Streamed 27/12/2022 / @josephandersonchannel... www.twitch.tv/... Original Stream Name : Life is Strange - After the Storm (Life is Strange 2 - Stream One)
I don’t think there will ever be a funnier bit than Joe just abruptly singing the persona 4 main chill theme whenever something awkward or poorly timed happens
Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm
I actually really enjoyed watching Captain Spirit here. I think it feels a lot more sincere than all of Before the Storm and most of the first game. Lots of natural feeling interactions between the kid, other people, and the world. Very endearing. Not sure if Joe's perspective was poisoned by BtS (fair) or if he would've found it uninteresting regardless.
like... I wish Sean had the option to be straight with Daniel and say 'we're on the run, we need to do things like steal candy bars from abandoned cars and change from national park donation boxes because we are struggling to survive" and not "whatever, no one will care" like you're swiping it from a kid's backpack at school.
In regards to the discussion about racism around 4:55:00. There's no denial that overtly racist people exist, and I have first hand experience with them. That being said, the overwhelming majority of racism you'll face as a minority is more on a societal/systematic level, and although it is cool to see a game attack racism, they ended up taking the very vocal minority and highlighted that. They rather/can only write racist characters rather than racist people, if that makes sense.
I think worst part about LiS2 is that its world building is almost completely absent compared to the first. As even Joe mentioned, you can interact with everything and not get instantly bored in the first game. Everything is stylised. The cartoony art style and soft colour palette makes it a very homely and cozy feeling game, even when dealing with intense stuff. It feels like this game (and Before the Storm) rests on its laurels and doesn't earn it's style in any way, instead using it to cover for a lacklustre and unimaginative version of a story that has been told better in many other games and media.
So far it seems like Joe is just tired of the gameplay style. Like there was a novelty to LiS's journal. It wasn't its quality (they were ok at best, cringey at worst) so much as its novelty that kept him engaged and now he's just tired of it. Like 2 minutes into the journal he was like "you know what I don't care".
@@mechanicalmonk2020 plus this games journal just isnt as fun of a read. Theres some serious gold in Max's journal thats so cringe and so borderline psychotic that it makes for a good read. Here it's just boring average teenage stuff that's over encumbered by how seriously this gamea plot tries to take itself.
It's not a game where world building is supposed to be the main theme, you are watching charcters thrown into a wild journey and moulding their growth with your decisions - choices are not nullified by time travel here, everything matters and regardless of the story being a bit more phoned in it is one of the best choice based games ever made in regards to consequences.
@josephstewart2821 Detroit Become Human literally came out the same year and did everything you mentioned better (although both games are just as heavy handed in terms of handling political topics). This game is straight up boring lmao but it's nice to hear someone enjoyed it.
something so hilarious about this game is how comically racist the people you're not supposed to like are. Its just annoying that whenever the game presents a new character, no matter of insignificant to the story, it predetermines whether or not I should bother interacting further with said character based on how ridiculous their first line is. LiS1 never had this problem, as the characters that are dicks usually had a reason to be a dick that's revealed later in the plot. Why is the neighbor or the random dad at the gas station a dick? Game doesn't bother to explain itself because everything is one note.
I know it would have required additional animation, but it kinda annoys me that Chris just mashes his action figures together when they fight... move the damn arms and legs to do punches and kicks, what are you doing kid? XD
First Game had a time travel mechanic in a high school + broken friendship on the mend + murder mystery. Before the storm at least seemed to provide answers to questions that one might've had during the first game like what was Rachel like, what was her and Chloe's relationship like (although they never answered how Rachel ended up with drug-dealer or how the killer got her). But this game just has no hook. No interesting social interactions, the supernatural gimmick isn't even in our control and unlike the time-rewind there's no fun way we can use it in social interactions. It's just nothing + social commentary that so far boils down to "America racist except for the odd hero freelance blogger". Life is cringe AND boring
You can write a story about social issues like racism and end up with a good story but this isn’t it. Genuinely 75% of the random characters you meet in this story are literally LETHALLY racist followed by a literal saint; that really hurts your story because it requires suspension of disbelief that the story has to have earned by now OR character writing on your main cast that’s so good that you don’t even notice how blatantly cookie cutter your antagonists are
The resolution of that chapter sucked, I don't get why in any world it is the "wrong" choice to rob a couple of scumbag drug dealers who have already stolen from you.
