400 Days: An interesting story or a waste of getting to know the characters?
Considering we got to play as each character and got to learn a bit about them in the "400 Days" DLC many of us were left disappointed when in season 2 every character apart from Bonnie was given no more than a snippet role that lasted no more than 30 seconds. So despite this was it a good add on to season or has the misuse of the characters left you expecting a lot more?
Also who was your favourite of the "400 Days" Characters?:
Bonnie
Russell
Shel
Vince
Wyatt
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It was a DLC. I liked playing as someone other than clementine for a while, I never expected it to be a massive effect.
Bonnie was easily my favourite anyway so I dont mind. With her backstory etc
Vince, was more or less a copy of Lee
Shel and Russel were fairly boring, they were bland protaganists
Wyatt was a generic stoner to me
I just feel like there is wasted potential there, I would have had Vince and Wyatt join the group.
For me:
Vince is a carbon copy of Lee
Wyatt is generic
Russel was a plot device to show Nate
Liked Shel and Bonnie a lot
I really did like their stories in season 1, but I did feel as though they were wasted in season 2 if you got them to go to Carver's camp, except for Bonnie and Tavia their roles seemed fitting. I can understand how it might be a pain in the ass to implement them in season 2 since players had different people go with Tavia, so they needed them to have their own little section of the game as to not affect anything in the main story.
I can also understand how Telltale used them to represent how bad things were at Carver's camp since their change in personality made them feel more cold since the last time we saw them (they also lost sight of the reason why they joined in the first place, Russel finding his family, Wyatt finding Eddie, Shel finding a good place to raise her sister, and Vince...um not being a dick). I guess I wanted more than 1 line of dialogue from them, but oh well still a good episode.
30 seconds? That's very nice of you xD
In some ways they did serve a purpose, I agree with that.
Bonnie was my favorite member of the 400 Days cast, so I don't care about the others being wasted.
I'd say its a combination of both. I thought 400 days was definitely worth it, it was just the utilization in Season 2 that was the problem, not the dlc itself.
also: wyatt master race
I did like 400 days it just seemed a waste of getting know the characters. Who knows maybe telltale will have a crafty way of including them in S3.
I liked it, it shows other people's stories in the apocalypse.
400 Days was an interesting story intended to give us a little extra during the wait for season 2. If you think about it, we never needed to play 400 Day's for season 2 to make sense. It just gave us a little insight to some of the character's we could meet at Howe's but other than Bonnie, none of them really mattered.. They all could have simply just been random character's with Carver we never really needed to get to know.
Maybe we might see them in the future.
If it was a real episode and not a Dlc Id think 400 days would be a waste
But because its a Dlc I dont really care
Possibly, but I think it's kind of a bad decision. What I mean by that is, we player's know the 400 Days character's, Clem doesn't really so we have extra information that Clem wouldn't have. Our decisions and attitudes toward's them may be tarnished by knowing more than Clem does.
Like Nate for example.. I remember how he was and I think he would be completely dangerous to Clem, I would want to kill him the instant I saw him.. But if he showed up in Season 3, Clem wouldn't know all that and could be willing to trust him which could end up hurting her.
I don't think Nate would be in it as he wasn't a playable character.
I liked it.
So did I, but I didn't like the wasted character potential.
Same.
Who would have like to seen more of?
All of them besides Russell, really. I love Becca a little too much.
I honestly hoped for Nate to return in Season 2. He was a creepy and unpredictable character, much like Nolan's Joker or Vaas from Far Cry 3.
The protagonists themselves were passable enough. Their cameos were rubbish, though. Especially Wyatt's - that guy literally stops a little girl from seeing Carver just to call her "dude" and tell her that the guy she's been prevented from seeing doesn't like waiting. What?
And Vince becomes a tattle-tale. And Becca remains a snotty brat. And Russell, a guy who left Nate in my playthrough, suddenly spouts something about idle hands.
She seemed a bit cold in S2.
I think it'd be a total waste for Nate to not show up at some point. He'd make for a very interesting villain.
It was fun. A good addition to the universe. But yeah, a little disappointing that the characters didn't fit into season 2 more.
Still, I'd have no problems with them doing something like that again. But only if it didn't delay season 3 much.
That's what I love about her.
Then you're a weird woman with weird tastes. :-p
She seemed like a budding sociopath to me. That random line about how Clyde would make a good watchdog was disturbing. As was her so quickly wanting to be the one to go kill her friend.
She was a regular teenage girl to me - "tough" on the outside, but ultimately still scared and unwilling to walk the walk.
She's a much more believable teen than Clementine or Sarah, that's for sure.
What kind of regular teenage girl learns that a friend of hers is about to be killed and has the immediate reaction of "Good! Serves her right!"
She was normal seeming most of the time, but from my perspective there were these small hints that kept being thrown in that she was seriously messed up. Either due to her growing up in a zombie apocalypse or that was just her nature. But she didn't seem normal to me.
Maybe I'm a lot more cynical about how people are deep down. Look at all the wannabe sociopaths on the internet, on this very forum - Becca, Troy and Jane are unpleasant reflections of what the 'survivalist' fantasy really makes you look like. Becca acts like a lot of teenage girls I knew, and I can actually empathize with her situation because I used to act 'edgy' myself.
Similar to people's obsessions with keeping Clem pure, I wonder if the hate for Becca is just shock at the idea that a girl isn't just all sunshine and rainbows.
HAHAHAHA
Meh. I still like her.
Not for me. I'd find her remarks just as disturbing if she were a boy, and I'd probably have much more disdain for the character if they were an adult.
And I didn't hate her for the record, but if their story continued I expected Becca to just keep getting worse and worse. That seemed to be how she was being written. And I felt bad for her sister, because she was a good person and was trying to protect her sister, but it just seemed hopeless.
What, is it because I'm still 'edgy' now? :P
Yeah, it did seem like Shel was feeling helpless about being unable to keep her sister from being molded by circumstances into being a creepy person.
I feel that Becca probably could have fit into Season 2, perhaps even replacing Clem as the protagonist. That way we get a repressed young teen without having to gut the original Clementine's character via an overlong time-skip.
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As 'edgy' as these two, though?
I also think he is too similiar to Carver.
I don't think she's a psycho, more like trying to be "edgy" and don't hearing what kind of crap she talks sometimes =PShe is a very potentially interesting character and it's a shame she didn't get bigger role in S2 (I'd happily replace Sarah with her, would a more interesting dinamic in my opinion).
I agree S3 has got to come first.
I don't. They're both completely amoral, but Carver is all about doing what he thinks is best for him and his group (even if it's something really evil), while Nate does it for the lolz. He really enjoys doing evil stuff. Which makes Nate much creepier, IMO.
I was a little disappointed they didn't get much screen time. I liked Shel and Becca the most out of the 400 gang. Would have been interesting to see Clem and Becca interact. Bonnie was all right so I didn't mind her joining the main group.