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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 11:25:08 GMT -5
I loved the Sam & Max games, and actually working my way through The Walking Dead ones at the moment. My brother bought the final season of TWD, so I hope there's some news on what's happening with that, either refunds or something. This is just a case of flying too close to the sun. The point-and-click genre isn't really a big genre, so putting so much money in acquiring these licenses was just a really dumb move. They could've had TWD as their moneymaker while putting out original works along the way. It just pisses me off when the incompetence of some suits results in so many people out on their ass. Especially since they knew the end was near.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 11:29:17 GMT -5
Really seems pretty cut and dry - they hit it big with Walking Dead, kept picking up more licenses to try and recapture that same success, and didn't realize they were a novelty the general audience stopped caring about a long time ago.
Hopefully this doesn't cause too much backlash on point and click adventures and visual novels as a whole. Yeah, they're niche regardless, but I'm sure something like Life is Strange, Danganronpa or Ace Attorney doesn't cost nearly as much as these licenses and the more involved animation style.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 11:48:21 GMT -5
I played the first episode of the final TWD and just got the newer Batman game, will both of these include all the chapters?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 11:53:05 GMT -5
I played the first episode of the final TWD and just got the newer Batman game, will both of these include all the chapters? Enemy Within's been finished for awhile. Walking Dead's apparently cancelled, as there are sources saying the only work they're still doing is something Minecraft-related for Netflix.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 22, 2018 12:39:56 GMT -5
Nah, that's not it at all and Telltale's closure is not a marker of anything more than years of poor decisions and mismanagement coming back to bite a company in the ass. The people that ran Telltale were massive pieces of shit in how they treated their employees and mismanaged everything. Unfortunately, with the closure, it's said employees that suffered laid offs. And without severance. And a lot of them can't even collect unemployment because Telltale took the pro wrestling approach and hired them as "independent contractors." www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industryI feel bad for the people who lost their jobs. But f*** Telltale and the people who ran it.
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Post by burdette25159 on Sept 22, 2018 13:33:12 GMT -5
I played the first episode of the final TWD and just got the newer Batman game, will both of these include all the chapters? Enemy Within's been finished for awhile. Walking Dead's apparently cancelled, as there are sources saying the only work they're still doing is something Minecraft-related for Netflix. So as far as the final Telltale TWD season is concerned, fanfiction to the rescue?
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Post by Hurbster on Sept 22, 2018 15:54:07 GMT -5
Does Nordic have any money left ?
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Sept 22, 2018 16:04:03 GMT -5
A company that has released quality games on a constant basis that suddenly shuts down? Nah, in this case they dug their own grave. The Walking Dead doing great had them thinking they were hot shit so they got these huge properties which would need more sales while also increasing their team size multiple times. They just weren't able to recoup that success and so on and so forth. Sad but it is what it is. Damn, they were close to licensing 'Small Wonder' the game and 'Cop Rock' the game
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Sept 22, 2018 16:14:34 GMT -5
Really seems pretty cut and dry - they hit it big with Walking Dead, kept picking up more licenses to try and recapture that same success, and didn't realize they were a novelty the general audience stopped caring about a long time ago. Hopefully this doesn't cause too much backlash on point and click adventures and visual novels as a whole. Yeah, they're niche regardless, but I'm sure something like Life is Strange, Danganronpa or Ace Attorney doesn't cost nearly as much as these licenses and the more involved animation style. Not really
You got games like Until Dawn which is a glorified bigger version of this genre doing well so there is room for it and others as you mentioned are getting made but this will hurt a bit and questions will be asked how did Telltale go wrong so fast
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Post by Dub H on Sept 22, 2018 16:42:40 GMT -5
Really seems pretty cut and dry - they hit it big with Walking Dead, kept picking up more licenses to try and recapture that same success, and didn't realize they were a novelty the general audience stopped caring about a long time ago. Hopefully this doesn't cause too much backlash on point and click adventures and visual novels as a whole. Yeah, they're niche regardless, but I'm sure something like Life is Strange, Danganronpa or Ace Attorney doesn't cost nearly as much as these licenses and the more involved animation style. Not really You got games like Until Dawn which is a glorified bigger version of this genre doing well so there is room for it and others as you mentioned are getting made but this will hurt a bit and questions will be asked how did Telltale go wrong so fast
When people realized the gimmick of "your choice matters" was pretty much BS.That is when things dropped. At least Life Is Strnage and Until Dawn were really polished and unique.But once the lustr falls off,they probably will too(if they dont do anything to change up)
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Sept 22, 2018 17:49:16 GMT -5
I love playable movie games, but I could never get into the Telltale series. The graphic style is so jarringly off-putting to me.
That said, really sucks for the people who are affected by terrible management and I hope they can manage to land on their feet.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 22, 2018 18:30:40 GMT -5
The first Walking Dead game was the best, and some of the choices actually did matter in how the story developed. Nothing major, sure, but there were some plot changes.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Sept 22, 2018 21:10:34 GMT -5
Pissed that this happened now. Was really wanting to see how they were going to end Clementine's story. Now we get the second episode on Tuesday and everything else is just a mystery.
Also sucks on a personal level. Episodic games are the type of games that usually give me something to do in the gaming word every month and I'm more likely to play the episodes a few times each to hear the conversation choices. Games like Spider-Man are fantastic but I don't know how many times I can pick it up after I beat it the first time. Maybe one more time?
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Post by jjohns828 on Sept 22, 2018 21:25:58 GMT -5
I feel real bad for the employees that have to go through this, I know what it's like to go through losing a job suddenly when a company goes out of business and it sucks. As far as the games go as disappointed as I am about likely not getting a proper ending to the final season of the Walking Dead my biggest disappointment is not getting that 2nd season of the Wolf Among Us which is probably my favorite Telltale Game.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 22, 2018 21:45:50 GMT -5
I was already grumbling that we'd never get Tales of Monkey Island 2 to tie up the sequel bait they ended the first one on...
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 22, 2018 21:51:36 GMT -5
Or the Back to the Future one
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 22, 2018 21:56:08 GMT -5
Or the Back to the Future one I dont remember the Back to the Future ending on a sequel bait but I don't doubt it.
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 22, 2018 22:15:35 GMT -5
Man this actually hurts.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 22, 2018 22:41:46 GMT -5
At least DONTNOD (the people who make Life Is Strange) also know how to make other types of games. Remember Me was a really neat, underappreciated game IMO.
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Post by eDemento2099 on Sept 22, 2018 23:18:30 GMT -5
Hopefully this doesn't cause too much backlash on point and click adventures and visual novels as a whole. Yeah, they're niche regardless, but I'm sure something like Life is Strange, Danganronpa or Ace Attorney doesn't cost nearly as much as these licenses and the more involved animation style. I bought the Shadowgate remake that was published on Steam, even though Shadowgate is my least favorite game in the ICOM Simulations series. Of course I wanted to enjoy the remake for what it is (I have yet to do so), but I also want the developer to remake Deja Vu and The Uninvited in the same style.
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