How would you feel about....
... playing as Javier and Clementine in season 4 (ala Tales from the Borderlands)? Ok, don't throw tomatoes at me, I know this is probably an unpopular opinion and still a bit early to even be thinking about it since we don't know what will happen on the rest of this season but hear me out.
We all know it's likely that Javier will take over Richmond/The New Frontier on the last episode of this season. Imagine Javier as the leader of The New Frontier and Clem as his right-hand girl (?). Clem and Javier's relationship is just starting but by the end of the season it will probably grow a lot more. It would be nice to explore that further in season 4. I think they can have a great dynamic just like Rhys and Fiona had or even Rick and Daryl. Clem's a bit broken at the moment, but I think we will see her be more trusting of people in the future (specially Javier) and open up more to them and be less "grumpy".
Season 4 could have another time jump (but this time, nothing of interest would happen because they are living peacefully in Richmond. Kind of like there's the 3 month time jump at the motor inn in season 1 after they settled in). So as Clem, we could start teaching AJ how to survive, there could be a lot of cute scenes there. And she would be older, and even more capable. I think it would be nice to be in charge of a big settlement too and make decisions to protect it, etc. Instead of playing a new character again, and watch them go through the outbreak again, and try to make us feel connected to new characters, again. Why not develop the ones we have now?
So far both seasons 1 and 2 ended with most characters dead and Clem is basically the only one who has lived and she has been in all games so far. Right now I think she's scared to get too close to people because of her past experiences, so it would be nice to see her happy for once and not have everyone around her die. I don't think Telltale even dares to kill her off at this point and I don't think they will kill Javier and all of his family either. So it wouldn't make much sense to just throw these characters aside and make a game with new ones again.
Would you be ok with this? How would you like season 4 to be? And how do you think Telltale will handle it?
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This would be perfect.
What is with the rewind feature, having said that though...wonder why they took it out?.
I wouldn't mind it at all. It sounds like you're hoping this entry's plot takes a similar path what I am, but I'll hold my expectations in check. I was hoping the initial entries would be handled differently than I feared they would be, and my concern ended up being right. Maybe it'll improve.
Its funny because me and a friend were arguing about this. I said it'd be good for Clem to become the side character again and the player will fear for her safety. To me she worked best as a side character playing off the main character.
in season 2 I had her keep trying to save everyone and she kept getting put in hard situations but never dying so it detracted from the choices for me because everytime something like that came up i had Clem do her best to save them by default and it took away from the game for me.
Now everyone us a little worried what might happen. That uncertainty is bringing the suspense back and making decisions seem more important imo.