Uhhm any news ??? [Archive] - Telltale Games Forums

RAnthonyMahan

11/18/2011, 08:14 pm

Law & Order? http://www.telltalegames.com/lola isn't working and the title isn't in the TTG franchise list. Maybe it's canceled?

No, it's still happening. Although now every time it's mentioned they say "Law and Order" and not "Law and Order: Los Angeles," so I'm not sure if it's still going to be based on that show.

It does bug me that it's still slated for a 2011 release. There's not much 2011 left.

RexMaster

11/26/2011, 12:05 am

still no news over here...?

Ja1862

01/05/2012, 01:09 pm

Hopefully something comes up soon :(

Vainamoinen

01/05/2012, 01:27 pm

What, nervous now? :D :D :D

No, seriously - something is bound to come up really soon. This will be the next release, and I'm sure TTG wants to continue its pre-2010 tradition to formally announce a release date only one to three months before episode one comes out. The people who predict February are not necessarily mistaken.

Ja1862

01/06/2012, 03:33 am

Jennifer

01/06/2012, 04:58 am

There's a tiny bit that has been said by Dave Grossman about The Walking Dead in Adventure Treff's Christmas 2011 video (http://www.adventure-treff.de/specials/video.php?id=623) (Dave's the second speaker after Josh Mandel).

Telltale's Jurassic Park team has moved over to working on The Walking Dead.

So, with a full staff working on it, hopefully it's coming soon. :)

harrisonpink

01/06/2012, 10:37 am

Telltale's Jurassic Park team has moved over to working on The Walking Dead.

So, with a full staff working on it, hopefully it's coming soon. :)

We got most of those hard working JP people, but some of them are also bringing you Law & Order: Legacies too. So, we don't have the "full staff" on Walking Dead, but we instead have a "healthy percentage" :)

Johnxjericho

01/06/2012, 11:46 am

Any percentage is a good one...I can't wait to dive in to the dead soon..

Lambonius

01/06/2012, 03:57 pm

I sure hope that doesn't mean Walking Dead is going to be a clickable movie like JP.

Nintendo Boy1

01/09/2012, 06:00 pm

I sure hope that doesn't mean Walking Dead is going to be a clickable movie like JP.

Going back re-reading some of the initial Q&A's from last year. I remeber one by Jake saying the game will be more exploratory then JP or BTTF. Of course that could mean anything, we could be getting another JP type explortaory or a Skyrim open-world type gameplay; AND that comment of his was said WAYYYY back in May or April.

So things could've changed drastocally since then depening on stuff like sales and reviews of games like JP and BTTF. Personally I hope they escape the Quick-time events era and move to the more open-world type of gameplay; which would suit this franchise best, in my opinion.

RAnthonyMahan

01/09/2012, 06:27 pm

Going back re-reading some of the initial Q&A's from last year. I remeber one by Jake saying the game will be more exploratory then JP or BTTF. Of course that could mean anything, we could be getting another JP type explortaory or a Skyrim open-world type gameplay; AND that comment of his was said WAYYYY back in May or April.

So things could've changed drastocally since then depening on stuff like sales and reviews of games like JP and BTTF. Personally I hope they escape the Quick-time events era and move to the more open-world type of gameplay; which would suit this franchise best, in my opinion.

Of course it'll be more exploratory than Jurassic Park. They'd have a hard time making it less exploratory. :p

Anyway, a larger, more open-world adventure game would be good. (Not to mention it'd give Telltale practice for King's Quest.) Kind of goes against the episodic format, though, so I doubt we'll see it.

ObiWanThreepwood

01/10/2012, 07:33 am

Would an open world with lots of freedom and exploration really fit the Walking Dead's style? That world has always seemed quite confined to me... they move from place to place, hide out for a time... maybe I'm not as familiar with the franchise as I should be (I've only seen the show and the first few volumes of the comic) but it strikes me that this "open world" you mention is too full of zombies to really explore.

riojdn

01/15/2012, 06:58 pm

Nervous now?

I've been nervous my entire life from the moment I took my first steps rite up to the time I started balding.... WHEN I WAS TEN. :(

All I have now are games lol let's hope... no pray we get some info soon (hides in corner)

Lol. This post really made my day! The simple irony and the humongous optimism sealed the deal. You're right, hope is the only thing we could hold on to here.

Now im nervous too. lol.

harrisonpink

01/15/2012, 09:29 pm

Now im nervous too. lol.

Don't be nervous! When you're nervous, I get nervous!

Oh god, what is that over there!!

Oh, it's just my boss...

...and he wants me to give a speech to the whole company and I'm in my underwear!!

*gasp*

See what you're doing to me!?

Lukedfrt

01/16/2012, 12:51 pm

If its anything like JP i wont be paying too much for it!

Nightlight

01/16/2012, 04:50 pm

I'm kinda thinking they're going to delay this game to coincide with the beginning of season 3, at this rate.

