View Full Version : New E3 info - Walking Dead game to feature new cast
Blind Sniper
06/07/2011, 08:50 pm
http://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/220092/e3-2011-the-walking-dead-game-not-really-based-on-the-walking-dead/
Although not a lot of info was given here, this article describes how Telltale is replacing the cast of the series with original characters for the game.
"Replacing the cast of the series" is a weird way to put it. Nobody is being replaced. The game world is based off of the canon and timeline of the comics, so while the game is focused on telling someone else's story, if a character is around in the comics universe, they are most likely alive and wandering around somewhere in the game universe. That doesn't necessarily mean you'll run into them or that they cross paths with the game's story (though there are some familiar faces) but in terms of the world's story continuity, they're out there alive somewhere.
Blind Sniper
06/07/2011, 09:38 pm
Whoops - I was typing this fast, but I did understand what the article meant however.
Irishmile
06/08/2011, 01:52 pm
hmmm... I really like this.. its like getting a new story.. without re-hashing the existing story... I wouldn't mind running into the comics characters though.
Hero1
06/08/2011, 11:27 pm
The way Telltale is going with this makes sense to me.
Gman5852
06/09/2011, 10:08 am
Good because there are so many problems with having the same cast.
1.Less drama since it has to be with the comics so you cant kill anyone else without explaining it to the comic buyers that dont get the game
2.It gets obvious that new characters will either leave or die, and with this series... they will most likely die.
3.Hard for the comics to be released monthly as well.
This on the otherhand is a much better approach.
Nintendo Boy1
06/09/2011, 03:18 pm
I heard somewhere that the gameplay is going to represent that of the Jurassic Park like gameplay, is that true?
The gameplay in Walking Dead is not something we're talking about much yet, but that is because it's not just a carbon copy of something we've done before.
Nintendo Boy1
06/09/2011, 03:38 pm
The gameplay in Walking Dead is not something we're talking about much yet, but that is because it's not just a carbon copy of something we've done before.
Understandable.
RAnthonyMahan
06/09/2011, 05:06 pm
The gameplay in Walking Dead is not something we're talking about much yet, but that is because it's not just a carbon copy of something we've done before.
Hmm. So it's not a conventional Sam and Max-style point and click either, then?
Guess we've got to wait until Comic-Con.
seanvanaman
06/10/2011, 04:14 pm
Glad you guys are down with the direction -- it wasn't the obvious way to go and internally, Jake and I had to make a pretty hard sell.
Fingers crossed you like stuff as we release it!
Gman5852
06/10/2011, 04:49 pm
Glad you guys are down with the direction -- it wasn't the obvious way to go and internally, Jake and I had to make a pretty hard sell.
Fingers crossed you like stuff as we release it!
Come to think of it, how much convincing did it take to get Kirkman on board with this idea? Was he on board with this from the start, or did it take a fire works display saying "This will work"?
Rather Dashing
06/12/2011, 07:59 am
Glad you guys are down with the direction -- it wasn't the obvious way to go and internally, Jake and I had to make a pretty hard sell.
Fingers crossed you like stuff as we release it!
Story and set-up seem absolutely brilliant. You can't use the comic universe without either doing ANOTHER version of the events(a la the TV series) or having a tie-in that needs to be played in order to understand parts of the comics(dick move). This way is a lot better, keeping it in more or less the same geographical area and running parallel with the comic story arc. Absolutely the best way to go with this franchise.
I'm still worried/anxious about gameplay. I don't see myself as a "traditionalist" when it comes to adventures, and many of my favorite adventures broke the mold of their time in some strong and noticeable way, but Back to the Future has caused a really nasty drop in what I now expect out of a Telltale game. I'm feeling so much more cautious about this title than I would have been in a pre-Back to the Future: The Game world.
seanvanaman
06/13/2011, 10:05 pm
Come to think of it, how much convincing did it take to get Kirkman on board with this idea? Was he on board with this from the start, or did it take a fire works display saying "This will work"?
This is probably a question for the cast, but as our last one (the debut!) had sound issues and we're slammed for a couple weeks, I'll just answer it:
Kirkman was incredibly cool. When we sat down, I spent a couple minutes just talking the avenues we were considering: we don't think it's creatively interesting to give you a THIRD telling of the comic book story and we feel that the franchise is best served by giving the player the opportunity to experience things the way Rick does -- fresh with little to no sense of what is the "right" call. If you play AS Rick, you, the player, know what Rick did in any given situation and a) you'll do what he did or b) you won't and we'll break canon. Not really interesting to us.
A new character who is seeing the whole thing from the same area but a different perspective felt like the way to go. And selfishly, that meant I got to write a thing from scratch. Kirkman listened for about five or ten minutes and just said "that sounds pretty cool," and then we ate some Pad Thai. It was a pretty good meeting.
