Dispatch looks very interesting. Looks like a mix of a Telltale game and a strategy game? Looks really cool and pretty high quality! I hope we get an interview with AdHoc talking more about it soon!
also on steam the trailer is slightly extended and it makes it clear they worked on the first TFTBL 💀
Adhoc Games, ex Telltale devs, who made the original Wolf, manage to create and show off their new IP of a choice-based strategy game(?) slated for 2025.
And "actual" Telltale, working on the Wolf Among Us 2, has... nothing? We have no idea where or what it is. If it even is alive...
Welp, time to jump ship to the Adhoc forums... if they had one hehh... XD
I just woke up and I'm so glad to see that I didn't miss much.
Except for this one. I thought they said they were done with Elden Ring. I swear to God, FromSoftware is a fucking BEAST. I hope to Sweet Mother of God that Sony won't buy its parent company.
FromSoftware keeps being the best gaming studio of this generation.
Tbh people were on high amount of copium if they were expecting Adhoc to still be working on TWAU 2 after deleting any mention about it from their site. It's pretty clear that it's either never coming out or it's gonna be bad. I already gave up on TWAU 2 a while ago, so Telltale not showing anything at the Game Awards wasn't exactly surprising.
Anyway, Dispatch looks really cool. Love the straight up from the comic book artstyle. I hope the game itself will look the same and this wasn't made just for the trailer lel.
The worst thing about that Wolf 2 trailer was how good it was, kind of like this Dispatch trailer. Like they just wanted everyone to know that it could have been great lmao
I just want to know what happened for AdHoc and Telltale to split. Getting in the way of creative vision? Money problems?
Telltale didn't even do the "congrats to our friends!" thing. Whole thing sucks, Telltale is probably just going to die again next year because they just made the same dumb mistakes as the first one did and decided to just not learn from them.
Tbh people were on high amount of copium if they were expecting Adhoc to still be working on TWAU 2 after deleting any mention about it from… more their site. It's pretty clear that it's either never coming out or it's gonna be bad. I already gave up on TWAU 2 a while ago, so Telltale not showing anything at the Game Awards wasn't exactly surprising.
Anyway, Dispatch looks really cool. Love the straight up from the comic book artstyle. I hope the game itself will look the same and this wasn't made just for the trailer lel.
I guess the real "New Telltale" was the Old Telltale crew all along... 🥲
Aaaanyway, Game Awards!
Overall that was a pretty good Game Awards. Better than last year for sure. Pretty sure we had a returning category to the stage which was Best Music/Score. I'm sure it was a Speedrun Award in previous years... (and it lead to an awkward but cute moment IMO of the composer either not having prepared a speech, or completely forgetting it due to award shock. Lots of pauses (even after a translator) trying to come up with the words to say thanks heheh)
Also that Sam Lake internal monologue moment was perfect cheesy. God I love that man. So quirky, so himself.
I usually really like the Muppets appearances and this one was the BEST. The Roast of Geoff Keighley with Stadler and Waldorf. Let's gooooo. Please Wrap It Up!
Multiple appearances too which is cool!
About Naughty Dog's sci-fi game:
Welp, it's not Savage Starlight like I thought, but...
like, the retro futurism style looks cool. All the branding is WEIRD but I guess trying to be corpo-dystopian in a way. (But cmon doesn't Sony have the money likeeee)
But ehh, I guess it's still mid-development so we won't see the actual game for another year or two.
Lmao it's wild, it looks great, and I'm having an existential crisis.
Ex-telltale devs who made Wolf Among Us, makes their own studio, and now reveals their new IP of a choice-based, strategy game(?) hybrid? Coming next year.
"Real Telltale 2024" is... still working on Wolf 2? Maybe? Is AdHoc not collabing with them anymore? Is it dead? Are THEY dead? Uhhhhhh lmao probably goddamnit
(They should not have partnered with Deck Nine and made The fucking Expanse as their first title. It was a mess. It was a bad look. They had layoffs. Uuuuuuuuugh.)
Oh! And IDK why but it felt like Geoff wanted to cry a few times in the show. Like, wow??? He's legit passionate about this industry and the privilege he has to present and reveal these highly anticipated games that mean a lot to people. I think.
Despite all the sponsors and ads and speedrun awards and all that -- the show DOES need to pay for itself somehow... But honestly it also needs to pay for sidelining devs spotlight and key awards lately too. ugh.
But BEST INDIE??? AS A SPEEDRUN AWARD??? WTFFF?! Geoff that is incredibly insulting to the passion and perspective of the industry and what's going on. This is a studio's first title. Their breakout hit. And a jury of peers in their industry select THEM to be celebrated! That's really cool!
Like, man, I think it was really good that Geoff finally spoke out about the layoffs in the industry and took time away from the "real ad-show" to address the crisis and also literally give an award to someone who's been helping and re-hiring devs after they've been laid off.
