Their "games" have turned real shitty as of late and they are spreading themselves far too thin and they are too fucking dumb to see that there are certain gameplay mechanics in their games that are just bad and should be scrapped so that their "games" can be more like cinematic experiences with the occasional interactive element.
Well, I haven't played
Michonne yet so I'm going to have to give it and
Batman: The Telltale Series a second chance because of the recommandations here. I confess, it says just about everything which needs to be said about my opinion of the current releases in video games that I'm willing to give Telltale TWO more shots on properties I'm not sold on just because warmed over Telltale is better than....wait, this is the exact argument
I use for why I like Fallout 4.
Oh God!
*turns into Two-Face*
Telltale is on this high thinking they can do 'everything' and that is hurting the quality of their games. Minecraft? Should never have fucking happened in the first place. Imagine how much better their games would be if all people they had employed worked on one singular title and made sure that the consequences of your actions that they like to tout so much actually FUCKING MATTERS!
I confess, I started this thread with the very real fact that I'm of the mind if they haven't announced a sequel to
The Wolf Among Us in 2016, they're not going to announce one period. It's been two years and it's a really well-developed game but they keep on suggesting new games in new genres which have nothing to do with it.
Which sucks as TWAU had a lot of potential as a continuing series.
Game Of Thrones was just torture porn. None of your choices had any positive impact and just fucked you over in different ways. I find this kind of narrative to be just as boring as when nothing bad ever happens to the protagonists and only good things happen. Variety is the spice of life and GOT was just torture porn. It got to the point that it felt perverse to even play further.
Eh, that IS
Game of Thrones. The game had a few bumps but one of the appeals of George R.R. Martin's series is it takes the "safeties" off of characters so that good people die pointlessly and horribly just like the bad guys. I killed Baron Ludd at the end of the game and I had Mira refuse to have an innocent murdered to save her own skin. That felt very Martin.
The "big choice" crap they got in their games also end up feeling very forced a lot of the time and hamfisted in.
Game of Thrones actually had a lot of big choices which "mattered" but sadly, they can't actually matter-matter because the story could go off the rails too much. It's why Fallout's choices only matter in the epilogues.
Quite frankly, I'm only buying TWD and TWAU from now on because they are the only settings I think they've done well as of late.
Telltale were specifically asked about Season 2 at the PAX Panel. Then their PR guy pretended his Mic was broken and I wanted to cry.
I have Tales Of Borderlands but I've yet to play it.
It's very very good and funny.
Big No said:
I've only really played both seasons of TWD and TWAU and I found them okay. The first season of TWD was definitely the best IMO, season 2 was mostly "let's pick on Kenny". TWAU's ending was like, "courtroom choices" without the choice part. Unless choosing to kill a guy two different ways or use magic on him was the choice.
To be fair, that was actually impacted by whether or not you were an asshole Corrupt Cop who beat up suspects, terrified people, and wrecked shit versus a guy who did things by the book. You could also kill the Crooked Man while you arrested him.
Also
@CT Phipps - why don't you like the Fables comics?
When they're very good, they're good, when they're not very good, they're very bad. For example, they did a Fables adaptation of The Wolf Among Us and then they altered the ending so the bad guy wins.
Because GRIMDARK.
I think I played the first two episodes, but then I kinda lost interest before the third episode came out. I liked it, though, and I guess I'll look into them again in the future.
I heartily recommend it. Part 3 is the worst of the lot because it's slow but it picks back up quick.
Never got to play TWAU since while I hear good things about TWAU, I am aware of Telltale's flaws. While I liked TWD Season 1, I could never like any of their games.
Too many QTEs, their supposed claims on 'choices' mattering never seems to be true, the stories become predictable, the characters lacking in depth due to the games being too action-packed (I miss the quiet and calm moments that aided in characterisation of TWD Season 1) and the games all seem to be similar in terms of game-play (awkward movement to get item or talk before QTE-fest). Tales from the Borderlands seems to be the only exception to the rule (like TWD Season 1) from what I can tell but it stands alone among its mediocre kin from Telltale.
While there's QTE in TWAU, at least you can actually fail in this. The characters have IMMENSE depth, though.
