequel
Will we see Chloe turn blue?

Problems. Situations Max encounters that require her to use her powers to proceed.
>All because they were horny.
That would have been a believable motive for Jefferson; but as the game was designed for 14 year old girls, they had to obviously skirt around that topic.
>Leaving them completely candid
Yes, this is moronic writing. There are dozens of ways he could satiate this desire without compromising himself. If you want candid pictures, it's best not to directly involve yourself. If you want a loss of innocence, you are at a college where that happens daily all around you.

Always a LiS thread up there.

You know, I actually did think the alternate timeline bit was interesting, what with her being paralyzed and all.

I'll rescind what I said about Chloe. Yeah, she's not a terrible character in that she has a character arc and a motivation, but that doesn't change that she's incredibly generic and unlikable.

And to what you said about the two aspects of writing - yes, all the scenes have a "point", and a good structure. That doesn't change that what the characters are saying consistently come across as awkward, unrealistic, and exaggerated.

And that's the key to this. This game's writing is so on the nose and lacks any subtlety, so the idea that someone would think that including this game in a curriculum of any kind blows me away.

>I'll also just point out that words like "hella" are actually common slang on the west coast.
You're hella wrong. Just because the french 30 year olds who wrote the dialogue happened to use the same lingo as you, does not mean that a prudish pretentious hipster would use a word like "hella"

>They did a great job at writing Chloe as a generic "rebel" against her poorly written stepdad who's motivation for being a shit head is just being overly paranoid.
Well for 1. Chloe turned rebellious before her step dad. Joyce tells you this outright in Episode 2. Her being against her stepdad isn't her only trait. But her rebellious traits are indeed pretty cliche. Which is intentionally done. They wanted to portray Chloe as someone who falls into all the trappings that a teenage girl with limited experience would. They even call out this fact in the game. When Joyce lists all of Chloe's phases, she makes the point that it's not a surprise. When Franks comments on them playing with guns, he makes the point that he used to do that too. When Jefferson is reminded of Chloe, he calls her a faux-punk slut.

So you see, Chloe wasn't meant to be cool. She was meant to be a dumb teenager, rebelling in a dumb way. And yet, despite this, people still find her rebellious persona to be attractive. Maybe not *you*, but it indeed works for other players. Just because you find a character annoying, that doesn't mean she's a poorly written character. You're not supposed to like every character on the screen.

>But how can you honestly say that the writing is good when the characters say shit like "Going beast"
I don't remember going beast. Do you mean when Warren says "Let's go Ape?". Are you really shitting on a nerd character for making a dumb pun regarding Planet of the Apes?

>"Check out the Max! Come to thrash?"
Stereotypical skater is stereotypical. He's so far off the mark, you have to assume he's a bit of an ironic character. They probably like that 90s skater trope, and incorporated that for fun. In fact, I believe half of the stupid shit characters say were sprinkled in there for fun.

The idea that characters should talk exactly how 2013 kids talked with 100% accuracy is not only unrealistic to expect, but really fucking boring.

Teens in TV shows are usually pulled from soap operas or modelling. In other words, fairly fresh faces and unknowns.

It would be easier to cast the adult characters.

Hella is common in the SF Bay Area and some parts of Oregon.

The game is supposed to take place in Oregon, but even then, the voice actors' delivery was pretty unnatural.

you'll turn blue if you cross me again kid

Except everyone talks like that. Maybe to a lesser extent, but they don't talk in a realistic way. Not just in their vocabulary, but in how they interact with each other as well.

What's "really fucking boring" is when characters talk in fake teen slang. What's boring is a predictable plot. What isn't boring is an interesting plot with interesting characters who speak in a realistic way. This game is "hella" not that.

Washington raised here.

No, it isn't.

he said west coast

>Problems. Situations Max encounters that require her to use her powers to proceed.
Dude, the more you talk about Max's powers being used illogically, the less sense you make. You're going to need to use more words to actually explain what the fuck you mean.

