The decisions are getting meaningless.
Am I the only one who thinks decisions of season 2 don't affect the game? In season 1 we could decide too many things like helping Carley/Doug, letting Ben fall from the tower or not, and these things change the story a bit, but in season 2, it doesn't matter what we do. We can't change anything about the story. When we made an important decision, then we play 5 minutes more, then we realize that if we did the opposite of what we did, we would have the same situation again. I think this was the quality which makes this game pretty awesome, the game should keep it going.
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Same thing in season 1..
Save Carley/Doug -> Save Nick
Save Ben -> Save Sarah
Decisions never mattered to begin with. They just make it easier for the player to decide with the main character.
This could be posted in one of the thousands "Shame on You, Telltale" threads.
Both of Sarah's deaths were good. Just Nick's second death.
That fence scene back there? That was a pretty shitty sendoff for a pretty ok character.
It's really funny that you say that decisions are getting meaningless when they were just as meaningless in Season 1, because the end result was always the same.
It did not bother me when I played it, because I did not like Nick to begin with. I get it if you're pissed when you liked the character. In retrospective, Nick's Death would have been more effective if it would have been onscreen, but ... i know, it sounds dumb, but it's more realistic if it's possible for characters to die offscreen.
There's a difference between Meaningless and slight but alters the experience.
Certain events in Life will ALWAYS happen, i.e: I have to decide to go out/stay inside but later that day a family member gets into a car accident. How i feel will definitely be different once the accident happens but nothing I do can stop the fact that it occurs.
S1 had alot of those moments. Saving Carley vs. Saving Doug changes 2 characters POV of you completely (Lilly and kenny's with kenny being more supportive of you saving Carley vs. Lilly acknowledge that you opt for those who can't defend themselves, as well as how they save you and why they died. Lilly snaps at Carley who fully antagonizes her after a mental break vs. Doug's death being a complete accident where he tries to really save Ben)
I see what you mean about the choices becoming less of importance but things like chopping Sarita's arm off had more of an impact than other choices. It can change Kenny's way of thinking of you for sure but he eventually comes to the same concluding attitude at the end of the episode. He has his moments but no matter what you do, he'll be fine with you later on.
I think that's why I always thought Season 1 was more replayable in my opinion. Episode length and importance of choices has made me play the game through about 8-10 times and how you can change Clementine's way of thinking through out. But then I can tell Season 2 is going to be way different and we won't find it as replayable as Season 1, unless the finale has some major changes based on what you've done in the past.
Once Season 2 finishes and it for example reminds you of what Lee done in the past and how that's affected Clementine then yeah I'll happily go through Season 1 and all through Season 2 again. And I also don't see how 400 Days has affected the game at all. The characters apart from Bonnie have had few lines and Bonnie's choices of lying or being honest to Leland doesn't seem to have any impact on her attitude in Season 2.