The Walking Dead (game)

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The Walking Dead Season 1 is an adventure game that takes place during a zombie apocalypse where you have to make really tough decisions in an attempt to survive
You dont need to know anything about The Walking Dead to play the game, the game has no connection to the show other than taking place in the same world (theres no connection to the characters from the show)
It is the best adventure game ive ever played, and its 1 of the best games ive ever played period, id go as far to say that its a masterpiece

Its very dialog heavy, most of the game is talking about stuff and making decisions, but there are some action scenes, in terms of adventure games this is 1 of the most action packed adventure games
The writing is very good, the choices you make effect the story as you go and during my playthrough everything felt seemlessly put together as if that was the intended story rather than a story that kept updating/changing itself as i went along and made choices, yet it still made me feel like my decisions mattered and that i was the driving force behind the story
At times made me regret my choices since i felt responsible for when things went poorly when i definitely could have done things differently

I have no complaints with it
When i played i had several technical issues, my save wouldnt carry over between episodes (the full game is released 1 episode at a time over the course of about a year, theres 5 episodes) and once it saved the wrong choice some how, and during episode 5 my mouse and some of the UI vanished which made it a lot more difficult to play
But I was able to fix the save issues without too much trouble and after trying to fix Ep 5 i couldnt and just ended up playing it without being able to see my mouse or most of the UI (i was able to see the dialog choices which is all that mattered), i actually feel like it made ep 5 better during a few scenes
The save issue was a common thing, but im sure those issues are fixed by now, so im not complaining about it

The game has a sequel, The Walking Dead Season 2
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261030/

It continues the story of season 1 but isnt as good, its still good and should be played, but its just not as well written in comparison to the first
It has some other problems too, which i cant go into without spoilers, so ill try to be as vague as possible here
It does something that i havent seen an adventure game do before and because of that it changed the way i played, at first i thought the problems the game had were my fault for playing differently, but the game also changes the way it plays due to it so it wasnt my fault but i was making the problem worse by playing the way i was playing
In the end though i was satisfied with it and cant wait for Season 3

For those that already played it

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I played this series a couple of months ago and I cant wait for the next one coming out early next year.

Pat1487 wrote:: It is the best adventure game ive ever played, and its 1 of the best games ive ever played period, id go as far to say that its a masterpiece

I have to agree with this, ive been trying to tell people that its really great but no one ever has time or seems convinced enough to give it a try. Its the only game ive really been into the characters and have had emotions for them.

As for my in-game choices:

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there is also a GoT game like this, but i heard it wasnt as good as this series. (ive always thought game of thrones was extremely boring except for 5-10 mins per season even tho the game should be completely different than the show)

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Kallock wrote:: The first game didnt have the drastic different endings like the second one did so I can only remember maybe 2-3 big choices. 1. It seemed like there were 2 paths at the start to go with, befriending kenny+family(duck was annoying) or larry+lilly. I really wanted to be on good terms with both of them, but i couldnt deal with larry always hating on me so later in the game where they feed us live human meat, i got mad at him and chose the "fine you just eat the meat anyway", then i made sure clementine was safe from the meat. I also sided with kenny smashing larry's face in but i let him do it while i held lilly back.

Yeah it was the same for me, except i hated Larry the whole time and didnt bother to even try with him (i didnt let anyone eat the meat though)
Its not like i really liked Kenny more, its just Larry was a dick (even though he seemed like a good guy)

Kallock wrote:: 2. Lee was starting to get pretty close to Carley so i started to like her character and i completely didnt expect her to die and i was pretty sad when that happened and i chose to leave lilly behind for the good of the future of the group + clementines safety.

Yeah the same thing happened in my playthrough and is my biggest regret since i was pursuing a romantic relationship with Carley
I knew Ben was the one stealing stuff, i figured he was doing it to give it to the bandits to stop them from attacking us
Lilly was so on edge i knew shed kill someone but i didnt want Ben to die (and obviously i didnt want Carley to die) so i tried to get her to drop it, then while trying to do that she just shoots Carley out of no where and i was just in shock even though i knew she was likely to kill someone
At that point i wish i had just told her it was Ben cause i didnt care about Ben compared to Carely
Later on i forgave Ben, since it wasnt really his fault, but i did drop him in the tower because saving him just wasnt worth the risk and i cared even less about him than i did during the Lilly thing

Quote :: 3. Earlier in the game, i chose to steal the food in the van because i didnt see anyone to be found and we really needed it.

Yeah same, i wanted to play it again to see what would happen if you dont since that guy at the end would have no reason to take clem
After the game is completely over (after season 3 maybe) im going to go back through all the games and make all different choices

Quote :: 4. I always tried defending and helping ben even though i know he did some pretty bad stuff and was a MORON, but he just ending up dying at the end and put everyone in danger(again).

