Now this literally came out of nowhere. Telltale Games is a company that a lot of gamers adored for its The Walking Dead games, as well as its other projects like The Wolf Among Us Batman – The Telltale Series and more. However, the company has announced that it is closing down, with only 25 employees remaining to fulfil the company’s obligations to its board and partners. And yes, the second season of The Wolf Among Us has been cancelled.
— Telltale (@telltalegames) September 21, 2018
According to the CEO Pete Hawley, the team has ran out of time and despite some amazing reviews for its latest games, these games did not sale well across the board. As such, the team has made the decision to begin a majority studio closure.
As for The Wolf Among Us Season 2, Jessica Krause confirmed that it has been cancelled and that it won’t be released.
We also don’t know whether there will be any future support for the latest Telltale games that are currently available and still suffer from bugs and glitches.
Telltale Games was one of the very few companies that benefited from episodic releases. However, it appears that the market has moved away from such releases and the closure of this company proves that there is no future at all to episodic games (unless of course you are Square Enix and are making an episodic version of Final Fantasy 7).
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My gosh that was fairly sudden
I did not even knew they were in difficulties
Obviously the loss of jobs is sad, but to be honest their novelty wore off for me after Wolf and Walking Dead (both great) and felt like mobile games. I think it’s great when devs put the time into cinematics, QTEs (done right), and story telling in games but they have to include lots of quality gameplay to complement those elements to be an actual “video game” for me – and plop down a wad of cash. Otherwise I will watch a TV show or movie.
Also, some of the best IPs in existence came from originality and zero association with an already established IP. Unless I’m mistaken, once TT hit it big with Walking Dead they never tried creating their own IPs, different art styles, or played with evolving the gameplay. I think consumers would have loved the evolution of the “game” parts vs releasing another IP licensed title based on the same old same old.
The ancient engine which had problems in all the platforms didn’t help, I knew this was going to end up happening when they said they were shifting to Unity Engine.
Unity Engine is not exactly much better than their current engine, as it also suffers performance issues in all the platforms.
It’s unfair to say they stopped creating their own IP after Walking Dead took off, because they never created their own IP in the first place; every game Telltale made (possibly with the exception of Poker Night) was based on something (Back to the Future, TWD, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands) or a continuation of a preexisting adventure game franchise (Sam and Max, Monkey Island).
That said, I will miss them; they were one of the “comfort foods” of gaming if that makes sense. You’d rarely get anything profoundly amazing, but at its worst it still passed the time well when you just needed to turn your brain off for a few hours.
Thank god we got the walking dead before this announcement
Well I just read from an article that they won’t be able to complete the entirety of the season. They’ll be able to complete episode 2 but the remaining two episodes after that are currently in doubt.
Unfortunate.
Never been a big fan of storybook style games.
But I did enjoy them to an extent.
Like others, this really did come out from nowhere.
Also perplexed no one offered a buyout.
thats what happens when you pander to sjw`s… you lose your fans who actually bought your games. good riddance.
How did they do that?
this is nothing to do with SJW.
what is that even? something star wars related? i dont get what people talk about..
Social Justice Warrior (SJW). Fighting for women rights by making men look inferior
No, sjws whine about everything including why is well established character not black, he has to be black now because its progressive.
Ohh omg. I see now..
SJW =
Someone who defines things as sexism without proof to justify using sexism as a weapon.
— e.g. claiming the gender of a character/person is inherently proof of something nefarious.
Anti-SJW =
Someone who defines things as sexism without proof to justify using sexism as a weapon.
— e.g. claiming the gender of a character/person is inherently proof of something nefarious.
TLDR: It doesn’t really mean anything.
Upon further research watching louis stream
“Telltale Bankruptcy Auction Stream (Hangout)”
Sjws had a hand in this.
Put something againts SJW agenda (which I find annoying too but my position is just not paying attention and not constantly crying about it) and even Octopus John here will get upvotes.
Dont pay attention, this doesnt have nothing with SJWs, but the fact everyone is playing some battle royale 5h17 and they hired too many people for projects that didnt sell the expected.
Upon further research watching louis stream
“Telltale Bankruptcy Auction Stream (Hangout)”
Sjws had a hand in this
you getting triggered over hearing the word sjw and defending a studio that made boring cutscene simulators somehow doesn’t surprise me at all, not a bit.
edit:
don’t get me wrong, sometimes i get annoyed over seeing that word but for you it seems a different kind of annoying.
exact;y! i never played any of these games because they didnt have action! If they were action adventure games like tomb raider assasin creed doom darksiders just cause e.t.c i would had played all of them but now no!
my hatred of this company is exactly this. there’s no gameplay whatsoever. i blame them for making games with ton of unskippable cutscenes a trend. that’s the only type of game i cannot stand.
