dr_mantas

@dudeglove: Yup! Kinda excited, always nice to hear what developers can say about their game, although it might not jive with my own thoughts... Still a cool extra.

Hey, so Square Enix announced that a physical edition of Life is Strange will release January 22.

Might have been a cool gift for the holidays, but for a fan like me, still awesome.

It will include cool things like the soundtrack (hella awesome), art book and developer commentary (!).

I don't usually get hyped for things like this, but I feel like for this game I can't resist.

@ezekiel: They said if it was a sequel, it would be new characters, new setting, and I'm almost certain new ideas, knowing the developer.

This is one sequel I definitely don't mind getting.

After playing Remember Me, I decided that Dontnod will be a developer whose games I will buy day 1 without thinking too much. I guess so far I wasn't wrong.

@zolroyce: I think one of the developers mentioned that half the Dontnod team has been working on Vampyr, while the other half were making Life is Strange. At least I think I read that on the Life is Strange subreddit (which is a great community for sharing thoughts about this wonderful game).

Anyhow, that might mean... things... concerning development in that studio, we don't know what their work planning is like, but half the team might not be doing Vampyr... However it never pays to be too hopeful.

Sadly, this is wrong. It was written in a french interview with the cofounder of Dontnod, something to the effect that he will be working on the sequel, Life Is Strange 2. The next day they added a clarification at the top and changed the wording to say that he WOULD be glad to work on it, IF it happens. So it's not confirmed.

Of course you had slow uptake from news sites, especially Gamespot publishing the story long after the original article was changed...

@wallee321: Sadly that was unintentional. The original french article that said there will be a Season 2 has been edited with a warning that there's no certainty for a second game. I guess he misspoke and it spread as news.

I'm feeling nostalgic for a place that doesn't exist, and a life I've never lived.

And I feel it's gonna stay with me for a long time.

And that's probably good. Life changing art is rare, at least to me.

And the lessons you take from it, and bring it into yourself, are worth the pain of letting go.

Love those around you. And enjoy the moments. Because you can never go back.

God dammit. Metastasis to the liver is a delayed death sentence. I didn't watch much of his stuff, but what I did showed massive integrity and quality. It will be a huge loss...

But fuck all that, doesn't matter who this happens to, it's horrible. I don't feel I can even process this properly. Hopefully he can at least spent the time he has left peacefully with his loved ones.

This is both profoundly idiotic and depressingly shallow.

It is also horribly patronizing and completely expected.

It is all these things.

And I don't even want VR.

"Hey, look at these nerds, and the crazy technology they dream up! Isn't it wacky? Oh, and because INTERNET it's also our future! Aren't we all crazy and relevant? Check out our new VR-zine!"