Telltale Games Shutting Down

[mad bum]

I actually liked the first walking dead game, and I never watched the show or read the comics so it did a good job of separating itself, however the game was only good because the characters were pretty good. I don't see clem as a feminist icon, just someone who has to survive.

[Guest]

I actually liked the first walking dead game, and I never watched the show or read the comics so it did a good job of separating itself, however the game was only good because the characters were pretty good. I don't see clem as a feminist icon, just someone who has to survive.

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[Rapeculture]

however the game was only good because the characters were pretty good.

That's the problem, mad bum. The characters may have been pretty good, but what does that mean in the grand scheme of things? Does that mean the gameplay is good? No, it just simply means that the story and/or characters are good. But as a game these things fucking suck, Telltale couldn't make a good goddamn game to save their lives. It's all narrative bullshit, it's all deep plotz bullshit.

Telltale games may be even worse than the shit made by Quantic Dream. Holy fuck, imagine that. I just gave David Cage and his faggot cronies faint praise. Someone kill me.

[Osterzone]

Do you not like point and click games, Rapeculture? That's kind of the genre convention--emphasizing story and characters and solving puzzles to advance. The Sam & Max games were some of Telltale's best work.

[mad bum]

Ironically some of the best lets plays are point and click games.

[Osterzone]

That doesn't help sales for sure. Why pay 20 bucks to play through it when you can watch it on youtube for free?

[mad bum]

Ah no, I assume that's what most people are doing now which only killed there business.

[Poonoo]

Do you not like point and click games, Rapeculture? That's kind of the genre convention--emphasizing story and characters and solving puzzles to advance. The Sam & Max games were some of Telltale's best work.

The puzzle part was the gameplay in those games, while in their more recent "games" they took the focus off that. Rather than solve the issue of these puzzles often having solutions that make no fucking sense and solutions that would make sense not even fucking work because the designer didn't intend it, they just dumbed it down immensely.

[Rapeculture]

The narrative part of TT's games got dumbed down too. Often times you'll be asked to make a choice in the game and it will affect fuck all in the grand scheme of things. Make X choice, the guy dies, make Y choice, the guy dies too. Fucking GAY.

I'm sick of narrative experiences using gaming tech being passed off as "games." They are so fucking not games. They are fucking cancer. And I am honestly tired of it.

[rabidtictac]

If you look at the most popular games of the gamecube generation, it was all about gameplay. Soul Calibur 2. RE4. REmake. SSB Melee.

On PS2 it was mostly the same. Even so-called cinematic games like God of War 2 had plenty of gameplay.

Xbox original was all about gameplay as well with titles like Halo, Unreal Championship 2, Oddworld Stranger's Wrath and ports of pc games like Max Payne 2 or Painkiller.

It wasn't really until the first episode of the walking dead telltale trash took off + Last of Us and Uncharted became big names that we got all this fake movie video game bullshit.