The Walking Dead

I haven't read the comics, but I'm itching to see if Merl ever comes back. For realsies, not hallucination-sies.

I've got a hunch that he may be with the other gang of bad dudes who have a shitload of guns. I'm guessing the main characters will have to deal with that group sooner or later, so things might be interesting...

Well Sunday's season finale was pretty dope. Also Telltale games are GOING TO FUCK UP THE WALKING DEAD GAME. They did it with Jurassic Park and it seems to be a theme of them: to make shitty games for any good license that is actually given to them.

Watch the trailer: http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TVhRXkhqQ...o-game-trailer

I don't think anyone wants to watch that. In fact, it should be a crime against humanity.

If The Walking Dead were to be a video game it would be best as an open world MMORPG. You start off in a small group of NPC survivors and deal with their issues, get them all killed, split up the group, or join with another group based on your decisions. As you progress you could join up with non-NPC groups for more advanced stuff and NPC groups could be scattered around as safe areas.

Who's with me that this would be better then whatever Left 4 Dead remake they're coming up with?

MMORPG? No thanks. A regular RPG? Yes please, but not before just a game with solid events and a steady storyline. It doesn't have to be uber scripted like this Telltale game will be.

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

If The Walking Dead were to be a video game it would be best as an open world MMORPG. You start off in a small group of NPC survivors and deal with their issues, get them all killed, split up the group, or join with another group based on your decisions. As you progress you could join up with non-NPC groups for more advanced stuff and NPC groups could be scattered around as safe areas.

Who's with me that this would be better then whatever Left 4 Dead remake they're coming up with?

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That sounds like a pretty cool idea, I was thinking more like a single-player game like True Crime - Streets of LA, where you are a complete bad ass and do what ever you want.

I was thinking an MMORPG would be neat because you could have other survivors more realisticly in the enviroment doing whatever.

I got the game L4D because I stumbled across this show and fell in love.... Sadly it gives off an entirely different vibe.

You got L4D to compare to walking dead? Lol. Yeah... I think you would be better off going and playing the old Resident Evil games to get a Walking Dead vibe.

Love the show. Never heard of it until three days ago. Two more episodes and all done with both seasons.

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I was thinking an MMORPG would be neat because you could have other survivors more realisticly in the enviroment doing whatever.

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Indeed, but then it would be either F2P or P2P and I most certainly am not gonna dish out money for a subscription based game again. Unless they do like Guild Wars and don't make you pay after you buy the game. It's better than paying them continuously to fix what they broke in a previous expansion (which you paid for).

Yeah so I played the game. It was garbage. I can't believe they are asking $25 for that. Three hours for $25. Jesus. Like if it was actually a game rather than an interactive story book, it would have been fine. Half of it is on-the-rails, a quarter of it is just general time wasting, and the other quarter is actual gameplay. I didn't expect much, but I thought it'd be much more than this. I understand the graphical style they chose, but I still feel it's too muddy looking. I was playing on the highest settings and in-game it looks as thought it's low settings. I won't go into it too much and let you play it yourself, but what we have here is mostly a children's game with swearing and gore in it. The characters don't give off the serious vibe that the ones in the comic do. They just get angry pretty much. I ran into my fair share of bugs, too. It's still early, though, but I'm just astounded by how short the game is. And there are 6 episodes priced at $25. They really want to cash in on this.

EDIT: I learned last week that I was mistaken. There are actually 5 episodes instead of 6 and all five are included in the $25 cost. That significantly adds value to the package, but quantity can't make up for crap quality.

So I'm late to this party, and unfortunately, Netflix only has 6 episodes. But holy damn is this show good.

Netflix only has Season 1? I'd check, but I don't have the interest :D

Just download Season 2. It'll be better than streaming from netflix.

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I lol'd.

Issue 98 was fuuuuucked up.

Finally watched most of Season 1 and all of Season 2.

First off, Lori is annoying as hell at the end of the second season. "OMG GETAWAY FROM ME BCUZ U KILLED THE MAN WHO FUCKED ME EVEN THOUGH YOURE MY HUSBAND AND YOU WERE DOING IT OUT OF SELF DEFENSE AND FOR THE WELL BEING OF THE GROUP. YOU ANIMAL!" Goodness this show makes me hate so many characters, it's unbelievable. Carl was a little brat most of the first season and during the entire second season except towards the ending. THE PARENTS IN THIS SHOW FUCKING SUCK. WHO THE HELL LETS THEIR KIDS ROAM AROUND AN APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE LAND. This reason alone is why I hated Carol for most of the second season and why Lori is a terrible mother because she can't keep her borderline sociopathic brat of a son on a leash so he doesn't attract random Walkers that kill characters in this show who have a conscience and some intelligence. The entire group as a whole is fucking "broken," like Deryll and Dale both have said, but not because they're split on decisions, but rather because only three of them have any fucking capacity to make intelligent decisions. I didn't feel the least bit concerned that Rick was so fucking pissed at the group at the end of Season 2 because, frankly except for Deryll, Hershell, and T-Dog, they're all fucking stupid.

