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Yeah I may be a year late on this game, but my god was it awful and I need to rant, they tried to push so much stuff in this game that just made it a chore, I swear if they had exchanged the word friends with family i would have thought this would have been a vin diseal movie. It wasn't even worth full price for whoever bought it, Chloe was such a unlikable character that just complained all the time and talked smack to her dad cause "she had like the worst life ever." My god guys, its on sale now on steam but don't get it, I would have rather betted my money on csgo cases, I may have actually made profit that route.

The only good thing out of it was the soundtrack, now that made me cry.

I'm... I'm not sure if you're serious or not...

Nah i am, it's not the worst game ever, but it was overhyped and I regret for getting into the temptation, the villain was a surprise, but by the end you realize nothing matters, as it's all one way or the other.

Fuck me I should have just youtubed it. It all comes down to the last decision anyway.

Well, it had an interesting take on time-travel.

Yeah, but even though most of the time they forced you to stop at those circles, which was a pain, but yeah the timetravel was a interesting mechanic.

I've heard some pretty mixed reviews from it, though leaning on the negative side. How is it compared to Alan Wake?

Apples to oranges. Alan Wake is a creepy  (YMMV - it creeped me out, but I was living on a farm and home alone when I beat it) psychological thriller. 

This is a different beast entirely. Life is Strange is a narrative-driven, episodic (think Telltale) adventure game. 

^This

Alan Wake has literally nothing in common with Life is Strange.

I was referring to how enjoyable it is :P

They're both ungood, but one of them has Wii controls... *shudder*

It's an acquired taste, like Deadly Premonition, except the entire thing wasn't ripped off from Twin Peaks with zombies thrown in.

Alan Wake:
Got it because I thought my wife would like it.
She said she wished it had just been a movie.  All the fun interesting parts like solving mysteries, you just sat there and watched the main character handle, while you were left with running from one circle of light to another, trying to shoot things.  (which she was not particularly good at.)

Deadly Premonition:
Was supposed to play with wife.  I don't think she remembers we own it.
Loved this game.  Loved, loved, loved it.
Later it got too easy to kill stuff, but at first I was genuinely tense about avoiding the monsters.  
There was an actual sense of exploration, not just "walk from cutscene to cutscene while killing things."
Oh and speaking of cutscenes, I really enjoyed the mechanic explaining why you don't always control the character.
Yeah, okay, it's definitely influenced by TwinPeaks, but that's not a bad thing.  
Great soundtrack, too. 

Eh. Didn't love it, didn't hate it.

I liked the primary game mechanic since added a new layer to puzzle solving though I can see how you'd find the characters a little stagnant. It had some good moments and and an interesting twist or two. I would have liked it a great deal more, but the ending seemed very rushed. The whole game tried to add up suspense, but it all fell flat with the last choice. Even so, I don't regret playing it.

Yeeeah, when I found out the ending, the whole thing just seemed rather pointless. I know not everyone feels that way, but I also know I'm not alone in that opinion.

Yeah, I felt like the game up to that point did a good job of making you feel like your choices mattered, but then all of that was torn down.

The one thing that just took it out of me was all the pity they were throwing around, like they were trying to make the player feel sorry for their actions, they didn't try to pity nathan's actions and i felt alot more remorse over him then chloe.

Eh, I didn't have any pity for Nathan, honestly.

It was just for that one part where if you let him get beat up and he was crying. That was fucked up.

... You found a crying douche who got his ass beat to be more sympathetic then someone who got trapped in a broken up body, who has no agency from the neck down and is in so much agony that they were 'round the clock narcotics that only just barely take the edge off? ... *shrug* Maybe I don't remember the scenes with Nathan that well, and I'm not saying Chloe's the greatest character or anything, she isn't, but if they were both dangling off a cliff, I wouldn't save him first. :P

Yeah i see where your getting at, but I can't feel anything for chloe anymore, shes blames all her problems on everyone else which makes her a mega douche untill the MC slaps some sense into her.

I actually let the train  keep coming at that one part to see what would happen xD.

I know this is old, but I've had the game on my mind lately, so... I also find Chloe more sympathetic when you go to dig up Rachel's body. Seeing her realize that that rotting corpse was the girl she loved and hearing her break down was pretty sad.

And then Jefferson happened.

I just can't figure how involved Nathan's dad was with everything.

Nathan's phone call, though.

For me everything was going good until episode 5 ruined it all. It was all basically just filler content because dontnod was all like "Well, we got two hours to kill, better bring out the useless puzzles that were cut out from the last episodes."