Why Telltale Games Died

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Ай бұрын

Telltale Games were once the pioneers of interactive, choice-driven storytelling in gaming - but their fall from grace was tragic.
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With titles like "Telltale's The Walking Dead", "Telltale's The Wolf Among Us", and "Minecraft Story Mode", Telltale games were taking the gaming industry by storm. Receiving dozens of awards and critical acclaim for their episodic "Walking Dead" series, they seemed unstoppable. But, a few years later they would have to lay off hundreds of employees and eventually close their doors.
This is the story of how Telltale Games Died.
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@robokast Ай бұрын

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@specialmnoo Ай бұрын

Yes all of it

@Jan12700 Ай бұрын

Scam

@rassest Ай бұрын

I played the walking dead and jurassic park and mc story mode decided to play game of thrones now

@Mintcar923 Ай бұрын

I loved Walking Dead 1 & 2 on Vita but sadly my system no longer works so I rebought on ps4.. Started replaying just hadn’t finished yet.. Also got several in the collection I hadn’t really gotten to yet although I did try em out.. Most recently picked up The Expanse around the holidays.. It’s a good style.. BTW I’m old enough to remember the Scholastic Wizware games from the 80’s.. Kinda the TT of that time

@cameronadey7004 Ай бұрын

it has been 5 months!!! still no kenshi part 2 like you promised. that's wild.

@monkeycorpz7982 Ай бұрын

Feels like a bad omission to not mention the Telltale: Stranger Things game or the new engine that was in development with it. Many ex-employees said that the aforementioned was supposed to be the savior of the company, and that The Walking Dead Final Season and Minecraft Story Mode Season Two were just supposed to keep the company afloat long enough to finish those projects.

@NicoTheCinderace Ай бұрын

Yeah, that's my problem too. Very key details are left out, and that kind of bugs me.

@TheNameIsSR Ай бұрын

Also that new telltale has already released a game based on the expanse, which seems to have a mixed to mostly positive reception by fans.

@EternalNightingale Ай бұрын

@@TheNameIsSR whattt I didn’t know that I thought they were just working on wolf 2 but anyways I wish for a Batman season 3 and maybe guardians also but I doubt it

@TheNameIsSR Ай бұрын

@@EternalNightingale there wasn't really any marketing or buzz, so it's not that weird you missed it.

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

@ethannex1 Ай бұрын

The Wolf Among Us season 2 is still my most anticipated game this year. I just really want more Bigby and Fabletown.

@mialiis6517 Ай бұрын

This year is veeeery hopeful, if it comes out at all. It wasnt at summer game fest and telltale hasn’t said a word about it this year, id say if at all then 2026

@ethannex1 Ай бұрын

@@mialiis6517 They already delayed it from last year, but yeah it sucks that we haven't heard anything about it.

@markstruckmeyer9193 26 күн бұрын

Never played the game, but loved the graphic novels. I'll have to check the first one out after all these years.

@ethannex1 26 күн бұрын

@@markstruckmeyer9193 After playing the first game, I read a couple volumes of Fables and was enjoying it. I was missing the music and beautiful colors the game had, but the comics were still beautiful and I was glad to be spending more time with Bigby and Snow. There's so much more Fables comics and spinoffs that I want to read. I should start doing that since I really have no idea when or if I'll actually get to play TWAU2.

@simoneidson21 21 күн бұрын

@@ethannex1I can’t stand Bigby in the comics. Bigby in the comics is a complete fucking psychopath, when even if you made some of the meaner decisions, Bigby in the game seemed to genuinely want to repent for his actions

@palaceofwisdom9448 Ай бұрын

"make choices that actually matter" Except that the same characters lived or died regardless, so your choices NEVER mattered. That realization was when I stopped feeling any investment in a Telltale game.

@beyondviolet Ай бұрын

not necessarily true, you did dictate a few major plot things. But the choices were really more about the dialogue and character moments you got to see, so in that regard there were a lot of choices.

