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Dumb blonde and black guy are wasted survivors


Jessica and Matt. Lack of character development, and they are not apart of the final act. Kill them off early, it makes for a better movie.

The other 6 characters are well written and interesting the play.

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Yeah, I really don't get why they couldn't have their roles extended more. Having a couple 10 minute parts of the two trying to work together to escape the mines and developing with each other could have been really interesting

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My play through Jessica survived and then what i got was short and pretty pointless. I saw a video and also played the game enough to know that Matt doesn't find Jessica until the final chapter. They are wasted characters that are soppose to be killed off much earlier.

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Damn shame too. I was hoping the token black guy would get a good role in a horror story. Nope he get's mutha fu*kin shafted.

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For what it's worth, there are some slashers out there where black guys get pretty good roles and live. Hell, there's even a few where ditzy bitchy girls do. Could toss you some recs if you wanted.

Still, really disappointed by their overall role size. Matt probably gets it THE worst in the no-preorder-content game; he's barely even in it long enough to make an impression. (His extra chapter helps a hell of a lot) As said, I wish there were like... 2-3 10 minute sections of these two escaping the caves and bonding in them. They'd get more characterization and there'd be some good tension scenes.

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Only the Rappers. LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes,and Ice Cube only survive these kind of flicks. However Taye Diggs did survive House on Haunted Hill. Complete shocker there.

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There's also Jake from Wrong Turn 2, Kincaid from ANOES3, the one guy from Chain Letter (as the sole surviving final boy, no less. Even the final girl died), a couple of the survivors from Jeepers Creepers 2 qualify... Not common, but not totally unheard of either.

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Jessica's survival makes more sense than Matt's since she was so battered and knocked out all that time.

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Yeah, Taye Diggs surviving HoHH was the first time I remembered seeing a black guy survive a horror movie. LL Cool J survived 3 slasher-esque movies. Halloween H20, Deep Blue Sea and Mindhunters.

I was so impressed with the original Night of The living Dead that the black guy, in a horror movie, made in the early 60's actually was the last one alive...then someone had to go and shoot him in the friggin' head. That was such a disappointment and even George Romero says he regrets doing it. lol

Though hard to win an argument with a smart person. It's impossible to win an argument with an idiot

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That is one of the things that annoyed me the most about the game. They should do a DLC that shows what happened to them between the mine and the end of the game.

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They would have simply walked toward the lodge at that point. Nothing exciting.

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Black guys die way too often in horror films, especially slashers (as we know Romero for example went against this convention), so I was very happy when Matt survived in my first playthrough.

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In my first playthrough, only Sam and Matt survived. I think Matt's long stretch of being gone (he disappeared after the Ranger tower went down and only showed back up in the final chapter) depends on whether or not Emily survives the mines.

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Save those two and let everyone else die. Now that's the perfect ending for the movie! :):):)

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