TT's King's Quest: R.I.P. (aka Really Improbable Project)

[MtnPeak]

Originally Posted by exo

a timeline is pointless when every piece of "news" has been incorrect to some degree so far.

It would simply be to summarize what we know/have been told in the interest of helping people who haven't necessarily been following this on a regular basis, but who still might be interested in KQ, to quickly see the history of the project, to the extent that the information has been made public. That is the point. Not everyone follows gaming news sites on a daily basis or communicates in adventure message board cliques.

I have seen people on other sites asking, essentially, "whatever happened to that Telltale KQ project?"

[exo]

and the proper response is, "its dead"

As someone who has been following the news on this, there are no friggin hidden gems in there. It is exactly how I stated it was.

Game was announced.
TT team member talks about researching it a bit (over 2 years ago now?)
.... nothing

I can't think of anything substantial that has ever been said about the game other than those 2 things, the one or to other times it came up it was just a 'mention'.

So people can ask what happened to the Telltale KQ project all they want, a timeline isn't going to answer their question any better then saying there has been no information on it in a long time.

[BagginsKQ]

"(over 2 years ago now?)"

Just under 2 years ago. It will be exactly 2 years from the first announcement next month, on the 17th.

Which begs the question, does Telltale have a february press event every year? Or was that a special event?

Not sure when we got the last comment, somewhere between 1 to 1 1/2 years ago.

Edit:
After checking the more reliable notes, the last few comments that I can find was made in interview at Adventure Gamers.com on March 14, 2011.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18536


Another news was given aroound June 7-9, 2011, around the time of E3 event. Which places that comment about 1 1/2 years ago. That was when the game (and several other Telltale series including Walking Dead & Fables) was said to be pushed back for a 2012 release (which has come and gone).

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2011/06/0...-quest-details

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-robert...t-203396.phtml

The last reliable known reference that I was able to find, was the Siliconera interview in May 10, 2012. Which was about eight months ago.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/16...re-game-genre/

So ya, none of the news is "over 2 years" old yet, but initial announcement will be reaching 2 years next month.

[BagginsKQ]

As far as amusingly unreliable listings, this site lists King's Quest as coming out in 2014, LOL;

http://games.gamepressure.com/developers.asp?ID=2092

http://games.gamepressure.com/game_info.asp?ID=16348

[cabezonx]

No! It says nothing about MI S2... dammit.

[BagginsKQ]

So basically;

Timeline

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/...ad.php?t=43746

[Blackthorne519]

For god's sake. It was an option. An option that expired.


Bt

[BagginsKQ]

Hey MTN asked for a timeline. I gave it to him. That's about it... There is nothing to add

Better to put up a "timeline", than have MTN and EXO argueing over putting up a timeline for the next 20 pages!

[Blackthorne519]

Yeah, but it's not your responsibility Baggins. If people want to know King's Quest information, they can search this site, google, or visit your wiki - there's tons of info there!!!


Bt

[BagginsKQ]

Hey, I'm adding that timeline to my wiki. It's based off of stuff I already added to the wiki.

Plus you forget with my background in history, I actually enjoy that kind of thing! Especially research!

Edit:
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/...ad.php?t=43746

Well, based on what I've discovered. We know that Telltale never intended to release King's Quest until after Walking Dead, and Fable. Both Fable and Walking Dead got delayed (with fable delayed almost 2 years). The last announcement for KQ was 8 months ago, May 2012. We know even then that plans for the game would have to wait until after Fable's release. We know though at that point they were starting to build the team for KQ. Perhaps staff were able to move off some of the smaller game series (such as Law and Order, and others to start moving onto KQ). A little over a month later, Walkign Dead season 2 was announced, but we haven't heard anything about King's Quest since. Even fable has had limited information.

If Telltale's option has expired or removed, we can infer that it had to have occured after May 2012, but not before. As they were just starting to put the team together at that point.

[MtnPeak]

Originally Posted by Blackthorne519

Yeah, but it's not your responsibility Baggins. If people want to know King's Quest information, they can search this site, google, or visit your wiki - there's tons of info there!!!


Bt

What a bad attitude. You are not king of the forum. Baggins did a helpful thing in getting information all in one place for people who might be interested to know the history of the project, such that it has been shared with us. To say, "just let people Google on their own" shows you don't care much about helping keep KQ fans in-the-know. Information summaries save people time. Not everyone follows these forums on a daily basis (or wants to sift through some people's' self-indulgent, jokey comments while searching for worthwhile info) or wants to jump around to different sites trying to piece together what has been happening with TTG's KQ.

So, let me say a big thank you to Baggins for his/her time and effort!!

[inm8#2]

Interesting timeline and info, thanks.

So, my general feeling is that KQ was put on the back burner in favor of TWD. But, fast forward through TWD's resounding success, the increased Telltale fanbase, and higher anticipation for Fables as a result of the previous two items, combined with hype for TWD Season 2, and you simply may have a decision that boils down to priorities.