This story would have been infinitely better if Sean knew about Daniels powers often the cop died. That would have made his decision to run away far more understandable
I remember when this was coming out you could try the demo of EP1 for free on Steam. When I got to the end of the cop shooting scene I was feeling physical pain because of how unbelievably dumb and forced it was and I ALT-F4'd then and there. Years freaking later I'm here watching this to see how joe suffers through it and by the end of this episode I can't seem to do it. The game is even worse than I imagined it🤣🤣🤣
Vran’s weren’t in Witcher books // Aen shiede and Aen aelle are from completely different spheres, Aen shiede were oppressed by humans Aen aelle are colonizers who in part were driven out of their sphere by climate change (by way of the white frost) I like his interpretation but like the separation between both spheres elves are huge
This game is absolutely appalling and not even really to the point it's laughably bad. First game had some nice representation and while it was cringe, it was quite interesting and I wanted to know what would happen.. With LiS 2 it's like.. you just *know* exactly what the people look like who they hired in between LiS 1 and LiS 2. What you're picturing is 100% correct
…. This game is not that bad. I think its interesting that ppl despise it so much, and i get that its heavy handed but that doesnt explain the consistent hatred of this game.
It's actually the best of the series if you want your choices to actually matter and influence the story but I think there's a very large gay fanbase who were alienated by the fact that the charcters in this were too straight.
(please don't take personal offense to things I'm saying here) Edit: looks like someone took offense anyway. *sigh*. Save your collected breaths, I won't read any replies anymore 1. Does Joe record the streams a second time to get chat? Sounds like it. There's software that'll do that. 2. I agree with Joe with regards to adaptations. I really hate discussions around "faithfulness to the source material" for adaptations. I prefer to judge a work on its own merits first and as an adaptation second. The Halo show is an above average Sci Fi show first, and a shitty adaptation second. 3. Joe talking to Finn about the dishes was freaking hilarious 4. The water heater section was a perfect representation of irrational childhood fears and how we used to trick ourselves to overcome them. The room being small in real life but huge in his imagination is just the cherry on top. Really well done. 5. Concerned neighbor looking out for abused child's well being: "gO aWaY nOsY bItCh" 6. Struggling mom trying to make her family whole and not making the best decisions == dude who literally beats up his kid 7. Media has no obligation to "provide solutions". It's BS to suggest that a piece of media shouldn't touch a topic if it can't also give solutions to the problems presented. 8. Flipping the bird isn't meant to be badass 9. Cop just shot kid's unarmed dad, baby brother blew up the neighborhood, more cops are on the way. Joe: "wHaT aRe YoU rUnNiNg FoR?" 10. "That was really forced and kinda dumb". Yep, exactly like all incidents of police shooting innocent and unarmed people. 11. Ok they can 100% track that phone if it's on 12. Yeah Joe is sheltered as all f**** 13. This game is so boring. Captain Spirit was at least interesting. So far LiS 2 has been just... dull. Dull is, in fairness, worse than bad so this is worse than before the storm 👀 14. Game won a BAFTA for the lead's voice acting, which is honestly well deserved. 15. "Do you really think this is being genuine?". Yes. Yes it is. When one doesn't experience racism, it's easy to think that the experience of people who do is somehow fantastical or exaggerated. At least 72 million people in the US voted for building a wall between US and Mexico. That doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can read horrifying accounts of Pakistanis that were detained in freezing weather on the Canada border the day of the "Muslim ban". This isn't the constant reality of racism, and systemic racism is deeper and more insidious, but this _also_ happens. It's utterly nonsense to think that it doesn't. 16. "Did you pay for that?" is an insanely common face of racism in the US at least. In the same vein as increased security in retail stores in black neighborhoods. 17. Alright so Brody secret serial killer? 18. Ooh, that line about this not being Seattle anymore hits pretty hard too. The divide between attitudes in cities and in the country side is unreasonably big in the US 19. Meh, if someone is going to be boneheaded about "Everything is political" will be boneheaded about "Everyone can be interpreted politically". You're giving them too much credit here. 20. This game is 10x more hilarious without the copyrighted music. 21. You know what, no. Brody can't be a liberal. He helped someone instead of just talking about it. 22. Wait, that one line is all that changes based on what happened to Acadia Bay??? 23. Oh good they finally addressed the phone 24. Man, Joe's read of the US justice system is so charitable 😅 25. Agreed with Joe. Game's been pretty dull. Before the Storm was fucking awful though.
