The Walking Dead: The Game

I see a Walking Dead Season 1 bundle was added on PSN recently,does it come with something different than buying the Season Pass and 400 Days as the price of buying either way will be the same(I know Season comes with a premium theme)

Wait. I just found out Episode 5 is out this week.

How did I miss that?

No, Its September 23rd, not August.

Nnnnno, it's August 26.

I guess they changed it? Because I thought it was mid-september, too.

Every article I've read has said September. Link? If it is the 26th, I need to play through Seasons 1 and 2 in time. Yikes!

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The September release date was never from an official source.

Oh. What time does Steam update again?

Also, it seems that Steam saved all of my progress between computers. Didn't know it could do that.

Hmm. I already have an upgrade available thing for my Vita. Though I'm on campus and the campus wifi doesn't seem to want to work with my Vita.

Just saw the last episode Given that there are branching paths between Kenny or Jane surviving and who you end up with, I wouldn't be surprised if this would be the last we see of Clementine.

edited 26th Aug '14 12:22:19 PM by VeryMelon

That was really good, if incredibly hard to keep playing at some points.

• I saved AJ at the beginning. Giving everything else that happens, I imagine that he always makes it out of the battle alive.
• That scene at the power station was really good.
• I tried to save Luke. Again, I'm assuming that going with his plan to provide covering fire doesn't work either.
• I stopped Kenny from attacking Arvo at every opportunity and the fucker still shot me. I'm assuming that he still would have shot Clem even if I didn't rob him last episode? Fucker. I don't blame Mike and Bonnie though. They just saw the writing on the wall and panicked.
• Speaking of getting shot, Telltale really had me scared for a minute. Then I remembered that they'd have a riot on their heads if they actually killed off Clem.
• "Promise me you won't leave me Lee." It takes a lot for a game to make me cry. That one damn line...
• I killed Kenny (yes, yes I'm a bastard). Tearjerking death scene. A great end to a great character.
• I choose to abandon Jane. She's still my favorite character this season, but there's no way in hell that Clem would ever stay with her after she tricked her into killing her oldest friend. Amusingly, this turned Clem into Jane MK 2.

Well, at least that didn't end on as total a downer as the first season. My last three choices were kill Kenny, stayed with Jane, let the family in, and now I'm worried that little shit is going to steal my hat.

I finished. Everyone is dead. Clem is alone with AJ.

Carver was fully right and justified, and the most sane person in the series.

edited 26th Aug '14 2:51:14 PM by DrTentacles

Since I'm new and I don't know how to 'code' I'll make this spoiler free,but the obvious though,I think we all knew them Russians would die.not much of a spoiler.

Review:Best episode of the season.

edited 26th Aug '14 2:52:23 PM by deadwaste

Alright choices.

• I protected the baby. AJ is going to live if I have any say in this. AJ is a terrible name. It should be Lee.
• I went with Luke's advice. I went and shot at walkers and trusted him to pull himself up...and I also broke the ice and such. Naaaaaah. -sniff-
• I didn't ask Mike to take me with him, I just wanted to keep talking to him. FUCKING ARVO FOR SHOOTING ME. (I think it's because we shot his sister that he hated us, if we were nice to him)
• I didn't shoot Kenny. ...my thought process at the moment was Thou Shalt Not Kill but...looking back, it would have meant death either way.
• But in the end, Kenny was broken. He was broken at the lodge, still hurting from the loss of his family. Going on by just finding someone else to look after who may relate to Katjaa and Duck. I left him. And took AJ with me.

And honestly, I wouldn't have stuck with Jane either. She was in the wrong for trying to prove what I already knew. I just saw someone who was as willing to go far for a good companion as Kenny would for a small child. I actually need to see the other scene to see how it goes though.

edited 26th Aug '14 4:52:59 PM by phoenixdaughterAM

Well that was interesting, first time I've felt genuine anger at something in a video game, or really any fictional media thing, when I saw AJ in the car after I just shot Kenny. I left Jane. Manipulative bitch.

what were the other endings? 'cos the ending I got was Clem cutting open a walker and smearing the guts on her and AJ to sneak past a giant herd

didn't really expect what happened from Mike, he was a stand up guy.

Was also slight amused/annoyed when Bonnie got pissed at me when she said that just 'cos Clem was little girl she wasn't expected to do anything when all i've been getting all this season is people, including Bonnie expecting me to do stuff 'cos i'm a little girl

I'm still annoyed that Bonnie gave me crap for Luke dying when it was her fault for causing the ice to crack.

You should have jumped in because you were lighter, is probably what she was thinking. Despite the fact that I've seen the result and it's that walkers get to him.

I still don't understand why we weren't allowed to kill Arvo. In every scene he was in, I was begging for Kenny to shoot him. That boy had to die, because it was clear he had a massive chip on his shoulder.

I went with Jane in the end, because I thought Kenny had utterly snapped and lost it. I simply didn't trust him any longer - His comments were too much like an abusive parent. "I can change/I didn't mean to do that/I couldn't help myself!" I also turned the family away at the end, because there was no way I was going to deal with that again. And I was right in that the man was armed and dangerous.

