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[Neonivek]

Then wait to buy it as a whole and play it as a whole, at $25 hell $15 or less if you wait that long, it was more than a meal here in total.

I probably will, I have bought Telltale games before and always felt kinda empty.

Mind you I only completed Wallice and Grommit (In which continuity can be considered minor to the enjoyment of each episode) and Back to the future where it just couldn't make any bangs after a point.

Also I SO can beat these faster then 10 hours each. Unless you mean 10 hours for all the episodes. >_<

It just isn't worth the empty feeling when there isn't a better game out there.

[Werdna]

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I'll second the 'meh' on Molly.  It was fun to see another Michonne asskicker type, but I did not have a lot of empathy for her and it was an opinion I had well before the 'reveal'.  And the big difference to Michonne is she's a lone wolf type - I just can't see an entire game with her interacting with other survivors.  She'd choose to run with Clem and pretty much avoid people, IMHO.

Neo, I don't think its possible to beat these 'fast', there's just too many long cut scenes and long conversations.  Half the time if you choose an instant response, you've got to wait for some other character to stop talking, anyway, before your response kicks in.  The dialogue is NOT the standard 'please let me skip past this crap' game dialogue.  I've never played Telltale games before this one.  I've read and am a big fan of the comic books and I completely assumed that Kirkman was the actual writer for the storyline, it was that dead on in tone and 'decision' making (far more so than the TV show).  I was pretty surprised it wasn't him.  If you end up disappointed with the story quality here, god help you man, you might as well quit games and just read books. 

This game was the equivalent of both watching and participating in one long, kickass Walking Dead movie.  I bought it at $15 on Halloween I think midway between Season 4 and 5 so I basically played it in an episode-a-night bender.  Totally worth it compared to the crap I've paid for in movie theaters.

(and don't go in thinking there's much 'game' mechanics here - the game mechanics are simple as dirt.  Either mash a button really fast, or move your mouse to the right spot, plus the standard 'find the right item and do something with it' puzzle mechanics.  Its the interactive story and dialogue that makes this game what it is.)

[Neonivek]

Neo, I don't think its possible to beat these 'fast', there's just too many long cut scenes and long conversations.  Half the time if you choose an instant response, you've got to wait for some other character to stop talking, anyway, before your response kicks in.

Ohh I see this is Jurrasic park / Heavy Rain style.

Where it is less an adventure game and more, things happening game. Please note I like Heavy Rain, I am only seperating the difference between this and lets say Monkey Island.

"This game was the equivalent of both watching and participating in one long, kickass Walking Dead movie"

I really wasn't asking about the quality... I am sure it is good in that respect.

I was talking more about how the episodes line up with eachother. Since it was my major issue with bitesized adventures is how it always feels like they are over before they begin.

"The dialogue is NOT the standard 'please let me skip past this crap' game dialogue"

Compared that I tend to exhaust every single dialog option in these games, I never thought it was. It is just that by experience these games take about 3 hours an episode without walkthroughs playing for the first time. Which for 5 episodes is about 15 hours. Which means this game is shorter then usual.

[Werdna]

Where it is less an adventure game and more, things happening game.

I haven't played either Jurassic or Heavy, but this statement is pretty accurate.  I'd say this game is equal parts 'things happening' (where your input is mostly some button mashing and easy mouse aiming) plus part 'dialogue' branching where you deal with the other characters and try to keep things together.  In both the action and the dialogue, the game constantly presents major survival decisions to you, with limited time to make them.  There are 'solve a quick puzzle' breaks but they're light compared to most adventure games; they're there mainly to offset the pace and let you wind down a little between the next burst of story.

I played Ep 1-4 almost back to back (different nights), and they line up nearly exactly like watching 4 straight eps of a drama - right down to having "next time/previously on Walking Dead..." intro/outros, and short time lapses story-wise between.  They are seamless, continuity-wise - characters remember what you say and do from previous episodes and will bring it all up again in relevant conversations.  Storywise, since your idea of a bite and mine may differ, I can't say much more... YMMV.  Since I pretty much could play all the Episodes back to back, to me it really felt more like a single large story - a full meal, rather than a series of bites.  Steam says I have 19 hours on the game, and that's with a 2nd playthrough at midway of Ep3.  So 2 to 2.5 hours an Episode is about right.

[FritzPL]

I wonder who's Clem's VA. I'd like to see an interview with her, regarding the game, cause she did a pretty good job on acting there.

