The lack of Sean and Jake really show
I said it before and I'll say it again. When Sean and Jake left to pursue other ventures I had a feeling it would effect TTG TWD series. Season one just seemed so much more fun. And for all of those who say "you know what's coming now" I say go back and replay season 1. I have a couple times and it's just as fun as it was the first time I played it. To be honest my 3 rd replay of season 1 is more enjoyable then season 2 has been for me.
Season 1's game format was just better. Call me old fashion but I feel for TWD series that the game format of season 1 is much better then season 2. Season 2 is way too much like a movie or linear game. In season 1 you had areas to explore and really bond with the group. As season 2 goes further it just feels forced.
I just really think the loss of Sean and Jake doomed season TWDS2. My honest to goodness fear now is TTG won't take a chance on season 3 knowing that season 2 has fallen so short compared to season 1.
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Season 2 hasn't fallen short season 2 has been amazing just look at all the reviews and 90% of the people on here has loved season 2
This is what I've been saying since January
"Season 2 hasn't fallen short" in your opinion. There are alot of folks who think otherwise.
I agree. If they stayed on, things would be much better. Not to say that things aren't still great as they are... I just really like what they did for Season One and would've liked them to stay on for Two.
Only 5 dislikes? You people disappoint me. SHOWER ME WITH HATE.
I'm not going to pretend I read all the reviews but I have played the games. In my opinion season 2 of TWD is a borderline bust. Heck it easy more of a puzzle fixing the damn swing in S1 EP2 then anywhere in season 2.
Besides that there is nothing to really hold my interest. Think of the powerful moments from season 1. I keep thinking back to the end of S1EP2 where lee was on his renegade badass mission to save clementine. The lighting and thunder. Shit it gave me goose bumps. There were tons if moments in season 1 that gave goosebumps. Season 2 has not provided any goosebumps moments for me.
So far in season 2 we got lost, found a cabin, visited a ski lodge, shopped lowes, and now we're visiting the battlefield.
Season 1 we visited a farm, drugstore, motel, cannibal farm, drove a train, visited a crazy city inside of a city, rescued clementine.
All I'm gonna say here is that I absolutely agree with what you said about Season 1: It's just as good the 10th time around as it is the first. It's just as exciting and heartbreaking every time I play it. 5 episodes of great characters, thrilling gameplay, and tough calls. So moving, every time.
I am sure that if they have stayed, Season 2 would have been better. But it is their choice to leave Telltale and because of that the other writers have to learn, grow and adapt from their absence.
I think that the current writers of Telltale are really getting better at writing the episodes. Otherwise, I wouldn't have felt so invested while playing episode 4.
I strongly disagree....But everyone has a different opinion and not everyone will agree with mine or even yours.
I am not even sure about to buy season 3. What I assumed to Play was a Point and click advanture in the world of Walking dead, maybe with some more Action elements. In Season 1 I had that Feeling and even back then there were lots of possibilitys to improve the game and the Options the Player could have at Hands.
In season 2 Clementine is nothing mere then a spear carrier. The choices the game gives you at Hand are eyewashing. I knew this game wont be it 2 me after Clementine was forced to do things she wont do. She would have made it alone well and maybe she would be able to find more trustfully People up North.
The game seems rushed and that they did everything to drop the last episodes in time and you can feel it ingame, you can feel it while deciding meaningless things and so on.
I can see a lack of a lot of things in season 2 too. This whole," we force you to watch our credits every episode bothers me every time is the top of the iceberg 2 me. Proud..
If you do a good Job Telltale (And you didnt 2 me) maybe I am interested in your staff and the People which created the game and worked hard to realise it.
But like that? Never ever.
Players want to have something more then that. More adventure and valuable moments like me and Cisco. Guess he has related thinkings about that.
I even registrated myself to have a voice about that.
The Walking chord..
It saddens me to see all of these threads... it saddens me even further to find that I agree with most of them.
It sometimes feels like - forgive the crude expression - I am taking a shit in others' work, and that has never been my intention.
I agree, it's just frustrating. Season 2 didn't HAVE to be disappointing, at least to me.
Don't beat yourself up. We only criticize because we love this game/company so much. We don't talk about our problems with the game to offend the creators, we do it to try to help them make a better game.
I hate to post negative things too. Truth be told this is the very first game that TTG has made that has been a complete bust for me. I really enjoyed the puzzles in their earlier games. With Jurassic park I felt TTG just pushed for too much compared of how they handled BTTF. TWDS1 really hit a prefect mix for me.
I'll agree that season 1 stands up to subsequent plays. I was a bit emotional the first time I saw the ending, but I flat-out cried the second time, even knowing Lee's fate.
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I personally completely agree with you, just lacked the ability to put the difference in satisfaction between seasons into words.
Season 2 just feels hollow; I hardly know these people, yet I'm thrust into decisions about their lives. I don't care about Luke, I laughed when Sarah died, I felt nothing when Pete/Nick died, and shot Rebecca without hesitation. Yet, our one returning character took it all from me. I kept shouting and screaming when Carver was beating him, and genuinely felt a massive wave of sorrow shroud me when he verbally demolished Clementine. It's this same way for Season 1, I was so very much attached to the characters.
That foreknowledge never stops my tears from flowing, either. Be it with Lee, Katjaa, Duck, or even Ben.
11, happy?
I'm never happy.
90%... I don't think so