Walking Dead World too unkind?
Hi everyone, I love the walking dead games even though I do not follow the tv series and the comics. (except when I go to the bookstore every once in a while)
I have been comparing Walking Dead to other zombie movies/games etc, and I realized that the walking dead planet could never recover. Because anyone that dies will be a zombie.There are no doctors or anything like that so they will never be able to cure the zombie disease (if it is a disease). So are we just watching how long all these characters will survive? Even pregnancy is super dangerous, a dead baby equals an undead mother.
Although all this is quite unique to the Walking Dead franchise I really wish that it wasn't there. So I disagree with Lee, that world will never return to normal. (although he was probably only trying to comfort Clementine)
I kind of lost my interest with season three after playing Michonne because Clem and the others will never be safe. We recently learned that walkers could walk even underwater. So they can't even escape to an island or anything like that.
Do you think that they made an overkill with the underwater zombies and the everyone will become a zombie rule?
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I do understand that you and some others could be upset by this aspect of The Walking Dead. In the end, we're just waiting for them to die. But, I'd propose you to look at it in a different way; every single character in the fiction that you have read and in the shows that you have watched and in the media that you have consumed is going to die. Every single one of them. Constantly keeping that in mind could help you.
The walkers weren't really floating underwater. They were walking on the sand, and as Michonne and Pete approached the shore, the water shallowed and allowed the walkers to reach them.
You also talked about clearing an island, and that's a good idea. As long as you can make sure that there aren't any walkers, and that everyone will be capable of putting someone down if they die due to natural causes, then you should be fine.
A game without genuine peril is a waste of time. What's the point if everyone is just going to make it out alive? I don't think it's impossible to find a cure. This thing started somehow and if everyone turns into a walker when they die then they are carrying something that had to be airborne to infect them in the first place. I think that the world can in fact combat the walkers down the line. It probably won't ever happen as long as the comics are still going but there is hope. Telltale doesn't have to kill everyone off. If they genuinely want someone to survive they can simply end their arc at the end of a season before going onto a different protagonist.
I think that during the Larry episode this was a genuine peril but did you really care about it during the Michonne episode? I love the walking dead universe but I wish there was more hope for the future.
Actually, the "anybody who dies comes back" rule came from Romero's movies. There's characters in there that also turn without being bitten. So TWD isn't really the first to do this. However, TWD brings that concept much closer to the forefront than the Living Dead series does.
As for the world being able to rebuild, well... yeah, if you follow the comics -- and to a lesser extent, the TV show -- it is most definitely possible for the world of TWD to return to something close to normal, and it becomes apparent that the dead -- even herds of them -- are manageable threats. Of course, given the 'coming back when you die' thing, there's a chance for a random outbreak to begin again if someone died close enough to other people, so that's a looming problem.
If a system was able to be put in place to defend against the turning rule, life could go back to mostly normal. You'd probably still have walkers and bandits here and there, but let's be honest, there's never going to stop being bad people out there, no matter what, and there's always going to be looming threats in our world. If it's not a walker, a virus or infection could still do you in, right? When you think about it, are the walkers really all that different from something like that? They're a threat that can potentially kill you if you don't deal with them properly, or don't take the right precautions against them. But if you know what you're doing, you can easily survive an encounter with them without being hurt or putting yourself at risk. Quite honestly, avoiding a walker bite is still easier than avoiding a cold.
I have to agree, to be honest. Damn near rolled my eyes when they showed the walkers in the water. Maybe I'm just jaded from the first two seasons, but I'm starting to get fed up with all the bad things happening so quickly. (Especially in regards to having run-ins with other people.) Of course I understand that without them the game/series wouldn't be nearly as fun and dramatic, but still. I just hope they change things up a little for season 3.
What does it matter, that in the game if the world would never go back to normal? I think the best thing to do is just to enjoy the game for what it is - and don't take it too seriously. Just enjoy the game, remember that it is completely fictional, and have fun in the process.
I don't think it's that unlikely for the world to recover from the outbreak.
Well, the clue has always been in the title after all.
That said, I do believe it is possible to restart society despite all the factors working against such a notion, as harsh as they may be.