The Married Gamer: One could say that, in videogames, this was the year for the survivor. 2K’s Spec Ops: The Line showed a protagonist barely hanging onto his humanity in the midst of a chaotic war and natural disaster. EA’s Mass Effect 3 had Commander Shepard fighting against insurmountable odds from an ancient threat that could annihilate entire galaxies. Yet, somehow, it was a young girl name Clementine that affected the staff here at The Married Gamers the most. This year we yearned and ached, quivered and feared, for her survival in Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead.
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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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And it deserved every bit of this award. Been playing this into episode 4 on my iPhone 5 and its simply amazing better than any of my PC and console games that have released this year.
Right now it's between this and Far Cry 3 for me. Both are incredible games, but it's because of completely different things.
Hmm i did enjoy monkey Island from them so maybe i should try out the walking dead.
lol i must be the rare few that didn't enjoy Walking dead or Far Cry 3 as mush. I keep buying monotonous and redundant games like Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed, Red Dead in the hopes i will love them but i hate them because of the redundancy in doing mini missions over and over and going to the same places.
In terms of Walking Dead idk the QTE formula in this game didnt do it for me. Maybe i just have to try again.