[Neonivek]

Storywise, since your idea of a bite and mine may differ, I can't say much more

Specifically when I played Back to the Future each episode was set around an introduction to middle point to Climax. Thus each new episode felt like you had to restart your engine.

The problem was that because each section was so self contained, even though it was just one large story, it felt less like one story and more like a series of stories that you can put together. Thus when I played them one after the other with the idea that this was "one story" it gave me the same issues you get when you read a book that has constant climaxes, introductions, and quiet moments. A sort of emotional backlash that dulls you to the story and makes the experience feel empty.

It wasn't the game's fault it was more that by the time "I" personally settled down into the game and felt like "Ok, now it is going" I finished the game and I had the next game to play. It just takes me too long to really get into the grove of any individual episode and I cannot crossover grove to the next.

It really turned me off these episode adventure games. (Mind you, Wallace and Grommit was the same but that game didn't put importance on continuity.)

But why I ask is because I feel if a game managed to intrigrate each episode better so it feels more like a collective whole with flowing motion, rather then a HUGE stop sign, moving from one episode to the next. That it would simply allow me to enjoy these episode games.

[Leatra]

I wonder who's Clem's VA. I'd like to see an interview with her, regarding the game, cause she did a pretty good job on acting there.

Here you go. Other voice actors are present in the interview too.

Well, I didn't like the episodic system (first time playing a Telltale game) but that's probably the only thing I didn't like. Also, if you check the internet and read about decisions or do a second playthrough you'll see the decisions are not really that big but they still kept the illusion and that's good enough for me. It's impossible for devs to make a game with this many choices.

There are a few plot holes too.

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Kenny idiotically sacrificing himself for Ben while he could just shot him in the head and escape with Lee. That was a suicide, maybe.
Clem managing to carry Lee through a horde of zombies.
The house where you dig a grave and get a dog collar to get in. A zombie catches your leg from the dog door, while the game tells you that you must have a dog collar to open the door. Did that zombie had a dog collar too?

But mistakes like these are ought to happen in a game like this. Regardless, this is still the game of the year in my opinion.

[Ghazkull]

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Leatra those dog/cat doors have batteries too when they go out the door works for everyone (thats at least so with ours...) so lets be generous and assume the batteries went out.

What really really annoyed me that there was no possibility to save Carly, i somehow had grown to her and then that: no matter what you do(i tried that point 5 times to use every single possiblity available) she gets shot. And you just can't kill...Whatsherface. I found her death so infuriatingly pointless, so uneeded. Boom, Dead. The Fuck? I couldN't do nothing and then have to let that woman live?

The other thing that really annoyed me was Kenny's fucking ungratefulness. Apart from saving his son in hte beginning, i always was on his side except maybe for one or two minor decisions. I killed his son for him, i even helped him with crushing the head of the heartattack guy although i'd rather would have waited it out, worse even he accuses me of being selfish. That fucking bastard drowning in alcohol and i have been loyal to the end to him...at that moment luckily the game at least gave me the option to answer FUCK YOU KENNY. At least he volunteered to help after his boat was stolen, however at the moment he told me he wouldn't help me find Clem, he was dead for me, i felt so brutally betrayed...When he offered to stay with Ben i merely left not saying another word, not trying to help him.

[Shadowgandor]

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The other thing that really annoyed me was Kenny's fucking ungratefulness. Apart from saving his son in hte beginning, i always was on his side except maybe for one or two minor decisions. I killed his son for him, i even helped him with crushing the head of the heartattack guy although i'd rather would have waited it out, worse even he accuses me of being selfish. That fucking bastard drowning in alcohol and i have been loyal to the end to him...at that moment luckily the game at least gave me the option to answer FUCK YOU KENNY. At least he volunteered to help after his boat was stolen, however at the moment he told me he wouldn't help me find Clem, he was dead for me, i felt so brutally betrayed...When he offered to stay with Ben i merely left not saying another word, not trying to help him.

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There are actually people like Kenny in the real world as well, with no self reflection at all. They will do all kinds of shit and say that you're the one doing it while they are innocent. It didn't bother me that much, Kenny was under a lot of stress as well and being an ass was just his way of venting steam.

[Werdna]

The only thing that (would have) bothered me about the episodic nature is the release delay from episode to episode.  When Season 2 comes out, I'll wait to buy it when its almost complete. 

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Losing Carly like that was a huge shock that had my jaw hanging.  I really liked her and that was a huge kick in the gut.  I wish she could've been around for the rest of the story, but I also appreciate that the game was serving a head's up that it was adhering to the spirit of the Walking Dead series to the letter - everyone's fair game and can die, and they often have more to fear from the living and each other, than the dead. 