@JohnWall-lj1mx Ай бұрын

@@beyondvioletthen why pay full price when you can just watch a KZfaqr play the game and get the same experience for free

@beyondviolet Ай бұрын

@@JohnWall-lj1mx you could make the same argument for every let’s play ever… hell even Detroit Become Human had enough videos done on it that you never “needed” to play it yourself to see everything.

@sirmagnifus7350 Ай бұрын

@@beyondviolet yeah but the choices did matter

@beyondviolet Ай бұрын

@@sirmagnifus7350 mattered for the plot, yeah. But not everyone places as much value on that

@Sheepy007 Ай бұрын

Why telltale games died? Here is my personal experience and explanation. I was a huge fan of telltale games and bought „tales from the borderlands season 1“ day 1 to download and play episode 1. Do you know when episode 2 was released? 4 MONTHS LATER!!! And episode 3? Another 3 months after that!! After 7 months the game was on sale for less than half the price I originally paid for and it was still not a complete game. I was absolutely pissed and vowed to never play a telltale game until all of the episodes have been released

@SianaGearz Ай бұрын

I played it eventually long after full release and liked Tales from the Borderlands.

@Sheepy007 Ай бұрын

@@SianaGearz The game itself was really good, but from starting the game at release, to being able to finish the game, was a 11 month wait period inbetween

@Samuelt0125 Ай бұрын

This. I remember i would watch youtubers play the game and it would always end in a cliff hanger, and that shit eventually got tiring so i just stopped watching until it was completely done

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

@carlosmontejolll2001 25 күн бұрын

this is why they were forced to prioritize quantity over quality, cause a majority of new younger players think like this

@Masterho310 Ай бұрын

The only really top selling game they made was walking dead season 1. They got stretched super thin with tons of other games like borderlands, Minecraft, Batman, game of thrones, and wolf among us, plus all the later seasons of walking dead. None of which sold particularly well and that was that. I personally loved wolf among us and am sad a season 2 never happened.

@LucYGaming_ Ай бұрын

Yeah, season 3 and 4 of TWD were just shit, and the 4th was ugly AF, i still think to this day the game was broken

@_hamzah23 Ай бұрын

I wonder if the lack of sales was because of the game's nature, like it's not the kind of game that you need to play it to feel it, you can simply watch it on YT and not bother buying it

@Masterho310 Ай бұрын

@@LucYGaming_ Making these games though not super labor intensive like other games still required time and love. Once Season 1 of the Walking dead released to critical acclaim the writers responsible for how good it was left telltale and made their own studio Campo Santo and created their flagship first game Firewatch. With the main writers responsible for season 1 being so good gone it's no wonder the subsequent seasons sucked. And gamers knew it.

@Masterho310 Ай бұрын

@@_hamzah23 You are correct about this. After the buzz of how good the first game was wore off and most people who were interested had played it, I feel like everyone else just watched the game on YT for free. And for those who didn't all it took was buying one bad telltale game like the god awful game of thrones game to make you never want to pay money for any of their products ever again.

@LucYGaming_ Ай бұрын

@@Masterho310 yeah i know, what i ment is, seasom 3 and 4 had some parts of the game that made no sense to me, like when they use Clementine as a trade to get to the City? Like... they get inside regardless of the choice you take xd, and they still lock them up

@jayayy9217 Ай бұрын

Honestly I believe that the cost of franchising popular titles from other movies/games made the strain to push out quality TellTale Games within the few years they were riding in their peak.

@busiestnebula5186 26 күн бұрын

bro telltale games was so big that people literally talked about them like it was its own genre of games and not just a game studio if it wasng for rushed projects miss management and lack of innovation they couldve been one of the biggest names in recent gaming history

@13_faces Ай бұрын

Telltale co developed the expanse game that came out last year. They are still producing games with deck nine. The wolf among us 2 is still in production.

@kradylladel2785 3 күн бұрын

In TWD A New Frontier I tried to hard to get Javier to rail the nurse from the airport but there was no option.