I dont think what he did was bad, there were a few days where the bandits werent attacking us, and honestly if he had just told us the truth from the start i wouldve agreed that we give some supplies to them just to buy some peace time while we prepared ourselves to kill them all

Quote :: 5. the BIGGEST/MOST EMOTIONAL CHOICE of the series - i told clementine to kill lee because she specifically said "i dont want to see you as one of those." She really went through alot to see her parents as walkers out in the streets and i thought itd be terrible to see her next closest person in the world turn into them. id rather her view lee as a normal dead guy that wont turn into anything. 10/10 ending for season 1

Yeah i thought of that but just couldnt make her do it, i figured she might regret or think it was a mistake for not keeping Lee from turning though so im keeping that in mind for her character as i make choices (she always keeps the ones she loves from turning now)

Quote :: In the second game, i did everything to stick around with christa and the other guy because i knew i needed a group in order to survive but of course that didnt go well. i didnt give the bandit that kidnapped christa water because i just knew she was dead (but as the story progressed and all these "find more about christa" options kept popping up i began to think she is going to appear in the next game).

I figure that clem and christa have a really close relationship (maybe even as close as Lee and Clem did since they were together for so long, but in a different way, i wish there was a game between the first and 2nd season with clem and christa's story) so getting back to her was my main priority even though i thought that clem would think that shes dead i also thought that clem would try to find her anyway even if it was likely she was dead so i did everything to try to find her
I thought clem would think that Wellington wasnt going to be good (or was just a fantasy) but she was going there anyway because thats where Christa would go so if there was any chance of seeing her again (after everything that happened) going there was the best shot

Quote :: as for the new group we find, i didnt feel any connection like i did in season 1 with any of the characters except pete, luke, and the ski lodge people.

Yeah, luke pete and walter from the lodge (and kenny of course) were the only people i liked
Except i let pete die at the end of Ep 1
I had no weapon, there were like a dozen walkers, he had no ammo and was bit, there was no way i could save pete and clem thought that trying was a bad idea
I felt really bad about it though since he was so kind, and clem would feel even worse
Rebecca and Alvin were ok too, the first thing i said to rebecca was "So whos baby is it" since clem was in a bad mood and becca was being a bitch, it turned out pretty well though

Quote :: i hated how carver killed reggie because sarah was being a useless crybaby and felt really bad about that one.

Yeah i also helped sarah with her work, pretty sure if we didnt help her it would be her work that wasnt complete and carver would kill reggie anyway, and i think clem would feel the same way so i didnt feel bad and clem wouldnt feel bad
Carver was just crazy

Quote :: i didnt watch carver die because it was none of my business and honestly i didnt want to see myself lol.

I (and clem) really didnt want carver to be beaten and when i couldnt talk kenny out of it i thought clem would think kenny wouldnt be able to beat a man to death with her there so she stayed, but that didnt work out

Quote :: throughout the game, my least concern was the baby because i valued more people being alive and safe rather than the well-being of a baby (especially being born into a world like this, pretty dumb idea by the parents).

As a player i knew that taking care of the baby would be detrimental to everything, but i felt that clem needs the baby to live (since christa's baby died, they didnt say what happened with that but i assume christa had the baby and it died at some point after that) so if this baby died it would be like that for clem all over again which she wouldnt want
So i had clem do everything she could to help the baby

Quote :: i expected arvo to kinda betray the group but i didnt expect mike to also betray the group. when i saw kenny again i was happy because he was my main friend and go to guy on opinions in season 1 and i KNEW he would treat clementine extremely well because he admired lee in that aspect.

Yeah arvo would betray, and Bonnie would betray me after not trying to help Luke right away (i chose to cover Luke instead of walking over to him on the ice, i figured if we eliminated most of the walkers saving Luke would be easy, but doing it with all the walkers as a threat would be too hard
I thought it was weird that Jane was cool with it, i know she doesnt get attached, but still
And to be fair, after killing the walkers i shot out the ice, punched through it with my bare hands and dove in to try to get him out, so its not like i just let Luke die like the way Bonnie was acting, i tried
Mike betraying was a surprise though, im wondering if they will always betray you

And about kenny
In season 1 with lee my thoughts on kenny were, he knows how to survive and will protect the ones he loves at all costs even if it means going to far and doing the wrong things
Because of that i was planning to leave clem to him when Lee was bit, i figured clem would be good for him and he did know how to survive so he would keep her safe
Any time he got out of line id knock some sense into him, it was clear he cared about Clem and Lee and Kenny were friends, just had arguments from time to time
I was a bit worried about leaving her with Kenny but i didnt think Christa and Omid could deal with Clem and their baby, but when kenny sacraficed himself for Christa i knew it was the right choice (though it was too late)
But most of the time i didnt fully trust kenny
By the end though, and during season 2 i did trust him (i even had clem hug him)

