No clue. It's been really popular, Not like it's a "hidden gem" or anything.

Somehow missed it myself, all these years. Just got to playing it and its all I can think about. Every day I wake up with thoughts of Max and Chloe in my head and in my heart.

I mean i am jealous in some way, you get to play it for the very first time .. i wish i could experience that like back in 2015

Originally posted by Agent Janek:

I mean i am jealous in some way, you get to play it for the very first time .. i wish i could experience that like back in 2015

I'm terrified that I won't find anything on the level of Life is Strange. That this is the best game of its kind. I had that with World of Warcraft. I will never recapture the feeling of the glory days of WoW with 11 million players in the days of WOTLK. Before the days of smartphones and social media. However, I have all the games in the series except the latest one (of course I'll buy that one too), so hopefully I can at least find some consolation. I've heard Max is coming back in a new game, so I really, really hope this game will be good.

You could say it feels like opening a... Time Capsule.

Originally posted by Arc:

Originally posted by Agent Janek:

I'm terrified that I won't find anything on the level of Life is Strange. That this is the best game of its kind.

Are you aware of Don't Nod's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, coming next February? It looks very promising.

and Why are you telling us this? Just go play it and be done with it.

Originally posted by FilmFinn:

Are you aware of Don't Nod's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, coming next February? It looks very promising.

Given Dontnod's recent track record, Lost Records looks like it's shaping up to be a niche title with devoted followers, but won't resonate with average Joes on the same level as the original LiS. Unless somehow Dontnod catches lightning in a bottle twice.

This game was easily GOTY for me (♥♥♥♥ Witcher 3 hype). This game marked the genre and until today no game of the genre suparsses it.

I also bought the game when it first came out, started playing, but only got about halfway through the first chapter. Back then, it didn't really grab me, it was too boring for me, Battlefield and stuff like that were more interesting. This summer I gave the game a second chance and it turned out to be something really special. So far, only The Last of Us and The Walking Dead have touched me emotionally in the same way. But no other game has stayed in my mind for so long.

The advantage of having waited so long is that you can play through all the chapters and Before the Storm and Farewell one after the other... which can lead to an emotional overdose.

With the new Double Exposure, Max is back, but it also brings flashbacks to the key scenes from LiS.

It's such a shame that you can only really enjoy games like this the first time you play them, if you don't know the story yet. On the second playthrough, you might be able to find items or text that you haven't yet discovered, or see the whole game from a different perspective.

just in case no one has told you yet, you should play the prequel (before the storm)

I found myself in a similar situation, bought it in Aug 2018 bundled with Before the Storm but just played it for the first time this month. Haven't tried BTS yet, but the Original LiS definitely holds up well, despite the graphics being a bit outdated. Being fully voice acted really helped make the characters memorable, despite only being a 20 hr game.

Sad to hear about how $quare Enix & Deck Nine have handled things subsequently and am definitely not interested in the Double Exposure storyline. The original had a pretty satisfying and conclusive ending and bringing Max back in a setting other than in the timeline of Max & Chloe being together and trying to "make amends" somehow doesn't seem like it would ever work thematically for me. Bay choice should mean Max is never willing to meddle with the timeline again imo .

I bought this a few years ago, but my PC was too weak at the time (A10 9600P, Radeon R5, 512MB VRAM, 12GB DDR4, 128GB SSD, Windows 10, HD LCD TN). It did meet the minimum requirements for Life Is Strange, but didn't for newer titles.

Only a few years after that did I upgrade to a gaming capable PC (i5 9300H, GTX 1050 MaxP, 3GB VRAM, Intel UHD 630, 16GB DDR4, 500GB SSD, Windows 11, FHD LED IPS), although I was playing other games before deciding to play this. If it weren't for me just letting Steam library to recommend what to play, I probably would've held off playing this until like 2030 or something lol.

Originally posted by Arc:

Originally posted by Agent Janek:

I mean i am jealous in some way, you get to play it for the very first time .. i wish i could experience that like back in 2015

I'm terrified that I won't find anything on the level of Life is Strange. That this is the best game of its kind.

If you are looking towards a game as special and where it also emotionally captures you in, I highly (!) suggest "Detroit: Become Human"!