If you could add branching storylines to Season 1, what would they be?
I would make one with Doug and Carley both alive, or saving either one from Lilly. Maybe Doug is about to be shot, but maybe Kenny saves Doug and Kenny gets shot. Just complete different storylines for other players, just varies of storylines.
episode 1: Choice to tell Clementine to get ammo and toss to Carley. Lee gets Doug, Or Let Clementine cower in fear, save one. Refuse to get pills. Refuse to help Glenn at the motor inn, which leads to his death.
episode 2: Be able to save larry, be able to save travis. Or have travis's death replaced with Ben dying instead. Refuse to go to the dairy and save mark and continue on a totally different storyline and possibly even starve and die in episode 2, making you start from the beginning or start episode 3 without your choices.
episode 3: be able to get the choice to leave with Kenny, bring who you want to bring, some characters may refuse and rat on you, or just be an evil bastard and kill everyone in the camp except for Kenny, Clem, Katjaa, Duck and steal all supplies and take off with a totally different storyline.
be able to have mark, larry, carley, doug, katjaa, duck and lilly all alive and with you till the end of episode 3. be able to leave omid and christa to die, or just have omid not injure his leg.
episode 4: if everyone from episode 1 is alive, they could all die by the end of episode 4, if they are friends with you or what positions you set them. maybe in crawford, you could have ben and kenny blocking the main door, they may die if they aren't strong enough, too much of a coward or something. could even get lee killed as well. you would have to start the story all over again or just play episode 5 will different choices. you could have brie alive, convince molly to stay with you, or just actually watch her die.
episode 5: have everyone from episode 1 alive, nobody in your group has ever died, all help you for the final push, maybe a few deaths that have to happen no matter what. Lee's hand can be cut off before they leave the house. you can save clem and be alive with her and find omid and christa.
and season 2 just continues that.
What would you do? Maybe some guy can make a mod for season one and maybe do something like this. I honestly would love it. But telltale, you know they don't do branching storylines.
Comments
I would have overruled everyone at the motor inn and not gone to the dairy. Would have made for a boring episode two but I knew those douchebags were up to something. Really pissed me off when someone said "It was your idea to come here Lee!" When no, I'm the only one who didn't want to come.
I would have liked to have the choice of stopping Kat from shooting herself. Of course, the entire scene was heart breaking, and I wouldn't change it. However, it would be interesting to see how she would have changed following the death of Ducky.
Duuuuude, having the ENTIRE group up to episode five would be so badass.. One final stand, This also possibly could of made the fight with the stranger more interesting if more people of the group could make it across the sign.
I would love that so much. Telltale make a huge DLC PLEEEASE. We can dream, tho.
I decided to type out my own branching story my ideas for different paths
Episode 1
Just talking to characters can improve their relationship and loyalty to you. Get Clementine to listen to you, and you can tell her to get the ammo in Carley's purse and toss it to her and you can save Doug. or you can stand there and save one of them. you could refuse to get pills, maybe lie and say that the pills werent there or something and let larry die. You could not go to the motor inn and have Glenn die. If you save him, at the end of the episode, you could convince him to stay with them. if you have everyone alive by the end of the episode, they will be in the next, some might die, you don't know. Everyone in the group could die in the pharmacy if you don't help barricade the place and dont have good relationships with the characters, and you would have to either restart episode 1 or play episode 2 with different choices. if everyone dies except for lee and clem, they will die no matter what. the only ending that you could lose a lot of people would be lee, clem, kenny and his family surviving. kenny and his family have to survive for the story to continue, clementine cannot die or lee will die. if kenny and his family dies, lee will die. if only kenny dies, lee will die still. if only his family dies, lee will die as well. they have to survive for the story to go on. carley and doug cannot both be dead by the end of the episode. at least one of them must be alive for the story to go on. if carley and doug both die, clementine will die and lee will die.
