Which choices change things drastically? (EP 5 SPOILERS GALORE)

[lucidity02]

Oh good! Let's have this conversation, which will go nowhere, for the zillionth time.

Fingers crossed that someone soon creates a "The Walking Dead isn't a game" thread too so we can commence beating that horse to death too.

[M1L0]

You are not taking into account that even if you are a paragon and have someone's trust they can still die based on dialogue choices. In TWD the final two characters to survive of your group are predetermined. We can agree to disagree on this but I felt me2 gave me a lot more impact on the story, even more than me3 which I felt was like TWD in that it took all your decisions and threw them out the window at the end. Give me another game where you are indirectly in control of who in your party lives and dies. I could have everyone survive or a few people, I could have my main character die if I didn't prepare. Where in TWD are we given choices that actually affect the endgame?

[M1L0]

Originally Posted by lucidity02

Oh good! Let's have this conversation, which will go nowhere, for the zillionth time.

Fingers crossed that someone soon creates a "The Walking Dead isn't a game" thread too so we can commence beating that horse to death too.

I apologize if this has been through a lot. I bought the game 2 days ago and finished it last night. While I enjoyed playing the game and story, I left it totally disappointed it was so linear while making you feel like your decisions matter.

[M1L0]

This article pretty much sums up perfectly how I feel about this game:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/lithosthehe...erage-not-goty

[thestalkinghead]

Originally Posted by M1L0

This article pretty much sums up perfectly how I feel about this game:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/lithosthehe...erage-not-goty

whoever wrote that just seemed annoyed that it wasn't the game they imagined it was, someone must have told them it was a choose your own adventure book in a game and now they are annoyed that it wasn't.

it took me a while to realise it wasn't a choose your own adventure game as well, but just because it isn't the game you were expecting doesn't make the game it actually is a bad game.

[EXIE]

Originally Posted by M1L0

This article pretty much sums up perfectly how I feel about this game:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/lithosthehe...erage-not-goty

"Choice: Gaming hasn't got to the point where choice can be done right, Walking Dead is still one of the best. Mass Effect in the end had to funnel people to a very limited set of end game choices and so does Walking Dead. Fact is there are choices that make my game completely different to someone else, hell the last episode can have an entire different sequence if you choose to let it. But in the end Telltale are telling a story and it would be incredibly hard to track and cover every single angle, but they did give us choice and provide a damn good story along with it.

Oh and ALL my characters came with me to help Clem, so that again leads to you and I having completely different experiences.

Puppets: In a choose your own adventure, you are given options and some may lead to the book ending earlier than other choices. In the end there is one story that goes the longest and that is the main tale, from experiences I had as a kid I went back and took every option until I got the one that kept the story going, to enjoy the story being told to me. I think you sitting their judging the amount of restrictions the game handed you hurt your experience. I cared for Lee and Clem and I felt like my Lee did what I would have done.

The Walking Dead has NO happy ending, no rainbows and puppy dogs, as a huge fan of the comics and TV show, nothing goes right and the ending showed that to perfection. It stayed true to the universe it was created in."

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