Season one affect start of season 2?

[swfc_dan]

I've played through season one and finished with Christa, Omid, and Clem (Ben and Kenny I had kept in the group too until the rooftop falling accident). I'm curious if I made different choices surely it would affect the characters you start with in season 2?
But I just tried a new game in S2 not using my save and started with Christa and Omid again, just like when using my S1 save. So does it make any difference what happens in S1 as to who you start with? Or is it the later storyline/decisions affected somehow? Please no spoilers, just curious if anything from S1 actually really matters and carries over.

[Joe Biden's Hairy Legs]

Playing and finishing Season 1, no matter what choices you did, does not affect Season 2's story at all. Only thing that changes are some specific dialogue, which can be missed.

[swfc_dan]

Why does it say in the game description that it does affect the story then? And what is the need for selecting past save files.

[Joe Biden's Hairy Legs]

It is TellTale's signature "illusion of choice" at play. The whole "character will remember this" and "your choices will affect gameplay and story" is not completely wrong, but it is definitely not correct either. What it really does is change the story on a very short-term basis, one-off conversations and the like. Some of the events of Season 1 can be used as a dialogue reference in Season 2 (that is why it asks for past save files). However, the problem is that these are very short-term changes, and the overall story does not change. In Season 1, no matter what happens, the same events transpire as well, and this will apply to a similar degree in Season 3 and Season 4 if you get to them. It is just how TellTale does their games due to time constraints, budget, and rewrites (which TWD: Season 2 was definitely rushed in many areas).

Either way, since it sounds like your first playthrough of the game, I hope you enjoy it. It may not be the diverging game you were hoping for, the game itself is flawed in many areas, but it still has a lot of character to it.

[JUBENI]

It is TellTale's signature "illusion of choice" at play. The whole "character will remember this" and "your choices will affect gameplay and story" is not completely wrong, but it is definitely not correct either. What it really does is change the story on a very short-term basis, one-off conversations and the like. Some of the events of Season 1 can be used as a dialogue reference in Season 2 (that is why it asks for past save files). However, the problem is that these are very short-term changes, and the overall story does not change. In Season 1, no matter what happens, the same events transpire as well, and this will apply to a similar degree in Season 3 and Season 4 if you get to them. It is just how TellTale does their games due to time constraints, budget, and rewrites (which TWD: Season 2 was definitely rushed in many areas).

Either way, since it sounds like your first playthrough of the game, I hope you enjoy it. It may not be the diverging game you were hoping for, the game itself is flawed in many areas, but it still has a lot of character to it.

[Mark Korsakova]

Originally posted by JUBENI:

It is TellTale's signature "illusion of choice" at play. The whole "character will remember this" and "your choices will affect gameplay and story" is not completely wrong, but it is definitely not correct either. What it really does is change the story on a very short-term basis, one-off conversations and the like. Some of the events of Season 1 can be used as a dialogue reference in Season 2 (that is why it asks for past save files). However, the problem is that these are very short-term changes, and the overall story does not change. In Season 1, no matter what happens, the same events transpire as well, and this will apply to a similar degree in Season 3 and Season 4 if you get to them. It is just how TellTale does their games due to time constraints, budget, and rewrites (which TWD: Season 2 was definitely rushed in many areas).

Either way, since it sounds like your first playthrough of the game, I hope you enjoy it. It may not be the diverging game you were hoping for, the game itself is flawed in many areas, but it still has a lot of character to it.

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