Episode 2
You could save Travis at the beginning of the episode but you can't save the guy in the bear trap. You can either go after Travis and help him or have Ben die and Travis live, or have the original where travis dies and ben lives, or you could have both of them die. you would come back with no people and katjaa wouldn't have to patch up his leg. If you leave the guy, same thing would happen, no guy to patch up with travis and ben alive. When the dairy people come, you could refuse to go, if you refuse, your characters might starve to death if you don't have good relationships with other characters, say if you aren't having a good relationship with kenny and his family, they would leave you without letting you come with and taking supplies, and if you did, you could go with him and go on a totally different storyline. if you go to the dairy, the only way you can save him is by convicining him not to go with to search the perimeter. you will almost get shot by that same arrow that would shoot mark. you would do the same thing, pushing the tractor, and you would get back to the dairy and the group arrives at the dairy and mark is fine. the dairy farmers wouldn't have a dinner to serve so they would talk to one of your survivors and would ask to come with them to get to know them, that survivor could vary, depending who is alive in your game. only survivor it couldn't be would be Duck or Clem. lets take Doug for example. if you are suspicious about them, you could say doug was doing something with lee. or you could just let doug be with them and doug would get his legs chopped off and he will die and that will be the dinner. if they don't have any of your survivors as dinner, they will have a bandit. kenny will find the barn, and the whole suspicion thing will be the same. but you could just ignore kenny and wait until dinner time begins and you will have no suspicion and just eat but you will get put into the meat locker no matter what. larry will have his heart attack, carley and ben would be at the motor inn like normal, but doug and travis would be in the meat locker, if doug is dead, and travis is alive, he would save larry, but if travis is dead, and doug is alive, he would also save larry, but if they both were dead, larry would die no matter what in either choice. because lee would either be helping kenny, or helping lilly. nobody would stop kenny. so let's say travis stops kenny from killing larry, larry wakes up and is trying to recover. you would get out through the air vent like normal and sneak up on danny. Kenny would save you either way. lilly and larry would be hiding in the room with clementine, doug and travis. you would either kill danny or leave him, like normal. carley and ben would come back, and ask what happened. you would say nobody died, just they assume they are cannibals, but they arent sure because they never checked out the barn so they aren't sure what happened. and the whole andy and brenda thing would be the same, brenda would have katjaa. katjaa can die in that moment but lee could die as well. kenny gets shot no matter what. you would kill andy or leave him, and leave the dairy. there is only one game over that would make the story not continue, that would have lee getting killed by andy, but everyone else would be fine depending on what happened in your story, you would see the end of the episode, but without lee. you cant continue. and the car thing would happen like normal and the ending would happen like normal.
Episode 3
If everyone from episode 1 and 2 is alive that means larry, carley, doug, travis and mark are all alive, they could die in this episode, but you would have to be careful. ben will be giving supplies no matter what, and you will always have to fight the bandits and leave the motor inn. there is only one way to avoid the bandits attack and get out of there. you could tell kenny they should leave the motor inn immediately. you could ask people who you want to come with, but kenny might approve of some. some characters might rat on you and tell lilly. clementine will go no matter what, she will listen to you and not tell anyone. if you have a bad relationship with carley, she will rat on you if you ask her to come with, but if you have a good relationship with her, she will come with you and you could save her from lilly later on, but there is more ways to save her from lilly later on, ben will go with you bad or good relationship. mark won't come, but he won't say anything. travis will only come if you are friends with him, but if you aren't, he would tell anyone. doug will do the same as mark. you can tell lilly to go with, but she won't come. you can pull your gun and aim at her to leave with certain people or you can just kill everyone that is in the group that won't come with you on the rv, and take their supplies and leave. that would lead to a different storyline. if you continue the original storyline, bandits would attack, either doug or carley can die in the gunfire, they can both live, or they can both die, or one could live and the other would die. if carley died, she would die by getting shot in the head by one of the bandits while defending the motor from the zombies or if doug died, he would die while he was working on the rv. the way to save both is to defend both ends quickly. lilly can be left behind when she is shooting zombies up on that ledge. but lets say she comes with, and everyone is still alive. to get duck from not getting bitten, you would kill the zombie immediately, its hard to save him, but if you quickly shoot the zombie, you can save duck from getting bit. if the zombie gets on duck and is on him for about five seconds, he will still get bit. or duck could be in a different place and if he is in a differnet place. katjaa would be bit, or you could do the same with killing the zombie and have everyone fine on the rv. you will leave the motor inn no matter