The Telltale Praising Thread
In the interest of balance, and because obviously, people don't speak up as much when they're happy, I have decided to start a praising thread to "complete" the complaining one. The point it to show that while we might complain a lot we're still happy in the whole (at least I am) and think you rock (at least I do). Anyone there, feel free to quote anything from my list you agree with and to add your own. If you totally disagree with something and want to complain about it, I suggest you do that in the complaining thread instead 
These things are listed in no particular order.
You give great support and allow people to get refunds with no questions asked
You regularly give out coupons
One of your game is ALWAYS free
You're present on the forums (if less so than before) and answer our questions about your games
You're present on the forums and participate in threads that have nothing to do with anything
You fix mistakes that are pointed out to you
The voice acting is amazing
The music is amazing
You work super-hard. This includes all possible ways to do overtime, as well as really trying to go the extra mile for the community
You care. A lot.
You reference things from the forum/blog/twitter in the games
You let us complain
You let me be incredibly appropriate, including but not limited to:
- displaying my anatomy
- creepy acts of stalking
- seduction attempts
All of the employees have replied to PMs I sent them
You liked the plushes enough to display them. Awwww.
You're not satisfied, you're always trying to improve, to take on bigger challenges, to give us the best
Your games aren't expensive (comparatively)
You provide several versions for the price of one
You keep trying to find ways to give us cool stuff on top of "just" the games
Mmh, kay, that's about it from the top of my head. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots.
EDIT: BY THE WAY! I find it ironical that I pretty much avoided calling it the "Telltale Appreciation Thread" when it would have fit so well. It wasn't on purpose, I just realised after the fact. Oh well. We appreciate all the work ad effort you put in guys! Seriously, we do!
These things are listed in no particular order.
You give great support and allow people to get refunds with no questions asked
You regularly give out coupons
One of your game is ALWAYS free
You're present on the forums (if less so than before) and answer our questions about your games
You're present on the forums and participate in threads that have nothing to do with anything
You fix mistakes that are pointed out to you
The voice acting is amazing
The music is amazing
You work super-hard. This includes all possible ways to do overtime, as well as really trying to go the extra mile for the community
You care. A lot.
You reference things from the forum/blog/twitter in the games
You let us complain
You let me be incredibly appropriate, including but not limited to:
- displaying my anatomy
- creepy acts of stalking
- seduction attempts
All of the employees have replied to PMs I sent them
You liked the plushes enough to display them. Awwww.
You're not satisfied, you're always trying to improve, to take on bigger challenges, to give us the best
Your games aren't expensive (comparatively)
You provide several versions for the price of one
You keep trying to find ways to give us cool stuff on top of "just" the games
Mmh, kay, that's about it from the top of my head. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots.
EDIT: BY THE WAY! I find it ironical that I pretty much avoided calling it the "Telltale Appreciation Thread" when it would have fit so well. It wasn't on purpose, I just realised after the fact. Oh well. We appreciate all the work ad effort you put in guys! Seriously, we do!
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and now for the more mushy part
I discovered Sam and Max back when "Beyond Time and Space" first came out. A mere stroke of curiosity on Gametap landed me not only here and in Purcell's zany universe, but also into a new perspective of life. When I first played the games, I was going through a rather rough time, one that I won't speak of on here. But needless to say, the humor caught me off guard and it really helped me get through the hardships. Not only that, it also helped ignite the prospect of how I needed to enjoy life more. To not take myself so seriously and to basically take the lemons life throws at me and made lemonade while chuckling like an evil manic. I'm a much happier person today thanks to that idea.
So thank you, Telltale, for introducing me to Sam and Max. For all your hard work and dedication to your fans. You are amazing
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You are the reference for camera movements in adventures
You estabilished an high quality level for animation of characters in adventures
You proved to have some of the best snappy dialogues in games
You have an important focus on the stories
You gave us a Monkey Island game!
You have a perfect monthly schedule
You created a successful episodic marketing
You have technical touches like focus, lipsynch, bump mapping, etc.
You made us laugh a lot
You gave us such amazing cliffhangers
You are patient with forum users
You are as CREATIVE as no one else can be
You always catch the mood of what you are creating
You respect IPs (calling Gilbert, Aardman, etc)
You give us Mac & PC verison at the same time
You give us wonderful concept art
You have a nice site with a costant updated blog
You created the Telltale Heart Project
You entertain us with external things (like TT Tuesdays or Treasure Hunt)
You made me buy my first (and only) Prepaid Card just for your games.
And because you..... ARE THE GREATEST ADVENTURE COMPANY SINCE LUCASARTS!!!!! And you know that your name will be joined together to the greatest adventure company ever made... Sierra, Lucasarts and Telltale... That's something many company wants to achieve, but you only were capable of.
Thank you Telltale!!!!!:)
Chapeau!
Incidentally, I agree with that. I think if someone makes that game, I'm glad it's you. On the other hand I guess I wish you were working on other stuff instead and that makes me grumpy >.>
But I have all faith that the Back to the Future games you'll make will be the best that could ever exist. It's just that I'd be more than willing to take lesser quality BttF games made by someone else if it meant you were creating your whole world/universe in a brand new story instead.