RAnthonyMahan
06/14/2011, 03:04 pm
This is probably a question for the cast, but as our last one (the debut!) had sound issues and we're slammed for a couple weeks, I'll just answer it:
Kirkman was incredibly cool. When we sat down, I spent a couple minutes just talking the avenues we were considering: we don't think it's creatively interesting to give you a THIRD telling of the comic book story and we feel that the franchise is best served by giving the player the opportunity to experience things the way Rick does -- fresh with little to no sense of what is the "right" call. If you play AS Rick, you, the player, know what Rick did in any given situation and a) you'll do what he did or b) you won't and we'll break canon. Not really interesting to us.
A new character who is seeing the whole thing from the same area but a different perspective felt like the way to go. And selfishly, that meant I got to write a thing from scratch. Kirkman listened for about five or ten minutes and just said "that sounds pretty cool," and then we ate some Pad Thai. It was a pretty good meeting.
I love behind the scenes stories like this, no matter how small. They make working for a video game company (or any other type of creative business) seem so much more fun than I'm guessing it actually is. Hopefully if I ever make it big as a writer I'll be able to share some worthwhile anecdotes of my own.
Anyway, will we be hearing more about the gameplay come Comic-Con? When is that, anyway?
Hero1
06/14/2011, 09:12 pm
And selfishly, that meant I got to write a thing from scratch. Kirkman listened for about five or ten minutes and just said "that sounds pretty cool," and then we ate some Pad Thai. It was a pretty good meeting.
I hear eating Pad Thai is a sign that the owner of a license is happy with your suggestions :p Good work :)
brandonpina
06/14/2011, 09:59 pm
then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
ask most people who want this game with not much action by silly questions better run from the zombies and kill them as well as the set of DEAD ISLAND.
Blind Sniper
06/14/2011, 11:01 pm
then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
ask most people who want this game with not much action by silly questions better run from the zombies and kill them as well as the set of DEAD ISLAND.
Telltale does point and click games focused on story and character development (which is also what I hear The Walking Dead comics focus on), not action games. Go play Left 4 Dead or Dead Island if you want your zombie shooting fix.
Rather Dashing
06/15/2011, 03:16 am
then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
ask most people who want this game with not much action by silly questions better run from the zombies and kill them as well as the set of DEAD ISLAND.
So....do you actually read the comics?
Gman5852
06/15/2011, 06:45 am
then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
ask most people who want this game with not much action by silly questions better run from the zombies and kill them as well as the set of DEAD ISLAND.
Troll.
If you read the comics, you would see it isnt at all about action, but character development with the zombies being 1 obstical they must face.
Secondly, your grammar is terrible.
thirdly, there are way too many zombie action games. Go play Left 4 dead if you want that.
brandonpina
06/15/2011, 10:39 am
then if you have a crap
Rather Dashing
06/15/2011, 10:46 am
then if you have a crap
Profound!
Gman5852
06/15/2011, 11:14 am
then if you have a crap
What?
Please tell me English is not your first language.
And that you didnt think the walking dead would actually be an action game. It never was, read the comics and you would see that you can have zombies and it doesnt focus entirely around action.
brandonpina
06/15/2011, 03:45 pm
im talking about the series i liked the series i had never read the comic but i think this ganme have pontetial for be an survival action zombie game that will have some type of RPG
Irishmile
06/15/2011, 03:52 pm
I do not see why I can not enjoy both walking dead and dead island... At least that is what I'm planning on doing.
Ttg makes character and story driven games that is exactly what the walking dead needs... As long as you want something true to the source material. I'm not saying shooters and RPG games are not fun because I think dead island looks amazing.... But that isn't really on source for Twd.
DrRocketGenius
06/18/2011, 12:06 pm
then if you have a crap
...this is the greatest thing I've read all day.
Niels
06/20/2011, 11:56 am
cool, they ruined a great serie
Gman5852
06/20/2011, 12:39 pm
cool, they ruined a great serie
How did they ruin it?
Telltale just didnt want to retell the series for a third time.
Even Robert Kirman likes this idea.
brandonpina
06/20/2011, 07:32 pm
Nielsen is right are a """""""""""""""
brandonpina
06/20/2011, 07:33 pm
How did They ruin it?
Did not want to just Telltale retell the series for a third time.
Even Robert Kirman likes this idea.
yes, but then disappointed
Falzo
06/21/2011, 06:17 am
cool, they ruined a great serie
How can they ruin a series when:
1- Nobody has seen the game yet;
2- They are doing something parallel to it, not continuing or retelling the original.
I honestly like the direction they are taking and I was undecided about reading the comic before or after the game so as not to spoil anything. Now there's not much to spoil.
Scnew
06/21/2011, 03:34 pm
It seems that everyone that's capable of typing in a non-moronic way thinks it's a good way to go.
Seriously though dude. There's already two Left 4 Deads, two Dead Risings, Dead Island, Call of Duty zombie mode, Red Dead Redemption's zombie add-on, Borderlands' zombie add-on, Dead Space, the old Resident Evil games... do I really need to go on? What's wrong with something different?
Sparifankerl
06/21/2011, 04:19 pm
I honestly like the direction they are taking and I was undecided about reading the comic before or after the game so as not to spoil anything. Now there's not much to spoil.