@@goshenite1949 reading must be very hard. Keep at it. It gets better in 3rd grade ❤️ I'm enjoying every single stream. Just because I comment about some of the things that Joe says doesn't mean I'm hate watching. Half of what I've said here is either agreeing with Joe or responding to chat instead of Joe. It does seem to be triggering you lot though which just tells me to do it more 😋.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 theres light criticism, and there is making a numbered list of everything you dislike about a video. Also this whole mindset of "well its annoying you so i win" is so childish. I go into the comments to see if people have anything interesting or constructive to say when its done, not to see you just "joe said this, he is wrong". Im not arguing with you further, its just annoying
@@goshenite1949 just because something is annoying to you personally, doesn't mean you should immediately attack it. I think consciously engaging with content and writing down your own reactions and thoughts (in a list or however it suits anyone) is probably miles better than just mindlessly consuming content.
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I don’t think there will ever be a funnier bit than Joe just abruptly singing the persona 4 main chill theme whenever something awkward or poorly timed happens
I just started this after the first one and I found that bit really annoying so I'm out.
If that is the limit to how funny he can be then that's a very low bar
@@yoshihammerbro435Cope.
@@metaljacket8128 I'm not coping I'm just pointing out facts, plus I dont even watch him anymore cuz he only has like 2 jokes
Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm Please don't be worse than before the storm
:-)
It got worse.
dammit
I actually really enjoyed watching Captain Spirit here. I think it feels a lot more sincere than all of Before the Storm and most of the first game. Lots of natural feeling interactions between the kid, other people, and the world. Very endearing. Not sure if Joe's perspective was poisoned by BtS (fair) or if he would've found it uninteresting regardless.
I like how the racist gas station guy's first reaction to being force pushed by a jedi is to yell a slur and start chanting build the wall
The moment I realised the guy hadn't told his kid brother that his dad was dead I immediately knew how painful this would be
$100 CAD says the white saviour character is a self insert.
Aren't they all?
You could play this game while skydiving through a hurricane and it would still end up being the most boring day of your life.
Life is Strange 2 begins at around 2:01:23
The writers were so ahead of their time using AI and middle schooler's Twitter feeds to write this game.
like... I wish Sean had the option to be straight with Daniel and say 'we're on the run, we need to do things like steal candy bars from abandoned cars and change from national park donation boxes because we are struggling to survive" and not "whatever, no one will care" like you're swiping it from a kid's backpack at school.
It's amazing that captain spirit looks so good and then lis2 looks like shit.
In regards to the discussion about racism around 4:55:00. There's no denial that overtly racist people exist, and I have first hand experience with them. That being said, the overwhelming majority of racism you'll face as a minority is more on a societal/systematic level, and although it is cool to see a game attack racism, they ended up taking the very vocal minority and highlighted that. They rather/can only write racist characters rather than racist people, if that makes sense.
I think worst part about LiS2 is that its world building is almost completely absent compared to the first. As even Joe mentioned, you can interact with everything and not get instantly bored in the first game. Everything is stylised. The cartoony art style and soft colour palette makes it a very homely and cozy feeling game, even when dealing with intense stuff. It feels like this game (and Before the Storm) rests on its laurels and doesn't earn it's style in any way, instead using it to cover for a lacklustre and unimaginative version of a story that has been told better in many other games and media.
So far it seems like Joe is just tired of the gameplay style. Like there was a novelty to LiS's journal. It wasn't its quality (they were ok at best, cringey at worst) so much as its novelty that kept him engaged and now he's just tired of it. Like 2 minutes into the journal he was like "you know what I don't care".
@@mechanicalmonk2020 plus this games journal just isnt as fun of a read. Theres some serious gold in Max's journal thats so cringe and so borderline psychotic that it makes for a good read. Here it's just boring average teenage stuff that's over encumbered by how seriously this gamea plot tries to take itself.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 You're saying that like they actually deserve to be read. The first journal was entertaining, the rest are not.
It's not a game where world building is supposed to be the main theme, you are watching charcters thrown into a wild journey and moulding their growth with your decisions - choices are not nullified by time travel here, everything matters and regardless of the story being a bit more phoned in it is one of the best choice based games ever made in regards to consequences.
@josephstewart2821 Detroit Become Human literally came out the same year and did everything you mentioned better (although both games are just as heavy handed in terms of handling political topics). This game is straight up boring lmao but it's nice to hear someone enjoyed it.
