[QUOTE=etrius0023;48944067]Maybe it was just me but I really didn't like the ending.
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- Really shitty ending with no closure. Really? You don't give us at least one scene post catastrophe where we can converse with the characters and see where we stand and what they plan on doing? But no, of course not, instead either Max and Chloe drive away without a word or Max attends Chloe's funeral (also without words). Thrilling stuff.
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[sp]How would that be an ending? The ending as it stands makes sense and is built up to through the whole episode, it works well.[/sp]
I beat the game and now I'm lying on the floor feeling hollow and sad, wondering if I made the right choice at the end...
I chose [sp]to save Chloe and sacrifice Arcadia Bay, I couldn't sacrifice after everything and especially after that episode. The episode practically screamed at me all the way through to save her, especially towards the end.[/sp]
[sp]but then again, all those people...[/sp]
[QUOTE=RAG Frag;48944304][sp]How would that be an ending? The ending as it stands makes sense and is built up to through the whole episode, it works well.[/sp][/QUOTE]
I'm fine with the ending happening (it was mediocre, lazy and incredibly played out, but whatever), it's just that after the big ending moment all we got was a no dialogue 1-2 min cutscene that was unengaging, uninteresting and lacked any closure (especially the [sp]Sacrifice Arcadia Bay[/sp] choice).
[sp] pfffttt half the town hated Arcadia Bay anyways. [/sp]
[sp]I think the ending could have been improved by letting the player walk Max through the cemetery and talking to the characters that attended Chloe burial.
Or before entering the cemetery since it's not polite to be talking or whispering during a burial, if I believe what my old folks say. It would have left a bigger impact but I still liked it.[/sp]
[sp]Ya know, even as someone who hasn't played the series, I could tell that the way to fix the entire time scenario would be to let Chloe die, and I'm kinda wondering if that's the point- all of this started with her, all the problems revolve around you being with and protecting her, and it only makes sense that it would end with her.
Overall, I'm glad this series turned out to be real good, though I'm sad that it just adds to the list of sad lesbian stories (come on guys, give gay girls a good ending for once)[/sp]
That ending makes no sense [sp]Okay, save the city by Sacrificing Chloe... but if the timelines are involved in the destruction of the city, then it is entirely pointless as Max has done WAY MORE SIGNIFICANT THINGS than just save Chloe. Arcadia Bay is fucked either way.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Magikoopa24;48944758][sp]Ya know, even as someone who hasn't played the series, I could tell that the way to fix the entire time scenario would be to let Chloe die, and I'm kinda wondering if that's the point- all of this started with her, all the problems revolve around you being with and protecting her, and it only makes sense that it would end with her.
Overall, I'm glad this series turned out to be real good, though I'm sad that it just adds to the list of sad lesbian stories (come on guys, give gay girls a good ending for once)[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]I don't think it was ever intended as a lesbian story. The community made it one really.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Frosty701;48944990][sp]I don't think it was ever intended as a lesbian story. The community made it one really.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Oh totally, people saw what they thought was a relationship and ran with it (which the devs caved in to accept), I'm just sad that it ended up as one (hell, I probably would have preferred if they stayed true to their original vision and had it just be about friends).[/sp]
[QUOTE=etrius0023;48944377]I'm fine with the ending happening (it was mediocre, lazy and incredibly played out, but whatever), it's just that after the big ending moment all we got was a no dialogue 1-2 min cutscene that was unengaging, uninteresting and lacked any closure (especially the [sp]Sacrifice Arcadia Bay[/sp] choice).[/QUOTE]
That's what the rest of the episode is though, everything builds up to that ending. [sp]This whole episode especially the nightmare sequence is saying goodbye to characters so I don't get why the endings themselves should do much more, I'll admit that the save chloe ending doesn't have that closure though.[/sp]
[sp]Also I get that it's a little bit cliche and that the community predicted it but it wasn't exactly lazily done, the episode is really well constructed I thought, the idea might not be original but that doesn't make it a mediocre ending.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Magikoopa24;48945021][sp]Oh totally, people saw what they thought was a relationship and ran with it (which the devs caved in to accept), I'm just sad that it ended up as one (hell, I probably would have preferred if they stayed true to their original vision and had it just be about friends).[/sp][/QUOTE]
But it is though.
