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The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Telltale want to give Walking Dead fans finality

We talked to Telltale's Job J Stauffer about the final season and the decision to call an end to the series.

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Telltale Games recently announced that the fourth season of The Walking Dead will launch next year and that it will be the final season of the critically acclaimed and highly popular series. We will play as Clementine one final time and see the end of her story.

At Gamescom, we had a long chat with Telltale Games' head of creative communication Job J Stauffer and among other things we talked about the final season:

"In games, we're just so used to seeing sequel after sequel after sequel and things will just continue indefinitely. Some studios will just lean on one thing forever and just hope that people are going to love it forever. We love The Walking Dead, we love working with Robert Kirkman and Skybound and their comic isn't ending as soon as our game is ending, you know, they do have an end in mind. I don't know what that is or when it will happen, but we have an end in mind for our story, which is Clementine's story arc."

"Her story kicked off in 2012 and since then it's bee like, as a studio and as fans, we've been raising this child together and she's been through a lot. Giving the fans a definitive answer and saying 'you know what, this is going to be the end of that story arc' and saying 'we're not going to run this into the ground, we're not going to play this out for twenty more years and hope that you still love Clementine', cause I think we'd hate that. And I think it is rare that you see in the games industry that a developer will say 'you know what, we're going to put this to rest and we're going to try and make this story impactful', players have been shaping who this character is for over five years so, to kind of get some finality and get an ending that is going to be satisfying for fans, that's what we're diving into right now. So we have to wait until 2018 to see where we land."

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The Walking Dead: The Final Season

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