Q4, 2012.

RAnthonyMahan

01/17/2012, 07:21 am

I'm kinda thinking they're going to delay this game to coincide with the beginning of season 3, at this rate.

Q4, 2012.

Too optimistic. I think it'll be released in a bundle with Half-Life 2: Episode Three.

Nintendo Boy1

01/17/2012, 01:45 pm

Don't be nervous! When you're nervous, I get nervous!

Oh god, what is that over there!!

Oh, it's just my boss...

...and he wants me to give a speech to the whole company and I'm in my underwear!!

*gasp*

See what you're doing to me!?

Wait has that happened before? And why didn't Sean film this?

Nintendo Boy1

01/18/2012, 06:34 pm

Sorry for the double post but I'd like to point out that the Walking Dead is featured on the main page. I have huch well be getting some more infor Reeeeeal soon. (Hopefully... *crosses finger*)

Vainamoinen

01/19/2012, 04:29 am

You could be on to something. However, as long as we don't get a new forum banner, don't get your hopes too high. ;)

Jake

01/19/2012, 11:12 am

Check the blog for a tease!

Vainamoinen

01/19/2012, 11:19 am

Awww, you're doing the announcement of an announcement stuff again! :D :D

RAnthonyMahan

01/19/2012, 11:19 am

Check the blog for a tease!

You don't know how happy I am just to hear anything about this game.

By the way, Jake, I know you're probably still not allowed to say anything specific about the gameplay, but I hope you can at least answer this much: Will the traditional adventure gaming crowd, the kind that play the genre for the intellectual challenge, like this more than BttF and JP?

Nintendo Boy1

01/19/2012, 12:42 pm

You could be on to something. However, as long as we don't get a new forum banner, don't get your hopes too high. ;)

Alan should get to that, right quick.

Check the blog for a tease!

Oh yeah. Now to get out the ol' squiggle charts.

By the way, Jake, I know you're probably still not allowed to say anything specific about the gameplay, but I hope you can at least answer this much: Will the traditional adventure gaming crowd, the kind that play the genre for the intellectual challenge, like this more than BttF and JP?

It could've changed alot from a year ago. They've might of added rolling grenades. :D

Jake

01/19/2012, 01:01 pm

You don't know how happy I am just to hear anything about this game.

By the way, Jake, I know you're probably still not allowed to say anything specific about the gameplay, but I hope you can at least answer this much: Will the traditional adventure gaming crowd, the kind that play the genre for the intellectual challenge, like this more than BttF and JP?

I couldn't say, because on the forums there are about a billion different definitions of what people do and don't want and do and don't like about Telltale's stuff at this point. It's not going to be a Sam & Max type game in terms of "everything is an oddball labyrinth of puzzles which only make sense when you've competed them," but it puts more environmental exploration and piecing things together in the hands of the player than BTTF or JP. There's also a bit more role playing put into the player's hands in WD. The game isn't about being GOOD or EVIL or anything like that (I don't think there are any unilaterally "good" or "right" choices anyone can make in the world of the Walking Dead) but the things you say in conversations and the way you approach situations stick with your playthrough across the season in a way I think folks will like.

Nintendo Boy1

01/19/2012, 01:04 pm

When and where do I preorder?

big-augen

01/20/2012, 12:45 am

When and where do I preorder?

You made my day!!! :D

RAnthonyMahan

01/20/2012, 04:53 am

I couldn't say, because on the forums there are about a billion different definitions of what people do and don't want and do and don't like about Telltale's stuff at this point. It's not going to be a Sam & Max type game in terms of "everything is an oddball labyrinth of puzzles which only make sense when you've competed them," but it puts more environmental exploration and piecing things together in the hands of the player than BTTF or JP. There's also a bit more role playing put into the player's hands in WD. The game isn't about being GOOD or EVIL or anything like that (I don't think there are any unilaterally "good" or "right" choices anyone can make in the world of the Walking Dead) but the things you say in conversations and the way you approach situations stick with your playthrough across the season in a way I think folks will like.

So long as it's deeper than BttF I'm happy. Thanks for getting back to me. :)

Looking forward to more info.

Nintendo Boy1

01/20/2012, 02:03 pm

When and where do I preorder?
You made my day!!! :D

I was being DEAD serious.

harrisonpink

01/20/2012, 02:26 pm

So long as it's deeper than BttF I'm happy.

It's deeper, but also darker. Like a deep, dark thing. A hole maybe. A really deep, really dark hole. Oh, not that it's devoid of content, or empty, like one might immediately think of when they think of the word. More similar to a hole's two main characteristics. That of deepness and darkness.

With zombies.

A deep, dark, zombie-filled hole. Yep. That's The Walking Dead game.

/sips tea

Perfect.

