Carver's personality shift (more like leap) annoying the hell out of me. Episode 2 and the teaser set him up as an affable, cunning and ruthless "take no shit, give no shit" kind of antagonist. It made us fear him as much for his intelligence, as for his brutality. His speech in the teaser even gave us a weird cult-leader vibe that really made people excited for Episode 3.
Then 203 drops and he turns into a fucking lame Pol Pot wannabe, with his talk about culling the weak and shit. The cunning, dreaded leader turned into a cruel, petty dictator. It was like finding out that Santa is a lie.
It wasn't that noticeable at first...slapping Clem for staring was overkill, but it built him up as someone who isn't to be trifled with. Similarly, I could reconcile the Sarah slap too, it was evil and cruel, but it had purpose: to teach Sarah a lesson and keep Carlos obedient by using his daughter as leverage.
Carver really jumped the shark when he pushed a one-armed man off a fucking roof because he failed to meet the Magnanimous Leander's standards of fruit picking excellence. When Clem calmly explains that she had to help Sarah with her share, Carver brushes her off and proceeds to murder the hell outta Reggie anyway. It's clear that he was setting the guy up to fail, so he'd have an excuse to kill him. Don't even get me started on Alvin. 'You killed George because you didn't like me' turned into 'I'm going to beat you to death because you disapprove of my shagging your wife.' fucking ridiculous.
I thought playing as Clementine was a new perspective, not like playing as Lee when we had to look after Clem. But now we have to babysit someone so stupid they can't do things most people below 10 can do.
Yeah, I know that, but it completely robs the scene of the impact it's supposed to have by making it seem as though your choices have come back to haunt you from a third party perspective. If he's just nuts, then we have no reason to really consider the consequences of our actions since it turns out he's just an ass who is really petty.
But that's the thing, the St. Johns don't get meat from people they just kill. They need to keep them alive so the meat doesn't get tainted. Like Andy said, "keep one alive for meat and kill the rest". Getting Lee and Mark killed doesn't get them meat.
That last one was a joke, since I pretended it was a huge deal after all the legitimate problems. Of course, I would never ask for relationships for the sake of them anyway. Ideally, they'd be a well-developed pair of characters like everyone else in the story should be.
> the Stranger inventing stupid things to blame you for if you played an overall nice guy who made all the right choices
I think tha… moret was just the Stranger trying to grasp for a reason to blame Lee for his problems, if you did that. He is somewhat mentally unstable after all.
>was Andy trying to get them killed?
Yes, he was. That was the reason why he switched it on was so that he could get some food from Mark or Lee.
>Shel and Stephanie not being an adorable couple
Relationships for the sake of relationships isn't good writing, no matter how hawt it might be :/
Hmmm tricky question
-Not knowing what happened after that year and a half with Christa and her baby.. Assuming the baby died... though I would like to know, how and when..
-Kenny's explanation for how he escaped was really lame..
Kenny being a 100% dick the entire game because you didn't kill larry, when Ben left Clem for the walkers they were right beside her next thing they're walking towards lee, nearly all the walkers look the same, how duck wasn't bitten when the walker clearly had the chance, just Sarah altogether, the length of the season 2 episodes
If you tried fixing the swing back at the dairy, Lee would just stick and entire board in his back pocket. My twin sister said she thought he was holding it on his butt and testing it and measuring it, like "oh what a wonderful swing set seat."
In Season 1: Ben. Just Ben. The overuse of the hub scenes and the fact that Kenny gets incredibly butthurt if you don't help him kill Larry.
In Season 2: Less character development, a fair amount of plot holes, and the lack of meaningful choices.
Season 1: I forget which episode there was but there was like a half-zombie woman that was flailing and screaming and you had the choice of whether or not to shoot her before scavenging in Macon.
I feel like they could have followed up more on that? It just seemed like a huge anomaly in the zombie virus that never gets mentioned or looked at again. Season 1 of the show also hinted at a sentient zombie but that was kind of different. I feel like these are things that are -interesting- to think about and maybe just for the audience to look at but these little details are never developed and they never seem relevant to the story ever again.
Season 1: I forget which episode there was but there was like a half-zombie woman that was flailing and screaming and you had the choice of … morewhether or not to shoot her before scavenging in Macon.
I feel like they could have followed up more on that? It just seemed like a huge anomaly in the zombie virus that never gets mentioned or looked at again. Season 1 of the show also hinted at a sentient zombie but that was kind of different. I feel like these are things that are -interesting- to think about and maybe just for the audience to look at but these little details are never developed and they never seem relevant to the story ever again.
The unrealistic time skip 16 months I mean 3 months for S1E2 was reasonable but 16 months was way too much. Kenny not siding with you when y… moreou want to find Clementine. Less character development, lack of hubs, plot holes and choices didn't have much impact for season 2
I see. I guess I had a hard time seeing it during that scene. She kind of looked like the girl who was turning in episode 1 that chose to shoot herself.
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Then 203 drops and he turns into a fucking lame Pol Pot wannabe, with his talk about culling the weak and shit. The cunning, dreaded leader turned into a cruel, petty dictator. It was like finding out that Santa is a lie.
It wasn't that noticeable at first...slapping Clem for staring was overkill, but it built him up as someone who isn't to be trifled with. Similarly, I could reconcile the Sarah slap too, it was evil and cruel, but it had purpose: to teach Sarah a lesson and keep Carlos obedient by using his daughter as leverage.
Carver really jumped the shark when he pushed a one-armed man off a fucking roof because he failed to meet the Magnanimous Leander's standards of fruit picking excellence. When Clem calmly explains that she had to help Sarah with her share, Carver brushes her off and proceeds to murder the hell outta Reggie anyway. It's clear that he was setting the guy up to fail, so he'd have an excuse to kill him. Don't even get me started on Alvin. 'You killed George because you didn't like me' turned into 'I'm going to beat you to death because you disapprove of my shagging your wife.' fucking ridiculous.
I thought playing as Clementine was a new perspective, not like playing as Lee when we had to look after Clem. But now we have to babysit someone so stupid they can't do things most people below 10 can do.
But that's the thing, the St. Johns don't get meat from people they just kill. They need to keep them alive so the meat doesn't get tainted. Like Andy said, "keep one alive for meat and kill the rest". Getting Lee and Mark killed doesn't get them meat.
That last one was a joke, since I pretended it was a huge deal after all the legitimate problems. Of course, I would never ask for relationships for the sake of them anyway. Ideally, they'd be a well-developed pair of characters like everyone else in the story should be.
Season 2: Less character development and hardly any puzzles.
-Not knowing what happened after that year and a half with Christa and her baby.. Assuming the baby died... though I would like to know, how and when..
-Kenny's explanation for how he escaped was really lame..
What is wrong with her. HAHA.
Telltale has to make Choice A and Choice B land in the same direction at the end.
Otherwise, who would want to pick the bad choice?
I feel like they could have followed up more on that? It just seemed like a huge anomaly in the zombie virus that never gets mentioned or looked at again. Season 1 of the show also hinted at a sentient zombie but that was kind of different. I feel like these are things that are -interesting- to think about and maybe just for the audience to look at but these little details are never developed and they never seem relevant to the story ever again.
It had poor character development, and wasn't really my thing.
I see. I guess I had a hard time seeing it during that scene. She kind of looked like the girl who was turning in episode 1 that chose to shoot herself.