Do you guys enjoy the Telltale type game?

Trying to get into this genre and wanted to know how it is.

The only Telltale game I played from them is Batman series. I'm a Marvel/DC fan, (but more of a Marvel guy) but I can say I like the way Telltale game handle the Batman universe, I've been enjoying this alternate retelling a lot. Even the Joker is actually interesting and I'm curious to where they go with him. As for Telltale themselves, they focus on heavy brands of TV series that makes them more money and without a heavy brand, they be nothing. Telltale focus only QTE as you go along with the plot and it depends on what brand you like, I recommend only play the games they have your favorite series.

the very concept I find annoying.

its hard enough to find actual good story telling in non-interactive media let alone having it watered down with distractions of interaction

I only played the first walking dead one. It was good... as a story experience, not as a gaming experience.

They are as basic as they come. They've basically dumbed down the adventure genre. That being said, they typically tell a decent story. TWD S1 was decent with a great ending. I just got done with Batman, and that was pretty damn good as well.

when this conversation comes up I try to ask this:

how does the story stack up to the show Hell on Wheels or The Wire?

if not at least as good then I am out

I like the newer story and decision oriented games over their previous ones that were more like point and click adventures with puzzles. I don't ignore them because they have QTEs.

Batman and Walking Dead are my favorite series, Tales From the Borderlands and Wolf Among Us are also really good. Haven't tried the Minecraft game. Didn't like Game of Thrones, since it follows the show it just shits on everyone you play as, and there's no second season yet to redeem that.

Just got done with Back to the Future a short while back, really enjoyed it, but that one is more of the point and click adventure type. Might try Jarassic Park next, it's on XB1 via BC.

Also, worth trying the Life Is Strange games, Until Dawn on PS4, and David Cage games like Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain, and Beyond: Two Souls.

Awesome: Walking Dead, Batman, Borderlands.

Good: Game Of Thrones(I find the episodes too long and boring. Wish they were an hour instead of 2.5 hours).

Trash: Jurassic Park, Back To The Future

Those are the ones I have played so far. I hear good things about “The Wolf Among Us”, but since I have never heard of that franchise I have no desire to even try it lol

It's based on a popular comic, and it's pretty damn good.

I really enjoyed The Wolf Among Us, haven’t really played much of the other games though.

I've played a couple, they're decent.

I played the first season of The Walking Dead and the Borderlands season.

The only interest on those game is the story because they are kind of like point'n'clic game without any puzzle.

They also said our decision would impact the game ... and no, not at all. A game like Heavy Rain really did made our decisions matter. The thing with episodic game like that is that every gamer have to start the next episode at the same place ... so yeah ...

If they ported Jurassic Park to PS4 on disc with more polish, I would buy it.

The PS3 version had terrible clipping, audio issues, slow down which made QTEs near impossible and was digital only. I had a lot of issues with the game but the gameplay and story were not one of them.

I like them, TWD, Batman and Wolf Among us are my favorites....the darker stories, basically. The Game of Thrones one was average and you can try it if you are a big fan but I did not find it particularly memorable. They're well written overall, I like the music in some of them and the reason I got them initially is because I liked the stories they were based on. I don't mind the limited gameplay, I enjoy the dialogue choice system and then seeing how I compare with the other players. Some of the action scenes can also be adrenaline-pumping.

I usually play them in between other games, or when I am in the mood for it. I play all kinds of games from different genres depending on my mood, and if I feel like just relaxing and watching something, I may watch something on TV, or play a little from a TellTale game. The easy achievements are a cool bonus....you just have to play through them, doesn't matter what you choose but if I recall correctly, The Wolf Among us had some that required more than simply playing through the story.

I enjoyed the Back to the Future one because it had a bit of puzzle solving to it, and I thought the first Walking Dead was pretty good. I haven't looked at any outside of that though.

Its collapsing

Telltale is in freefall, their games have stopped selling well, and they are shedding jobs. Outside of the Life is Strange series, other episodic games struggle, and it may be a possibility that DONTNOD kills the episodic Telltale style genre outright by releasing Life Is Strange Season 2 whole.

