How will you play your Clem?
I plan on utilising everything Lee has taught her and turn her into a little walker ass-kicker, while still trying to hold onto a fragment of that innocence and vulnerability we saw in S1.
I have some concerns about her age though, and any decisions she makes won't have much sway among the older folk. Let's face it, when it comes to survival, nobody wants to listen to a kid. So I wonder how it will play out having to play as one.
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I think what telltale was doing in season 1, you're and adult who is an ultimate leader, now youre 10 years old and it's difficult to have your opinions heard and met. Though Clem can speak her mind since she did so in ep 2 when they found the abandon car and she was the only one who didn't want to take it.
Lily didn't want to take the supplies either.. ' we'd just be monsters that crept out of the woods and ruined their lives '
And in regards to the OP, I'll be playing Clem using what Lee and the others taught her.. Can't imagine playing any other way.
First of all, in regards to the "nobody will listen to you" aspect, I have that worry too. But my guess is that after you save one of their lives, they might see you as an equal. Clem is a good shot, so this isn't an impossibility.
Secondly, my Clem is going to be somewhat more pragmatic (then again, that's not very difficult). However, she will largely be the same as she was in season 1, only much more capable of defending herself.
I think it's a little pointless to speculate how we'll play our "Clems", as Telltale will probably throw us all kinds of curve balls to keep us off balance. Personally speaking, I'd try to walk the moralistic rather than the pragmatic path, but who knows where I'll be when season 2 is finished.
At this point, I'll just say the same way I played Lee. Trying to find a balance between what's moral and what's necessary.
Somehow I don't think we will have much of a choice with Clem keeping in mind what Lee told her or not. I think she'll just be using what Lee taught her regardless of how we play her out. I think what will happen is that you will choose if she will still be most of the same person we saw in S1, or else quite wary and ruthless. I'm pretty much meaning a similar path we could drive for Lee.
Anyway, I've got 2 save files for my game. One of them is the nice guy path, and the other is the evil opposite choices. I'm really looking forward to seeing how we can make Clem turn out. I just know season 2 is going to be just as and if not more impacting and great as season 1.
People have been saying we can "forget everything Lee taught" and play her "however we want" but I don't think that will be the case. I have full faith in TT and would imagine all dialogue and decision choices will be made to develop her character BUT with the things Lee taught her in mind.
I'll play Clem the same way I played Lee - making the choices I'd make if it was me in her shoes. I have no doubt that playing as a 9/10 year old will have it's own obstacles to overcome and I do suspect Clem will have to use a gun to save someone to earn trust and be treated as a bit more like an equal in the group. Personally I believe choosing Clem was the right decision and the only way it could have really gone to really connect back to season 1. We've already got to know and love Clem and I knew there was a reason she remembered everything Lee taught her, so I'm looking forward to playing as her and seeing things through her eyes.
I'm gonna play like I played Lee, I've got to show everyone who's boss, and I'm going to kill everyone that steps in my way...
I will try and play her ike I did lee also except my lee could step up to make the hard decisions if he had to but he tries to be good.
My Clem will be angel. That says it all
We did see Clem change a lot in season 1. She started as a normal scared kid but as we got through each episode she went into some dangerous situations going off on her own to prove that everyone in the group didn't need to look after her or protect her by the end of season 1.
But the actions we saw her take she didn't really seem concerned about safety i.e the house in Savannah she kinda just jumped into the fire. She was getting very independent and more willing to go off and do things on her own. This may also play out in season 2 which may cost someone their life and have a massive affect on Clementine.
SO it may be interesting to see if the decisions we make with her involve her doing something or not doing it. Or if the decisions we get to make are because of her predetermined actions and how we have to deal with the consequences.
Clementine got Lee killed by running outside alone. So your saying she will do that again and get more people killed?
I will play my Clem as a raging psychopath and a crazed narcissistic who butchers and eats every other person she finds, in between abusing drugs and setting small animals on fire for sadistic giggles. She shall refuse to consume anything she cannot beat to death with her own tiny balled fists, but such things will be few and far between. By the end of the Season every survivor still alive in the wake of her rampages shall know her as the Scourge of Georgia but by then she shall have seen the error of her ways and converted to Zoroastrianism.
I will cancel my pre-order if all of this is not possible.
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This!
She went outside the house and got kidnapped. That's not her fault.
Oh boy... I sure that Telltale will not give us such opportunities. And I can't say that I'm not glad by this fact.
a weeping angel ?
initially on the first run through with clem i'll try and keep her sane strong and moral or take the best / right/ good/lesser of two evils.
then second run i dunno probably make her hard / cold/ like carl.
If Clementine didn't go outside alone. She would not have got kidnapped. Then Lee would not be dead. That's why Clementine said "im sorry Lee " she know what she did was wrong.
