Honestly, if this offends you, how did you ever come to Kotaku in the first place? I mean, the site has been experiencing a continued downward spiral in terms of fun weirdness and otaku culture for years now, while the political correctness levels have shot through the roof.
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Well, officially it’s called ‘The Walking Dead: The Final Season’, but Telltale people were referring to it informally as TWD S3 in the tweets I was reading, I guess because the last installment was named ‘The Walking Dead: A New Frontier’, instead of Season 3? I honestly don’t know.
...which in turn is a direct result of having to please shareholders, who don’t really care about the long-term since they’ll have sold their shares when prices peaked, and have long moved on to other companies by the time your operation collapses like a house of cards.
Yeah, that’s why I was saying, they are putting a lot of pressure on themselves - if they kept it low-key, even if the game ends up fairly average, people would still probably be all over it because of Kojima. But with all the hype they built up, it’s going to have to be truly revolutionary to satisfy people, and even…
Is, has, and will continue to strive to find creative new ways to do so in the future.
I think in the future, Star Citizen will be referred to in textbooks as the premier example of how not to fund development. Even if it eventually gets released and actually exceeds everyone's wildest hopes for it, it'll always be tainted by the massive screwjob of their funding efforts.
I don’t necessarily get it either, but from the looks of it, it seems to be working; probably because people consider Kojima himself as a brand, and they are considering his history, rather than the company’s. I doubt this would work if he was some unknown first-time indie developer.
I think part of it is that they were developed to be continuations of classic PC adventure franchises, and that they were, afaik, created before the “Telltale Engine” became set in stone, and they still had actual technical staff on board.
Yay, that is infinitely better than the confused stares I usually elicit (^o^)丿
Yep.
These all sound like delicious things that I would very much like to be eating right now.
Swap Sam & Max with Monkey Island in your post, and you essentially have me. Still really liked Sam & Max though - all the classic LucasArts adventure franchises are dear to me.
They had no real choice: they dropped most of their technical staff long ago, and had neither the time nor the money to suddenly make major engine changes; the fact that most of their games had unusually tight and specific deadlines they had to meet certainly didn’t help, but they essentially consigned themselves to…
They didn’t have the funds or the technical people to create a new engine, or to make any dramatic changes to the existing one, so their games became bound to the limitations of what they could do with the one they had; most of their staff was writers and artists, and no matter how good a writer is, they can’t change…
That one tanking I can somewhat understand, given that it didn’t really play towards their core audience - I didn’t even remember that they made a Batman game until this thread reminded me.
TWD S3 is sadly set to end with the next episode, and its developers have already been pushed out the door - only Minecraft: Story Mode is getting finished properly, and only due to contractual obligations to Netflix.
At least I can comfort myself with the petty self-satisfaction of knowing I did all I could, as I bought almost all of them.
This is a sad ending - I’ll admit, I hadn’t been keeping up with Telltale recently, but they’ll always have a place in my heart for bringing back Monkey Island after EfMI (still my favorite series ever). I still remember backing it on PC before crowdfunding was common (well, they called it something different, but…
Heresy, I say! Pineapple is wonderful on pizza (and, much like olives, really nowhere else); a good Hawaiian barbeque-chicken bacon pizza is happiness.