Revised Choices
I've had a change of heart on multiple choices that I've made on my first play through. One example is my ending. At first I let in the family. Thought it made since in the moment. But the more I mulled it over, I couldn't risk it. With AJ there, MyClem has to be extra careful.
A more recent example is Lilly. At first I was very "dug in" with my choice of leaving her. Carley was one of our own, and you can't do shit like that. But these last couple days, I've been thinking. Would I really be that cold, and just leave her, to her apparent death? Lilly was going off the rails, and she didn't show any remorse. She simply said "she couldn't be trusted" and "this is all I have". But she was also one of us, and you can't do shit like that. So I had a change of heart. Still couldn't let her stay, but I couldn't just leave her like that.
Anyone else have a choice they were "dug in" on, but then had a change of heart, due to perspective?
Comments
Never happened to me, maybe it's because I always think being nice is the best course no matter what, even if it does come back bite me in my buttocks. I can never bring myself to be mean to a character on a first playthrough, Hell, I can never drop Ben, get Nick killed or be rude to Arvo on any other subsequent playthroughs.
The characters feel too multi-dimensional for me to be heartless to them.
I will never drop Ben, get Nick killed, or leave Sarah. Never. I go into the game wanting to be an asshole and a lot of the times I just can't do it, even some of the snarkier lines that seem harmless I'll think, "I'm totally going to say that" and then I end up...not saying it.
Another good example is the Carver choice. I wanted to watch at first, but Sarita wanted to take Clementine away so I went with her because I didn't want to hurt her feelings or something. So what I as a player want to see gets overshadowed by the fact that I am a big wimp who doesn't like making fictional characters sad.
I get that. I try and put myself in the situation and do/say, what i'd actually do/say. Like with Hershel. There's no need to lie to him, about how Lee's leg got hurt. But if I was in that situation, that's exactly what I'd do.
It was with cutting Sarita's hand off, originally I though it would've saved her but then I thought about her scream at the end which could've attracted walkers to her, the fact that she's bleeding out and that Clementine used a gore covered weapon to cut her arm off.