>That would have been a believable motive for Jefferson; but as the game was designed for 14 year old girls, they had to obviously skirt around that topic.
No they didn't. In episode 1, Stella tells you that there are rumors that Jefferson and Rachel Amber were fucking. Stella also says she's interested in Jefferson. And Jefferson claims that Rachel Amber loved him. You can put the pieces together. That Jefferson was fucking at least one student, if not more.

>Yes, this is moronic writing.
First off, illogical motives aren't necessarily bad writing. Because you're dealing with psychopaths. And if psychopaths were thinking completely reasonably, then they wouldn't be psychopaths.
Second, When you try to capture someone's image out and about, they're always putting on a face for someone or something. Either they're self conscious, or thinking, or feeling a certain mood. But taking them away, and removing their environment, and dissolving their ego, you're able to get their pure image.

Yeah, but you're some nerd on Sup Forums, so would you really be hanging with the 'hella' crowd in the first place?

A film nerd on Sup Forums.

The "hella" crowd aren't the cool ones. If you don't understand that then you don't understand pacific northwest arts school life.

And yes, I'm on Sup Forums. I'm a film student and sometimes threads on here can be interesting. I haven't visited Sup Forums in over 2 weeks, but it's summer and I don't have plans today.

Let's not get into personal attacks, okay?

>Not just in their vocabulary, but in how they interact with each other as well.
Nah.
>What's "really fucking boring" is when characters talk in fake teen slang.
Nah
>What's boring is a predictable plot.
Didn't you think it was almost too predictable? I didn't think they would actually do it. Then they did it. So I was pretty shocked.
>What isn't boring is an interesting plot with interesting characters who speak in a realistic way.
The plot is interesting. And "realistic" dialog is boring. Maybe you're just upset that they didn't represent your region in an ideal light? As for "hella" that word gets mixed acceptance. Some north west folk say it's common, other north west folk say it isn't.

>tfw nobody falls for your bait

This is such a cop out.

>"He's a psycopath so he doesn't need a consistent motive!"

His character did a complete 180. He started monologuing like a supervillain, and there were little to know actual plot hints that he would end up the way he did. The twist was unearned. He's a bad antagonist.

I guess you can enjoy shitty fake dialogue, but don't act like that superior to well written realistic dialogue in an interesting plot. It's not.

And sure, maybe them representing my region and the way people speak in it as completely retarded turned me off from the game. I'll freely admit that.

I mean, that Victoria character with the whole "Mean Girl" schtick...

It's a game full of caricatures. I can't enjoy that.

That's what made it so depressing. I was so close to saving her, but I didn't realize how one of the Bible verses actually applied to the situation until it was too late.

>there were little to know actual plot hints that he would end up the way he did
One of the first lines he says in the game is "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation". There are various hints across the rest of the game that come out in hindsight, like if you mention Rachel amber to him in the hallway he gets quite serious and demands what Rachel has to do with Kate.
It seemed obvious to me when I first played that he was involved somehow, though him being the main villain was admittedly unexpected.

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>This is such a cop out.
It's really not. There is zero reason to kidnap and drug girls. There's nothing you can say that can justify this. But saying he cared about the artistry of it all is at least something.

>His character did a complete 180. He started monologuing like a supervillain
He begins the game with a monologue. In episode 5, Max talks in retropect, saying how all Jefferson liked to do was talk, and he wasn't a real teacher.
In episode 2, Jefferson tries to extract information about David from Max. Later, when you're in the principal's office, if you blame Jefferson, he'll try to shift blame to David.
Jefferson will also say that perhaps Kate brought the bullying on herself. Subtly exposing his callousness.

The cliche that is Victoria basically gets subverted by the end (if you choose to be nice to her).

When I see posts like this I'm left baffled as to what people are holding up as better examples.
Barring Firewatch, I don't think I could name a game if my life depended on it with even half the narrative or emotional poignancy of Life is Strange, yet people act like it's a dime-a-dozen paperback.
Where are these games with sophisticated Jocyean scripting and Wildean dialogue? Because it seems suspiciously like they don't exist.

