Goodbye to the Telltale Community - (?) The Telltale Community Will Remember This

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• Blind Sniper Moderator

  November 7 edited November 8

  As the Telltale forums close their doors, I wanted to briefly look back on our memories. Each of Telltale's franchises brought about fans from different backgrounds - while some fans left after their Season ended, other fans would stay and become part of the community.

  It was always interesting to people-watch and see how the forum's culture changed over the years - to see people come and go (and sometimes, come back later), to see in-jokes evolve and last beyond the people who posted them, and to see how people grow and develop over the years.

  Although some of the passion fans had would be a bit intense at times, it ultimately came from a place of love for Telltale, and it was fun seeing how fan feedback on the forums would even directly impact the games themselves, such as #Rhysha, Frank appearing in Batman: TEW, etc.

  Seeing the community posts and relationships we've all made over the years reminds me of a poignant quote - "We didn't realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun."

  

  Thank you to the Telltale community for the interesting and fun memories you made over the years.

  -Blind Sniper

  PS: Thank you to Laura Perusco, Vainamoinen, Jennifer, Darth, and DjNDB for taking a chance on me!
  Thank you to Jesse, Caroline, Arthur, Mike, Jessica, Tamir, Nathan, Scott, Sara, Darren, and other staff members that poked their heads in over the years to help us out with mod stuff!
• dojo32161 Moderator

  November 7

  Well, end of an era. Surprising how long this forum lasted after it began breaking down. We've had good times and bad ones (you know who you are in the latter camp), but overall it was mostly fun. I practically grew up in my early teens here, which probably explains a lot. I'll miss a lot of you forum goers, though we already lost most of them in these intervening years.

  I'm not one for really grand sweeping goodbyes or reminiscence, that's in the past, I want to look forward. It's nice to see a new Telltale up and running, and hope they can manage going forward. Will they succeed? Time will tell, but I'm excited to see how it goes. I've always been a huge fan of video game narratives, partially foundationally because of Telltale, there likely would have been another series I'd have come across that would have jump started this for me anyway, but it is important for myself that it happened in this way.

  There's so many excellent games I'd recommend playing from Ace Attorney, Zero Escape, To The Moon, and many others, but, well, shouldn't spend the last of this on shilling. Just find what you like.

  To the upcoming world,
  -dojo32161
• InGen_Nate_Kenny Moderator

  November 7

  Hey friends! November 7th is my 12th anniversary of having an account here and looks like it’ll be the last. I’ve been a mod for 11 years. The world has changed a lot and I’ve grown a lot in a person in that timeframe, and I owe quite a bit to my time spent with you all. It’s been fascinating to see how changes in the Internet have bled down to here.

  And it’s frankly a miracle these forums still exist. A little over 8 years since Telltale 1.0 shuttered and somehow still kicking. Obviously my participation has decreased over the years since the forums (and forums in general) aren’t as active, but nonetheless they remain core to my online persona. That and joyously banning spam bots, one of my favorite things to do as a bot. Spam sucks.

  Some of my favorite memories include the Tales shipping wars, the annual April Fools bump, the various forum games, #Soon, and, of course, F17. F17 will return in Avengers: Doomsday, I can promise that much. And obviously as a Telltale super fan, any episode release was bound to be an interesting time. I’ll lovingly cherish them.

  A special shoutout to some special friends, namely my fellow moderators, my Rhysha folks, my Forum of Thrones peeps, and a few other long timers who I can’t really think of the right category to put them, like Poogers, AChicken, Cap, and MetallicaRules. You guys rock. Find me on discord if you haven’t already, and if you see me in the wild (YouTube comments, Reddit, etc.), feel free to say hello .

  Hopefully Wolf 2 is a blast.

  Your old pal,
  -InGen_Nate_Kenny 💜✌️
• OzzyUK Moderator

  November 7

  It has been 12 years since I first became a moderator here. Over that time there have been many classic moments from speculating about who may return in the Walking Dead, anticipating February 17th, who to ship Rhys with, comparing our choices and eagerly waiting for each game episode to release.

