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Quick Look: Life Is Strange

The dudes with the teen 'tudes, Brad and Jeff, pine over skater boys, take selfies, and rewind time to get back at the mean girls.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jan. 30 2015

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Jason

In This Episode:

Life Is Strange

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Jeff hating on that teacher was pretty funny.

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A lighthouse? They never lead to good things...

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ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE NIGHTMARE PEOPLE!

Angry Jeff is the best Jeff.

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Reality is the real nightmare

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This is strange.

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really liked the first episode its like Twin Peaks crossed with Pretty in Pink

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The first episode was pretty good. Hopefully the following episodes will be as good.

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Great quicklook, and Jeff's disgust against photographers in it makes me laugh :)

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NIGHTMARE PEOPLE

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Great QL, Jeff's hate for the teacher is fantastic. I'll pick this up when all the episodes are out.

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Jeff's in top form here lmao

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Oh boy, Syd Matters, I love soft rock. I loved Remember Me so I am hoping this is good, now I just need to wait for it to pop up in the PSN Store.

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This game seems alright. I will pick this up.

I do hope these guys will get another shot at 'Remember Me', though.

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I need Jeff to teach a photography class IMMEDIATELY!

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Oh boy, Syd Matters, I love soft rock. I loved Remember Me so I am hoping this is good, now I just need to wait for it to pop up in the PSN Store.

Boy, Remember Me started STRONG, but that thing lost steam so quick it was unreal. I was so sad I didn't like that game more.

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Parts of this game made me throw up a little in my mouth.

This is the WORST Ground Hog's Day EVAR!

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No. Stop with your anti-vaccination propaganda.

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I'm probably definitely going to be picking this up. Also Jeff has the best freakouts.

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The fact that this started with some grammar criticism makes me so goddamn happy that this is my website-about-video-games of choice

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I'm definitely getting this, but I'm gonna wait for all the episodes to come out.

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@cale said:

This seems like a game for young people who think their emotions are important. I'd rather drive a rusty nail down my urethra than jive with what's going on here.

lol okay dude

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This is currently Game of the Year 2015 so far for "Go Fuck your Selfie," and it might be a tough one to beat.

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I'm a Warren. :(

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Looks like they took the positive feedback for the memory sequences from Remember Me and adapted them to be a core mechanic of the game.

As much as I won't play this game I appreciate that it's actually trying to add gameplay elements unlike most other games of this ilk.

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American Girls... American Girls...I cry to myself some times...American Girls

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This game looks pretty darn cool. I may have to get this.

As Jeff Gerstmann once said "fuck all video games"

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@cale said:

This seems like a game for young people who think their emotions are important. I'd rather drive a rusty nail down my urethra than jive with what's going on here.

Please link me to your TED talk where you explain why young people's emotions do not matter. I need to learn more!

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Some parts of this game seems really cool and then other parts just irks me the wrong way. That teacher in the beginning of the game is the human equivalent to nails on a chalkboard.

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Ya fuck you short haired Emma Watson.

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This seems pretty cool.

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"Ahhhh nightmare people!"

Classic, love Jeff!

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I couldn't hate everyone in this game more if I tried.

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Edited By Baal_Sagoth

Excellent and very entertaining QL!

DONTNOD are onto something with their weird rewind mechanics. However, after Remember Me I'm just waiting for the "jumping the shark" moment in this stroyline. I think Life Is Strange has more potential than the Telltale approach to interactivity though. Maybe this could be the synthesis of David Cage, Telltale and Remember Me I've been looking for.

What I definitely already enjoy is DONTNOD's tendency to have flawed, yet very likable protagonists. No combat mechanics wearing ever so thin here either. It's a shame they lost the glorious electro soundtrack in the thematic switch - not that it would fit here. I just like electronic music a lot more than this kind of rock music.

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why is the lip syncing in this game so awful?

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This game seems interesting, but having these bad facial animations in a story focused game is a deal breaker for me. I get that not every game can be LA Noire, and this game was clearly made on a budget, but dang. Someone needs to develop a cheap/efficient way to get decent facial animations into lower budget games like this.

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@cale said:

This seems like a game for young people who think their emotions are important. I'd rather drive a rusty nail down my urethra than jive with what's going on here.

You were probably a really cool teenager

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buying this

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I'm going to have to get this.

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This looks so fucking neat. The writing seems pretty fucking great. These types of games seem to be like evolution of the adventure games of my youth, and I'm stoked that they exist. I'll definitely be picking this game up.

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The feels like Tumblr: The Videogame with cringeworthy writing and awful lip-syncing.

And most characters, including the main one, make me want to punch them in the face.

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I was sold the second I saw "Kate twerks for God".

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This seems neat, but as with most episodic games, I'll probably wait for all five episodes to come out before I sit down with it.

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I had a fantastic time with this, and if you study the environments closely there's lots of filler and "lore" to pick up on. The moment I had the bathroom scene happen I was completely immersed for the rest of the episode!

Gotta wait til March for the next one though.

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I don't know why, but I love fictional school setting. This game seems made especially for me.

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This is right up my alley. I really like the—

@cale said:

This seems like a game for young people who think their emotions are important. I'd rather drive a rusty nail down my urethra than jive with what's going on here.

Uh, I mean, yeah! What that guy said!