I guess I shouldn't be surprised. You can't expand your company forever.
But this makes me think of the old Telltale- y'know, the guys behind Tales of Monkey Island, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Sam and Max, etc. I miss those kind of games, Telltale did them pretty well.
What does Sup Forums think of pre-Walking Dead Telltale?
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>gaming company gets layoffs
>twitter feed is filled with devs offering handout jobs for weeks
what went wrong?
I lost interest in TWD first season when it was clear none of your choices matter.
season 3 was so fucking awful I swear to god how did they go from 1 and make it so progressively more terrible
>games getting progressively worse
>SJW shit everywhere
can't say I'm surprised they're going under.
Yeah, I definitely saw a bunch of those.
I wonder if that isn't because there's no standard point of entry in video game industry. There are like two colleges focused on video game degrees and as far as I know they aren't very accredited. Maybe shilling on Twitter for discarded employees is a good method for hiring for less powerful companies
I'd still ____ Clementine
All the talented people left for greener pastures. Happens all the time in the industry.
They just did too many games at once, overloaded the market. Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Wolf Among Us, Minecraft Story Mode, Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy... It's too much, and that's all in the space of like seven years. Customers get sick of it and writers get burned out
They should have just stopped after season 2.
>Telltale made StrongBad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Isn't like this for every game of their's?
prefer the Wolf Among Us than ever play as
Season 3 and even 2 had the problem of Clementine being the only likeable character
This. I was pretty hyped when they announced The Wolf Among Us, but it became clear that they were going to start shoveling out titles from half a dozen settings at once. It was partly overwhelming since I couldn't keep up with so many games at once (I have other shit I want to play), and it was partly annoying because each game always had certain issues or glitches that could have been resolved with a little more polish.
They started to damage their brand through quantity and it didn't help that a lot of Telltale's best writers left to make Firewatch. I didn't play that game so I don't know how shit it is, but I heard the writing is decent. I looked up footage of the Batman and Minecraft Telltale games and they just looked absolutely awful or boring. I don't recognize any of the names on the writing credits but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a bunch of interns.
>pre-walking dead
Are you people really this new? Telltale went to shit when they stopped making adventure games and went with the visual novel shit with games like Jurassic Park The Game. It was this new direction that eventually resulted in TWD and the abomination that was Sam and Max Season 3.
Your choices never matter in any telltale game, they only influence the details but not the destination. By contrast a game like Oxenfree is affected entirely by your decisions...you not only change details of the story but the outcomes are so different that you can't properly finish unless you make certain choices.
How can Telltale have 360 fucking employees to begin with?
All their stuff could easily be made by a 5-10 people team + voice actors
The only good Telltale game was TWD Season 1. Season 2 was trash aside from BasedGod, and the other games were fucking jokes.
Did they ever meaningfully upgrade their god awful engine?
You'd think they might have at least updated their animation tech with that kinda staff. But no
I liked Tales of Monkey Island a lot, though I imagine that most of the good stuff about it was because of Lucasarts.
does jezebel mean slut?
Yes
When the company is making five different series at the same time, it probably balloons the amount of people you need to fill out paperwork and certifications and all of that shit. You have to remember that they're weren't just making two or three games at the same time over the last few years. It was way more than that.