Season 2 title screens/story re-writes
I'm sure this has been talked about, but the season 2 title screens are a lot more misleading than season 1 was. Anyone know why this was?
Ep 1: You had Clem at night being found by a person with a flashlight, which is very inaccurate
Ep 2: For some reason had a focus on the ski lifts with Troy and the Carver's other goon, Johnny. They're not even main characters so that's weird.
Ep 3: Shows Clem and Rebeccas in distress, being help captive in a bathroom? Again, has nothing really to do with the episode. There's no bathrooms and Rebecca doesn't play a particularly large role.
Ep 4: Clem surrounded by shadowy figures smearing blood on her face. Need I say more?
Ep 5: Now this one is kind of vague, so it's not really misleading or anything. It's just snow and zombies.
Did any details about re-writes come out?
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They probably didn't know how to proceed with the story... like in Season 3 currently.
I'm not justifying this at all or anything, but this is something The Walking Dead just does. Read the comics and you'll understand.
Covers/Title Cards rarely ever mean anything. Season 1 was the only thing that didn't really abide by that.
"rarely ever mean anything"
That's totally false, and the volume covers are fairly accurate, which are the versions I read.
In any case video games are not the same as comics
No, it totally isn't. The covers of Alexandria being overrun are the first exceptions in a while.
I can literally find single issue covers and explain their instances where it was a metaphor or lie, but okay. We'll go with what you said.
It's cool that you read the volumes.
Also, there's a reply button.
I get the impression that they make the episode slides very early in production, before they even finish work on the first episode, which leads to the inaccuracies. It implies that they might have had a certain concept at one point, but it changed or adapted into something else as development progressed. For example, the group putting blood and guts on themselves to escape the herd in episode 3 might be an adaptation of what they had planned for episode 4; Clementine rubbing blood on herself alongside some shadowy figures. At some point, that scene ended up happening an episode sooner than planned, under some different circumstances. Don't take my word for that, though. It's only a theory.
I think the only reason S1 avoided this is because things stayed mostly the same throughout development, which, in all honesty, is relatively rare when it comes to game development. Things usually change a lot more than people think. You might see demos and teasers and trailers along the way, but that's just the stuff they felt was good/finished enough for the public. Most games people like have gone through serious changes from when they were first pitched, or when the first art assets were made, or whatever.
They've been back and forth with their slides in all of their games. Sometimes they're quite accurate, other times they're quite off. Batman, for example, was quite accurate to what ended up happening in the episodes, the only real exception being the episode 5 slide. On the other hand, TFTBL and Wolf had some episode slides completely changed: Wolf episode 3 and Tales episode 4, respectively.
The only thing I can think of for the ep 2 slide is that Troy was supposed to be Carver until they cast Micheal Madsen..and for ep3 maybe Rebecca was supposed to have her baby in Carver's camp or get close to it but they rewrote it??
Duck is in the episode 3 slide riding the train alongside Lee and Ben, so that could've been a changed concept.
Someone found some unused versions of the Season title cards that marcost3 used in his reviews. In Harm Way was called In Cold Blood, for example.
Got a link to those cards?
As for Duck, I kind of assumed that was just to throw off any guesses about him dyin in the episode. But you could be right.
I'll link his entire thread for convenience sake, but it's in the final review.
Let me get this straight,
Kenny was Carver
Troy was Carver
William is Carver
I'm Carver!!!
Is there any other Carver's in the game I need to know about
The title cards are like that but when you actually play the episode, they end up removing those images when you replay them. Such as Troy and Johnny not in the title card or Rebecca and Clem no longer in the title card
I'm out of here
Wasn't Eddie supposed to return in EP4 because he was in the banner card?
God how I miss that S2 menu... with tracks/background when you played a certain episode.
That was the likely speculation and possible intention, yes. Unless there's a full model out there that we don't know about, its more likely that they just reused his model as a placeholder and disguised it as an easter egg.
Why would they go through that much for a barely visible easter egg?
My theory is that they replaced him with Arvo, you know how Eddie likes 'em drugs.
edit: Well the model-crackers did manage to get the hat-less-Clementine model out of the banner, is it possible for Eddie too?
It was likely an in-house easter egg more than anything else. Don't you have to brighten the image in order to see him?
That's people's assumption and I personally don't buy/endorse it.
Perhaps. Unless its compressed file, I doubt that's just a painted image, after all.