But... gosh, the show still feels like a tsunami of ads and sponsors and trailers, the smaller of which will go completely forgotten after the 3-hour show is done. I know there's a few clips I remember, but completely forget what their names are and who made them until I just look up a list of everything from the show itself.
I AM very happy that ASTRO BOT SWEEEEEEPPPP
Okay, maybe not sweep, but it DID win GOTY!! YAY!
And apparently Team Asobi is only like 65 People? That's pretty damn tiny for games companies, especially one funded first-party by Sony.
I'm sure this means Astro Bot 2025 DLC confirmed and probably Astro Bot 2 eventually. Sony is gonna shoot that robot to the moon. :rocket: :money_with_wings:
OHH OH YEAH OH
A co-op game friend and I watched the stream together on a VC and we're pretty impressed and interested in.....
Hazelight's next co-op game. It comes out in freaking MARCH!! Looks really fun too. I love the swapping genres/themes angle of this. Feels like we can REALLY get some cool sequence of levels in this one.
It Takes Two is GOTY so hard. Amazing co-op game too. Great platformer that constantly has new and interesting powers each level. (And a bonkers (dark) story of two parents in a fractured relationship trying to escape a nightmarish transformation into dolls, and... ah yeah the plot is weird. Feels like it's supposed to be approachable to kids, but suddenly has dark morbid turns (in cartoonish fashion) or some language I definitely don't think should be tossed around kids.
Looking at the number of stupid decisions they've made since reopening, can you blame AdHoc for bailing? Trusting that the director of Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis could deliver a finished product and make good business decisions was an invitation for disappointment.
The worst thing about that Wolf 2 trailer was how good it was, kind of like this Dispatch trailer. Like they just wanted everyone to know th… moreat it could have been great lmao
I just want to know what happened for AdHoc and Telltale to split. Getting in the way of creative vision? Money problems?
Telltale didn't even do the "congrats to our friends!" thing. Whole thing sucks, Telltale is probably just going to die again next year because they just made the same dumb mistakes as the first one did and decided to just not learn from them.
I just want know what happened because they seemingly worked together for like 3 years and then something must have changed. That reveal event they had went incredible for them. Plenty of attention, very positive reception, and then a year later the delay happens, which I am also assuming is when AdHoc split. Like what happened from the extremely positive event to that time a year later? I just really want to know and I think our only insight will be whenever AdHoc does some kind of interview because I'm assuming what about Wolf 2 will be asked. I doubt they can give a complete answer on what happened for a variety of reasons but we sure as hell won't hear a thing from Telltale.
Looking at the number of stupid decisions they've made since reopening, can you blame AdHoc for bailing? Trusting that the director of Aquam… morean: Battle for Atlantis could deliver a finished product and make good business decisions was an invitation for disappointment.
I don't think it's as complicated as we think. If you look at the Glassdoor reviews, the reddit comments of the dev who broke the news of the layoffs and the general drama Telltale has been somewhat involved in like the Deck Nine scandal, you can kind of piece together that they're terrible at project management and there wasn't much in the way of strong leadership. You had Telltale, AdHoc and apparently Deck Nine working on this thing together. If things were as disorganized as they sound, that must have been a nightmare even before communication started breaking down.
I just want know what happened because they seemingly worked together for like 3 years and then something must have changed. That reveal eve… morent they had went incredible for them. Plenty of attention, very positive reception, and then a year later the delay happens, which I am also assuming is when AdHoc split. Like what happened from the extremely positive event to that time a year later? I just really want to know and I think our only insight will be whenever AdHoc does some kind of interview because I'm assuming what about Wolf 2 will be asked. I doubt they can give a complete answer on what happened for a variety of reasons but we sure as hell won't hear a thing from Telltale.
I don't know why on earth they started that damn expanse when they had to focus on TWAU2, it's like the new telltale manager or something wanted a game about space or this expanse thing a lot that he had to buy a dead game studio to make it! The thing bothers me is that they KNEW all along that the only thing all fans wanted was the second season, they just ignored all that and started their own work.
They don't even wanna give the news that TWAU2 will probably face a big delay or won't come out at all because they know this will make everyone furious and stop buying games from them.
Canada has a tax break for the next two months on various goods. It's quite a big list (though vague for suppliers). No HST or GST will be applied in person or online. That's pretty neat.
Included in the list is "Video Games Consoles and physical video games." Cool, coolcoolcool.
And thankfully, the Steam Deck is one of these "consoles" exempt from the tax!
There's been speculation for a few weeks that it might not qualify since in Valve's own words, it's a device that gives you a "console-like experience" for PC gaming. PCs and Laptops aren't included in tax exemptions.