Joe may not have loved persona 4 but the soundtrack clearly stuck with him.
and he still does the yusuke voice from p5. Its changed him forever. Hes def a weeb now
I think p5 has a better soundtrack but 4 has a lot less music so you hear the same themes over and over and they get stuck in your head a lot more.
something so hilarious about this game is how comically racist the people you're not supposed to like are. Its just annoying that whenever the game presents a new character, no matter of insignificant to the story, it predetermines whether or not I should bother interacting further with said character based on how ridiculous their first line is. LiS1 never had this problem, as the characters that are dicks usually had a reason to be a dick that's revealed later in the plot. Why is the neighbor or the random dad at the gas station a dick? Game doesn't bother to explain itself because everything is one note.
God this is a hard watch after Before the Storm, I seemed to have forgotten how boring these games are
Robocar Poli sounds absolutely unhinged and I’m HERE FOR IT
Joe starts talking at 2:52
I miss max
I hate to say it but I miss her too ...
Funniest sociopath I've seen in a game
Stupid gun
I know it would have required additional animation, but it kinda annoys me that Chris just mashes his action figures together when they fight... move the damn arms and legs to do punches and kicks, what are you doing kid? XD
Agreed. I refuse to believe that any kid just smashes their toys together like that
First Game had a time travel mechanic in a high school + broken friendship on the mend + murder mystery.
Before the storm at least seemed to provide answers to questions that one might've had during the first game like what was Rachel like, what was her and Chloe's relationship like (although they never answered how Rachel ended up with drug-dealer or how the killer got her).
But this game just has no hook. No interesting social interactions, the supernatural gimmick isn't even in our control and unlike the time-rewind there's no fun way we can use it in social interactions. It's just nothing + social commentary that so far boils down to "America racist except for the odd hero freelance blogger". Life is cringe AND boring
You can write a story about social issues like racism and end up with a good story but this isn’t it. Genuinely 75% of the random characters you meet in this story are literally LETHALLY racist followed by a literal saint; that really hurts your story because it requires suspension of disbelief that the story has to have earned by now OR character writing on your main cast that’s so good that you don’t even notice how blatantly cookie cutter your antagonists are
"Why, why did you lie to me?"
I'm sorry, Daniel, I forgot you knew how to read
😂😂😂
5:16:47 you cant tell me this isnt the beach from the opening of Hitman 2
Man joe got real scared of the chat after that ridiculous “that’s why we need the wall” line xD
4:13:48 His shadow is still stuck back at the fallen tree
Brody is a total white savior
I never understood the minors doing drugs angle of this game
The resolution of that chapter sucked, I don't get why in any world it is the "wrong" choice to rob a couple of scumbag drug dealers who have already stolen from you.
Joseph Anderson making a Ryan George Pitch Meeting reference was NOT on my bingo card
This story would have been infinitely better if Sean knew about Daniels powers often the cop died. That would have made his decision to run away far more understandable
4:00:38
6:02:29 the zero time dilemma treatment
finally some Life is Cringe²
oh my god wasting all of the money on the claw machine
How the hell did Vaush get in Life is Strange 2?
I remember when this was coming out you could try the demo of EP1 for free on Steam. When I got to the end of the cop shooting scene I was feeling physical pain because of how unbelievably dumb and forced it was and I ALT-F4'd then and there. Years freaking later I'm here watching this to see how joe suffers through it and by the end of this episode I can't seem to do it. The game is even worse than I imagined it🤣🤣🤣
man I looked up the Truck X clip that is some serious shit😭
3:08:44
HE KNOWS
Vran’s weren’t in Witcher books // Aen shiede and Aen aelle are from completely different spheres, Aen shiede were oppressed by humans Aen aelle are colonizers who in part were driven out of their sphere by climate change (by way of the white frost)
I like his interpretation but like the separation between both spheres elves are huge
how is this worse than steins gate
You only bought one soda so you lost $1.
2:27:34 I don't get why Joe is throwing a fit here about jump scare and twist ending? Am I too old or too young to get the reference?
They were refering to the trump 2016 debate. He only realized when he freaked out.
"stop saying true statements because idiots don't understand facts."
4:30:12 Joe what the fuck 💀💀💀
2:44:27 Beargir hehe
This game is absolutely appalling and not even really to the point it's laughably bad. First game had some nice representation and while it was cringe, it was quite interesting and I wanted to know what would happen..
With LiS 2 it's like.. you just *know* exactly what the people look like who they hired in between LiS 1 and LiS 2. What you're picturing is 100% correct
LIS 2 was a waste of money...
