Carley & Doug: Easy & Hard Mode

[HiggsBoson2142]

I think Telltale tried to even out the pros and cons of each character. When you were with Glenn and Carley, all she did was complain and wanted to go back to the drugstore. In my opinion that was Telltale trying to make the two seem equal. It didn't work.

If you ask me, I think you should've been able to pick Carley or Doug to come with you to help Glenn.

[DreadMagus]

That doesn't really make sense to me.

If anything, Carley's reaction was extremely practical. While Glenn's was fueled by basement nerd hormones.

[Dildor]

Originally Posted by DreadMagus

That doesn't really make sense to me.

If anything, Carley's reaction was extremely practical. While Glenn's was fueled by basement nerd hormones.

Yeah, haha. Lee was really fast to jump on board too.

[DreadMagus]

See, Lee's the ultimate white knight though. He's badass like that. lol

[Gman5852]

Carley doesn't have a scene where she shine's a laser pointer in a guys eye and have it be just as effective as shooting him with a gun

[DreadMagus]

You know, that's always kinda bugged me.

How the fuck did he pull that off?

If he's got that kind of aim and precision, they should have given that boy a firearm

Of course, I might be jealous because I can't aim a laser pointer for nothing.

[HiggsBoson2142]

Originally Posted by DreadMagus

You know, that's always kinda bugged me.

How the fuck did he pull that off?

If he's got that kind of aim and precision, they should have given that boy a firearm

Of course, I might be jealous because I can't aim a laser pointer for nothing.

He was probably fiddling with it before it got in Andy's eye.

[Zeruis]

I would never save someone who wears socks with sandals. Besides, Carley had a gun, and she seemed like an alright character. We got to spent a lot of time with her. Because of that, I saved her rather than the guy standing on lookout who only gets interaction with you when you're searching for the pharmacy keys.

[anonymau5]

I picked Carley because I liked her more. For some reason Doug just kinda annoyed me. He didn't seem to do anything, and was somewhat boring of a character. On my second play through where I chose Doug he was a lot cooler, but I still prefer Carley.

[DreadMagus]

To be honest, the thing that doomed Doug (for me) was the fact he seemed like a gimmick.

Sure he could do a few neat and obscure tricks - but I didn't get a "he'll have my back in a fight" vibe from him.

While that's not why I saved Carley, it is why I didn't even try to save Doug.

Originally I thought I could save both, but when I found out I couldn't, I didn't really regret it.

[CarScar]

Originally Posted by anonymau5

I picked Carley because I liked her more. For some reason Doug just kinda annoyed me. He didn't seem to do anything, and was somewhat boring of a character. On my second play through where I chose Doug he was a lot cooler, but I still prefer Carley.

Yeah, they should have brought Doug's character out a little more like they do in the next episodes as well as give him more screen time. It would give players a good incentive to save Doug over Carley in episode 1 because, as is, there really isn't many good reasons to save Doug in your first, main playthrough.

[NeonBlade]

Originally Posted by dustpuffs

Well, I'm female, and I chose Doug.

Well you are in the extreme minority, just like me and anyone else who saved Doug. Like I said, its in the 20% range. I can't exactly remember if its 23% or 28% but whatever the number; it should be highlighted for social condemnation for the Western world.

[HiggsBoson2142]

Originally Posted by NeonBlade

Well you are in the extreme minority, just like me and anyone else who saved Doug. Like I said, its in the 20% range. I can't exactly remember if its 23% or 28% but whatever the number; it should be highlighted for social condemnation for the Western world.

Then I'm also in the 3% that fed Doug in Episode 2. I heard he usually refuses, but I gave him some jerky, and he took the jerky. So I was like, "Alright."

[Demopan]

Originally Posted by TheRickGrimes

Who'd be more useful in a zombie apocalypse?

Carly: Female, able to use a gun and get nice headshots and has good points.

Doug: ..Nerdy technician guy.

Carley: Dumb bitch with a gun

Doug: Resourceful and not a dumb bitch.

[Demopan]

Originally Posted by Pickles312

F. ? Carley stands up for herself and another person by standing up to Lilly, something Doug could have never done.

Actually, Carley got heated and involved in an argument she had to know would end in Lilly becoming completely unscrewed. All she did with her "standing up" was get herself killed. Doug tried to calm the situation down and get Lilly to not kill anyone, and he died saving someone else. Also in the drugstore, Carley gets killed because she cant kill 1 zombie. Doug holds off an entire window of zombies using only his spine. Not to mention he saved Carley from a van surrounded by zombies. Doug died with 10 times more of a badass than Carley.

[CalDW19940]

Originally Posted by DreadMagus

To be honest, the thing that doomed Doug (for me) was the fact he seemed like a gimmick.

Sure he could do a few neat and obscure tricks - but I didn't get a "he'll have my back in a fight" vibe from him.

While that's not why I saved Carley, it is why I didn't even try to save Doug.

Originally I thought I could save both, but when I found out I couldn't, I didn't really regret it.

In the long run he has knowledge very few people would have in the world, anyone can learn to fire a gun but not everyone would be able to hot wire a car, set up a power grid circuit board or create distractions using remotes. You could always teach Doug how to shoot.

Carly wasted 6 shots to kill 1 walker at some point, Larry did say at one point she had an itchy trigger finger which suggests that in the time he had spent with her in the group prior to Lee, Clem and Kenny's family appearing she'd somehow showed to him examples of her being bad with both conserving ammo or thinking about the problems using the gun would cause and just jumps into action without clear thinking.

Also in the scenario when you had to save her she had only 1 walker by her ankle she could have easily got off with a good hard kick yet Doug was struggling fighting off 3 and they both had equal chances of survival based on Lee's help? :L

Carly also couldn't figure out how batteries work...yeah...

[DreadMagus]

Anything Doug could supply could be pulled out of a book.

[Merc]

Originally Posted by DreadMagus

Anything Doug could supply could be pulled out of a book.

And where exactly would one get multiple books providing tech know-how during an Apocalypse?

And, I mean, look at him! He's like a rolly-polly! Who wouldn't pick the guy?

[Viner16]

Doug should've gotten a bit more screentime in Ep 1 if TellTale wanted the decision to be less onesided then it is now.

I mean that time where you leave the Pharmacy at the gates is pretty much the only time you talk to him, and it's hardly anything.

[Iyrsiiea]

I saved Carley because she had a gun and is damn good with it. The fact that she was female had nothing to do with it (I'm female). Though, after watching some LPs with Doug, I do kinda regret losing him.