A Better Choice At The End of Michonne
I think a better choice at the end of Michonne would be having to choose either James/Alex or Sam in the fire. Both of them are trapped with the fire closing in. Michonne is hallucinating, seeing her two daughters flickering to take the place of James and Alex as they beg her to help them. Dominic (Michonne's ex-husband I believe), appears, claiming Michonne will simply leave them (the two daughters) whereas Michonne is forced to choose between Sam or Alex/James (her daughters).
Picking Alex/James:
- Sam is seen dying in a horrifically brutal way, some of the roof falling onto her and smashing her head in, not enough to kill her, but enough to do serious damage before walkers start making her way towards her. Michonne leaving, and clearly feeling guilty as Alex or James notices Sam, screaming her name before the rest of the roof collapses onto her. Alex and James make it out with Michonne. The ending would not show Michonne's kids, and you get a few dialogue options, as well as Pete telling Paige, Alex and James that they can drop them off at Oceanside.
Picking Sam:
- The death of Alex/James is more ambiguous, the two of them backing into the room from wherever they're trapped and only the ground collapsing under them, both of them (as Michonne's children), screaming and falling. Sam is helped by Michonne as she rushes to try and help them but sees the ground has collapsed. She doesn't blame Michonne (depending on your relationship with her), rather begging they try and help but Michonne leads Sam away before the entire house is destroyed by the fire. At the end, Pete tells Sam that he'll drop them off at Oceanside and Michonne sees, what she thinks is Alex and James in the distance, but reveals themselves to be her children before they disappear.
I feel like this would be better than choosing between staying with the kids and leaving.
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This would be a better choice. I'd save Alex and James.
The thing is I can't see a reason why someone would choose one person over two children. Knowing Sam, she would want her brothers to be saved instead of her.
I imagine there would have to be a stressed reason that Michonne can't indulge her hallucinations because they will only get worse and get the better of her, and next time it means death. Maybe a conversation where Michonne consults with Paige about it? Paige said she used to speak to people, so maybe she also dealt with this? Or even speak to Sam since she hallucinated about Greg? Or even Pete? I don't know, but something about a character who has experienced this before and warning Michonne that they should never under any circumstances indulge the hallucinations because it guarantees death. I imagine it'd be better if Sam said this, maybe she hallucinated about her mother, as well as Greg, and it'd be a nice bit of foreshadowing.
I think pretty much everyone would save the two little kids, if it was Pete or Sam it would've been much more divided
That makes sense. Better than those stupid girls.
If it was that kinda choice, I would save neither.
Why?!
Because I hate both of them.
Choose the less worse, idk, Does Pete really deservers to die because he constructively criticized you?!
That seems like a pretty horrible and spiteful thing to do, especially as Pete and Sam don't really ever do anything that bad.
Pete is a decent and helpful guy. I mean he moans a bit but he's a good person. Sam is reckless and a liar but she's not a bad person
K.
They're people. And they aren't murderous villians.
and I'm trying to be a smartass by discussing video game characters oh well you win this one
Am I seriously not allowed to have my own opinion?
No one is saying you can't have an opinion. However opinions generally get challenged.
the original end choice was crap
That makes more sense. Saving James and Alex and having it play out how you described, I feel would give Michonne's character arc in the game a lot more closure. The original choice just sort of felt forced and didn't really solve anything.
I think the percentage would be more split than with the original last choice.
Good idea. Thematically the final choice is cool, but this is supposed to be a game about what choices we'd make. Where's the difficulty to us about letting Michonne run or stay with two hallucinations to burn? Plus she can't even stay with them anyway so its a total negation of choice. It should affect Michonne as a character and the players. Instead it only affects Michonne
Someone replied to your comment, they didn't pull a gun and aim it at your skull demanding you believe what they believe. Everyone's allowed to have opinions.
I never said they did.
Well that's because you're choices seriously went against the kind of person Pete is. Seems a bit unreasonable to hate someone for disagreeing with you. Even more so to let them die for it.
Well, yeah, it probably would be a little bit more split than the original one, but it still doesn't make it such a hard choice.
"Reasons for saving the little kids"
They're kids.
They're 2.
Sam would like you to save them instead of her.
If you don't, Sam might hate you.
Reasons for choosing Sam:
She's nice
She's more useful than 2 kids ( Which is kind of mean )
It do is better than staying with halucinations and killing Sam or get out without anyone dying, it just wouldn't be as split as Pete or Sam
Well looking at the original post, this is how the choice is supposed to play out, also I never said it would be a 'hard choice', just that it'd be a better choice.
They're kids but Michonne almost sees them as her kids (in a literal sense), saving them means indulging in these hallucinations (especially since during this choice, they'd appear to be Michonne's two daughters, not James/Alex.
Sam barely recognizes the situation around her, there is too much smoke and fire, the situation is unbearable. Sam isn't calling out for your help but you can clearly see she is suffering also, so no, she wouldn't be calling out for you to save Alex/James.
Sam would only hate you if you had a bad relationship with her (didn't help her bury her father, was generally mean to her in Episode One, etc.), so really that is down to your and your choices. If you had a better relationship with Sam, she would understand and empathize that it was a difficult choice and you did what you could, even if she misses Alex/James, she doesn't blame you.
Reasons for choosing Sam:
You don't indulge in your hallucinations, you get out of the fire with Sam and you start to recover as Michonne.
She is more useful than two children. I mean, this isn't mean. Most people chose Carley over Doug because Carley was more interesting and guess what? She could also shoot, and was a good shot. Choosing people over usefulness isn't always necessarily a bad determiner, even if it is harsh.
Your personal view/relationship with Sam, depending on what you think of Sam, it would help determine whether you want to save her life or not, so really that's all up to you.
Yeah, that's true, but it is mean to let 2 kids (one of them has what? 6 years old?) die because someone else is more useful :P
Yeah, but to be fair, Norma and the others put them in that situation (and screw Randall for wanting to kill the kids anyway).
Good idea.