Did you drop him?
Did you drop Ben? Why or why not did you drop him?
I personally dropped him for multiple reasons.
1. He did give food to the bandits and forced us out of the camp.
2. Didn't fess up and got Carley/Doug killed
3. Because of this Duck got bit and caused Katjaa and Duck to both die.
4. Left Clem to die.
5. Let Clem leave the house when he should of been watching her!!!!
6. Clem gets back to house, you would think he would watch her right? "Uhh shes in the backyard playing" FUCKING REALLY?!
7. Took the hatchet from the door that was blocking the walkers.
8. Had to tell Kenny right than and there about everything. Time we could have used to all escape.
If it wasn't for the group he would have been walker food a loooong time ago. I was done with him when he let Clem get out of the house on her own to follow Lee. HE HAS ONE JOB! To watch a child. To make sure the child didn't get away. There was no way I was going to let him put anyone else in danger to save his skin. Dropped him. Save yourself this time idiot.
I personally dropped him for multiple reasons.
1. He did give food to the bandits and forced us out of the camp.
2. Didn't fess up and got Carley/Doug killed
3. Because of this Duck got bit and caused Katjaa and Duck to both die.
4. Left Clem to die.
5. Let Clem leave the house when he should of been watching her!!!!
6. Clem gets back to house, you would think he would watch her right? "Uhh shes in the backyard playing" FUCKING REALLY?!
7. Took the hatchet from the door that was blocking the walkers.
8. Had to tell Kenny right than and there about everything. Time we could have used to all escape.
If it wasn't for the group he would have been walker food a loooong time ago. I was done with him when he let Clem get out of the house on her own to follow Lee. HE HAS ONE JOB! To watch a child. To make sure the child didn't get away. There was no way I was going to let him put anyone else in danger to save his skin. Dropped him. Save yourself this time idiot.
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First of all he cheated the group by stealing supplies to trade to the bandits without telling anyone. That got 3 people killed (Doug/Carley, Duck and Katjaa).
Now that would already be bad enough but him not helping Clementine in the streets pretty much sealed the deal for me. He fucked up once majorly and then doesn't even help her. How can I feel any sympathy whatsoever for this useless piece of crap? And then he is like "Huh someone jammed this axe inbetween those door handles. Let's take it!:D". Dropped him and won't regret it. He had chances to make up for his mistakes and then fucked it up all over again. He was a waste of time and resources for the group.
He isn't smart, helpful, nor strong or sympathetic. I don't see any reason to keep him alive tbh.
I think Lee's impeding doom will definitely change him for good. That is if anybody survives ep 5 :P
There's a lot of things I'll forgive if you own up to them and show remorse, and Ben did just that. I really like Ben as a character, and I was happy to have the choice to spare his life.
...Which probably means he won't have a major role in Episode 5 and will be killed by a cop-out, but >_>
But I could not let him die, he is part of my group, and when he asked me to loose him I realized he was very sorry, he did not deserve to die because he missed.
But the main reason for me,I would feel horrible if I killed that Carley died protecting,!, I would kill him if it were not for that,my revenge now just comes down to Lilly.
but l still hate him.
I think I have to quote Lee on this one. "It wasn't a choice. It was just something I did, I don't know why." I'll definately be saving him whenever I go back through the Episode, but I've stuck with my choices up til now and will continue to do so. He was a major fuck up, but he didn't deserve to die like that. Especially not after he took responsibility for his actions. But even he said I should let him go, which is probably what made me actually do it in the end. RIP Ben.
All the reasons everyone listed already were reasons I dropped him. The biggest reason was that he had put Clementine in danger multiple times, and especially when he ran away from her on the street in the zombie mob. IRL I would have killed that sonovabitch the second I had a chance.
I dropped him for all the same reasons as well.
Did you notice that he changed his story too? No mention of trying to save his friend that the bandits held. This time it was to protect the group.