what. you would be on the road, and then the lilly traitor thing comes up. lilly will accuse ben and carley just like normal. doug will stand up for her and there is a few ways to save carley or doug. one way is if you have a good relationship with lilly, you can convice her to stop and go back inside the rv. the second way is if larry is alive, lilly won't kill carley or doug. the third way is to have lilly have died in episode 1. Lilly cant die in episode 2. if lilly is dead, you would just continue in the rv, you would run over the zombie, but kenny would still just get out the zombie and continue like normal. if carley does die, and doug was alive there, he would choke lilly and you would have the choice to let him do it or have lee stop doug. if you let him do it, mark might stop doug instead. but if mark/travis is dead, doug would end up killing lilly. or assumed. if you stopped doug, you would get the original choice to leave lilly behind or to let her get back on the rv. if you have a good relationship with lilly and you get her back on the rv, she will stay on the rv and not take it and be with you in the upcomming episodes. if doug dies and carley is alive there, carley will shoot lilly immediately. lilly will die in that scenario no matter what. if doug gets killed and carley died back in episode 1, and if carley gets killed and doug died back in episode 1, the original scenario would happen leave her to put her on the rv and if you put her on the rv, if you got a bad relationship she'll steal the rv and drive away. if you leave her behind, you won't see her ever again in the season. after, you arrive on the train and lets say all the survivors are alive and fine, they run into chuck like normal and the whole train thing is the same. if duck/katjaa arent bitten, you would just continue on and cut clems hair, and talk to her about her parents. if duck/katjaa is bitten the whole thing goes the same, duck will die. katjaa will shoot herself no matter what. only way to save the two is to kill that zombie back at the motor inn when it was attacked by bandits. you will run into omid and christa like normal, everything is the same till your finally cutting down that tanker and if you wait too long, the herd will finally reach the group and you might lose some characters, clementine cant die at all, ben cant die as well. if you have a very bad relationship with kenny, he will just leave you with whoever is on the train. but if you have a good relationship he will come out and help you. Mark, Lilly, Larry, Travis, Carley, Doug, Katjaa, Duck can die and the story will go on. if kenny dies, the story can't go on. lee will die. Kenny has to survive episode 3 to keep going on. If clem dies in episode 3, lee will die. if lee dies, lee dies. Lee, Clem and kenny have to be alive by the end of episode 3 in order to carry on. Omid and Christa can die. they both can be left behind, omid's leg wound can be avoided. christa will die if omid is dead. there is no way to have christa alive and omid dead. christa can only die if omid dies, period. let's say everybody lives by the end of episode 3. the ending is the same.
Episode 4
this episode really is special because anybody can die in this one. But lee, clem and kenny have to be alive by the end of the episode to continue on. by the end of the episode, lee, clem and kenny can be the only survivors. the beginning is the same, but chuck can be saved. lee can say to leave him, but carley/mark will save him no matter what, but if carley/mark is dead, chuck will be left behind and he will die if you say to leave him. but if carley/mark are dead, and you say to save him. lee will save him. if you are not fast enough, chuck will die if your trying to save him. he will get bit. let's say we save him and we go inside the house. and everything will be the same, you can improve your relationships in the house though, the dead boy in the attic will be the same, but kenny will only be sad about it if duck died in the last episode, kenny will be sad if duck is alive, but not as sad as he would be if duck was dead. the killing choice will be the same. lee kills him, kenny kills him, no choice, etc. you will bury him and see the guy like normal. you will find molly. kenny will go, and you can bring mark/travis/doug. if they are all dead, only kenny and lee will go like normal. lee will end up going in the sewer no matter what. the whole vernon/brie thing will be the same. you bring them to the house like normal. but kenny can say if everyone is alive that there is too many mouths to feed and bringing in vernon and brie would be dangering the group more. lee can tell him to shut the f up or agree with him. if you tell him to shut up, it wont effect the relationship in any way. agreeing improves it. and you would go to crawford as usual, the whole supply thing goes exactly the same. the next change is basically the escape of crawford. when you are getting out of there, you need people to block some doors. you choose who guards what place, so the main doors, you can tell them to block the main doors, but you should look at the person's skills when you add them. if you add ben and doug to guard the main doors, they will both die no matter what. if you put two weak characters to guard something, they will die. lets say everyone is alive by the end. molly is fine, and you can convince her to stay with, or you can let her leave, which would normally happen. if you keep her in the group, in episode 5 you can get the chance to fall in love with her and form a romance. the only romances you can have is lilly and lee, carley and lee and molly and lee. the first two romances start in episode 3, and molly and lee start in episode 5. lets say i'm with carley. and clementine will be kidnapped by the stranger you cant avoid it. if Kenny died in crawford, lee will die. and you have to restart the story or play episode 5 with different choices. so everyone is alive and the episode ends and clem is kidnapped. lee's bite can be avoided, or you can save him while he is bitten. right when you get bit, the survivors come out and ask where clementine is, you can say that you were bit immediately and ask for a knife. if there is no knife, you can run into the kitchen and find a cleaver, one of the characters will cut it off. you will survive episode 5. Clementine can't die in episode 5 so basically there is no way to actually like end your story in episode 5, if everyone is dead and only Clem is alive, season 2 will have clem alone. this episode ends the same as normal. and the whole ben bell tower thing will go normal if ben hasnt died before that. choose to let him die or pull him up
