Has the wait turned you off about the game?

[Bloody Eugene]

Has the 2 months wait for the 2nd episode turned you off?

[Icedhope]

Nope..I've seen delays last 14 years. two months doesn't bother me.

[Bloody Eugene]

Well, I was more interested at first even reading all the debates on the forum, but now I mostly lurk on it... Even the team seems vanished...

I'm sure I'll be entertained when it will come out, but I'm not sure that the most "casual" gamers will even remember that there's a second episode coming out if you don't recall them about it...

But maybe I'm wrong.

Originally Posted by Icedhope

Nope..I've seen delays last 14 years. two months doesn't bother me.

(welcome back, Tex!)

[sc4recrow]

I think the problem is remembering everything from the first game. If I had to wait two months between episodes of tv shows, I'm not sure how successful they'd be.

[steross1981]

It has just made me play ep1 more times. I just tend to check online to see if its out then when it isn't I try to forget I'm waiting for it. (Difficult I know) I have found lots of interesting z games due to my need of a z game fix.

sc4recrow - I wonder if we will get a "Previously on The Walking Dead"

[sc4recrow]

Would be nice if you did get a "previously on the walking dead" that ties in to your own choices.

[steross1981]

Previously on The Walking Dead - You have butter fingers with a shotgun cartridge, you shoot a man in the head then ask if he is alive, you trip, you trip over again, you slip on some blood you have just looked at, you drink some questionable water,you trip over again. ok im gonna stop here it could take ages

[Duck Zombie]

Nope, was hooked since Lee, and Clem were discussing what Hershel's barn smelled like. The 2 month wait has made me want it even more, and I can't wait to see Lee struggle to survive in the undead world with Clem. How far can you push a person before they turn into a cornered animal? Will Carly still not know how to use battaries? Will Lee's past be revealed? Can Duck really drive a tractor?! All these and answered and more on the next action packed Walking Dead.

[Bloody Eugene]

well, I've to say that If the game takes place after 3 months.... it will feel real..... :P

BTW programmers alerady stated that there will be a "previously on TWD:TG" feature at the beginning!

[flash-900]

simply yes

[RAnthonyMahan]

The way people are overreacting to the delay is baffling. It's just a month. Telltale's skipped a month before, and yet people are acting like this is the next Duke Nukem Forever.

To be honest, the wave of newcomers who neither know nor care about how Telltale works that this game is bringing in is killing me. Good thing Fables and King's Quest should be more nichey.

[justaguy]

Originally Posted by Bloody Eugene

Has the 2 months wait for the 2nd episode turned you off?

Yes it has... tbh. Following the end of the first episode I was really jazzed about playing this series. Now I can hardly remember what happened or which choices I made -- and I played through the game twice.

It is really disappointing for a gaming company to establish an episodic format and then fail to live up to their established timeline for that content's delivery.

Consider me jaded .

[justaguy]

Originally Posted by sc4recrow

I think the problem is remembering everything from the first game. If I had to wait two months between episodes of tv shows, I'm not sure how successful they'd be.

+1 This....

[Lars80]

No.
Frustrating. Yes.

But i am a die hard zombie fanatic and will wait for as long as necessary.

[Vainamoinen]

I also agree with sc4recrow. It's not the wait, it's the dissolving narrative continuity.

A two month wait was never the problem in previous games. The first two Sam & Max seasons, Wallace & Gromit, Back to the Future ALL had a two-month gap between the first and second episodes. What the heck, so it was two months, whatever. The only thing you really had to remember from the previous episode was the grand picture, the rudimentary storyline.

The Walking Dead game is different. It is also about details, about the small choices, about things you maybe accidentally said or did in certain situations. It is hard enough remembering those when one month has passed, but two full months? How should I still know if that first save slot has the game in which I was a bit too liberal with the swear words around Clementine, in which I somehow managed to not lie to Hershel, in which I told Kenny a bit too much about myself, in which I happened to miss a battery? I think episode 2 might feel a bit too much as if you're thrown into "some" story instead of "your" story because you naturally forget all the small things. That is even more true for real fans who have three (or more! ) save slots with different approaches.

I can understand that TWD is a new type of game that poses new challenges to designers and programmers, so I wholeheartedly understand the delay (yet not the lack of communication). From what we've heard from the developers in the past, the release intervals of episodes are constantly discussed at TTG, and of course they desire a "perfect" interval between episodes, a balance between speed and quality.

For Sam & Max I say: seven weeks, not really a problem. For the Walking Dead, I would indeed say: five weeks is a bit too long. The long term Telltale fans have eventually embraced the episodic concept, no doubt about that. But here the ones who wait for the Season to finish before they start playing are at a definite immersion advantage. That DOES threaten the episodic concept.

[steross1981]

Originally Posted by flash-900

simply yes

simply red

[Gman5852]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

I also agree with sc4recrow. It's not the wait, it's the dissolving narrative continuity.

A two month wait was never the problem in previous games. The first two Sam & Max seasons, Wallace & Gromit, Back to the Future ALL had a two-month gap between the first and second episodes. What the heck, so it was two months, whatever. The only thing you really had to remember from the previous episode was the grand picture, the rudimentary storyline.

The Walking Dead game is different. It is also about details, about the small choices, about things you maybe accidentally said or did in certain situations. It is hard enough remembering those when one month has passed, but two full months? How should I still know if that first save slot has the game in which I was a bit too liberal with the swear words around Clementine, in which I somehow managed to not lie to Hershel, in which I told Kenny a bit too much about myself, in which I happened to miss a battery? I think episode 2 might feel a bit too much as if you're thrown into "some" story instead of "your" story because you naturally forget all the small things. That is even more true for real fans who have three (or more! ) save slots with different approaches.

I can understand that TWD is a new type of game that poses new challenges to designers and programmers, so I wholeheartedly understand the delay (yet not the lack of communication). From what we've heard from the developers in the past, the release intervals of episodes are constantly discussed at TTG, and of course they desire a "perfect" interval between episodes, a balance between speed and quality.

For Sam & Max I say: seven weeks, not really a problem. For the Walking Dead, I would indeed say: five weeks is a bit too long. The long term Telltale fans have eventually embraced the episodic concept, no doubt about that. But here the ones who wait for the Season to finish before they start playing are at a definite immersion advantage. That DOES threaten the episodic concept.

This

It's going to be pretty difficult to remember the little things, I remember Kenny making note to a dialoge option I forgot I chose in the same episode! God knows how I will remember with a 2 month gap.

[Goldrock]

Yeah in away it did ill still gonna play it but its the last time i pre order anything from tt till they learn to give solid release dates i expect to get what i ordered on time not excuses liek days before the supposed release dates i expected monthly i expect to have my product on time if i went to lowes to order a door and the saleman tells me 2 weeks then i come in at the supposed date and he said it was pushed back another 2 weeks better bet id be ticked off and problably wouldnt special order another door from them again.

[Girlbrushthreepwood]

Turned me off no, but i think the fires that burn for interest in game dies down a bit, i mean look how sloppy a job updating people the makers of the walking dead facebook game have been , they lost their peak release date

[Milosuperspesh]

the wait is long and it sucks and like vaino i have 3 slots with different play throughs on

luckily i know what my choices are
slot 1 gut reaction, do what i'd do, shaun, carly, pro kenny, missed clem once
slot 2 mostly good choices,not drinking water, duck, doug, pro kenny, save clem
slot 3 pure asshole do not trust carly and save her, pro larry be a bit harsh with clem,