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▲ 17 r/TheWalkingDeadGame

Telltale's TWD - Ben Retelling - Season 3, Episode 1 - Part 119

The choice to check the ambulance won!
We sacrificed some bonding time with Javi and Sarah but we may be armed now...

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story!

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be up on Wednesday! This choice is directly choosing which flashback will we get next!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 2 days ago
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Telltale's TWD - Ben Retelling - Season 3, Episode 1 - Part 118

The choice to escape with stealth won!
The New Frontier mystery grows and our plot points start branching, let's see how we steer this into the conclusion of the first episode...

Do you have any prediction for this season?

The stakes are already rising, we have to make a really important choice now...

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be up on Monday!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 5 days ago
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Ironically, despite being set in the same universe, Telltale's TWD feels much more hopeless and depressing than the comics.

So, one thing I noticed replaying the Telltale games after rereading the comics once again, is how much more hopeless and plainly depressing the Telltale world feels constantly, even if they exist in the same universe.

The comics are dar af, don't misunderstand me, but they eventually become about rebuilding and even during the darkest arcs where we see people at their lowest, there’s always this kind of underlying idea that people will someday create something stable again. The Prison, Alexandria, Hilltop, even the Commonwealth, they all feel like humanity trying to evolve after the apocalypse, even if that idea is constantly threatened, it's always the north.

But in the Telltale games, especially from Season 1 onward, it feels like civilization is permanently collapsing no matter what anyone does, and I don’t mean that the games are just “darker.” I think it’s because of how the world is presented.

For example in the comics, groups eventually become larger than individuals. Communities start thinking long-term and we have people that was around since the start

Meanwhile in Telltale, survival almost always feels temporary. Groups are small, unstable, and everyone dies at the end of the season. Even when communities exist, they rarely feel permanent. It makes sense that the Motel Group fails, of course, same with The Cabin group, but then Prescott falls almost immediately, The New Frontier is rotten internally and even when we defeat it and Richmond has the potential to show this, we are sent away with the excuse of a terrible war. Ericson only barely survives because it’s isolated and feels like a improvised camp done in the first few years, not almost 10 into the apocalypse.

In the comics, you are shown the big picture all the time. Rick and others talk about the future constantly. There are time skips as the game, but you watch civilization being rebuilt anyway. But in Telltale, you experience everything living moment to moment, S1 is a good introduction, but even when people in the world is canonically building long-term communities, you as the player are still trying to survive the next night.

Comic characters eventually settle down somewhere and start building lives again. Clem never gets that luxury, every season resets her just to motivate the plot, being Wellington/Kenny/Jane and the "War" in Richmond the clearer examples.

The handling of time is another big point in this. The comics learn to do the transition from apocalyptic to post apocalyptic. Telltale kind of feels like the apocalypse is still actively happening even 10 years after the outbreak. For example we never actually get to watch Clementine grow up naturally, i mean, yeah of course we see her going from 8 to 11, to 13 and 16, but those are like snapshots of her life during extremely traumatic moments, but in total there are like 7–8 missing years where we have no idea who Clem really became day to day. We just jump from crisis to crisis, we lack of the in-between. We don’t really watch her heal from Lee, Christa or the whole Cabin group, we do see her adapt, mature and all that, but we never see her form routines or experience anything resembling a stable adolescence. We only see her during disasters.

Now i know that those are different mediums and we can't really compare, but what i'm saying is that Clem could've benefited more from a linear story, with a year or less between games, that constantly jumping 2+ years. See comic Carl, he grows up with the world evolving around him, barely 2 years pass in between the majority of his story. We watch society slowly change while he changes with it, for better or for worse. The comics let characters exist during quieter periods, during rebuilding eras, during actual stretches of relative safety, it's when we see how cold Carl has grown, how he mourns his mother, his sister, and every person he has met. Clem never really gets that and because of that, the world itself ends up feeling frozen in collapse.

