Eurogamer: Lost is Telltale's most requested game.
According to this article on Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/telltale-lost-is-most-requested-adaptation Lost is Telltale's most requested game, followed closely by Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I am definitely surprised by this.
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That list we filled out on S&M3 for 15% discount/a free episode?
I say bring it on!!
By how things are right now, i think Lost story is getting crapier by the minute and i wouldnt be excited about a game based on a not-so-good story.
But cant really judge something until its done.
Btw. is Lost more a USA thing? I don't know a single person of my friends who is into it.
Additionally, I would feel bad since they would have spent their TIME on that unworthy franchise.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy DOES sound like a great idea though!
Woah woah. What's this?
That was a while back. We answered questions about what kinds of games, music, movies and stuff we liked, and voted on stuff about Season 3, such as which description we preferred among several, and which parts (psychic powers, direct control, 5 chapters in an intertwined story) we were most interested in.
Afterwards we got a coupon for either 15% off in the store or one free episode (older than ToMI).
Maaan how did I miss that?!
BAM!
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
Also, I love Lost. But I have zero interest in playing a Lost adventure game.
Personally, I don't know neither...
Douglas Adams did do an adventure game (as well as a couple of text-based games): Starship Titanic, released in the late 90s.
I can't remember why I never played much of it, but I love the Hitchhiker series and Adams's style in general, so the fact that I didn't get very far in is probably a bad sign.
Looking at reviews, I think maybe his whimsical, oddball style didn't translate well in the game. A major part of Adams's charm is his unexpectedness. When it comes to an adventure game though, you need some kind of logic or convention because that's how the player is going to figure out how to interact with the world and overcome obstacles/puzzles. I get the feeling that the same unexpected/bizarre quality that makes his writing so lovely created a game world that is just too difficult to interact with.
*cough* Broken Sword *cough*
EDIT: Oh yeah, and on-topic, I have absolutely zero interest in a Lost game.
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14106&highlight=futurama
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10299&highlight=futurama
I think Futurama has a following here.
Yeah, I also forgot about The Longest Journey, too. Which is apparently very good (own it, haven't played it yet).
Me neither. Isn't there already a Lost video game out?
I loved it. Found the sequel disappointing, though. And I wonder if they're still working on the third one or if it's going to be released as a novel as they said it might.
(Or is it out already? I haven't followed that stuff too closely).
There is. I played as much of it as I could stand, but it was pretty boring. I don't think Lost is quite Telltale's style (although I haven't played their CSI games, which might be a better comparison stylistically than their downloadable stuff), but I do think they could do a better job than the Via Domus game.
Infocom billed its difficulty as "Standard", and that was obviously poor judgement on their part. Considering that you have to know the book AND radio play obscenely well to solve some puzzles, while others are just really hard. It is the only game to start me in a bedroom and kill me before I even got out of bed. This game HATES THE PLAYER, with a burning passion.
....I...I love it so.
Lost ended a looooong while ago. Right now, they're just doing mouth to mouth on a rotten corpse.
Rather Dashing summed up my feelings on that one.
Which goes to show you can't please everybody. Still, sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn't give a rat's ass about Dr. Who.
Same goes for Hitchhiker's Guide, but I chalk that one up to lack of exposure, and that's a series I'd actually consider looking into if Telltale were to pick it up.
I'm also not interested in Dr. Who at all. Futurama could be nice but if it's a known IP i guess there are more interesting ones around (like The Dig, like something from Lewis Trondheim, Jack Vance, so many books with awesome worlds, something new, ...) and i also would be interested in a more serious and adult like adventure game as well, just not something like Lost or CSI.
Check inventory.
Oh hey! Sonic Screwdriver!
Use Screwdriver on Thing.
Yay! I figured it out!
OH NO A PUZZLE WHAT SHOULD I DO?!
Check inventory.
Oh hey! Sonic Screwdriver!
Use Screwdriver on Thing.
Yay! I figured it out!
OH NO A PUZZLE WHAT SHOULD I DO?!
[Intro]
"Oh no! I lost my Sonic Screwdriver!"
As if a Doctor Who game would be so boring and one-dimensional! You'd have to use the psychic paper (not the sonic screwdriver) for at LEAST 15% of the puzzles.
And don't forget running! There would definitely be a high "run away to buy time while we figure this out" component.
And let's not forget "Daleks see humanity as a weakness, but in reality it's a LACK of humanity that is the DALEKS' weakness. So let's use humans' humanity to defeat the Daleks! Ha!"
And anyway, if there was an actual statistical study done about which IP fans would most like TTG to make a game from, who and how many people were included in the statistical sample? What sort of questions were they surveyed with? You can't just say "everyone who plays TTG games" because I'm certain a very small percentage, if any at all, of people from these forums were polled with unbiased questions as to which IP they wanted. I certainly wasn't and I think the show Lost is boring.
Does anyone else here remember there being an official TTG poll around here where most people voted for Lost? I remember there being a poll or several that one of us made regarding such things, but I don't ever remember too many people voting for it.
In short, that article sounds like a load of bs to me.