Lambonius

01/21/2012, 11:12 am

"Intellectual challenge"--bah. That's not the problem with BttF and JP AT ALL. Yes, BttF's puzzles were too easy and JP hardly even had ANY. But the much more distressing problem with those games is that the player has absolutely no leeway to explore and interact with the world beyond extremely limited "invisible hallway" scenes with hotspots that can be counted on one hand.

Make a game that actually gives us something TO DO for our 30 bucks, not just a movie to watch/click through, and I'll happily jump back on the Telltale bandwagon.

RAnthonyMahan

01/22/2012, 05:23 am

"Intellectual challenge"--bah. That's not the problem with BttF and JP AT ALL. Yes, BttF's puzzles were too easy and JP hardly even had ANY. But the much more distressing problem with those games is that the player has absolutely no leeway in to explore and interact with the world beyond extremely limited "invisible hallway" scenes with hotspots that can be counted on one hand.

Make a game that actually gives us something TO DO for our 30 bucks, not just a movie to watch/click through, and I'll happily jump back on the Telltale bandwagon.

That's true too. Part of the charm of adventure games is exploration. Hopefully that hasn't been forgotten.

big-augen

01/30/2012, 11:29 pm

Aw, man! I can't wait! Give us new news!^^

Nintendo Boy1

01/31/2012, 08:49 am

^^^

LikaLaruku

02/02/2012, 06:07 pm

If I watched TV, TWD is something I totally would have watched. I'm going to buy the game, even though I've never seen the series, & never will unless I can see it all online from the beginning of season 1; The past 12 years I have browsed through TV at all hours of the day & wonder why I even own a TV let alone continue to waste money on cable...It's because of the old people who need TV to sleep.

RAnthonyMahan

02/06/2012, 04:54 am

So, uh...we're a pretty decent way into February now. Where's the news?

big-augen

02/06/2012, 06:12 am

via twitter they say in the march issue of the OXM... when will the march issue come out?

Vainamoinen

02/06/2012, 06:47 am

via twitter they say in the march issue of the OXM... when will the march issue come out?

Whooops, there goes the winter release?! ;)

big-augen

02/06/2012, 07:23 am

Whooops, there goes the winter release?! ;)

the tweet doesn't say the OXM news are exclusive, maybe there will be news on the blog soon. the march issue should come out in feb and winter ends in march. sooo... maybe it's still going to be a winter release. :)

Ja1862

02/06/2012, 07:53 am

I hope so :D

RAnthonyMahan

02/06/2012, 02:16 pm

The March issue of OXM is out, and I had the chance to skim through it.

Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything in it we didn't know already (doesn't focus on the comic cast, choices affect the plot...). Not even a new screenshot.

Most interesting thing is they call it a "horror-adventure game", which makes me think of the older Resident Evil and Silent Hill games. But hopefully there'll be more adventure than that.

Nintendo Boy1

02/06/2012, 04:46 pm

Aww man, I want some more info! I hope they're not delaying for a huge technical problem or something of the such.

Ja1862

02/08/2012, 03:47 am

I hope not!!!

Fingers crossed

Bloody Eugene

02/08/2012, 03:55 am

Aww man, I want some more info! I hope they're not delaying for a huge technical problem or something of the such.

I hope for a delay if that means a better overall quality (expecially for checking bugs).

nomecopies

02/08/2012, 05:21 am

I miss when they gave a date, then you preorder, then they delay. :D

Now, seriously, NEWS PLEASE! a tiny screenshot maybe?

RAnthonyMahan

02/08/2012, 06:16 am

Aww man, I want some more info! I hope they're not delaying for a huge technical problem or something of the such.

A delay I can handle. What I can't handle is that the game was announced nearly a year ago and its release is months (if not weeks) away and we still have no clue what the gameplay is like.

I don't want to be critical of Telltale since I enjoyed their older stuff so much, but after BttF and JP I sort of have to approach everything they do with skepticism now. At this point I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Telltale just released the game and said "You want to know what the gameplay is like? Go play it." And I'm sure as hell not going into this game blind.

Hell, Telltale's silence about the gameplay is sort of eyebrow-raising as it is. Maybe they don't want people to know what it's like?

Vainamoinen

02/08/2012, 09:12 am

Hell, Telltale's silence about the gameplay is sort of eyebrow-raising as it is. Maybe they don't want people to know what it's like?

Ohhhh don't be that guy. Maybe the average movie fan isn't a gamer, but the average comic reader sure is! A Walking Dead game tailor-made for the fans of the franchise as a target group will have lot to "play" around with.

The silence is nothing new. We've had it years before. But before you know it, admins are all over the place in the forums, a landslide of screenshots are released, IGN retells the entire first episode (DUH!!), the store fills up with merchandise and people are almost exclusively underway in the insider forum, winning stuff. Sound familiar? ;)

Bloody Eugene

02/08/2012, 10:39 am

I hope they just take their time... to me this project is "make it or break it" about the Telltale Company. If they fail I think the company will be facing some big problems to keep their (already a bit compromised) reputation - and earnings.

