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I think TellTale should make more series, other than creating games based on movies and comics, Who agrees' with me?
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I think TellTale should make more series, other than creating games based on movies and comics, Who agrees' with me?
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Well they have something called “super show” in development which is like thier own original IP but we haven’t received much news about it recently.
So what if it's based on other works, the games are still great!
If you are just here to complain about how "telltale isn't original anymore," then you need to leave the forums. I literally joined today, but at least I have the decency to not complain about their games in a post.
Ok, nicely, done a bit of research and found an article feel free to read it: http://ew.com/article/2015/02/24/telltale-games-ceo-kevin-bruner-super-show-interview/
I'm not complaining, it's just that I don't want it to be based on other games (I did in fact like Twd series) but "some" of us might like original content. Also, don't assume whether or not I like Telltale games if you are here to spread hate click off.
I agree. But it isn't coming anytime soon.
We know that they're going to make an original IP, but in an interview (I forget where) Job [the head of communications at Telltale] mentions that it "won't be this year, and won't be the next"... so don't expect anything completely original until 2019. We might hear about it in late 2018, though.
i agree with this statement
They've been teasing at a super show for quite a few years now, but nobody even knows when that's gonna come out. But they don't really need to tackle any more new projects at the moment. They currently already have Minecraft, Enemy Within, and Guardians of the Galaxy and they have the last Walking Dead season and Wolf Among Us Season 2 in the future. So I'd say they have a pretty full plate right now.
How about letting them finish their current series they've promised fans first:
I'm all for original IPs but it's either a hit or miss for Telltale, if people don't know it and don't like it the game may not make any money.
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all jokes aside, i actually don't have that big a problem with minecraft story mode. it's a cute little game and i'm sure the fans genuinely enjoy it. i'm just frustrated that it got a sequel so quickly when there are games that deserve it more.
It's a meme, that's all it has to do.
What determines which games deserve a sequel more, may I ask? Minecraft: Story Mode was successful and Tales from the Borderlands is the only post 2012 completed Telltale game that hasn't gotten any news of a second season. The Walking Dead has it's fourth and final season coming, The Wolf Among Us has it's second, Game of Thrones still has it's second and Batman's second is also currently ongoing.
Fact of the matter is that the game is probably easier and cheaper to develop and it's still popular so why not make another season of it? Especially if you've acquired the rights to already. The thing people don't seem to understand about Telltale making games from existing IPs is that they have to work out agreements for any following seasons and that takes time and money. Chances are that if Minecraft: Story Mode Season Two wasn't agreed on, then we'd only have Guardians of the Galaxy and Batman: The Enemy Within.
A lot of it has to do with sales, some of it has to do with license agreements. Some of their games are licensed with multiple season deals up front (The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc), while others have to be re-negotiated when they make a sequel.
Licensing agreement negotiation is almost certainly the reason why it took a while for Telltale to announce The Wolf Among Us Season 2.
It's also worth noting that sequels are not always guaranteed even if the game is a hit, because of negotiation reasons. For example, Tales from Monkey Island was the series that made the most money for Telltale when it was released. However, the president who allowed Telltale to develop a Monkey Island game (Darrell Rodriguez) left LucasArts, and the next president(s) didn't want to license their adventure game properties to third parties.
They also sometimes lose the rights to make new games due to the passage of time. This happened with Bone and King's Quest. They also lost the rights to even sell their Wallace & Gromit and Law & Order games due to the contracts expiring and not being renewed.
Dealing with the licensor is a possible reason why Game of Thrones is waiting until after the HBO show ends. Since Telltale collaborates directly with HBO, it's possible they want them to wait until the show is over until Telltale makes their own season. It's also possible that Telltale just wanted to wait until the show ended on their own so they wouldn't contradict anything. Of course, I'm just a volunteer who moderates from her home and I'm not an employee, so I'm not privy to any inside knowledge at Telltale. Either or both are plausible reasons for the wait between seasons for Telltale's Game of Thrones.
Thanks for your answer, it is informative, however, my question was more so pandering towards the overall quality of the game rather than the requirements it would need to meet for a following season. It just saddens me that many people seem to find Minecraft undeserving of it's second season almost solely due to it releasing less than a year apart from the first season's end.
A lot of things. The passion of the fanbase, the importance the game had on the industry, the overall quality, etc.
That's kind of irrelevant. The whole problem I have with MCSM isn't that it's getting a sequel and other games aren't yet, my problem is that it's been 10 fuckin months since MCSM ended with a whopping 8 episodes, and it's been 4 years since wolf ended with 5. That's too quickly.
I've said this a million times, but I want to say it again.
You should never, ever ditch artistic integrity and good projects just because something is easier and cheaper. That's scummy and it kills art.
I understand that completely, the problem is that Minecraft is inherently a VERY expensive property. It's sold 12 million copies and is seriously huge intellectual property. Same with Walking Dead, Batman and Guardians. So if these games are ALL getting sequels yet Fables, which is arguably the least valued intellectual property out of the games mentioned, had to wait four years, then there's some serious bullshit in saying that Telltale doesn't have the time or money to have made this sooner instead of a second season of MCSM.
