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The Walking Dead is an episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games. After years on the road facing threats from both living and dead, Clementine must build a life and become a leader while still watching over A.J, an orphaned boy and the closest thing to family she has left. In the emotional final season you define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine’s story ends. Keep. Moving. Forward. And keep that hair short...
Welcome to r/TheWalkingDeadGame!
The Walking Dead is an episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games. After years on the road facing threats from both living and dead, Clementine must build a life and become a leader while still watching over A.J, an orphaned boy and the closest thing to family she has left. In the gripping and emotional final season you define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine’s story ends. Keep. Moving. Forward. And keep that hair short...
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Ill go first. Clementine should've died at the end of season 4. She completed her end goal, finding AJ a safe place to stay, and then we would never have the Tangerine comics.
Spoilers Obviously
So for those who know, the last major decision you have to make for season 2 is choosing whether to kill Kenny, or let Kenny kill Jane. Our friend group, which consists of people who have played/seen the telltale game story, and people who don't know anything about it, had been watching a friend who recently bought the game with all its seasons. We all had varying opinions about the decisions our friend made but ultimately it was his decision since he was the one controlling Lee/Clem. We tried keeping backseating to a minimal. However, our first major conflict of decision with the friend was when he didn't shoot Lee back in season 1. The decision itself to not put Lee out of his misery made us upset but we got over it. Our friend's logic was that Lee was going to die anyways so why waste the bullet. Sure, whatever. What made us actually start disliking his decisions was when he chose to kill the dog, arguing that he didn't want the dog to suffer and to (and i quote) "put it out of its misery." We thought it was hypocritical that he chose to let the one person who took care of Clem and was willing to give up his life to ensure Clem was safe just suffer in his final moments when he deserved peace, but was ready to mercy kill a fucking dog that attacked him just because it was a dog. The decisions then-on we didn't really mind. There were arguments and discussions but we all could see the different reasons to pick different decisions.
Well, his final decision for Season 2 actually got the whole friend group so mad that we just stopped watching after. He chose to kill Kenny. Killing Kenny itself wasn't the problem, but it was the growing amount of bad decisions and weak arguments that broke the camels back. Our friend constantly shit talked Arvo and wanted to kill him but whenever Kenny started beating him he would choose the decision to intervene. Further, he would always pick a decision supporting Kenny whenever he threatened Arvo or argued with the group. But when it came to choosing to kill Kenny he chose the option immediately. I'm not kidding. No hesitation, no confused delay. Just picked up the gun and aimed the cursor straight at Kenny's head and clicked right away. The amount of unanimous "what the fuck are you doing???" and "why???" was pretty funny.
His argument was that he could tell Jane was trying to prove something, and that Kenny was actually a liability to the group with his explosive personality. And that Jane said "it was an accident" when she 'let the baby die' so it was wrong of Kenny to try and kill her. We, unanimously, called bullshit because putting ourselves in Kenny's shoes would have led to a similar result of explosive rage over an untrustworthy adult who left the group somehow letting a baby die and not bringing its corpse to show it had frozen to death was too illogical. Hell even in the heat of the moment violence seems like a reasonable outcome when the whole group either died or betrayed Kenny/Clem. He kept arguing Jane's "accident" statement but refused to acknowledge that he supported Kenny through all the past decisions and Kenny was loyal (albeit explosively argumentative) to Clem the entire time.
Anyways, I doubt it would have escalated this much if he had a proper argument or chose to save Kenny but we all agreed to not watch him play anymore because he can't keep a straight decision which would lead to all of us getting even more upset. He said he didn't care what we think because it's his game but then started trying to argue on/off afterwards when we all moved on so clearly he does care XD. Great game.
Edit: I have to clear this up because I suppose some people can't see the sarcasm in the post. We don't hate out friend because he chose to kill Kenny, nor do we hate him at all. He made a decision that he couldn't properly argue so we're giving him shit for it. At the time of this edit we are currently laughing with him because he wanted to kill Arvo and the baby. Relax
Protagonists are pretty simple, the characters we play as. I’d say Lee, Clementine, Javi, and AJ would fit the bill. Which one would you pick?
Just from a Development standpoint, he was probably pitched as to show how it feels to receive on the bad end of lee’s choices or the working part of him boosting Clem,
Season 2 is widely regarded as a collection of pitches and ideas that didn’t quite link up, near AJ’s birth when you can send Mike to do something, matches up with how Lee mostly helped in season 1.
His weapon during the standoff between Arvo is a pistol, we don’t distribute weapons around on screen to my memory, but him using a pistol which is a slightly darker version of the pistol model lee uses, fitting similarly to designwise he looks similar to Lee as most can compare, he uses a hoodie rather than a Formal Collar like Lee does, I assume it was chosen to show he isn’t as close to clementine as Lee, or maybe he’s supposed to be a worse Lee as he is supposed to feel like a lesser Lee making poor choices.
it could’ve been a cool choice to bond with Mike to mold him to be similar to Lee rather then siding with a stranger, although I think the stand in for Lee siding with Ben instead of Kenny was Mike siding with Arvo.
This is the end of my rant.
Obviously a joke question but how well do you think your mom or dad would do if placed in the walking dead universe lets say they are introduced in episode 1 at the pharmacy
How long do you think they would last or would they thrive
Thought the entire game he seems to only make things worse and worse. He’s extremely hotheaded and doesn’t listen to anyone but Clem who he tries to manipulate to get his way. He’s also just a racist dick head. Overall after season 1 Kenny fell off big time and I personally chose to leave him at the end of the game.
while rewatching season one i was thinking lily might be self medicating after her dads death. when lily asks lee to look into the missing supplies she mentions that her stash of meds (oxy and anything with opium) is getting tampered with. i was just thinking she’s obviously not in physical pain so no need to use those kinds of meds at that moment. she’s obviously in distress that her meds of gone missing. on one hand yeah those are important meds that shouldn’t be stolen but on the other hand she seems super concerned for another reason you know? anyone else notice that?
