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expired Posted by doublehelixx | Staff • Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13, 2025 5:17 PM
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series (PC Digital Download)
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Had it on Xbox. Love the story. For a few bucks it's worth it.
Graphics aged terribly. The backgrounds are poorly made and simple, the environments feel terrible to move around running into invisible walls around objects and with point and click terrible fixed camera angles as you navigate through a home for instance, the interactable environment is super simple with most objects just being able to be "looked at" with a line of throwaway dialogue. The faces on characters like Clementine just look deformed at some points making the story seem more amateurish if that makes sense.
The story is good but paced more like a TV series rather than a movie. So lots of down time and boring dialogue between some interesting story moments. I've never been obsessed with the zombie craze or the Walking Dead, but you might like the story more if that's your thing. It's a small group running around trying to survive during a zombie apocalypse. There are definitely some interesting bits like bonding with a girl in your care, friends and foes dying, etc but it's honestly a little overhyped for modern standards when games have advanced so much. The relationships are a little too on the nose and some characters just are boring/too one note for me. The ending is probably the most impactful part of the game but there's a lot of fluff people forgot about in order to get there. I'd give it a 7.5/10. I see the promise that the game has, but I tend to evaluate a game's entire runtime rather than just focusing on the highs like the ending. So lots of people with fond memories of the high points probably would rate it higher. If the game was remade fixing the gameplay aspect, making choices matter more with many branching paths, and cleaned up the engine and graphics the game would be incredible.
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Graphics aged terribly. The backgrounds are poorly made and simple, the environments feel terrible to move around running into invisible walls around objects and with point and click terrible fixed camera angles as you navigate through a home for instance, the interactable environment is super simple with most objects just being able to be "looked at" with a line of throwaway dialogue. The faces on characters like Clementine just look deformed at some points making the story seem more amateurish if that makes sense.
The story is good but paced more like a TV series rather than a movie. So lots of down time and boring dialogue between some interesting story moments. I've never been obsessed with the zombie craze or the Walking Dead, but you might like the story more if that's your thing. It's a small group running around trying to survive during a zombie apocalypse. There are definitely some interesting bits like bonding with a girl in your care, friends and foes dying, etc but it's honestly a little overhyped for modern standards when games have advanced so much. The relationships are a little too on the nose and some characters just are boring/too one note for me. The ending is probably the most impactful part of the game but there's a lot of fluff people forgot about in order to get there. I'd give it a 7.5/10. I see the promise that the game has, but I tend to evaluate a game's entire runtime rather than just focusing on the highs like the ending. So lots of people with fond memories of the high points probably would rate it higher. If the game was remade fixing the gameplay aspect, making choices matter more with many branching paths, and cleaned up the engine and graphics the game would be incredible.
You are right, I was going to say gameplay sucked and made me nauseated. But you explained it better.
edit for 5 bucks it is worth the risk imhop if you like twd
That doesn't mean that these aren't great games. The storytelling is very good, and the interactivity pulls you into the story. The only way you'd know that your choices aren't that meaningful is if you played through the game multiple times, choosing all the different paths only to end up with things being exactly the same at the end of the season.
For $5 it's a steal. The average playtime is 46 hours, there's a lot of content here. Because it's broken into seasons and then into chapters, you can play it in fairly short sessions and still have satisfying stopping points.
Haven't played in a while, but I remember these being solid games with good storylines. Definitely worth it at this price.