Quote :: my big season 2 choice was keeping kenny alive because i was extremely confused when jane came to me and said "watch this, ill show you how kenny really gets." either: jane intentionally let/killed the baby OR jane is doing a twisted trick to get me to side with her. both of those sounded extremely messed up and even more psychotic than how kenny is becoming (i was never scared of kenny because i knew he'd never hurt me, although i didnt like how he was treating some innocent people even tho he ended up being right about them). so i killed jane (when i discovered the baby was actually still alive i was very happy with my decision because of course i didnt want to kill either one of them; i liked janes level-headedness and kennys instincts, choices, goals), kept kenny alive because kenny was my HOMEBOY from season 1. i shared the same thought as kenny by getting to wellington for best chance of survival + stable group. wellington did not have room to take all of us so kenny offered to keep both me and the baby. as much as i liked kenny, i remembered janes quote where she said sometimes you just gotta leave people behind that keep pulling you down, and so i chose to stay at wellington and from here i just gotta hope 1. kenny survives and gets in here and 2. wellington isnt filled with corrupted people. after looking through all the choices, i feel like i made the best choice. i was definitely not going with jane anywhere because shes crazy. i was definitely not killing both kenny and jane because then id be alone with a baby in a zombie apocalypse and i definitely couldnt survive that.

Oh wow you actually get to wellington with the Kenny ending, i didnt know that, i havent seen or replayed anything to get different endings yet
In the alone ending you see clem covering herself and the baby in zombie guts preparing to walk through a giant horde, then it cuts to black and credits roll, theres no dialog or choices after you leave jane behind

My decision to shoot Kenny was really hard, probably the hardest choice ive ever made in a game, i really didnt want to since i knew jane was tricking clem and that kenny cared about clem (and clem cared about kenny)
Since clem didnt know what what was going on, and since Jane and Clem were close, clem wouldnt think Jane would trick her, so i decided that clem thought the baby was really dead and Jane tried her best and thats how kenny reacts to the news, of course clem knows kenny would never hurt her but he would hurt jane and since clem liked jane and kenny was just so unstable at that point that going with Jane (who she also trusts) would be better than kenny (even though she loves kenny) so i picked the shoot him option
I had hoped the game would stop me, like Jane would say "WAIT ITS A TRICK, THE BABY IS ALIVE", i waited until the last second to pull the trigger, but that didnt happen Sad

Then, like i thought, jane tricked clem and i knew that clem alone with the baby was dumb, clem also knows that being alone with the baby isnt smart, but she cant stay with jane after that, no matter what, so she had no choice but to be alone even though she knows its a terrible idea

So yeah, probably the worst ending, but i really like how it turned out

Quote :: im very interested in how season 3 will turn out because of how very different the paths of the ending of season 2 were. during season 1 i was hooked and thought it was the best game ever. for alot of season 2 i was disappointed because it wasnt that close to how season 1 was but the ending of season 2 was very good and worth.

Yeah, im really not sure how they can do season 3, theres at least 3 endings, 1 where you go with jane after she tricks you, 1 where you go with kenny and 1 where your alone
The only way i can see it working is if Kenny/Jane die very early on in games where people went with them so that everyone is alone
Or if they make 2 completely different games in 1 (1 for Kenny/Jane since those can sortve be interchanged to a point) and 1 for being on your own

Kallock wrote:: there is also a GoT game like this, but i heard it wasnt as good as this series. (ive always thought game of thrones was extremely boring except for 5-10 mins per season even tho the game should be completely different than the show)

Yeah, they made a bunch of adventure games, the Game of thrones game just started and only has 1 episode so far so anyone that says its not as good doesnt know what they are talking about since the game just started (same for those that say its good)

I intend to play it once all the episodes are out
They also made The Wolf Among Us which is really good and Back to the Future, which is also really good (its like a 4th back to the future movie, you do need to see the movies for that one)
Neither are anywhere near as emotional as the walking dead is, but they are still good and def worth playing

Also i wont play Season 3 until all 5 eps are out, so i probably wont be playing it until this time next year

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Quote :: Yeah, luke pete and walter from the lodge (and kenny of course) were the only people i liked
Except i let pete die at the end of Ep 1

i also let pete die on accident because i didnt notice that it was a big choice until after i picked and so i was like "wait... CRAP!! i liked pete way more!"

