All the hate/complaining is disturbing.
"Luke is being wasted !", "Kenny is overshadowing everyone!", "The episodes are too short!" These are common complaints seen on this forum. A lot of people chalk it up to TT being lazy. This criticisim is crazy. It's their story ! If they wan't Kenny to be a bigger and more important character than Luke, so what? If they wan't to try out shorter episodes, so what? You may be able to make some choices, but it's not your story, it's Telltale's! If there is something you don't like, that's ok, but don't say its because TT is lazy. Its because it's their story, and that is how it is going to be! Get over it!
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Are you totally comfortable with how things are going this season? You don't have to answer me, but think about it yourself. If the answer is "yes" then I respect your opinion, even though I do not understand it, and I honestly envy you. If the answer is "no" however, then I must tell you that you are destroying this series.
Disturbing would be for us, paying customers, and more than just that, fans, to shut up when we feel things can be done better by the developers. And they **can** be done better, the proof lies probably in your hard drive: a game released two years ago which is probably the reason all of us are here discussing this in the first place.
We have a right to express what we feel like, be it positive or negative, and if the latter, most of us do it because we want to see this shine. Do you really think I enjoy bitching on this forum? It gets tiring, believe me, but I am here, along with other people who -maybe foolishly- believe that we can still make a fucking difference.
The work of art ends up belonging to the artist and to the people in similar ways.
Just because we're fans doesn't mean we're not allowed to look at the work critically and have opinions on what was and was not executed well. I mean, I want to go into writing professionally. This is something I have to do when consuming media for my own growth as an artist.
If it's menial complaints like "it was such a long wait for a shitty episode weh weh weh" or they're just repeating what other people have said, then I understand getting frustrated, but man, people are ALLOWED to not like things. People are ALLOWED to feel like something wasn't done well. It's not a sin against Telltale to not mindlessly accept the episode as perfect and flawless.
I know how you feel, because this is basically what it's like being a fan of the TWD show. It's actually pretty funny how the game is going in that direction. Season 1? Very solid and largely praised by everyone. Season 2? Clearly a lot of problems caused by the creators having a lot of behind the scenes issues. In the show's case, it's AMC being dicks and slashing the budget. In the game's case, it's apparently TellTale being overworked and taking on more projects than they can handle. Or at least I *hope* that's the reason.
But even though I defend the show's writers from a lot of criticism that I feel is unjustified, I can admit that there are many, many times where it just doesn't feel like the writers have the drive that they've exhibited before and are just being lazy. This is one of those times, and it sucks, because anyone whose read any of my posts knows I love to ramble and talk about things I love about this series at great length. I don't *want* to be disappointed, but sometimes, it's gonna happen, and I refuse to acknowledge this idea that it's not because of TellTale, it's just because *we* are the ones with the problem. Hell, if it was really about characters not acting the way *we* want them to, do you think we would have loved Season 1 so much, even though things that came right the fuck out of nowhere and horrified us (Carley's death, just as one example) were in abundance? No, the characters being at TellTale's mercy is not a problem we have. It's that the effort and fantastic work that we've seen before just doesn't feel present at the moment, and we're going to notice.
I haven't lost faith in TellTale. Season 2 is still very good, I and others just personally feel like it's taken several steps back from season 1 and that a lot of that is due to writer issues. Who knows? Maybe it turns out they'll expand on everything we've complained about and episode 3 was just a prelude to an AMAZING episode 4. We'll see.
I think we can all agree it's at least way, way better than the show's season 2. :P
-he could have easily left, instead he doesnt sleep or eat and risks his life finding the group
- he admits to his mistakes
-and come on, its hard now to find a really nice character
I have not really attributed this season's perceived failings to laziness on TT's part, but rather on their design choices and perhaps even stubbornness.
Your OP seems to read: "TT want it that way, shut up and deal with it." That's the reason for the rant up there, in which I firmly believe in. If you're all for constructive criticism, great.
No one but Telltale is responsible for "destroying" TWD series, if they decide to lower their commitment then they have to deal with people dissatisfied with their product. I respect people who voice their opinions and hopefully some of their opinions will be heard. I really do miss hubs and the sense of control we had in Season 1 and hopefully Telltale will redeem themselves in the last 2 episodes. But plenty of complaints seem more like personal problems.
more short each episode....more small interactions....and now yeahh people defends this...