@Aphelia. Ай бұрын

Haven't watched the video yet but I just wanna say that I was OBSESSED with Minecraft: Story Mode as a kid in 2015. It was heartbreaking to see it turn into lost media because Telltale couldn't host the servers to download the game files anymore.

@soundberry Ай бұрын

The timing of this video, I just played through all of the walking dead (except for michonne) and the wolf among us and I'm obsessed with telltale's games and other choice based story games

@Aphelia. Ай бұрын

Agreed, telltale was my childhood and their games had a charm like no other

@Xeno0290 Ай бұрын

i hope we get Wolf among us 2 someday and im playing through the walking deads after my friend bought me all 4 to play them since he saw i was playing through all the Life is strange games (cant wait for the new Life is strange later this year)

@soundberry Ай бұрын

@@Xeno0290 I need to play life is strangs too, I remember watching a playthrough of the first one but I forgot mostly everything, but I have played true colors, because a friend got it for me and I realy liked that one! And I really want to play tales from the borderland when it goes on sale

@rareben395 15 күн бұрын

@@soundberryThe first life is strange is absolutely amazing heavily recommend it. Haven't played the others though.

@danielcastaneda4975 7 күн бұрын

All their games have the same outcomes . Only dialogues changes your choices don't matter

@scrappile5925 Ай бұрын

Idk this is the first video I've watched from this channel, but with 456K subs, I was expecting... more to the video? This kind of feels like there wasn't much effort put into really portraying the entirety of the downfall or the actual reasonings the games drop in quality. Telltale really created special moments for a lot of people with their entire legacy.

@Takeoi Ай бұрын

Hey man video creation is hard. I say he did better than 90% of the channels on the platform. I’ve seen people with 2 million subs make a video with less effort put into it. Also most big KZfaqrs pay others to make their editing and engagement of the video feel and look high quality. This guy is most likely just doing this as a hobby

@BigSmoke-ew5td Ай бұрын

What’s wrong with this video????

@yummy_the_braix Ай бұрын

this and the overuse of transition sounds were really irritating me by the end.

@Safarizoned 24 күн бұрын

Cause the guy is using opinions instead of facts. The walking dead game took off cause walking dead was super popular back then. The fact that the game was good helped tell tale a lot. Also to say tales of borderlands was not good shows he didn’t play it since it’s probs a top 3 tell game. This vid is extended with nonsense. At the end of the day they are licensed games and expensive to use those names. They closed cause it’s unsustainable .

@danielcastaneda4975 7 күн бұрын

@@yummy_the_braixyeah , it's so cringy . They think is so cool and different when is literally a stereotype of ppt movie slide

@owendowling1439 28 күн бұрын

My experience of what happened was the infamous “(character) will remember that” first it makes you think oh I gotta get on this person’s good side or oh no my favorite character is gonna be torn up by a important decision I made. Nope, none of that ever mattered. They never programmed enough detail for that even matter. The closest thing was in Minecraft story mode episode one where one character if you’re actively mean to them the entire time will smugly dismiss you and move onto a different group at the end of the episode. Realizing that was the only time that mechanic ever mattered really sours the experience of the games.

@Toshineko Ай бұрын

I believe one of the main reasons why Telltale Games died was because, well, none of the choices you make actually mattered. Sure, you can say different dialogues, but other than that, all of your choices will lead to the same outcome, making these choices meaningless.

@RedAndBlue82 Ай бұрын

Season 1 despite being Telltale best work also wasn't so special (in terms of choices obviously, the characters were amazing) because the only "major change" was your relationship with kenny that depeding on your choices he will hate, be neutral or be best friends with your lee...but outside of that is basically this, no matter if you save doug or carley, they both die no matter what, no matter if you side with lily, she still leaves your lee behind,etc

@TimDespairBear11 Ай бұрын

EXACTLY. The game will always say “Lee will remember that” “clementine will remember that” but it doesn’t mean a damn thing.

