I think it's time to address Telltale Games' biggest problem
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Tales from Monkey Island was pretty good, kinda kept the right feel of the older games without being flat rehashes and involved the typical complicated as all fuck puzzles that make Point n Click games fun.
They most certainly did not. Sam & Max was a comic by Steve Purcell (original idea by his brother), which was adapted into a videogame in 1993 - Sam & Max Hit the Road- by Lucasarts, for whom Purcell was already working at that time.Xsjadoblayde said:
Ah ok, thankyou for clearing that up.Potjeslatinist said:
It has been some while since experiencing Sam and Max. I hope Telltale don't stumble on their first original IP then, it would be a shame to be stuck within other people's IP like professional fanfic writing for the remainder of their days.
It's based on the grickle youtube / comic stuffRaikuFA said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5lB-RoAi4
http://gricklethings.blogspot.de/2010/04/puzzle-agent-coming-soon-from-telltale.html
Hector would have been original IP but TellTale only published it.
I love season one and two of the Walking Dead. I know the gameplay isn't that great and the choices don't change much of anything, but by god am I hammering that button near the end of season one to try and get Lee up one more time on each and every replay.
Their strength was that they drew you into care about their characters, so that the illusion of choice was maintained. It also helped that beside a brief appearance by Glenn they were all original and could be played about with as the writers wished.
The problem for Telltale is that I really think they've taken on more than the studio can do with keeping the same level of quality.
Their strength was that they drew you into care about their characters, so that the illusion of choice was maintained. It also helped that beside a brief appearance by Glenn they were all original and could be played about with as the writers wished.
The problem for Telltale is that I really think they've taken on more than the studio can do with keeping the same level of quality.
This is pretty much it... To each their own in terms of what video games they enjoy. But I don't see the appeal of Telltale Games, or the variety of other "point and click" adventure games that have cropped up. I don't want to conflate them with puzzle games that operate in this fashion (like Myst).Johnny Novgorod said:
With Telltale I don't see there being any "challenge" or fail state. Sure, your character can die (when they're not supposed to), and you will simply restart at the last checkpoint, but more often than not it's "You didn't respond to this QTE fast enough, try again." And solving any "puzzles" in Telltale and similar titles is simply clicking everything in the room until it gives you the answer to progress to the next scene of the story that... once again, you have no control over.
I do agreed that it is about time they created their own story and OC then to used a franchise. They already got a strong flagship of licence games already so why not make their own already (too hard to pin it down)?