Jeff from Holygrenade writes: "Telltale’s The Walking Dead, through a measly three episodes (about six hours of content), has accomplished what most games simply cannot. Presenting the mental, emotional, and moral chaos of human interaction in a worldwide epidemic, without emphasizing violence, believably. A game built for provoking survivalist tendencies, not bloodshed."
Today Telltale Series has confirmed to TechRaptor that it has laid off a number of employees, while the games currently in development remain in the pipeline for the time being.
Sadly, this is Deja vu, with Telltale going through this type of thing before in 2018 - thoughts are with those affected. Games companies and all sectors always follow each other, with the bad press reducing as each new announcement is made - sad times we live in.
Supermassive Games has failed to innovate since its breakout hit Until Dawn and its games are getting more stale, something that sadly echoes Telltale Games' downfall.
Trash article. More jaded commentary from individuals that play so much of something, they get pulled out of the very thing they liked before. Or think everyone is as jaded as them with the genre. Thing is, the developer wouldn't be making these games if they didn't think there was an audience. And, they are not in financial trouble as Tell Tale was. Try again.
Critiquing is fine as we want developers like Super Massive to stay the course of making good games. Especially after rushing games out too quickly after their break out hit. But to go on and say they are on a decline when the very game they just released was received well by the gaming community is jumping the gun. Not only that, but Until Dawn: Rush of Blood was a hit on PSVR fool. Not everyone gets nausea from VR.
Not only that, but the ignorant opinion that Quantic Dreams has declined when Detroit: Become Human is a great game for its genre, was received well by gamers and sold well, speaks volumes about this person's opinion.
Tell Tale's biggest mistake was attaching their works to huge existing IP that requires big royalties. They didn't invest in bringing new ways to interreact with their games or even improvements to graphics/mo-cap.
Supermassive is the complete opposite. Their games are completely original works, they own their own titles, there is a level of exploration in their games and the graphics continue to be worth a look.
Agreed. This article is complete garbage. The games it compares The Quarry to are hardly competitors and nowhere in the league of the game.
These type of games are about the choices and the story. Some of the later releases may have faltered in those areas making them not as good as the original. But i don't see how this author wants them to innovate. It just seems like the author wants to play a different genre. What they need to do is come up with better stories and choices.
The reason that telltale fell into financial ruin was the amount of money they had to pay out for the big License fees. Batman, Borderlands, walking dead, they had to pay through the nose to get rights to use them. Supermassive don't have that problem, although I would love them to do a Nightmare on Elm street, Friday the 13th or Halloween game, the rights to those properties would likely be too much to warrant the cost.
Dumb, uninformed take.
Telltale went under due to, mainly, piss poor management. They grew the team way too big, and took on way too many projects at one time; stretching the key talent far too thin.
Then constant crunch pushed much of said key talent to move onto other studios.
Tied into the fact they kept utilizing antiquated tech instead of moving onto a new, modern engine.
None of this applies to Supermassive, thus a pointless and uninformed article we have here.
Powerful storylines and narratives drive player engagement. MOBA Champion examines the best examples of good storyline in video games to better understand what engages and compels players to continue playing.
I wholeheartedly agree. Arcade GOTY? yes.
Couldn't agree more.
As a huge fan of both the comic and TV show I'd say the story in the Walking dead game is better than that of the TV show and absolutely on par with that of the comics, and I do not say that lightly. I've never been quite as connected to a character and concerned about their safety as I am with Clementine. I find myself spending about five minutes before leaving each screen making absolutely sure nothing is going to put her in danger.
Having said that I would probably hold off on a GOTY nomination due to the appalling way Telltale have handled the release of the game and their interaction with their customers. That may not technically be part of the game but it's soured my experience somewhat.
You know I'd have to agree. This is coming from someone who HATES point and click games. This was the only one to ever receive any enjoyment out of me.
I've been saying this forever and my people look at me as though I have two heads lol. Easily my favorite downloadable game of the year and we still have two episodes to go.