I remember watching a playthrough on the first season of the walking dead and thinking that it looked cool and imma try it,I try it.and it plays like shit so I just delete the game and watch on youtube what happened next.
I assume lots of people had a similar experience
I figured they just took on too many dumb projects.
Minecraft Story mode? Guardians of the Galaxy? Game of Thrones??? Just dumb choices and they spread themselves too thin.
What I find works best for them is stories where you don't need to know the source material to enjoy it.
TWD is a self contained story disconnected from the comics.
Batman is just Batman, everyone gets it.
The Wolf Among Us is a prequal story that serves as a good introduction to the story.
Tales from the Borderlands seems to be an exception, as a lot of people say that's their best game.
Not only did they spread themselves too thin but they were paying for the licenses too, while hiring hundreds of people, just kamikaze'd themselves straight to bankrupcy
It has nothing to do with the projects being "dumb" but rather that everything they did was so oppressively bland. They're the kind of games that make you wonder whether you're wasting your life while you play them.
Good games were from Sam & Max 1 to Borderlands. There's a few stinkers in there (Back to the Future, Strong Bad) and some middling games (Monkey Island, Walking Dead 2), but most of their output for about nine years was good.
They were dead to me after Back to the Future. I was so hyped for it, but I hated the story, the setting, the presentation, and the gameplay. It was such a letdown I ignored all their releases from then on.
>I hated the story
wasnt it written by the same guy who wrote the movie? i know he also did those comic runs, one of which included an adaptation of the game's story
Anyone playing their expanse game? Is it good? The main character looks like a shortstack... is the story good? What about choices, she could take a pounding, are they meaningful? The voice acting seems weird is that apart of the story? And her lips are nicely plump... there isn't any cuck shit is there? Can you be evil, like smack her ass without her consent, kill people, be a pirate, etc. Should I watch the show to understand it?
The jurrassic park back to the future monkey island era games marked the beginning of them streamlining out any interesting puzzles or interaction. walkingdead was obviously a success and I would say the focus on story interaction was more appropriate with the previous streamlining rather than trying to make a hobbled traditional point n click. the problem is that while they put out a couple semi-decent follow ups, walking dead's success was a fluke, the exact right property at the height of the zombie dad craze, it was so successful that no suit could reasonably be expected not exploit the shit out of it but it had no future. By the time you got to GOT the formula was stale, the cartoon engine looked like shit for the serious melodrama of the games, and the license costs were bleeding money. at that point they were so far removed from any kind of interesting gameplay that there was no place they could pivot.
I really enjoyed the fairy tale wolf one, I forget what it's called
IIRC it got a sequel and you just reminded me I have to play it
The batman one was decent too but I wish the detective shit was harder
>Back to the Future was essentially BttF4, also how the series should've ended >The Walking Dead S1 was kino >The Wolf Among Us was great, got me into the comics but it's obvious it went through several rewrites >The Walking Dead S2 was shit for the simple reason that we controlled Clem and nullified every choice we made as Lee, the deleted scripts and original S2 sound interesting >Game of Thrones was shitty in the way that it gave show characters plot armor but I enjoyed punished Rodrik, really wanted a sequel >The Walking Dead S3 was alright in the sense that we never got to control Clem but some funny brainlet Hispanic, I had a lot of laughs >Batman S1 was okay >Batman S2 was great, one of the best Joker stories in the entire franchise >The Walking Dead S4 was the best way they could've ended this shit considering production problems
Everything was at least good until Walking Dead S1. Most everything after is bad to horrible.
Wolf Among Us, Poker Night 2 and Borderlands followed WD S1. I'd say Game of Thrones is where they fell apart.
GoT was certainly where they were just phoning it in.
>that 5 choice pick in ep 2 that all had the same result
walking dead season 2 was extremely obnoxious and baity.
>never get to kill Arvo
Bullshit
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Poker Night and sequel were the exceptions confirming the rule
I remember watching a playthrough on the first season of the walking dead and thinking that it looked cool and imma try it,I try it.and it plays like shit so I just delete the game and watch on youtube what happened next.