I think TWD's success might have surprised even Telltale. Two years ago KQ was something Telltale would have wanted to appeal to more adventure game fans and build up their repertoire. At that time they were coming off ToMI, Sam & Max, and just releasing BttF. Two years later the success of TWD has done far more for the company than they would have expected of KQ.

Quite frankly, Telltale doesn't need to do KQ anymore. Whether they want to would be a different scenario.

I could be way off base. Just guessing and thinking out loud.

[BagginsKQ]

It was put on the back burner for both TWD and Fables. We don't know if Fables will be put on the back burner for TWD season 2 or not! ...or if they wait and spread TWD out as a much farther into the future.

However, we do know they are expanding their company so they can make more games, at the same time.. They want to make more games, not just one to two games a year. They want to make a wider selection each year.

Earlier this year, they mentioned they would like to get into major franchises like Star Wars, Halo, or Half-life. No they haven't gotten licenses for those, they are just 'ideas'.

They mention they would like to move ties back to Lucasarts and Lucasfilms properties if possible. They'll have to deal with Disney to do that!

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/04/th...alf-life-next/

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mis...f-life-or-halo

http://spong.com/article/28684/Tellt...alo-Franchises

[Blackthorne519]

Originally Posted by MtnPeak

What a bad attitude. You are not king of the forum.

I'm not? Well, when did this change. I was voted Emporer of the Internet in 1997 by Netscape, Inc. That's almost 16 years of my internet fiefdom, son.

Baggins did a helpful thing in getting information all in one place for people who might be interested to know the history of the project, such that it has been shared with us. To say, "just let people Google on their own" shows you don't care much about helping keep KQ fans in-the-know. Information summaries save people time. Not everyone follows these forums on a daily basis (or wants to sift through some people's' self-indulgent, jokey comments while searching for worthwhile info) or wants to jump around to different sites trying to piece together what has been happening with TTG's KQ.

So, let me say a big thank you to Baggins for his/her time and effort!!

Baggins does that kind of stuff all the time; as he said, he likes to research and catalog stuff. But he doesn't have to do it for you lazy, half-assed homeboys who can't be arsed to find out more about your beloved King's Quest than half heartedly walking onto a forum, like a petulant child, and demand your information. I bet you don't know what a library even is or how to use the Dewey Decimal System!

You make me want to vomit.

Now, I have to go - it's time for my OsCal.


Bt

[Chyron8472]

If you pulled the stick out, you'd realize that it's not laziness to prefer not to have to spend time (that could be spent doing other things) sifting through forum posts littered with arguments about whether MoE is KQ8 while looking for news updates which could potentially even be off-topic for the associated thread(s); digging through various game news websites trying to find relevant mentions of Telltale's King's Quest; and paging through each and every Telltale Blog post trying to find something.

It's a credit to Baggins for compiling the info, not laziness that not everyone else in the world wants to have to do it.

[MtnPeak]

Bt, I apologize for my comment. I got kind of carried away. Still, I definitely disagree with you about the value of summarizing and organizing information in order to help other adventure game fans and people interested in KQ. Ever use Wikipedia? Is that a site for people who are too lazy to do their own exhaustive research of primary sources. Chyron has it exactly right here, as far as I'm concerned. Baggins did a great job on that summary. I am happy that someone with his KQ knowledge, his attention to detail and his ability to clearly and succinctly summarize lots of info is part of the KQ fan community and is willing to contribute with posts like that. Reading it I learned some things I didn't know before.

[BagginsKQ]

To be fair, the stuff is pretty darn scattered apart... It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, or looking for sheets of paper that blew to the four corners of the earth... If you don't have a general clue where to look for them to begin with it can be a bit daunting!

I had to essentially sift through 15-20 (and there was alot more than that) pages of 'google results' each (for 2-4 different search phrases), and most of these ended up being references to The Silver Lining (because that garnered most of the KQ news in recent years), the occasional article about AGDI, maybe one or two for Infamous Adventures, repeated & redundant information linking to other articles with better information (but I had already had links to), and stuff associated with the old games... So I had look past the 'snow', and find relevent references to "telltale' only.

In the process I came across news while not so much relevent to Telltale, but that I had never had come across before. But even those slowed me down from finding actual 'relevent' or even indirectly-relevent information. So no it was not easy, and I don't expect the average person to have the patience or the 'luck' to find what I found.

I can't say that I found 'everything' related either. No way I was going to check every 'result'. I have my real life research and papers to do, and those must be a priority! But I do have to say, the KQ research, was a nice break from the academic research I'm doing right now.

[Lambonius]

I don't know why, but this thread instantly makes my mind think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fMlg5WTMM

[BagginsKQ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Watch out for Scary Mary...

[Blackthorne519]

Heh, guys - it's cool. I was just purposefully acting like a crochety-old-man. Hence the "OsCal" for my brittle bones joke. I'm just an old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn.


Bt