Makes me wonder whatâs going to happen with the final season of âThe Walking Deadâ (game not tv show), I havenât really cared about the series since S1, but I would like some closure on Clementine.
They said theyâll finish it before shuttering but honestly if itâs that dire, I donât see that being reasonable.
I was like âwhat?â
Telltale lays off a majority of its staff, small staff leftover to finish the walking dead, stranger things and wolf among us have been canned
JesusâŚwhat the hell happened?
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Soul calibur vi beta incoming
Actual full update nowâŚtelltale is confirmed shutting down for now
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Target, GameStop and Best Buy still have preorders up for the Playsation Classic
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-playstation-classic-console/6301601.p?skuId=6301601
Target and BestBuy charge you immediately but refunds you within a week. GameStop charges once the item ships.
Are there no keynotes or presentations for TGS this year?
No. Just mostly panels and possibly streams. TGS seems to be a bit quiet this year.
No analog for the PS Classic is pretty handicapped. Iâm hoping they are using the mini as test to see if they should put them on the PS4.
I want to check out Jumping Flash, but not for $100.
That sucks. I really enjoyed Back to the Future: The Game, Tales from the Borderlands, and The Wolf Among Us from Telltale Games. I had absolutely no idea they were in any kind of financial trouble as their games were pretty much always portrayed in a positive light.
P.S. Check it (Jumping Flash!) out:
For Telltale, TWD was bringing in the big bucks while everything else did okay or flopped, numbers are probably worse on consoles.
I feel like the main issue was that a majority of their audience would rather see their favorite youtuber/streamer play the game instead of playing it themselves.
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They spent too much money getting licenses far above their kale, and if you look at the progression of their games youâll find that the actual sales of them dropped off a cliff after TWD Season 2. People just stopped caring because while most of the games told excellent stories, the âchoicesâ youâre presented with in the game ultimately amount to nothing. Thus, you can get the entire experience just by watching video rather than playing. Why bother paying out for the games at that point?
I mean it should be disturbingly telling that no big name studio decided to throw some money out to get Telltale under their umbrella and save it.
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The adventure genre isnât particularly all that popular. I mean the âgameplayâ involved in these types of games isnât exactlyâŚexciting.
Telltale was one of the Last of the Mohicans releasing games in the genre and they werenât selling well. I think that says a lot. Itâs not like thereâs much competition either outside of LucasArts re-releases andâŚLife is Strange?
Everything they released was crap. Good riddance.
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They were releasing them too frequently and the big thing is again, the licensing. All but what, one of their games, were based on a license they themselves had to go out of their way to pay to use. You eventually have to make your own IP otherwise you donât actually make any money and itâs also one of the two reasons no developer bothered to pick up Telltale. Thereâs no IP of value to obtain from Telltale. If you want an IP Telltale was using, youâd have to talk to other companies anyway so why bother?
The other isâŚwell, at no point did they bother to innovate. They relied on their storytelling and at no point really advanced their engine, advanced the actual gameplay. Outside of the story, every game was exactly the same. If fucking Ace Attorney can continue to advance and do different things within what is relatively straightforward gameplay, Telltale had absolutely no excuse.
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Telltale also had in a range of 150-250 employees. Iâm no game developer, but thatâs way to many employees for point and click games. Everything is cancelled besides some Minecraft crap and I think episode 2 of the final season of The Walking Dead (although I do believe it is cancelled).
It was announced not too long after they said they would finish up TWD that everything is cancelled, which as I mentioned earlier, was the obvious direction. You donât lay off 95% of your employees and still find time to finish off a game. Thereâs also very little incentive for trying to finish when you know that there wonât be a job afterwards.
Ok Warhammer: Chaosbane ⌠god fuckin damn man I am not sure why this little piece of info is so tough to find⌠all Iâm wanting to know is whether or not this shit requires an internet connection like so many other dumbass games these days⌠I would assume it doesnât but all bets are off at this point as this industry foolishly heads into that direction, with a surprising # of gamers actually being fine with that horseshit. Warhammer Inquisitor had my attention, and was looking quite niceâŚuntil I found out that it requires a connection at all timesâŚyes, even when youâre playing single player shit.
It immediately killed my interest in that⌠I suppose Iâll find out eventually.
Imagine the world in the near future⌠where you start up something like⌠a new Devil May Cry⌠just some single player stylish action fun⌠but oh no you CANâT play because the internet is wonky todayâŚor the companyâs servers are down for maintenanceâŚor that company went out of business so they turned it OFF which means you canât play it anymore, everâŚOR they lost the license to something to they had to turn the servers off as a result, etc. etc. etc. THAT is the future this moronic industry seems to want, and fuck that. Iâd rather it all burn to the ground than go that route. I get irritated the more I think about that.
Think of how insane that sounds with anything else, manâwhat if you bought a new Toyota Camry and it was fineâŚthen the Toyota company fell on some hard times, or a natural disaster struck corporate hq, whateverâŚand now since the company is goneâŚsuddenly youâre stuck with a lemon. Your car wonât start anymore because theyâre gone. What if you bought your favorite film on blu-ray but now you canât watch it one day because Paramount Pictures just went belly up. GET the fuck outta here with that. It amazes me that so many people are ok with this foolishness.
Telltale took on a lot of projects. They were developing two or three games at a time. That justifies the number of people who worked at the studio.