Doomsday On Demand 2 Discussion

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Hey … you are awesome !!! I finally met Lizzie, and she is as sweet as ever :blush:

@Urban , my apology …buddy , Lizzie LIVE!!! yahoooo…

Oh heaven forbid … @Myst, you had made my head aching again , now i need to think who to choose between Lily and Lizzie again since they are in different faction

But i can see DOD2 is an Epic Post-apocalyptic Noir with multiple story line and endings , definitely worth at least few playthrough … and there at least an intriguing place which only can be visit out of certain outcome

i am talking about that Crazed Village where we will only visit if we fail in the mission of killing Mafia bosses , that village gave me some goosebumps but at the same time i am intrigued by the residents there, they fully deserve some back story of their own… especially that woman who was praying for her faith, perhaps she can be a new protagonist’s lost love in DOD3 ?

If you are planning a DOD3, that crazed village is an attractive base of story telling :slight_smile:

Doomsday On Demand is a cruel and unforgiving universe much like the Maze Runner series , where there is no right or wrong decision every where … some may hate Teresa there , but i actually like her who just want to aim for a greater good

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So I don’t really post a lot on here, but I guess I have a question that I’d like answered. I see by this post that apparently Doomsday on Demand 2 is out, however both on steam and on the choice of game website I don’'t see it available. Is it only available somewhere else then, perhaps as an app for the iphone? For people who cannot use this as their medium for these games might this perhaps be released on steam or the website? Thank you for your time.

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My apology for late reply

From what i know, DOD2 currently only can be purchased from Google playstore…

the other platforms such as Steam, Apple Store etc are said to have DOD2 available by this week, although that depend on confirmation …

Well as usual Google Playstore is the most effective platform thus far :slight_smile:

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Wooooo. I’m so shocked. :woman_zombie: How can the google playstore be so efficient. Even faster than the main COG website! :woman_shrugging:

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How did you get the happy ending

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@No_This_Is_Patrick had a spoiler which i can’t copy and paste, it is something like when you talk to the oracle, choose to leave, choose not accepting Ivan’s help, choose Lily as your romance partner… i think in the end you should form a family with her, in addition this is currently my route … after my MC met my the mother chose to forgive her , and i gain a little sister who look up to me as hero… i already chose Lily as romance partner, although i am not sure whether i need to choose between her and Lizzie later on

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Choose to go to the mad village thats the answer don’t go anywhere else. Also refuse Ivans help can’t trust him. Thats how you save her. For the happy ending with her and Keith also make sure to keep your radiation levels low before you meet the Oracle, also when that monster asks if you want to be cured (after you started her romance) always say no. Anyway when you meet the Oracle choose I wish to to leave this place do not choose to walk through the portal, kill him, or make a wish for Keith. I also I think it helps to be a good person.

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Besides the eventual what goes around comes around ending is there finally getting to die ending??

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Ok so I started the game and am only at the part when “a character” first shows up and already knew it was an Arkham move. My big issue with the previous game and this one so far is that it pulls heavily/directly from other games. Like not just inspired by but kind of scene for scene and that bothers me alot.

The first game’s ending was pulled straight from Telltale’s Walking Dead Season 2 and now it feels like DOD2’s beginning is the same as in Telltale games where magically the person where you had to make a hard choice to end up with also is gone therefore kind of negating story elements/choices and now just adding the Arkham element. Just feels like someone just mashed all the games the played maybe recently into a story and not in an “inspired by” way.

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That’s how I felt with my ending (Malcolm being like a Kenny overprotective kind of middle aged man. And Lizzie being like the girl in the game urggghhh I forgot her name!) but I still enjoyed the ending and it was still fun to me.

Am I the only one who enjoys Ivan’s company…?

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Jane, also it’s worth noting that if you chose to save Lizzie in the first game Malcom even gives the same sort of old man/thank you for ending it for me speech that Kenny does. It’s not so much that I hate the game or anything the writer is doing, it’s more that…well I played this already and it was kind of done better cause the characters were more fleshed out compared to in this story. (that plus the fact that scenes are ripped wholesale from stuff kills it for me)

Same for the whole Ivan bit. It’s Joker from Arkham Knight but not as good. I’m hoping the story kind of focuses more on getting away from things like that as I read on.

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I had never play Arkham Knight, i am sure many out there never as well… So, to obtain an inspiration from a game shouldn’t be an issue , it might be an honour for that game which the author took a certain degree of inspiration and turn it into a story for others to read some of the innovative idea ( i assume it is the scene with Ivan )

But on a different notes, i don’t see our MC is any where similar to Batman… if it was the idea of having an inner voice who talk to ourselves , then this idea was not originate from Arkham Knight as well… Bates Motel had the protagonist imagining his mother talking to him and ordering him to commit all those crimes

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Inspiration is fine, wholesale ripping to me not so much. (To me I mean, its totally fine if others like this or don’t see it this way cause they haven’t played the game its coming from)

I was sort of just talking about the inner voice, not the protagonist being the same. The similarity is the crazy psychopath/former antagonist tormenting the main character with jokes and threats. Feels very similar to me. (go take a look at youtube if you would like to see a visual of how it is. Should be searched by Arkham Knight Joker scenes I believe) Same for the ending of the first DOD, search up Telltale’s Walking Dead Season 2 endings.

