Am I the only one surprised with...

edited March 2013 in The Walking Dead
Seriously, I didn't think many people would chop their arm off :eek:. I thought they would of thought that the infection had already spread, and that it would be too late. Also, it would be better to kill the Campman and bust zombie ass with two hands :D
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  • edited November 2012
    My initial feeling was to keep it... but then I saw what my choices were... and "Fuck it, cut it off!" just drew me in. lol
  • edited November 2012
    I knew Lee was screwed, but I was kinda roleplaying it and none of the characters would've been able to know that, so I had it lopped off. From their point of view chopping it off was probably the best chance they had of keeping Lee from turning.
  • edited November 2012
    DreadMagus wrote: »
    My initial feeling was to keep it... but then I saw what my choices were... and "Fuck it, cut it off!" just drew me in. lol

    Well, shame on me. I should have known that choices do not matter in this game but I assumed TTG weren't THAT lazy...
  • edited November 2012
    Too much time had passed already, and if I were in Lee's situation I would be too scared to let them cut it XD

    But I think most people chose to cut it off just so Lee maybe, just maybe, could have a chance of surviving the bite.
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah in that situation I would have wanted to have the possibility of cutting off the infected part, hoping that it wouldn't spread. At the very least it would buy time anyway.
  • edited November 2012
    I already knew that it only works if you cut it off literally seconds after you get bitten, but I did it for realism sake.

    They're not like Rick's group in the near future, they know absolutely nothing of what works and what doesnt.
  • edited November 2012
    I kept it, because I was worried that loosing it would be too much of a hindrance to finding Clementine. I pictured scenarios in which I needed do two things at once, and it might cost someone else their life.

    It was incredibly tempting, and I almost went through with it, but backed out at the last second. I basically felt like I didn't want to put anyone else at risk for a slim chance.
  • edited November 2012
    In the end it wasn't really pointless: you suffer for it, you have to survive for a while (jumping, climping) with only one arm, you faint a couple times less and you still die :p
  • edited November 2012
    shedim wrote: »
    Well, shame on me. I should have known that choices do not matter in this game but I assumed TTG weren't THAT lazy...

    Oh boo-hoo.

    Just because most of us, apparently, enjoyed it - don't try and bring us down because you didn't.
  • edited November 2012
    Omegabegin wrote: »
    I knew Lee was screwed, but I was kinda roleplaying it and none of the characters would've been able to know that, so I had it lopped off. From their point of view chopping it off was probably the best chance they had of keeping Lee from turning.
    I had the same thoughts. I figured it probably would not work but if there was a chance (in Lee's mind) then it had to be taken.
  • edited November 2012
    shedim wrote: »
    Well, shame on me. I should have known that choices do not matter in this game but I assumed TTG weren't THAT lazy...

    THAT lazy on what exactly?
  • edited November 2012
    "Anyway, t'was my least favorite arm."
    This.
  • edited November 2012
    I cut it off in one play-through, and oh god.... t'was horrible D:
    And when going up that ladder, dayum.
    Poor Lee :c
  • edited November 2012
    JByrne wrote: »
    I kept it, because I was worried that loosing it would be too much of a hindrance to finding Clementine. I pictured scenarios in which I needed do two things at once, and it might cost someone else their life.

    Thought the same as you. Clementine has to be saved and for this 2 arms probably come in "handy" (:D). Plus it made no sense to me, if it is a virus, then it is in the blood already a long time ago. But maybe I will play again just to see how he handles (:P) all that stuff with just one arm. Really must be terrible for him. But this time I would stop the game at the credits :P
  • edited November 2012
    On another note...
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    *raises hand*
  • edited November 2012
    Not cutting your arm off means you have no chance to live.
    Cutting your arm off offers a least a slim chance of survival.

    That's my reasoning.
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah same as mine, being Lee in the moment, not doing anything means you will definitely die. Cutting the infected part off could possibly save you ,or at least delay the inevitable, so you have a little extra time. I don't think I would have done it if Lee would have had to do it himself though.
  • edited November 2012
    Fezzan wrote: »
    Not cutting your arm off means you have no chance to live.
    Cutting your arm off offers a least a slim chance of survival.

    That's my reasoning.

    That was was my thinking as well.

    I was conflicted at first because Lee passed out, so I figured the infection had already spread. However, when the option became available and no one said "What if it is too late?" I thought there might be a chance and went for it.

    I kind of wish they had made it an option at the end of Chapter 4 right after you get bit, that would have kept me more invested in the story for Chapter 5, I think.
  • edited November 2012
    Fezzan wrote: »
    Not cutting your arm off means you have no chance to live.
    Cutting your arm off offers a least a slim chance of survival.

    That's my reasoning.

    I agree. And I'm also with DreadMagus when I had my choice.

    I cried a ton! :D
    But it is EXACTLY because the great roleplaying of Melissa Hutchison. She was awesome.
    I gasp firstly when she shot the kidnapper, and then- you know in the end I let myself with tears.
    A little short as said IMO, but there were some really badass cinematic camera angles -especially between many of zombies part.
    Good work TellTale, it's done how it should have done!
  • edited November 2012
    I figured that either he didn't get the chop and died of infection, or he did get the chop and has a reason to make it to the next Season. After all, they wouldn't make him die of blood loss at the beginning of the episode, right?

