expectations
I've been reading the forums since about may i think and I've noticed something. you guys put so much into this series and so many theories and ideas about what's gonna happen and when they go a different way you get mad. you're expecting so much and you have it crafted it in your head so deeply. looking at the achievements kinda ruins it too i mean the thing that makes the walking dead fun is you never know what's gonna happen next so when look at all the achievements and whatever you ruin it. season 2 hasn't been bad at all are there some things they could do better of course but overall i like it. so just stop expecting so much and stop being so impatient the game is coming in like two weeks anyway you can do it.
EDIT: ok so i'm getting hella downvotes which is fine but i should explain a bit more i guess.
i think telltale has been giving us good episodes but when you look at the achievements and craft the whole episode in your mind and then you go to play it and its not exactly what you thought you're disappointed. if you go with no expectations or low ones you can see that it was actually a pretty decent episode. i played the first episodes or season two without being on forums and i loved them then over the wait for episode 3 i decided to get on to look at something related to it as i waited. i look at all these theories and looked at achievements ahead of time and then i went to play and it kinda ruined it honestly. it wasn't a bad episode but i expected too much from it. so all i'm trying to say is if you don't like season 2 maybe you're expecting too much. yes season 2 has flaws but what doesn't.
EDIT 2 : a longer story doesn't mean a better story.
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No, we're expecting the kind of quality we got from Season 1
What do you expect us to do for a over 2 month wait? We want to find something to keep us busy so we make theory's. If you don't care for the theory's and don't want to be spoiled, then don't read them.
And people cant wait and lose patents so they look at the achievements to hold them over and SOMETHING to think/talk about.
i know i said there's things they could do better
this was a mistake hahahaha
When people speculate and telltale goes in a different direction most people are glad it keeps it fresh and unexpected
I rather agree with you. Not specifically on the theory part, but on being impatient, expecting soo much, and (perhaps) looking at the achievements. I'm as addicted... if not much more so... than most all of the users on this forum combined, but I still find ways to cope with the wait. It's been a very good season so far and we are just now getting to the nitty gritty. I can't wait to see what's in store.
If you don't understand, yes, the game is good, but yes, it also could be better, it could be like season 1, when your choices really mattered, and when we had hubs, and character development, and bigger episodes, and all that stuff.
& we wait 2 months or more sometimes, so it's normal for us to expect a great quality coming from telltale.
And also, we have to talk about this, if we want something to change, is not being in silence that we will help.
yea i said it could be better
yes, but you also said for us to stop expecting so much. in my opinion, people are just expecting the same quality that season 1 offered us, not that S2 is bad, because it's good, but it's not the same as S1 was.
yea that's true. i'm saying telltale has a lot going on right now so( people have said this before) can't put all their time into the walking dead. when they did season 1 it was their only game they could have things in development but the walking dead was their main project, now they was 3 (twau just ended) to work on at once so some games are gonna suffer.
yeah I know they have a lot of stuff to think about, but if they know that the games will suffer, why do they do so many games at once that they aren't able to command at the same time? i'm not saying their work is bad, because it's good, but still...
Hey who knows?
moving it up
4 downvotes? not bad
Hey can we discuss instead just down voting me? Like I'd like to hear what you think about the subject.
I seriously think your thread could have been more well-handled. While I agree with most of what you say, The way you're putting it is wrong.
What could i have done differently?
Actually, this game is probably one of the only ones I DON'T put a shitload of expectations in, along with TWAU. I'm happy just letting things develop as they will, story-wise. Of course I still have hopes, but those are usually restricted to 'I'd like that one to live'.
The only thing I expect is to have a reasonable amount of choice in how I handle the main character's attitude and that my chosen reactions to certain situations don't get overriden or retconed.
Honestly, TWD is hella relaxing for me in that context.
This but sadly we aint getting season 1 quality back.
I died at number 1 xD
I'm calm and I'm not mad at all. I'd like to discuss this and I do have points.
Okay, As you wish. But for the record, I didn't say that you don't have a point.
no i was just saying that i do.
The quality is there. You're just pissy because the episodes aren't as needlessly long as they were in Season One.
You care about quantity. NOT quality. Know the difference.
This Season has been a bit of let down so all we can do is hope that the next episode would improve from the last but alas TWAU proved otherwise. TTG will continue with their newly placed policy because before it was a 90 minute policy but that has been changed to 90 minutes OR LESS episodes and it might get worse.
bruh what? you read me wrong. i'm fine with shorter episodes i'm talking about people putting so much thought into these episodes and not being able to see good one because it didn't meet their exceptions.
Wasn't responding to you, though.
ok that's my bad sorry i'm on edge.
Bro Season one had both so what are you talking about?
are talking to me or the other guy?
Tyler.
cool just checking.
I'm saying so many of you are complaining about the length of recent episodes by Telltale that you're - for some ridiculous reason - are mistaking for quality.
How much of something that you're getting, the amount or number of something is quantity, and it seems that to a lot of you, that's what matters. Not the effort they put into their writing, the character designs, the sounds, the visuals, the cinematography, the gaming performance, the music, the detail to how the decisions effect the story, and everything else that made Telltale recognized as a brilliant video game company.
Nope, it's the length of 1/5 of a game that really matters. Right?
I'm not gonna act like Season Two's perfect, because it's honestly not. But I will be the first to admit that - as much as I love it - Season One isn't exactly flawless.
exactly longer doesn't mean better. maybe season 1 needed to be as long as it was and maybe season 2 doesn't need to be so long. season 2's story may not require it to be so long.
No one said anything about season 1 being perfect thats why a lot of people went into season 2 hoping for improvements but instead all we got is a bunch of button smashing and poor character development and shorter episodes. A sequel shouldnt be worst than than it's predecessor you talk about your "decisions" that up to this point dont have an effect on how the characters in Season 2 react to you. In episode 1 you can tell Rebecca and Carlos to fuck off but in Episode 2 and 3 they love you. In episode 2 which is probably the only decent episode in this season your choice to save walter is futile as even when you sneak away and have kenny in your face you cant stop him from shooting. Last but not least Episode 3 was just not good a very rushed episode that tried to make up with it by throwing all these wtf moments.
ok alright cool.
Uhhhhh.....xD
...a lot of people went into season 2 hoping for improvements but instead all we got is a bunch of button smashing and poor character development...
Well if I could be honest, the so-called, "button mashing" gets me into the action. Carlos didn't really develop well as a character, but every other new character is great.
A sequel shouldnt be worst than than it's predecessor
The game's not even done yet, so don't just assume the worst.
In episode 1 you can tell Rebecca and Carlos to fuck off but in Episode 2 and 3 they love you.
Uh...what?
In episode 2 which is probably the only decent episode in this season your choice to save walter is futile as even when you sneak away and have kenny in your face you cant stop him from shooting.
There's a lot in Season One that you can't prevent from happening, but that's just how the story works.
Episode 3 was just not good a very rushed episode that tried to make up with it by throwing all these wtf moments.
While disagree on it not being good, I will admit that the pacing did feel a little too fast.
yea i had nothing to say.