I saw the cannibal thing coming a mile away as it's been used in so many post-apocalyptic story lines. Book of Eli, The Road, and the Walking Dead novel series, among others. Anyone acting that nice from the get go can't be trusted. As soon as Jolene starting spouting "tell'em what you got planned for 'em"--my suspicions were cinched.
I thought it was a bit cliche and the execution was actually not all that well thought out. Why did these guys so quickly resort to cannibalism when they had a field of corn AND a freaking cow???--Which, by they way, Brenda initially said was sick then turned out to be pregnant. These guys must not have been very good farmers if they didnt even know their cow was pregnant. Furthermore, what did they initially intend to serve for dinner before Mark was shot? And why in the world would they try to go up against a group of ten people when they could have just picked off the few stragglers around their farm? I think TT could have thought of something creepier and more original than just cannibals. Like maybe trying to create a new "community" by luring groups in and killing the males while keeping the females alive. Or anything more unique than cannibalism!
On the upside, on my second playthrough I did like the fact that there was quite a bit of foreshadowing and linked plots through the episode. Jolene survelling the camp, the bear trap in the woods, and the murder scene on the road to the farm. I would have liked to learn more about the truth behind the electric fence coming on and the "bandits", however...
Of course I knew something was up when those two hillbilly's showed up looking for gas, but unfortunately, Lee could only follow the plot of the story and not act on his own instincts.
Plus Danny's voice definitely cemented my suspicions.
Furthermore, what did they initially intend to serve for dinner before Mark was shot? And why in the world would they try to go up against a group of ten people when they could have just picked off the few stragglers around their farm?
They planned on serving up Mark AND Lee. Did you REALLY buy that he accidently turned on the fence? They weren't trying to go up against they were baiting them in to get their guard down.
They planned on serving up Mark AND Lee. Did you REALLY buy that he accidently turned on the fence? They weren't trying to go up against they were baiting them in to get their guard down.
yeah, "accidentally" killing two men in the group by frying them would certainly do that.
The fence was turned on on purpose to kill them. He said he heard him scream to turn it on, but it was turned on far before he screamed. Also he wouldn't know they could see the lamps.
I figured we would just trade for some food, deal with some bandits and leave after mark was cross-bowed since we had some food.
I didnt really mind the St John's probing questions since these people were probably alone in the countryside for days and were just glad to see another human being they could talk to
i also suspect the first arrow may not of been from the bandits... the angle mark gets shot from is from the farm house NOT the forest and thats after the fence didn't fry em..
other wise it's a pretty nice coincidence marks gets shot lol
if you kill andy with the fence he seemingly does die but cos of the rain and the generator being damaged and smoking, he seemed to just fall off. but the game does say you killed andy/finsihed him off so logic says he's dead.
Actually if you don't punch Andy he gets shot and pushed into fence but lives
I second that this has occurred. I don't make videos of my playthroughs, I'm nto techy enough. Someone said you didn't have to punch Andy as badly, so my third play through I didn't. The bastard proceeds to knock me over and start a second scuffle.
Actually if you don't punch Andy he gets shot and pushed into fence but lives
It's true. I was curious about what the group thinks of you if you beat him senseless or go easy on him. If you don't hit him when he's down, the fight takes a different turn.
It's true. I was curious about what the group thinks of you if you beat him senseless or go easy on him. If you don't hit him when he's down, the fight takes a different turn.
I had ONE occurance where Lee was given the option to shoot Andy. Must be because I stopped hitting him halfway or something. Can't get that scene to come up again for some reason. I would much rather shoot him than to kick him against the electric fence. Much more satisfying.
I suspected cannibalism the same time Galdis did - saw the butchery room and thought "Hmm, they have been laying on the 'Where did they put Mark?' hints a bit thick". I'd suspected something was up for a lot longer, what with the farm seeming too good to be true, and Danny all but saying "I am an evil man, and I am lying to you" at the camp. I'd been thinking the episode was going to hinge on their conflict with the "bandits" - that you were going to find out that the "bandits" were good guys the St. Johns had betrayed and that the big moral choice would be to side against the St. Johns for justice or with them for a slice of the good life.
I figured out that they were eating people, or were at least serving up Mark, pretty quick. At first, on the road to the farm with the probing questions, I justchanged the subject and I suspected that they weren't as good as they said, but decided to overlook that as just curiosity after isolation. Then the fence turned on, Mark got shot, and after they took him into the house we never saw him again. I tried to chock it up to my own natural paranoia, but after I talked to Brenda after the bandit camp I pretty much said "Yep, Mark stew tonight."
