Why did most players try to save Larry?
Most people tried to help Lilly save her dad rather than help Kenny prevent reanimation. Most of they players who did help Kenny felt regret and told him that "We
fucked
up" instead of the "I'm on your side" thing when Kenny asks for your opinion. But why? Even though everyone hates him, why would they side with Lilly in the meat locker? I just, don't understand. This discussion has been closed.
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Anyway, I think it's pretty clear; the results did not surprise me.
Having watched almost every zombie film known to man, the idea of a hulking undead version of George C. Scott in an enclosed space with Clementine caused me to reluctantly side with Kenny. Subsequently, with how it played out, I felt like an utter jackhole. Regret? Yep.
More seriously, I wasn't sure if Larry was dead, so I tried reanimating him. I was slightly more pro-Kenny at the moment, but that made me be full neutral. It also helped me see what kind of man Kenny was. He does what he thinks is right, but if you go against him even once, he'll hate you, despite what you did before to help him or what you do trying to repair your relationship.
Wait hold on a sec, this is my 1,000 post, I've reached a 1,000 posts! Yeah! Hooray! Haaz!
I'm gonna look for a picture on the Internet to celebrate.
You know that Kenny had some influence on you're Chooooice...( not sure why i did that)
personally i tried to save him. I personally just wasn't going to let someone kill another due to a paranoid conclusion.
That reasoning is the same i used when Lily shot Doug/Carley.
I didn't help kill Larry when Kenny demanded it for the same reason I didn't side with Larry when he wanted Duck thrown out without even checking for the bite. You don't start smashing heads until you're absolutely certain there's no other way.
Don't judge me by my name, you weren't there when I played the game, don't judge me by a hutch. Maybe he did affect my choice a little......
"I wasn't going to kill someone over paranoia, before making sure he's really dead, especially since I gave Duck a chance and booted Lilly off the RV when she killed someone over paranoia"- yeah, I made the same choices with Duck and Lilly. But that was different. In Duck's case, we weren't even sure that he was bitten. Or hurt. In any way. And even if he was, Duck is a little boy and we had weapons. I think he was a bit less of a threat than Larry. While in Carley's case, do I even need to explain this one? She wasn't even a threat.
Now Larry. We were stuck in a small, confined space with him, with no weapons, him being stronger than all of us, and on top of all that, CLEMENTINE WAS THERE. Say, he woke up. I bet using a salt lick on a moving target who's actively trying to kill you and is physically stronger than you might just be difficult. Who knows who'd have gotten bitten/killed before we finally brought him down?
"Kenny didn't try to confirm Larry was dead or beyond saving". Now I'm not an expert on medical procedures by any means, but what I do know is that CPR is unlikely to restart the heart. It basically extends the clinical death period (when your heart and respiratory functions have stopped, but your brain is still alive), until proper medical procedures can be applied. Since I don't suppose the St. Johns had any defibrilator units lying around, (cattle prod probably wouldn't work to shock a person back to life eh?) Larry was VERY unlikely to live just by means of CPR. So, do I take the extremely small chance that he might make it and put myself and everyone else (again, in caps lock, CLEMENTINE) in danger? No.
"I'm not gonna kill a dad in front of his daughter who's trying to give him CPR". Well yeah, it sounds terrible, but if it means putting everyone else in danger, including said daughter, just because of moral qualms, ain't that a load of shit? With my actions I tried to save everyone in that locker, including the daughter. No, I'm not expecting her to thank me, or even understand. Not for a long time anyway. But it was the right thing to do.
However, yes, I did pick the "we fucked up" option when talking to Kenny later. Mostly because the other two choices are unfitting in my eyes, because they affirm you supporting Kenny as a leader. Which I never did. I see Kenny and Lee as equals, but Kenny in no way is more fit to be a leader than Lee is. So I wasn't going to pledge him my loyalty in THAT way. In "we fucked up" dialogue option Lee tells Kenny that they did the right thing, but he regrets having to do it, which is precisely how I felt. I may have disliked Larry, but I never wanted to kill him. Nor did I ever want to get off the fence in the Lilly vs Kenny squabble. But in this case I chose not the person, but the right choice for the safety of the group. I sure as hell don't regret that.
If this is referring to my post, I helped Kenny dispatch the old bastard, so, not sure where you're going with this point, other than I already made it up-thread. Well, kinda. I prioritized safety first. Still, felt like a shitbag afterwards. Bad situation all around - for everyone in that locker.
However, I think it's a no-brainer why many people would choose not to side with Ken hence my first sentence in my initial post.
My accidental puns just get worse and worse. I need a filter.
My first time playing, I did think that he wasn't going to die and I tried to save him regardless, but the 400 DLC finally confirmed that people can return as walkers sooner than I had thought, albeit still not immediately after their death.
Granted there was probably no way to save Larry, but messily killing him while restraing his daughter from trying to resuscitate him did appear rather poor in taste. And yes, he was a rotten person, but siding with Kenny to help him deal with Larry had felt more like murdering him out of petty vengeance rather than the risk of him coming back as a walker. Had I followed with Kenny's idea, I would have proven Larry right.
I almost chuckled at that.
I helped kill Larry because Clem was in the room. I didn't think Larry was dead but I ask myself this every time: What if he did come back? What if the first thing he did was kill me... or Clem?
While a lot of my decisions are pro-Kenny and I have a great admiration for that stache, I still think Kenny acted too quickly. I know if I was there in person I would have had a lot more to say before I finally conceded.
I think that's what really got to me. There was a lot more to be said and we were never given the chance to say it.
Then Kenny went and ruined it and became arsehole Kenny for the next 3 episodes until Ben put him down.
He wouldn't kill clem's father in front of clem, and he wouldn't kill Lilly's father in front of Lilly.
In addition, if you try to save him, he takes a breath/starts to say something just before the salt lick lands. Kenny killed a living man. Simples.
So you risked allowing yourself to be trapped in a room with a zombified "walking pile driver" because you liked the guy's daughter.
And you dare call yourself a survivalist? *spits*
She would not have gone crazy if she had not witness her father DYING in front of her as a result of a member of her own group.
You shouldn't hate Lilly. You may hate what she did or what she became, but before that she was just a girl trying her best to keep the group together and protect her father.
True but still glad to have him around,adds a bit of spice and controversy to the discussions!
Yeah and also being the reason why my " Drinking Game " thread is closed . Oh Ehkay .
That game had to be closed for safety reasons otherwise everyone on the forums would have alcohol poisioning!
Exactly what happens to me, accept normally I smash my face into my computer screen or put a bullet through my brain at stage 4. I survive through cause I'm DeadPool! I'm also Batman, and I can do a neat Bane impression and..... What am I even talking about now.
Puss, gross! :P The last thing you want in an apocalypse is puss. xD