Oh wow just wow (Season 3)
Hey peeps, Merry Christmas for Sunday!! I am finally getting my chance to post about S3 after being "unable to post" for a week (cough cough). I see that many have already given their thoughts about it obviously. Before what comes next, i'd like to apologise in advance to anyone i may offend but i cannot go by without saying my piece. Below is how i feel after playing Season 3 so far. Brace yourselves for this rant sponsored by dan290786. Slight spoilers to follow:
I really do not want to be negative here but what in the actual FUCK was that that i just played???? I have never been more disappointed playing a game than i ever have in my life. At 30 years old i have played hundreds and hundreds of games and not shitting you here, this has to be in the top 3 of games i have REALLY disliked, sorry but it's true and i am not going to lie about it. Last time i felt similar was after playing that fucking Survival Instinct utter trash but this makes that game seem better SERIOUSLY!! Talk about a MAJOR let down but you know on the other hand i am not that surprised.
Season 2 was a godsend to this game and i never dreamed I would ever say that due to how poorly I felt Season 2 was written. I wanted to like this game trust me i did and i know we are only 2 episodes in but that's enough to tell me what we are in for and I had a strong feeling before playing this that it would be awful and I wasn't wrong sadly. Jesus Christ Telltale honestly what the fuck?! Sorry for saying this but i will never forgive you for screwing over your "original" fans in the biggest way possible. Our season 2 ending choices matter? My left fucking eyebrow they do! Bullshit! Sure we know that our choices don't really matter but i honestly thought this time you'd make it work and impress us and make our endings have some impact in this game. I am fucking done ever playing (i mean WATCHING) games from this company ever again once this season is over as i have unfortunately bought it now and that's how strongly i feel about this. They truly have killed this game series. It really has gone so SO bad since season 1 and not just TWD. I never truly liked any of the other games as much as S1 anyway. The stories of GOT, TWAU and TFTBL were ok but the gameplay and everything involved in the games didn't feel anything close to how well made TWD Season 1 was.
Apart from the story of both episodes which were ok-ish, Ties That Bind Part 1 and 2's episodes were far too fucking short. Shorter than the length of my damn hair fringe for goodness sake! I'm sorry but this has got to stop. And yes i am another one of these people complaining about the length but can you seriously blame me? We are paying the same damn price we did for season 1 if not more and are getting fuck all out of it. 50 minutes! 50 fucking minutes it took me to complete episode 2 and I wasn't even rushing through it. You lie to us saying episode 1 was too big to fit into one episode, have you guys had the Men In Black erase your minds that you forgot what season 1 was like?? Also just as in the previous games i mentioned above, this game was lacking of hubs, hardly any gameplay, instead sitting though most of it choosing dialogue that will most likely matter for shit, no optional character interactions, all very limited as usual, once again, no puzzles or optional side quests like in S1. It was a long shot hoping for all this anyway so i'm not too surprised.
The Kenny and Jane flashback scenes...WHAT THE FUCKING HELL WAS THAT???? I could not honestly believe it. I thought Telltale were playing an early April Fools joke after seeing it or that i was having a nightmare but sadly they were neither because it was fucking true. First of all, each of the flashbacks were fucking stupid and POINTLESS because you just cannot justify anything with it being as rushed as it was. Jane hanging herself due to finding she was pregnant with Luke's baby? Telltale what the fucking hell is wrong with you???? JANE HANGING HERSELF????? That was so far out of Jane's character to do something like that, did you even write this character in the previous season?? For me, someone who really dislikes Jane, even i will defend the way in which you just shit on this character in the biggest, most ridiculous way imaginable and i am so sorry for Jane fans to have been given this fucking shit.
Don't even get me started on Kenny! After everything this character was involved in you decide that he dies after a fucking car crash, waist down paralysed and THEN gets eaten alive?? Kenny??? Ok so he gets killed doing something heroic which made more sense to me than the scene with Jane, however, for a character (love or hate him) who like it or not has been around since the beginning, instead of giving him a reasonable death, you go and pull this fucking crap out of the Lazy Book Of Morons page that you obviously have stored away somewhere in your offices? Who seriously came up with this shit?? Were you trying to get fans to cry/get the feels over his death again? Guess what? This time it didn't work at all. Jeez, i'd take his death in season 2 over this shite any fucking day of the life, hell even the awful scene of Clem shooting him in the head was better. Even someone like Jolene's death was done better than this!
