Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
If you ever wanted to check out Life is Strange the first episode has been made free. It’s a story based game where your choices can leave an impact later on in the game. I’ve made it to episode 3 so far. Now what I would normally play but a nice game to play when you want to relax. And the feels, my god the feels…
I felt like doing something different today, so I decided to return to Life Is Strange. I’m halfway through Episode 3 so far. It’s a great game to play when I just want to relax. Certain parts of it really tend to give me some serious feels. Like the end of Episode 2 when I was unable to save a distraught classmate from committing suicide. I’m currently at the point where we’re trying to break into a trailer to find clues about a missing person. Decided to stop there for the time being.
The new year has been pretty boring. Work has been pretty steady, and every day off I’ve had so far has been too friggen cold for me to go out and wreck the town. I got out of my PJ’s, took a shower, and got back into fresh PJ’s to give you an idea. So I’ve been pretty much staying in bed and playing. I decided to play a little bit of Half Life: Blue Shift on the Steam Controller today with a custom config someone wrote. I’ve also been working on my latest video project, which has forced my hand at trying to remember all the in’s and outs of Source Filmmaker. Goes to show I really need to get back into animating, I’ve really gone stale. I forgot how to copy animation sets and had to lookup a tutorial. DERP.
The other day when I wasn’t feeling well I decided to venture off into a game called “Life Is Strange” which I’ve been meaning to play. It’s one of those choose your own path type story games, and the protagonist has the ability to rewind time. So if you don’t like how one particular situation, or if you messed something up you can just rewind time. I made it to episode two before I decided to take a break from it. So far I like it, this game gives me the feels at particular situations.
And the protagonist… I know I’ve seen her somewhere before.
I found this to be an interesting article on Kotaku regarding an upcoming game called Life Is Strange.
Apparently Dontnod shopped the game around to a number of different publishers before going with Square Enix, and it turns out most of them wanted to change its protagonists into men. That would have been a real shame, but luckily it didn’t happen.
Not surprising that Square Enix would have no issues with female protagonists, considering they had no problem with the Tomb Raider reboot. It’s still rather disappointing that quite a few companies would want to change something as stupid as gender. I mean, it’s the 21st century and this is still a hurdle? Why would some of these companies think females are a risk? Maybe it’s just me, but I never looked at a character as the ultimate say in if a game is great or terrible. For me it comes down to gameplay, story, dialogue etc. If any of those attributes are met well enough they can still be great if the other attributes are lacking. Like say for example if a game has great gameplay but the storyline is dismal, or vice versa.
I hope this game does well, if only to shove it in the other companies faces.