seriously
They only held enough money on hand to fund only the next project, they were constantly teetering. Amazing that they even got work considering all the fuckery behind the scenes. Their bids must have been amazing.
Considering how little effect the player had on narrative in some of their titles I would say they were overrated, to say nothing of the technical messes many of their games were.
Kind of, some games are, some aren't. Depends on where the rights went to, the people who acquired Telltale and are currently working on Wolf 2 have the rights to both Batman games, Wolf, both Puzzle Agent games, Tales of Monkey Island and Hector: Badge of Carnage, Skybound got the rights to all of the Walking Dead games and 2K has the rights to TFTB (though they have not put it on storefronts, despite saying they would in early 2019), their other games... who knows where those went?
And yet some (including myself) consider several of their games to be some of the most memorable of the last decade, even while conceding that other games have far better mechanics and technical polish.
I'm not denying that they were memorable games, only that some of the narrative freedom that was central to the marketing of these titles was totally overstated on top of technical issues that plagued Telltale all the way to the end.
Me too, especially since the leaked gifs (most likely stemming from the demo mentioned in the video) looked like they were taking an interesting direction with adding in some traditional gameplay.
The technical issues criticism I agree with, but I never much cared for the narrative freedom aspect. I actually prefer the "this is the same coloring book, you just get to color it differently" approach, but that's just a personal preference. I do remember the games, early on at least, being marketed as what they were criticized for not being, so I get it. Either way, they were getting better at that right before they shut down. Some of the different paths you can take in the second season of Batman were pretty insane.
Sure, I don't see the narrative choices as having a huge impact in larger perspective of the games
It's only the tracks on YouTube that they've released, and I don't know if they have any plans to release more of them, or if they can even sell them, how do you handle the rights to music to a game that got cancelled?
