New Telltale games to be announced this autumn
From VG247:
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Adventure specialist Telltale is gearing up to announce new titles “around October,” head honcho Dan Connors has told VG247 in a phone interview, and it sounds as though the studio - known for its episodic comedy titles, such as Sam & Max - is about to get more serious.
“Yes, probably in the next few months,” said Connor on the subject of when we’re going to see new Telltale series announced.
“I think there’ll be some combination of things. I think we’ll be sticking with some of the franchises we’ve worked with, and we’ll be announcing some new franchises, probably in some new genres as well, not just comedy.”
Connor went on to say that audiences had allied with TV shows such as Sopranos, True Blood and Lost thanks to their “drama” and “psychological connection,” and added that games like Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain may lead Telltale towards the same goal.
“Heavy Rain is something that really seems to be going after that sense,” he said.
“We’ve always believed that there was a chance to get there as well. We want to continue to evolve the genre. We’ve already evolved the genre in a lot of ways in what we’ve done with Sam & Max and Wallace & Gromit… but we believe there’s a lot of head-room to make more dramatic advances in storytelling and drama inside of this genre.”
We’ll have more from the interview soon.
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I also hate Announcements of Announcements. They always feel conceited, and they're this big gaming corporation "fad" that is starting to get under my skin.
All the same, I look forward to the actual announcement. I kinda assumed we'd just get a Sam and Max announcement at the end of the Tales season, and now we're getting apparently multiple announcements in October?
I guess that's interesting.
I liked that he name-dropped Lost, True Blood and The Sopranos, which are my all-time favorite TVshows.
Also looking forward to Heavy Rain!
Keep the Komedy
They've took the "new genres outside of comedy" line to mean "it looks like Telltale may be expanding their reach to include other types of games".
I'll eat those words if the next series of Sam and Max ends up to be an FPS though.
well doctor who isnt comedy...
Max would make an awesome FPS character, but yeah that would definitely not be good.
Two things that elicit enjoyment in an enormous amount of people.
They did pretty well with CSI.
Enjoying drama =/= watching "actors" slap each other while organ music plays.
There are compromises though. If you see games like Pandora Directive, Policenauts, Snatcher... they're not really "comedies" but humor is still a part of their personality. They're able to be funny at times and serious at others. That works for me more than a game that's consistently dreary.
If they're talking about bringing back franchises, Sam and Max is already known, but I wonder what the other is. Here's hoping for Bone.
That's what I've been thinking, also.
Those things are enjoyable. Besides every good serious game has some comedy in it, but it's not the main focus. The main focus is on good characters you can care about, great plot, and the human element.
Drama and psychological connection doesn't automatically equal soap opera. The only way a good serious story is dreary is if it is badly developed. Is Indiana Jones a comedy? How about Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, LOST, The Lion King, Batman, Spiderman, etc. And don't just pick one of these out, say I never really liked that one anyway so that proves serious adventures won't work, and use that as your argument.
That would be like me trying to argue you but spending my entire post complaining about how you spelled comedy with a K.
C'mon Telltale/BBC, get the deal done. You know it makes sense.
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Ok, well I was exhibiting my opinion. In my experience, every single soap opera I have ever watched sucked. But that is just my opinion. I wasn't trying to force it on anyone else, if it seemed that way.
Also, your point in stating Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. I liked those movies/TV shows, each of them. But each of those has many comedic parts to it. Also, I thought Doctor Who was a comedy...
Spelling comedy with a K was supposed to be a reference in itself to comedy. Making fun of oneself, Krusty the Klown, you get the picture.
I feel like you tried to take the crap out of my point that I was stating in my post, which was that I think that Telltale works best with comedy-style games, which are what most of us are here for. Merely stating my opinion. And so were you. But you also made me feel less significant...
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Oh, Fawful? How could you do this to me? To think I raised you into this- this- this THING.
I now feel no more guilt, which I never felt in the first place, towards hiring that assassin to kill you, with my millions of dollars I had hoarded away from my unpaid taxes.
Furthermore, I am not only your father, but also... YOUR SISTER!!
(Credits roll for "The Back & the Beautiful)
That's pretty much a soap opera. Now imagine that as a game. It would suck eggs. And that's, my two cents.
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But what does that have to do with Telltale making a serious game? They never once said that they were turning a soap opera into a game, or using that sort of narrative. There are far more genres out there besides "comedy" and "soap opera".
I wish Telltale could team up with Aaron Conners and Chris Jones to revive the Tex Murphy series... I'm still hoping to know one day what happens after the cliffhanger ending of Overseer.
i think telltale is a pretty cool guy. eh brings the renaissance of adventure games and doesnt afraid of anything
I don't understand. Why do you need to mock them?
I love serious entertainment oh so much more than I do comedy. Comedy can be great, but drama is where all the true emotions lie, and the ability to really move me. I hope that games are able to pull that off more and more in the future. Heavy Rain seems like an excellent candidate to start something big. Alan Wake is another title that has picqued my interest.
For once? They've already done it twice...
Hah.
My point was that drama doesn't mean lack of comedy. As far as anything else, I was trying to spare you from making a bad argument. And I understand what the K meant, I wasn't actually making fun of the spelling.
Seconded
I guess not, but would be awesome... if they could get Jane on the team.
Yes. Really, yes. That would be better than any old LucasArts franchise (except Zak McKracken...). Jane has been designing casual games for a few years now (even during the endless production of Gray Matter): I guess she would have no problems with the tight timelines of episodic, or with the Telltale approach in general. And the Gabriel Knight series (or maybe - and that would be even better - an original IP recalling it) seems just perfect: each game is set in a well defined area, with many recurrent locations and characters (just think of GK3), and its time-limited chapters often end with startling cliffhangers. Yes, it would be awesome.
By the way, I can't understand all the hype about Heavy Rain. Truly, I can't. Indigo Prophecy was intriguing, but this? Not only it looks dreadfully boring as a game: its cliche-ridden dialogue seems incredibly dull even by lame b-movie standars. And, honestly, did you find this moving? I think that there was much more soul in Manny's rough polygons (or in Bone's eyebrows, for that matters). Is this what we really need?