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400 days, cabin group

casdow90casdow90
edited May 2014 in The Walking Dead
Season 2 has had good moments, but ultimately took a lot of repeated concepts from S1 and the TV show (Kenny's eye, saritas arm, walking through a hoard). It has received a lot of criticism (from myself as well). Also, the game wasted a lot of potential: I made a thread about telltale having too many characters this season. Barely know or get attached to the characters. I know ppl are going to hate me but hear me out. Rather than the cabin group being luke, Pete, Carlos, Sarah, Rebecca, Alvin, and nick, wouldn't it have made more sense for the cabin group to be the 400days group since we had already played as them previously? We had some intel as to who they are, and we saw the dialogue they had with Taivia about going to the settlement. Had they been the cabin group, The story could have then been based on how Taivia tricked them and carver was looking for them to bring them back because the audience still has no idea what happened to the 400 days group, nor have we yet to learn what all happened with the actual cabin group. I don't know where the actual cabin group would have fit in if 400 days group would have been the cabin group but this seems more logical than a group we still haven't gotten to learn, not knowing about Alvin and George, and many other facts. Thoughts?

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  • CornPopperCornPopper Banned
    Don't forget to bring a towel!
  • damkylandamkylan
    I imagine there would potentially be some issues with who went to the camp and who didn't, since if nobody but Bonnie left, then nobody in the group would even know about Carver, let alone have escaped his camp and incurred his wrath. And if they all just ended up there anyway, then that whole choice at the end of 400 Days would ultimately be meaningless, which I know is par for the course for this game in terms of choices that affect the story, but there'd have to be *something* to show for who went to the camp and who didn't, otherwise they'd just all have gone and that would be that.

    I think the way TellTale set these characters up is fine with the cabin group being a new mysterious group of people and either some or all of the 400 Days group being at the camp. Since we the audience already know the 400 Days group, having them around probably wouldn't leave that mystery that surrounded the cabin at the start of the season. Granted, all that mystery turned out to be unnecessary because they didn't actually do anything bad to Carver except escape his tyrannical rule, but that's where the question of execution comes into mind. The characters and the ways they were set up are fine; the problem has largely been the execution.

    Ideally, we'd have gotten more time with the cabin group, probably during the 5 day trip to the mountains or something, warm up to them, then we actually *meet* the 400 Days characters. Wouldn't even have to be a whole lot of extra work writing dialogue and all. Then during the great escape, those who are there rally together with our group through Bonnie's request for help and just general uncomfortableness with Carver's rule, then we all escape. Obviously, this could potentially clutter up all the characters, but quite a few people from the cabin group will have already died by this point. Maybe have someone else go out towards the end of episode 3. And even then, it still largely depends on who went to the camp and who didn't.
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