Poll of the Day > What games series should I play next? Walking Dead vs. Tomb Raider

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I bought the Walking Dead Complete Collection, but the Tomb Raider games(reboot series) is free on Gamepass. Which one should I play after I'm done with Gears 4?(going to go through Gears 5 when I get bored during sessions of Walking Dead or Tomb Raider)

I finished the first 2 seasons a while back of Walking Dead, but starting over from scratch to have all the decisions carry over. As for Tomb Raider, I played the first hour or so of the first one a few years ago.
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Tomb Raider but the games are very different

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I never really got into the Walking Dead games. In spite of the fact that I like Telltale in general (Tales from the Borderlands is one of my favorite games ever, and Minecraft: Story Mode was way better than it had any right to be).

I enjoyed the new Tomb Raider games, though. Well, the first two. I bought the third but haven't played it yet. But I've heard reviews that say it's the worst of the three.
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I wouldn't replay the parts of TWD that already did, you really see how much the games fall apart on repeat plays.

Cruddy_horse posted...

I wouldn't replay the parts of TWD that already did, you really see how much the games fall apart on repeat plays.

If it's been a while since you played and you've mostly forgotten your choices/the story, and you replay picking mostly the same choices (mainly to just maintain continuity of choices for future episodes), you're not really seeing the seams too badly.

It's really only if you finish a playthrough and then immediately go back and make different choices to see how things are different that you start to realize how many of your choices were kind of pointless. But most players don't DO that (statistically, just based on trophy/achievement data, it seems like most players these days don't even finish games once, let alone multiple times).

Though I will say some Telltale games are worse than others when it comes to that sort of thing. Tales from the Borderlands had at least two major choices that change the story pretty significantly in parts (comparing my playthough to one my nephew did, there were some pretty major differences in a couple places). But I know the Batman games felt extremely railroady for some of the major choices, where no matter what you picked the outcome was more or less the same regardless (and from what I know, the Walking Dead games tend to be the same way).
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Yeah, I know the choices of saving Duck or the rancher's kid always ends up with Duck being saved, and the one between the girl or the guy in the convenience store ends up with the girl being alive. Not sure if there are any other huge things that matter. I'm guessing choosing to remove or not remove Lee's arm doesn't mean shit either.
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lihlih posted...

I'm guessing choosing to remove or not remove Lee's arm doesn't mean shit either.

Especially since, in the Walking Dead universe, "zombie-ism" isn't something transmitted by bites.

Literally everyone in the world is already infected. It only matters when you die (when everyone who is infected comes back as a zombie), and zombies themselves are really only a threat in that they can deal fatal injuries, or cause damage that gets infected in general (in the same way it would in our world), causing death over time. You're equally likely to become a zombie if one bites you as you are from stepping on a nail and getting an infection, getting shot, dying from appendicitis, or even just taking poison.

Cutting off Lee's arm dramatically increases the odds of him dying from infection or blood-loss, thus upping the odds of zombification while doing absolutely nothing to prevent it. In-universe, it's pretty much the worst possible choice you can make in the entire series.

In-game, it doesn't really make much of a difference. Other than in how much Lee suffers before he eventually dies.
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Being bitten does cause you to turn into a zombie though

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Being bitten does cause you to turn into a zombie though

It doesn't.

Being bitten causes an infection because zombies are filthy. And in a world without advanced medical care, infections can kill you. And when you die, you come back as a zombie.

But it's not the zombie bite itself that makes you a zombie, the way it does in most zombie fiction. Nor does it make it inevitable that you'll turn. If you can avoid/cure the general infection itself, you won't die, and thus won't become a zombie.

But at the same time, everyone becomes a zombie when they die, so you can become a zombie even if you've never been bitten by one (or even seen one).
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I enjoyed the new Tomb Raider games, though. Well, the first two. I bought the third but haven't played it yet. But I've heard reviews that say it's the worst of the three.

This is correct. Rise of the Tomb Raider is amazing. Shadow is just eh, but only because it narrates the end of Trinity so its pretty much the end of the story. That, and the endgame items that are labeled as being able to change the world and humanity are ultimately used as trophies in Laras office.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It doesn't.

Being bitten causes an infection because zombies are filthy. And in a world without advanced medical care, infections can kill you. And when you die, you come back as a zombie.

But it's not the zombie bite itself that makes you a zombie, the way it does in most zombie fiction. Nor does it make it inevitable that you'll turn. If you can avoid/cure the general infection itself, you won't die, and thus won't become a zombie.

But at the same time, everyone becomes a zombie when they die, so you can become a zombie even if you've never been bitten by one (or even seen one).

I can't say anything about the comic, but in the show, several people turn into zombies without showing them "die" first. For at least one it was a gradual process

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