I assume lots of people had a similar experience
>What went wrong?
co-founder got jealous and destroyed the studio over it
Oh dear oh dear
Walking Dead S3+ (because Kenny never appeared alive again even if you chose the Wellington ending).
Poker Night 2 was fun tho.
I figured they just took on too many dumb projects.
Minecraft Story mode? Guardians of the Galaxy? Game of Thrones??? Just dumb choices and they spread themselves too thin.
What I find works best for them is stories where you don't need to know the source material to enjoy it.
TWD is a self contained story disconnected from the comics.
Batman is just Batman, everyone gets it.
The Wolf Among Us is a prequal story that serves as a good introduction to the story.
Tales from the Borderlands seems to be an exception, as a lot of people say that's their best game.
I should have stated that I haven't played Tales from the Borderlands.
Not only did they spread themselves too thin but they were paying for the licenses too, while hiring hundreds of people, just kamikaze'd themselves straight to bankrupcy
It has nothing to do with the projects being "dumb" but rather that everything they did was so oppressively bland. They're the kind of games that make you wonder whether you're wasting your life while you play them.
Tales works just fine if you don't know Borderlands. It's really only skin deep.
jurassic park game was the best thing they did
Good games were from Sam & Max 1 to Borderlands. There's a few stinkers in there (Back to the Future, Strong Bad) and some middling games (Monkey Island, Walking Dead 2), but most of their output for about nine years was good.
What do you have against Strong Bad's game?
They were dead to me after Back to the Future. I was so hyped for it, but I hated the story, the setting, the presentation, and the gameplay. It was such a letdown I ignored all their releases from then on.
Puzzle Agent 2 was good.
I wouldn't know, but PA1 was good.
>I hated the story
wasnt it written by the same guy who wrote the movie? i know he also did those comic runs, one of which included an adaptation of the game's story
Batman and Wolf among us are pretty good
>your choices matter
>the game is tailored to how you play
the only series I didn't like was pic related, everything else was really good for me
Anyone playing their expanse game? Is it good? The main character looks like a shortstack... is the story good? What about choices, she could take a pounding, are they meaningful? The voice acting seems weird is that apart of the story? And her lips are nicely plump... there isn't any cuck shit is there? Can you be evil, like smack her ass without her consent, kill people, be a pirate, etc. Should I watch the show to understand it?
The jurrassic park back to the future monkey island era games marked the beginning of them streamlining out any interesting puzzles or interaction. walkingdead was obviously a success and I would say the focus on story interaction was more appropriate with the previous streamlining rather than trying to make a hobbled traditional point n click. the problem is that while they put out a couple semi-decent follow ups, walking dead's success was a fluke, the exact right property at the height of the zombie dad craze, it was so successful that no suit could reasonably be expected not exploit the shit out of it but it had no future. By the time you got to GOT the formula was stale, the cartoon engine looked like shit for the serious melodrama of the games, and the license costs were bleeding money. at that point they were so far removed from any kind of interesting gameplay that there was no place they could pivot.
I really enjoyed the fairy tale wolf one, I forget what it's called
IIRC it got a sequel and you just reminded me I have to play it
The batman one was decent too but I wish the detective shit was harder
Wolf Among Us
>Back to the Future was essentially BttF4, also how the series should've ended
>The Walking Dead S1 was kino
>The Wolf Among Us was great, got me into the comics but it's obvious it went through several rewrites
>The Walking Dead S2 was shit for the simple reason that we controlled Clem and nullified every choice we made as Lee, the deleted scripts and original S2 sound interesting
>Game of Thrones was shitty in the way that it gave show characters plot armor but I enjoyed punished Rodrik, really wanted a sequel
>The Walking Dead S3 was alright in the sense that we never got to control Clem but some funny brainlet Hispanic, I had a lot of laughs
>Batman S1 was okay
>Batman S2 was great, one of the best Joker stories in the entire franchise
>The Walking Dead S4 was the best way they could've ended this shit considering production problems