Jane and Kenny both died in what? 3 or 4 minutes? If that?? Really? You think that's ok? You create a game stating that ANF can be introduced to new fans who never played the previous seasons and the "original" fans will also benefit. You think that's a service to the original fans do you? I had absolutely no problem with Jane/Kenny dying as it's what we all expect would happen to every single determinant character and i knew it was going to happen in this game but THIS was not acceptable and i hope you have received and will continue to receive the backlash you deserve. The treatment of both Jane and Kenny was a fucking disgrace, you should be ashamed and quite frankly if i had been paid to voice either of these characters, i as a voice actor would feel disrespected and even embarrassed that my character was killed off in such an insulting way in the space of 3 to 4 minutes. It's like Omid's death all over again but worse! I would have thought you'd have learned from your mistakes from season 2 but it's actually got worse. Why create different endings when you know in your hearts that you fucked up at the time? What ever happened to making it work (for a time) with Carley/Doug?? Also what the hell was with their models? I know it moved to a new engine but my god they both looked fucking awful, nothing like the characters i remember, talk about weird looking as well! Jane looks like she had a sex change and gained weight in like a week and Kenny looks like he aged 100 years. Were they designed by kids or something? It's like you just felt you needed to add the most rushed material possible, thrown together to get these characters out of the way and make them out to be jokes/afterthoughts and didn't put any thought into their design at all and you obviously don't give a damn about our choices either or how fans of these characters feel. It's not their deaths that have hurt me the most about all of this, it is that you didn't even make the effort to give them a decent send off ESPECIALLY Kenny. They didn't even feel like they were the same characters that we knew from before, i just hated it beyond belief.
I think i'll stop there. Sorry to everyone who did like this game so far and i truly am glad you do and I hope i don't get angry responses but enough is enough for me. I had to say how i felt. My patience has been thin for a long time.
Comments
No one, i said it to be silly/sarcastic and because it's different/unique haha
Ok. First of all, you're goddamn right the flashbacks were SHIT, Telltale deserves NO forgiveness. Secondly, this is just a stupid reason to stop playing, I know what I said but you can't just stop playing because your favourite character(s) die. This is The Walking Dead, no one is safe forever.
I agree.
Aron that is not why i want to stop playing. I know everyone will die eventually. I just don't enjoy telltale games anymore for the reasons i stated above. I wasn't annoyed that Kenny/Jane died, it was the fucking way they died that really pissed me off. The motor inn bandits had better fucking deaths than them
Yeah i feel for ya too man. I am glad others feel as strongly. It's not good at all
Who said Season 2/3 had better deaths than Season 1?
A lot of players would quit if Telltale kill off Clementine
Im not sure what you thought i meant so i'll say again.
I felt like the motor inn bandits had better deaths than Kenny and Jane and that's just not right at all for us as players
Yes that's for certain
ok........
Thank you for adding this.
Of course. I am not insulting other people for liking it, i just don't and wanted to get my feelings off my chest
Oh ok
If Clementine dies, this game dies as well
Don't forget about the fact the new cast are weaker than a cancer patient on their last days of chemo.
What do we have? A teen who mopes around and habitually complains cause we're meant to feel protective of anyone who whines about everything, never mind the fact this apocalypse has been going for years now and the justification that it just started no longer works in the favor of weak children anymore cause it's a now well-developed environment that they should be somewhat adapted to.
A conventionally attractive woman who serves little actual depth to her character other then smoking killa kush and like Javi... you know, her husband's brother. Wow! A forced romantic triangle? Why not?
And Javi himself is such a bland character with little sense of interaction with the environment. And not much to him other then being a blank slate to act as much of a comfortable catalyst for the players to be able to perceive the world as smoothly as possible without much intrigue to him to make it feel natural or earned.
So yeah, so far the characters are actually less interesting then even the cabin group was.
4 years in the apocalypse driving around in a van smoking weed and kate going "javi lets fack, nah not really lol"
Why did @Everyone'sClemInTime got banned just now?
Huh?!
He got banned for a comment he made about Gabe's character apparantly. It seemed very harsh from what he told me on PSN
Real quick what was the comment?
I didn't see it myself but apparantly it was offensive about Gabe's character and it was bad enough to be banned? Sounds very harsh
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Yeah, they were gettin a little too outback, if you can't my cold.
Preach it!
And you gotta add Clementine to the list unfortunately even though I was a fan in season 1 and 2, though not a fanataic. She isn't working as a side character, flashbacks have been terrible, no natural bonding with other characters, poor chemistry with the main character. In fact I can't remember her doing anything much in season 3 besides standard and generic badass scenes.
He probably called him a scruffy looking nerf hearder.
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Yeah, pretty much. Even the scene with [the black market guy] felt like something outta Star Wars. I'm surprised Taavia didn't show up wanting to know why she fried poor [BMG].
I said it in an other thread and I'll say it here. The one thing the TV shows does better than the game is Character transition. A YouTuber stated this and he is right. There are characters from S1 still alive and we are currently in S7. But everybody from S1 and S2 are fucking dead(With Clem being an exception) This thought angers me, because how could telltale be this lazy!?
omg another special snowflake thread criticizing the bloody game
"Who's scruffy lookin?"
I am honestly surprised you haven't been banned yet
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Something useful in this thread for a change.
Yet you go to a thread in which is full of people you disagree with.
his post is legit. quit crying about the thread and move on.
It's like the user Sardorim all over again. He follows certain people around to try and annoy them...sigh