I don't agree with Clem POSSIBLY being the s3 protagonist
There is almost nothing else to do with her story, unless you time skip a couple of years. Also, we already know so much about her, so there are no surprises or anything like that. I do understand I am a minority opinion, but I am lost as to why so many people want her to be protagonist? That's a bad direction for ttg to take imo.
EDIT: I still want her in the game, just not as a playable character. She would be great as a secondary character/npc as s1 has shown.
The protagonist HAS NOT been confirmed yet.
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Believe me you are not alone. Their are quite a few of us on this forum that don't want clementine as the protagonist of S3 and I am one of them. I couldn't stand Clementine in season 2, she was overpowered, boring, and I felt no emotional connection to her in season 2 like I did in season 1.
Exactly. And I agree, I did like her more in season 1.
I feel the same way. I won't lose sleep over Clementine being playable in Season 3, but if it were up to me I would have made her a secondary character instead and bring back what made her appealing in Season 1.
She was decent as a player character at best, but I wasn't impressed with how the writers seemed uncomfortable at realistically and consistently portraying a child protagonist in a zombie apocalypse, and instead ended up writing her as an adult in a small body with ridiculous strength and resilience to show how 'badass' she is.
That's another big problem. While playing as Clem, it was as if she had little to no vulnerabilities. She was at times unrealistic, and like you said, it was not an "accurate" depiction of a child in a zombie apocalypse.
In my opinion Clem is my favorite character. The issue to me isn't whether or not she should be the playable character. the bigger concern for me is if she's still the main focus of the narrative. I do actually miss talking to Clem in season 1 while being Lee. While I did enjoy playing as Clem in season 2 I think she would be better off as a character if she went back to her original role as a secondary character because she won't have to be a mouthpiece for the player. She can voice her own opinions
To be fair, she was appropriately vulnerable in Episode 1, especially with the arm sewing scene. I could sympathise for her plight because she clearly didn't know how to do it properly, she was in pain, and the dog bite caused problems for everyone. It was a good attempt at how to write a child protagonist, but unfortunately it didn't last.
There should have been more moments where the writers explicitly states that Clementine is not going to be as competent as an adult due to her age, and will make plenty of mistakes along the road as part of a learning process. Instead she's shown to be hyper competent for her age to the point where she makes the adults around her look like morons.
That would be a better alternative to instead have her as a secondary character. Playing as her is just not going to be as exciting if we play as her in s3.
Right there with you, OP. I am so done with Clementine and want to see someone new. Many people claim that her story is far from over, but I strongly disagree.
Alot of people dont wont her as a main protagonist. It was clear that she didnt work as a main protagonist just on how S2 was. That season was a disaster with her, alot of things never made any sense and overall a boring season. She didnt have emotion in her voice, and the choices you made with her in season 2 didnt effect anything. Most of them never mattered (Thats not clems fault just thought id give more reason why S2 was bad) so to close things off she wouldn't be good and I think alot of people agree on that. If they can fix the boring Clem and had the story make sense maybe she could be a main portagonist, but even then I still question it
There are many options for new protagonists, especially with the 400 Days characters.
Agreed, especially since TellTale completely wasted the potential of the other 400 Days characters in season 2. There is no "face" of TWDG in my opinion, the role of the protagonist can go to anyone.
The story was very boring. Her interaction with people was very limited due to her age. She made almost all the adults look dumb, and there was less action. Her maturity was unbelievable, and her character went through an unrealistic drastic change almost instantly.
That's another thing that was really upsetting, it's almost as if the 400 days characters were just thrown away, when they had the entire season to show up. They had a lot of potential.
Yup I agree
I for one would like to continue the story of my Clementine.
As much as I'd like for anyone else to be the protagonist, it's not going to happen. There's already an action figure of her and gaming 'journalists' on Twitter would go nuts if she wasn't the PC in S3.
She's so horribly boring now, I don't care for her anymore.
I'm going to be honest here, I see no point in making a season 3 if Clementine won't be a part of it. Like, as much as people want to say this isn't "The Walking Clementine" and sure it isn't called that, but the last 2 seasons have been about Clementine set in The Walking Dead's universe. It would be like making a Dragon Ball Z sequel without any of the already established characters (the saiyans like Goku and Vegeta), that isn't a sequel, it's its own thing.