On a positive note, can't wait for Season 3. I really like how Angela, Carol, and Beth have all shaped up in terms of being characters I can actually stand to watch now on the TV. The Prison is supposed to be very intense plotwise and considering all of the characters from the Comic that aren't existing for the next season, I think it will end up being real interesting.

I still want to know who was Firebombing Atlanta during Season 2.

Anyone still watching this?

I will, starting Sunday. I didn't have my TV with me for a few months at College/University, so I couldn't really watch it without hounding down a stream. Really interesting season though that definitely makes you wonder where exactly the series is going.

Well next sunday is the season finale.

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Well next sunday is the season finale.

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This is the one reason why not having a TV at college is a bad thing.

There is other ways of obtaining the entire season. sʇuǝɹɹoʇ

Finsihed watching this sundays episode, pretty good, but next weeks is what we have all been waiting for

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There is other ways of obtaining the entire season. sʇuǝɹɹoʇ

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A lot of schools block torrents. Mine does, but oddly it opens the ports back up at 10PM on Weekdays and all-access on the weekends.

That makes sense really.

SEASON FINALE TONIGHT! Going to be epic!

Watching the season until the finale right now on AMC. ZOMG what did I miss?!

alot

So they killed

Andrea

Are they fucking retarded?

They keep killing off all the cool people who actually had prominent roles. They also seem to complete ignore the fact that some of the people they are killing ARE STILL ALIVE IN THE COMIC at this point of the story. Like what the hell? Andrea was supposed to be the super awesome sniper, not the sluthobag they made her out to be in the show. With the end of Woodbury, I thought she'd rejoin Rick's crew and get back to what she was supposed to be doing, but nope. They can't have anything work out the way it's supposed to. They just have to change it for the sake of changing it.

I'm glad Andrea died, she was a fucking idiot and didn't play any important role besides being another Lori. I was waiting for that for a long time.

On another note, fucking carl needs to get back in the prison and stop being a little whiny girl. He should change his name to Sophia, and even then she was better.

Her death caught me off-guard and I was kind of hoping she would escape. That said, the entire fucking time I was yelling at my TV "KEEP TRYING TO GRAB THE PLIERS YOU DUMB BITCH. DON'T STOP. GET THE PLIERS ANDREA. GET THE PLIERS ANDREA. GET THE PLIERS ANDREA. YOU CAN FUCKING TALK TO HIM WHILE YOU GET THE PLIERS ANDREA. And with THAT said, I'm glad she died the way she did. I'm okay with the writing and the changes so far, but the ending was kind of fucking confusing. First, HOLY SHIT THE GOVERNOR SNAPPED. Second, where did he go after he basically killed his town? Third, was Rick and them trying to base trade?

boy im glad im not into this series, because id be pissed right now after reading the front page recent posts. spoilered text shows up there regardless.

To be honest I thought the season finale was very undramatic and un climatic. The whole season built up to this giant fight, just like the comics, and in the end there was nothing. Quite annoyed. It's intresting though, and im wondering where it will go from here.

It's clear that the agenda of the producers is to take the show in a completely different direction than what made the comic so heart-pumpingly good. They build up these huge crescendos and then just cut it off with no relief. The end of this season should have resulted in a gigantic shootout in the prison that would claim the life of the Governor and push Rick's group out of there. That's how you progress a story. Right now they are just milking the story as long as they can. WTF are they thinking. I lost respect for the show after they made light of Dale's death. They did him a massive unjustice and I have no idea why I didn't think it could happen again. I'm done enjoying this show as the Walking Dead. They should rename the show to People Not Really Killing People.

Apparently Glen Mazzara was outed as Executive Producer because Robert Kirkman (guy who does the comics) wasn't happy with the way this season went. I enjoyed this season for what it was, but I agree this arc of the comics was much better.

Good. Hopefully things will actually be dealt with much better in season 4.

I posted this on Facebook yesterday: http://io9.com/5989553/6-things-from...d-to-see-on-tv

It was published before the end of season 3, so the insights are interesting. I doubt anyone would have thought that the storyline wouldn't progress in the finale. Surprisingly little happened in the finale to progress the plot considering how many people are now dead.

Dat episode, it extracted many feels.

I felt it coming. I felt it so hard I was crying half an hour before it began.


And to think I thought I was going to hate the episode as soon as I saw the intro...



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I didn't really find it terribly emotional. It had some feels but nothing gut-wretching, the ending was a bit predictable and what happened was foreseen for a while (especially if you read the comics). I wasn't expecting the twist that episode though so it definitely was interesting to watch.

I'm with Higuy on the last episode.

Also, hoping SOME kind of details drop happens before the end of the season, like at the end of S01 (well, I guess 'you're infected no matter what' wasn't revealed until S02, but it was technically 'said' in S01). This past season, especially the second half, has been rather boring. But I guess character development is all you can really use as filler for 40mins this far into a show about the zombie apocalypse.

Anyone still watching this show?

yes

unfortunately