"The Walking Dead was one of 2012′s most talked about games. Based on the comic book (that spawned the TV series), The Walking Dead was developed by Telltale Games in an episodic fashion, much like a TV show. " | Explosion.com
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.
A good game finds success: IT'S OVERRATED!
I haven't even played this game and its story is so obvious. Let me guess the guy dies in the end saving the little girl ?
I liked it, but it is definitely over rated. Doesn't deserve GOTY with so many other good games that released last year. People try to make it seem like it's more than it is. It's better than a lot of the show, but not nearly as good as the comics. And the story is pretty predictable too.
I wouldn't call it over rated at all. It might not be what some people like but neither was Heavy Rain and we moved past that "over rated" argument.
The Walking Dead deserves every bit of praise it's gotten. Best game of it's kind since Heavy Rain and I'm pumped for the next season.
that whole VGA stunt was the biggest load of payed off nonsense I have ever seen. either that or just super biased judges. it was all just a ploy to boost the sales of the game.
its funny how after it got that award, reviewers who had previously given the episodes ratings of 7s and 8s, all of a sudden give the collection 9s and 10s. its a joke. the walking dead is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a 10/10 game.
and then the collection gets these high metascore averages because it only received about 12 reviews, and then metacritic asininely grants it GOTY. no metascore with 12 reviews is credible.
I have never seen a game steal the spotlight like this. and I dont mean it in a good way. I mean, through marketing measures this game swooped in at the last minute, pulling the rug out from under numerous games that were superior and much more deserving of recognition.