Whose quality declined more?
TV show or game? i personally cant stand neither of them and its sad because walking dead universe has so much potential and they could explore alot of things but they keep giving us these generic settlements which are bound to fall one day and you going to escape. This sort of scenario is overused. I am not much updated aabout tv show since i stopped watching it at the end of season 5.
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Well I stopped watching the show a few years ago and I'm still playing the games so I guess the show. I'm sick of settlements too.
Wow i stopped watching at the end of season 5 aswell. I thought season 1 to 4 were really good and then it started to decline. Then when season 5 ended i cant get myself to sit and watch season 6 and 7.
The games i still enjoy and i didnt dislike ANF
So i guess the tv shows declined more
The Show, easily. Seasons 1, 2 and 3 are top tier and 4 and first half of 5 are nice, but the rest of 5 and season 6 are just regular, and season 7 was a real pain in the ass in my opinion. Premiere was amazing, but everything from episode 2 to 12 was extremely, insanely boring. Even with ANF being the worst game I think it's basically the same as a regular TV Show season: more focused in action than in actual character development, most of the characters are really plain with no depth, the cliched 'group meets a fearsome evil community that is just nice people being led by a one dimensional bad guy' plot...
The show is became horrible
I think your mostly going to get biased answers here in favor of the game.
Say what you will about the show but I will say that their story makes much more sense than Telltale's in recent times and have more time to develop characters by utilizing 16 episodes versus 5 shortened episodes with the Extinction of the whole group save for one little girl with the name of an fruit. Only the FIRST Walking Dead game was better written than all seven season's of the show I believe. Nowadays while the show has it's slow moments it's been more entertaining than New Frontier and season 2 combined for me. Most of season 7 was a disappoinment though. But AMC has been known to bounce back from slow slump seasons. They also have the comic to lean on for ideas so it's kind of not fair to compare with the game. Unless your talking about
Fear the spin off.
I'm not sure, actually. The show isn't as great as it used to be, but the same can be said about the games. Seasons 1,3,4 & 5 are great in the show and S1 is great in the game.
As for which quality is declining fastest, it's the game. After S1, the games have been getting worse and worse. S2 was okay, the best episodes being the first two. Michonne Mini-series is a guilty pleasure. New Frontier was terrible. It took the show 5 seasons to start declining but it only took 1 season for the games to start declining too.
Granted, the show is declining too. Season 6 was mediocre and Season 7 was a mess, except for the premiere. I only liked Season 7 because of Negan and that's it. However, the show won't stop being popular. It's more well-known than the games and maybe even the comics. No matter how bad the seasons are, as long as AMC is getting great views, it'll stop the show from being cancelled.
Definitely the game declined more. Though the show isn't as good as it used to be it still is able to maintain people's interest to where they still really care about the characters in the series. The game on the other hand has declined so much that people are beginning to feel that it is even time for Clementine's story to be concluded. And she is basically the only active character in the series that people care at all about anymore.
The decision to make the game so determinant based really hurt it in the long run. If they were truly planning on this being a long running series they should have chosen to have the style of storytelling to be more along the lines of Last of Us (where it is still an interactive experience but just not in terms of the storyline). Giving players so much say in the outcome of the story has made it difficult to carry much over from one game to the next.
I mean I played through all of S3, I quit watching midway through S5 because I couldnt stand it anymore, so I guess the TV show
A bit unfair comparison unless it's between S1-3 of the game vs 1-3 of the show. They are 7 seasons in - all tv shows decline after that long running. Both could use some fresh ideas and direction. They both lean heavy on an over used formula. The game certainly has longer running potential and can do more on a lower budget than the show - but they need a strong team of writers to deliver on the character moments.
Not Buffy, still good at the 7th season
As much of a Buffy fan [ Joss Whedon fan even ] that I am, I do feel like this statement applies to even my favorite of shows. Buffy did show decline through the years with the most consistent weaker episodes in S7. It masks most of these types of episodes by having extraordinary finales that often make people forget about them in hindsight, but while the show aired they were peppered throughout. The show tried to / at times wanted to end earlier than S7 - because everyone wanted to walk away on a high note. Compared to S1-S5, S7 had a few good episodes whereas the others they had only a few bad ones.
S3 and S4 was the weakest to me s7 was great, season 6 is a mix I hate the trio shit geeks, but Dark Willow was grandiose