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homeless snail posted:uh those games came out years and years in, their first games were the bone, CSI, and sam and max serieses Oh, maybe those were just their first two games I knew of. My bad. They probably could have gone on for years being a decently successful developer of modest adventure/story games if they'd kept to an appropriate scale. Instead they tried to become the Ubisoft of generic drama novels. RIP.
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Chomp8645 posted:Their first two games, Monkey Island and Back to the Future, were pretty good adventure/puzzle games. Everything that followed was garbage Fake-Choice Narratives that were one-step from visual novels set in a game engine so clunky it makes PUBG feel smooth. I replaced Season One of The Walking Dead recently and it's still as good as I remembered it being. I should probably replay the Borderlands game cause I really liked that one the first time. They made good games but I can also see how it definitely wasn't sustainable.
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I enjoyed the Sam and Max games and also Walking Dead Season 1. I fell off their stuff after that but I think I have Tales of the Borderlands from a bundle or something and was planning to check it out. A major studio imploding out of nowhere and dropping the news on Friday afternoon, man
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Sep 21, 2018 20:38
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The Colonel posted:most of their big narrative games had a lot of issues but the walking dead and tales from the borderlands were just genuinely good stories so i don't think that was a bad thing for them
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Sep 21, 2018 20:39
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i never really minded telltale's big narrative switch cause i've always kind of hated adventure game puzzles anyway, i had bigger issues with twds2 and the wolf among us just being really badly written and having a strong start only to just kind of take a huge dive in quality respectively i think the villain in twau is one of my least favorite characters in any adventure game ever lol
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Sep 21, 2018 20:39
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listening to the omega battle theme from ff14, this song is so weird but it bumps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l68l_xzhpRo
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Sep 21, 2018 20:41
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it really sucks that once again Sam and Max is lost to the copyright void and even if Steve or past game writers wanted to make more, they just flat out can't
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Sep 21, 2018 20:41
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Dude that is an old article. Look at the date. Hell I remember that day cuz I was one of the few that was spared
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Sep 21, 2018 20:41
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haveblue posted:e: n/m that was last year they're keeping 25 people on to finish walking dead and then closing down
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Sep 21, 2018 20:42
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Accordion Man posted:That sucks, especially because I've been hearing that TWD Season 4 was actually looking like it might to be a return to form. Yeah, it's sitting at 97% positive reviews but less than 100K units sold. Sucks for them, but they earned their reputation.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:43
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I will say that I'm always suprised to learn about the size of game studios sometimes. Like I know a lot goes into a game but Riot is just League of Legends basically and they have 2500 employees?
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Sep 21, 2018 20:43
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telltale was scattershot but i have way more good memories of their games than most other developers can boast, this stinks
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Sep 21, 2018 20:44
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Telltale used to be a pretty loving tiny outfit, I playtested for them a couple of times prior to their breakthrough with the Walking Dead game.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I will say that I'm always suprised to learn about the size of game studios sometimes. Like I know a lot goes into a game but Riot is just League of Legends basically and they have 2500 employees? A lot of that is management of the game/brand and not just actual game development. They probably have a whole department dedicated to organizing and running tournaments, for example.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:45
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Chomp8645 posted:A lot of that is management of the game/brand and not just actual game development. They probably have a whole department dedicated to organizing and running tournaments, for example. they also probably have a couple hundred people on just for IT/Server stuff too
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Sep 21, 2018 20:47
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The Colonel posted:i never really minded telltale's big narrative switch cause i've always kind of hated adventure game puzzles anyway, i had bigger issues with twds2 and the wolf among us just being really badly written and having a strong start only to just kind of take a huge dive in quality respectively Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Sep 21, 2018 20:47
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it seems like an age old story of a company growing too fast
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The 7th Guest posted:it seems like an age old story of a company growing too fast yeah, last year when they laid off a quarter of their staff the narrative seemed to go something like "bought up a million and three licensed properties, worked their employees until their fingers fell off to fulfill them, bought the employees new genetech double fingers to keep working on even more licensed games and worked them until those fell off"
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Sep 21, 2018 20:49
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The 7th Guest posted:it seems like an age old story of a company growing too fast Definitely. According to Wikipedia since 2012 they have done 8 different series (including TWD: Michonne) for a total of 13 seasons and were working on 3 more seasons including one brand new series before this news.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:51
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https://twitter.com/joeparlock/status/1043225636788158465
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Sep 21, 2018 20:55
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There will most likely be a bankruptcy auction, at which point we get to see whether an actual legit game dev buys the Sam and Max game rights, or if some lovely ip farm scoops it up to sit in their vault for the rest of time this also might explain why Poker Night 2 disappeared from the steam store, because they couldn't afford to extend the likeness rights
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Sep 21, 2018 20:56
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RIP Telltale I'll think of you while I play Life is Strange 2
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Sep 21, 2018 20:56
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jesus, that's dire i know they had some stinkers but only two of their games turned a profit?
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Sep 21, 2018 20:57
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Uh holy poo poo what And nothing of value was lost.
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Sep 21, 2018 20:58
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Ok I’m out cuz I’m getting heated like hell reading this thread
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Sep 21, 2018 20:59
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See, that's crazy to me. I don't know how far back they're talking about when they say these games didn't turn a profit (I assume TWD S1 must have, right?). But even if they're not going that far back, that means there must have been 5-10 game SERIES, meaning probably close to 50 episodes, that weren't profitable. And it no point did they try to compensate or change their formula. They must have known they needed to shake things up for years, and nobody was willing to make the difficult call to try and right the ship.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Uh holy poo poo what honestly? good
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Sep 21, 2018 21:00
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congrats to tqh nordic on acquiring sam and max
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grieving for Gandalf posted:honestly? good even if their games were average it sucks
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The 7th Guest posted:why is it good that a bunch of people lost their jobs Well, you see they produced video games that I didn't personally like and therefore
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Cowcaster posted:yeah, last year when they laid off a quarter of their staff the narrative seemed to go something like "bought up a million and three licensed properties, worked their employees until their fingers fell off to fulfill them, bought the employees new genetech double fingers to keep working on even more licensed games and worked them until those fell off" https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry found the article (from this march, after the layoffs in november 2017)
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The 7th Guest posted:why is it good that a bunch of people lost their jobs Apparently TT sucked to work for, but I dunno if that's why people are dropping these takes!
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Sep 21, 2018 21:02
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Sam and max was good, that's all I played by them
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our society is broken
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The 7th Guest posted:why is it good that a bunch of people lost their jobs hopefully they can find work some place better. I'm not glad people lost their jobs, but the games they made were extremely shoddy pieces of work and I put that way more on their management than the actual guys doing the writing or programming and what have you
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admittedly it's probably not good that I only ever bought the walking dead s1 and watched the rest of their games as LPs
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The 7th Guest posted:why is it good that a bunch of people lost their jobs "hearts are broken every day" - jewel, Dreams Last So Long
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should have stuck to sam and max, can't go wrong on sam and max, the games were made with a budget of 15 dollars more seriously, rip, it feels kinda weird, i thought these games were like popular as hell, but guess not.
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I liked the Back to the Future games but they were buggy pieces of poo poo!
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