After Minecraft: Story Mode was announced late last year, fans of Minecraft and Telltale Games have been itching for more information on the game, at Minecon 2015 their prayers were answered in the form of a cinematic trailer (below) along with some other details.
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.
The Minecraft spin-off train keeps rolling as Minecraft: Legends nears its release date, and hopefully it will be better than its predecessors.
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.
I was skeptical when Telltale announced a Borderlands game and a Game of Thrones game. But Telltale has come through with those two franchises, so again I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt with this game. It doesn't look spectacular, but Telltale has earned my loyalty so far, so I am going to wait and see before I pass judgement.
Why didn't MS include this as a general mode in their new Minecraft sequel will be anyone's guess. This to me would be a no brainer and I would not have farmed this out to TT games.
Minecraft needs a sequel as it is and this would have been a great addition (as a freebie). This partnership feels awkward.
But its not damaging just numb nuts move.
TT games really dropped the ball with this one, The trailer didn't buy their fans nor minecraft fans, When they should develop their own IP or expand on the licence they own which they all great games and every fans beg them to a squeal.
Minecraft has tons of fans. Just because some are vocal, doesn't mean they all feel that way. TT games aren't for everyone anyway
Were there people asking for this though? The appeal of minecraft is in how each individual plays the game in their own way, doing what they want to do. I can't help but feel like literally no one was sitting there going "Yeah, I can build, cool... but what's Steve's story?"