I second that as well!
Thank you for all of this and much more, Telltale!
I praise TTG for their technical brilliance in adventure games. A lot of stuff has this invisible feels good quality which most other adventure game developers are lacking and makes them in comparison looks like amateurs. I also praise them for their digital downloads and fair crossplatform releases, at least on computers, and a last praise for their fine customer support and comfy forum.
Blame:
I blame them for not delivering excellent and more complex adventures which i believe they would be able to, if they just would target it. I blame them for ditching point&click and last but not least i blame them for doing no originally/sf adventure so far.
This is the only one that I'd disagree with. They used to regularly give out coupons, but with Nikki's disappearance and the end of Telltale Tuesdays, we only get coupons as pre-order bonuses nowadays. Which is still awesome, I just wouldn't call it a regular occurance.
And it's not something I would complain about, so this doesn't belong in that thread, so I had to argue it here.
But yeah, everything else mentioned here are reasons that Telltale is crazy, awesome, and crazy awesome.
Telltale are cool dudes.
Adventure games make me laugh, and they make me think, so I know they'll be worth my time. I'd gladly take an average adventure game over the best brown military FPS
Telltale is making an effort to keep the adventure genre alive. I could go on about the many other reasons to praise them, but as far as I'm concerned I only need one. Telltale is the only developer where, when I hear they're making a new game, I know I absolutely have to play it.
Thanks, Telltale.
Although I wasn't here for the start of the ride, I find it fascinating to observe how Telltale has gone from humble roots such as Bone to larger franchises such as Wallace and Gromit, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, etc (And of course, I'm also looking forward to what Telltale has up their sleeves for the 17th.)
Anyways, I love that Telltale has introduced me into the Adventure genre.
In addition, I also love their strong attention to detail, as well as how they properly capture what makes the franchises they work with so special.
But seriously...I was extremely disappointed when Lucas Arts cancelled the sequel to Sam and Max. When TellTale suddenly resurrected the franchise I was on that like a dog hooking up with a female dog in heat. Back to the Future was such a great movie series, and I even enjoyed the cartoon that was out (although I haven't seen it since I was young so it might in fact suck horribly...He-Man apparently had my younger self fooled as to its lameness factor). Seeing the franchise continue in the form of an episodic game was just outstanding. It felt like I was in the movie, albeit a tad bit more zany as all good classic adventure games are.
Jurassic Park...er...well you know, I enjoyed the game's storyline. I wasn't a big fan of the gameplay, but you know...I would give them a second chance with a sequel. I loved the characters, and honestly...seeing the little girl get chomped by the T-Rex was kind of fun in a very sick way. I suppose I felt that way because they usually don't allow kids to die in games. I mean...when I would try to shoot those Little Lamplighter kids in the face in Fallout 3...you know...they would just flick me off, cuss at me, and tell me where I could stick it. Meh. Seeing 15 year old girls go off into a private area to sneak a smoke only to get attacked by a velociraptor, however, epic win. Watching the mercenary guy slowly progress from a joker to the final villain...also epic win. For some reason I kept picturing him being played by Chris O'Donnell in the movie. Would have been a better call than Batman and Robin.
The Walking Dead...having played the entire game since TellTale has chosen me at random to beta test all 5 episodes (plus the secret untold sixth episode which includes the long awaited and often speculated answer to what started the zombie epidemic in the first place) I have to say that this is by far my favorite game in their repertoire. It has brought great feelings of emotion involving Lee, Clementine (their inevitable romance), and I don't mean to spoil this, but the fact that Lee is Rick Grimes' brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate is quite mindblowing.
....okay I'm embellishing a little on that. Don't rage hate on me. I can't really justify making a comment about how awesome The Walking Dead is until all the episodes are actually completed. But I do have to admit that so far it's pretty good.
Oh! And then there is Law and Order. I ended up playing Episode One of that game, and I have to admit that it sort of surprised me in where the story went. I certainly didn't see that one part coming. Having never watched the show, does that happen often? Man...talk about a hook.
So yeah I'm down with TellTale. I think they're nice guys, and honestly if I could offer the sandwich I am eating right now, I'd probably share some with them. Thank you guys for your hard work. And thank you for putting up with all the crap that you guys have been lately. I hope you don't lose heart. We live in a day and age where a lot of companies don't want to take risks. They don't want to produce games that might not necessarily sell a million copies on the first day. They don't like to mix gameplay up that isn't tried and true. They haven't seemed to have heard of storytelling.
Please don't ever fall into that crisis. If you do...well I am sorry, but I'll have to create a new account just to flame you guys. Yeah...I know...Judas, you would betray me with a kiss?
Well...don't fall from grace, Your Majesty. Cause you're one of the kings. Also...don't get fat and kung-fuy with your crazy sideburns and sequined costumes. And uh...if you could maybe try to get the rights for a Bladerunner (Ridley Scott wants to make a sequel! It'll be a hot commodity! HINT HINT HINT) or a Dresden Files game...you know...I'd pretty much give you the entire sandwich of mine. I won't even nibble on it. So yeah...I'm a pretty swell fan.
Thanks again, TellTale.