Has playing The Walking Dead made you a better person?
I feel confident enough in saying that playing TWD season 1 in particular and all TTG in general has made me an all round happier, more well adjusted and I guess better person.
I don't want to toot my own horn or anything as I'm sure some people will agree (I hope) that even though it's just a video game it has changed my life for the better. I find myself being more charitable and being more charitable and patient with people.
Maybe it's just that that awkward 'asshole phase' of puberty has passed, but I feel strongly that my new outlook on life and attitude is down to the emotional dilemmas I really related with in TWD and other TTG games.
Sorry if this is a bit off topic but I know there are super big fans of TWD but a lot would never go as far as to say that it significantly changed their lives for the better.
I'd like to know what you guys think. Am I just taking a game a bit too seriously or is this something you can understand and even relate to in any way?
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I said charitable twice, sorry it's 12 pm here and I'm tired and emotional.
"Maybe it's just that that awkward 'asshole phase' of puberty has passed"
Would it be fair to say that the Kenny inside of you has now moved on?
Triggered Kenny fanboys incoming
I made Clementine a bit of an edgelord so I don't know how I should answer this.
I'm having an existential crisis.
My inner Shitbird has spread its wings and left me.
Haha, we all do at some stage I'm sure.
lol no. my choices can sometimes be dark, so TWD reminds me of how i could transform into a villain during the apocalypse.
I wouldn't say it made me a better person but it has made certain beliefs of mine stronger. Always have hope, do the right thing, no matter what etc...
Season 1 did... made me think inside other people's "shoes"...
... and then Season 2 and 3 came along and completely ruined that for me.
Just imagine what is this game teaching you!
It helps me relieve stress, but I don't usually play the games a nice way, usually FULL RAMPAGE MODE (Scumbag Lee, Clem, Javi, etc.)
Not that I'm an asshole or anything, it's just fun, LOL
you will never live this down
Remember, if you think you are going to be a all around badass/villain in a real apocalypse, real case you'd be the one crying in the corner and dying in the first day, don't get cocky
I knew this would be edgy...
No, I'm the same person I always was: killing the guilty and saving the innocent.
huh. funny saying that to someone you never met irl. don't you think? besides, based on my video game choices, i could, not would, transform into a villain. who the hell knows what i'd become, or even you for that matter, in a real apocalypse. no one's getting cocky. lol
I wouldn't say that. But ook.
The game helped mellow me out, actually
I used to be a bit more reserved and shielded with my emotions and stuff, tried to hide them and what such. Then after the game managed to break me down a few times (Duck and Katjaa, Lee's death, etc) I started to embrace that and became more confident in my own emotions and feelings towards things.
So yeah, I'll give the game credit there-- it emotionally compromised me. In a good way.
lol so i took that personally. my apologies. long day. i see what you were saying.
I think twd has made me realize things about myself. I think season one made me aware of putting myself in others shoes, trying to see other people's opinions instead of being so strong minded...especially with Ben in season one. I think I was also nieve with people in the game "Jane, Mike etc..." that I can be manipulated more easily than I realized.
Also on a less serious note, when I go to places like houses, stores...I am constantly thinking about survival tools and seeing what places would be solid and safe in a zombie apocalypse hahaha.
According to some people here, all its done is make me realize how quickly I'd be to chose some girl I don't know but for some reason have very vivid memories of her past over my family members I have no memory of ever existing lol.
But on a serious note, all I've really done when placed in the situations the series has put me in is what I feel would be right thing for me to do, rather than what I would want or be tempted to do. I played that way with Lee, because he was so easy to get invested into and make a connection with, and because throughout most of it I had to think of Clem, her looking up to me and that she would be taking cues from what she sees me do to form her own opinion of what the right and necessary things to do are.
I kinda played Clem the same in season 2 because I wanted her to carry on the attitudes and actions she saw from me. She was making choices I would have made.
