Ways you think The Walking Dead could be better.
List your ideas here, both for the game and the show about what you think would make it be either one better in your opinion.
I'll add my own thoughts a little later.
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Season 1 was a masterpiece. Half of season 2 should've been changed (after episode 2) and ANF shouldn't exist. And the show should've just ended years ago.
I have to disagree about your views on Season One because I found episode three and four tedious. The season finale was also too hyped up in my opinion.
I wish there was more continuity between seasons, a core group of characters that survive from season to season. Imagine the impact of Omid's death if he had lived through S2 then died mid way through S3.
The show suits it's name rn so better to stop this show after that charecter dies....the game wellllllllllllll where the fuck should I start? They can make it better by doing nothing that they did with anf I'll end it at that.
“jUsT StOp mAkInG SeQuAls aNd eNd mY MiSerY sOoNeR aM i rIgHt LmAo!”
I would love to see TFS become the second best (or the best) game in the series and just watch all the people that were hating on it to pull undeserving criticism out of their asses. Being skeptical is one thing, but some of what I’ve seen in this community is something else.
Okay, so I'll cave and ask: as of right now or in general?
Not an avid viewer of the show. I started watching at Season 5 just about 2 or 3 episodes before they reached Alexandria. Watched the entirety of Season 7 cause every Negan scene had me hooked. Kinda fell off on Season 8. So I don't know these characters like the real OG fans do. So I can't speak for how to make that show better.
What the game can do better though is at what they advertise. Telltale's stories are never really tailored to your choices. Not to the extent it can be anyway. That and their blatant disregard for continuity. We build up these relationships only for them to be killed regardless of our decisions and more times than not for reasons that have you scratching your head as to how they managed to survive as long as they did.
Season 4 is the end to Clementine's story, so I pray the relationships we build don't end abruptly because Telltale wants to give us Suprise Headshot: The Trilogy, Shock Value Death: The Series, or Unavoidable Death: The Box-Set Collection 1-20. The characters that we build relationships with shouldn't have targets on their head JUST to give Clem as much grief as possible. Rather their presence should mean something to us, just as they do to Clem. Something more than just anticipating their death because we know it's coming. ANF ironically has the opportunity to keep most of them alive, but the reason I say that's ironic is because they're almost all forgettable or unbearable to the point where we rather them dead anyway. What's more is that they more than likely won't be in TFS, so it doesn't even matter. Side note, if no one else, I'd like to see Javi again. He brought a charisma we hadn't seen in the MC role of this series. I liked him a lot.
If this is the final season, we should be able to keep everyone alive if we do things right. As well as lose everybody if we do things wrong.
Clem should not have been playable in season 2. She was too young to be playable; it made little realistic sense why she, an 11 yr old child, was having to solve continually problems for a bunch of adults, and it made people hate season 3 because she wasn't the playable character again. The playable character in season 2 should have been Luke, or better yet, have the season 2 playable character be Christa and scrap the whole separation thing that happened in the beginning. Season 3 should have had a tighter relationship between Javi and Clem, involved her more.
Essentially, we the players should have been her protector when she was little (season 1), her protector/guide when she was a preteen (season 2), her guide as she started to mature (season 3), and her partner as she became a fully independent woman (season 4). We should never have had any direct control over her. Instead, her character development, how she treats friends or strangers, how she handles situations, that should have been something we as players indirectly shape in her based on our own choices as her protector and guide as she grew up. The ending result being vastly different Clementines in season 4. Where one player might have a season 4 Clementine that was caring and tried to help people at the expense of herself, another person might end up with a season 4 Clementine that would more likely kill someone at the first sign of conflict rather than risk letting them kill her.
Season 4 could, through our previous seasons' choices, find ourselves at odds with Clementine if the personality we ended up shaping in her was not similar to how we played the season 4 playable character. Depending on how we played it, season 4 could find us forced to Clementine in the end, as we clashed on some moral dilemma that she wouldn't budge on and we were left with the choice to relent and do things her way or force the issue and do things our way, which would result in a major fight with Clem.
Oh and no fucking AJ.
I want to say that Season 4 of the Telltale Game has a much better chance of being good than Season 9 of the show. Where as Telltale have seemingly listened to fans' points and put time and effort in all AMC will do is minimize their budget, quality and add more shitty characters and social justice. So in short what both need to succeed.
Telltale: Tie ins for wasted time over Season 2 and 3, an interesting journey and a fair and variable but satisfying conclusion.
AMC: A bullet to the head of the series and the firing and shaming of all executive producers
Oh, did Princess finally make her fantastic debut?