TTG Mega Month News/Discussion Thread - Season Finales, Premieres, Remasters, and more!
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Telltale Games Mega Month News and Discussion
Season Finales, Series Premieres, and remastered classic titles!
What is Mega Month?
In ancient civilizations, legend foretells that than an eldritch abomination by the name of "Mega Month" terrorized swathes of people and devoured their souls for many generations to come. Rarely were people ever brave enough to so much as to even utter the name "Mega Month" from their lips without becoming completely paralyzed in terror and fear. As the story goes, whenever a Blood Moon shone in the pale night sky, "Mega Month" would emerge, and for the longest time, people were helpless to do anything but gaze in horror.
However, eons later, Telltale Games saw an opportunity stop the gruesome "Mega Month" beast once and for all.
During the Blood Moon on September 2015, Telltale revealed via Twitter they would release new series premieres, season finales, remastered classic games, and more all throughout October. What seemed at face value to be an announcement that October would be a very busy month for Telltale (or a Mega Month, you could say wink wink nudge nudge) was actually an elaborate ritual where Telltale would release several video games to act as a sacrifice to ward off the "Mega Month" and I don't know why I am making this highly contrived origin story.
In the process, the rest of us get to play some awesome new episodes from Telltale (and some remastered titles too) in order to celebrate! In the meantime, you can use this thread to discuss the news that Telltale will share throughout the month, as it seems a lot is going to happen!
Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Remaster
Telltale Games Announces 'Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition'
Back To The Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Remastered Edition Available Digitally And At Retail Starting October 13th
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future, one of the most beloved movies of all time. To celebrate the occasion, Telltale Games is releasing Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition!
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition features textures that take full advantage of current-generation console capabilities, and updated voice work from Biff Tannen's original movie actor, Tom Wilson. This edition also includes in-game access to new, exclusive content: a behind the scenes video featuring interviews with movie trilogy co-writer and producer Bob Gale, original movie cast member Tom Wilson, members of the development team, and AJ LoCascio - the voice of young Marty McFly.
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition will be available digitally worldwide and at retail in North America on Tuesday, October 13th, and available at retail in Europe on Friday, October 16th. Digital and retail platforms in both regions will include PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
Minecraft: Story Mode
Episode 1: The Order of the Stone
New Series Premiere coming October 13th to PC/Mac and Consoles, October 15th to Mobile Devices
'Minecraft: Story Mode' Episode 1 - 'The Order of the Stone' Trailer
Check out the Episode 1 Waiting Thread for more information on the Series Premiere!
Episode 1: 'The Order of the Stone,' the first of five episodes in the season, will premiere digitally worldwide on Tuesday, October 13th this year. The episode will be available at launch on PC and Mac from the Telltale Online Store, Steam, and other digital distribution services, on the PlayStation®Network for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, and on the Xbox Games Store for Xbox One® and Xbox 360®. The season premiere will be available for compatible iOS devices via the App Store and for compatible Android-based devices via Google Play and the Amazon Appstore starting Thursday, October 15th. The series will also be coming to Wii U and PlayStation Vita.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series season pass disc will be available at retail in North America on Tuesday, October 27th, and in Europe on Friday, October 30th. Retail platforms at launch will include Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 in North America; and PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 in Europe. The retail edition of Minecraft: Story Mode will ship with the premiere episode on the disc, and will grant access to the subsequent four episodes in the season as they become available to download via online updates.
In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you'll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond. You and your friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect; slayers of the Ender Dragon. While at EnderCon in hopes of meeting Gabriel the Warrior, Jesse's friends discover that something is wrong... something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and you must set out on a quest to find The Order of the Stone if you are to save your world from oblivion.
Episode 2: Assembly Required
The second episode of the series coming October 27th to PC/Mac and Consoles, October 29th to Mobile Devices.
'Minecraft: Story Mode' Episode 2 - Assembly Required Trailer
In the second chapter of the story, time is running out for our intrepid heroes. The Wither Storm looms ever closer, consuming everything in its wake. Depending on their decisions, Jesse and friends are off to explore either kingdoms of chaos or wondrous Redstone marvels in search of Magnus or Ellegaard, the remaining known members of The Order of the Stone. Can these legendary figures help our heroes stop the impending threat?
Your path in ‘Assembly Required’ will differ greatly depending on your choices made in ‘The Order of the Stone’, so more than one playthrough is definitely recommended after your season concludes! Did you choose to save Gabriel or Petra amid the Wither Storm? Did you choose to seek the help of Magnus the Griefer or Ellegaard the Redstone Engineer? This is one of our most divergent episodes yet depending on the paths you’ve chosen - and many players will have completely different experiences depending on where they’ve decided to go!