@BigSmoke-ew5td Ай бұрын

No matter what ending you picked at the end of season 2 Clem still ends up alone in season 3

@alexs1640 28 күн бұрын

I think that's more so your expectation rather than anything else. The tagline was always "the story is tailored by your choices." Tailored being the optimal word. You don't go into a tailer with a shirt and come out with a suit. Tailors make small fixes and adjustments to existing items. Not create brand new things. Your choices changed how characters felt about you, not what ending you got. Even before I played any of their games, I knew making a branching narrative is extremely hard so I wasn't expecting that in a few gigabyte game. And so I wasn't disappointed because I wasn't expecting an unrealistic scenario.

@jesseswaggdbz 26 күн бұрын

@@alexs1640this guy gets it people really overestimate the “tailored stories” I fell in love with tell tale walking dead as a kid when it first came out and I’m still deeply invested hoping we get that feeling back

@tgs5725 Күн бұрын

TWD Seasons 1,2,4, Both Batman games, Wolf Among Us, and Tales from the Borderlands were all FIRE as fuck bro

@BongoBrando 25 күн бұрын

I will always have a special place in my heart for TellTale. I vividle remmeber all my friends and I sitting in an xbox party playing the games alongside eachother.

@itzskyline7 Ай бұрын

The walking dead is my favourite/best game ever from the emotional I had from crying/happy from playing it from season 1-4 from Lee looking after clem and then clem looking after aj. Clem and Lee are the best characters I have grown an attachment to. I’m hopeful we will see clem again/season 5❤🙏

@PanMan47 Ай бұрын

They made great games, I miss them

@Masterho310 Ай бұрын

They also made bad games too. The game of thrones game was terrible, as well as the many later seasons of The Walking Dead. For every good game they made like a Walking Dead Season 1 or Wolf Among us you had multiple bad games. It was inevitable that they would close down.

@Aphelia. Ай бұрын

Even if they didn't make great games, they made iconic games which I respect.

@specialmnoo Ай бұрын

Right I love their bad games and I love them so much, I hope that they made a lot of games

@13_faces Ай бұрын

@@Masterho310 the game of thrones game was not terrible you hater

@Masterho310 Ай бұрын

@@13_faces If it was so good why did we not get a season 2 to continue the cliffhanger ending?

@Dramn_ Ай бұрын

at a bit less than 2 minutes, I literally just almost died at that guy facechecking a t-rex

@Nyinxie Ай бұрын

I miss Tell Tale, I am willing to give them another chance, although personally i didnt see anything wrong with their games

@nekilik7886 Ай бұрын

This came out just as I'm playing TWD games. They're interesting to play through but you notice over time your choices really don't matter. I wish there were a few different paths you could go with different endings instead of it all being the same. But it's still fun regardless.

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

I wish they added more variety to their games like i like the story and all that but for example i never liked quick time events as their basis for action. Hope they learn from it and add more variety. like for example batman, I'm asking too much if they turned it into arkham free flow combat but i wish they get more creative with the action sequences.

@dblundz Ай бұрын

I actually really like tales from the borderlands. wished they did a season 2

@Burstify Ай бұрын

They did but it wasn't developed by Telltale, it was called "New Tales from the Borderlands" it was horrible.

@Jonitherat172 Ай бұрын

New tales was made by a Team from Gear Box, all I heard it was a dumpster fire.

@reygatery Ай бұрын

It didn't die it was.... MURDERED

@danielcastaneda4975 7 күн бұрын

By who ? Their own developers ? Then it died it was not murdered

@reygatery 7 күн бұрын

@@danielcastaneda4975 ah my sweet summer child

@GLARebel 4 күн бұрын

The Wolf Among Us theme makes me wanna walk down the street at night smoking a cigarette, and I don't even smoke.

@MelodyMoonxo Ай бұрын

The walking dead game had me feeling empty and lost after I completed it, It'll always remain one of my favourite games, so sad to see the downfall of telltale.

@lazyazzlucio9861 Ай бұрын

I also think KZfaq gaming let's plays were a HUGE reason these games died. Why would I buy the game when I can watch my favorite youtuber play the entire series? Well, that's what I did anyway's.

