Telltales

[owsf2000]

So I was watching Angry Joe's impressions of the first chapter of Telltale's Batman story/game/quicktimeevent. I pretty much agree with his assessment, although personally I'm not interested in it anyway. Essentially Gameplay low scores, Story high scores. That's kind of what you expect out of Telltale anyway, and by now it's the story that their

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[kane_magus]

I started watching Joe's Batman impressions thing, but stopped for spoiler-avoidance reasons when it got to the part at the credits where it was showing all the choices that could be made.

Yeah, they did it with Jurassic Park: The Game (i.e. created and released all episodes at once, as a full game), so I'm with you in not seeing why the fuck they can't do it for the others. People just got used to and accepted the bullshit way of doing things, I guess, so Telltale sees no reason to change things now. (In other words, I blame consumers for this just as much as I do Telltale, same as I do with most other rant-worthy bullshit that the video game industry as a whole does these days, since if consumers didn't suck down the shit, companies wouldn't be able to get away with excreting the shit.)

As for me, with the exception of the Strong Bad game (which is composed of all stand alone episodes, with little to no overarching plotline), I don't, didn't, and won't buy any episodic game, Telltale or otherwise, until all of the episodes (

[owsf2000]

Actually I forgot ALL about the non-free episodic King's Quest game. I was thinking primarily about the Silver Lining and how you kept talking about it not being finished and taking forever years ago when you hung out in the channel. XD That it still doesn't have the final chapter out is both mind-boggling and precisely why I refuse to pay cash for an episodic game, or play a free one. If it's bad, it's a waste of time. If it's good, the wait to continue the story is a pain in the ass, which ultimately makes it feel bad anyway.

[kane_magus]

Hell, I kind of wish that I'd had that mindset even as far back as Legacy of Kain and Shenmue. But then, I don't think those games were ever explicitly marketed as "episodic." Well, maybe Shenmue was, but I know that when I played Soul Reaver and it ended on an explicit cliffhanger, I was rather annoyed by that. And then the final game, Defiance ( Nos goth is essentially Fanon Discontinuty as far as I am concerned), ended on another cliffhanger as well (unless you consider the hot mess that is Blood Omen 2 to have occurred "after" Defiance, in which case... no... it still doesn't help much).

I have the same mindset now about movies that release in multiple parts. I hate that kind of shit with an undying passion, and refuse to see the movies until the "whole" movie has been released. Hell, I still haven't even bothered to see The Hobbit yet, even though that's all out now.

And, hell, I'm even kind of starting to feel that way about unfinished book series that are part of huge multi-book story arcs (e.g. A Song of Ice and Fire).

[owsf2000]

Yeah I'm like that with movies as well, especially since it seemed to start becoming more common as people kept going to them