Though the moral of the story is that if someone holds a grudge, you should kill them without compunction, or they'll cause trouble later.

edited 26th Aug '14 7:43:02 PM by iridium248

I was so confused by the sight of AJ in the car. Though... I think Jane's intentions were correct, her actions to prove it were screwed. I do find it awkward that Kenny walked outside to find nothing and came back as though he saw a corpse. : /

I didn't know what to do with Jane's offer so I let the time run out and Clem went with her. Seems I do this every last episode of the season; I let Clem decide what to do with Lee (she left him while sobbing and traumatized) and I let Clem decide what to do with Jane's offer.

I let the family in. I refuse to be so indecent to people. I don't care if they were armed; Who the fuck isn't in this world? And its never going to get to the point where people aren't always armed if I turn everyone away.

I was disappointed that the 400 Days Characters didn't appear at the very least as corpses. They were such a damn waste of time. Goddamn.

I didn't like this season. I feel like the structure was really really awkward and it wasn't able to pull at my heartstrings until far too late in the season; Episode 5 shouldn't be when I finally feel for people's death. :(

Only 19% invited the family in. Yikes. And it's impractical to not invite people in because people will come anyway, and Clem/Janes/AJ are only 2 1/2 people.

Bonnie didn't give ME crap for Luke dying when I tried to save him. Guess she didn't like YOUR Clem.

And a PS. Kenny knew he was becoming a monster. He thanked me for shooting him - and I told him he was going to see Katjaa and Duck again, letting him go out with a smile.

edited 26th Aug '14 9:22:20 PM by AnotherGuy

Yeah, that's why he let me take AJ. He himself was getting scared of what he was becoming. "Better he with you than with me." I was...actually surprised at how sad I was at his acceptance and farewell.

She only gives you crap if you fire at the Walkers. My logic for the situation was that I'd take care of the Walkers and he could pull himself out, but Bonnie walks onto the ice anyway. The Walkers are the dager there, Luke can take his sweet time getting out if they aren't a threat. Her bitching at me actually made me so depressed I reloaded.

I'm still confused on how we 'stole' from Arvo because that was never goddamn addressed and idk what happened there.

Huh. Thought it was odd that we got the "This game series adapts to the choices you make" thing at the start of the episode.

Jane came back! Glad to see there was more to her than another Molly.

Cleaning Kenny's wound reminded me of stitching up Clem's arm back in Episode 1. It was a nice parallel, showing her growth from fending only for herself, to having others who need her.

I liked the scene around the fire.

Frozen lake. Bad idea. Frozen lake frozen lake FROZEN LAKE! WALKERS! THIS IS A BAD IDEA!

I don't know why I keep calling Kenny off of Arvo. The little fuck's done nothing to deserve my sympathy. Maybe I'm just trying to keep Kenny from falling down the slippery slope.

Bonnie's sure being high-and-mighty over what happened to Luke. I saw her readying her gun and figured it would be better not to disturb the ice so that Luke could get himself out. I certainly didn't tell her to go out there herself. This is her fault, not mine.

You keep that hair short. /wells up

I swear to god, if I ever see Arvo again, I'm going to blow his brains out. I should have let him die. I can't believe Mike and Bonnie were going to steal the truck, and the supplies, and take that asshole with them! I'm just glad that Jane wasn't with them.

...Lee? /cries actual tears throughout the whole scene

So there's my reactions. My choices didn't load properly, and the Episode 5 list isn't up in the menu yet, so I don't know what everything was.

I'll post my thoughts on the season, and then what I did for the ending.

I feel like, when viewed in light of the finale, Season 2 is stronger than Season 1. Unfortunately, it takes until the ending for it to get there, so the overall impression of the season is coloured by the fact that you don't really know where it's going until about the last hour of a nine-hour experience, and that has to be taken into account. Season 2 doesn't have a "plot" so much as it is a character study of Clementine. It's focused more on her character development, and the path she's going to follow going forward than an actual narrative. I think Seasons 1 and 2 are roughly equal in how I feel about them. Season 1 has a lot of bumps, especially early on, and feels very video game-y, while Season 2 has less obvious struggles that extend over almost the entire season, but feels like a more grounded experience.

Neither is anywhere near as good as The Wolf Among Us, though.

Here's what I did for the ending.

I ultimately shot Kenny. I knew what Jane was doing right away, and she was right. It was a decision I must have made long ago, because I didn't even hesitate. I'm glad he came back to himself as he was dying though. I was grateful that I was at least able to comfort him in his final moments (although it's just now occurring to me that we didn't make sure he didn't turn). I told him that he'd see Katjaa and Duck soon. I also forgave Jane very quickly, mostly because I had already figured out what she was doing, so unfortunately that bit rang a bit hollow with me, because I wasn't in the same place as Clem. I was a little disappointed that we ended up going back to Carver's compound, since while I wanted to stay with Jane, I did want to keep looking for Wellington. North is the best direction to go in the zombie apocalypse regardless of what the characters in the story were doing. And I let the family in. Cautious optimism. Help people as much as you can, but don't be afraid to make the hard choices if you need to.

It's what Lee would have wanted.