@Onemoretoke1 27 күн бұрын

We all watched Brad play it legit made him become massive

@jimthar17 26 күн бұрын

Why would you watch someone play a game that you want to play? Do you have people watch movies for you too? It makes no sense. Also: *anyways. Why would you put an apostrophe there?

@kJ-gk5qu 25 күн бұрын

That can be any game in that case.

@FrVitoBe 25 күн бұрын

@@jimthar17why watch kicking ball when you can 2

@lazyazzlucio9861 24 күн бұрын

@@jimthar17 I never wanted to play it, I wanted to see someone I follow make their own decisions and see what happens. Literally every big name youtuber has millions of views on each episode of a telltale game. Your argument is so invalid, especially since were talking about what made youtube thrive back then which was youtube let's plays.

@tommycavacini3978 Ай бұрын

I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned, but telltale also had a guardians of the galaxy game that def had its moments.

@minari99 Ай бұрын

I did not know that the studio closed...

@marvelshooter 7 күн бұрын

I hate that we’ll never get a game of thrones season 2. I love that game and it was left with a permanent cliffhanger

@Ramon-py8mw Ай бұрын

About to leave workkkk man let’s gooo

@cameronadey7004 Ай бұрын

it has been 5 months!!! still no kenshi part 2 like you promised. that's wild.

@ThatsGangstaBaby 25 күн бұрын

Man I want a s2 of game of thrones

@MrChase- Ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed all telltale games with the only exception being Batman.

@TY-km8hj Ай бұрын

Really? I played the batman games just a couple yrs ago and quite liked them, they acc reminded me of why I enjoyed telltale games when I was younger. I also found them ti not be as linear as some of the previous TT games

@MrChase- Ай бұрын

@@TY-km8hj To be fair I am not a fan of Batman, let alone any superhero which is probably why I couldn't get into it in the first place.

@Aphelia. Ай бұрын

@@MrChase-that's understandable

@TY-km8hj Ай бұрын

@@MrChase- ahhh fairs that makes sense

@aliyan247 Ай бұрын

The summer games fest happened but there was no wolf among us 2 😔, at least there were some cool announcement to soften the blow but man, sucks to know that we might not get it until next year

@FrozenDmon Ай бұрын

Great memories were created with this amazing Studio

@Hollobaby1231 Ай бұрын

the wolf among us 2 baby let’s all keep our fingers crossed it gets finished here, me and my girl just finished the first one it was my second time and her first and god i forgot how great it is

@SianaGearz Ай бұрын

You describe Sam&Max and Tales of Monkey Island as sort of mediocre stale games. No, they're pretty good; i mean sure they're mostly running gags but that's a feature, not a bug. What they aren't though is mass market, they only ever had niche appeal. The "formula" games that came out after Walking Dead also have different spins on the formula. Comedic titles such as Tales of Borderlands and Guardians of the Galaxy do not put you in front of actual life and death situations, they merely give you branching story paths culminating in different sets of jokes; and the countdown timer input mechanic, while mechanically identical, serves a completely different purpose, instead of putting pressure and activating fight or flight instincts, it serves to maintain comedic timing. Then again these two feel like they could almost be the same game. With Batman, the quality declined somewhat fierce though. Like it just feels jank and doesn't make sense. The words Batman says don't correspond to what the choices seem like are a lot of the time severely out of character and nonsensical, the QTEs have random nonsensical input combinations, the engine just stalls all the time, animation doesn't look right, Batman shuffles in place on invisible obstacles. The problem wasn't that there was more of the same, indeed he game introduced the innovative Gambit mechanic, it's just that the execution quality was so much worse than you'd come to expect from this company.

