Stupidest Choice (one from each season)
In your opinion, what is the stupidest choice from each season of The Walking Dead. These are choices that were in the final stats at the end of the episode that you felt had little to no impact or you didn't think was important to the story. And for the fun of it, add a choice FROM THAT SAME EPISODE that you felt was more deserving to be in the final stats.
For example:
Season 1: Giving up your weapons in No Time Left. Alternate choice: What advice did you give to Clementine? (1. "Keep that hair short." 2. "Always keep moving." 3. "Stay away from cities.")
Season 2: Holding the baby in Amid the Ruins. Alternate choice: How did you get Kenny out of the tent? (1. Told him to stop feeling sorry for himself. 2. Said that he helps you all the time. 3. Rebecca needs help with the baby. 4. Decided to stay silent.)
Comments
No Season 2 Special Stats.
Off the top of my head, you took both the choices that I would of thought of. Definitely agree with the holding the baby choice. It served no purpose.
Season 2: Admitted to stealing the walkie talkie?
I would have changed it to: Reaction to Carver beating Kenny? 1) Ran to help yourself. 2)Held back Sarita 3) Did Nothing.
Whether or not you took the blame for the photo. Seriously, that had no impact on the story or the relationship between Clementine and Sarah.
Save Omid or Christa in S1E3. Completely pointless choice made on a whim with absolutely no lasting consequences. Could have been replaced by what you told Clem about killing or any other part of that whole exchange.
My choices are more based on the execution of the choices.
In season 1 it would have to be the very first choice:
-Lied or tell the truth to Hershel?
I, and apparently many other people "tried" to tell him the truth, only to discover that we had lied to him. I had to crawl through the internets to figure out how to "not" lie to him on my second playthrough.
For season 2 "Went to help Luke" in episode 5 for sure:
-With this one making the choice that a smart person would make IRL in order to try and save him results in Telltale accusing you of not trying to save Luke, even if after Bonnie acts stupid and gets him killed you hammer away at the ice until you fall in yourself. This one made me rage a little bit.
Yeah, that's a good one too, considering the fact that he, no matter what, takes the blame regardless of what you tried to say. Also, what about how you talked to Carver in his office. Did you side with him or tell him, "I'm not like you." That's a good one too I think.
Anything you would replace it with from the episode?
Regardless of who you saved, the one you saved is pissed off for not helping the other, so that's definitely idiotic. Good one.
I did the same with Hershel. I tried telling him the truth, but when he said, "You got to become a better liar..." I flipped a shit. To this day, I still have no idea what I said that made me a liar. And when I went back about a week ago, I thought I fixed it, he still called me a liar. But somehow, an overwhelming majority of people got to tell him the truth. Like I said, I have no idea what I said?
season 2: asking to go with mike. It doesn't change anything at all whatsoever!
Better choice: honestly there really isn't one for s2e5 sinse most of the important choices are included in the stats and any that are not don't change anything about the game I just thought the going with mike one was stupid
Season 1: keeping your weapons or not.
Better choice: where did you tell Clem to go? To omid and Christa? Stay away from cities? Or just keep moving?
No Going Back: Did you convince Kenny to rejoin the group. When you don't, he starts beating up Arvo to keep his mouth shut, and when you do, he doesn't.
As for the Mike, the original choice was to shoot and kill him, but they took it out at the last minute and probably didn't have enough time to change the exchange around and simply had the choice be asking to go with him or not. Had they had more time, they probably would have made it something different.
I guess whether or not you taught Sarah how to use a gun. And then actually make that have an impact on the story. Like maybe she saves Clem at one point. But if you don't teach her, someone else saves Clem.
Lee, I have to pee.
[Just go!] [Can you wait?]
[Stay at Wellington] [Leave with Kenny] That shouldn't even be a choice! if you stayed with kenny so far, then whats the freaking point?
Yeah, I wish they had more time, I would have liked to have seen if you threaten Mike, they'd make Clem sound like she means it, and Arvo just instantly shoots (like when you call for help), but because of the removal of the shoot Mike choice, the scene drags on too long and awkwardly.
i said Just Go because I didnt see the ! and then I felt like a dick
yeah. when i was digging up the dog grave and it said, Clem go wait with omid and christa. and then he says Just do what i say okay?!
?) Clementine Feels Hurt
my heart broke into a million pieces...
I felt that if you saved Sarah in Amid the Ruins the first time and taught her how to use a gun, she could have helped the rest of the group fend off walkers while Rebecca was giving birth. That would have been great, and then have her die in the shootout instead of when the deck fell.
