Maybe you’re fine with an experience that doesn’t diverge completely at every juncture, and just want a good story. After six episodes and dozens of hours, I had made hundreds of decisions, but only about three or four in the final two episodes truly changed anything about my experience.īut maybe that doesn’t matter to you. In the moment, it feels like you’re truly shaping the story with your influence, but one trip to YouTube to watch how else it could’ve played out is all it takes to shatter that feeling for good. They’re movies with light interactive elements in the form of dialogue options and quick-time events. Anyone who’s played one since The Walking Dead knows how they work: divergent choices funneled into convergent paths. It’s been that way with Telltale’s adventures for some time now, of course.
Playing Game of Thrones feels like walking through a house of mirrors: at first glance, endless paths stretch in front of you - infinite, overwhelming possibility - but you quickly learn it’s nothing more than an illusion. That’s the question that opened my review of the first episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones series nearly a year ago and it’s the question that lingered in my mind as I played each subsequent chapter.
“Is it more important that your choices in a game matter, or that they feel like they matter?”
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