[QUOTE=Magikoopa24;48945021][sp]Oh totally, people saw what they thought was a relationship and ran with it (which the devs caved in to accept), I'm just sad that it ended up as one (hell, I probably would have preferred if they stayed true to their original vision and had it just be about friends).[/sp][/QUOTE]
But it isn't one. There's nothing in the actual game that makes it that.
I'll join the group of people filling hollow and sad as well..
First a thing I saw coming:
[sp]At the art gallery I thought "I bet she has to go back to the Dark Room". Completely forgot about the tornado though..[/sp]
My choice:
[sp]At first I had no idea, but I saved Chloe. Then while the tornado ravaged the city, I remembered that I chose to kiss Warren and realized he might be gone - Fuck![/sp]
[sp]Watched the ending of saving the town on Youtube, and the save Chloe ending did feel rushed with no real conclusion. But at least Chloe and Max was together at the end, so all is good - In some way at least[/sp]
[QUOTE=RAG Frag;48945069]That's what the rest of the episode is though, everything builds up to that ending. [sp]This whole episode especially the nightmare sequence is saying goodbye to characters so I don't get why the endings themselves should do much more, I'll admit that the save chloe ending doesn't have that closure though.[/sp]
[sp]Also I get that it's a little bit cliche and that the community predicted it but it wasn't exactly lazily done, the episode is really well constructed I thought, the idea might not be original but that doesn't make it a mediocre ending.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]The characters in the nightmare sequence were all antagonizing you and the only real conversation you had there was with yourself.[/sp]
[sp]And my problem with the end isn't that it's uninspired (I don't like it but I don't hate it either) it's how the majority of the episode was either A. just stuff going on inside Max's head and/or B. a linear puzzle and/or C. walking around while things happened around you that you couldn't interact with. You never got to say goodbye to...any of the characters, really.
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There wasn't one part of this episode where I wasn't forcing myself to continue.
I think I was unfair comparing the episode to [sp]the Arkham Asylum scarecrow scenes[/sp], it was more akin to [sp]the opening of Arkham Asylum where you have to slowly plod after Joker while he's rolled into the asylum except for stretch that out from 7 minutes to an hour and a half[/sp].
Don't get me wrong, I actually really find the hopping around in the episode great, but the [sp]ending makes no sense and is really weak. Linking everything to Chloe is incredibly weak and kinda goes against all logic, Max STILL HAS POWERS and gained them SPECIFICALLY TO SAVE CHLOE, it's not as if she went against nature, built a time machine and broke the timeline, but instead actually just used her natural powers. Else, she's still responsible for completely changing the fates of at least five other characters, some on a much grander scale than a drug deal gone wrong. [/sp]
[QUOTE=Zeos;48946541]Don't get me wrong, I actually really find the hopping around in the episode great, but the [sp]ending makes no sense and is really weak. Linking everything to Chloe is incredibly weak and kinda goes against all logic, Max STILL HAS POWERS and gained them SPECIFICALLY TO SAVE CHLOE, it's not as if she went against nature, built a time machine and broke the timeline, but instead actually just used her natural powers. Else, she's still responsible for completely changing the fates of at least five other characters, some on a much grander scale than a drug deal gone wrong. [/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]I don't see how it's weak at all. All the bad world changing shit started happening when Max saved Chloe and just started escalating more and more as she kept changing more shit. So the ending is just her undoing all that stuff and letting the timeline go as it was meant to be.[/sp]
Ok, cool [sp]Chloe's dead, so you're telling me that Max doesn't prevent Victoria and Nathan's deaths, have Jefferson arrested, save Kate's life etc? She's still going to change the timeline, more than anything that Chloe's death changes. Also, again, SHE CAN STILL CHANGE TIME, the 'paradox' shit causing the destruction makes no sense because she didn't change anything to gain this power.[/sp]
Oh man... fuck... just finished it.