Didn't even need to open up that lock in teh barn, because I knew what I would likely find on the other side, though it WAS nice to see that Kenny didn't take them at face value despite his other faults. Didn't expect them to be keeping Mark alive with his legs hacked off though, that was a pleasant (not for Mark) surprise though. Also when he drags himself downstairs during dinner.
I thought it was pretty obvious. And you couldn't do anything to stop even with Kenny and Lily thinking something was wrong. For people with lots of good food to eat, everyone in our group looked healthier and were having to skip meals. And the meals we were skipping were half an apple or a small package of cheese and crackers.
I thought it was pretty obvious. And you couldn't do anything to stop even with Kenny and Lily thinking something was wrong. For people with lots of good food to eat, everyone in our group looked healthier and were having to skip meals. And the meals we were skipping were half an apple or a small package of cheese and crackers.
I'd chalk up the appearance of healthiness among the group to Telltale not wanting to make new models/textures and having the characters be hard to recognize, I mean Duck barely even made the trip to the farm, Mark talks about getting weak, etc. and none of the characters really looked all that different from Episode 1.
The St. Johns just happened to get nailed by the "Looks like Cesare" trope, which really gave them away (atleast for me). Realistically, we shouldn't have been able to tell just by appearance. Hell, just insofar as nutritional value goes, eating another person is probably one of the better options... what simpler way to guarantee you're getting all the vitamins, minerals, etc. that a person needs than by simply eating another person?
I was distrusting from the moment they showed up and knew I was walking into a bad situation as soon as I saw the bandits arguing. The fence still being electrified wasn't a surprise and I wonder if it was a trap to engineer an "accident". I knew exactly what was happening when they took Mark away and no-one went with him.
All Know is that when they asked me how many people you got in your camp? I didn't respond and my thoughts were flying why you wanna know? I just met you, and why you wanna know all about me which has nothing do with the trade.If you ask them if they're armed they will say yeah for the walker but don't mention anything about the bandits. As Sisterofshane said i also didn't see why asking how many rooms you have in your house is rude. That's a question that can be use when visiting someones home for the first time to make converstaion. That was suspicous to me and then you have a chest with all type of tools and ropes right at your door? I found that odd that it would be there of all place and not near the barn or the work area that the saw and the boards.( I also am aware that setup could be the for the fixing of the swing) From the very approach i was wary and didn't not want to go to the farm and i was right!
At first I assumed it had something to do with the dead husband like they kept him in the house or something. After the incident with Jolene I figured it was probably something more sinister... then when I looked into the barn I definitely knew they were torturing people or something (I didn't buy the whole hunting excuse.) I didn't really guess cannibalism though until it was pretty much revealed. It was a very spooky episode, I loved it. Hope the third one is just as good or better.
Oh yeah, right off the bat, starting with the darker lines in the brothers faces (cue evil entrance music!) and not being able to see Mark, but I liked it anyway. Really, Larry was the twist in the second episode.
Did anyone else feel the urge to go vegetarian when Danny said "You can have me!" (ewwwww!)?
Longest "how the F*ck do I figure this out?!!" moment was learning to back Mrs. St. John into the walker without getting my ass shot off. Had to rewind and give the right response when she came to the door to try to figure out what was going on.
Otherwise, the nuts and bolts of this game were not hard to figure out.
anyone feel that episode 2 was much too predictable? From the trailer you knew what was going to happen, except for one or two scenes/choices. But I still love the game.
Longest "how the F*ck do I figure this out?!!" moment was learning to back Mrs. St. John into the walker without getting my ass shot off.
You didn't by chance post that on Youtube, did you? I wanted to see how other people played and the choices they made, so watched a few walkthroughs - some guy keep getting shot over and over and over again, it was hilarious!
You didn't by chance post that on Youtube, did you? I wanted to see how other people played and the choices they made, so watched a few walkthroughs - some guy keep getting shot over and over and over again, it was hilarious!
No, that wasn't me. I'm not in the habit of declaring my foibles and occasional incompetence to the whole world:D
a question: when andy and his brother take mark to Slaughterhouse????
I don't see any secret door .. IF they take mark from barn to Slaughterhouse why anybody didn't understand??? I don't understand
Considering I've watched many movies like Chainsaw Massacre I knew they were cannibals as soon as they said they lived on a Dairy Farm. And then the brothers were asking how many people were in their group. He might as well have just asked "How much potential food do you have back there?"
When Mark went in the house I just sighed. I knew he was gonna be food. They were just waiting for the chance to make one of them dinner for the night.
Didn't liked them from the beginning...the whole dairy seemed too good,and Danny was fishy all the time.Got everything when I met Jolene and dear Brenda wouldn't let me inside the house lol.
