Walking Dead, the Epilogue (my last random rant)...
The way I looked at the recent PAX TNF trailer is the way you would look at a horse that had broken its leg, and now lies on the ground desperately trying to get up. You feel how much it wants to live, but both you and the horse know it’s the end…you have to shoot it.
I don’t think the present, beany-wearing Telltale comprehends (or is capable of doing so) what is currently taking its last living breaths… they might have genuinely tried to save it, but you cannot help your child that you just do not understand.
Back in O-12, Season One turned into art. Intentionally or accidentally is not important….it just did. It willed the genre of videogames up the steep mountain of creative and financial barriers, out of the depth of the sterile realm of pop-culture kitsch entertainment (to which it was born through the genre of comics), and found itself at the sacral gates of human art. Yes, a videogame…about zombies. Of all the traditional creative mediums, a blasted computer GAME made us feel and reflect on this world. I couldn’t believe it, and yet I did…it made me.
At that point we all felt there’s just no going back—something too great, too unexpected has happened. The series will now open those “gates” with “the new frontier” and spill into the exiled endlessly deep world of human creativity, which has been the defining trait distinguishing us from beasts since the first prehistoric artist was born. We believed that, foolishly, or perhaps just desperately hoped for it—hope, after all, never dies in a man, even in this dreaded creative wasteland of the profit-driven post-modernity. But instead, the franchise gave that gate a long lasting look, turned around and descended back into the pop-culture abyss. You need keys to that gate…man…those keys, we forgot all about ‘em, it’s something the hipsters that grew up in culture of raped imagery and recycled ideas just cannot possess.
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Some of us still can’t let go…many live those forums in denial, but that horse’s leg…you can’t fix it.
The game turned its back on us, leaving us dreaming about the paths not explored. But it also has left a legacy. Its primitive zombie-apocalyptical setting, perhaps unintentionally had become an allegory to the state of the modern consumerist world. We, the mindless consumers, are the real walking dead dragging our feet across this creative wasteland ready to devour anything thrown at us by the profiteers. When Lee has died in that imaginary world without future, he put everything he discovered within himself worthy of saving into Clementine…that’s his legacy to all of us. That little girl became the game’s and ours allegory of hope and of preserving that inner humanity.
Let us hold on to it, because someone will come…eventually, someone who will open that artistic gate for games and for all of us…one day. And then, we’ll witness the true inner creative potential concealed within this young and unfortunate form of media. Someone will open it, damn it…you take my word for it. Only it won’t be our Clementine taking us through….
With this, I concede.
I am at ease with what you are, Telltale. Work your consumer entertainment niche in peace…go on and make your living.
As for those who seek, same question remains…
“Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves…”
Furiosa.
Comments
This game had magic
It dissappeard long ago
So tragic
We had hope for it to come back
Instead we got fabric
We tried our best to telltale
But they lost their logic
Were still here
But there's no hope for telltale I will go to another traffic ;/
I must say that people here have really improved their titling game.
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Well that was a lot of poetic words for "I think Telltale fucked up ANF". Can't say I disagree with what your saying, but damn dude, I can't believe you got all that from a trailer.
Solid work there
Where's the trailer? Where can I see it?
I fired up the GoG Galaxy Client today to let it update, I don't often use it but like things to be current.
What genuinely shocked me was that I hadn't realised that it has been three months since A New Frontier launched.
Hopefully Telltale have spent this time wisely but I have the horrible feeling it's just taken so long just because.
What has art thou become Telltale?
Let us hold on to it, because someone will come…eventually, someone who will open that artistic gate for games and for all of us…one day. And then, we’ll witness the true inner creative potential concealed within this young and unfortunate form of media. Someone will open it, damn it…you take my word for it. Only it won’t be our Clementine taking us through….
Ohhh goody...maybe we can have another stupid ending ...and hopefully she will cuss more...damn such a good character...OHHH and more game killing glitches....please a double helping this time!.
That ending was great.
She's in the apocalypse she should be allowed to cuss.
Her character is extremely developed.
Glitches? Naughtydog has one of the best engines to date.