I just don't suffer anymore their approssimative standards for QC. Expecially about bugs, graphics and technical stuff. All their greatness now remains in the pre-producion material - there are great things there - but they are missing something when they translate things on a 3D game.

I want this game to represent a reborn of TT games. I can wait even the next year.

So, it's crucial, they better take their time to bring the game at the state-of-the-art.
I repeat : THE STATE OF THE ART - because I know they are capable of it.

RexMaster

02/12/2012, 12:34 pm

Telltale, can you please give us something?! Its been a few weeks since u said we will get an announcement on the game in the blogs... and still nothing. Now today is the day that Walking Dead Season 2 resumes and I am really looking forward to it as much as i am this game, so please... give us something to work with.

nomecopies

02/12/2012, 12:50 pm

Is this game DEAD?

(I hope it is!)

big-augen

02/14/2012, 10:45 am

new walking dead episode was nice, but where are the game news??? ;)

harrisonpink

02/14/2012, 11:54 am

Is this game DEAD?

(I hope it is!)

nope. undead.

/rimshot.

RexMaster

02/14/2012, 04:06 pm

Obviously the team is still here, wheres the game...? :mad:

5abanja

02/14/2012, 04:52 pm

Expect something to happen tomorrow

Alan Johnson @TheAlanJohnson

Oh man, there sure is going to be some The Walking Dead happening tomorrow. #vague #thewalkingdead #telltalegames

RAnthonyMahan

02/14/2012, 05:42 pm

Expect something to happen tomorrow

Of course, big news on the day when I'll be trapped at work the longest. :rolleyes:

At least it's coming, though.

Nintendo Boy1

02/14/2012, 06:21 pm

Of course, big news on the day when I'll be trapped at work the longest. :rolleyes:

At least it's coming, though.

I know how you feel. I've got school then immediately following is Musical Rehersal 'till about the time I'm posting this.[/late] Though I'm excited to finally hear something about this game about a year after it was annouced.

RexMaster

02/14/2012, 06:39 pm

Expect something to happen tomorrow

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I was just about to say screw it and come back in a month, haha

Nintendo Boy1

02/14/2012, 06:47 pm

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, I was just about to say screw it and come back in a month, haha

Me too. Well I wouldn't of left, my money probably would've went to the Double Fine Adventure. (Not like they need it.)

Icedhope

02/14/2012, 10:45 pm

Usually a week before the month ends. I know some magazines send out March issues in the beginning of feb.

Weeksy

02/15/2012, 04:15 am

Perfect timing to stick my head in the forums for a quick look.....

thesporkman

02/15/2012, 04:57 am

Check out Alan's sweet Twitter avatar:

http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1825918719/zombiealan.jpg

I wonder if all the Telltale employees are going to have cameos as zombies in the game?

Woodsyblue

02/15/2012, 05:06 am

IGN has an article on the game up (http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1218728p1.html). There are some screens but not much new info. (Edit: Though there is a link to an interesting making of the game video.)

Vainamoinen

02/15/2012, 06:36 am

Errrr... why is the present NEW NEW NEW blog entry marked February 13th although it hasn't been there an hour ago?!?

Jon NA

02/15/2012, 06:42 am

Yeah, I wonder about that too..
Anyway, They did what I suggested for the podcast! An episodic Q&A series with creators and Robert Kirkman! Brilliant!

RAnthonyMahan

02/15/2012, 07:02 am

And still no straightforward "The game will play like this."

I miss adventure games. :(

Alan Johnson

02/15/2012, 07:07 am

Errrr... why is the present NEW NEW NEW blog entry marked February 13th although it hasn't been there an hour ago?!?

The blog was written on the 13th and tagged as such automatically. Just had to manually change it.

Done.

RexMaster

02/15/2012, 07:16 am

I watched the video but didnt hear it and now im interested again... did they mention a release date taht i missed?

Jon NA

02/15/2012, 07:22 am

And still no straightforward "The game will play like this."
Yeah,... A guy would know everything they said if he'd followed the news and forums...
I guess this was just a roundup or a prolouge for people how haven't been following the news.
Guess there'll be some more info in the next episode.

Something else, why the serious talk-show style? Jack and Sean have experience in podcasts, - look up "idelthumbs podcast" on Google if you don't know about it - Why not just let them direct the series?
The video doesn't have a friendly atmosphere. It's more like a press realese... I expect that because TellTale used to do so. I'm not asking much. I'm not even asking for something! They can do whatever they want. I'm Just curious why they do this.

EDIT: Oh, OK. This series isn't apparently for the Website audience only, It's aired on TV (Judging by the phone number in the end). OK. :) Never mind my question.