  There have been some rather intense challenges as a moderator too but they kept us on our toes which made the “job” more interesting.

  Things move on and traditional forums are slowly fading away but it was a fun ride and a cool experience.

  -OzzyUK
• Vainamoinen Moderator

  November 8

  Given that the haphazard implementation points towards a PHP flaw based decision, I'll gladly say "fuck AI"!

  Don't worry that it's all Discord now folks (keep your IDs ready though, Mr. Thiel wants to know whether you're an upstanding citizen). The forums will make a return. In the long run, it will become apparent that a conversation amongst more than four people is an absolutely atrocious thing in Discord or any other chat app that I know of.

  Shoutout to:

  Andrej/Silverwolfpet and Mihaj- - You brought so much joy to this forum during MI/BTTF and you embody the community spirit that I found so attractive in this forum. I hope that you can take it to a new community one day.

  Majus & Suro - - best TTG interns the world has ever seen.

  Laura/puzzlebox - - wherever you are, all the best. I'll treasure that foto of you holding a chicken with the brightest smile imaginable.

  division10 - - still thinking of you and your stories a lot. That Fukushima evac story will stay with me forever.

  Jake - - you're keeping alive what I loved about Telltale and their community, and I respect you enormously for it (can I haz TDP on GOG now PLZ?)

  Kevin - - you killed these forums on September 3rd, 2013 already, so no thanks for that.

  DjNDB - - you were the best of us.

  DAISHI - - Did you ever go back from black? Now I will never know.

  Maritza/crfh - - still following all your comics. Power Nap was awesome!

  Giant Tope, coolsome, Alcoremortis, avistev, SeanT, Rather Dashing, Johro, jp-30, mrgrant, Davies, GinnyN, Mermaid, Friar and so so many others: I'll never forget you.

  Irismile - - It really DOES look like Mickey Mouse.
• Deltino Moderator

  November 8

  So here we are, the end of the party that was the Telltale forums. Although I was a bit late to said party, I feel like I still got to enjoy the life of it, as both a user and a moderator. While it had its faults, I'll say one thing about the episodic release model; it helped cultivate a community. We carved out this little corner of the internet, and got to see the way things grew and changed over the years. Between the good times, the somewhat-not-so-good times, and everything inbetween, it always felt like our own little slice of home.

  With the rise of social media and platforms like Discord and the like, the days of the forum grow rarer, and with it, that uniquely homely feeling of coming back to post about how we thought an episode should've ended, about who would possibly choose THAT choice over the other, about the random obscure scenes we found, or just chatting in general (in a thread that got WAY too big. Like man, it's a miracle that thing didn't break the forum). It was fun participating in that, it was (mostly) fun trying to mediate that, and I'll miss the charm and old hijinks some of you jokers got up to.

  As somebody who has seen other forums rise and fall over the years, it always stings, especially for ones as longstanding as this one. But as long as people still care about Telltale, the games, and the community we built here, the discussion will live on. And in a way, that means the community will, too.

  If there was anything else to say, it'd be an apology for what I think we can all agree was our biggest collective regret: not modding Poogers when we had the chance. That was a generational blunder... unless we can still give him mod privileges right now. Have it be like the end of Dr. Strangelove, when he's miraculously able to walk again just before the nukes go off.

  Here for one last tango,
  -Deltino
• Blind Sniper Moderator

  November 8 edited 9:57AM

  Here's some fitting music to reminisce to:
  

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  Special Thanks to New Telltale's web team for keeping the forums alive, for honestly, a lot longer than others probably would've bothered given the highly customized forum software Old Telltale used.

  Your guys' work was seen and directly appreciated!

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  If you all wanna stay in touch, several of the volunteer mods are already hopping on the Discord (as regular users, not as Discord mods) if you'd like to chat with us there!

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