The Walking Dead's Fourth Episode Is Just Around the Corner

GET HYPE FOR THE WHITTA

How soon!?! For the love of all that is holy, tell me!!

Damn, i was just getting over the emotional trauma of last episode!

Not watching any trailers for spoilers, but there has to be something better than coming soon. Where is the date? Is soon next week?

Last episode when Telltale said "soon", wasn't that within 10 days?

@TheNuttyPig said:

@kermoosh: I feel a lot more connection with the characters with the game then the Tv show or the comics I think they really do well getting the atmosphere right

you have a point there, it's definitely better than the show. and as much as i love the comics there are many emotional expressions and facial expressions that aren't present the the comics compared to this game

By around the corner they mean November 2012 right?

I need to catch up on episode 3 quickly.

Last episode was so fucked up. Hopefully we can play this one sooner rather than later.

This will for sure be my game of the year ( :

WHEN GIVE ME A DATE

oh shtt. All I can keep thinking is spin-off. But then the last screen...Lee &/or Clem aint gonna make it.

@BIGMEXN said:

WHEN GIVE ME A DATE

This. GTFO with that around the corner BS. Date or it aint happening.

I want it now!

@NickL said:

Yeah I came here hoping for a date. Was disappointed.

Lets be honest, telltales idea of "soon" is anytime within the next 3 months.

BTTF took forever too. I thought it was because of the PS3 hacking at the time, but now I know it's Tell Tale.

Also. I know this will be Patrick's GOTY. It's mine for sure. Anybody know if Ryan ever got around to epp. 2? I've been waiting to hear them talk about it on the Bombcast, but I blank out once in awhile when it's on, so I may have missed it.

Really hoping the "kill your zombie family" trope doesn't make an apperance in these last two episodes. Almost cringed when they said where the train was heading at the end of episode three.

And as much I don't want Clem to die from an emotional standpoint, from a narrative standpoint, I really hope she does. It would be so true to the tone of the series. No sacred cows.

I loved the crap out of 1 & 2 but I got too close of a look at the seams in Long Road Ahead. I kept trying to SPOILER ALERT save Carley but there's no way to change that nor is it possible to convince the group that you're not a murderer once Lilly tells everyone. Not only does she say this after you say she can get on back on the truck but there's no option to say that that's bullshit since Carley was the only one who knew the truth and honestly the word of Lilly didn't mean much after her breakdown. Once I reloaded I realized that all the "choice" I was offered was mostly just pretty window dressing on a game as linear as Black Ops II. I still love the writing and the atmosphere but I have to wonder if the crowd proclaiming GOTY would feel that way if they played it again.

Really? Huh I thought I was the only one who couldn't get through that game without days of melancholia later.

I just got done with episode 2 last night, working on getting Episode 3. I must say this is, by far, the most impressive downloadable game this year and I'm really looking forward to getting through this story.

Don't fuck this up, Whitta.

Kidding.

Maybe.

I don't like how that girl right hooked that man to the ground. I think it's sexist.

@kermoosh: Yeah I love the way the show and comics take a different path as well I imagine it as like an alternate reality where things went a bit different

Glad to know the post walking dead depression trauma wasnt just me

@vanfarley: I have played through the episodes a few times already and it is still one of the best games of the year. They definitely offer the illusion of choice more than anything substantive however, that doesn't take anything away from the emotional experience of playing through an episode for the first time. I can't remember any other game that held my attention and tugged at my emotions more than this. Regardless of the depth of choice this series still offers something unique and memorable in video games and I can't think of anything more deserving than that.

@BIGMEXN said:

WHEN GIVE ME A DATE

@HistoryInRust said:

Don't fuck this up, Whitta.

Kidding.

Maybe.

If you listened to the latest idle thumbs, one of the lead writers Sean Vanaman had a minor freak-out about it. He has more control over Episode 4 than Whitta does.

@BIGMEXN said:

WHEN GIVE ME A DATE

I'm Looking forward to this episode so much! One of my favourite games of 2012, not gonna watch the trailer as even the screen-cap is too much info!!

@Sweep said:

HYPE

its over 9000!!!

@Brian333: I too was deeply affected by the choices and consequences in episodes 1 & 2 but after I pulled the veil back I could never look at them the same way. It reminds me of playing through Heavy Rain and the tension I felt knowing that any fuck-up could permanently kill any one (or all) of the main characters. I thought, and still think, that this was a really bold choice for any designer to make because it means the story has to be much more flexible to remain cohesive while still offering real choices and consequences. Now Walking does a lot of things better than that game did (Voice Acting, Writing, Atmosphere, did I mention Voice Acting?) but I still can't help but despair at the idea that my choices don't really matter all that much because when it comes down to it the developers are much more focused on delivering an emotional narrative rather than a choice-driven adventure with a myriad of possibilities. It's a difference in approach and one that I'm sure I should fault them for but I was sold on this game because I thought it was innovating on the choose-your-own-adventure formula that Mass Effect popularized. Instead its innovations stem more from its shocking narrative and fleshed-out characters, a noble compromise but one that significantly decreases it's importance to me

Dayum! Telltale finally hit the right spot with this game.