An Open Note to TT: No More Suicides, Please.
Not that I'm against the idea - in the real ZA this would happen a lot.
My beef is that it is a cheap and lazy way to delete a character from the story line. You get way more bang for the buck and emotional impact if they get eaten.
You should also consider that in the case of some really annoying characters, you are depriving the walkers of a well-deserved meal.
Just my two cent's worth.
My beef is that it is a cheap and lazy way to delete a character from the story line. You get way more bang for the buck and emotional impact if they get eaten.
You should also consider that in the case of some really annoying characters, you are depriving the walkers of a well-deserved meal.
Just my two cent's worth.
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This. It seems like anytime a character dies that a person really likes it automatically becomes "Cheap and lazy".
Be reasonable bro. Just because you're fave character died doesn't mean Telltale messed up and you right.
I am being reasonable. I'm talking about constructing story lines.
It's about constructive criticism. It's not a values judgement. Perhaps my wording was wrong-instead of saying "my beef" I should have said "my concern is that the writers will rely upon suicide as a quick and simple way to resolve a character's arc.
That's not what I said. You are making assumptions- of course it fits and makes sense, and I was affected by that scene, too. You are missing my point altogether.
Yeah, it was definitely your wording. To me, you implied the two suicides seen were cheap and lazy. That couldn't be further from the truth. Now that you've made yourself clear, I agree with your sentiment even if it's a bit unfounded.
I guess the second suicide and seeing the "is that Christa committing suicide?" thread raised an alarm bell.
Nope, already confirmed that was just the scene of the first suicide from episode 1, but they redid who the characters were so it wasn't a spoiler.
I hope not, I been polishing a bullet with his name on it!
Makes me think that it may not have been a suicide after all and maybe kat ran in front of Kenny at the last second and he shot her..
Meh prolly just a suicide tho.
The only real complaint I have so far is that we left our three dead unburied, for the walkers or woodland critters to chew on. I wouldn't leave Carley by the roadside, and there's no way on earth that Kenny would leave his family unburied.
It would have been a nice way to end a cutscene- seeing the RV pull away, leaving three graves at the roadside with a note from Clem on each marker.
but would you risk it, making more noise, turning your back to the elements and lettign your guard down just to be respectfull to the dead ?
how do we know chuck/ben wouldn't steal the train from us..
there was still forshadowing in this ep but not as obvious.
personally just cos the op wants to see people being eaten, which to me is actually more cheap and lazy where as a noble, honest suicide, is in this case katjaa made the right/real hard call, while harsh and unfair on kenny but a mother's love is a mother's love..
Telltale is not overusing suicide nor delivering any suicides in a manner that don't feel genuine. Also, everything's already been written and our feedback won't change anything major. (We might get an added joke or line of clarification.)
It happens all the time in real life without the ZA especially when you hurt people's feelings.
I mean the fat cats of wall street were offing themselves cause they were going broke. How many people would check out because everyone they know is a flesh rotting walker?
De-eveloution mon ami, survival of the fittest
Not seeing it.
I mean, take it in context... I'm surprised more people have gotten on the ol' snuff wagon...