Super Bunnyhop made a good video about Telltale’s downfall around the time it happened, but I wouldn’t mind Matt taking a crack at the company or specific projects too.

Telltale died and got reborn and because of that most of their games got delisted

Glad they got to finish The Walking Dead. I actually really enjoyed the final season.

I believe Joshscorcher said everything about the rise and fall of that company

What’s Tellltale

"All you had to do was keep your mouth open and ears closed Quiet Man!"

Good nl reference

Such a missed opportunity lol

I would probably enjoy a game of Grand Theft Engrish tbh. 😂

That actually sounds appealing, ngl

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interesting; thanks for this

all things considered, "eek yucky" and "i dig the wacky tobacky" sounds like stuff you'd see in Manhunt levels

They could make it for the xbox kinect

@@Guywithaclub it maaay be a little late for that

I’d play that. That sounds so interesting there’s a lot of potential there.

Just imagine… consulting actual deaf people on a game about a deaf person… Wild!

@@rexzs794 ikr lol

It's so horrible. It's like some sort of childish thriller written by aliens that barely grasp humanity, or at least how to write a story.

@@universalperson even worse is thay somehow it is written by Man of Action, the creators of shows with strong writing like Ben 10 and Generator Rex

@@nguyenquyetthang1326 how'd they even screw it up that badly, they're way too talented for this shit

@@Krozbot he mentioned that a lot of stuff got cut, so that's probably part of the reason.

Not only is the Answered story worse, but they obviously framed things to deceive players during their first playthrough. When a story asks you to engage and interpret what's happening, you can't show a scene of a cop talking to boy who just watched his mother die and then reveal that the audio is actually the child being berated by his cop father! Those are just shitty "gotcha" moments and actively insult the player for daring to have any level of involvement in the first place.

Budget problems, Im betting Square gave him barely shoestrings

I doubt Square alone gave him the resources to do much with it.

@@bransonallen2925 Or even care about it because it not Final Fantasy

lol what else was he supposed to do? Develop the entire thing himself? Including shooting a film? Square wouldnt let him use one of their internal studios. He HAD to "farm" it out. The one thing I am interested about him getting someone else to do was the story. But it seems more like he was interested in the idea and concept, not necessarily the story. That wasnt the point. It was about telling a story in a unique way. Not that he had some grand story hed been cooking for years for that concept.

@@ComicCrossing Most square games are done externally including some of their best games like octopath traveler, bravely default and other. This isn't a good excuse

So that’s where Family Guy got it from

"Sit down, that's what chairs are for!"

That movie was honestly pretty fun

Best fist fight in film history.

I think it will come after the game finally shuts down in 2023.

Platinum games and probably squenix in general could go for a whole whappun too 😆

I'd like for him to rip apart that State of Play trailer, the part where it shows the player guy using the Gideon Coffin on Zenon's sword, which you _can't_ do in the actual game because that scene (which requires two QTEs BTW) was actually scripted. And I can tell you none of the bosses in the game have any mechanics where that scene could actually work.

Bayonetta 3 is also a potential wha happun. This has honestly been Platinum games darkest year in terms of quality whether it be everything in Babylons fall or the writing of Bayonetta 3.

@@neliaironwood7573 That Zenon qte aside the gameplay in the state of play was more of a traditional platinum game. Then E3 someone or they themselves scrapped everything from that trailer and made the gameplay worse in every way possible. Also throwing in FF 14 armor assets, because lazy.

Ah, he did a Cum&Go! What a fantastic stealth release...

Dan Shive. Touché. Big Ooof to this game's unknown existence.

He farted you know

@Bernardo Heusi. I can buy that.

I think that was the point, to make the player understand what it's like to be deaf

@@gothnerd887 Having to play the game with sound defeats that purpose

Put it this way it’s better to have the cutscenes on mute and make up your own dialogue and story in a abridged series way. It’s more fun doing that way.

@@bearerofbadnews1375 10 times better if it's with friends while drinking

@@bearerofbadnews1375 The speedrunners agree. Every one of them likes the story they made up better than the actual story they experience on their 2nd run.

same, it has to be a hell of a story.

@Bearer of Bad news 13 Agree and just like Matt mentioned in this video. There's some games (including indie ones) that have already used this concept without verbal but just the visual to create a new plot.

I mean, I think that's what people wanted from this game. A fun story where you're deaf and mute.

I'll not only agree, I'll go a step further and say that The Quiet Man is a brilliant consept. The execution however is not only bad, but downright insulting to the deaf and hard of hearing.

Well, yeah. The main problem here is that being deaf is just a narrative gimmick and is in no way used as an actual gameplay mechanic.

This is what frustrates me. Imagine a game where the portion of the screen behind the player character is faded out, to emulate not being able to track the environment when you can't see it. Imagine subtitles only appearing when the character is looking at who's speaking (maybe even during gameplay, so managing attention could be a gameplay component). So many interesting ways to communicate the experience.

The way that deaf-mute people communicate is interesting- a lot interface with an app these days that speaks for them. That… is a gameplay loop right there.

It's even more idiotic than that! The game has a number of references to Mobile Suit Gundam sprinkled throughout (for example the license plate on the car reads UC0079, the year that show takes place), and Lalah is potentially the most direct one. In The Quiet Man, Lalah is someone the main character seems interested in, both romantically and also because she looks like his departed mother. In MSG Lalah is both the lover of a man named Char, rival of the main character Amuro, whom she also has an intense relationship with. Lalah dies tragically during combat between the two, with Char infamously saying that Lalah "could've been a mother to me".

