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4.48 average rating based on 167 ratings
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is an absolute steal if you, like me, pick it up in a sale. It's a defining series for Telltale and it's one of the things that I point to for any non-gamer that showcases the power of the medium. Unfortunately its just the same old games running in the Telltale Tool engine with a launcher, there doesn't appear to be any time spent in polishing the games, there's a new visual filter to make the early games look more like the latter however I would highly recommend turning it off as it's too aggressive and scrubs decent texture work and detail out of the environments.
The games don't suffer from the same stutters as it did on original hardware but they're just as buggy as they ever were - I'd argue the Xbox version, at least, is possibly worse off as this new Definitive Version has a new bug which causes my game to crash back to the dashboard nearly every time I completed an episode; the achievement would pop and game would crash so I rarely ever got to see the screen that shows you your choices vs other players.
The …
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is an absolute steal if you, like me, pick it up in a sale. It's a defining series for Telltale and it's one of the things that I point to for any non-gamer that showcases the power of the medium. Unfortunately its just the same old games running in the Telltale Tool engine with a launcher, there doesn't appear to be any time spent in polishing the games, there's a new visual filter to make the early games look more like the latter however I would highly recommend turning it off as it's too aggressive and scrubs decent texture work and detail out of the environments.
The games don't suffer from the same stutters as it did on original hardware but they're just as buggy as they ever were - I'd argue the Xbox version, at least, is possibly worse off as this new Definitive Version has a new bug which causes my game to crash back to the dashboard nearly every time I completed an episode; the achievement would pop and game would crash so I rarely ever got to see the screen that shows you your choices vs other players.
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NB. Do not read the graphic novels that continue Clementine's story. They are shockingly bad. Let Clem rest. She has deserved it.
Seriously? Right from the start, a character who’s kind-hearted but a complete idiot? How many times can someone trip over themselves or drop things before it gets unbearable? And then all the people he meets—emotionally unstable, egocentric, convinced they're the smartest beings alive. It's no wonder I find humans exhausting. Sometimes it feels like people are driven by nothing but delusion and self-importance. If this is truly representative of humanity—even partially—then it’s hard not to feel a deep sense of despair. If I were an alien arriving on Earth, I might genuinely question whether the species is worth saving.
What was really poorly thought out and programmed is the fact that they’re supposedly starving for weeks, yet both Kenny`s wife and Lenny are still noticeably overweight. That’s just odd.
And then you can't even skip the nonsense — not even scenes you've already seen or after you've died. How badly designed is that? Unskippable cutscenes, forced "Previously on..." segments, and even the damn credits. It's just ridiculous.
Playing all of seasons right after each other was really nice. And after finding out I never actually played the last season I had to play this definitive series. Yes, some characters I wanted to strangle with my bare hands, yes, sometimes the plot was really stupid, yes, sometimes the gameplay drove me crazy... but overall I loved all seasons, some more some less (surprisingly enough i really loved the last season) and Clementine... Clementine my daughter I would die for.
I skipped the Michonne season tho, because I remember it was really really bad.
So Clementine's seasons got 5*, Michonne gets 1*
If you're on PC, Humble Bundle have a Telltale Collection sale at the moment which is supporting the charity Save The Children. The charity works to "help ensure that the world's most vulnerable children survive, learn and are protected.".
The Telltale games which are included in the bundle are:
I haven't played a single Telltale game myself so I've picked it up as the cost of the bundle (£9.33) is the cost of the Walking Dead Definitive Edition alone, and that's when it's on sale too!
As always remember you can adjust the donation amount to give a bigger cut to charity by scrolling down and selecting the 'Adjust Donation' on the right hand side of the page.