Quote :: Yeah i also helped sarah with her work, pretty sure if we didnt help her it would be her work that wasnt complete and carver would kill reggie anyway, and i think clem would feel the same way so i didnt feel bad and clem wouldnt feel bad

i actually played it out by not helping her first and then i saw reggie die so i instantly paused and played the side where i help sarah out but they both resulted in reggie dying. i was pretty bummed out about him dying. (i only tried changing the outcome a couple of times when i really didnt like the result like that, but most of the time the result was the same or worse, ill get to a specific case below.

Quote :: I (and clem) really didnt want carver to be beaten and when i couldnt talk kenny out of it i thought clem would think kenny wouldnt be able to beat a man to death with her there so she stayed, but that didnt work out

there were alot of situations like this where id want to get into it halfway like you mention here where you choose this only because you might could talk him out of it but it isnt an option, which is why i sometimes paused and went back to the most recent save to get a more convenient outcome but its rare to happen nicely

like i said earlier about the baby, i really didnt care if the baby stayed alive or not except for one part where arvo betrayed the first time where his buddies come out and flank you and rebecca just dies here. i knew rebecca couldnt hold out any longer, i tried to get kenny or myself to hold the baby but it just ended up making luke mad because things were pretty heated at that time. i was VERY VERY worried that no one would react in time that rebecca turned and i thought she would just eat the baby real fast, but luckily clementines a beast. if the baby were to die by rebecca like that, itd just be depressing going through all that to save the baby only for it to die like that.

Quote :: Bonnie would betray me after not trying to help Luke right away (i chose to cover Luke instead of walking over to him on the ice, i figured if we eliminated most of the walkers saving Luke would be easy, but doing it with all the walkers as a threat would be too hard)

see this is the one i tried to play back before it saved and fix. i first thought like you did and covered luke and i didnt want luke to die, so i went back and tried going out to save him but that turns out even WORSE because then clementine gets down in there too and gets saved by bonnie i think at the cost of bonnies life. there was also another scenario where you let the timer run down and then bonnie tries going in after luke and they also both die in that one. unfortunately for those two scenarios the next autosave happens instantly so i didnt get to go back to my original choice of covering for him.

Quote :: But most of the time i didnt fully trust kenny
By the end though, and during season 2 i did trust him (i even had clem hug him)

Wow!!! you EVEN had clementine hug him! thats when you know its true trust!!
but really, kenny was one of the only characters that i had always trusted with clementines life because like you said, he'll do whatever it takes to keep the people he cares about alive and well even though he was getting too hostile. i always knew he had good intentions for everyone in the group unless they were in a very dangerous spot, he'd leave you hanging (unless you were family member or the baby or lee or clem). he wasnt a risk taker with others

and yea i ended up getting to wellington and i SHOULD be safe unless the group is hostile/cannibal, but the wellington seemed very promising. i didnt play through all 5 endings (there are 5), but i watched videos of each ending to see how i stacked up with other endings and i think mines the best. i dont want to spoil the endings for you if you wanted to go back and play them, but if you want to see other endings just youtube them. the two popular endings are one with jane and one with kenny (at wellington). jane has 2 endings, kenny has 2 endings, then there is your ending (worst one judging by the looks and future outlook)

i liked both jane and kenny even when they were always both secretly giving me information like "be careful around jane, i dont trust her" and "kennys dangerous, we should leave him behind the first chance we get." i just ignored the messages and tried to calm them down and maybe theyd change their minds. i was probably leaning more towards jane if she didnt pull that manipulative/twisted stunt... that made me change opinions pretty fast.

Quote :: Yeah, im really not sure how they can do season 3, theres at least 3 endings, 1 where you go with jane after she tricks you, 1 where you go with kenny and 1 where your alone
The only way i can see it working is if Kenny/Jane die very early on in games where people went with them so that everyone is alone
Or if they make 2 completely different games in 1 (1 for Kenny/Jane since those can sortve be interchanged to a point) and 1 for being on your own

without spoiling the 4 other endings, i can just tell you that they all end up in very different locations (apart from the 2 jane ones). i was thinking they were going to make all the endings somehow end up at the same place somewhere/somehow in the middle of season 3 and then itll diverge into several different paths again. itll be difficult to pull off a successful season 3 game, but maybe theyll think of something creative. if i had to guess possible solutions to get them moving around itd be somewhere in the ideas of meeting new group followed by corruption/conflict in the group. either that or mike/arvo/christa will end up meeting you somewhere and capture/lead you to a certain "safe" location that theyve discovered

Quote :: Also i wont play Season 3 until all 5 eps are out, so i probably wont be playing it until this time next year

im going to be playing them when they get released now (unless everyone is saying how much they messed up the game and give it poor reviews). i played the games months ago and i remember almost every important detail, so i might as well play the next game of the series that i really enjoy without a chance at it getting spoiled if i wait.

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