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BadAstronaut
Sep 15, 2004

Also that if you go through the detailed choices thing it gives you Xbox controls (I am on PS4).

This felt like the studio got in serious trouble to meet their deadline and had to cut things.

Mira and Asher's plots proved pointless due to choices I made. Asher has gone from superhero fighter to lousy average nothing guy. Some things occur that are just utterly unbelievable and incongruous with what has come before. Gared's tale is utterly unresolved - I make a binary choice at the end and get like an unvoiced 10 second clip with no sound effects.

It is disappointing because the first 5 episodes were great. I really, really enjoyed them and waited so long for this short, rushed, utterly disappointing and yes, pointless, finale. This seems like they rushed it out the door unfinished. I mean, there are x box controls appearing on screen, terrible frame rate and skipping in parts with what feels like uncompleted storylines. It's shorter than the others (or felt so) and there's some writing and events that occur that are seriously, jarringly implausible, making it just all too wtf.

Wafflecopper posted:

So I had Mira marry that dude and let the coal boy get killed instead. Sounds like if I'd picked the other option, she'd have just been killed. So if you pick that option you spend all five or 6 or whatever episodes with her, achieve absolutely nothing to help your family whatsoever, and then die pointlessly in the last episode? lol

Exactly this. loving lazy, pointless bullshit. The gutwrenching Game of Thrones endings/horrible turn of events outcomes etc just were not conveyed here. If they were hoping to end on some crazy gasp-inspiring season finale having us chomping at the bit for a season 2, they have achieved the opposite.


kater posted:

Can someone just say it is worth playing through? I've basically spent the last three years playing Telltale's stuff the moment it came out and I can't even think of when I would bother trying to play this last episode I'm so checked out.
I loved eps 1-5. Ep 6 is appalling. I've retracted recommendations to friends telling them they should get it based on this finale.


All in all, a horrific conclusion to an excellent series. Possibly they're trying to set up another season for the game but I think was trouble in the studio before this was released and they had to cut content...

BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Nov 18, 2015

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BadAstronaut
Sep 15, 2004

kater posted:

That was the best part of the game. Like I failed at least half the button prompts and it still continued just the same. Because who the gently caress cares. Your interaction is not needed.

poster confirms just wants to watch TV and not play video games

BadAstronaut
Sep 15, 2004

Setup for a sequel.

BadAstronaut
Sep 15, 2004

timp posted:

:words: about If you looked at this as a video game you were destined to be disappointed from the start. This is less a game and more of a Game of Thrones interactive story,

But it is a video game, and an interactive story played out on consoles/PCs is a kind of video game too. :shrug:

BadAstronaut
Sep 15, 2004

I very much enjoyed everything up until episode 6. It was that last episode that really made me feel that a) many of my decisions and actions meant nothing, and b) I have been strung along to an inconclusive end to the season by designers clearly intending to leave things unfinished to compel me to buying season 2. Just very disappointed.

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