Thanks for sharing. Love this format! I think Life is Strange also belongs in this list

Let’s see YOUR home screen setup!

I use trello for this

Yeah exactly. I don’t mean before the storm. I guess I was the target market for LiS2! I thought it expanded the scope of the basic game mechanics in such a cool and interesting way. It was big and bold and I’m really sad it missed the mark with most

By third one, do you mean true colors? This is much closer to before the storm I’d say, and the subject matter isn’t as ‘serious’ as LiS2. However I’d say the writing (specifically the dialogue) is probably the strongest of the 4 games.

The community is honestly very annoying about it.

The Max/Chloe shipper community, I completely agree. I’m a huge fan of the game series but I kinda blame that group for LiS2 not being super successful, and I would have loved a 3rd one with that kind of scope!

The whole article is gory. This was written by either an idiot or a robot. Paragraph 1:

Though Deck Nine has been developing new Life is Strange games for some time, the recently released Double Exposure is the first to revisit the characters from the 2015 original, resulting in some controversy.

The first Deck Nine LiS game revisits the characters from the 2015 original 🙃

I’m looking forward to the game, not sure why it’s allowed review scores on Steam before it’s released though.

He is also an amazing roleplayer

Check out Haunted City, the blades in the dark RPG actual play podcast. Abu is the chaos agent in this and has some amazing scenes. One of the best

Yeah I think that is the general sentiment on 2. I didn’t feel this way at all when I played it.

I think the themes in 2 are so powerful and explored in interestin such interesting ways. It tackles growing up and responsibility but also obviously politics, protest, immigration, racism.

True colours gets in to some of these more global themes too, albeit in a much narrower scope.

I guess 2 was a lot more ambitious and clearly didn’t land for people as successfully

I thought the writing was excellent, especially compared to the first game. It also had a bisexual storyline for what it’s worth but I generally thought it was such a great expansion of all their ideas.

Also loved the free teaser game captain awesome, and how it crossed over into the main game.

I feel like they really were stung by the overall reception of it, that we lost the storyline we’d have had if it had gone over well. I thought it was vastly superior personally. That said I’ve enjoyed all the games in the series. Before the storm feels janky at first but does have some decent writing in it also.

Stoked for that and Blood and Rage early next year as well

Thanks for sharing this. I love the series so I will play this, tbqh I’m not sure these events mark Deck Nine out much from the industry as a whole sadly.

Off topic, what did y’all think of LiS2? I thought it was a real shame that it didn’t do as well as they hoped.

1000% agree. Pixel 3a / 4a era was the greatest

I went back to action launcher which I really like.

I basically have one home screen with links to my most used stuff.

It has covers which I believe originated here but was later possible on Nova. Basically you make folders of apps that you can tap to open, but you can set that to swipe instead so that the tap just opens the first app in the folder

So for example I listen to podcasts way more often than music from my phone, so I have a folder for audio where I can tap to open podcasts or swipe to open the folder and get to music.

I then have a slide in drawer that has the weather and my calendar and that’s basically it. Very rarely need to go to the main app list once this is set up. I will likely never change this as I don’t really use that many apps regularly.

Quite a big change for a small feature

I’m using action launcher and I really like the search. It searches apps but then has quick links too, so you can send the search query to a search engine, Google play or others

Switched back to action launcher when this happened

Main feature I love, which to my knowledge action did first anyway, is to have a folder of app icons where one is the most frequent. You tap on it to open the frequent option or swipe it to open the folder.

Basically means you almost never need the app deserter l drawer

Same + AFAIK Nova nicked all the good stuff from action anyway

It’s great! Specifically, the feature I’m thinking of was the swipe on an icon functionality (not sure if that’s what OP means). I have my most used apps set to the tap, and then the lesser used ones in the swipe action, and I love it

It carried on working for years and years without updates but finally died recently. I miss gestural copy and paste for sure

I tried it with open board and had the same issue I’m never going back to non swiping but I miss swype everyday

My 6a is fully a downgrade from my 3a which broke and I lament its passing every time I use the in screen fingerprint reader

It’s bigger, heavier, the battery is worse :(

If you use Steam you can search on the category “Choices Matter” FYI

I completely agree. I want a new bigger one! I thought the writing in 2 was great, considering how cringe some of it was in LiS and Before the Storm (which I still loved anyway).

LiS2 is a brilliant brilliant game

I know exactly the part you mean and same. Amazing moment. I also LOVED the sequel. Criminal that it didn’t do as well as they wanted because I want them to make an even bigger version next. True Colours was pretty good though

Is Jusant really that short? I think the demo took me 2 hours

No idea sorry, but I first learned of it using action launcher and dumped Nova for Action when Nova was sold off. No regrets

Action Launcher had lots of the good stuff Nova has had first, anyway. Heartily recommend. Tbf as long as the launcher has covers/smart folders/whatever they’re called then I’m happy

Why the fork instead of the fdroid version?

Ah I see, no swipe!

It’s on f droid

Plus one for keepass. It is a bit more friction compared to paid services but you are in control of the passwords database, which is why I use it.