​@@Julfordi assume you are a big fan of gundan

And Marvel's Avengers, lets not forget that pile of crap exists

And let’s not forget the recently announced nft bullshit

And how square is milking ff7 to death

@@moister3727 at least FFVII and its remake are good... unlike that mobile trash and that EBT Fortnite they shoveled out like they did Banal Blunderworld and Babylon's Fall.

Yeah, because they have the exact same scope, budget and team, right?

Dude's Let's Play of this game was 100% trash.

Which streamers?

if you know people who play let them know there is a speedrun and it's not even a hard one to medal in.

@@perrisavallon5170 Personally I really enjoyed TieTuesday's playthroughs of this game, he uploaded both VODs (original and Answered playthrough) to his youtube channel

@@Julford matt and liam's own playthrough of this game (on liam's channel) is definitely worth a watch too

Well put. Pathologic is a game that I would never play and, outside of video essays breaking it down, but it at least GIVES you something to work with. It has combat that can be grasped, it has health bars, it has story, it has themes and characters. The Quiet Man, the way its made, denies all of that and expects you to clap.

Oof. How's she doing?

The longer the bit went, the more excited I got ngl

The John Wayne romantic comedy from the 50's isn't that interesting by today's standards. The comedy revolves around obscure old Irish wedding traditions that my Irish friends don't even know about. It was fairly successful when it came out.

Fantastic movie, with an ending fight scene that is much more entertaining than anything found in this game.

Do a video about the film *YOU COWARD* I don't know why I got mean there. Apologies it's been a rough day, but *DO A VIDEO ABOUT THE QUIET MAN MOVIE YOU COWARD* omg, I did it again, sorry. It's like a really bad sneeze. Unprofessional and antagonizing but really-- *DO A VIDEO ABOUT THE 1952 MOVIE STARRING JOHN WAYNE YOU COWARD* Holy crap, sorry again. Reasonably I should have stopped writing this comment a few sentences back. This is all on me, apologies again.

​@@JeffersonRedeyes It's not the movie's story itself that people are interested in, it's seeing John Wayne show a softer side by starring in a lovey-dovey movie where he doesn't punch and shoot everything that moves until everything stops moving. 😂

I think you mean The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man

@@xBIGFLATSx You FOOL. He's coming for you now

DON'T SAY IT

@@icarommartins DON'T THINK IT

@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137.......Pee Pee Poo Poo Man.

YESSS another Arc Rise fan!! Yeah I emailed the lead VA way back (Brett Coleman iirc?) and the dub was def recorded there. Probably saved money; I believe the cast were largely native English speakers so it must've been the direction.

Yep! The Wii was curiously lacking for JRPGs for some weird reason, despite having some stellar examples.

I just watched his highlights on this game & it was genuinely one of the dullest things I've ever seen in my life. Not a single joke told, dude just laughs like a teenager the whole time. I'm speechless.

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I tip my hat to that joke. Well played! 😂

"Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful". IMHO the problem was that it was a stupid idea from the start, a heavily narrative focused game where the player doesn't see the narrative, what could go wrong. At least give an internal monologue to leather jacket Bethoven, since it's not like deaf people don't have inner thoughts. If people really have such a hard-on for representation (god, I hate that term and hate how it's considered as always being a good thing) then incorporate the disability it some way as a mechanic (I don't count awkward cutscenes as mechanics). There's this one Indy horror game which name I don't remember, because I just saw a few mins of gameplay on a random yt video, but you played as a blind woman investigating a haunted mansion, the player didn't see anything, but could use the cane to basically send a sonar pulse to see the shapes around for few seconds (with the drawback that using it could alert the monster to your location), notes and labels on items like for example a bottle of pills had to be "read" by using the protagonist smartphone with a text to speech app, and stuff like that. Basically, the heroine being blind was not just a gimmick for the narrative but a core gameplay mechanic. And yes, I know blind people don't have a daredevil like sonar, but bending reality to make an interesting gameplay mechanic is nothing new and by the end of the day, a video game should be fun to play.

Still so sad about their ceo being a shithole. They had really cool stuff in line for indivisible that got cut as a result. Why do so many people in the games industry have to be sexist asshole man

I loved playing indivisible! Its a shame it didnt get to make it big like skullgirls eventually did, hopefully the series can be picked up by another studio for a potential sequel someday tho ^^;

I thought Skullgirls was pretty popular? At least, it was at first, idk now. It didn't have a lot of staying power, I guess.

@@auqustfire it’s more so the company behind skullgirls labzero that was bad mainly because of their ceo. I’d recommend looking into it if you’re interested

@@auqustfire Skullgirls is one of those good games with a complicated production history stories, mainly the gap between it’s last update to now with it’s re release, new season pass, and it’s honestly fun mobile game.

You need to watch the video twice. First muted, then with sound.

They threw so many non-videogame-y things there, it's almost like they didn't wanted it to be a videogame in the first place

Honesty I get the impression of a Dev so obsessed with their unique idea that they never once actually implement it.

Agreed, if every part of the game weren't so bad it would have been game of the year lol