Walking Dead Rant SPOILERS
After playing through episode 4 of season two, I took a look back at the series as a whole and realized that the tagline of "your choices matter" is the farthest thing from the truth. Now, these aren't bad games, but literally nothing you do will change the outcome of anything in the series. Characters that can die, will die, regardless of if you saved them earlier. If you didn't steal from arvo or the stranger, they sill come after you and get some of your group killed. It doesn't seem so hard to make alternating paths depending on your choices either, games like the mass effect series (Though the overall ending didn't take choices into account really) have been doing this for years with no issue (Most notable example is that all of your squad in mass effect 2 is determinant yet they all can play big roles in Mass Effect 3). I understand that making branching stories, dialogues and endings can take time but I would rather have a good game and wait a year than a sub-par game in two months. At this point I'm relatively sure that everyone will die in the gunfight at the end of Ep 4 except for Clem, luke, and kenny, with the latter two being injured and you having to pick who to save, but, regardless both will probably be dead by the end because your choices wont truly matter. The biggest way I see of making choices matter is by having multiple endings, which, though making it difficult or impossible to continue the story of Clem into season 3, can wrap up the story nicely and allow for a variation based on your choices, though with all the determinant characters dead, it seems like its too late now. To truly get the feel of TWD I think its necessary to have multiple determinant characters who, depending on your actions, can make it to the end and cause ripple effects, maybe even by saving another character who would then become determinant. As clarification, I dont think these games are awful, i love them, I'm just frustrated that no choices or paths you take can change the story as a whole when its been done in many other, older, harder to program games.
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Like I was telling others. This game is all about Clem. So, expect any and everyone else to die. At this point, I don't even care about any other character, because most of them die right when I get interested. Like, Sarah for instance. She had SO much potential and all of that crap about being her friend and she just dies no matter what we do. I was hoping that she'd live on under the guidance of Clem, showing her how the world really is and how to overcome it like she has.
But TTG are working on other games, so it makes sense as to why TWD won't get all of their dedicated attention. It needs it though...