Frankly I'd prefer if the narrative moved as far away from Clementine as possible, but I could live with her being involved as a secondary NPC, with her personality being determined by choices made in Season 2. And speaking of Season 2..... any affection I may have had for Clementine (I used to LOVE this character) was beaten out of me over the course of 4 episodes. By the time S2Ep5 came out, I honestly didn't a shit about her... and by the time the episode was over, I didn't give a shit about any of the season 2 characters aside from Nick and Pete. Clementine had absolutely no character arc aside from "surviving", she was just there to play spectator for everyone else's lack luster character development and take care of the inept adults ("Realism"). But this isn't anything that hasn't been said a 1000 times before. Anti-Clemists are a minority, but we do have a presence.
I'd really prefer an adult PC for season 3. Gender and ethnicity don't matter, just give me someone who can realistically influence the story and supporting cast.
That's fine, but what is your reasoning behind preferring to continue as Clementine?
I'm not saying she should not be apart of it, I am just saying she should not be protagonist.
that's a good idea.
That's the unfortunate piece to it.
I agree.
Same. Imo, Telltale should just make her a NPC in season 3. That way, Clem fans still have her yet people who don't like Clem as a playable character won't have her as one.
Wrong wording on my part, I mainly meant protagonist.
The series could still be around her, she just should not be the protagonist. Due to her age, she has limited interactions with the world around her, and we already have found out so much about her that there is nothing new about her.
I disagree, I definitely think Telltale could pull it off if they fixed some things here and there.
Again, I disagree I feel like there is so much more to her story and that we've only scratched the surface.
They could have fixed a lot of things with s2, it's just they really set out a bad foundation for s3 if ttg does decide to have clem as an s3 protagonist.
About her age, due to her being so young, she was more like a spectator to the group, and the only character she had an emotional connection with imo was Kenny. It was just dull and boring.
This could potentially be true if there was a time skip, which is something i would also like. But due to the walking dead universe time thing (i think), you cannot time skip twd game too far.
No.
That is no good.
No.... ;( I love Clementines character and I love playing as her I admit season 2 had it's problems but it was still great and Clementine was great!
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Honestly? This are your opinions (fans who don't want to play as Clem) and that's okay. I respect that so I hope you will understand that I don't agree with you. I'd like to play as Clementine again. My reason? Well... Season 2 maybe wasn't as good as the first one but I still enjoyed it. I like playing as her and though I can't think of anything, I believe that her story isn't necessarily over.
In any case, I respect that others may not agree with me on this one.
Am I the only one who wants to play as Lilly?
How so?
Well, I guess that's another opinion. I personally didn't really like Lilly, but that's fine. Why would you like playing as lilly?
What matters is that they should make the choices really determinant rather than different dialogue similar ending like Carley and Doug, Nick still dying without relevance in Episodes 3 and 4,same with Alvin except he let Clementine escape even though Clementine can just barricade the door and mercy kill Alvin as a possible choice or he does it himself, not forcing main protagonist to do any simple task that seems complex, and an option to be a cold monster or kill with reason.
Yes I liked her character too, yet I feel as if her character is really going down a bad, boring, dull path. A lot of opportunities were missed in s2 (400 days characters not being shown (except Bonnie, who imo was boring as hell), choices that do not have any consequences in the story, dull environment, not much "interesting" interactions, Clem being almost like a spectator to the group, etc)
Her being a protagonist ( I strongly agree with her being a major npc, but NOT a protagonist/playable character) will be a disaster. S2 could have gone worst, but it could have been MUCH better. I guess the s2e2 and the episodes after were playing the cards they were dealt, which weren't very good.
bad writers made clementine unreal. season 1 and season 2 had diferent ones. hope that the season 3 have better writers. but i want clem was a main char.
I agree with you , her story is NOT over. I'd just like to see her story go through from a different protagonist, playing as her (again, imo) was quite limited. And it's fine, Everyone has there different views. No opinion is wrong.
Yeah I agree, I get a feeling that things will really go crazy if they start leap frogging from protag to protag. It made sense to go from Lee to Clem since Lee died attempting his best to protect Clem and his wisdom gets passed down to help aid her in future journeys. To go from Clem to a brand new weirdo main character never seen before would be odd. Now we got to try to get invested in some new person and learn everything about them basically starting off from scratch which something like that would be better off saved for a spin-off of the mainstream Telltale game series. Like maybe the DLC to post season 3 once its wrapped up in the no doubt far future with how long they take to begin and complete 1 season.