Episode 5
Let's say everyone is alive. Lets say lee is saved. the whole building roof thing goes normal. the boat will be stolen, like normal. you will go after clem like normal, the whole attic thing is quite important. if lee, clem and kenny are only alive, they will just get across fine, but we are in the scenario that everyone is alive. lee, kenny will go first, then lets say mark and larry will go, and the fifth person who gets on it varies and they will die. lets say it's lilly who falls. they will go down there, and larry will stay down there with her. This whole attic thing is really cool because it will have so many different outcomes. Lee and kenny will always go first. and lets keep going in that scenario with lilly and larry both dying down there instead of Kenny and ben dying. that can still happen if Lee, Clem, Kenny, ben, christa, omid are alive. But it varies. If omid falls, christa will stay down there and die with him. If christa falls, omid will stay and die with him. it just varies. but lets continue with lilly and larry dying. the rest of the group will be at the other side. Lee, Kenny and Mark will be the one who made it across, Lee can tell them to either stay in that attic or they can try to make jump from that space. Lets say we tell ben to make the jump first, he is weaker, so he will miss and die. So if he dies, another character can try. if you tell the weak characters to jump, they will die. if three people die due to the jump, you will have to go. so lets have only lilly and larry dead. Lets say Omid and Molly make the jump and go with Lee, Kenny and Mark. The rest of the group will be in the attic while you go after clementine. When you get to the black hole on the building roof, the walkie talki scene will occur. Kenny will make you drop the walki and it will vary who you have will go and get the walki, in my case we'll go with Molly. she gets the walki and needs help getting up. You get the choice to go down there and help her get up. Or you can do nothing and have mark go down there and lift her up. Mark will run off and escape. It can be kenny if you only have omid christa with you. it is unknown of mark made it out alive. So Omid, Molly, Lee and Kenny will be the only ones at the sign. you can tell who to go first. lets tell omid and molly to go first, they will both get across easy because they are both rather light. Kenny will go across fine, but the sign starts to shake while you are getting across, the sign breaks like normal. you are forced to fight alone, just like normal. but if you choose lee to go first, the sign will be normal, then lets say kenny goes, he gets across fine, and then the sign starts to shake. If molly went first in that scenario, she would survive, but omid wouldn't and if omid went first, omid would survive. lets go with molly dying. she will fall and die and walkers will eat her remains. lee, kenny and omid will have to get down and fight. they get down and go after clem. once they get in, lee can choose to go in alone or take one person or take every person with him. we'll take kenny with us. Omid will stand watch i guess. kenny can be killed by the stranger, but we'll save him. kenny will have to be standing in a corner, and lee will talk to the stranger normally. you can nod at kenny to get him, kenny will die though, because he will have lower skills in being sneaky, i guess. If you had maybe like omid, omid would be able to save him. we'll have kenny stay there and clementine will get him. lee will attack him and kenny will help. lee can either tell him to back off and let him kill him alone or let him help. i'll have lee kill him alone. lee kills stranger. omid comes in and sees that Lee is with kenny and clem safe and sound. kenny and omid go out and kill zombies and lee carries clem and runs out. Mark will show up and help kill zombies if he has a good relationship with lee, if he doesnt, he wont show up. so kenny, omid and mark are fighting zombies and running away to maybe the attic. lee has to have a very very good relationship with mark in order for him to survive this. if he has a good relationship, but not a great relationship, mark will die. kenny might die, it varies and omid wont die no matter what. okay, so mark dies. it will only be Lee, Kenny, Omid and Clem running away. clem spots her parents and cries as the run off. lee will pass out from blood loss from his amputated arm. he will wake up in that jewerly store, you need to have a very good relationship with kenny and omid for them to be there, if they arent in the jewerly store, they either died or left you. lets say they left me because i didnt have the level requirement relationship for kenny and omid. clem will wake me up. you will need to be stitched up or you could die from blood loss. there will be supplies under the table and clementine must help patch up lee. there is a 2% chance there wont be any medicine and lee will die. so lee gets patched up. they get out of the place and end of season. not as emotional as the original but this is how i would do my whole branching story.
I would have liked Mark and Chuck to have been in the group for longer, we barely knew Mark.
