LogFAQs > #980850885

Would be interesting if there were two different story paths, and you chose Bay or Bae at the start of the game. And each of those story paths went down the same route but in remarkably different ways for the reasons Roba already said. Like... with the Bay ending, Max probably stays in Arcadia Bay, graduates school, and has a successful, but somewhat hollow, life. With the Bae ending, she and Chloe go on a road trip and she probably gets a following on Instagram with all her cool photographs, and by the time of this game, she and Chloe are engaged and preparing for their wedding. If she's in the same place either way, just with different dialogue and relationships (Chloe vs. a different significant other)... it could work, but that would be a MASSIVE undertaking. It's like two entirely different stories that only have some threads in common.

So having two different places she's at in life won't work. I'd think people will be pissed off no matter what. They can't simply make one ending canon when people are so divided over it. That said, I'd think Max would have chosen the Bae ending in that moment. Even if it's not the right thing to do, it's what her heart was set on. And that was what made that ending so compelling: Do you go with what's right, with what Chloe is telling you to do, or do you go with your heart?

I don't expect this game to be a winner. LIS1 was simply something that shouldn't have a sequel, and it's why they did a prequel and then two games with other protagonists set in the same universe. Coming back here is asking for trouble.