GOT succeeds where TWD fails in this aspect
I'm going to make a comparison to scenes I thought were sort of similar but handled differently. One was handled way more better and realistically while the other seemed like a joke. In the end both seemed to not really matter but I want to get into why Game of Thrones beats bloody bricks off TWD in this type of dilemma. The attack scene even though short and moved fast was way more realistic, grim and bitter than the Russian shootout. It was heart wrenching and I didn't feel like the writers shielded things with any bull shit and even though it was non cannon the writing doesn't pretend our heroes could have made it out when in the eyes of death
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I have to agree with you there.
I feel like telltale can only do this because it was non-canon though. They can go wild with death because it means nothing to the story, even if it is portrayed more realistically.
I'm not making excuses for the Russian shootout though. That scenario was ridiculous and if they wanted to make it more realistic they should have either wrote some character deaths or start the attack not at point-blank range.
What I meant was even though it wasn't canon they still came face to face with an impossible scenario tosurvive in just like the Russian shootout. Maybe it's just better writers but I think they knew it was impossible for them to survive and wouldn't act like it wasn't.
Only death I got in this game was when Gared was trying to sneak away. I messed up the wheelbarrow, and someone noticed. Then Frostfinger shot Gared in the neck. Then I got through the sequence correctly and Finn shows up! WTF Finn wasn't Frostfinger right there?
"I didn't feel like the writers shielded things with any bull shit'
Are you joking? Did you notice how Whitehilll soldiers escort Ryon out of the battle nicely after their own lord and lady were ruthlessly killed? Hello?
It wasn't Ryon's fault. He just watched his entire family be murdered by his captors. Plus this isn't as serious as everyone in the S2 group gaining the power of teleportation and easily managing to evade bullets from point blank range
I know, I'm just saying compared to the Russian shootout they couldn't kill everyone in the same sort of bloodbath because The Walking Dead presented it within the confines of a linear story without much chance of changing the outcomes, other than Clementine's non-canon death. Game of Thrones can get away with more realism because the scene was written in a way that branches from its own canon, even if it ends in a game over screen.