The choice to have left the group with the others who left like Glenn/ Lilly/ Molly. I know Glenn is a comic character but we could have separated before he caught up with the comic timeline.
Lilly dosnt shoot Doug/Carley. In this one it is like the Doug version where she accuses Ben however no one dies Then when camped by the train; you can either go with Lilly (who wants to leave) or stay and help with Kenny.
Lilly comes to you in private and asks you If you tried to save Larry . Lilly tells you not to tell Kenny about it and that he wouldnt understand and that you are the one person she trusts etc.
Lee then talks to Doug/Carley and both say they will come with you whatever you decide. Doug says he dosnt like the idea of abandoning people and that really he dosnt know what to do. Carley says the same but adds after Duck;Kenny and Kat might not be who they were and that the boat plan isnt the best she's heard.
Lee then can talk to everyone as per norm and then eventually go and talk to Lilly to get the pencil from the RV.
You choose go with her or dont go with her. If you stay Lee begins to try and convince Lilly there's no way on your own and Lilly pushes him out of the RV as per norm. If you killed Larry Lilly reveals her plan the same way as the norm and pushed Lee out.
If you decide to go with her Lee leaves and calls Doug/Carley over and they get in and then Lee leads Clementine over to the RV and they get in; Lilly then sits down however as there about to pull away Ben gets on to see what there doing and realises what there doing. Lilly floors it and they all speed off leaving the others behind.
So yah thats my dream choice and permanent split of the group, however even if they somehow made them all go to savannah another way simply being able to have Kenny or Lilly and Doug or Carley would be good enough
I wish I was given an opportunity to throw myself in front of Carley/Doug. I really would have done it. Then the perspective changes and you'd get to play as whoever you saved in Episode 1 for the rest of the season.
episode 1: I wish I can tell doug to not go to the window and have lee to fortify it instead,I mean lee is way more stronger than doug if he gets pulled by a bunch of walker,he can endure it before being pulled out,although it require faster button mashing until doug saved carley and they both pull you out
episode 2: I wish there's an option to ask ben to go with you instead of mark,I like that guy,so ben will be the one who get shot by arrow and served as food
episode3: larry will still dead in the meat locker,and lilly will have an emotional breakdown,she will still thought someone is stealing supplies when it's actually not,until bandits managed to do a surprise attack and breached the fortification,now since mark & doug still alive,duck will not get bitten since mark shot the walker before it gets closer to katjaa and her son,the group managed to evacuate themselves in the rv,lilly still accusing carley.but mark & doug will defend her,lee has the option to help them or take lilly side,kenny crashed a walker and forced to stop the rv,all of them except kenny and their family are having an argument,after kenny managed to pull out and kill the walker from the rv,the group will be distracted for a moment,but now lee has a split second interaction to prevent lilly from shooting carley,if lee succeeded,the gun will still be fired,but the bullet will miss,feeling furious carley then points her gun at lilly,the group no longer trust lilly,lee has the option to let carley execute lilly,or prevent her,and have the option to either leave lilly or take her in as prisoner,the rest of the game will be played as usual where lilly will escape if she remain at the rv,and the group will meet omid & christa who will tag along,but there's no shooting duck scene,since he's alive & well,so katjaa wouldn't kill herself either
episode 4: the scene where someone ringing bell will still happened,but in the walker ambush,clementine found her parents in that street as walkers,so she froze up in shock,but doug managed to protect & save clementine,so chuck doesn't have to sacrifice himself,all of them found an empty house as temporary shelter,the rest of the game will play as usual,until to the point where the fuel and supplies has been gathered from crawford,molly and chuck decided to go separate way from the group,lee tried to calm clementine again,and convince her to move on and stay focus on survival,lee still sleep as usual,and still see clementine sleeping at the same spot when he wake up,the walkie talkie then began blurting voice again,it was the stranger who tried to contact clementine convincing that her parents is with him,but failed epicly,as clem already saw her parents dead and lee wouldn't bother to hunt him anymore
episode 5: vernon and the cancer patients armed themselves tried to rob the boat,a gunfight happens,but they failed,since they were outnumbered and physically inferior,the gunfight attracts the walkers,now the group must drag the boat to the docks quickly while passing through the bulk of the walkers,you must assign two person to dragging the boat,and the rest will guard them,depends on how well you play it,you can make all the group member survived until arrive at the docks or not,kenny will survive no matter what,eventually the boat was put to the sea,and any remaining survivor embarked on the boat and cruise to the sunset.THE END