Telltale Games to close.

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strawberry floating hell, the staff won't get a redundancy package?

I can't believe know of those games made money! That first Batman series was amazing. I really don't get this at all.

Dual wrote:Making the same game over and over again was probably not a great business model.

Yeah pretty much, the games barely evolved aside from a few minor upgrades to the interactivity of the QTEs. They were living off pumping out the same stuff with different licenses for too long and it was only a matter of time I guess, no doubt Stranger Things and The Wolf Among Us 2 would've been the same old. I found it hard to get interested in any of there stuff apart from WD seasons 1 and 2 and TWAU.

For how big a license Guardians, Batman and Game of Thrones were there seemed to be little hype around them.

They certainly started to get a stigma over their archaic engine never being improved significantly, by Batman it was especially derided. Sadly it sounds like it may have stayed that way due to internal politics

lex-man wrote:I can't believe know of those games made money! That first Batman series was amazing. I really don't get this at all.

Yeah, it depends how literal that source is being. It seems hard to believe The Walking Dead S2, Game of Thrones, Batman, and Guardians of the Galaxy would all fail to make a return. It could be more that they all failed to hit the profits upper management anticipated to be able to properly support the development of so many titles at once. There was apparently a consistent culture of having to work in crunch at the studio.

And nothing of value was lost.

Preezy wrote:And nothing of value was lost.

strawberry float off with shitposts like this.

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Brerlappin wrote:

Mafro wrote:

Dual wrote:Making the same game over and over again was probably not a great business model.

Yeah pretty much, the games barely evolved aside from a few minor upgrades to the interactivity of the QTEs. They were living off pumping out the same stuff with different licenses for too long and it was only a matter of time I guess, no doubt Stranger Things and The Wolf Among Us 2 would've been the same old. I found it hard to get interested in any of there stuff apart from WD seasons 1 and 2 and TWAU.

For how big a license Guardians, Batman and Game of Thrones were there seemed to be little hype around them.

Yeah, I only played TWD S1, Wolf, and unfortunately for me, Tales of Monkey Island. Everything post TWAU looked exactly the same as everything they ever made and I lost interest in their upcoming projects, even tho they had such big IPs.

Really when you look at it, how badly did they strawberry float up considering they had a stable of games that included Batman, Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Walking Dead, and yet you still can't turn a profit??
It's still a huge shock tho, I really didn't see this coming and I hope the staff can fall on their feet.

My favourite thing about Batman games is when when they try and pretend they're doing one without the Joker even though he's blatantly going to be in it. I think Game of Thrones would have been better if they just did it with characters from the shows. I played some of the first episode when it was given away for free somewhere and it just bored the hell out of me. Guardians was weird because I loved the films but had zero interest in the game.

I think they were clearly talented enough to do their own thing with their own IP but I guess the studio bosses thought different and had them churn out copy & pasted licensed games.

Brerlappin wrote:Yeah, I only played TWD S1, Wolf, and unfortunately for me, Tales of Monkey Island. Everything post TWAU looked exactly the same as everything they ever made and I lost interest in their upcoming projects, even tho they had such big IPs.

Same. Up to the completion of The Walking Dead S2 they had three really well received series in TWD and The Wolf Among Us, but all with the same narrative structure where everyone basically sees the same ending to each episode, and I wonder if the audience started to feel those stories and journeys were falling short of what they initially imagined?

Life is Strange showed up pretty quickly after TWD S2 wrapped up and felt like an evolution of the adventure game structure Telltale developed.

From reading some posts on ResetEra Telltale were basically hugely overstaffed for the games they were putting out, like over a hundred people for games that were relatively small and were generally using the same engine so could generally have been made by around 20 people quite comfortably. I guess that would explain how games weren't profitable when by all accounts they should have been.

It's a shame because I generally enjoyed their output. I wasn't a huge fan of TWD but that's more because it's a license I don't particularly enjoy.
I really should pick up GotG and Batman season 2, while I still can it seems.

The Verge did a really good article a few months ago about the shitty management

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Lagamorph wrote:From reading some posts on ResetEra Telltale were basically hugely overstaffed for the games they were putting out, like over a hundred people for games that were relatively small and were generally using the same engine so could generally have been made by around 20 people quite comfortably. I guess that would explain how games weren't profitable when by all accounts they should have been.

It's a shame because I generally enjoyed their output. I wasn't a huge fan of TWD but that's more because it's a license I don't particularly enjoy.
I really should pick up GotG and Batman season 2, while I still can it seems.

GOTG is in a Humble Bundle right now.

Ad7 wrote:Telltale will remember that.

Can someone explain this? It's obviously a shitpost, but I've seen it all over twitter in comments about this story.

Never really got on with their games, I got bored of the first Walking Dead one pretty fast, but it's clear they were a really well liked studio, and it's a shame to see such a prominent games maker disappear like that.

They've fallen into that old trap of over-saturating their own market by making the same game over and over which killed any impact they would have made on release no matter how good they were.

Dig Dug wrote:They've fallen into that old trap of over-saturating their own market by making the same game over and over which killed any impact they would have made on release no matter how good they were.

This and the outdated engine making games a chore to play.

Knoyleo wrote:

Ad7 wrote:Telltale will remember that.

Can someone explain this? It's obviously a shitpost, but I've seen it all over twitter in comments about this story.

Never really got on with their games, I got bored of the first Walking Dead one pretty fast, but it's clear they were a really well liked studio, and it's a shame to see such a prominent games maker disappear like that.

If you picked an obnoxious verbal response in a conversation tree, like "who cares what you think anyway Knoyleo?!". You would get a visual cue saying "Knoyleo will remember that".

It's a meme now but to be honest going back to their first go at it it was a pretty fresh way to tell stories.

Hell I'll take telltale game over David Cage any day of the week.

Didn’t see that coming - I thought they were reaiming/focusing after some misfires

Seems they just be in a really bad state if no ones picking them up

Slayerx wrote:

Dig Dug wrote:They've fallen into that old trap of over-saturating their own market by making the same game over and over which killed any impact they would have made on release no matter how good they were.

This and the outdated engine making games a chore to play.

Sounds familiar.

Sounds like the final season of Walking Dead might not even be fully completed either going by some of the things popping up on Twitter

ITSMILNER wrote:Sounds like the final season of Walking Dead might not even be fully completed either going by some of the things popping up on Twitter

Like what? Trying to get on twitter on my phone and gooseberry fool all is loading.

I hope they still realease the physical version of the final series of the walking dead, I live that series and I really wanted a second the wolf amoung us

Fwiw I really loved the first season of the walking dead, but the terrible performance on ps3 from about half way through really soured me on getting any more. I played bttf, which I really enjoyed, batman which was really gooseberry fool and borderlands was good.

Thing with them is that bar twd, the other games never really followed through with the choices I made. I started to see behind the curtain so to speak. There's only so many 'will remember that' you can see with no payoff before you realise none of your choices really matter.

The engine is/was dogshit too.