Entropy writer Eugene Lee talks about player responsibility in The Walking Dead games: "Often times the lack of player influence can deliver as brutal a blow emotionally as when we are made to feel culpable. Sometimes situations happen regardless of what we input into the screen and no combination of words, choices, or actions can even hope to influence that."
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Before the announcement that a heavily narrative focussed Walking Dead video game was announced in 2012, Telltale games was a development studio that not particularly well known. Despite putting out other similar properties with Back to the Future: The Game and Jurassic Park: The Game, the products were largely met with a very mixed and ultimately tepid response from the public. The rampant acclaim and runaway success reached with The Walking Dead launched the developer into one of the most anticipated and favourable studios out there with one revolutionary product.
I think the walking dead story telling is amazing. I really love the games and think that they bring the respect of gaming story telling up in the world of entertainment in general :)
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