It’s still a silly reason to “hate” a company.
agreed, telltale making only games that i hate should make me love them and not hate them, my bad.
You hate them because they made games you didn’t like? That seems very childish, it’s not like anybody was holding a gun to your head and forcing you to play them. They exist, some people liked those games, some didn’t. No reason to celebrate people losing their jobs just because you happen to not like their games.
-no one celebrated anyone losing their job
-i didn’t say i hate them because they made games that i don’t like
-i didn’t say i was forced to buy their games
-who said anything regarding me buying their games?
-why are you so dumb?
>oh thank the lord, i fcking hate this company and every game they made.
In this comment you’re literally thanking the lord for the company shutting down.
>agreed, telltale making only games that i hate should make me love them and not hate them, my bad.
This sarcastic comment isn’t you hating them because of their games?
you bloody rytard, i hate their games and how they managed to make cutscenes and “walking simulators” a standard and more common in game industry. i still thank the lord for their shut down for reasons i mentioned not that some people are getting jobless. i don’t give a shet whether they have jobs or not because it doesn’t affect me in any way, stop caring about dumb shet that has nothing to do with you jesus.
>i hate their games and how they managed to make cutscenes and “walking simulators” a standard and more common in game industry.
Cutscenes were common WAY before Telltale got some mainstream spotlight.
I wouldn’t call Telltale’s games walking simulators either. They’re more like “modernized” point and click adventures. If you want to blame something, like a child, for walking simulators then blame games like “Gone Home” and “Firewatch”. Telltale, I think is the wrong place for that.
walking simulator means games that you don’t have to do anything, this includes games that force you to watch shet ton of unskippable cutscenes, games that are constantly interrupted by cutscenes, quick time events and anything you dumb rytarded teens jack off to. basically anything that is not fun.
inb4 you 50iq rytard comment like this:
“walking simulator means games that you don’t have to do anything”
but you do something and press buttons like any other game.
if you’re this dumb you lack brain capacity to get a response.
What a terrible, childish and vague description of walking simulators. I can apply that description to so many games. And I’ve played walking simulators that have none of the things you’ve mentioned. “Fun” is also incredibly subjective.
This conversation officially bores me. Too childish (although that’s my fault for expecting anything else from a child), irrational and just plain retarded.
I believe this conversation is below an average IQ and this frustrate me and my colleagues here at oxford university. if you have a point then let’s hear it otherwise do not waste our time with your childish responses.
You brown people crave excitement too much. Don’t you ever want after a long hard day at work riding around on your camel in the desert raiding other tribe’s camps to steal their camels and goats want to just kick back in your tent, take the towel off of your head and relax a little with a nice adventure game?
and that what they destroyed! They should had made the batman games like the Arkham batman games or like the previous Batman games before them which also was action games like the Arkham series and they would had sold millions!
Poor old Squify just can’t help himself. A lost cause if ever there was.
Yet another archetypal SJW-type response from you to go along with the others you’ve sought to berate others with both in this comments section and many more before it.
Dream on, if you imagine I’ll ever play along with your silly little games by giving you what you’re, by your own admission, “literally begging” for. gg
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there’s nothing wrong with my comment, i hate cutscenes in games. i want to play video games not watch them, simple as that.
as for my mention of the word sjw, i personally don’t have an opinion on this studio and their games because i have very little experience with them but knowing you i just made an assumption.
also i’m not stating facts, i don’t know you that well and as i said i made assumptions but i could make a better judgment if i knew your stance on some particular games.
“you think now is the appropriate time to call their work “sh*t”.”
WELL, why did they lose their jobs? Maybe it was bad? If you ask me every telltale game the last 2 years has been meh, they are not as good as they used to be.
apparently the devs have been shifted around alot, its not the same people.
So what you said is people is elaborating arguments which counts with proofs just to counter “SJWs kills games” argument? You are an idiot.
To be fair the last telltale games had some sjw stuff in it, like for example how in the last batman they forced batman’s sidekick to be a black woman and how Harley quinn was the strong female know it all character while the joker was just a fool.
implying “Get woke go broke” is wrong. To be fair the last telltale games had some sjw stuff in it, like for example how in the last batman they forced batman’s sidekick to be a black woman and how Harley quinn was the strong female know it all character while the joker was just a fool.
well i did notice some but not to a point to get woke go broke.
I guess this proves movie games are not a good idea.
Not only that but ever since they blew up with the help of licensed trademarks like The Walking Dead they’ve practically recycled a lot of their resources with each iteration.