…. This game is not that bad. I think its interesting that ppl despise it so much, and i get that its heavy handed but that doesnt explain the consistent hatred of this game.
It's actually the best of the series if you want your choices to actually matter and influence the story but I think there's a very large gay fanbase who were alienated by the fact that the charcters in this were too straight.
This game is sooo boring
(please don't take personal offense to things I'm saying here)
Edit: looks like someone took offense anyway. *sigh*. Save your collected breaths, I won't read any replies anymore
1. Does Joe record the streams a second time to get chat? Sounds like it. There's software that'll do that.
2. I agree with Joe with regards to adaptations. I really hate discussions around "faithfulness to the source material" for adaptations. I prefer to judge a work on its own merits first and as an adaptation second. The Halo show is an above average Sci Fi show first, and a shitty adaptation second.
3. Joe talking to Finn about the dishes was freaking hilarious
4. The water heater section was a perfect representation of irrational childhood fears and how we used to trick ourselves to overcome them. The room being small in real life but huge in his imagination is just the cherry on top. Really well done.
5. Concerned neighbor looking out for abused child's well being: "gO aWaY nOsY bItCh"
6. Struggling mom trying to make her family whole and not making the best decisions == dude who literally beats up his kid
7. Media has no obligation to "provide solutions". It's BS to suggest that a piece of media shouldn't touch a topic if it can't also give solutions to the problems presented.
8. Flipping the bird isn't meant to be badass
9. Cop just shot kid's unarmed dad, baby brother blew up the neighborhood, more cops are on the way. Joe: "wHaT aRe YoU rUnNiNg FoR?"
10. "That was really forced and kinda dumb". Yep, exactly like all incidents of police shooting innocent and unarmed people.
11. Ok they can 100% track that phone if it's on
12. Yeah Joe is sheltered as all f****
13. This game is so boring. Captain Spirit was at least interesting. So far LiS 2 has been just... dull. Dull is, in fairness, worse than bad so this is worse than before the storm 👀
14. Game won a BAFTA for the lead's voice acting, which is honestly well deserved.
15. "Do you really think this is being genuine?". Yes. Yes it is. When one doesn't experience racism, it's easy to think that the experience of people who do is somehow fantastical or exaggerated. At least 72 million people in the US voted for building a wall between US and Mexico. That doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can read horrifying accounts of Pakistanis that were detained in freezing weather on the Canada border the day of the "Muslim ban". This isn't the constant reality of racism, and systemic racism is deeper and more insidious, but this _also_ happens. It's utterly nonsense to think that it doesn't.
16. "Did you pay for that?" is an insanely common face of racism in the US at least. In the same vein as increased security in retail stores in black neighborhoods.
17. Alright so Brody secret serial killer?
18. Ooh, that line about this not being Seattle anymore hits pretty hard too. The divide between attitudes in cities and in the country side is unreasonably big in the US
19. Meh, if someone is going to be boneheaded about "Everything is political" will be boneheaded about "Everyone can be interpreted politically". You're giving them too much credit here.
20. This game is 10x more hilarious without the copyrighted music.
21. You know what, no. Brody can't be a liberal. He helped someone instead of just talking about it.
22. Wait, that one line is all that changes based on what happened to Acadia Bay???
23. Oh good they finally addressed the phone
24. Man, Joe's read of the US justice system is so charitable 😅
25. Agreed with Joe. Game's been pretty dull. Before the Storm was fucking awful though.
Why do you watch this guy man, ive seen you on every single vod just complaining with paragraphs. Just stop watching if you don't enjoy it lol
@@goshenite1949 reading must be very hard. Keep at it. It gets better in 3rd grade ❤️
I'm enjoying every single stream. Just because I comment about some of the things that Joe says doesn't mean I'm hate watching. Half of what I've said here is either agreeing with Joe or responding to chat instead of Joe. It does seem to be triggering you lot though which just tells me to do it more 😋.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 theres light criticism, and there is making a numbered list of everything you dislike about a video. Also this whole mindset of "well its annoying you so i win" is so childish. I go into the comments to see if people have anything interesting or constructive to say when its done, not to see you just "joe said this, he is wrong". Im not arguing with you further, its just annoying
@@goshenite1949 just because something is annoying to you personally, doesn't mean you should immediately attack it.
I think consciously engaging with content and writing down your own reactions and thoughts (in a list or however it suits anyone) is probably miles better than just mindlessly consuming content.
Oh get the presses, MechanicalMonk isn't reading replies anymore, what a shocker