Does anybody know which song plays when [sp]Max drives through the storm in Jefferson's car?[/sp]
[QUOTE=Zeos;48946768]Ok, cool [sp]Chloe's dead, so you're telling me that Max doesn't prevent Victoria and Nathan's deaths, have Jefferson arrested, save Kate's life etc? She's still going to change the timeline, more than anything that Chloe's death changes. Also, again, SHE CAN STILL CHANGE TIME, the 'paradox' shit causing the destruction makes no sense because she didn't change anything to gain this power.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Uhhhh it shows you in that ending that Nathan got arrested and then gave up Jefferson, so he didn't do anything to Kate and Victor and Max didn't need to do anything. And so what that she can still do it? She's obviously decided that she's not going to use her power anymore.[/sp]
Heh, I moved from my PC to shity laptop, so 40-ish fps on Low graphics in windowed mode for the 5th Episode :why:
Just finished the last episode. It was an insane ride all the way through. The ending isn't as good as I hoped it would be, but I'm still overall quite pleased with Life is Strange. I wouldn't say the ending didn't make sense, cuz I can see where they were going with it, but with a series that subverted and messed with my expectations so much I was hoping they'd pull one final stop and give me a choice at the end that was less cut and dry.
[sp] My thought was that since Max dreamed of the Tornado before ever interacting with Chloe and saving her life, that she may have considered a third option besides sacrificing chloe or sacrificing Arcadia Bay. To me, seeing that before she ever got her powers would indicate to me that something else had caused it.
I picked the Sacrifice Arcadia Bay ending though, which was surprising for me cuz usually i pick the more selfless options in these kind of stories. I was really attached to Chloe though and I did not want to waste what I'd spent the whole game trying to achieve. Sorry, Arcadia bay...[/sp]
Despite some of that though, I'm overall happy with the game and even if the end didn't satisfy me completely, the journey is one I will always remember.
Ending spoiler [sp]I like all Arcadians but I sacrificed the town, too. [/sp]
[video=youtube;3sPlhsxdQjg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sPlhsxdQjg[/video]
pretty good game
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I'm really torn on Episode 5, like it was really cool and very interesting but I still feel it could have been better
I thought the beginning dialogue/scene between Jefferson and Max was kinda cliched/not particularly well written? Like, it's that thing you've seen a thousand times where one character is all 'why are you doing this??' and the bad guy smiles 'well I'm glad you asked, you see...'. I get why the game had to do this, considering you don't know Jefferson's the bad guy for 75% of the game and it has to wrap things up but still, it just bothered me a bit
Apart from that, I think I liked it - had a good amount of gameplay/player input too which was nice. In regards to the ending, I initially picked to save Chloe because she is my waifu. I wish we had seen more of an epilogue though since I always wanna know what happens to characters after a story has ended
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Is anyone else having a hard time accepting that the game is over? Here I am just hoping that they release some sort of Mass Effect Citadel-style DLC to add some closure.
Ending moral choices: [sp] Sticking to your product and live with your reward and consequences [/sp] versus [sp] bailing out a long-running project to justify your actions[/sp].
But yeah, the game's over. Now I wonder what they are going to do for season 2 with a new cast.
[sp]Man i hate it when the right choice is the shitty choice. I liked the ending quite a lot, but i'm a sucker for bitter stories like this. I saw it coming for a while but that didn't really make it any less sad. The ending where she lives is just ridiculous and feels like it had no love put into it and it's pretty obvious the writers meant for the sacrifice ending to be the true ending. The narrative was going the course of her dying from the start.[/sp].
[QUOTE=LordApocca;48949716][sp]Man i hate it when the right choice is the shitty choice. I liked the ending quite a lot, but i'm a sucker for bitter stories like this. I saw it coming for a while but that didn't really make it any less sad. The ending where she lives is just ridiculous and feels like it had no love put into it and it's pretty obvious the writers meant for the sacrifice ending to be the true ending. The narrative was going the course of her dying from the start.[/sp].[/QUOTE]
[sp]Well yeah she can/does die on several occasions so it kind of foreshadowed it really[/sp]
What does [sp]squirrel symbolism[/sp] means?
[sp]I chose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay, because I grew attached to Chloe from the start but I feel like the ending choice was kind of like a "would you like to be shot in the head or in the heart?" kind of deal. Whatever you choose, you still end up crying all over your keyboard. At least in my case...[/sp]
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