In that line, Season 3 is probably the only time the games genuinely hint that civilization might be evolving. Richmond, despite all its problems, feels like the start of something larger and at the end it even feels hopeful for once. But then Season 4 kind of pulls the world back into early-apocalypse conditions again. By that point it’s been almost 10 years since the outbreak, yet the world still mostly feels populated by raiders, wandering survivors, abandoned roads and isolated settlements. Compared to the comics timeline, it’s striking. By similar points in the comics, people are building entire networks between communities and slowly recreating civilization. In Telltale, it still feels like humanity is barely hanging on.

I am not stating it's a good or bad thing, but it's an interesting difference i always felt but never could name until now, with the Ben Retelling i've been replaying some specific parts and as i am constantly re-reading the comics, i come up with this.

What do you think?

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u/EmpleadoResponsable — 5 days ago
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The choice to tell Carley the truth won!
I suppose that the fact of knowing Carley beforehand helped at the moment of make this choice... Let's see how that went

The stakes are already rising, we have to make a really important choice now...

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be up on Friday!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 7 days ago
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The choice to drop the fight and go voluntarily won!
It was the safest choice, so we are now at their mercy...

The conflict is starting to take shape, but we still know little about the whole conspiracy. Personally i love this slow burn part of the story, what are your thoughts on it?

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be up on Wednesday!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 9 days ago
▲ 20 r/TheWalkingDeadGame

The choice to leave now won, although the voting was prettied with good arguments for both!

We are deep into the season now, the main conflict is starting to appear, what do you think of the of dynamic our main trio? What do you think will happen next?

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be up on Monday!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 12 days ago
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Let's dive fully into the season! First part set in the present!
Last part was a fun and interesting flashback, the option to tell the truth alongside Luke won, we will be seeing the consequences on present, i may include a " Will Remember this" kind of message to point it out.

Now, what are your predictions and hopes for this season?

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be ready on Friday!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 14 days ago
▲ 24 r/TheWalkingDeadGame

New Season starts today! Make sure to read the description for new info!

For those who’ve been here since the beginning, you already know what this is about. For anyone new who just stumbled in: welcome to the Telltale's The Walking Dead: Ben Retelling, a project that started as “what if Ben actually got the time and depth he deserved?” and quickly spiraled into a full on character driven serious rewrite of The Walking Dead’s Telltale universe.

The goal has never been to flip the story on its head just for shock value but to give it new life. More conversations, more consequences, more time with the characters that the original games sometimes had to rush past.

We’ve already gone through Seasons 1 and 2 from Ben’s perspective, following his growth, his mistakes, and everything in between, one of my main focus with this retelling was to not turn everyone into badass heroes but to follow what we already knew and develop it, rooted in realism, making the characters human and relatable.
As for now, we can all agree that Ben's arc reached a natural conclusion, so, to keep the story alive, we shifted into Kenny, giving him a Michonne styled DLC where we explored his second chance. And now… we’re stepping into Season 3.

This time, Nick takes the lead.

That doesn’t mean Ben will disappear, he’s still part of this world, still affecting things in his own way. But the spotlight has widened a lot, the story’s grown enough that other characters deserve to take center stage, and Nick’s messy, complicated perspective is the perfect lens for what comes next. Both because he was insanely underutilized in canon, and because his journey barely started the last time we saw him on this version.

How voting works

This adventure is highly interactive, in the final slide of each post there will be a choice screen, you'll comment the choice you think the story should follow and defend it.
We don’t just go by the most upvoted comment in order to give everyone the same weight and not just the one who commented first

So we follow a point system:

  • Insightful, well-explained choices → +3 votes
  • Simple “I choose this” votes → +1 vote
  • Upvotes → +0.5 votes

The choice with the most votes on it, wins and the next part opens with it
And yeah, even if you don’t write an essay, your input still matters. But if you do bring a good argument it can genuinely swing the story

Posting schedule:

We’re running on a steady rhythm of 3 weekly posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Whether you’ve been here since Ben was fumbling his way through Season 1, or you’re just joining now, i am really glad to have you <3

Next part will be ready on Wednesday!

u/EmpleadoResponsable — 16 days ago