Are Telltale games worth picking up? Are they modern versions

>>388404779
no they are western versions of visual novels but without the multiple endings or porn

>>388404779

They're like watching a bad movie where the movie stops randomly and won't start again before you do find the channel changer and hit a few buttons.

If you like the franchise like the walking dead, game of thrones, etc you might be able to put up with the annoyance, otherwise I'd avoid.

>>388404779
No
Just watch a Let's Play
Your choices basically do nothing

Point & Click games have roadblocks.
Telltale Games have speed bumps.

>>388404779
telltale's writing is very formulaic. so you can only play a few of their games before you become too familiarized with their favorite tricks and the writing becomes boring. also replaying them completely shatters your ability to enjoy them.

I'd recommend Sam & Max season 1 and 2, Wolf Among Us, and one other. probably batman or walking dead.

>>388404779
Sure. The Sam & Max games are pretty good. And that poker game they did was pretty cute, at least back in the day.

Stay away from everything they have done since 2010 though, those games are shit.
They do not make "modern versions of point & click games", they basically just make Heavy Rain type games on a 2 dollar budget. Check out some of the Daedalic games if you want modern point and clicks.

>>388404825
>without the porn
that's a good thing. VN porn is shit that makes the game quantifiable worse

Nah they are more like visual novels. Barely any gameplay. Are they worth picking up? That just depends on your preferences. I liked wolf among us, because of the setting but then shit like the walking dead telltale games. I'd rather just watch some shitty zombie movie instead of "playing" through mediocre zombie visual novel.

>>388404779
I liked Wolf Among Us and I already know season 2 is going to be shit. Whoever memed these fuckers into prominence with Walking Dead should be a damned shamed.
>>388404825
This

>>388404779
Tales from the borderlands is awesome and so is the first season of the walking dead. The other games i would avoid.

>>388404779
i think they're pretty fun, especially playing with other people. they're sort of the modern version of adventure games in that they are a watered down version of a great genre

I enjoyed the first season of Sam & Max enough to finish it. I tried playing The Walking Dead but only finished 2 or maybe 3 episodes before I got bored and quit. I've never played anything else by them.

>lets go left!
>"lol fuck you we're going right"

Just watch a movie or read a book

>>388404779
Imagine the Goosebumps CYOA books but every decision sends you to the same page. And the writing is a lot shittier. And every now and then the book just tells you you're a cunt.

>>388404779
>modern versions of point and click

No. Just played the new episode of TellTale Guardians of the Galaxy and you had only 15% to move around and click. 85% were cutscenes.

>>388404779
Tales of Monkey Island is just great, no idea why some series fans bash it. Wallace & Gromit episodes are pretty good if you enjoyed the franchise. Other than those I've played Jurassic Park: The Game, which evebody hated on, but it was very well made with story better than any JP sequel.

>>388404779
Telltale is the laziest bunch of motherfuckers
All they do is copy famous games to some dulled down point n click concept.
Don't buy anything that has the name telltale on it.

>>388405193
It's kinda funny since from what I remember the Jurassic Park was more or less the same as Walking Dead but it was panned to high heaven because it was not a game.

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>>388404779
If you're looking for a modern point and click, look into stuff like Ace Attorney, Zero Escape, or Danganronpa which have more actual gameplay compared to current Telltale.

>>388404779
If you want good modern point & click adventure games I recommend checking out the Deponia series.

>>388404779
Sam & Max, Bone, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Back to the Future, Wallace & Gromit, Tales of Monkey Island, and Hector: Badge of Carnage, is everything put out by Telltale that are actually point-and-click adventures. As others mentioned, the rest are essentially choose-your-own-adventure games, and some are alright, but that doesn't seem to be what you're interested in.

Of the above, Strong Bad and Sam & Max Season 1-2 are easy to recommend. The rest are all alright, with Sam & Max season 3 and Wallace & Gromit being the better of the rest, but I wouldn't outright recommend the rest unless you're a fan of the franchises or are just itching that much for more point-and-clicks.

>>388405234
What's worse they are actively killing off proper adventure game series like Dreamfall(well, the second game kinda wasn't but the newest one was really trash) and Syberia with their trash.