Check out the Episode 2 waiting thread for more information about the second episode premiere!
Tales from the Borderlands
Season Finale coming the week of October 20th, Episode 1 now free on Consoles and Mobile
Tales from the Borderlands - Episode One: 'Zer0 Sum' is now FREE on consoles and mobile. Also get a sneak peek at the Season Finale, 'The Vault of the Traveler' before it lands on October 20th on PC/Mac, PS4 and PS3; October 21st on Xbox One and Xbox 360, and then October 22nd for iOS and Android-based devices.
Check out the Episode 5 Waiting Thread for more information on the Season Finale!
Telltale Events in October
- October 8th: Telltale Games Publisher Sale on Steam
- The Telltale Collection bundle is 75% off, priced at $44.99.
- Current series such as Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones are off at 66%
- All previous series/games prior to Tales and Thrones are off at 75%
- Minecraft: Story Mode still has the current pre-order discount of 10%
October 12th: Minecraft: Story Mode - 'World's Largest Let's Play'
Today we can announce that Telltale Games and Mojang are holding a special WORLD PREMIERE launch event for Minecraft: Story Mode in Hollywood, CA on October 12th at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome! The Minecraft community and Telltale fans are invited to join in on the 'World's Largest Let's Play' as the audience cheers and directs the action on the big screen. Tickets to the event will be at no cost. If you'd like to attend, just email minecraftpremiere@telltalegames.com for more information. Seating will be limited and tickets will be offered in advance on a first come first served basis, so don't delay! This is your chance to participate in a very special event ahead of the public digital launch on October 13th (retail season pass discs hit stores starting October 27th).
Telltale will officially be streaming the event on YouTube Gaming! Watch for the feed happening on: https://gaming.youtube.com/TeamMojang
Comments
The Mega Month shall be tamed once and for all by the super sentai TELLTALE GAMES force!!!!!
Also you forgot Game of Thrones, Blind.
So many Telltale updates this month.
Why can't i hold all these games :P
The hype rises.
This origin Story would make a fantastic Telltale Game!
Dear October,
That origin story of the Mega Month XD all I can think of is:
Telltale Games Announces 'Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition'
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It's coming out on the same day as Minecraft.
We don't know for sure that the Game of Thrones finale is coming out in October - only "soon after Borderlands." If it does, I'll certainly make sure to add it!
The new blog post has some info:
Great Scott! This year marks the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future, one of the most beloved movies of all time. To celebrate the occasion, Telltale Games is releasing Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition!
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition features textures that take full advantage of current-generation console capabilities, and updated voice work from Biff Tannen's original movie actor, Tom Wilson. This edition also includes in-game access to new, exclusive content: a behind the scenes video featuring interviews with movie trilogy co-writer and producer Bob Gale, original movie cast member Tom Wilson, members of the development team, and AJ LoCascio - the voice of young Marty McFly.
This special remastered edition will be available digitally worldwide and at retail in North America on Tuesday, October 13th, and available at retail in Europe on Friday, October 16th. Digital and retail platforms in both regions will include PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
In Back to the Future: The Game, six months after the events of Back to the Future Part III, the DeLorean Time Machine mysteriously returns to Hill Valley - driverless! Now, Marty must go back to 1931 to recruit the help of a reluctant teenage Emmett Brown in order to save 1985's Doc from certain death. Can they repair the rifts of the past without accidentally erasing the future?
Next up - more news on the Minecraft: Story Mode premiere, and finales for Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones! Stay tuned...
Well looks like I have to be playing 4 hours of games.
It's coming soon after Tales from the Borderlands. There's a possibility that it'll come out in October, but with all of the other releases by Telltale going on that month, it'll probably be released in November. In any case, we have a lot to look forward to from Telltale this Fall:
Since no one's added it in yet:
'Minecraft: Story Mode' Episode 1 - 'The Order of the Stone' Trailer
Whoops, forgot to update the thread. Thanks for the heads up!
Updated the thread with info about the Minecraft Let's Play, and also made the post a little more well organized.
TOO MUCH!
Telltale has some more Mega Month goodness coming our way:
I wish Steam had a system in place where they'd give you a discount on the pack if you own some of the games already, like GOG.com does.
As it stands, it'd be almost as much to get the last five games I don't have on Steam as it would be to get the pack. That's pretty crazy.