So! This is really neat. I really want an OLED Steam Deck. Not paying 15% extra would be pretty sweet. Here's hoping I get some cash-money for Christmas that I can then put into that purchase!
(I don't like sitting at a computer, in a chair, mouse and keyboard usually required. I much prefer console-style TV/couch gaming or handheld devices to bring with me. So this could really help me dig into my Steam backlog... )
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Dispatch looks like fun! Nice to see it'll be a choice based game and knowing that it's the team behind TWAU and TFTB makes this a day one buy for me.
SO uh Wolf 2 is DEAD dead if adhoc is making a game lmao. Damn. Looks cool at least.
Dispatch looks very interesting. Looks like a mix of a Telltale game and a strategy game? Looks really cool and pretty high quality! I hope we get an interview with AdHoc talking more about it soon!
also on steam the trailer is slightly extended and it makes it clear they worked on the first TFTBL 💀
It's releasing next year so they were probably working on both at the same time until the separation.
I'm excited for Dispatch. It looked like a ton of fun and has a great cast!
Now for GOTY, I am proud that announce that Half Life: Alyx has won.
Thank God they had some fuckin' sense to not give the GOTY award to a DLC lmao
So let me get this straight.
Adhoc Games, ex Telltale devs, who made the original Wolf, manage to create and show off their new IP of a choice-based strategy game(?) slated for 2025.
And "actual" Telltale, working on the Wolf Among Us 2, has... nothing? We have no idea where or what it is. If it even is alive...
Welp, time to jump ship to the Adhoc forums... if they had one hehh... XD
This looks good.
How Telltale gonna be looking at their social media the next few days
I just woke up and I'm so glad to see that I didn't miss much.
Except for this one. I thought they said they were done with Elden Ring. I swear to God, FromSoftware is a fucking BEAST. I hope to Sweet Mother of God that Sony won't buy its parent company.
FromSoftware keeps being the best gaming studio of this generation.
You know, this could have been exciting if it didn't look as generic as Concord and Star Wars Outlaws.
This might as well be Naughty Dog's Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League.
That music visualizer sword won me over. That thing looks fuckin' awesome.
Tbh people were on high amount of copium if they were expecting Adhoc to still be working on TWAU 2 after deleting any mention about it from their site. It's pretty clear that it's either never coming out or it's gonna be bad. I already gave up on TWAU 2 a while ago, so Telltale not showing anything at the Game Awards wasn't exactly surprising.
Anyway, Dispatch looks really cool. Love the straight up from the comic book artstyle. I hope the game itself will look the same and this wasn't made just for the trailer lel.
The worst thing about that Wolf 2 trailer was how good it was, kind of like this Dispatch trailer. Like they just wanted everyone to know that it could have been great lmao
I just want to know what happened for AdHoc and Telltale to split. Getting in the way of creative vision? Money problems?
Telltale didn't even do the "congrats to our friends!" thing. Whole thing sucks, Telltale is probably just going to die again next year because they just made the same dumb mistakes as the first one did and decided to just not learn from them.
Looks like Poogers was right five years ago 😔
I guess the real "New Telltale" was the Old Telltale crew all along... 🥲
Aaaanyway, Game Awards!
Overall that was a pretty good Game Awards. Better than last year for sure. Pretty sure we had a returning category to the stage which was Best Music/Score. I'm sure it was a Speedrun Award in previous years... (and it lead to an awkward but cute moment IMO of the composer either not having prepared a speech, or completely forgetting it due to award shock. Lots of pauses (even after a translator) trying to come up with the words to say thanks heheh)
Also that Sam Lake internal monologue moment was perfect cheesy. God I love that man. So quirky, so himself.
I usually really like the Muppets appearances and this one was the BEST. The Roast of Geoff Keighley with Stadler and Waldorf. Let's gooooo. Please Wrap It Up!
Multiple appearances too which is cool!
About Naughty Dog's sci-fi game:
Welp, it's not Savage Starlight like I thought, but...
like, the retro futurism style looks cool. All the branding is WEIRD but I guess trying to be corpo-dystopian in a way. (But cmon doesn't Sony have the money likeeee)
But ehh, I guess it's still mid-development so we won't see the actual game for another year or two.
Dispatch. From the Writers of TWAU and TFTB is the perfect hook that I hope catch eyes.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/
(It seems the Furries are starting to take notice of the humanoid animals, so... that might bode well for sales lmao) 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/tribdinosaur.bsky.social/post/3ld6k47cxzk26
Lmao it's wild, it looks great, and I'm having an existential crisis.
(They should not have partnered with Deck Nine and made The fucking Expanse as their first title. It was a mess. It was a bad look. They had layoffs. Uuuuuuuuugh.)
Oh! And IDK why but it felt like Geoff wanted to cry a few times in the show. Like, wow??? He's legit passionate about this industry and the privilege he has to present and reveal these highly anticipated games that mean a lot to people. I think.
