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I'm the terrible person who disliked Walking Dead S1 so much I never finished it. (I HATE the zombie genre, so it never had much of a chance) And I have an extra copy I got in a bundle! Any takers? (HB key, I'm in the USA. Think it's just the base season, doesn't include the 400 days stuff) I liked the early stuff from TTG, before they became obsessed with tapping into the cultural zeitgeist with BRANDS and the hot IPs all the young people love. Bleah. I like adventure games about obscure stories I never heard of, not more from Marvel, Disney, etc. (Okay, I got the "Back to the Future" game and quite liked it. That appeal to nostalgia worked.)
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i put off twd season 1 for years due to zombie fatigue and my complete indifference to the twd franchise, but when i finally played it years later i was fuckin blown away by how good the writing and characters were. it's one of a tiny handful of games that i'd say are, in fact, extremely well written, top to bottom. then season two came out and, welp.
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The slight uproar about Telltale folding means there is a market for their type of games, so I don't doubt there will be a company or two that will move on to exploit that, they'll just have to be less megalomaniac in their approach to it.
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Max Awfuls posted:The slight uproar about Telltale folding means there is a market for their type of games, so I don't doubt there will be a company or two that will move on to exploit that, they'll just have to be less megalomaniac in their approach to it. isn't it basically dontnod. though I guess we still have to see how life is strange 2 does.
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Sep 22, 2018 23:39
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I have seen a few give shots at it. but they never have the biggest budget. like The Council. i played part of episode one and it seemed interesting enough. i played their other game blues and bullets which never got finished and it was pretty interesting. id give those a shot. Kurtofan posted:isn't it basically dontnod. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Sep 22, 2018 |
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Sep 22, 2018 23:47
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Kurtofan posted:isn't it basically dontnod. Square-Enix just announced a new project with Deck Nine, the studio that developed the LiS prequel last year. Undetermined at this point if it will be another Life is Strange or a unique IP, but it will almost certainly be another narrative adventure game.
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Accordion Man posted:The Blues and Bullets guys are different developers and they went defunct a few years ago with only two of five episodes of B&B released. It's a shame too, because I liked it and it was going into fun places. I don't regret buying it, but I would definitely give the caveat now that the game will never be finished most likely. I remember hearing the Until Dawn people are making a few sequels for it in the near future.
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Kurtofan posted:isn't it basically dontnod. i played the first one and while i liked parts of it, I loving hated Chloe in life of strange 2. i was never able to feel sympathetic/empathetic for her and writer. I also hated the teen speak and all that poo poo. DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i put off twd season 1 for years due to zombie fatigue and my complete indifference to the twd franchise, but when i finally played it years later i was fuckin blown away by how good the writing and characters were. it's one of a tiny handful of games that i'd say are, in fact, extremely well written, top to bottom. yeah, apparently the good writers left soon after and went and made camp santo or whatever and then pissed away their talent with meh adventure game. wolf among us and the Batman games are good though.
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Sep 23, 2018 03:48
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i played the first one and while i liked parts of it, I loving hated Chloe in life of strange 2. which,  i didn't realize it was that soon
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Yeah, from what we know so far the new game has little if anything to do with its predecessor aside from taking place in the same universe and features a brand new cast and setting.
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Xaris posted:e: you mean the prequel thing right? LiS2 has a new cast and isn't out till the 27th i meant the original game. maybe she is better in the prequel. i also found it kinda hosed up that the only way she is a more positive/less lovely person is if she is quadruple paraplegic mixed with bonitus who wants to die because she is burden and dying anyway. i guess she doesn't have daddy issues then at least. as someone who hates the Magic terminal cripple trope, its kinda dumb. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Sep 23, 2018 |
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sockgarters posted:I'm the terrible person who disliked Walking Dead S1 so much I never finished it. (I HATE the zombie genre, so it never had much of a chance) I mean, that has never, ever been Telltale. Their entire output, since their inception, has been brands. The game that put them on the map is a brand, and not even an obscure one. Two of their games are brands playing poker against each other!
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The Bee posted:I mean, that has never, ever been Telltale. Their entire output, since their inception, has been brands. The game that put them on the map is a brand, and not even an obscure one. Two of their games are brands playing poker against each other! I was quite charmed by those poker games! (And I'm no big fan of poker) I guess I value the less overexposed (to me) stuff to the super popular, always mentioned on twitter stuff. (I hadn't heard of the comics that The Wolf Among Us comes from before the game came out. After seeing it played I looked up details about the comic... yeah, I was going to pass on reading it and just wanted to see the resoultion to the mysteries in TWAU S1. And now.... that will never be)
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sockgarters posted:I was quite charmed by those poker games! (And I'm no big fan of poker) That's true. Old LucasArts games, Homestar Runner, and the inexplicable CSI license aren't exactly on the same level as The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Batman.
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The Bee posted:...the inexplicable CSI license... Oh wow, I did not know about those. They did several... AND some Law and Order thing. Will have to indulge my morbid curiosity and check playthroughs of those out.
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They could have done a cool Star Trek game.