Again, I am fine with the game existing, it's fine, it's entertaining sometimes. I just have a huge issue with it being put over games that arguably have much higher quality. I don't really care at this point. Things are the way they are. I just like memeing the game a bit. Nothing wrong with that.
The sequel to Wolf Among Us took years to be announced simply because DC and Vertigo didn't sign on for multiple seasons when Telltale negotiated the original contract (see the lack of mention of multiple games in the original press release for a game based on Fables vs. the press release for The Walking Dead which stated that the original contract was a multi-year, multi-platform, multi-title deal).
Telltale secured the rights to make a game based on Fables in 2011, before The Walking Dead made Telltale Games a well-known name. The Wolf Among Us led to Batman, as DC was pleased with Telltale's take on Fables. Then, the success of Batman led to The Wolf Among Us: Season Two. It takes a while to negotiate contracts, especially considering that the 2017 Telltale that sells millions of copies of games and has a staff of over 400 would want a much better deal than the 2011 Telltale that sold hundreds of thousands of games and had a staff of less than 100.
Contracts and negotiations can really jam things up. Since Telltale doesn't make games with their own properties, they have to license them from companies and individuals outside the studio. As I said in my reply above, contract negotiations can get really sticky. Licenses can have no hope of renewal just because of unwillingness of the licensor to let Telltale make another season (as happened with Tales of Monkey island), the license can be lost due to the passage of time (as happened with Bone and King's Quest), or the license can even expire and the rights to even sell the game could be lost (as happened with Wallace & Gromit and Law & Order).
Thus, the amount of time between series really can't be compared since there are so many factors in place that could slow or even prevent seasons from being made. In the case of Minecraft: Story Mode, Mojang and Microsoft were cool with Telltale making more episodes right away, as was Skybound and Image when it came to The Walking Dead. The latter series got 11 episodes in quick succession due to Telltale having the rights to make multiple seasons in their original conract. It just wasn't as simple for The Wolf Among Us when it came to dealing with DC and Vertigo.
good points actually.
also, thanks for the 5 extra edit notifications, jennifer.
EDIT: 6 now lol
The passion of the fanbase in which way? Negative or positive? Does size of the fanbase matter? The importance a game has on the industry is equal to most unless it sets off a new genre or sub-genre or style of gaming or at least popularizes a pre-existing one - The Walking Dead in Telltale's case. The quality is partly arguable for games but yeah, story, character, mechanics etc. all play a role and those are what determines the impact and fanbase.
You said you're unhappy that it got a sequel quickly when other games deserve it more, well, those other games are already getting sequels so I'd say it's pretty relevant. As Jennifer has pointed out there are negotiation and other business-related reasons why games like The Wolf Among Us hasn't gotten a second season until next year and as I've pointed out, it's likely more cost effective to produce a game such as Minecraft: Story Mode.
Except they never ditched artistic integrity and good projects just because Minecraft: Story Mode is likely easier and cheaper. It still has costs and it still requires allot of effort on the developers' side, they just don't have to make things like a character's appearance with more depth because the characters in MCSM are meant to be block-people. Just because a project is cost effective doesn't automatically make it a bad project or have no artistic integrity, if anything I'd argue on the art side of things it's more artistic than the other Telltale games and game-play is more innovative, heck, even choices have a higher likelihood of having longer lasting and bigger effects on the story.
You say you understand it completely but then you make a complaint about Fables not getting a second season fast enough? Again, let me reiterate my statement (and Jennifer has explained it twice now), they need the rights to make the game and negotiating for those rights can take twice the development time of the game, in other words, Telltale as a company practically don't have any other choice but to seek out other IPs and make different games until they are actually able to claim the rights for the IP they want. Also, Guardians of the Galaxy and Tales from the Borderlands don't have any planned sequels as far as we know, so The Wolf Among Us isn't alone there. It's better to be happy that we actually have a second season of The Wolf Among Us now considering that we may not have had a sequel ever. Additionally, Minecraft does not automatically become an expensive IP due to the copies it's sold over several years, if it was more expensive to make compared to Telltale's other games, why would they have made a second season and DLC for the first?
It's not being put over other games though, it's getting it's spotlight alongside two other games. I agree that it's definitely not the best game Telltale has made and story and character-wise I'd even say it's one of the worst but it just saddens me that today's gaming generation have come to criticize, dislike and even hate games due to popularity or existing in the place of the game they wanted, I'm not saying it's wrong to, I'm just personally tired of seeing it everywhere I go.
Continuing unfinished games aren't my point, you see when they were making episode 5 from twd season 3 they were also making another episode from season 2 batman
Three words.. American. Horror. Story. If, and only if they continue to go the Tv series route for their franchise.
That would be interesting.
Strangers in Paradise...I would pay for that indie comic to become a game.
Has anyone read the "Slots" comics from Skybound yet? It gives me TWAU feel. It's pretty good in my opinion. It may be cool to see how Telltale would merge with it to make it into a game.
I think they should do either a James Bond series, an Indiana Jones series, or Pirates Of The Caribbean - like series.
i think they should do a 2000AD series or a judge dredd series i am a fan of both
Are you mocking me?
He's not... Really not.
At what point did he mention you or even mock you?