Clem's story...
...is over in my opinion. I know it sounds unbelievable now more than ever, but I think that's actually it.
The main reason why I think this? There are 5 (FIVE!) different endings, and there are three 'ending arcs' (Wellington, Howe's or alone).
Just how will Telltale make an Episode 1, leave alone a whole Season without pissing at least 50% of players off because they think their story arc wasn't handled properly? They can't. There would still be a 'main' story arc (a 'right' ending for Season 2), and two to four less important ones.
Just imagine it: Some people get to play as Clementine in Wellington, some as Clementine alone, some as Clementine at Howe's...even if they just did it for one Episode and the story is the same afterwards again, it would still be hard to pull that off.
Now, I want to know Clem is safe, I want to see her and AJ grow up and have a happy live, but that just wouldn't work.
As much as I want Telltale to do it, it seems impossible.
I think the whole 'What will you become?' thing was just good for this one thing:
Prepare players to say Goodbye to Clementine.
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nothing is impossible.... and it's TWD. There's no such thing as safe or a happy ending.
but there are still SO many endings...I can't see how Telltale would handle that
I agree with you but telltale always suprises us!(In both positive and negative ways)We'll just have to wait and see
Speaking strictly from a story perspective, I can't see it being over. I realize no one gets a happy ending in The Walking Dead, but I don't see any of the endings being...appropriate endings for Clementine's story altogether.
I choose to hope that Telltale is stepping up their ambitions even more for season 3 and that at least the first episode will be different depending on your choices in season 2.
i hate to admit to this but me and my brother had a long, emotional discussion yesterday after we both played the Season Finale. I absolutely love Clementine and her story but we both came to the conclusion that her story is, in fact, over and "completed" if you will. The sole purpose Lee wanted for clem is to get her to safety, which He and Kenny agreed to being Wellington back in S1. It's clear to me that TTG made these (5) COMPLETE different endings with people dying / living / leaving that her story is pretty much done.. So, brother and i, came to the answer that we THINK the S3's main character is going to be Christa (shows HER story from the point Clem and Christa got seperated). Christa can come acroos Clem's backpack, can come across Lily on her adventure, can come acroos MANY plots they left out from Clem's story.
Upvote and Reply, tell me what you sexy mofo's think.
I think they'll do something similar to Dragon Age: Origins, in that there are 6 different potential Origins for your character that you select based on Race and Class, but in the end you still end up with the same main storyline, albeit with unique interactions and different dialogue with characters, some you may never meet depending on your Origin.
Christa?
pukes excessively
simplest way: time jump (just like from season 1 to 2 with the eventual 16 month gap). No matter where you ended up at the end of season 2; you start out somewhere on the road in season 3 (maybe with dialogue / flashbacks as to what happened and why you aren't still at Wellington / with Kenny / with Jane / etc). Might not be the best way to do it, but it can be done.
What's wrong with Christa? Not only do we know next to nothing about her, so she'd be perfectly playable, but she looked after Clem for SIXTEEN MONTHS on her own, that's more than quadruple how long Lee looked after her (about 3 months).
As much as I hate time jumps, zombie flanders might have the right idea. Hell, maybe Telltale could go even further than they ever have before, and leap twenty years into the future when Clem's a fully grown adult, and the zombie apocalypse is slowly burning out. I know the Kirkman purists would be up in arms, but if Clementine's story never intersects with Rick Grimes or any of the characters associated with him again, what's the problem?
I just think she is one of the most boring characters of the game. God I'd hate playing her.
Kinda sad that this potential end for Clementine's story came with a finale episode that was basically the Kenny Show. Personally, it's hard for me to consider Clementine having a completed arc. Lee did, with his redemption story arc, and although it's possible not to really see it through (if you saved Doug instead of Carley, for instance, thus never really getting it out, and if you ignore the option to speak about Lee's past with the Stranger), it's there and serves its purpose. But Clem? It just seems like everything in her story was for the benefit of others to decide their story. I just don't feel like we've seen her character through to the end.
just need a "10 month later"..
Agreed.
wow. Yeah, i agree with that.
Amazing. You were finally given the opportunity to put a bullet into Kenny, and you're still unsatisfied. Heck, Jane basically became the mouthpiece for all the bile you ever felt for the character during the scene in the car, but that doesn't make any difference either.
I really do not see how it's impossible. Alot of people would be pissed without Clementine aswell, she is pretty much the game now and without her TT might aswell rename the game.
All of the endings can also be tied together within 10 min of episode 1 (but as you said some people might get upset when kenny/jane get killed off to quickly.) I would rather see something like this above say getting a new story ( don't see how they would make your choices in S1/2 matter this way).
So getting to kill Kenny=a satisfying conclusion to Clementine's story which is the main point I'm focusing on? Do you even see how much of a failure of logic that is? Two completely different scenarios that you're trying to connect because you don't know how to comprehend a simple point, apparently.
The whole episode was largely about Kenny. We all can see that. The bulk of Clementine's story was told in such a way that the crux of the matter was what had to be done with Kenny or in a situation involving Kenny. Now people are saying that Clem's story seems to be done. I disagree and take umbrage at that idea. That's my main point.
Notice that none of that has to do with hating Kenny or wanting him dead beyond my feeling his story already had a great conclusion that everything he did this season doesn't feel like it contributed to Clementine's character at all but mainly to himself, as I've stated numerous fucking times. Hell, I've certainly grown tired of Kenny's character up until this point and want his story to end, but I've been quite clear how much I liked him before this season. And not once have I ever belittled his pain like Jane was doing. I've been pretty vocal about how they both were fucking up, actually. I'll admit I liked it at first because Kenny was such an unlikable prick most of the episode, but I distinctly remember stopping and saying, "Jesus Christ, Jane" when she started belittling the beating he got from Carver and her comments on his family's deaths.
I've been tired of Kenny for a good long time. That is so, and he's pissed me off quite a bit in episodes 3, 4, and 5. And yet, up until now, all of my anger towards him is because of his place in the story. Even when he got pissed at Clem, my main problem was that it happened no matter what. I cut off Sarita's arm in my playthrough, so I understood his anger, and not once have I ever said otherwise, simply that him getting angry anyway even if you kill the walker was a failure of the writing, and in story, just made Kenny seem like a prick. Episode 5 is the only time I really lost it with him because he was finally well and truly going off the deep end.
So, in conclusion, kindly drop this BS that I'm somehow in complete agreement with what Jane was saying because she voiced what I have always felt for him or whatever the hell that silliness was. My disappointment with the story and Clementine's character in this season has nothing to do with personal feelings on Kenny. drops microphone
Frankly, I think this is how its goin to be. I just know that it will work out and we will play as Clementine in Season 3
In my opinion is just the opposite. Clem's story is just beginning! xD
Agree.
The problem is that TellTale's Walking Dead is canon with the comics of The Walking Dead. How can TTG jump ahead 20 years, if there's perhaps a time jump in the comic of say, 5 years, in which the apocalypse is burning out? I know that's unlikely, but the point is that TTG has to stay within certain bounds set by Kirkman.
I want to believe
DAO was a massive game though and each of those origins were over an hour long, which gave enough time to make each of them unique in a satisfying way. Is something like that even possible in a TWD episode? I can't really see Teltale spending so many resources on a single episode. They would have to make these origins really short ( ie - 5 mins) and I don't know if that would satisfy people. A time jump sounds alot more plausible. Have everyone start out in the middle of some wilderness.