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As far as Telltale-alikes go: A Way Out is a pretty good. It doesn't play like a TTG game at all but it has that same kinda vibe. It's fun stuff, I bought it, I hope it did well overall. It was sold out at a couple places when I first tried to buy it which I hope is a good sign. Oxenfree similarly (since it's by people from TTG) is pretty cool even though it's not episodic. Spooky teen conversation walking simulator. Detroit is actually pretty good in a goofy way. Like, it's earnest in its hamfistedness in an entertaining way, and the endings are genuinely divergent, at least. It's openly acknowledged that the best parts of the game are when non-Cage writers took the reins or when the actors had room to improvise (and had to fight Cage to do so) so hopefully that leads them down better paths. Until Dawn is good, even if it eventually becomes clear that certain characters have plot armor. Fun stuff. Hidden Agenda seemed like it was disassembled and then put back together for the phone gimmick but the studio seems competent and I'l like to see more. Life is Strange and Before the Storm are both good! The ending to LiS sucks but the rest is good, and Before the Storm is a bit awkward in its chronology but is fine as a standalone. It's fun teen drama. Blues and Bullets never finished, hahahaha The Council is janky but kinda good? It's for the kind of person that actually enjoys the alt-history bits of Assassin's Creed. I think if you bought in early it'd be frustrating, but I bought in after episode 3 and it's been a pretty good ride. The idea of having a skill tree for different methods of investigation is pretty cool. I'm willing to support it additionally because it seems like another series using the same systems but getting rid of the jank would be pretty cool.
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Telltale also made a game based on bone but it only got to episode 2 for some reason
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https://gfycat.com/fr/shabbyagileantelopegroundsquirrel some leaked footage of the cancelled stranger things game.
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Kurtofan posted:https://gfycat.com/fr/shabbyagileantelopegroundsquirrel Wow that looks the same as their games from a decade ago.
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Variety has an update on why Telltale folded so suddently https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/telltale-games-the-walking-dead-studio-closure-1202955309/ quote:...He also noted that the sudden decision to shut down was connected directly to a failed round of financing.
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theblackw0lf posted:Variety has an update on why Telltale folded so suddently "focused on doing what was required to keep the company going" is a hell of a euphemism for "maintaining a facade of normalcy at the expense of hundreds of employees" Jose Oquendo posted:Wow that looks the same as their games from a decade ago. nah, it's clearly not finished (bugged-out eyes) but the lighting and shaders are far better than anything I've seen from Telltale Tool
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no idea how this would work when the company is going under and everyone working on E3-4 was already laid off, but FWIW https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/1044370808657915905
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Episodes 3 & 4 to be produced in Telltale's Walking Dead Puppet Pal Theatre.
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Motto posted:Didn't they already boot the team You would hope that the potential publishing partners would hire those on the former Walking Dead dev team who lost their jobs. Like not doing that but still going ahead and making the last two episodes would be a big piss.
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Motto posted:Didn't they already boot the team I presume if the writing is finished and the actors have recorded their lines, you could just get some developers to help with the art assets and coding so that what's there can be used to finish the story. Even if in the end it's just a bunch of non-interactive cutscenes.
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lmao just let it die jesus
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Viewtiful Jew posted:You would hope that the potential publishing partners would hire those on the former Walking Dead dev team who lost their jobs. It would be really scummy if they were left out. I mean, moreso than the whole situation is already. Anyway, something more light hearted: https://twitter.com/shaunfinney/status/1044036209511522304
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its hosed up they're going to probably farm out development of the final episodes and they fired 100s of devs and left them without severance.
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Additional light-hearted stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAHuSiDkLA
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The REAL Goobusters posted:its hosed up they're going to probably farm out development of the final episodes and they fired 100s of devs and left them without severance. might actually give the employees something to recover with the class action lawsuit based on violation of state and federal WARN laws though
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Agent Escalus posted:I presume if the writing is finished and the actors have recorded their lines, you could just get some developers to help with the art assets and coding so that what's there can be used to finish the story. Even if in the end it's just a bunch of non-interactive cutscenes. They haven't finished the writing and the actors haven't recorded their lines, Clem's voice actor put out a statement saying she has no idea what happens to Clementine beyond the current episode. If someone makes episode 3 and 4, it won't be the same writers, coders, anything. It's all fanfic.
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I'm really glad I stopped buying their games after the first Batman game. It was an unoptimized piece of poo poo that stuttered from the first scene, I never could get it to work properly after any updates and video card tinkering. Its a shame, I liked Sam & Max and Monkey Island.
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Unlucky7 posted:My opinion of them never really recovered after Walking Dead Season One ate my save file between episodes, but its still shocking and sad to see them go. They more or less kept adventure games alive back in the day when adventure gamers were trying to convince themselves that poo poo like Still/Life was good. In the end, their management problems ultimately destroyed them even after they tried to work past them. Hey, Still Life was fi...tolerable. Sometimes. If you ignored most of the puzzles. And the non-ending. Now the sequel, oh god what was that
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bewilderment posted:Until Dawn is good, even if it eventually becomes clear that certain characters have plot armor. Fun stuff. Old, but: Every character has at least one possible death. They just have specific points in the story where it can happen, or it can only happen after you made specific choices or failures earlier in the game. The "worst" ending even has everyone dead.
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Yeah, but for the two most important characters the only point of possible death is the very last scene.
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Until Dawn is still a very cool game even when you know the underlying mechanics behind it. I don't think that knowing certain characters were invincible at specific points in the story lessened my enjoyment of it retroactively, unlike some Telltale sequences that made me think "okay well that was a bit cheap."
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Azubah posted:Its a shame, I liked Sam & Max and Monkey Island. IMHO their biggest mistake was going from the "legacy of LucasArts Studios grand adventures" to "crank out yet another popular IPR visual novel". Sam&Max or Monkey Island (or the other early stuff) may have not been very well-known properties, but the series and their entries were solid, if short adventure games. EDIT: Well-known related to stuff like Walking Dead, Batman, BTTF and such.
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Kurtofan posted:https://gfycat.com/fr/shabbyagileantelopegroundsquirrel
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