*rubs hands together
This is gonna be sooo good, I can't wait to play them!
I'm So Excited
Still no The walking Dead season 3 or Wolf Among Us Season 2 news...so..
And...? So what? There's TFTB, GOT, BTTF and MCSM.
We should also mention that the Minecraft: Story Mode premiere will be livestreamed on Youtube.
Aside from TFTB & GOT.
Those last two .I simply don't care.
I think Telltale trying out new things (besides BttF, which is a remaster) is a good thing. If Telltale only made games that people were familiar with, we'd have never gotten games like Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, etc. When those two games were announced, people had similar reactions to what people had during the Minecraft announcement. It never hurts for Telltale to broaden their palette.
Good thing Telltale doesn't make games just for you then huh? ^-^
I personally find it helps to mentally compare Telltale to a TV channel. Sure, it's absolutely reasonable to expect each of the (notable) shows aired on a channel to be of similar quality, but that doesn't mean you have to like every single show, or that each each show is aimed for the exact same demographic.
Woo hoo! The mega month has begun! I've played Minecraft Story Mode episode 1, and I'm playing through Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition on Xbox 360 now.
It's so much better with Tom Wilson as Biff. Kid Beyond was good as wimpy Biff, but Tom Wilson gives Biff toughness even when in 1986, like he did when he didn't know that it was Marty at the end of the first film. It's a much more nuanced performance, and the game benefits from that. Kid Beyond is still the voice for Cliff and Riff though, but it works better this way now that the three brothers don't all sound nearly identical anymore. Plus, they left the voice of Kid Tannen alone, which I was worried about when it was announced that Tom Wilson would be replacing the Tannens. Kid's voice actor did such a fantastic job that it really would have been a shame if he was replaced. Thankfully that's not the case.
What did you think Story Mode?, Jennifer
Telltale posted a interview with Tom Wilson about Back to the Future.
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How is the behind the scenes content?
There's just one video that talks about the making of the game, interspersed with archived interviews from 2010 and 2011 with Christopher Lloyd and Bob Gale and new snippets of interviews with Bob Gale, AJ Locascio and Tom Wilson, and mixed in with scenes of Christopher Lloyd, Tom Wilson, Claudia Wells, and AJ Locascio in the booth recording their lines. They are really small snippets though. The Tom Wilson bits comes from the interview OzzyUK posted below, but sadly the whole video of that interview isn't available on the disc.
I really liked Minecraft: Story Mode. It continued the modern Telltale formula in a good way. It has an interesting story about a beast that is unleashed, and the game's group has to track down people who can help stop it. It has choices in the dialog, with consequences that come in the form of characters changing their opinion on you based on what you choose. Plus, there are choices to make on which character to save. It expands on the idea introduced in The Wolf Among Us of choosing one path, and the other one plays out whether you are there or not. Except this time, it feels like the choice matters more, as it extends into the next episode rather than being contained in a single chapter.
The new stuff is what I really liked though. I really like the idea of having customizable characters, including gender. Male and female Jesse have the same lines, but the actors read the lines really differently, so going through for a second playthrough really is worthwhile to hear those subtle differences. There's two areas of exploration here where you can just stop and look around and interact with objects and characters. The first one doesn't have a lot of character interaction though, but it's definitely good to see more areas that allow you to explore, without being led on rails through cutscenes and quick time events. Speaking of quick time events, there aren't as many of them here, which is my absolute favorite part of the game. The direct controlled action with a hit counter really shines. It's miles better than quick time events, and I really hope it becomes the standard for Telltale's action scenes from here on out.
They make good use of Minecraft style of gameplay through the crafting table, which lets you collect items to craft. These items are sometimes used to craft weapons, as expected, but they can also be used to craft items for use in getting out of situations (and the item you can craft depends on the items you collect in your inventory). I was also pleasantly surprised to see the return of real puzzles, in the form of a switch puzzle at the end of the episode.
It's a nice blend of old Telltale with new Telltale, mixed in with mechanics that never have been in a Telltale game before. Plus, there are in-joke references to Telltale's classic games in here as well, which is always appreciated.
A Tales from the Borderlands Episode 5 trailer is coming tomorrow!
Episode 5 of Tales from the Borderlands is coming out today, and on top of that, Job Stauffer teased during a Minecraft: Story Mode AMA that we might get news on Game of Thrones Episode 6 this week.
Thread: What kind of MEGA MONTH is this?!?!!?!!
SO 2 FUCKING EPISODES IS NOW CONSIDERED A MEGA MONTH?!?