Telltale Games Closing Down - Rumors at the moment

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Shit, I sequestered myself for 2 weeks making an awesome PowerPoint about a game that would revolutionize, well, everything and was just about to catch the Greyhound to San Rafael.

Does anyone know of any other companies that would be interested in a serial adventure narrative based that takes place on the Fortnite map?
 
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The biggest problem with telltale games is even if you're interested in the IP they licensed, there's very little to be gained playing the games over, say, watching a (probably slightly less than fair use) long play of the cutscenes and essential gameplay on YouTube, with non-essential bullshit cut out. I actually remember liking what they did with Back to the Future, but I didn't pay for it.

Seeing how linear the stories are, makes sense that they work better as movies.
 
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I think it would have been far better for them if they remained a small studio specializing in point and click games. Those may be niche games, but it's a niche they can fill and profit from if they'd just kept their expectations in order.

The success of The Walking Dead might've gone to their heads however.
 
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Night Owl said:
I think it would have been far better for them if they remained a small studio specializing in point and click games. Those may be niche games, but it's a niche they can fill and profit from if they'd just kept their expectations in order.

The success of The Walking Dead might've gone to their heads however.
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Perhaps the greatest sin of TellTale games was hubris. The point and click genre can be profitable, but you need a specific audience for that kind of game where true gameplay is minimal. Though another great sin was not shaking up their story style and making people feel like their choices didn't matter, mostly due to the restrictions imposed by the licenses they used. I am still baffled why they didn't attempt to make their own story unless they are that creatively bankrupt. I guess they really didn't have true belief in their own storytelling capabilities which lead to their deaths.
 
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Night Owl said:
I think it would have been far better for them if they remained a small studio specializing in point and click games. Those may be niche games, but it's a niche they can fill and profit from if they'd just kept their expectations in order.

The success of The Walking Dead might've gone to their heads however.
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It did, when The Walking Dead hit they went from a small company to a very large one (reportedly 300+) and were clearly banking on doing Walking Dead numbers for every release they had.

For compairson, Obsidian has 170 employees when they were making Pillars of Eternity 2 so I'm not (nor is anyone, for that matter) certain what TellTalle was doing with 300+, besides major mismanagement.

Another issue was the episodic business model - not only did the story suffer from it but sales must have also. It also dragged out their development time which with 300 employees added up pretty quickly. Sales numbers are hard to come by but for all other serialized media (TV shows, comics) it isn't uncommon for users to bounce off after the initial episode; especially if there's a long wait involved in between.
 
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The biggest problem with telltale games is even if you're interested in the IP they licensed, there's very little to be gained playing the games over, say, watching a (probably slightly less than fair use) long play of the cutscenes and essential gameplay on YouTube, with non-essential bullshit cut out. I actually remember liking what they did with Back to the Future, but I didn't pay for it.

Seeing how linear the stories are, makes sense that they work better as movies.
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This was my issue keeping me from stick with the Strong Bad games. I like watching a Strong Bad cartoon but I don't want to have to make him do everything.
 
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The games are now being removed from steam, and they are now under a proper bankruptcy proceedings
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remember minecraft storymode? no? well it's on netflix
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Wait, how does that work exactly? Does it play like a game? Or is it like one of those game "Movies" on youtube where people just spliced up cutscene and gameplay footage to make an iilllusion of being a movie?
 
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