Main Protagonist: Kenny
What if our main protagonist was Kenny? We could have determined a lot of different factors, along with seeing them from a different point of view. Do you think the game would have been played out differently? Or do you think it would be exactly the same?
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Well just about everything Kenny did in the game would now simply be a choice, so if it's different or not would completely depend on the player.
I'm actually hoping to see Kenny and Clem share the spotlight for being the protagonists of Season 3.
Hard to say. I think Lee made such a perfect protagonist because he was conflicted. Gotta think it's tough to go from beginning to serve a murder sentence to having to kill humans. I thought it struck a nice balance between the monster inside of him that clearly existed before all this and the regretful guy that got a second chance. You could make Lee whatever you wanted and it worked because of that backstory. Kenny's just a normal blue-collar guy with a family to look out for. I think Kenny worked best as a secondary/supporting character.
You mean of the first season?
I don't know, Kenny's mindset was established as very different from my own. I can't imagine him reflecting my choices without totally changing his characterization.
Very unlikely: Kenny was an extremely divisive character.
Yes, but it would be very interesting to see him as a protagonist if he came off as a much sadder and broken" man in Season 2. If he does appear to basically be the same character in Season 2 as he was in Season 1, then if he does survive until Season 3, I'd rather see him in a supporting role once more.
As for if Kenny was the protagonist in Season 1, I think that that could've worked out. Maybe. He wouldn't have been as good a protagonist as Lee was, and also, there's the whole pre existing relationship with his family that would've been maybe a little strange.
Still, it would've been interesting to see Kenny and Lee's roles as protagonist and supporting character switched around.
Well, if Kenny was the protagonist in season 1 then he would of been the one to get bitten and die and Duck would be the protagonist of season 2 and people would speculate that the person that Duck is shocked to see is Lee or Clem.
Not necessarily, Who's to say that Duck wouldn't have died, or that Clem still wouldn't have gone missing. The biggest difference would've been that Season 2 would be all about Kenny trying to find Clementine.
It may be interesting, but telltale would never do it as it's silly from a financial standpoint.
Also Kenny is a very predefined character, unlike Clem or lee, and so he wouldn't really fit the decision making mechanic.
It was better with Lee as he got to know clementine as he did. With Kenny we would be expected to already care about Kat and Duck right from the beginning. Kenny wont work as a future protagonist either he's too much of his own character.
I don't think he can be a protagonist , he is my favorite character except for lee but he has no self control and only in 1 episode he was completely reasonable , not protagonist material.
Why is it silly from a financial standpoint? Either you would control one per episode (as in ep1 is Clem, 2 is Ken, 3 is Clem, 4 is Kenn, 5 is Clem), or you would control Clementine or Kenny (as in you don't get to chose) and the other would be a supporting protagonist that you don't control like Clementine was in season 1.
I would personally love this: but would you rather Clem playable and Kenny serves to morally measure her actions, or is Kenny playable and Clem is again the moral compass (though a much more pragmatic and cynical one by this point I would assume).
Or would you take turns, I.e ep1 is Clem, 2 is Kenny, 3 is Clem again, etc.
If you played as Kenny and found out that the Cabin group locked Clem in the shed the rage would be big. Big and Salty.
Indeed. As with Clementine in season 2, all of Lee's choices represent aspects of his personality: they are all options he is actually considering saying or doing.
Ofcourse the game would be different. Every obstacle would be handled differently. Every interaction with NPCs would be different. Kinda stupid question there buddie.
It could also be good. Interesting what would happen in the sched, he would probably have to decide either to help Ben or not, stop the train or fight Lee. But I think Lee is much better protagonist.
It would've been silly in Season 1, but in Season 3 I'm not sure it would be. Again, two years have passed, if Kenny is different in Season 2, it would be pretty okay I'd think.
I don't think that either are really capable of really being a moral compass too much anymore, so if they were to share the spotlight, then I'd rather alternate episodes. Or maybe past S3, alternate Seasons.
Sure they are, it's like a moral compass that by default always points south :P. So when one of them objects, you know it is really bad.
I think I would personally rather to play as Kenny for that alternate character factor again, looking after Clem again, but when she is older, more independent, and more capable (I mean when she is 11) would be an interesting experience, especially since you and Kenny both know a lot of the mental trauma she has been through. I think the focus would be a lot more on helping her cope with Lee, Duck, and her Parents deaths.
Wow, I just thought of that, a season where we play as Kenny, who his helping Clem AND himself get over Duck's death. That would be an interesting depression themed season right there.
That or it's the other way around (Clem helping Kenny cope), either way I want more focus on Kenny and Clem coping with Duck and (with Kenny) Katjaa's death, and (with Clem) Lee's death.
It seems more fitting though that Clementine isn't just completely emotionally invincible, and actually needs help from another to finally get over Lee, Ed and Diana, and Duck's deaths.
Silly from a financial standpouint because so many people didn't like Kenny, and so likely wouldn't play the game.
Silly from a financial standpoint because so many people didn't like Kenny, and so likely wouldn't play the game.
Silly from a financial standpoint because so many people didn't like Kenny, and so likely wouldn't play the game.
Only if Kenny's personality is completely different, and if that's the case then why bother having him at all and not just a new woman or man?
TT doesn't play that way, the story is made,m no turning back for any of the charathcers. if Kenny is the protagonist of season 3 (if it happens) will be an entirely new storyline. I'm hoping to see his reaction to the news that Lee is dead.
You misunderstood me, I meant different as in... I've got a whole thread on this, I'll just link it:http://www.telltalegames.com/community/discussion/57605/the-walking-dead-season-2-predictionstheory-thread
There's this thing called character development...
Kenny already knows. Whether you cut the arm off or not Kenny, Ben, Omid and Christa start to realize that it is too late for Lee when they are in the attic of the mansion.
They shouldn't make kenny controllable in season 2, however they could make a dlc to explore the life after the alley and see how came to be the person we know now in season 2 (he could of becomebandit, killed people, i could see a massive story ark for him)