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Telltale games
Telltale has downsized
Telltale Games restructures, cuts 90 staff
"Our industry has shifted in tremendous ways over the past few years. The realities of the environment we face moving forward demand we evolve, as well, reorienting our organization with a focus on delivering fewer, better games with a smaller team," said Telltale Games CEO Pete Hawley.
This could be great news if they really mean it, but it could just be a cover for other problems.
Been a fan of their games since Regime got me in to them. Since there's no general Telltale thread I'll give a one line description each game and whether or not I think they're worth playing. The engine they're using is pretty dated at this point but that doesn't really matter since their focus is on story telling. Their gimmick of making stories where choice matter isn't really true but I don't think that matters. No matter what choice you make you're still going to get the same big events with some minor tweaks based on choices made. If they've put some work in you may even get a couple spots with parallel stories but that will be the extent of it.
The Walking Dead
Worth playing. Probably the best game they've made. Great characters and story arcs. A story about a father trying to protect his daughter in a world gone mad.
The Wolf Among Us
Worth playing. Might be my favorite. A detective story set in the Fables universe.
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Skipable. Weaker characters and weaker stories. More adventures with a few characters from season one.
Season two DLC: 400 days:
Awful
Tales from the Borderlands
Worth playing. Great characters and story telling. Hyperion corporate middle management and Pandoran natives go on an adventure. A must of you like the Borderland universe but it's self contained in the case that you aren't.
Game of Thrones
Skip. Their worst game. It felt like a lazy retelling of other stories in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe.
Minecraft: Story Mode
Skip-able but not awful. Find the power of teamwork and save the world. This is the ABC Afterschool special of videogames.
The Walking Dead: Michonne.
Skip-able but not awful. Michonne stand alone adventure.
Batman: The Telltale Series.
Skip-able bordering on skip. The "Gameplay" was better than the other games but the story and a key character crashed and burned. Don't want to spoil it for those who want to play it.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Probably a skip. I played this intentionally trying to get everyone killed. They're just retelling the same scenario over and over again at this point.
I haven't played any of the newer ones since I wait for all episodes to come out. As they've picked up more projects their quality has gone down. Their best two games were the first two. Maybe this "restructring" will yield good results but I'm not holding my breath. Their model is stagnant and they're probably stretched thin. Dontnod's Life is Strange did a much better job with Telltale's model, but they've chosen a shitty character for Life is Strange 2 so I don't think their next game will be as successful.
Telltale has downsized
Telltale Games restructures, cuts 90 staff
"Our industry has shifted in tremendous ways over the past few years. The realities of the environment we face moving forward demand we evolve, as well, reorienting our organization with a focus on delivering fewer, better games with a smaller team," said Telltale Games CEO Pete Hawley.
This could be great news if they really mean it, but it could just be a cover for other problems.
Been a fan of their games since Regime got me in to them. Since there's no general Telltale thread I'll give a one line description each game and whether or not I think they're worth playing. The engine they're using is pretty dated at this point but that doesn't really matter since their focus is on story telling. Their gimmick of making stories where choice matter isn't really true but I don't think that matters. No matter what choice you make you're still going to get the same big events with some minor tweaks based on choices made. If they've put some work in you may even get a couple spots with parallel stories but that will be the extent of it.
The Walking Dead
Worth playing. Probably the best game they've made. Great characters and story arcs. A story about a father trying to protect his daughter in a world gone mad.
The Wolf Among Us
Worth playing. Might be my favorite. A detective story set in the Fables universe.
The Walking Dead: Season Two
Skipable. Weaker characters and weaker stories. More adventures with a few characters from season one.
Season two DLC: 400 days:
Awful
Tales from the Borderlands
Worth playing. Great characters and story telling. Hyperion corporate middle management and Pandoran natives go on an adventure. A must of you like the Borderland universe but it's self contained in the case that you aren't.
Game of Thrones
Skip. Their worst game. It felt like a lazy retelling of other stories in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe.
Minecraft: Story Mode
Skip-able but not awful. Find the power of teamwork and save the world. This is the ABC Afterschool special of videogames.
The Walking Dead: Michonne.
Skip-able but not awful. Michonne stand alone adventure.
Batman: The Telltale Series.
Skip-able bordering on skip. The "Gameplay" was better than the other games but the story and a key character crashed and burned. Don't want to spoil it for those who want to play it.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Probably a skip. I played this intentionally trying to get everyone killed. They're just retelling the same scenario over and over again at this point.
I haven't played any of the newer ones since I wait for all episodes to come out. As they've picked up more projects their quality has gone down. Their best two games were the first two. Maybe this "restructring" will yield good results but I'm not holding my breath. Their model is stagnant and they're probably stretched thin. Dontnod's Life is Strange did a much better job with Telltale's model, but they've chosen a shitty character for Life is Strange 2 so I don't think their next game will be as successful.
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