[Gregory2012]

Originally Posted by fenom

So 2 guys are coming down the road. And they don't exactly look threatening.. They just want some gas and they're offering food in exchange.

Considering the only thing the group was missing - or at least the #1 ergency- was food, sure let's make a deal. BUT

why should anyone from our group leave to go to the farm? You go back to your farm, bring some food and we give you the gas. We don't know these people, maybe there is no farm at all or they have no food. Right there it was a deal breaker and bad news for me. But all the rest of the group was like let's get going.

There should have been more skepticism. The survivors were listening to their stomachs, not their heads.

Originally Posted by MF25

Kind of reminded me a little of the old people in The Book of Eli too, i figured it out but i didnt realise they were cannibals until i put the wheelbarrow and the bloody room together with Jolene's ramblings.

The St. John Brothers had an answer for everything until the end. The door in the barn was locked to stop bandits (but isn’t the electric fence for that?). The blood wheelbarrow was an accident according to Danny. The bloody room in the barn was slaughtered animals that were killed in the woods.

Jolene sounded crazy and she refused to identify herself when I asked her. She didn’t seem like a good source for information.

Originally Posted by fenom

Yeah all those questions from the start, like how many in your group, how many guns etc...

They could have been curious, but those questions are very personal. If they shared information about themselves in proportion to the information they asked from Lee, I would have felt more comfortable.

Originally Posted by Jonttu1

I realised immideatily that there was something horribly wrong with them when Andy jumped on me for trying to go to the barn before fixing the perimiter.

I fixed the perimeter before approaching the barn, but your experience was a good warning sign.

Originally Posted by Jonttu1

but when Brenda didn't allow me to see Mark I guessed they were cannibals and the whole slaughterhouse in the barn just confirmed it.

Brenda’s reason was that Mark was exhausted. That sounded plausible. I got suckered until the end. I should have been more skeptical.

Originally Posted by interitus

I thought something was off right away with all the help missing. EVERYONE died or left except the family? Seems off.

Well, I thought the explanation was the farm hands were either killed or left to return to their families. That made sense.

Originally Posted by Saracenar

I was incredibly naive and didn't pick it. I knew something was up (but I didn't clue into them being cannibals until I was heading up the stairs towards the bedroom), but I kept giving them the benefit of the doubt, probably for the following reasons:

- I wasn't suspicious about dinner cause I'd seen all their crops out back and thought we'd just be eating vegetables.
- I didn't key in to what Jolene was rambling about, just thought she was crazy and I was a bit focused on the crossbow.
- I didn't notice Danny was sitting by the swing and didn't get to have that creepy conversation with him.
- Andy's explanation for the bloody tool room seemed like it could have had merit.
- I haven't read the comics and so I'm not quite conditioned to the "if its too good to be true it isn't nature".

And personally I think that made it better for me. I imagine keying into it alongside Lee felt way creepier and atmospheric than guessing it from the start.

I completely agree, except I did talk to Danny about his gun. Odd, but I’ve heard of gun owners naming their weapons.

Originally Posted by Jolly Ranchers

i think it would have been kinda cool if everything would have made it seem like they were cannibals but in the end they would have only had a normal dinner and mark would have walked in and there would have been an explanation for everything. And then when you think everything's ok you could have let the family do some other non cannibalistic bad stuff.

That would be a good idea for future episodes. Suspicious characters turn out to be trustworthy while non-suspicious characters have dark secrets. That will confuse the player about who to trust.

Originally Posted by gamingafter40

I also noted (and confirmed on my second playthrough) that while Andy claimed he turned the fence on AFTER Mark yelled, in fact Mark was shot after the fence was turned on.

That is one of the biggest warning signs. I didn’t Andy’s timing error because the conversation was cut short when the group showed up.