A Ton of possibilities with how Episode 4 ended
With the split of who is with you or not there are so much possibilites i just hope telltale pulls it off!
How are your thoughts about it just have the feeling in the back of my head that this is either complete epicness or a total complete and utter trainwreck, i dont think there is any grey area in between.
What are your thoughts on this?
How are your thoughts about it just have the feeling in the back of my head that this is either complete epicness or a total complete and utter trainwreck, i dont think there is any grey area in between.
What are your thoughts on this?
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I thought it was an excellent set up for the finale, the re-play value of the episode will be huge!
Im fine with lee dying if the circumstances are resonable im even fine with clem dying ( altho i hope it does not happen ), i cant point the finger on it but i might be paranoid they pull a mass effect 3 on it.
Please telltale dont pull an mass effect 3 on this.
Think of it this way--you have the core experience, which is Lee looking for Clem accompanied by four more characters interacting with him, but not very much with each other (as usual). For every different version of the mix of characters, you'll be subtracting from the group of five. You can also think of it as a diagram, with Lee as the central point, and each of the other four adult characters at the end of spokes extending from the Lee character. Those spokes also stand for Lee's interaction with those characters.
If you're subtracting Kenny, the group will be Lee, Ben, Omid, and Christa. The diagram will be Lee at the center with the spoke to Kenny, and Kenny himself, removed. The latter three will retain their interactions with Lee, and Kenny will simply not appear as a figure, or as a dialogue option. You might need to sweep up the other characters' dialogue so as to omit any references to Kenny, but those are simple if/then statements in the coding. Everyone's interactions will remain essentially the same. Only Lee's interactions with Kenny will vanish.
Repeat as necessary for other characters removed from the group of five.
The coding for this is straightforward, and it's high time TTG figured it out. It'll be interesting to see if they've been able to patch the problem where nothing carries over, which would kill the point of this. It'll look amateurish, but if they can't patch it they should give you the option to select the group you'll travel with at the start of Ep 5. The more time they had to write the episode, the more they should create interactions between characters other than Lee. That will give Ep 5 a strong replayablility factor.
Based on my Lee's behavior, Kenny, Omid, and Christa should have come with him, and I would have booted Ben from the group awhile back. Since none of the first three joined me, I'm bringing Ben along as cannon fodder. I'm hoping the game will let me pull an Otis on him if necessary.
Who is this Gayle to which you refer, sir?
TTG really needs to juice the interactions between both Lee and the other characters, and between the characters themselves to make the differences between the various search parties meaningful. If most of the interactions are between Lee and the OCs, and the locations stay very similar, then the mix of the parties won't be very interesting.
I think it was 8, actually.
You'll get split from the group early on and have to go alone.
Okay. I was trying to recall it exactly. Thanks.
The only way TTG can make these various groups generate different stories is if it does things like have Lee have to kill, say, Kenny, if Kenny's in your search party, because Kenny's endangering the group (or something). That way, if Kenny came with you, your story is 'Oh, and then when we were at the hospital, Kenny endangered the group, and I had to kill him'. If Kenny wasn't in my group, I'd have a very different story to tell you, even though everything else might have been very similar, since I would also have gone to the hospital.
That's not that what matters, it's what people are going to be around you, by the time you die, those last moments will create the ending.
its called the Mass Effect Affect