Despite all the sponsors and ads and speedrun awards and all that -- the show DOES need to pay for itself somehow... But honestly it also needs to pay for sidelining devs spotlight and key awards lately too. ugh.
But BEST INDIE??? AS A SPEEDRUN AWARD??? WTFFF?! Geoff that is incredibly insulting to the passion and perspective of the industry and what's going on. This is a studio's first title. Their breakout hit. And a jury of peers in their industry select THEM to be celebrated! That's really cool!
Like, man, I think it was really good that Geoff finally spoke out about the layoffs in the industry and took time away from the "real ad-show" to address the crisis and also literally give an award to someone who's been helping and re-hiring devs after they've been laid off.
But... gosh, the show still feels like a tsunami of ads and sponsors and trailers, the smaller of which will go completely forgotten after the 3-hour show is done. I know there's a few clips I remember, but completely forget what their names are and who made them until I just look up a list of everything from the show itself.
I AM very happy that ASTRO BOT SWEEEEEEPPPP
Okay, maybe not sweep, but it DID win GOTY!! YAY!
And apparently Team Asobi is only like 65 People? That's pretty damn tiny for games companies, especially one funded first-party by Sony.
I'm sure this means Astro Bot 2025 DLC confirmed and probably Astro Bot 2 eventually. Sony is gonna shoot that robot to the moon. :rocket: :money_with_wings:
OHH OH YEAH OH
A co-op game friend and I watched the stream together on a VC and we're pretty impressed and interested in.....
Hazelight's next co-op game. It comes out in freaking MARCH!! Looks really fun too. I love the swapping genres/themes angle of this. Feels like we can REALLY get some cool sequence of levels in this one.
https://www.theverge.com/24319677/split-fiction-hazelight-studios-trailer-date-josef-fares
It Takes Two is GOTY so hard. Amazing co-op game too. Great platformer that constantly has new and interesting powers each level. (And a bonkers (dark) story of two parents in a fractured relationship trying to escape a nightmarish transformation into dolls, and... ah yeah the plot is weird. Feels like it's supposed to be approachable to kids, but suddenly has dark morbid turns (in cartoonish fashion) or some language I definitely don't think should be tossed around kids.
I hope Split Fiction is good (and well-priced!)
Looking at the number of stupid decisions they've made since reopening, can you blame AdHoc for bailing? Trusting that the director of Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis could deliver a finished product and make good business decisions was an invitation for disappointment.
I just want know what happened because they seemingly worked together for like 3 years and then something must have changed. That reveal event they had went incredible for them. Plenty of attention, very positive reception, and then a year later the delay happens, which I am also assuming is when AdHoc split. Like what happened from the extremely positive event to that time a year later? I just really want to know and I think our only insight will be whenever AdHoc does some kind of interview because I'm assuming what about Wolf 2 will be asked. I doubt they can give a complete answer on what happened for a variety of reasons but we sure as hell won't hear a thing from Telltale.
I don't think it's as complicated as we think. If you look at the Glassdoor reviews, the reddit comments of the dev who broke the news of the layoffs and the general drama Telltale has been somewhat involved in like the Deck Nine scandal, you can kind of piece together that they're terrible at project management and there wasn't much in the way of strong leadership. You had Telltale, AdHoc and apparently Deck Nine working on this thing together. If things were as disorganized as they sound, that must have been a nightmare even before communication started breaking down.
I don't know why on earth they started that damn expanse when they had to focus on TWAU2, it's like the new telltale manager or something wanted a game about space or this expanse thing a lot that he had to buy a dead game studio to make it! The thing bothers me is that they KNEW all along that the only thing all fans wanted was the second season, they just ignored all that and started their own work.
They don't even wanna give the news that TWAU2 will probably face a big delay or won't come out at all because they know this will make everyone furious and stop buying games from them.
By the time Wolf 2 releases, it will be just as hollow as King Vendrick from Dark Souls 2.
Canada has a tax break for the next two months on various goods. It's quite a big list (though vague for suppliers). No HST or GST will be applied in person or online. That's pretty neat.
Included in the list is "Video Games Consoles and physical video games." Cool, coolcoolcool.
And thankfully, the Steam Deck is one of these "consoles" exempt from the tax!
There's been speculation for a few weeks that it might not qualify since in Valve's own words, it's a device that gives you a "console-like experience" for PC gaming. PCs and Laptops aren't included in tax exemptions.
So! This is really neat. I really want an OLED Steam Deck. Not paying 15% extra would be pretty sweet. Here's hoping I get some cash-money for Christmas that I can then put into that purchase!
)
(I don't like sitting at a computer, in a chair, mouse and keyboard usually required. I much prefer console-style TV/couch gaming or handheld devices to bring with me. So this could really help me dig into my Steam backlog...