Episode 4 Warning (NO SPOILERS!)

edited October 2012 in The Walking Dead
I finished Episode 4, and I PROMISE not to post any spoilers in this thread. It is EASILY the best episode so far, and the longest with the most difficult decisions, and EVERY single decision you made in EVERY episode will matter.

Now that I finished it I regret a lot of the decisions I made in episode 2 and episode 3 because they have a huge effect on episode 4.

I know a lot of people are complaining about how they won't have the episode for a while. Take the time to rewind and fix any decisions you aren't happy with.

Also, to all those idiots saying "your decisions don't matter" and "ending will be the same no matter what" have NO idea what they're talking about. Every decision you make matters and now I see that. Every decision you make in this episode will have SERIOUS consequences leading into the next episode and they were SO right when they said all your past decisions come into play.

Take your time when your playing, and think things through!! And enjoy!

Game of the year, HANDS DOWN!

Comments

  • edited October 2012
    How exactly have you already gotten your hands on episode 4?
  • edited October 2012
    Yes, it will. The episodes are getting even MORE stressful, QUICKLY.
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited October 2012
    distortion wrote: »
    How exactly have you already gotten your hands on episode 4?
    It came out for PSN on the PlayStation 3 in North America today.
  • edited October 2012
    And tomorrow for PC? :D
  • edited October 2012
    JesseC25 wrote: »
    Also, to all those idiots saying "your decisions don't matter" and "ending will be the same no matter what" have NO idea what they're talking about. Every decision you make matters and now I see that. Every decision you make in this episode will have SERIOUS consequences leading into the next episode and they were SO right when they said all your past decisions come into play.

    I think before calling people idiots you should allow them to play it and respond to such a statement.

    And from what I saw of a live playthrough of ep 4, there are factors that are cemented in stone no matter how you play.
  • edited October 2012
    distortion wrote: »
    And tomorrow for PC? :D

    Yeah.
  • edited October 2012
    I think before calling people idiots you should allow them to play it and respond to such a statement.

    And from what I saw of a live playthrough of ep 4, there are factors that are cemented in stone no matter how you play.

    What I meant is that there are so many people who talk about how all the choices you make, not just in ep.4, but eps 1,2,3, have no real impact -- and trust me, they do.

    I'm just giving everyone fair warning, before starting episode 2, make sure you are really happy with all your previous decisions because they do matter. If I would have known that they mattered THIS MUCH I would have replayed episodes 1-3 before today.
  • NickTTGNickTTG Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2012
    Thanks for the kind words, Jesse!
  • edited October 2012
    Well, they better not matter in a stupid way. Like with it did when I saved Shawn over Duck and then I didn't hit Larry when he tried to toss Duck out. I get all this, "you let my son almost die twice" crap. Hey, never mind the fact that I stood up for you, Kenny, when the dad yelled at us. Never mind that while I WAS trying to play the peacemaker with Larry, I made sure I would not let him kick Duck out. I really hated how the choices I made were good enough for Kenny to see me as a good guy in ep 1 ended up being insufficient in ep 2.

    I didn't kill those freeking cannibals but I would rather not find out that killing them is some big crime. They were horrid murderers and deserved to die. If karma hasn't killed them, *I* would have reset and done it myself. I still think it's lame how they died.

    I needed that food from the car, I'm not apologizing for it. The girl was going to be eaten by zombies anyway and no one had EVER done a mercy kill of someone being eaten before. Lilly deserved to rot on the road. Sure, Larry would have survived if I helped him but there was no way on earth I would taken that chance in those circumstances. Yes, I did "fight" Kenny, rather then talking him down, but I didn't throw a single punch and when I finally said "stop the train" for the last time, I felt that this was the game's finest moment of pure, brilliant, pathos. Don't cheapen that moment TellTale, by having him get mad because I didn't talk him down!

    Saying I would reset the game to play it "properly" is a claim I view with suspicion. If I actually feel that way, I might very well look at it as a poor gameplay mechanic, rather then thinking I made the "wrong" choices.

    I'll find out soon though.
  • edited October 2012
    ...so...you feel justified in every choice you made but if any of them prove to have consequences, you'll consider it a game design fault and not a fault of your choices?
  • edited October 2012
    JesseC25 wrote: »
    ... I'm just giving everyone fair warning, before starting episode 2, make sure you are really happy with all your previous decisions because they do matter. If I would have known that they mattered THIS MUCH I would have replayed episodes 1-3 before today.
    Thanks for the warning, but for me there is no choice of feeling comfortable with my choices, I will just have to live with them, wether they were wrong or right. I can't rewind in real life, I won't with the Walking Dead.
  • edited October 2012
    ...so...you feel justified in every choice you made but if any of them prove to have consequences, you'll consider it a game design fault and not a fault of your choices?

    I gave you my example of a bad implementation. Did you find it lacking? You didn't really comment on it. It's not like I don't think they can't do it well (I liked the fallout from killing Larry, as an example) but I got some people calling me down because I used rewinds before, I'm guessing that a lot of people have avoided that so far, maybe the original poster was one of them. To me it sounds like he was.

    If he was, then actually deciding to replay is a big. big move on his part. Besides, haven't we been told that there are "no wrong answers" by TellTale during their interviews. In any case, I'll be finding out soon how it unfolds.
  • edited October 2012
    Yay!
    cant wait for tomorrow xD
  • edited October 2012
    okay, without giving spoilers. I see what Jesse was talking about. I didn't have any problems with how my choices influenced it.
  • edited October 2012
    distortion wrote: »
    How exactly have you already gotten your hands on episode 4?

    Actually, the Episode came out around midnight Oct 10.
  • edited October 2012
    Did the OP play a different game?

    Since Ep. 4 was a blank slate. NOTHING from the previous episodes mattered.

    So, what? :confused:
  • edited October 2012
    There are no wrong answers. Especially with the way Episode 4 turned out. TellTale makes a statistic of the moral decisions in this game. It's not a right or wrong, it's a more of a guiding survey of what you would do and the consequences for all of it. I played through all the episodes up to 4 and now I'm going back on another file and replaying it all to get two different endings to see how each turns out. One honest. The other what I think will yield the best ending. They are pretty close so far though. :)
  • edited October 2012
    really? tell me what matters? sorry, but I still don't see anything matters. Can you prevent yourself from the bite? can you prevent Clem leaving you? can you prevent anyone who is dead from death? I turn against Kenny for almost every decisions he make, yet he still follows me to rescue Clem.
    Sure, you seem to have several different group members in the end of Ep4, but those choices that differs the group can all be reversed in this single episode.
  • edited October 2012
    One more thing, if in the end of Ep4, Telltale shows me there could be a group that includes Carley or Lily or Larry or Duck, then I will probably regret for saying nothing matters.
  • edited October 2012
    Yeah, since episode 4's 8 possible outcomes, I've wanted to restart.
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