I'm catching up on all the modern telltale games, just beat Jurassic Park. Please tell me that they don't continue with all the button mashing and dying in the later titles, that was pretty annoying.
I have Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones already, from what I'm reading here, it sounds like people would recommend doing Wolf first?
Do Wolf first
Then don't do Game of Thrones at all
I honestly can't think of any reason to recommend someone play GoT. Pretty-close clones of the show's stars make cameos, if that's enough for you, I guess.
They do continue that dumb button mashing QTE, but I don't remember the last time I've failed that one, so they might have eased up on how much you have to smash that button. And they have used it effectively in a few instances, where they use it more as a way to force you to think about the fact that you are fucking killing someone.
I like some of the button mashing QTEs when they're not 'fill this bar to go to the next scene', but 'tap this because you're holding on to a cliff with your fingertips, notice how you're not filling the bar? That's because you're about to DIE'.
Tales spoilers:
I also liked when climbing with Rhys, pulling himself up with his cyborg arm is way easier than his regular one.
How are the older Telltale games? I think I got Back to the Future when it was stupid cheap in a Steam sale, is it worth my time?
I'm a big fan of the older telltale games. Back to the Future was fantastic, it's a little slow in the first episode, but picks up after that and goes in some really interesting directions. I'd also recommend the Sam and Max games and Tales of Monkey Island. I'll agree that Strong Bad only really works if you already are a fan. I don't even know if they still sell the Wallace and Gromit game, but I'd put it in the same category, that's one of their weaker ones.
Retrospective Interview for Tales of the Borderlands. They dance around what happens in Chapter Four, but consider this kind of a general spoiler warning anyway.
I played through the GoT series. Went into it completely blind and thought while the button mash sequences sucked ass, the story didn't seem too bad.
I finished the game and thought I had done semi-decently and got an, all things considered, pretty optimistic ending.
Then I started reading online about it, and found that no matter what decisions I had made the difference would have been essentially fuck-all.
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I played through the GoT series. Went into it completely blind and thought while the button mash sequences sucked ass, the story didn't seem too bad.
I finished the game and thought I had done semi-decently and got an, all things considered, pretty optimistic ending.
Then I started reading online about it, and found that no matter what decisions I had made the difference would have been essentially fuck-all.
That is the dark secret of every telltale game: your choices mean very little to the overall narrative
But some telltale games hide this better than others, so even if the story might not change too much you can feel attached to the character and the way your Bigby or your Fiona did certain things makes it feel unique
It's just that in game of thrones every option results in terrible things happening that make you actually feel like your choices don't matter so fuck that thing
Halos Nach TariffCan you blame me?I'm too famous.Registered Userregular
Way late but I finally got round to playing Tales of the Borderlands.
That was a blast, I've never actually played a Telltale game before but this one was a lot of fun, borderlands is a bit of a weird franchise what with it's mix of insane nonsense setting and aiming for emotional beats, but Tales pulls it off well, better than the main series probably, though that is probably something of a given considering that it's not tied to gun and loot gameplay.
The original characters are great, cameos are endlessly entertaining, extremely funny, good stuff.
It'd probably be way too much work for the payoff, but I'd love it if when BL3 comes out, they could somehow read your Tales save and choices and have some subtle nods in it to what happened. Maybe upload them to SHIFT?
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
edited February 2016
This game is finally getting a physical release, some time this year. Not that I suspect anyone was holding out for that, but I'm happy to see it because it gives it a bit more respect and will hopefully garner some more sales for it.
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And then in, like, chapter 3 Athena goes, "Wait, you only have one bullet? Seriously? Here's a whole fucking box, you'll never run out now."
I have Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones already, from what I'm reading here, it sounds like people would recommend doing Wolf first?
Then don't do Game of Thrones at all
I don't plan on getting the walking dead games, so I have to experience that patented telltale misery I keep hearing about.
I honestly can't think of any reason to recommend someone play GoT. Pretty-close clones of the show's stars make cameos, if that's enough for you, I guess.
Its just the remainder of it goes downhill rapidly in terms of story balance of good/bad heavily in favor of the latter
Tales spoilers:
Strong Bad and Back to the Future are only for big fans of those things
If you have Plus, the entire season of Borderlands is 4 DOLLARS
And somehow Back to the Future is 12
I suspected all of Minecraft would be out by the end of the year. Lost that bet it seems.
They're still around
and still doing Walking Dead
This starts on the 23rd
In that you wish it stopped.
COME FORTH, AMATERASU! - Switch Friend Code SW-5465-2458-5696 - Twitch
I finished the game and thought I had done semi-decently and got an, all things considered, pretty optimistic ending.
Then I started reading online about it, and found that no matter what decisions I had made the difference would have been essentially fuck-all.
That is the dark secret of every telltale game: your choices mean very little to the overall narrative
But some telltale games hide this better than others, so even if the story might not change too much you can feel attached to the character and the way your Bigby or your Fiona did certain things makes it feel unique
It's just that in game of thrones every option results in terrible things happening that make you actually feel like your choices don't matter so fuck that thing
edit or that's how it was for me anyway
That was a blast, I've never actually played a Telltale game before but this one was a lot of fun, borderlands is a bit of a weird franchise what with it's mix of insane nonsense setting and aiming for emotional beats, but Tales pulls it off well, better than the main series probably, though that is probably something of a given considering that it's not tied to gun and loot gameplay.
The original characters are great, cameos are endlessly entertaining, extremely funny, good stuff.
COME FORTH, AMATERASU! - Switch Friend Code SW-5465-2458-5696 - Twitch
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