I do the same with Javier, but its complicated by the fact that I suddenly have a responsibility to characters that I don't know or care about, and sometimes I'm put into a situation where I've got to choose between them and someone I raised, someone I'm loyal to. And it's always going to be my instinct as a person to protect someone I care about, and when I'm being asked to make a decision about someone I care about, for another person who should have his priorities else where I get kinda stuck.
I know what the right thing to do for him is, but I'm the one making the call. And I'm probably going to do what I can to protect someone I care about over someone he cares about, but when I do I'll have to watch how it affects him personally. There won't be any avoiding how he might suffer as the result of my choices, and I'll see that knowing these are choices I would still make.
After playing season 1 and 2 and before playing s3, I would say yes. Now I want to burn everything to the ground.
Yes, whenever a friend says something that I like I say "I don't know what the fuck you're saying, but I agree with it."
Actually yeah, it did make me a better person.
Nope, hasn't made me a better person.
Well, when the circumstances change, everything else changes with it, the same morals that made you a good person in a normal life, would get you killed in the apocalypse, being survivor minded, not trusting people, and sometimes even killing people, its all part of the apocalypse at this point, you wont always be able to do the right thing, and if you do, youll end up dead.
Thats not to say you cant be nice, its obviously beneficial to be nice and trusting, but one has to choose those moments with care, as trust can get you killed, its a thin line between hero and villainy
It was actually quite opposite for me, while I did really feel with the characters in season 1, I mostly played as myself during season 1, but when season 2 rolled around, and I was thrust into the shoes of Clem, I started making choices that I never thought I would, as a child I couldnt afford to be as trusting, or as risky, because I didnt have the body strength of Lee, I only had my smarts.
This is one of the biggest problems for me as well, whenever I see Clem "break character", and you can see the sadness inside of her, my inner Lee just wants to go up and give her a big ol' hug, but I cant because I am Javier, I have been way more emotional during these "breaks of character" that Clem has, such as in episode 2 when talking to her when the cars are stuck due to the car in the tunnel, than I have been when Mariana was killed, or when Kate was shot (that was entirely her fault for running through hell to get to a dead body lol).
It's the morning now, can confirm this....
Yea, it's difficult, throughout the first two seasons we switched characters, but our priority was always Clementines safety. That's all shaken up now because with this new character, he has his own priorities that I have no attachment to, and most of the players priority is towards someone has no attachment to. I'm always going to prioritize Clem because I'm the one making the decisions, and it's what I've been doing all along.
I don't particularly know if the decisions I made make me a better person because I did them being as honest as I could with myself and its out of a genuine care for her, but I killed Conrad without really considering his offer, because it was to turn over someone I cared about to a bunch of killers in the hopes that they would help someone Javier cares about, and at the end of the day, in game or out, I'm always going to prioritize the safety of someone I care about over someone somebody else cares about. I don't know what that makes me.
I dont think it makes you anything, its only natural for you to care more about Clem, we raised her as Lee, watched her grow through her own eyes, but now the game expects you to ignore all that in favor of someone the game tells you you should care about?
Its like if you have a best friend, or even a son, and you want to protect that son with all you have, but then some guy comes along, gives you his son, and expect you to consider his sons needs over your own son, I dont know if that analogy makes sense
Also, I dont care how mature Clem is, I am not turning a 13 year old girl over to a bunch of murderers and crazy people
Well season 1 helped me fire a gun.
I went on holiday to the USA a couple of years ago and went to a gun range while I was there. I started recalling Lee's advice to Clementine about handguns when I was getting ready. Surprisingly they really do help.
I've always tried to be a good person. I will say that season 1 was a landmark story based game.
Before playing The Walking Dead...I was shitty.
But after playing The Walking Dead.... I am still shitty!
That's interesting, Mr Noodles.
omg mr noodles I lost it
Why couldn't have that been the main theme of S2?
sobs
It's fine it happens alot.