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Season 1 vs Season 2 SPOILERS

Only_JagsOnly_Jags
edited June 2015 in The Walking Dead

I've been thinking alot about Season 2, I played season 1 and 2 again and I realized how good Season 1 was. And comparing it to Season 2 they are 2 different games. I believe a new team worked on Season 2 but I could be wrong. Anyways to me Season 2 was rushed. It didn't really feel like it took its time to develop characters. In Season 1 I cared alot about the characters. Because I was able to talk to them and learn about there past! In season 2 you don't really get a chance to have a 1 on 1 discussion talking about the past. Its only in the now. So when characters died it was kind of just like "Oh dang... Well alright" For me Season 1 characters deaths meant more. They were more emotional...

  1. Carley's death (Made you angry)
  2. Lilly (Made you react to a character that just killed a loved character, a lot of emotion)
  3. Duck (Your first slow death, taking time to think about it and talk to other characters about it)
  4. Katja (Really felt sorry for Kenny)
  5. Ben (Really made you think about Ben in a different kind of light. And look past his mistakes and realize hes a good kid)
  6. Kenny kind of because he's not dead (Showed what kind of Hero he was and gained a ton of respect for him)
  7. Lee (I don't have to explain this one)

Then Season 2 didn't really have any slow deaths. And all of them had the same emotion

  1. Omid (This was actually pretty sad, it had a good start to season 2)
  2. Pete (Didnt know the guy well enough but seemed like he would have been a great character)
  3. Nick (Didnt really matter because he was irrelevant after the scene at the ski lodge, both of his deaths also didnt really mean much, I mean you
    find him dead as a walker in season 2 episode 4 and you're like "Oh dang he died". Not like Carley's or Doug's)
  4. Walt (Awesome character buuuut why not keep him longer? His decision to let Nick die or not was huge and showed what kind of character he was. That would have been great)
  5. Alvin (Ill give it to Telltale he died like a bad a if you keep him til carvers camp)
  6. the doctor (Didn't care didn't know him)
  7. Kennys girl (Didn't care didn't know her)
  8. Sarah (Some people hated others loved her, kind of like a Ben type deal but her deaths werent as good as they could have been. Her deaths felt forced and I just didnt like how she ended)
  9. AJ's mom (Forgot her name, and I didn't really care when she died. My reaction was "Dont kill the baby" and watching other people play that was there reaction as well)
  10. Luke (Forced death I mean come on really? He should have gone out a different way but oh well)
    Thats really about it. So from that I think Season 1 characters death's were more bad a and had more emotion to them. Season 2 felt forced. And all of the deaths happened so fast.

Another thing about Season 1 is there weren't much characters... I know there was alot Season 1 but they werent all together! Season 2 at one point you have people from the cabin (6 People) ski lodge (2 people) and Carvers camp (3 people) Just way to many people to acutally start to care about these characters. I think less characters make the game better, because you really start to care about them.

So what are your guys thoughts?

Comments

  • MetallicaRulesMetallicaRules
    edited June 2015

    I believe a new team worked on Season 2 but I could be wrong.

    You would be kind of correct, as the two main people from Season 1, Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin, left Telltale shortly before the release of Season 2, but did stick around to help create the story for Season 2 and oversaw the development of All That Remains before officially leaving. While Season 1's head writer was Vanaman, Season 2's head writer was Vanaman's close friend and fellow Telltale employee Nick Breckon, the two of which do a podcast together called Idle Thumbs, along with Rodkin and several other people. The main writers for Season 1 and 2 are as follow:

    Season 1:

    1. Sean Vanaman: head writer, wrote Episodes 1, 3, and 5
    2. Mark Darin: wrote Episode 2
    3. Gary Whitta (does not work at Telltale): Episode 4, and was also called in as a narrative consultant

    Season 2:

    1. Nick Breckon: head writer, wrote Episode 1, 2, and 5
    2. Andrew Grant: wrote Episode 1 with Breckon
    3. Pierre Shorette: wrote Episode 3 and Episode 5 with Breckon
    4. Eric Stirpe and JT Petty (does not work at Telltale): co-wrote Episode 4

    However, while Vanaman and Rodkin left, many people from Season 1 did stay and were either additional writers, designers, and directors for many episodes in Season 2, including Dennis Lenart, Sean Ainsworth, Harrison Pink, Chuck Jordan, Eric Parsons, and many others, so it wasn't a completely new team.

  • Only_JagsOnly_Jags

    Thanks, so half and half kind of. The game did feel alittle different.

    MetallicaRules posted: »

    I believe a new team worked on Season 2 but I could be wrong. You would be kind of correct, as the two main people from Season 1, Se

  • Clem_is_awesomeClem_is_awesome Banned

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  • AronDraculaAronDracula

    Wait, Gary Whitta not working at Telltale? WHAT? So Telltale took stories from random people to finish the fourth episodes of TWD? 3 words: W-T-F?????????!!!!!!!

    MetallicaRules posted: »

    I believe a new team worked on Season 2 but I could be wrong. You would be kind of correct, as the two main people from Season 1, Se

  • ultimatesnydermanultimatesnyderman
    edited June 2015

    No it wasn't. Also, obvious fake quote is obvious.

    Clem_is_awesome posted: » [view original content]
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