I am really missing the "slice of life" part of the TTG and TWD games!
Personally that's appealed to me so much both of the genre (choose your own adventure/shape your character, etc) and of TWD (meaning the show/comic as well). I think season 1 did an absolute perfect job at conveying this, in between tension and chaos there's this time in between that in most other games and movies we don't get to see which is just living with each other. That's what makes us connect to the characters and feel bad and hate/love them. I think there's too much action/too little breathing room in season 3. We keep going from "woah zombies" to "woah assholes with guns" or both at thte same time. I wish TTG would stick with smaller personal choices than plot defining choices, for example the weed while driving sequence to me was absolutely what I am looking for in a TTG game. I wish the drama and conflict to come as much from having to live with people in such a setting as well as it does from purely plot driven circumstances. I think they are overdoing with the "everything that could possibly go wrong WILL go wrong" maybe trying to make the game "not boring", more of an action game as to appeal to everyone, but I'd rahter they let us have time of peace and of joy, kill some walkers in the way, scavenge, talk, laugh, argue. That's how the ugly moments hit the hardest (personally I could with less cheap deaths that come from literally nowhere, just the asshole shooting before even showing up on screen). I thought the starting moments of episode 1 did a good job at conveying what I am talking about, everything after we first leave the junkyard went downhill imho.
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I loved being able to walk around camp and talk to whoever I want. Thats where season 1 thrived. The little moments that were optional.
Same. One of Season 2 shortcomings was the shortage of hubs and the limited interactivity when there were. Episode 3 in particular was particularly egregious considering the setting.
I think it's slowly coming back to S3.
S2 missed it a lot, but I'm quite content with it in S3.
Yeah, and I have a feeling this is going to be one of this season's biggest shortcomings. We've been given very little interaction with any of the cast outside of Kate and Gabe. Even interactions with Clementine are mostly done on the action side of things. And if she gets left behind, how are we going to see eye to eye with Tripp, Eleanor, Jesus etc.
I really hope this is brought back in later episodes. But this was an issue that was brought up during Season 2 when we realised that hubs went extinct. So I wouldn't hold out much optimism on this front honestly.