I feel like I've been scammed

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Originally Posted by darknessofheart

Choices don't have to actually alter a character's fate to be seen as significant. In this case, the relationships between Lee and these characters is what the choices alter, which I believe is a very significant aspect of the game. You can argue that the choices don't change a character's outcome (though saving some to have around for one or two more episodes is also pretty significant to me), but it does change many, many moments with those characters and your relationship with them.

That is one of the major reasons why the players become so attached to these characters; it was our choices that enabled us to save them or form a more personable relationship with them. I found siding with Kenny over Lilly and vice versa to be very different and unique experiences because it changed my outlook on those characters and how I reacted to them through the game's dialogue. In a game that is primarily about story and character development, the choices matter a hell of a lot in my opinion.

Just because they don't change a character's fate, does not mean that the choices don't mean a thing. They change things quite a bit from when you meet those characters to when they die.

To conduce: It's the how and why of the journey, not the journey itself!

[Danno123]

Originally Posted by susanne20

Well, I bought the game because I watched a gameplay video for about 10 minutes and the first thing it said was this:

"This game series adapts to the choices you make. The story is tailored by how you play."


But in reality it is a very linear game. It merely gives an illusion of having a choice. Pretty much the only choice you have is getting to choose which dialog audio files you want to hear and that is it. This is false advertising and I don't think I'll ever buy anything from telltalegames again.

Why couldn't the developers the honest about it instead of lying?

Thanks for wasting my time and money and happy new year, I guess...

"Tailors" your game. Not "Dramatically changes it so you have different ways of having 3 million different outcomes!"
If someone dying in a game that is supposed to be slightly based around the deaths of characters makes you not wanna buy anything else from TTG games, then you're missing out.

[Neilny91]

Most games with multiple endings have terrible alternate endings if its not the "good" one anyway...Usually they base it on one action you commit or a stupid karma system...The Walking Dead may be mostly linear but the characters still remembered and reacted to your choices, which made them feel very real to me...And accepting the fact that it has a very linear path (episode five especially) why should that stop you from playing it? Many great games have linear paths and if your upset about false advertising what they're advertising now is that it's won over seventy game of the year awards even though it's a goddamn episodical click and point adventure...If you want to check my facts I think the proof is at the top of the page above this troll thread.