>>388404779

>The Walking Dead S1
>The Wolf Among Us
>Tales From the Borderlands

The only ones that everybody agrees are good.

borderlands was cute

>>388405373
Do people really not like the Game of Thrones one?

I wish more devs tried to make FPS adventure games similar to stuff like Tesla Effect.
I mean, not stuff like Gone Homo walking sims but actual "old school" adventure games in first person. They play real well.

>>388405490
It's pretty forgettable even in modern telltale games standards.

>>388405490

I'm sure there are people who think it's good but it's not universally agreed upon.

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This is how I imagine every telltale game purchase ever goes like:

>log on steam
>update news
>TELLTALE GAMES SALE! 70%!
>nah it's just point&click shit, I'm not interested
>one week later
>WALKING DEAD TELLTALE GAMES NOW ON SALE!
>nah I don't really like point&click shit
>one week later
>TELLTALE GAMES SAM & MAX NEW GAME NOW ON SALE BUY NOW FOR AN EXCLUSIVE TF2 HAT!
>these guys again?!
>one week later
>PUBLISHER DEALS [telltale image]!
>i don't even know anyone who plays this shit!
>one week later
>TELLTALE GAMES SIMULATOR NOW ON SALE!
>how the fuck are these guys still not out of business? it's just point&click shit!
>one week later
>NEW TELLTALE GAMES GAME FROM THE AUTHORS OF SAM & MAX!
>maybe their games are just that good?
>one week later
>TELLTALE GAMES MIDWEEK MADNESS HOT NEW DEALS!
>well it's on sale at like 49.9% discount and these guys keep making a ton of games and keep getting pushed by steam. giving it a try won't hurt
>buy game
>immediately forgotten in the pile of shit bought on impulse during every other sale

I almost fell for this shit myself.

>>388404779
Games that came out before The Walking Dead ones are good and worth checking out.

>>388404779
they are interactive movies

>>388404779
The first "the walking dead" game was good, I recently got the whole Game of Thrones one for free, but it becomes dogshit when you realize your choices mean nothing

>>388404779
Minecraft one. The rest is bad.

>>388405490
>Do people really not like the Game of Thrones one?

It's very mediocre and you can see the twists because canonical characters have plot armor. It didn't help games was paired with Tales from the Borderlands which is really good.

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>>388404982
people are always way too easy on twau. yeah sure, first episode was great, but let's be honest and say that season was carried by style despite telltale's attempts to fuck up everything else. season 2 has an uphill battle if it wants to succeed.

>>388404779
The only Telltale game I bought was the Back to the Future one.
It really is not much of a game as an interactive movie but honestly I thought it was pretty well made and the plot quite fitting for the series.

If you compile the episodes together and say that this is basically Back to the Future 4, I would agree with that.

As a game though, there's not much to it, less so that the newer games like Walking Dead, where you have a chance at dying and such.

I really liked TWAU and TWD s1. I'm in the middle of Tales from the Borderlands and it's okay, bit of a chore to get through but that might either be me being bored of their formula or too depressed for games to keep my attention again it's probably that, I've been off my meds for a while now

The rest are varying degrees of shit. Minecraft was an abortion of a game.

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>Entire point about their "games" is that your choices matter
>They don't

How long are each "episodes"?

>>388404779
No there are like YouTube videos where you press a button every couple of minutes to make a choice (that actually isn't one). While the writing is quite good it disrespects the players input, has n zero replay(rewatch) value and has no right to be called a video game.

My advice would be to use hooktube and watch a walkthrough without falling for Telltales schemes.

>>388405028
You don't like porn? Imagine what your dad would think about that comment at the night you were created while he was pumping his semen in your mums pulsating vagina. All the assplay that night, the sweat drenched sheets, the salty taste in the air, the sound of his balls knocking on your mums pussy...

I bet he would be disappointed about your attitude.

>>388404779
Absolutely do play them, just accept that your choices don't matter. Think of them as 7 Hour long Interactive movies where you get to choose minor dialogue differentiation's.

Surprised they haven't made a Doctor Who game yet. Seems like a series that would be easy for them to adapt.