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

@Tommy-bd2wq Ай бұрын

The wolf among us and Batman are amazing. I wish batman could get another season

@prisonmike3605 Ай бұрын

Batman definitely deserves a 3rd season. Hell even Guardians of The Galaxy does too. Very underrated imo

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

@@prisonmike3605 I wish they added more variety to their games like i like the story and all that but for example i never liked quick time events as their basis for action. Hope they learn from it and add more variety. like for example batman, I'm asking too much if they turned it into arkham free flow combat but i wish they get more creative with the action sequences.

@prisonmike3605 Ай бұрын

@@jmgonzales7701 like Detroit become human

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

@@prisonmike3605 maybe something rts

@TheSimper-gw3kl Ай бұрын

@@jmgonzales7701 stop spamming this damn comment

@Tay234. Ай бұрын

June 11, 2024. Still no wolf among us 2

@mitsuri3096 Ай бұрын

Sorry to tell you man but they shutting down 😂 no one bought the expanse cause we all knew it was bad also people gotta buy their games instead of watching youtubers

@divine-documentary Ай бұрын

I want to make videos like you, with Interviews from Devs about their amazing work. Thanks for inspiring me through the last month's

@MistahJay7 Ай бұрын

Batman Season 2 is Telltales Masterpiece to me and best game they've made.

@SansFilet Ай бұрын

0:45 Missed opportunity to say "to tell this tale"

@calingligore 22 күн бұрын

Telltale games always felt like something only a redditor would enjoy

@adamdeforge6884 25 күн бұрын

Everything they made was gold.

@105ldldk 25 күн бұрын

@SuperbCloakSuperbCloak Күн бұрын

Fax

@brandynnolen921 25 күн бұрын

They might revive if AI or Chat GPT type technology is used in all your interactions and make the game a truly choose your own ending type of story line, which is more complex and where things can become truly free roam and open world.

@Thetrue777luck777 Ай бұрын

Because choices din't matter,Like in the walking dead, if you try to save the farmer soon they kick you out if you don't they kick you out,If you always help Kenny he will still say that you were not always there for him, if you chose to leave now or wait a few days you get the same result. What's the point of making a game about choices if they don't matter?

@bitwawesome7 4 күн бұрын

There is like some small dialogue differences for those choices. But nothing major overall you’re right.

@rokhamler3352 2 күн бұрын

Tales from the Borderlands was still VERY entertaining and well done, despite the reported crunch. Batman was also great.

@mrnavy9754 8 күн бұрын

This video is out of date it's not talking about how their making Wolf among Us 2 and they're not talking about The Tell-Tale game the expanse

@svenwalter4293 2 күн бұрын

Its unfortunate this happened. I love their games particularly their walking dead series. The final season was a banger! Massive shout out to still not bitten team for pushing through to complete the series. I miss em already

@TheYer290 24 күн бұрын

Telltale game employees will remember that.

@TheOnlyTaps Ай бұрын

Great watch

@knights.fall06 8 күн бұрын

I’m still holding hope that my dream game, a Telltale Daredevil game will come to be someday 🙏

@Dreadjaws 4 күн бұрын

Telltale's episodic release was always a problem for them, ever since their first attempt, with Sam & Max. None of their games have respected their release schedule. This has been a problem since the beginning and one they never seemed to even try to correct. I don't think it was a workable idea in the first place (all games have delays, and all this does is amplify your number of delays per game), but their ridiculous commitment to it was a problem exacerbated by their insistence of not doing anything to solve it. And reaction to it was pretty common amongst players. The entire point of the episodic releases was to get regular cash boosts mid-development so the games would fund themselves instead of having to wait until they were finished to earn cash back. But once people saw the episodes released much later than promised, completely killing the flow of the story in their story-focused games (not to mention the ever-present danger of a game being canceled before being completed), they mostly decided to wait until they were finished and fully released before committing to a purchase. This completely destroyed the entire purpose and caused those mid-development cash boosts to decline, which in turn made episodes take even more time to be released. It was a vicious circle that kept snowballing until it became entirely unsustainable. Of course, all of this was made worse by the way the company treated their overworked staff and their stupid insistence of constantly licensing popular IPs instead of creating their own. Not only it was a major waste of money, it also came with a large amount of restrictions and demands from IP owners. I'm frankly surprised Telltale lasted so long with how terrible they were at management.