They seem good natured when you first meet them, but all the questioning to the farm got me a little wary, then the bandit attack on the perimeter... but when I saw the mom, I thought 'ok TTG was just trying to fool me, these guys cant be that bad, they still live with their mom lol'. I was so caught up in trying to calm down Jolene that I didnt see the brother murdering her as an attempt to shut her up, but as an attempt to save our lives.
The slaughterhouse didnt scare me as they did live on a farm and slaughterhouses can get a little bloody...until I noticed there's 0 livestock around-plus TTG throws you off balance by playing that calming happy music and showing the layout of the dairy as being this utopia from the all the chaos.
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I thought it was a bit cliche and the execution was actually not all that well thought out. Why did these guys so quickly resort to cannibalism when they had a field of corn AND a freaking cow???--Which, by they way, Brenda initially said was sick then turned out to be pregnant. These guys must not have been very good farmers if they didnt even know their cow was pregnant. Furthermore, what did they initially intend to serve for dinner before Mark was shot? And why in the world would they try to go up against a group of ten people when they could have just picked off the few stragglers around their farm? I think TT could have thought of something creepier and more original than just cannibals. Like maybe trying to create a new "community" by luring groups in and killing the males while keeping the females alive. Or anything more unique than cannibalism!
On the upside, on my second playthrough I did like the fact that there was quite a bit of foreshadowing and linked plots through the episode. Jolene survelling the camp, the bear trap in the woods, and the murder scene on the road to the farm. I would have liked to learn more about the truth behind the electric fence coming on and the "bandits", however...
Plus Danny's voice definitely cemented my suspicions.
They planned on serving up Mark AND Lee. Did you REALLY buy that he accidently turned on the fence? They weren't trying to go up against they were baiting them in to get their guard down.
yeah, "accidentally" killing two men in the group by frying them would certainly do that.
I didnt really mind the St John's probing questions since these people were probably alone in the countryside for days and were just glad to see another human being they could talk to
other wise it's a pretty nice coincidence marks gets shot lol
if you kill andy with the fence he seemingly does die but cos of the rain and the generator being damaged and smoking, he seemed to just fall off. but the game does say you killed andy/finsihed him off so logic says he's dead.
proof please..
I second that this has occurred. I don't make videos of my playthroughs, I'm nto techy enough. Someone said you didn't have to punch Andy as badly, so my third play through I didn't. The bastard proceeds to knock me over and start a second scuffle.
It's true. I was curious about what the group thinks of you if you beat him senseless or go easy on him. If you don't hit him when he's down, the fight takes a different turn.
I had ONE occurance where Lee was given the option to shoot Andy. Must be because I stopped hitting him halfway or something. Can't get that scene to come up again for some reason. I would much rather shoot him than to kick him against the electric fence. Much more satisfying.
I did. It was a totally pointless exercise.
Didn't even need to open up that lock in teh barn, because I knew what I would likely find on the other side, though it WAS nice to see that Kenny didn't take them at face value despite his other faults. Didn't expect them to be keeping Mark alive with his legs hacked off though, that was a pleasant (not for Mark) surprise though. Also when he drags himself downstairs during dinner.
I'd chalk up the appearance of healthiness among the group to Telltale not wanting to make new models/textures and having the characters be hard to recognize, I mean Duck barely even made the trip to the farm, Mark talks about getting weak, etc. and none of the characters really looked all that different from Episode 1.
The St. Johns just happened to get nailed by the "Looks like Cesare" trope, which really gave them away (atleast for me). Realistically, we shouldn't have been able to tell just by appearance. Hell, just insofar as nutritional value goes, eating another person is probably one of the better options... what simpler way to guarantee you're getting all the vitamins, minerals, etc. that a person needs than by simply eating another person?
Did anyone else feel the urge to go vegetarian when Danny said "You can have me!" (ewwwww!)?
I felt the urge to swear off sex forever.
Otherwise, the nuts and bolts of this game were not hard to figure out.
You didn't by chance post that on Youtube, did you? I wanted to see how other people played and the choices they made, so watched a few walkthroughs - some guy keep getting shot over and over and over again, it was hilarious!
No, that wasn't me. I'm not in the habit of declaring my foibles and occasional incompetence to the whole world:D
sound advice right there !
also if you could save carley as the devs have always saved doug..
you could go pro kenny and totally screw over larry/lilly
also use your common sense most trailers are going to contain spoilers (imo pretty fking obvious)
I don't see any secret door .. IF they take mark from barn to Slaughterhouse why anybody didn't understand??? I don't understand
When Mark went in the house I just sighed. I knew he was gonna be food. They were just waiting for the chance to make one of them dinner for the night.
The slaughterhouse didnt scare me as they did live on a farm and slaughterhouses can get a little bloody...until I noticed there's 0 livestock around-plus TTG throws you off balance by playing that calming happy music and showing the layout of the dairy as being this utopia from the all the chaos.