Telltale.. this has to stop..
This has been brought up many times but let me say it nice and politely to you guys... YOUR EPISODES ARE TOO FUCKING SHORT! These 90 minute episodes are really lowering the quantity and quality of the game... No hubs, less exploring, less conversations.. less puzzles... The episodes are so short that we havent even had a chance to click on some of the characters from episode one of season 2 and have a conversation with them..
S1E1: around 2 hours
S1E2: around 2 and a half hours
S1E3: around 2 and a half hours
S1E4: Almost 3 hours
S1E5: One hour and 40 minutes ( still longer than season twos longest episode so far)
Season 2 length
S2E1: One and a half hours
S2E2: One hour and 35 minutes
S2E3: One hour and 20 minutes
S2E4: One hour and 50 minutes - at most 2 hours.
S2E5: Around the same as episode 4.
The Wolf among us
Faith: Almost 2 hours
Smoke and Mirrors: 1 hour and 30 mins (Downhill)
A Crooked mile: 1 hour and 25 minutes
In Sheep's Clothing: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Cry Wolf: 1 hour and 10 minutes
The walking dead is not the only victim of this, The Wolf Among us has now been confirmed at a length of 1 hour and 10 minutes, I will say I thought it was a great episode that had a lot of action and wrapped up everything nicely but it was one of the shortest episode telltale has made recently... There could of been more in the finale..
You have used the excuse that people "want" to play it in one sitting... But are you sure thats the reason you did this? You didn't do this because your working on 10 different projects and you have cluttered yourself to hell and thats why every episode comes out late and is short?
Should I also point out that your way off target release dates add to the infuriation?
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Its funny how they describe it as "one sitting gameplay length" when i sit down to play a game im engrossed in, such as resident evil and final fantasys back in the day, one of my sittings was anything from 6-10 hours a sitting, which leaves me craving more the next day and excited to pick it back up, lol, i can sit and play TWD season 1 in one sitting let alone one episode of TWAU or of TWD season 2..
Damn right. I love these games but they shadow in comparison to the amazing and might I add lengthy hub filled epics from season 1.
It has been said many times so do you think another post complaining about it is going to help?
It's true, but doesn't working at four games at once kind of make it harder to do? They were only working on one game all of the walking dead season 1. The good hopeful good news is for twd ep.4 s2 the size of the episode is 1.9GB which is 200MB higher than 'In Harms Way' or 'A House Divided'
Well, I just want to point out that I would love if the episodes were more longer than a hour and half. Why can't all have 2hr ? That would be perf
Yes. People have to start talking if they want telltale to realise.
But according to your own stats, the complaining hasn't changed a thing. If they feel like the next episodes need to be longer they will, but I doubt it will have anything to do with fan complaints, and everything to do with the story they're trying to tell.
Damn straight, the new TWAU episode is supposedly gonna be 50 minutes long. How the hell can they explain the whole murder and shit in 50 minutes!? They need to explain everything.
It is a bit irritating there's a lot these threads, I think we've already figured out the main issue.
The story of season 2 has been fantastic so far, no complaints about that.. Thats why they make it episodic.. so they can get fan feedback between episodes while they are making the next and improve on it. But if their is no voice to tell them what to improve on nothing will be taken into consideration.
Dude... We tried making a petition, raising awareness, they won't listen
Yeah, I really miss the hubs. They were a great way of providing extra play time and really allowed us to get to know the characters more. I do like the new characters of S2, but I don't feel nearly as attached to them as I did with the S1 characters. I think if we had hubs like in S1, I'd care for them more because I'd have opportunities to just take a breather from the action and talk. The Ski Lodge in episode two, and the beginning of episode 3 could have been perfect spots for hubs too.
It's a shame, but I'm still really enjoying S2. I just hope if they're making a S3, they'll put more effort into providing more content in each episode.
I have to agree. Length really doesn't bother me that much, but it'd really be nice to have a 2 hour episode.
They will listen if enough people get behind it.. Like the xbox "always online" shit that was very heavily protested against they got rid of it... anyway was just discussing and addressing the latest issues.
I honestly don't think they will listen.
You can try but they won't. They don't really listen to there fans very well.
I know, but we never got enough people.. Only around 300... If you wanna email them or something that'll be great! I can help you
I guess that's one of the cons in making the game in 4 weeks....
I agree with you. We need more hubs and puzzles, and just a chance to get to know the characters. We know almost nothing about them. I think 2 hour episodes would be perfect.
Thats a good idea
Exactly! I mean we havent even had a chance to click on Luke and talk to him yet... and he appeared in episode one
that's so right!
They managed to do it with TWD season one... Telltale really brought this upon themselves with all the cluttered projects...
Yes but in season 1 they were working on one game. Now they need to take a little longer to make a game thats over 60 minutes.
Exactly, Telltale needs to stop being heroic and taking 4 games at once, they need to stop hoarding more titles and finish with this project before starting another, because all the games' quality is going down because of that.
The good news is that twau is almost done and once it is the wont be releasing Tales from the borderlands until twd is finished. So we can assume the Walking Dead team will be bigger for Episode 4 and Episode 5.
Where did you read that? No episode has been less than an hour long.
The new achievements for E5 say that it can be completed in 50 minutes.
WeWantLongerEpisodes
WWLE
Posting this hashtag on their twitter
Telltale, who complains about an episode being to long? Almost nobody. Who complains about episodes being to short? Almost everyone.
It would be nice. I still want to get to know the characters more. Hopefully, what we saw of the 400 days characters wasn't all of it. They can still bring them back.
And have you also noticed that we've never had a time to actually choose the topic of a conversation? In Season 1, when starting a conversation, there was no time limit and you could ask things like:
But in Season 2, when you start a conversation, you just get a short little exchange, with no freedom on what topic to discuss. This has disappointed me slightly.
Exactly!
Lenght does matter. Short episodes suffer from lack of content, and it's a real problem. Isn't the emotions a big thing in TWD? How in the fuck can I feel sad if some character dies because I don't even know a shit about him/her and heard only couple of sentences coming out of his/her mouth?!
C'mon telltale, TWD season 1 was a masterpiece, don't ruin it's name.
Not going to stop. The Wolf Among Us is almost done, and now the homepages is advertising Borderlands... Two series rushed out rather than a fine attention to one alone.
Or Telltale could hire more staff; I know absolutely nothing about programming, but I assure you I'm willing to learn and very desperate for work! And I am willing to undertake great humiliation if payment is involved.
I dont think you have a big chance without a college degree but I hope you get the job. I can write pretty cool stories so im in for a job tooo TT
They already addressed the issue if I recall correctly.
Their excuse was "we want players to be able to play and complete the episode in one sitting" or something. Greeeat. Thaaanks...
Telltale, we are fine, thank you for your concern, but I think it is safe to say that most of us would much prefer more content to chew at our own pace rather than tiny chunks that we can immediately swallow.
That said, is 2 and a half hours REALLY that long of a session for gaming?
Really? For me they've been getting longer. I've been timing them and excluding loading screens:
All That Remains: 1:36:47
A House Divided: 1:51:52
In Harm's Way: 1:54:59
Dunno why I'm getting downvotes when those are legitimately my times and I'm stating facts.
I was joking, I'm not trying to get a job with Telltale.
Though I should say (not to toot my own horn, I'm just well over college age) I do have a bachelor's, just nothing to do with gaming though.
Actually, I'm worse off than unemployed: I'm a Grad student.
That's great
I've recorded my playthroughs.
ep1 1:34
ep2 1:30
ep3 1:29
no rushing, clicking everything that's possible to click.