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Telltale Games and Quantic Dream


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I love the stories within these games, I do, but how do people feel about the lack of gameplay? I personally don't understand what stops them from telling the same great stories while also giving us engaging gameplay. I always watched walkthroughs of these games because I never felt the need to buy and play them. The Quantic Dream games are more understandable because their stories are very grounded, there isn't a lot of action I guess, but Telltale has the license to all these action packed worlds and they don't let us experience the action. Every time I hear of a series I like getting a game, I get so excited up until I see it's being developed by Telltale because then I just add it to the list of games I'm gonna watch instead of play.

 

But back to Quantic Dream, Detroit: Become Human has three different stories being told that all should have room for some engaging action-packed gameplay, but you know it's just gonna be QTEs and cutscenes with a little bit of manual walking sprinkled in there.

 

I haven't even seen in-game footage of the new Walking Dead game coming out but the fact that it's not going to be a Telltale story already earns it points for me, and like I said I love the Telltale Walking Dead story.

 

I don't know, I was just curious as to what everyone else thinks.

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I've said it before, but while I love these style of games, I cannot bloody stand David Cage and his writing. Never mind his near-rape fetish, but his stories just rub me the wrong way. Whether it be the railroading in Beyond Two Souls or the characters actual thoughts needing to lie to the player to keep the twist hidden in Heavy Rain.

 

And of course, his pretentiousness. "Game overs are a failure of the game designer" oh *Censored* off..

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I loved Heavy Rain, one of my all time favourites. Beyond was ok but very underwhelming, but regardless im looking forward to Detroit. I really like Quantic Dream generally but im not the biggest fan of Telltale. I tried to play Game of Thrones but just couldnt get into it, which I didnt like coz I love the show.

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I've said it before, but while I love these style of games, I cannot bloody stand David Cage and his writing. Never mind his near-rape fetish, but his stories just rub me the wrong way.

 

Yeah... this sums up my thoughts on the subject. Well said!

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Great game style, IMO.

 

And I also don't understand why people would say there is a "lack of gameplay". I mean...there really isn't. It's a different type of gameplay...but it's still gameplay. You're participating in a story. You're making decisions and pressing buttons. Some people might not care for that style...but it's still a game. You can miss things, or even die if you do things incorrectly.

 

Really, though...I think with Telltale, the name of the company says it all. Those games are about telling tales. They aren't supposed to be a huge challenge...they are just supposed to tell a tale, and let you shape that tale to your personal preferences.

 

And you gotta figure, people pay $20 to see a movie in the theater. That's 2 hours (usually less)...you have no involvement in what you're seeing, you don't feel a part of it, etc. Movies are great. We all love movies...but you know exactly how long they will run. So, paying $4.99 per episode, or $20 total for a cinematic gameplay experience with a game like Walking Dead, or Wolf Among Us, or Batman...where each episode is a few hours long, the value is clearly there. It's a better use of time than a movie or a television show, IMO. You have issues of morality and consequence...you might even learn something about yourself and how you would react to situations that you probably won't encounter in real life. So, yeah...I'm in favor of episodic "choose your adventure" style games.

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If there was more gameplay they won't really be that different from other games.

 

I just wish in the Telltale series your choices actually matter. A lot of times they have you some hard moral choice in an earlier episode and make sure the other one happens later as well so they won't actually have to write multiple branching paths in future episodes.

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One complaint that I have about these kinds of games, is that I absolutely hate when they give you a choice...and then make your choice mean something completely different than you thought it would.

 

It could be like "Stop him from running away"...and when you choose that option, the game has your character murder the person or something. That shit always gets me. If you build a game around choices, they need to actually be choices. The constant trickery gets old.

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