@Alan_steak Ай бұрын

I loved the game of thrones one

@Ilovetwdsm Ай бұрын

dude i didnt even know they had one! thx for telling me 😛

@Alan_steak Ай бұрын

@@Ilovetwdsm 🙏🏻🙏🏻have fun playing it

@bosch5303 Ай бұрын

Sad moments indeed

@JordanJ_CPT Ай бұрын

Any chance fans make a server so i can see my choices vs other players?

@TheElusiveReality 23 күн бұрын

i just bought the whole TWD series for $13, im so glad i didnt pay all that money for it years ago

@a_catfish5180 Ай бұрын

Was it only 6 years between them closing and the walking dead hype?

@marvelshooter 7 күн бұрын

Yes. The first episode of walking dead came out in 2012. And the company shut down in 2018

@RoxYgen03 20 күн бұрын

A classic story of power milking creativity until death. Congrats on those two for leaving the studio before it was too late. This story was awesome, thank you!

@itsmeevan027 25 күн бұрын

TellTale will remember this ...

@stevieboymkii 27 күн бұрын

The recent Expanse game was pretty decent. Very true to the show and canon.

@gr3mliiiiinnn Ай бұрын

ofc i feel like giving them a second chance. they were the gateway of making decision based games and were the one to give us beloved games (that i still play and wait for today : wolf among us) . i’m so excited for wolf among us 2. games now just don’t hit like they did back then like these do

@wingren13 Ай бұрын

ni mention of their recent Expanse game?

@rb0675 Ай бұрын

If they just focused on one project at a time they would have succeeded. The issue from it all was management. These games had the opportunity to revolutionise the adventure game genre, but management were incompetent and impatient

@jc61846 20 күн бұрын

The skeleton crew that was left behind was actually AFTER the release of Minecraft story mode 2 and the skeleton crew only finished an interactive Netflix adaptation of the first Minecraft story mode. It was Skybound and Robert Kirkman himself that acquired the rights to the final season and offered the Walking Dead Telltale team that was laid off the opportunity to finish the final episodes under the "still not bitten team".

@Poopman21377 Ай бұрын

well if skybound makes a deal with theme again, and they release wolf among us 2 or the walking dead season 5 or something they would rise from the dead

@Sherryxgaming Ай бұрын

Telltale Guardian of the Galaxy is really underrated

@ozziedylan9903 Ай бұрын

The Wolf Among Us Tales From The Borderlands and Guardians of the Galaxy are my favorite Telltale Games

@Dommie222 25 күн бұрын

Because we barely got to play Clementine in season 3; thats why

@ethanmyers4882 Ай бұрын

The game of thrones tell tale was slept on, I really wish we could’ve got a second game of that I throughly enjoyed that and every game I played of theirs Batman could’ve been improved but none of these were “bad” maybe Jurassic park

@LuckfortRosenqueen 11 күн бұрын

Short answer: Greed

@DUBUND3AD 29 күн бұрын

Good video brother c: Side note though, I found it quite distracting that you'd either pronounce the studio as Telltale OR Taletell, seemingly 50/50. Might just be the way my brain works though lol, just had to point this out

@Cheesemonkey231 24 күн бұрын

I noticed it too.

@alphanovac 27 күн бұрын

I'm not sure what it is, but it's something in your background.That's hurting my ears

@aburante 3 күн бұрын

no your just schizophrenic

@aburante 3 күн бұрын

take your pills

@Illuception Ай бұрын

You should tell the story about the game “D4: dark dreams don’t die”.

@zachall101 10 күн бұрын

never even hear if the wolf among us 😂😂

@chaboiibrody5942 8 күн бұрын

I love the amount of actual intelligent points about this and not only bickering.

@user-gb8mw2qg4b Ай бұрын

I legit just finished playing the walking dead season 1 today and I’m hooked 😂

@UrQuietGamer Ай бұрын

Lucky you 😅, I wish I could forget the games and play them all over again😂. Enjoy the rest of the seasons🔥.