"Realistic" dialog is not inherently better.

>It's a game full of caricatures.
I can agree to that much. But I don't think caricatures are inherently bad either.
All the problems you insist are flaws of the game, are beginning to sound more like a distaste of a style.

>you will NEVER be a qt Oregon girl who falls in love with your punk best friend
why fucking even live

>Dude, the more you talk about Max's powers being used illogically, the less sense you make. You're going to need to use more words to actually explain what the fuck you mean.
I mean the fucking ACTIVE USE OF HER POWERS in the game is handled illogically. The PROBLEMS you encounter as a PLAYER of a VIDEO GAME tend to have asinine solutions that don't have a practical use of her ability to teleport and time travel.
>I can't get past these girls sitting on stairs, I'd better distract this painter and sabotage his paint bucket so that paint falls on Victoria so she gets off the stairs
>Walk past Victoria
>reverse time so she doesn't stop you

Well he did end his post with that sentiment.

>he kissed Chloe

Well for 1, Max is the passive type, so she doesn't want to get confrontational, even if she could rewind. She doesn't gain that confidence until later.
2. Even if Max reverses time, her own physical state remains the same. Hence why she keeps objects on her person, and she doesn't lose her food. And at the start of episode 2, she thinks about using her powers to get more sleep. So... let's assume she does dare to walk over or around Victoria. Who is to say that it won't turn into a physical confrontation? She might get injured, and time travel won't fix that.
3. You can try the sprinklers first, which actually seems like a logical solution, but it's not enough to get Victoria to move completely. Which is why she must go for the paint.

Any other situations you had a problem with?

>he didn't kiss Chloe
Extremely gay.

>kissing a girl when you're a girl
You're the fucking gay guy faggot

>Max is the passive type, so she doesn't want to get confrontational
>sabotages a laborer, possibly risking his job
You're avoiding the point. I'm saying that: accounting for every single situation like that in the game, the overall use of her powers is "wasted/bad/idon'tlikeit".

They went, "I like this idea for the story" and then made a bunch of shitty puzzles to make it a "game".
Since you like the game so much, and I'm being sincere here, can you give me an example of a "clever/well written/unique" application of Max's power for solving a puzzle?

Akin to your #2, I liked how Max stayed drugged but still tried going back in time. But that isn't a puzzle.

>sabotages a laborer, possibly risking his job
That's not confrontational. That's weaselly. Underhanded even. But not confrontational.

>You're avoiding the point.
I'm not. I'm just not going to explain how every situation makes sense. It's easier if you point out what doesn't make sense, and then I can explain why you're mistaken.

>the overall use of her powers is "wasted/bad/idon'tlikeit"
I get the sense that all the situations are actually "I don't like it" with you.

>can you give me an example of a "clever/well written/unique" application of Max's power for solving a puzzle?
Well, in terms of *gameplay*, Max's powers are only used pretty shallowly, and I wish they did more with them. But I'm only arguing in terms of story, and the logic behind the use of her powers. All the occasions she needed to use her powers, are decently supported by the context of the situation.

You guys arguing over whether her powers were logical are missing the point. The entire game is her dealing with the death of her friend. It's all in her head. Her powers being logical doesn't matter because she never had any powers. The choice at the end to save the town is really accepting her death and the choice to save her is really not accepting it. That's why the saving the town ending is more fleshed out and has a happier tone at the end. They wanted you to choose that ending. It was all about acceptance.

>the overall use of her powers is "wasted/bad/idon'tlikeit"
>Max's powers are only used pretty shallowly, and I wish they did more with them.
Okay we agree. I think it's a bad game because of that. It doesn't matter to you.

Max = Felicity Jones
Chloe = Yvonne Strahovski
This could work, no? Only 1 year between them.

I've never played this shit game. Which one is the dyke?

OK, so you managed to move the goal post from "The game is poorly written because the use of her powers are illogical, and Jefferson's motives are laughable.", to "The gameplay is bad."

Wowser.

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