The Walking Dead: The Game

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series has launched totally broken on PS'4.

The horror angle loses me. I enjoyed Until Dawn but I don't know if I want to follow a horror anthology. I'll be keeping an eye for any of their other projects.

Any word on a full series release on Switch?

Kirkman just released "Negan Lives" following up on what happens to Negan in the end.

It was a sad reflection on the character that just left me with a Sequel Hook that will probably never be continued. Kirkman admits as such, stating that the "what happens next" may never come.

Plus side is proceeds from the book are apparently going to some noble cause.

Down side is was a whatever story. I think he did better just leaving Negan the way he did, letting the imagination roam, and not even Carl fully knowing what became of him.

Bright side is Clementine is canon, one of the letter hacks says she lives.

So anyone interested in the news that Clementine is going Canon Immigrant and appearing in the Skybound X anthology series

Hey, that's actually really cool! (How soon can she show up in the TV series?)

If Clem shows up in the TV series, I’d be super worried about her survival chances.

…Good point.

Isn’t the show in its final season? Seems unlikely they’d find room for her at this point.

Final Seasons tend to be the wildest... Hell ever since the TV series killed Carl, Not-Carl/ Henry and Not-Sophia/ Enid

Everybody has just been playing the whose death gets moved around now

There supposed to a bunch of TV spinoffs coming up like the tv anthology Tales of the Walking Dead that she could pop up in maybe Skybound X could be a testing ground see if they have a character jump the mediums

A new graphic novel centered around Clementine has been announced, which takes place after the fourth season.

Reception has been mixed as there's a big possibility for it to override the ending of the Final Season.

Edited by Afrovenator on Jun 27th 2021 at 11:04:19 AM

Damn, just let it die and end on the decent note it did.

Comic comes out tomorrow

Man, Clementine was incredibly OOC in this comic. This is some steaming bull.

She... wasn't OOC.

I’d like to hear how out of character she was, don’t leave me in suspense.

Apparently she's leaving AJ and her friends because she's "unhappy", even though that wasn't the case in the last episode. She's off to go and create a new settlement with different people and gain a new love interest. Basically, the Final Season is rendered pointless.

Edit: Clem says AJ can't make her happy, even though she went to the ends of the earth to find him in New Frontier. Unless the new comic trilogy elaborates further, this is pretty bad.

Edited by Afrovenator on Jul 7th 2021 at 8:12:43 AM

Ghost Carly scene from Season 1 deleted from the game for unknown reasons. I had no idea this existed.

So here's a question: Telltale late into its lifespan would get mocked for how its choices don't matter despite emphasizing how much your choices matter? No matter what choice you make, you will get from point a to point b, with the only difference is who is in your party when you get to point b. Shouldn't the same criticism be applied to this game?

I personally don't feel much variation with Season 1. Yes there is better organization of who and what can happen - but it still comes down to Lee traveling to rescue Clementine and saving her in the end. A story still needs to be told.

You can't have an episode of a TV show where the main character could die, could live, could die but save someone, or save someone they shouldn't - logistical and technological standards haven't made that sort of production possible in a triple AAA title with voice-acting. Text-based games and silent protagonist avatars make this possible, but when you have an actor in a booth it is difficult to tell a compelling story that goes in several directions.

The only exceptions are Saints Row and lower-budget indie titles. Saints Row cheats by having the main character have a distinctive, crass personality and minor choices in III and IV that ultimately mock the concept of making important decisions in video games. They're meaningless.

That said, there is a difference between TWD Season 1 and 2, and Season 3. Season 3 makes the choices feel incomplete. We don't ever find out what happens to Joan or the New Frontier. 4 more or less makes the choices 1 and 2 retroactively more interesting via Call-Back's.

Edited by FOFD on Apr 28th 2024 at 12:20:42 PM