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Personally, I feel like this game is somehow weirder or more disorientated than the previous one. Sometimes things happen so fast that you don’t even have time to processes what happened before a new piece of chaos is thrown at you. No offense, but, so many people are just so weird in this story, which makes the story funky.

For example, almost nobody feels shocked at Keith’s revival, the General is the only one who reacted, and his only reaction was to tell him that they are going to have a word together later, which is understandable, since he is such an experienced cool headed General, so seeing someone coming back from the dead must not be strange sight for him!

But what I cannot understand is the doctor. Everything about him is weird! Did he kidnap MC’s mother just because we wouldn’t let him do experiments on us? Wow, that’s a very adult and mature thing to do! Yeah, I’m just gonna kidnapper people and leave unnecessary riddles as clues so that the angry MC can come and kill myself! Yeah!.. I mean what even IS the meaning of this nonsense! I know he might just be mad because of all the nonsense going around him. But seriously? This little episode is just so random and weird.
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Moreover, the existence of Ivan puzzles. I kinda get that he is sort of a ghost/reflection thingy that only exists in MC’s mind but that doesn’t explain how did he pull all these weird stunts he did. Like making things explode or killing a little girl and things like that.

Also, not sure if its just a bug or pure weirdness, but somehow I ended up have 2 children with Matt despite being a male character. But, I guess have children between two males must not be a strange thing compares to all the other madness going on around them.:woman_shrugging:

Additionally, I was kinda disappointed that the MC couldn’t be reunited with Brandom or his other friends earlier in the story. (sorry if I spelled his name wrong) And the only two RO options are the two random kids that are in a random group that suddenly pops which somehow the MC joined without complaints or hesitations!
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I’m not saying that this game is bad or anything, it was quite interesting. But! There are just so many things that are unexplained and random in the book.

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Alright …will have a look , i just realise that Arkham Knight is Jason aka Red Hood

I don’t think it was Ivan who did it, i believe it was the MC himself doing it … in one of the question ask by MC to Ivan about blowing the things, Ivan mention it was us who did it… so i believe it was the MC who did all that with his sub-conscious under the illusion of misguided by Ivan … It is similar to one of the episode of the fabled X-files , the detective who once captured a serial killer start adopting the personality of the killer he once captured and start killing with the same method, he claim he saw that demon doing all those horrible again during investigation… but in the end it was review it was himself all along who turn into the demon he once conquered …

If you meant Matt and Lily, they are not random kids, the group we join is the Son of Tomorrow, which has a background story in it it is only logical that MC was captured by them while scavenging a city, it was already told by the military that the SOT already making ground to this territory… MC later chose to join them out of survival in a post-apocalyptic world
For me, the story line is very logic in its flow… i don’t really understand the claim of randomness

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The kids come from out of nowhere. We have a sister , a a girl from the first game and a female roommate who all have l names. There’s that whole but where we train the two guys and that family who’s getting mugged. It felt both scattershot as well be as emotionally draining.

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What you’ve mentioned about Telltale’s Walking Dead has been said after the initial release of Doomsday on Demand. That time I’ve also mentioned that I’ve not yet played Telltale’s Walking Dead, but having played it since I can understand why people would refer to that. Hence why I’ve tried to stray as far from anything Telltale related as possible in DoD2. The Joker reference from Arkham Knight is new to me, though.

I’m a bit flattered by the fact that you compare elements of the game to big, well known stories like those, but I was never fan of anything Batman related, so apart from knowing some well known characters of the story, I’m not familiar with what happens in them. Judging by your quick description of the Joker being in Batman’s head, I can assume that you like Batman related stories, but Ivan is not just simply “in your head”.

Please keep in mind that this is the 21st century. Most of the cliches and well known psychological elements have already been implemented several times. Creating something 100% unique and original is not really possible. There will always be moments and scenes where someone will say that “this reminds me to…”, even if you are not familiar with that actual story others refer to, and even if that specific aspect of the story should be understood in a whole different way (like comparing Joker to Ivan in this case). I hope you understand what I’m trying to say here, as I was always heavily against plagiarism. How could one be proud of their own work if it’s ripped off other authors’ ideas?

On a side note…

@Eric_knight

I like how you easily solve some of the “mysteries” of the game.

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I understand. Maybe I should clear what I was trying to say up though. I did not mean there was really plagerism in the direct sense I guess, but more of a “Ooh I liked this scene so I shall make a scene like that” feel to it. Cliches aren’t a thing that bothered me, like you say not much can be original at this point in time, its the fact that it was so similar with the endings in DoD1 that it was just hard to ignore.

As for as DoD2, like I said I haven’t finished the game yet but just with his intro I got the feeling of Arkham which isn’t inherently bad but after experiencing DoD1 and how similar that ending was with Telltale’s as well as how at the beginning of this sequel and the sequel to Telltale with the character that you chose to live at the end in both series disappearing/dying offscreen/in a flashback.

So just kind of meant going forward I was expecting more of the same going forward in the story. You say you haven’t played those other games and I have no reason not to believe you though.

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And the MC is Batman. Ivan will rot.

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“Join me kid and rule the world” no dude because “SOMEONE” made me immortal I have to wish for my immortality to be revoked.

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