So, I got this after hearing it was Game of the Year, after ignoring it completely when it was in episodic form. I'm up to Ep 4 now.
To be honest, how this won GOTY over 'Farcry 3' is absolutely beyond me. I know it was a dull(ish) year, by most accounts and that had to be a factor in it's nomination (and victory), but really, their's little in the way of a game going on here. As has been pointed out in the thread already, your actual choices don't matter a jot really and there's an incredible amount of codology going on with 'The Walking Dead'. It's sets the illusion that the resulting events could have gone differently, if you had chosen a different path...but they don't, cases in point below:
The above means that there is actually no real point to playing the "game" in 'The Walking Dead', because your are litterally shuffled from one place to the next with the exact same outcome, regardless of your decisions. Which is one hell of a deceitful excercise from a "game" that purports to "change" with your decisions.
Essentially, what you are getting here with 'The Walking Dead' is the conversation part of 'Oblivion' / 'Skyrim', without the rest.
More downsides include some of the most awful stuttering I've seen in a game in some time. This stuttering got me killed in one sequence, meaning that I lost out on the "Didn't Die Once" trophy. Not that I give a tinkers cuss about trophys. I am just including it hear for people that do care for such bollocks. I played this on a PS3 (disk version), so I cannot account for any other platform. But I am litterally stunned by the jarring that goes on. It's not like this is even a random open 'Skyrim' type world or anything.
On the plus side, I liked the graphics enough and the storyline was ok for a Quick Time Event, even though it was predicable and if I'd saw it as a film, I wouldn't have been that impressed. I do want to know what the last episode has to say, however.
I'll finish out the "game" tonight with episode 5, but I cannot honestly say that I'll be that interested in getting the next lot. Telltale really need to up the ante for the next installment and look into the possibility of having some real repercussions for players decisions, as this is the game that they are actually trying to sell.
Still, absolutely staggered that this got GOTY.
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