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The Walking Dead game by TellTale is going to be revealed tomorrow

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/10/28/the-walking-dead-the-game-season-2-reveal-coming-this-week?+main+twitter

“keep that hair short”  Clem’s back

Bah.  You got me all pumped for this, but it’s just a short teaser, with no release date given.

Oh, they’re releasing some screenshots too.

Is that Clem with that psychopath from 400 days?

Personally I’ve never had much of an interest in zombie fiction, but TWD games have some of the best storytelling in gaming history, IMO.  And great storytelling and characters has always been my favorite part of adventure games.

Plus I love freedom of choice in games.  It’s more important to me than freedom of movement.  There were some moral decisions so tough in the TWD games that I paused it and thought about what to do for a good 5 minutes.

This is going to be a really big challenge for Telltale to pull off.

Having Clementine as a player character may not work (or nowhere near as effectively as Season 1) because ultimately people wanted to protect Clementine, not be her. Putting us directly in charge of her will do a number of things:

Make us blase about her dying because it can be undone so easily (the game will just reset).

Remove the vunerablility and innocence from the character (the very core of her appeal)because we now decide what she does.

Undo her logical character progression, because she will now behave in OUR character.

Likewise, if we play as someone new meeting Clementine it will break the immersion in the new character as we already have knowledge of and, even more importantly, an emotional connection to Clementine. We’ll suddenly be some new guy pretending to be Lee, instead of the character he supposedly is.

As many have said, Christa and Omid could be the only two characters it might work to play as, but even they run the risk of just being Lee Mk.2.

I can’t help but think that Season 2 should have been entirely new character in an entirely new setting.

I think given the storyline of the first season, the ONLY logical choice is to cast players in the role of Clementine this time around.  I agree with your assessment of the narrative challenges Telltale now faces as a result of this choice, but I can’t see any other route working.  We have the connection to Clem now—we schooled her in survival skills and such, and now we get to see her apply them and make her own (our own) choices.  Don’t worry—this is Telltale, we won’t REALLY have any control over the narrative, and I’m sure Clem will be put through some harrowing challenges with some real moral quandaries.  I suspect it probably won’t have QUITE the emotional resonance of the first game, for all the reasons you stated, but I’m confident they can come up with something appropriately gut-wrenching for her this time around.  I’m wondering if they will go full circle and have Clem meet someone that SHE has to protect.  Could be a nice way to pay homage to what she learned from Lee in the first game.

I don’t usually pre-order games but I did so for the 10% discount. Still haven’t got around to playing 400 Days. Looking forward to both. Loved Season 1.

So lead heads and writer of TWD have formed another studio , making the act even more
tough to follow. Yeah no-no to clementine as playable character, cant drag her for more than one episode.

Disappointing teaser that just recycles old stuff. Good teaser because it doesn’t spoil anything from the new series!

Interesting that Telltale will be doing 2 series at the same time (first time?) and are already teasing a new IP.

After the end of the first series I kind of wanted to change focus on the characters and the setting, but that wouldn’t make sense as the Walking Dead in any medium is about how humanity evolves and reacts through all the stuff that keeps happening so it definitely should involve Clementine.
Some of most important (and shocking) storylines in the comics deal with what happens with children and the loss of their innocence when they are forced to grow up and deal with violence and death constantly happening in front of them. It’s important to see how all the lessons Lee taught her, and how she’ll deal with his loss. Will she be scared of meeting new people (like it was teased at the end of the first series), will she step up and grow up and deal herself with the problems (like Carl in the comics) or just enter a state of indifference to human life (like some kids in the comics) - probably not this last one. But I don’t know what to feel about Clementine being playable.

In the first season it made sense for Lee to make decisions, to call shots in the group, but playing as Clem it will be hard to believe a kid would have any say in some big decisions in a group (who lives, who gets food, etc).In fact, I don’t think there are many games that make the player a kid set in a violent world, but I’m all for trying new things
It sure is a ambitious task that Telltale is taking, I hope they pull it off.