My 2nd playthrough, I'm playing strictly as Kenny's wingman, its not easy.  I don't know if you guys supported Kenny's decision not to mercy-kill the girl on the pharmacy run, but man does the game punish you for it - you can hear her screaming the entire time as she's eaten while you loot the pharmacy.  What a nice touch, eh?  This time Kenny didn't hesitate to save me when the door fell in, though, which royally pissed me off in my first run-through.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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Kenny idiotically sacrificing himself for Ben while he could just shot him in the head and escape with Lee. That was a suicide, maybe.
Clem managing to carry Lee through a horde of zombies.

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Kenny's death for Ben was definitely suicide. Kenny has a growing death wish after Katjaa and Duck die. Lee getting bitten and Ben being mortally wounded right after he started to sympathize with him probably drove him over the edge.

His death to save Christa is less suicide and more suicide mission, since he jumps into a dark room full of walkers with only one bullet to get her out. All the same though, I find it interesting that in neither situation do you see Kenny die. I've heard people say they swear that in both you can hear the sound of a door opening, and you do get the option to speculate that he got away...

The store Clem drags Lee into can be seen right before he collapses, and it isn't very far away. That said, a nine year old girl dragging a rather tall grown man (even sans an arm) is pretty amazing, but I think that was the intention.

[Leatra]

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Kenny idiotically sacrificing himself for Ben while he could just shot him in the head and escape with Lee. That was a suicide, maybe.
Clem managing to carry Lee through a horde of zombies.

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Kenny's death for Ben was definitely suicide. Kenny has a growing death wish after Katjaa and Duck die. Lee getting bitten and Ben being mortally wounded right after he started to sympathize with him probably drove him over the edge.

His death to save Christa is less suicide and more suicide mission, since he jumps into a dark room full of walkers with only one bullet to get her out. All the same though, I find it interesting that in neither situation do you see Kenny die. I've heard people say they swear that in both you can hear the sound of a door opening, and you do get the option to speculate that he got away...

The store Clem drags Lee into can be seen right before he collapses, and it isn't very far away. That said, a nine year old girl dragging a rather tall grown man (even sans an arm) is pretty amazing, but I think that was the intention.

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Yes, but Kenny reflected on the suicide couple and said how horrible and cowardly it is to commit suicide. Maybe he didn't want to commit suicide but wanted to end his life and saw Ben's situation as an opportunity. He may also had difficulty with leaving Ben to the walkers after realizing what an asshole was he to Ben all the time.

I don't think he got away though. I'm pretty sure nobody would escape from that kind of a situation.

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What really really annoyed me that there was no possibility to save Carly, i somehow had grown to her and then that: no matter what you do(i tried that point 5 times to use every single possiblity available) she gets shot. And you just can't kill...Whatsherface. I found her death so infuriatingly pointless, so uneeded. Boom, Dead. The Fuck? I couldN't do nothing and then have to let that woman live?

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Yeah, I get what you mean. I tried that conservation for like 3 times and checked the internet to see if there is a way to stop Lilly from killing Carley. You may have found Carley's death "infuriatingly pointless" but that's how deaths happen in real life. Since Walking Dead focuses on the realism and drama, that kind of stuff happens a lot in the comics too. If you read the comics, you get used to Walking Dead's way of instantly killing someone out of the blue and this usually leaves you thinking "WTF?"

That said, I STRONGLY recommend anyone who liked this game to read The Walking Dead comics. If you are also watching the tv series you may find it's starting a little boring but it gets really interesting as Rick becomes morally dark grey. You are missing one of the best comic series. Trust me and give it a try. you'll thank me later.

[Shadowgandor]

This entire topic is covered in spoilers yet you are spoiling part of the character development of Rick. Spoiler alert!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You could read one issue of The Walking Dead and be able to make an educated guess about the direction of Rick's character development.

[Leatra]

This entire topic is covered in spoilers yet you are spoiling part of the character development of Rick. Spoiler alert!

You could read one issue of The Walking Dead and be able to make an educated guess about the direction of Rick's character development.

Well, this. Not only by reading one issue maybe but it's obvious how Rick is going to turn out at some point. He still manages to surprise you by taking some extreme actions though. Also, pretty much everyone at some point levels up their Badass skill because it seems you gotta be badass and do morally questionable things to survive in a world like this. Just look at Lee.

And I don't think I spoiled anything since I didn't mention what he did, considering the amount of "WHAT THE FUCK?" moments in the comics