So, I know that Christa is very likely dead. But as far as I know, to this day we have never had it confirmed 100%. I like this. Specifically that it's so likely that she did die based on what we hear from Clem's perspective, but Clem will have to live her life never really knowing for sure.
Because that's what happen in this kind of extreme situation. Where you lose track of someone, and then you simply never see them again. Something like that happened to one of my friend's grandparents: He and another guy were fleeing France when the nazis invaded, the two came across a fork in the road, and they split up. My friend's grandfather made it out alive and never found out what became of this other dude.
This is something that honestly doesn't come up in post apocalyptic stories very often. Like, how many times would a person 'go out' for supplies, or maybe a few people split up to accomplish some goal and then plan to meet up somewhere. And then low and behold, they never come back. Or they never meet you at the designated spot.
Maybe you can't do that too often for narrative purposes, but the lack of closure here is something that would absolutely be a factor that people in TWD have to live with.
Don’t get me wrong it looks absolutely gorgeous and I love most of the songs. But the top two songs I mainly wanted (Alive inside, and waiting around to die) aren’t on the Vinyls. So disappointing.
(S4 & S2 spoilers ahead)
To start the whole argument of “Oh AJ has sociopathic tendencies, therefore, he is Carvers” is nonsense, AJ’s behavior is the result of being a child born into the apocalypse, in which things like murder are reduced to everyday occurrences. The argument that he couldn’t be Alvins because he’s light-skinned is also nonsense because Rebecca is light-skinned. Not to mention the similarities between Alvin and AJ’s facial features, but the real reason I’m pretty sure that Carver is not his father is because the writers simply know better. In the same way that later at the end of season 4 despite having waited hours to cut off her leg like Lee with his Arm and showing the same symptoms down to the deathly pale color and eventual inability to move, Clementine miraculously survives. She should have died by all accounts, the reason she lived was plot armor. The writers knew better than to kill the main character of the series (because people would be pissed). Similarly, I think the writers, after having written Carver to be the irredeemable (presumably r@pist) monster that he is and having all the build-up to the satisfying moment at which he finally gets taken out, they wouldn’t give him a “win” in letting him be right about AJ being his child. Given that Rebecca, Alvin, & Carver are all dead by the season's end, AJ being Carvers wouldn’t add anything from a writing perspective and would effectively do nothing but upset the fanbase which is why I believe Alvin is probably his father.
TLDR: AJ probably isn’t Carver’s because it wouldn’t make sense given how the season was written and knowing how the fanbase is (and was even as early as S2).
Jane and David have met before
Hear me out
Jane in season 2 mentions being with a group in DC she goes on to say how everything went wrong because the group tried to save some dickhead eventually leading to most of her group getting killed
David if I remember correctly also mentions being with a group in DC before joining the new frontier he also mentions that the group was doing pretty well til everything went wrong
I know DC isn't exactly a small place or anything like that but just thought this was a fun possibly stupid theory I wanted to share
Basically I believe during the events of season 1 Jane possibly her sister and David were in one group before splitting off and then we meet Jane 2 years later in season 2
Hey all so im replaying S1 after so many years and ive never done the choice to help kill Larry with Kenny, ive always helped Lilly in that moment but this time around i decided to help Kenny because i wanted to get the best relationship with him and lee.
And fuck do i feel sick with guilt, don't get me wrong the scene is very well done in the sense its made to make you feel that way, but having to drag Lilly away as Kenny smashes his head in and Clem's reaction to it will be haunting me for a while, i know pragmatically its likely the right choice but its hard to feel that way with how the scene plays out.
Anyone else struggle with this scene or any others like it? I know it was this or dropping ben and i couldn't drop ben simply because killing Larry could potentially save the whole room from a very large walker and there likely wasn't any saving Larry without proper equipment but i feel so bad for Lily and Clem.
Sorry I know this is a question that gets asked all the time and I've done some research myself but its still worth asking, do you guys think season 5 is possible. We know that Clem survives season 4 and that like how when Lee died we started playing Clem, we are now playing as AJ, I'm thinking that a game where Aj is the main character would be fun and a good way to continue the story. I've also heard that the studio that owns the rights to TWDGs is coming out with a new game (I think its called the wolf among us, forgive me if I'm wrong) and I've heard that if it does well the studio might have enough money and funding to continue TWDGs. I'm hoping this is the case but I still want to know if any of you guys have heard anything that could lead to a season 5. I also know that its called the final season but I'm also pretty sure the studio only did that because they were going under, also just because its called the final season doesn't mean it has to be. Anyways I know there are also people who don't want a 5th season because they think the games ended perfectly and they are right the game did end on a very good happy note I just think more game would be nice as I just finished my first playthrough of the whole series two days ago. Thanks for listening to my yap and please let me know if any of you guys know anything about a 5th season or somthing that could lead to a 5th season, thanks.
You have to reject Ava's offer, Inject AJ, And Obey them with AJ, one more thing people forget to add you HAVE to kill Dr. Linguard or there will be a rift of trust between you and Clementine and you will only be able to save ONE person.
Only one I kept up with is the woman who voiced Kennys wife; she played Chloe's mom Joyce in Life is Strange
I always imagined Clem being a Fleetwood Mac enjoyer for whatever reason. 😁