    Just made it so much more emotionally devastating when Lee starts looking pale and yellow-eyed, realising "it didn't work. all that, and he's still gonna die."
  • edited November 2012
    Hope and curiosity were stimulating me.
  • edited November 2012
    I hacked the arm off, thinking, "Maybe, just maybe, Lee can survive after all." As time went on and Lee started looking more and more like shit, however, I knew that death was inevitable and had to accept it. It was just a false hope.
  • edited November 2012
    I knew cutting it off wouldn't do anything, but I felt myself in the role of Lee, so I hacked it off. Plus the "Fuck it, cut it off!" option was tempting. On the plus side, it did make it fairly usefull, and I'm assuming Clem doesn't shoot her kidnapper if you have both arms, so I helped her kill her first human lol
  • edited November 2012
    DreadMagus wrote: »
    My initial feeling was to keep it... but then I saw what my choices were... and "Fuck it, cut it off!" just drew me in. lol

    This is exactly what happened to me. I knew better..but I had to try..anything to maybe give me more time to find and save Clem.
    The freaking timers for making choices really killed me.Not that they were a bad thing. They just sometimes made me go with the rash choices or emotional choices.
  • edited November 2012
    he should'be cut the whole arm to get a chance sad :(
  • edited November 2012
    He already had the black out for me, so I thought "Too late now, might as well keep the arm." :D
  • edited November 2012
    I chose to cut it off, not thinking it would save him from turning I always believed that was a foregone conclusion, but thinking it might buy him a little more time to find Clementine. I don't know if it factored in at all though, I'll have to play through again and choose not too and see if theres any difference.
  • edited November 2012
    Kept it, because I thought it'd be harder to rescue Clem with only one arm. Then I did a second play where I cut it off, which was my play of Ep4 where I chose to go alone at the end. The first thing I noticed that changed was that I found Lee even MORE badass, because he cut off his OWN arm. Secondly, I found myself giggling whenever he jumped to another building, or had to climb a ladder. Finally, I noticed that I was making more "hand" puns than usual. Glad I kept it in the first play though, because going through the herd with the butcher knife AND the giant shard of glass was just epic.
  • edited December 2012
    Mafon2 wrote: »
    Hope and curiosity were stimulating me.
    Curiosity killed the Lee-.. Cat.
  • edited December 2012
    Well, YOU try chopping your arm off with a rusty saw and no anesthesia!
    Danno123 wrote: »
    On another note...
    Who cried?.....
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  • edited December 2012
    If I was gonna die slowly from a bite, I'd rather do something that could (Not in this case) save me. There's nothing to lose.
  • edited December 2012
    Right off the bat I knew he was dead before the episode even came out, so it wasn't a matter of "Maybe I'll live" for me, it was "Maybe it will slow the process". Plus I was spoiled that that was an option before it was released so I had time to think about it, and I couldn't resist a one-armed Lee, wanted to see it.
    miguelr23 wrote: »
    he should'be cut the whole arm to get a chance sad :(

    Probably would have killed him soon after :P

    Edit: Wait does Lee pass out after cutting his own arm? Cause if he's alone wouldn't he have died right there without having time to tend to the wound?
  • edited December 2012
    I should've kept the developers' words in mind while playing through episode 5. At PAX, they stated that there would be one ending. I completely forgot about that when I was presented with the choice to cut off the arm, hoping to get an ending in which Lee lives.
  • edited December 2012
    Like someone else said, I was roleplaying it, but unlike him I'd never be able to go through with cutting off my own arm, so I kept it the first time around.
  • edited December 2012
    Yertos wrote: »
    Edit: Wait does Lee pass out after cutting his own arm? Cause if he's alone wouldn't he have died right there without having time to tend to the wound?

    When he cuts off his arm by himself,
    he stays awake long enough to bandage it, then passes out again.

    By the way, how do I black out my text? I can't figure it out and the above probably ought to be...
  • edited December 2012
    distortion wrote: »
    By the way, how do I black out my text? I can't figure it out and the above probably ought to be...

    [spoiler*]you can cut off lee's arm[/spoiler]
    remove the * in the [spoiler*]
  • edited December 2012
    i wish when we say - cut it off
    i wish we can opt out of doing it because when it popped up this is going to hurt my opinion changed as soon as it came up.

    I reset the game to get a 2 armed lee
  • edited December 2012
    dinofire wrote: »
    [spoiler*]you can cut off lee's arm[/spoiler]
    remove the * in the [spoiler*]

    Thanks, fixed.
  • edited December 2012
    Danno123 wrote: »
    Seriously, I didn't think many people would chop their arm off :eek:. I thought they would of thought that the infection had already spread, and that it would be too late. Also, it would be better to kill the Campman and bust zombie ass with two hands :D

    Here were my thoughts: Won't work... fuck it, I'm dead either way. Work that saw!
  • edited December 2012
    There should've been an option to cut off our arm as soon as we got to the morgue, not after he passed out. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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