Same way with me. I intend to read the comics, but at the moment there's so much other stuff on my list that I don't know if I get around to read them until this game gets published. So it's good to hear that I (probably) won't be spoilered.
Jon NA
06/23/2011, 12:49 pm
im talking about the series i liked the series i had never read the comic but i think this ganme have pontetial for be an survival action zombie game that will have some type of RPG
Go try "Project Zomboid".
You'll be in for a treat.
nomecopies
06/24/2011, 10:51 am
It seems that everyone that's capable of typing in a non-moronic way thinks it's a good way to go.
sum morons thank is god too!
Gman5852
06/24/2011, 02:13 pm
sum morons thank is god too!
I so thank the game is god.
lombre
06/24/2011, 05:03 pm
I so thank the game is god.
No, I think he means that morons' thanks are god. As in, if a moron were to give thanks to you, he'd be giving you god. Like, a tiny, all-powerful, pocket-size god.
Masta23
06/30/2011, 12:30 pm
Who wants to play as Rick and co when the TV series is already telling that story? I kinda like the parallel story idea. It was obvious from watching the TV series, that the walking dead is not all about killing zombies. In some episodes, there are barely any zombies at all. It is about survival in an apocalyptic zombie world. It seems that a lot of people will be expecting this game to be something it's not.
I look forward to finding out what Telltale has in store for us.
Is it due out this year, or in 2012?
Gman5852
06/30/2011, 12:57 pm
Who wants to play as Rick and co when the TV series is already telling that story? I kinda like the parallel story idea. It was obvious from watching the TV series, that the walking dead is not all about killing zombies. In some episodes, there are barely any zombies at all. It is about survival in an apocalyptic zombie world. It seems that a lot of people will be expecting this game to be something it's not.
I look forward to finding out what Telltale has in store for us.
Is it due out this year, or in 2012?
You do realise that The Walking Dead is a comic series right? The TV series is based off of it.
But everything you said still stands since the series is pretty close to the comics from what Ive heard.
Masta23
06/30/2011, 01:10 pm
You do realise that The Walking Dead is a comic series right? The TV series is based off of it.
But everything you said still stands since the series is pretty close to the comics from what Ive heard.
yeah I'm aware of that. I just never read the comics. They are worth checking out?
yeah I'm aware of that. I just never read the comics. They are worth checking out?
Yep! They're good.
Gman5852
06/30/2011, 01:18 pm
yeah I'm aware of that. I just never read the comics. They are worth checking out?
Yes. They go beyond the story of the show(considering the show only has 6 episodes) I wont spoil much, but they are not at the campground anymore and they tend to explore the world a lot more than the show.
Masta23
06/30/2011, 01:20 pm
Yep! They're good.
Speaking of which.. this should get me started.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walking-Dead-Compendium-1/dp/1607060760/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309468591&sr=1-1
I just realised that I don't own the walking dead on dvd yet, so I might buy that too.
How much of the material from the comic books did the first series of the walking dead cover?
I can't wait for the second series to begin, which will have 13 episodes instead of 6.
Gman5852
06/30/2011, 02:05 pm
Speaking of which.. this should get me started.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walking-Dead-Compendium-1/dp/1607060760/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309468591&sr=1-1
I just realised that I don't own the walking dead on dvd yet, so I might buy that too.
How much of the material from the comic books did the first series of the walking dead cover?
I can't wait for the second series to begin, which will have 13 episodes instead of 6.
Maybe the first 10 or so comics.
Rather Dashing
06/30/2011, 06:48 pm
Maybe the first 10 or so comics.
Closer to the first 6. The show more or less covers Volume 1: Days Gone Bye. It's a bit hard to say because the show seems to skip some events that may happen later relative to the comic's interpretation(their occurrence seems hinted at), and it also completely fabricates other events, but the RVs leave the Atlanta camp very early in Volume 2 and that's about where the show ends as well in terms of adapting comic events.
Irishmile
06/30/2011, 08:57 pm
yeah the show has not really even scratched the surface of the story...
Also once again I am pleased that this will be different characters between the books and the show I really do not need the game to tell me the story of the same characters over again.. I like that we are getting a different story and different characters it just adds even more to the WD world.
Masta23
07/01/2011, 04:15 am
Any idea when the second series will begin? It should be around October right?
Masta23
07/02/2011, 05:51 am
Well I have received my compendium now. Considering I don't really read comic books, I'm loving it.
Woodsyblue
10/21/2011, 09:09 pm
I am absolutely thrilled with the direction this game is heading in. It's a risk to not center the story around the characters we already know and love but if done right this game has near unlimited potential.
This is a game I'm going to very much keep my eye on.
Masta23
10/23/2011, 02:44 pm
Yay Volume 15 is out on December 20th according to amazon, just in time for christmas.
Is this release date accurate?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+walking+dead+volume+15&x=0&y=0
Also the novel has just been released
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walking-Dead-Rise-Governor/dp/0330541331/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1319409989&sr=8-3
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