@user-gb8mw2qg4b Ай бұрын

@@UrQuietGamer If you don’t play walking dead blindly, well the experience gets destroyed unfortunately

@reddieweeb 7 күн бұрын

The only telltale I know is TWD Season 3 really took me out...

@scorpions1965 15 күн бұрын

I pray to God for the Wolf Among Us 2

@allankuria9923 8 күн бұрын

Died? They released The Expanse game not too long ago. It was pretty good too.

@LoveMyDog521 Ай бұрын

wow its been a while sence i heard of tell tail games

@jacobmullins3644 Ай бұрын

Just think the funpimps had a contract with them for the console version of 7d2d, and when telltail went under the funpimps, had to go to court to get the rights for the console version back

@siddharththampi5383 28 күн бұрын

I feel another big reason for their depart has to be gameplays. Unlike other games where you’re left fascinated by the environment and what you get to do as a player, interacting with the world sense… Telltale largely amplifies on its story telling skills. You watch someone play it on KZfaq and you’ve basically played the game

@jayfolk Ай бұрын

*point-and-click* adventure games*

@teoteous 27 күн бұрын

Ah yes. 'Choice'.

@brosch91 Ай бұрын

I will definitely agree that the first season of TWD was really good, but the following seasons definitely felt rushed and half-baked. I guess without the expertise of Jake and Sean, they just couldn't match the quality of Season 1. Kind of makes me want to give Firewatch a go. I've been wanting to play it for years but havent got around to it.

@ilko9992 3 күн бұрын

Am i the only one that realises that these "choices" we had in the teltale games are not really choices. It doesnt matter what you choose you get to the same point in the end. With a few exceptions ofcourse. Like the end of twd s2 was one of those genius moments but then in s3 it didnt matter.

@aaronsirois7032 21 күн бұрын

The branching story paths were always illusions though, and it just got more and more obvious. You would chose which character to save in the moment, and then an episode or two later that saved character would die anyway after completely fading from the story because it would have been a lot of work to remake all those different paths. By season 2 of TWD, they just took care of that kind of thing in the same episode. The girl from season 2 can be saved for all of like fifteen minutes before they kill her off anyway. Probably another symptom of the devs being spread so thin.

@Jonitherat172 Ай бұрын

I really hope that Wolf Among Us 2 happens I love the world the first titel build.

@histhoryk2648 26 күн бұрын

Telltale die in the same manner as their games claimed that your choices matter but then you get to the ending where all your previous choices didn't matter

@MaxxadTV Күн бұрын

I love the video but the fact you think the choices mattered shows you mustn't have paid much attention to any of the games or didn't actually play them the full way through.

@LiNo-sk7of Ай бұрын

bro that 'whoop' and 'click' sound effects are annoying af. otherwise good vid

@chisaten 26 күн бұрын

4:27 the Michonne and 400 Days games aren't included in this list.

@BebopMansion Ай бұрын

I like their games. I just couldn't keep up with their amount of releases. They made way too many titles at once that I couldn't keep track unless I google what they are working on. You mentioned the developpers were spread thin. I'll add even the consumers were spread thin.

@jmgonzales7701 Ай бұрын

@TheAnthery 22 күн бұрын

Damn management can't let go of their ego and overworks and oppresses their creatives to where they leave, thus ruining the company? Who could have ever seen this coming.

@VeryTori 19 күн бұрын

I may be in the minority on this, but I loved Back to the Future the Game, and it was one of the best games from TellTale. I am also a huge Back to the Future fan and treat this game as the 4th movie we will never get. I’ve played through the game sooo many times and have even gotten other people to play/watch the game with me. I treat it like an interactive movie and have 100% the game on several platforms.

@JayElDragon 26 күн бұрын

Most of us have never bought a game of Telltale, cause all their games can be watched on KZfaq for free as there’s no gameplay You aren’t missing out on anything