Get the original Life is Strange, and if you like it, get the prequel. The original is a masterpiece and the prequel actually makes it better while being great in its own right. I view Tales From the Borderlands as Telltale's best, and Wolf Among Us is interesting. King's Quest if you want a classic adventure game. If you get Dreamfall Chapters, get Dreamfall as well as Chapters is Dreamfall's second half, The Longest Journey is also recommended as well as Dreamfall is its sequel.

Hit and miss. Enjoyed WDS1 and Monkey Island duh.

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They don't change things up though, just use the shame shitty David Cage thing over and over.

And thats why they are near being finished.

I enjoyed the Monkey Island games they put out. The only other Telltale series I have played is The Wolf Among Us, but as a piece of interactive entertainment, it's a little shallow. The twist on fantasy characters was nice though. I'd actually like to read the graphic novel it is based off.

Yes I'm definitely a fan of Telltale's games... I've played and enjoyed most of their games.

Inside Telltale's collapse...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry

Trash, "played" the first episode of TWD and when the game did NOT do what I choice to do (I choose to kill the kid at the tractor scene)

I turned that shit off and have never "played" one of those trashy "games" again

I've not played them, since they look like dumbed down adventure games. Wasn't that big on adventure games back when they were popular, and I definitely don't want dumbed down movie-fied ones now. Adventure games for casuals does not interest me.

Making choices in games and have the game play out a bit different from your choices also isn't as amazing and interesting to me as it seems to be to others.

I never cared for them. They seem boring to me. It's like playing a movie. I might as well just watch a movie.

Recently, courtesy of GWG, I played, Back to the Future. Not a fan of the game-play if you can even call it that but the new story was pretty cool and kept me playing until the end.

I think I played the zombie one and enjoy it. I have play the Batman one too and it was really good. But I have quit quickly: not my taste of game.

At times.

They're not really games they're just interactive novels with awful graphics that you prod along with a button press now and again.

If you 'played' Life Is Strange this is the same deal, adventure games for people who find actual adventure games too difficult.

Lol no, Telltale and David Cage "games" are way worse than shit.

Yes, i love slow paced games with a good story (Telltale games, Quantic Dream games, Firewatch, Life is Strange, etc). Of course, again, a good story in mandatory for these games.

I'll never understand this logic people love to use these days. Are point and click adventures also 'not games' to you?

They're okay. They've got good stories, but the gameplay is lacking and very simplistic.

(inb4 "YOU DONT PLAY THEM FOR THE GAMEPLAY")

Nope, not at all.

They get the rights to some great IP's but the games just don't interest me.

Yeah I love them, I'm a fan. The Walking Dead is probably still my favourite.

'adventure games for people who find actual adventure games too difficult.' I'll go ahead and assume you just didn't read that part for whatever reason?

I used to love point and click adventures (still do) they don't play themselves, you don't just click a button to get to the next part the gameplay comes from actual puzzles which are completely absent from Telltale and LiS and also a great many point and clickers even very old ones have much, much better graphics than the ugly shit forced on you from Telltale and Dontnod.

If people like 'playing' really ugly visual novels that's okay but let's just call it that and be done with it what do you say?

do we need to go through why adventure games collapsed in the 90's in the first place?

And once again, LIS had puzzles. It goes to show you haven't played it.

i tried the monkey island and walking dead games but they never really clicked (no pun) with me. i just assumed my love for the genre as a kid with all the lucasarts and sierra games was gone, rather than telltale had done a particularly bad job or something.

i have 7 days to die too which i've not really made enough of a dent in to comment but holy shit, if they were attempting to make a game that visually looks like it was made for the ps2 on a shoestring budget, mission accomplished

I do enjoy them they are a nice change in pace I wish they would upgrade the engine though. Looking forward to the wolf among us 2.

I do, but its not for everyone.

I've played and enjoyed most of their games.