Telltale Games Closing Down - Rumors at the moment

[Polyboros2]

Haven't played TWAU yet though I am aware of the comic series. Is it any good?

I only had a barest synopsis of Fables and enjoyed it. Was looking forward to the sequel.

 

[Pissmaster]

Woah this thread got bumped. I guess I never posted a giant thinkpiece like I like to do about Telltale, so here's a list of my thots on Telltale's back catalog, or at least the games I played:

Sam & Max Save the World (Season 1): Decent but clumsy, clearly the product of a new studio. Probably hasn't aged terrifically well but it was fun for the time

Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space (Season 2): Much better than season 1 in every way, had the most memorable characters in the entire series, and even the trollish fuck you ending was enjoyable, though hamfisted. Someone at Telltale must have thought the Soda Poppers are the funniest thing on the planet, and I'd like to politely disagree with them. But it was a good game. Here's a good song from the episode with the German raver vampire.

Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse (Season 3): Best one, with much better writing than before, though not as memorable of a cast. Max gets psychic powers which were used very well. All three seasons were still proper adventure games and not just movies with QTEs like most of Telltale's library, so they're worth playing if that's your thing.

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Honestly, way too slow and dull. Didn't even get close to finishing it.

Back to the Future: Well made and fun, but kinda gave off that modern Netflix adaptation vibe (before Netflix adaptations existed). Worth a try if you really like Back to the Future, because there's no way anything new from that franchise could be anything but total garbage if it were made today.

The Walking Dead, Season 1: Telltale's magnum opus. Absolutely exquisite, and so much better than the TV show. The story's even (mostly) self-contained, so you can just play season 1 and then pretend that's all they made.

The Walking Dead, Season 2: It's alright, not bad, I got all the way through it, but it did have a distinct "where do we go from here" vibe. Continuing after season 1 is a hell of a tough act to follow, but it mostly held up. Not enough to get me to check out season 3, though.

Poker Night at the Inventory & Poker Night 2: Pretty good poker games with cameos from all over, and lots of chit-chat between the characters. They're pretty great, though the chit-chat starts repeating. Though there are some lines that just get played way too often, and it'll grate on you. Still, very fun games. Poker Night 2 actually got console releases which I think aren't available anymore, and ironically runs better than Poker Night 1 on lower-end PCs, despite coming out 3 years later.

Game of Thrones: so fucking boring oh my god

I also have had Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us in my "I should really get around to playing these" queues, they both seem pretty great but by the time they came out I was just so burnt out on how Telltale's games feel. I was really wondering how they could just keep making games from increasingly bigger and bigger franchises.

 

[HumanHive]

Woah this thread got bumped. I guess I never posted a giant thinkpiece like I like to do about Telltale, so here's a list of my thots on Telltale's back catalog, or at least the games I played:

Sam & Max Save the World (Season 1): Decent but clumsy, clearly the product of a new studio. Probably hasn't aged terrifically well but it was fun for the time

Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space (Season 2): Much better than season 1 in every way, had the most memorable characters in the entire series, and even the trollish fuck you ending was enjoyable, though hamfisted. Someone at Telltale must have thought the Soda Poppers are the funniest thing on the planet, and I'd like to politely disagree with them. But it was a good game. Here's a good song from the episode with the German raver vampire.

Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse (Season 3): Best one, with much better writing than before, though not as memorable of a cast. Max gets psychic powers which were used very well. All three seasons were still proper adventure games and not just movies with QTEs like most of Telltale's library, so they're worth playing if that's your thing.

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Honestly, way too slow and dull. Didn't even get close to finishing it.

Back to the Future: Well made and fun, but kinda gave off that modern Netflix adaptation vibe (before Netflix adaptations existed). Worth a try if you really like Back to the Future, because there's no way anything new from that franchise could be anything but total garbage if it were made today.

The Walking Dead, Season 1: Telltale's magnum opus. Absolutely exquisite, and so much better than the TV show. The story's even (mostly) self-contained, so you can just play season 1 and then pretend that's all they made.

The Walking Dead, Season 2: It's alright, not bad, I got all the way through it, but it did have a distinct "where do we go from here" vibe. Continuing after season 1 is a hell of a tough act to follow, but it mostly held up. Not enough to get me to check out season 3, though.

Poker Night at the Inventory & Poker Night 2: Pretty good poker games with cameos from all over, and lots of chit-chat between the characters. They're pretty great, though the chit-chat starts repeating. Though there are some lines that just get played way too often, and it'll grate on you. Still, very fun games. Poker Night 2 actually got console releases which I think aren't available anymore, and ironically runs better than Poker Night 1 on lower-end PCs, despite coming out 3 years later.

Game of Thrones: so fucking boring oh my god

I also have had Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us in my "I should really get around to playing these" queues, they both seem pretty great but by the time they came out I was just so burnt out on how Telltale's games feel. I was really wondering how they could just keep making games from increasingly bigger and bigger franchises.

Tales is actually the best Telltale game period, and the best Borderlands game by far.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Batman emancipated Harley Quinn better than the film about her actual emancipation.

They did the Joker so well it was a little bit frightening.