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Why does everyone hate Ben?

Chili_FryChili_Fry
edited August 2013 in The Walking Dead
Personally, I love Ben. He's one of my favourite characters. I mean, yeah, he caused Katjaa and Duck's death, but he didn't mean to. It was an accident. He's only a teenager, what do you expect? So, do you hate Ben or do you like him?

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  • TTaing987TTaing987
    edited August 2013
    This is supposed to be posted in the spoilers sub-forum. Welcome to the Forums!
    ( i don't hate ben but he is a bit of an idiot. )
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    I like Ben, but he was a colossal screw up.
  • Clemmy1Clemmy1
    edited August 2013
    ive never understood the love for Ben? i know this is slightly contradicting myself but he's too 'cartoonish' lol i think hes just out of placed in this game,here is Ben a 14-21? year old man child who's eating candy,leaving Clem to die in front of Lee,and is doing deals with bandits but is also scared of his shadow,im sorry i hate this character.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    I think he is around 17 or so.
  • HudomonkeyHudomonkey
    edited August 2013
    He is meant to be somewhat hate-able that is why Ben left behind Clem..
    As they said in the Telltale TWD stream they wanted to make Ben more hate-able because no one was dropping him...
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    If they made it that he only got Carley, Katjaa and Duck killed, then only 20% of people would have dropped him, you needed more reasons to hate Ben.
  • Clemmy1Clemmy1
    edited August 2013
    if Telltale made him this way on purpose,it worked :D the only remorse i had was feeling guilty about letting Clem down because she wanted to save everyone,Bens speech to Kenny made me heave.
  • Omid's catOmid's cat Banned
    edited August 2013
    Chili_Fry wrote: »
    Personally, I love Ben. He's one of my favourite characters. I mean, yeah, he caused Katjaa and Duck's death...

    He caused their death? Bandits would attack anyway. Ben tried to delay it. I'd say Lee caused it because he took the meds.
  • Nate the GreatNate the Great
    edited August 2013
    Cuz he's ben
  • Sick OctopusSick Octopus
    edited August 2013
    Bioshock Infinite WD wrote: »
    I like Ben, but he was a colossal screw up.


    This.

    He's just so tragic.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    I would you those words, he was a tragic character, by and by.
  • fabi777fabi777
    edited August 2013
    He got Carley killed.
    But i did save his life in episode 4, when you drop your gun in episode 5 he pickes it up and the gun is Carley's
  • Omid's catOmid's cat Banned
    edited August 2013
    fabi777 wrote: »
    He got Carley killed...

    Ben?
  • fabi777fabi777
    edited August 2013
    Omid's cat wrote: »
    Ben?

    Yeah.
  • DildorDildor
    edited August 2013
    I don't think I took him seriously at first, I thought for sure he was a walking zombie treat just waiting to die but he lived to fuck things up over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

    Great character though, even knowing his actions led to the death of a few particular characters I really liked, I can't fully blame him because he was trying to help and did what he thought was right in the moment.
  • Cactus_SauceCactus_Sauce
    edited August 2013
    He is neither friend nor foe, but he is a fucking idiot
  • MilosuperspeshMilosuperspesh
    edited August 2013
    Cactus_Sauce wrote: »
    He is neither friend nor foe, but he is a fucking idiot

    nail'd it
  • XedriaXedria
    edited August 2013
    Ben was my favourite character. I felt more of a need to protect him than Clementine, who always felt like a hollow plot-device. She's just there to make the other characters more interesting and move them from one set-piece to the next.

    Ben, on the other hand, felt like someone who might actually exist. He felt a lot more genuine and understandable. His reaction to the apocalypse felt the most real to me.


    That, and I'm not really one of those guys with a "CULL THE WEAK" mindset for this sort of setting. I pitied Ben, I got upset with him, but he's far from the only person in that group with blood on his hands, and singling him out for his mistakes while ignoring those of Kenny, Lee or Clem seems really hypocritical to me.
  • master psychicmaster psychic
    edited August 2013
    Xedria wrote: »
    Ben was my favourite character. I felt more of a need to protect him than Clementine, who always felt like a hollow plot-device. She's just there to make the other characters more interesting and move them from one set-piece to the next.

    Ben, on the other hand, felt like someone who might actually exist. He felt a lot more genuine and understandable. His reaction to the apocalypse felt the most real to me.


    That, and I'm not really one of those guys with a "CULL THE WEAK" mindset for this sort of setting. I pitied Ben, I got upset with him, but he's far from the only person in that group with blood on his hands, and singling him out for his mistakes while ignoring those of Kenny, Lee or Clem seems really hypocritical to me.

    The thing is , Ben does more mistakes than Kenny , Lee and Clem . He makes a deal with the bandits which causes Lilly leaving and the deaths of Doug/Carley , Katjaa and Duck , he almost got Clem killed in the beggining of episode 4 and Chuck dies because of that , in Crawford he removes the hatchet and walkers burst in and Brie dies because of that .
    Ben may be a kid , but he is a magnet for trouble .
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    He is not a magnet for trouble, he is trouble and a magnet, I believe that when he was born he walked by a black cat and tripped over the curb and hit a ladder, making it crash into a window store, there is nothing else that can enplane his god awful luck.
  • RichWalk23RichWalk23
    edited August 2013
    I think that Ben is in a frustrating position where he's damned if he does anything and damned if he doesn't. If he tries to help, he screws up somehow and causes trouble and death, and if he tries to stay out of it, he's called a coward or is seen as lazy.

    He's arguably the most realistic representation of how a normal person would act and behave in a zombie apocalyptic world.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    I am sure most of us would be like Ben.
  • TeamKennyAlwaysTeamKennyAlways
    edited August 2013
    I don't hate Ben, he's Shaggy :D
  • master psychicmaster psychic
    edited August 2013
    TeamKennyAlways wrote: »
    I don't hate Ben, he's Shaggy :D

    LOL
    Scooby Doo - The dog from episode 4 .
    Shaggy - Ben
    Fred - Roman
    Daphne - Stephanie
    Shel - Velma ( just give Shel Wyatt's glasses ) :D
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    Wow, so the the walker was Oberson when they unmask it then?
  • master psychicmaster psychic
    edited August 2013
    Bioshock Infinite WD wrote: »
    Wow, so the the walker was Oberson when they unmask it then?

    And then they are going to unmask Oberson and Oberson is Lilly , they are going to unmask Lilly and Lilly is Becca . But than the walker will reveal himself to be David . David says that he wanted to scare Ben for not telling him about the bear trap .
  • Saoralba131Saoralba131
    edited August 2013
    master psychic wrote: »
    And then they are going to unmask Oberson and Oberson is Lilly , they are going to unmask Lilly and Lilly is Becca . But than the walker will reveal himself to be David . David says that he wanted to scare Ben for not telling him about the bear trap .

    Then a*shole Lee comes in and shoots everyone,and still we blame Ben.

    Though,I don't mind Ben,I feel he is a realistic representation of what some people might be in the apocalypse,just like a few people here,and for the record I pulled him up.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited August 2013
    Me to, I had second thoughts but I all it took to tip me over to Ben's side, was thinking of what my past friends would have done, Carley Katjaa, you know.
  • RainbowKittenRainbowKitten
    edited August 2013
    I have to agree. I don't dislike Ben, he just finds a way to screw up everything he does.
    I also feel he's quite a realistic representation of what some people would be like in the zombie apocalypse. And I also saved him. I saved everyone I could. The only one I left was Lily and that's because she shot Carley for no reason (which I couldn't forgive her for) and thus she endangered the group. If she could shoot Carley so easily, what's to stop her from doing that to someone else?
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