But I'm just not that kind of guy. No matter how much I don't like someone, I won't let them get killed if I can save them. Especially not in the friggin Zombie Apocalypse, we have to hold on the little humanity that's left or we might as well become the St.John Brothers.
Maby he became someone capable of something in the future.
P.S. On my 2nd playthrough i'll make him "fly". But ma 1st one is for ma personal choices.
P.P.S. 8. – if not now, than when? :-P
They weren't 100% evil. They would have allowed them to leave, and What's his name would have died anyway.
Guys, honestly. Ben is trying to do what's best, but he still is an idiot, sure. But, look. Ben is just a teenager. Ben only begged because his guilt was eating him, and Kenny hated his guts. As someone above me said how he was willing to die for his mistakes, it takes a real man to do something like that.
Even after you save him, he says he wants to make it up to you, if you take him with you to save Clementine.
Then Ben *ever* will?
Ummmmm... Sorry. Wrong. Where I come from, here on Earth, it takes courage to face your death without begging for your life. It takes MUCH courage to tell someone to abandon you when you can already nearly feel your guts getting torn out while you're still alive.
Please rethink that statement and try again.
BTW, I don´t know why later Kenny didn´t wanted to help me, maybe last choice save problems?
Nope. And I don't respond to people who TELL me what to do, thanks. My opinion. I wouldn't call what he was asking for courageous, either. It was a way out.
And I don't respond to sarcasm. Deal.
Anyway, if it were a 'Way out', he wouldn't have clutched Lee's hand. He would have struggled all the more if he truly wanted to die.
Cool. We are in agreement.
In my opinion, he wanted to die for the mistakes he made. I think he realized how much he had screwed up.
When I made the decision to drop him, the biggest reason was for all the times he had put Clem in danger, especially on the street.
I'd imagine he probably will, which I hope is really cool. In my storyline, I just couldn't bring myself to save the guy. He'd broken the camel's back with about 50 straws already.
I mean, fuck, name one thing Ben DIDN'T screw up completely in EP4. Every time you put trust in Ben, you get let down. And no, being a hero in his possibly last moments, offering to sacrifice himself to save the group does NOT make him any better. Forgive and forget, fair enough, but you got to draw the line somewhere... and if you think his sacrifice overrules the fact he got four or possibly five of your people killed (not sure whether to blame Chuck's death on Ben too, though I'm definitely inclined to do so), I say you're drawing the line too far.
People seem to forget he is just a 14-16year old kid and how many kids wouldn´t have been the exact same if they were in his shoes.
tho I admit his demise was a bit harsh.
I expeced a simple splat but it just broke his legs and walkers got him.
spending eternity crawling
I knew you would say something about this panda :P but in my defense polls are fun, especially if you have daddy issues.
He betrayed the group in first place at Motor Inn making a deal with the bandits.
He doesn't protect Clementine and run away many times. Don't watch her when you asked for it.
He removes the hatchet for the main doors, allowing to the zombies to enter.
He confesses when he shouldn't... when you ask him not to do it NOW... with zombies stalking to the group.
Well, considering this list we can consider Ben a danger for the group. Besides, he begged to me to drop him. I'm not proud of it but he wanted some kind of redemption and I gave it to him.
If he hadn't begged me I probably didn't drop him, despite the list I've put.
Every single one of your 'reasons' are accidents. you kill people for accidents? what kind of vindictive person are you?
Besides, if you were listening he wanted you to drop him and save everyone else, so that last bit of text is just pointless and incorrect.
In all seriousness, thanks for giving him what he wanted, but I wasn't going to let another person die for any of those stupid reasons.
[Save Ben] V. [Save Kenny]
or
[Save Ben] V. [Save Omid]
or well.... really...
[Save Ben] V. [Save anyone else not actively trying to kill you]
... I think Ben would have died in my playthrough. He is more of a liability than anyone else in the party, for reasons discussed in detail above.
But given [Save Ben] V. [Drop his Ass] as choices... throwing away a life didn't seem like Lee's style. Not how I play Lee, anyway.