And if you robbed Arvo she will with something about the meds (Carlos was a doctor , i am sure that she knew something about medicine) and she would be mad when she discover the way you got the meds
I think because it's what he wants you to do, and Wellington is a safe place for the baby. But I can't leave Kenny, I'm with him until the end, just like he was with Lee until the end in my game. I can't turn my back on my friend.
Another one from A House Divided could have been if you got Alvin killed or not.
No Time Left: Cutting off Lee's arm.
All that Remains: Giving the bandit that attacked Christa water.
Anything you would replace them with?
Did you make Kenny stop shooting?
You make him stop
You let him keep doing it
Having someone lie their way in the final fight in the seas2 finale to claim Clem.
Seas 1 Kenny wanting to kill Ben while he may have saved the group by stealing medicine because if he refused they would kill the group
Thought of two more:
Season 1: Shoot Beatrice in the street. Alternate Choice: Did you threaten Ben on the train or did you try talking to him after he revealed that he was the one giving supplies.
Season 2: Distracting the scavengers or running away. Alternate Choice: Who did you appeal to (Pete, Luke, Nick, Carlos, Rebecca, Alvin)?
the replacements doesnt change anything though
I think either threatening Ben or not definitely changes his opinion of you and will play a role if you save him when he decides whether to go with you or not to look for Clementine (I may be wrong, but I think it does). And I said who you appealed to because, while it didn't change anything, I thought it would be quite interesting to see the percentage of who appealed to who. How about this one instead:
Alternate Choice: Did you agree to be Sarah's friend?
I have one for every episode
S1-Episode 1-Replace Did you Lie to Hershel with Did you Leave at morning or night.
Episode 2-Replace Did you shoot Jolene? with Who did you feed?
Episode 3-Replace Who did you help on the train? with Did you say to go for the coast or stay at the motor inn?
Episode 4-Replace Did you lie to Vernon? with How did you react to Vernon's offer?
Episode 5-Replace Did you surrender your weapons? with What were your last words to Clementine?
S2 Episode 1-Replace Did you give the man water? with Are you Sarah's friend?
Episode 2-Replace Confessed to Sarah's picture? with Alvin's Fate?
Episode 3-Replace Did you admit to stealing the walkie-talkie? with What did you do when Kenny was being beaten?
Episode 4-Replace Did you hold the baby? with Who did you follow? (Mike & Bonnie or Jane)
Episode 5-Replace Asked to leave with Mike? with Did you get Kenny by the fire?
A lot of those are ones I would do as well. Going with Mike and Bonnie or Jane would have been my second choice in Amid the Ruins and I felt the advice you give to Clem (stay away from cities or keep that hair short, etc) was more important, but the rest are great.
You mean like almost any other choice in the game?
Its that if you are not friend of her you cant teach to do it
That's probably because there wasn't anything to show as Special Stats. Think about the choices regarding:
If you think about it, the direction of the story throws the entire character development from Eps 1, 2 and 3 out of window, and the rest of the season is pretty much linear, without any major alterations (save for the ending).
Well, even thuough the choices you all mentioned didn't have much impact and ended up in the final stats anyway, they were important to the player back in the moment.
But the most ridiculous one is:
On the other hand, choices didn't really matter in Season 1 aswell. It always led to the same outcome no matter what.
Giving the watch to Nick, learning Sarah how to shoot a gun, giving the dying man water at the end of All That Remains... I really liked those choices but they didn't have any impact later. That's kinda sad.
( Well, like a lot of choices of Season 2 to be honest )
But we didnt teach her how to use a gun, I wish people would stop saying that she showed sarah how to hold a gun while Sarah was messing around and not really listening
Here's a vid:
"Just some guy"
"It's Lee"
"Car accident"
"Out of Atlanta"
"A police officer"
"I got a ride" <- (Not "I was on my way out anyway" even though that's not a lie the game has it marked as a lie)
"Parent's are in Macon"
"She saved me" or "Was looking for help"
then either "Sure" or "What is it?"
Oh, thanks. I did all that except I said I was on my way out anyway, which technically is not a lie and it's kind of stupid that the game considers that a lie.
Same story for me. I actually think "I was on my way out anyway" is less of a lie than "I got a ride" because "I got a ride" implies that Lee was a willing passenger. He "was" on his way out anyway, just against his will.
Hence, why I think it's the most stupid end-screen choice from season 1, because they did it wrong.
Yeah, but it was the first episode, the first major choice, I'll give them some slack, but it definitely should have been worded better.