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"Stranger Things" by Telltale Games Confirmed For A 2019 Release

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edited August 2018 in General Chat

This is on the tumblr for Eric Stirpe, a writer for Stranger Things and Telltale.

According to an article from The Verge, Stranger Things is coming before The Wolf Among Us 2, so expect a reveal at The Game Awards.

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  • UmbassabroUmbassabro

    Wonder if it’s gonna debut alongside season 3?

  • Nightwing6879Nightwing6879

    Guess Batman Season 3 will be 2020.

  • AChickenAChicken
    edited August 2018

    ...As expected? With Telltale focusing more on quality rather than quantity, I never expected this to release this year, not while Walking Dead has the spotlight.
    2019 is gonna be a new age for Telltale.

    I also fully expect Netflix to push this to be a full season release. Really weird, but if Telltale's been working on this for the past 6 months, then I think they'd be done by next summer.

    EDIT: and wait they say it'll be out before Wolf? Hmmm, I did not think that'd happen. We've been waiting for Wolf for way longer, and it was announced last year. I expected that one to come first.

  • AnimalBoyAnimalBoy

    Thought Wolf season 2 would have come out first.

  • Box TvBox Tv
    edited August 2018

    I am not sure if The Verge is accurate though. Telltale said we will have Wolf 2 news this year and I don’t think we would get it if the game was going to be released only at the end of the year. So I am expecting Stranger Things to release either with TWAU or around December.

    AChicken posted: »

    ...As expected? With Telltale focusing more on quality rather than quantity, I never expected this to release this year, not while Walking D

  • GSSalvadorGSSalvador

    I always thought ST coming before TWAUS2 was known? Didn't expect people to be so surprised by this. Wolf 2 probably wasn't actively in developed until sometime this year and ST was supposed to release last october.

  • OzzyUKOzzyUK Moderator

    EDIT: and wait they say it'll be out before Wolf? Hmmm, I did not think that'd happen. We've been waiting for Wolf for way longer, and it was announced last year. I expected that one to come first.

    I remember reading that Stranger Things was supposed to release last year but they push the development back, it's possible that they where working on ST before they started any work on Wolf which could mean it is still releasing first.

    There was also a Variety article which also seems to speculate that Stranger Things could be first.

    Multiple sources also tell Variety that the days are numbered for Telltale Tool, the company’s in-house game engine. The studio is shifting to Unity for its projects (both detailed by Variety’s source and referenced in job listings), with the final season of “The Walking Dead” the last to premiere on the old engine. “Stranger Things” is slated to be the first Unity engine project, according to multiple sources.

    AChicken posted: »

    ...As expected? With Telltale focusing more on quality rather than quantity, I never expected this to release this year, not while Walking D

  • GSSalvadorGSSalvador

    Stranger Things probably premieres sometime in the first half of 2019 and Wolf 2 at the end of 2019. At least that's what I expect.

    Wolf 2 was announced in spring of 2017 but was stuck in developement hell for some time. When Pete Hawley took over as the new CEO in September of 2017, he presumably wanted to cancel the project because of said developement hell, but people at Telltale convinced him to let them keep working on it, so he did. Early 2018 is probably when the project finally entered the full production stage. They seem to take their time with it, though, as they really want it to be as good as humanly possible. Which was also the case of the final season of TWD and Batman: S2 as you can clearly see. Wolf 2 is also now running on Unity and will probably feature a lot of new things and features that makes it distinguish itself heavily from what we're used to from Telltale.

    Stranger Things was also supposed to come out in october of 2017, but got pushed back because of Telltale's switch to Unity. Stranger Things seemed pretty far in developement if it was indeed to premiere last year, so the process of switching to Unity probably meant completely rebuilding it from scratch, which is why it took so long for it to release. They probably want it to heavily distinguish itself from other telltale games, too. Just like Wolf 2 and - to a lesser extent - the final season of The Walking Dead.

    That's what I think happened.

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