Games Beaten 2014

[TSTR]

1. Dead Pixels (PC)
2. Magical Drop V (PC)
3. Reaching Out (Android)
4. Nanolife (Android)
5. Darius Burst (PSP)
6. Ridge Racer 2 (PSP)
7. Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (PSP)
8. Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition (Genesis)
9. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition (PS3)
10. Super Mario Bros. (NES)
11. Persona 4 (PS2)
12. Final Fantasy (PSP)
13. Gun-Nac (NES via Wii)
14. The Stanley Parable (PC)
15. Imscared (PC)
16. Escape Goat (PC)
17. Darkstalkers Resurrection (PS3)
18. The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo (PC)
19. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (PS1 via PC)
20. Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis via PSP)
21. Sigils of Elohim (PC)
22. Blades of Steel (NES via PSP)
23. Wolfenstein 3D (PC)

LET'S SEE THAT AGAIN!
suck on that, hitler

[dsheinem]

So...

I finished S1E1 of The Walking Dead. I played on PS3, where I have both S1E1 and S1E2 available to me for free.

A few questions:

Is the first episode pretty typical of what I should expect in the rest of Season 1? In other words...if I liked it will I probably continue to like it or if I didn't like it will I probably continue to dislike it? Do things change much in terms of the gameplay, the storytelling, or the other elements of the game as the episodes advance?

If I continue to play should it be on PS3? I can buy episodes 3-5 on the PSN for $5 each or the season pass for $15, which would basically mean I spend the same per episode regardless. Is there a markedly better platform for the games? Is there one that's considerably less expensive than another? If I switch platforms, can I jump in with Episode 2 or transfer my save somehow?

[noiseredux]

Is the first episode pretty typical of what I should expect in the rest of Season 1? In other words...if I liked it will I probably continue to like it or if I didn't like it will I probably continue to dislike it? Do things change much in terms of the gameplay, the storytelling, or the other elements of the game as the episodes advance?

yes and no. The gameplay will remain *pretty* similar throughout S1. It gets a bit more action-y in S2. But the story in S1 gets more intense throughout the episodes. If you liked the story in ep1, then you will love the stories in the following S1 episodes. I feel like ep1 is the slowest ep of the first season, BTW.

If you jump to PC, you can start on a later episode, but you will lose all decisions you made. So...

[prfsnl_gmr]

If you jump to PC, you can start on a later episode, but you will lose all decisions you made. So...

You get the same result if your PS3 save file is corrupted. (This happened to me in The Wolf Among Us - which is a great game BTW - and I understand that this issue also pops up frequently in the console versions of The Walking Dead.)

[Stark]

My understanding is that the PS3 version of TWD S1 is the buggiest. I played it on PC though and still had some bugs in the later episodes.

[dsheinem]

Yeah, it was quite buggy - freezing, revealing stuff too soon or ignoring things that I'd done, cursor freezing, etc.

[prfsnl_gmr]

The first two episodes of The Wolf Among Us (PS3) were also very, very buggy, and my save file was corrupted as the credits were rolling on episode 2. Since then, however, the game has run very smoothly, and I am kind of looking forward to playing back through episodes 1 and 2 to try some different choices.

(Agsin, the game is awesome, and it is probably as close as video games will ever get to an interactive Raymond Chandler novel...)

[dsheinem]

sheesh, this thread makes me want to stay far away from TT: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=929860

[Stark]

sheesh, this thread makes me want to stay far away from TT: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=929860

They need to change engines. Telltale is using an engine that they developed for Poker Night and have heavily modified over the years. They should just start over from the ground up.

If I were you, I'd get the PC version. I only had one issue throughout that caused me to replay content. All the other bugs I had were some weird lag or cutscene jitter. Nothing that corrupted saves or crashes to desktop.

[noiseredux]

I played through both WD seasons on PC and encountered zero bugs.