Could The Walking Dead be the second Telltale licence to get more than one season?
So Telltale are doing a season of The Walking Dead. Now we know next to nothing about the game so far so it may sound greedy to ask for more than one season already but in this case I think it's keeping in line with the text.
Robert Kirkman, writer and creator of The Walking Dead said in his introduction to the comics:
If Telltale only did one season it would seem to be going against what The Walking Dead is all about. Though the game would obviously need to be successful to justify more than one season.
Now for the record I'd like to see more Monkey Island but if that becomes an impossibility because of LusasArts going back to the dark side of the force then I think The Walking Dead would make the most sense for the second multi-season Telltale game.
Robert Kirkman, writer and creator of The Walking Dead said in his introduction to the comics:
For me the worst part of every zombie movie is the end. I always want to know what happens next. Even when all the characters die at the end... I want it to keep going.
More often than not, zombie movies feel like a slice of a person's life shown until whoever is in charge of the movie gets bored. So we get to know the character, they have an adventure and then, BOOM, as soon as things start getting good... those pesky credits start rolling.
The idea behind THE WALKING DEAD is to stay with the character, in this case, Rick Grimes for as long as humanly possible. I want The Walking Dead to be a chronicle of years of Rick's life. We will NEVER wonder what happens to Rick next, we will see it. The Walking Dead will be the zombie movie that never ends.
Well... not for a good long time at least.
If Telltale only did one season it would seem to be going against what The Walking Dead is all about. Though the game would obviously need to be successful to justify more than one season.
Now for the record I'd like to see more Monkey Island but if that becomes an impossibility because of LusasArts going back to the dark side of the force then I think The Walking Dead would make the most sense for the second multi-season Telltale game.
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It's "multi-title" because it'll be episodic, and so the game will be made up of multiple titles.
I really liked Tales of Monkey Island, and hope there's another season of that.
We could make an awesome Bone 3 at this point. Oh well.
Don't play with my feelings!
DO IT.
Or I'll put all my Telltale games up on eBay.
Or maybe not. Sentimal stuff.
A Sam & Max season 4 seems likely, it's more a matter of when than if. Sadly, at this point another Monkey Island game by Telltale is pretty well dead in the water, especially considering that LucasArts and Telltale don't really talk to each other anymore. After ToMI, LucasArts changed management and seem to be going in a different direction.
Lucasarts should do so many things... :rolleyes:
It's not the Lucasarts I knew years ago
I would imagine multiple seasons played a part in Telltale getting the Walking Dead license in the first place.
I'd rather have Sam and Max Season 4, though. Or SBCG4AP Season 2. Or Monkey Island 6.
First I'd like to say, that even tho I like playing games, I rarely buy them. Being a huge TWD fan, I did buy this game, mainly because I wanted to support a concept that I think has a huge potential. Having played through the first episode, I can say you guys are on the right track - I got what I was looking for.
Now, I know this is a bit early, but I wanted to start the discussion on season 2. I for one think, that if Telltale keeps the standard they have made in the first episode, and stays true to the TWD comic atmosphere, they could easily make this a succesful multi-season project, that people would buy.
I'm not realy sure what your plans are with Lee and season one. I think I read somewhere the plan is to tell the complete story spaning several years in the TWD universe. While season 2 could continiue Lee and Clem's story, it might be an interesting concept to create completely new chareacters.
But honestly, the most awsome thing for me would be, to make every season equivalent of one TWD comic volume, and realy taking your time to show Lee and Clem's drastic personality development (similar but not the same) as in the case of Rick and Carl.
Just throwing out ideas while they're popping in my head... What are your thoughts on this, guys?
Enjoy!
Igor
That would be awesome!
Well, you see they have many cool things they could do... (but I think Kings Quest and Fables will come next)
I wanted to ask if there is posibility, that we can get more than 5 episodes?
I am a big fan of R. Kirkman's comic book The walking dead and it has already over 80 episodes. (That is where I stopped reading it for a while.) So you can make new episodes or The Walking Dead 2 since there is a lot of background you can use.
In the end I wanted to thank you for your good work and that you have made the great atmosphere in your game, which I like in the comic book. I can not wait for another episode.
You can't seriously come onto this board, for a game company known for releasing episodic comment, and make that complaint and expect to be taken seriously.
While ultimately it's true that it is up to Telltale/Kirkman to decide if they want to do a sequal, they will do that based on the profit and the critical reception of this game. That is also the reason why I bought this game and am trying to show my support for future instalemants here.
While it is entirely possible that I've simply missed them, this is the first game of Telltale that I noticed. I'm also guessing it's due to better reviews compared to previous games?
I hope Telltale realises the potential in this gaming franchise. I've checked out what their other games were, and even tho Back to the future and Jurassic park were cool movie series, I'm pretty sure both their fanbases combined were nowhere close as huge as the TWD one.
Just my two cents.
Enjoy!
Igor