I will do what I did with Lee, try to make the moral choice, but as time goes on and the line between right and wrong blurs, I do just do what I 'think' is right, I have no doubt are choices will vary wildly, again.
I think that the first playthrough is a "true" playthrough it's what would you do if you were on a place of the main character. But situation with season 2 is unusual, because we already know Clem, and this puts me in an awkward position, because I already know that Clementine is a very good, kind, and mercy person, and I can't afford to freedom of action, because if I do what I want, this will be a disrespect to the character as a whole. It's worked with Lee, and every character from 400 days, because I didn't know these people, and I took the decisions what I made by the would if I was actually on the location of these characters.
You knew Clem as she was.
Now let her lose all hope for her parents, murder her sole remaining protector Lee and throw her in the wilderness for a few miserable months of surviving the zombie apocalypse, possibly alone. Don't you think little things like that have a tendency to change a person? To harden them, make them more callous and cold-blooded? Even for a character as seemingly innately good as Clementine?
How Clem has spent the period between Season 1 and Season 2 will be pivotal in her characterization. Based upon how she looks and her general situation, I can't imagine that it's been fun.
Wow someone with common sense. I agree with you. People seem to fotget she lost her parents and Lee at the same time. People act as if that happens everyday. She will still be kind but i just don't see how clementine would be happy and hopeful after her parents and lee relationships are gone forever, and clementine is forever alone.
I will play as the way I would actually do things if it were me.. play safe, make the smart/safe choices and always be cautious with people.. DTA- don't trust anybody
Common sense? I'm sorry but just because you disagree with someones option does not mean they don't have 'common sense.'
...so you're basically holding a grudge against a little girl because she left the house for five minutes tops and got kidnapped by a psychotic hypocritical asshole who had his own grudge with Lee's group?
Clementine knew it was wrong. Clementine still put her life and Lees life on the line.
not that she will run off alone and risk other people getting killed. what i mean is that she wanted to show everyone she cared about that she was strong enough by the end (season1) that she can be trusted to do things without others having to look over her. what we saw were dire consequences because of this.
However this is also similar to Rick at the begining in a way. While not trying to prove he was independant and strong. He tried to go it alone and do everything himself to protect the group. Our protagonist Lee on the other hand i think had a better sense of group dynamics.
What I think is that Clem will have to learn that it is ok to rely on the strength of others. but considering this little girl has lost everything she cared about it will be interesting to see how her story plays out.
Her love ones are gone. Her character would change after that.
Can you vouch for it?
I'll try to keep my life but also my soul as long as it's possible.
Do what's necessary to survive, but never do bad things for mere "comfort".
Don't trust strangers too easily, but don't lose faith in humanity and don't forget you're a 10 year old girl in a scary and dangerous world - you'll need to find the good humans, wherever they might be. Also, don't put too much hope in karma, but consider that good deeds might indeed be rewarded, sooner or later.
That's the way I'll play Clementine.
I want her to remain a human - and that's not only about not becoming a zombie.
I think I will likely play Clem intially as a cautious optimist, taking time to trust new people but once I do I will do my best to help me if I think they're right. I also will not be uncomfortable with making my opinions known, just because I'm a ten year old doesn't mean I don't know anything. Ultimately I will aim to be good morally, but I might find that the situation changes. If I find Omid and Christia I will definitely stick close to them because I trust them.
I can't see how any adult will take her seriously or listen to her even if she is a good shot. Carl is the same age and is a brilliant shot but the group still patronise him by telling him that they need him to stay and protect Andrea or the rest of the community when really it's just away of keeping him out of harms way. Rick would usually wink at the adult who is in on the ruse. I preferred the idea of Clem as an NPC to be honest. I would have preffered to have controlled Christa since Lee's dying wish was that she would take over the caretaker role after he died.
That is exactly what I'm gonna do.
I will play my clem like my lee thought me.
I want to say I'll be playing her exactly as I played Lee - kind, gracious, eager to help, always preferring to avoid conflict. Realistically, I can see myself being far less eager to help others, in case she ends up in trouble.
I will be a Ass Kicking Anthem. Anybody who get's in my way or says something I don't like, get's the foot up the ass and a bullet through the brain! Jk, I will use everything Lee taught me to my advantage and adapt to situations.
I'll play my Clementine that knows how to value his comrades just like how I play Lee on Season 1.
Not the same way I played Lee. I played Lee choosing the dialogue choices and decisions that I would make in the situation. Since Clementine already has an established personality, I'm going to make dialogue choices that I would want her season 1 self to say, and make the decisions that I would want her to do, not exactly making the same decisions and dialogues that I would in the situation.