Notice how the quality in Taletale Games only just improved with their more recent titles. More emphasis on things like animations, textures and newer gameplay elements were being shown off with the recent Walking Dead game if I recall. All of that wasn’t due to critical reception from gamers but rather from the realisation that they were gonna go under if they kept cutting corners like that.
Perhaps people were buying their games less and less with each title since they mostly knew what they were getting themselves into already. But of course their PR statement is gonna deny that and act like all their games are of excellent quality.
SJW has nothing to do with it. People calling out on those things without putting any thoughts into the matter are no better than what they fight against.
Honestly, the last few games were inferior story wise compared to the old ones. I agree that sjw had nothing to do with their failure, but looking at the last game they made, how they forced batman’s sidekick to be a black woman and how Harley Quinn was the smart tough villian and the joker was just a clown. Id say they were in the process of getting woke.
Upon further research watching louis stream
“Telltale Bankruptcy Auction Stream (Hangout)”
Sjws had a hand in this.
They should just make a battle royale game. That worked for Boss Key.
I did enjoy the first Walking Dead. Took me 3 tries to get into it though.
Wolf Among Us was really the only game they had that I got into.
Kinda surprised me too. I must have missed the news that they were struggling financially if there was any news of that.
Upon further research watching louis stream
“Telltale Bankruptcy Auction Stream (Hangout)”
He predicted this a year ago, they had layoffs and finacial troubles and hes Sjws had a hand in this.
I hope that–in light of being unemployed–they don’t jump out of any tall buildings, because landing on their feet won’t be helpful.
If they are Foot Ninjas they will be fine!
You would say that… Shredder.
?f course iwll!
its called catfall.
oh thank the lord, i fcking hate this company and every game they made. dumb fggots made cutscene simulators a standard and now they won’t just go away.
The games never moved forward. I loved the originals, accepted them for what they were, interactive stories, but they stayed there and never changed. The engine was crap, they should’ve jumped to UE or something to at least make them look nice and added some new mechanics.
Borderlands had alot of improvements but after that, yeah the games didnt go anywhere, they became more linear and scripted and cinematic.
It’s very unfortunate for all the people getting laid off, but on the flipside it’s great that Telltale won’t be putting out their ‘games’ out anymore.
Gfx being bad aside.. the games were amazing. Seriously. This is not a shame, its a tragedy imho. Huge loss.
#getwokegobroke
The last time I tired one of their games was on a free weekend on Steam or a demo or something, and like 5 minutes in it stopped registering button presses, preventing me from continuing. Their tech was never great to begin with, and has never really improved. Performance just got worse, too. You could say I’m not surprised.
bad news….never once played anything from them, waiting for a button prompt isn’t really my thing. but saw how people could enjoy a narrative driven …game? no…experience! yeah. thats too bad, from what I could see they were talented folks they’ll land on their feet, the economy is pretty good right now.
Considering the “games” were mostly interactive story telling a killing 3D engine with impressive graphics could have been a major plus. I grew tired of playing the same game over and over again after the WD – Season 2…
Well that sucks. I enjoyed many of their game series. Tales from Borderlands, Batman and Wolf Among Us were fantastic.
Wolf Among Us is really the only game I could get into in that style, and I absolutely loved it. Albeit, I went into it with pessimism after playing some others but if feel like TWD and people’s loss of interest in them over time led to this.
I feel sad to the people that lost their jobs but hope this will be a lesson to the next company that would to do an episodic format it was a niche back when telltale was a making nothing but Sam and Max games it was ok but I prefer my games complete or as close to it during its initial release but ever since the success of the WALKING DEAD other companies started copying their episodic format Capcom tried and failed with Revelations 2 and Square Enix saw nothing with Hitman and sold it so far the only other game that was successful seems to be Life is strange.
and with the development of FF7 going back to SE japan I hope that so called episodic format they planned in the beginning is no more.
Yeah, they worked on something like 5 projects at once as well. They really overworked themselves.
Another major problem is that the majority of their ‘games’ were based off insanely huge franchises, so even if they did sold millions, their licensing costs were pretty substantial.
but what about walking dead final season?
next episode should be release next week but are they gonna finish the season?
Yeah, far right kids hates Telltale games but the reason they have to close it was one of the pillars of capitalism… GREED. But it was “SJW” LOL.
To be fair the last batman game had some sjw moments in it.
I’m kinda surprised Kathleen Kennedy hasn’t tried to get Disney to purchase these Telltale and these titles to push her SJW agendas even further.
I’m kinda surprised Kathleen Kennedy hasn’t tried to get Disney to buy them to push her SJW agenda even further.