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No Season 2 at E3? Ouch... :(

MegaaceMegaace
edited June 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
I was secretly waiting a surprise from Telltale and LucasArts at the E3: The Season 2 of Tales of Monkey Island. It hasn't happened... :(

I suppose they are very busy making all these Back to the Future and Jurassic Park stuff that I am not interested... :(

With Darrell Rodriguez out of LucasArts and Telltale selling to Hollywood and their blockbusters, these are bad times for the graphic adventure fans... After Sam & Max Season 3 there is nothing... Only darkness... :(

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  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited June 2010
    Forget they were ever movies and think about it like this. Telltale are making two new adventure games, one of them is set on an island of dinosaurs and the other involves time travel.
  • jaden551jaden551
    edited June 2010
    emo much?
  • doodinthemooddoodinthemood
    edited June 2010
    wow dude... of all the complaints on here, that one actually sounds genuinely upset... Try and broaden your interests though. Play other adventure games. Play other non-adventure games. There's some great stuff out there at the moment.
    I'm maybe almost glad there wasn't a series 2 announced, even though Monkey Island is my favourite game series, because I love finding new things, and JP and B2F could be great, not to mention what's going to come out of the pilot project in upcoming months.
  • serweetserweet
    edited June 2010
    Having a new season so soon after the first would almost ruin the brilliance of it, I feel. Telltale won't have had enough time to write a good set of scripts, let alone start to construct the game.
    I would rather wait another few years for a brilliant Monkey Island game, and hopefully a good long game rather than episodic - i feel it breaks up the flow of a game too much, even if it does add suspense, that have another come out in quick succession that is a let down.
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited June 2010
    Megaace wrote: »
    Telltale selling to Hollywood and their blockbusters
    CSI, a Hollywood creation, has been on TV in three different versions for almost 10 years -- sounds blockbuster-ish to me.

    Nothing new here.
  • TeethTeeth
    edited June 2010
    They could've just bought these properties so they could make a bit more money to use to fund an even-better Season Two. ;) Seems to have been the case with Wallace and Gromit being a budget-stretcher for the first season of Tales.
  • jaden551jaden551
    edited June 2010
    I thought WAG was just a test to see if people would play with WASD
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited June 2010
    Sounds a bit melodramatic to me. While I understand your disappointment, I think 2010 is a really good year for adventure games, and I see no reason to assume the genre is going to be sucked into a black hole after S&M Season 3.

    Back when Puzzle Agent was announced, Dan Connors said they were working on 4 others, "more traditional' (read, not pilots but whole Seasons) projects.
    We now know of two of them. Even assuming S&M is one of them, there is still one. Maybe they're working on Tales Season 2 but want it to be perfect.
    Maybe they're working on something else.
    And hopefully there are more pilots to come. Puzzle Agent is looking better with every day that goes by.

    So don't worry, while I realise you're not interested in the two upcoming titles, Telltale has grown bigger and is working on more projects at the same time, we're not in the times of "one Season per year" anymore. There will be more stuff you like at some point.

    *hug*
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited June 2010
    Allow me to direct you to my in depth analysis of Telltale's release schedule here: http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=326798&postcount=81

    They have been growing bigger and bigger and making more and more games for more consoles. They are branching out, but that doesn't mean they're torching what got them to where they are.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited June 2010
    Some people really stoop to drawing premature conclusions around here...
  • EwenWEwenW
    edited June 2010
    Back to the Future should make a great adventure game and I trust Telltale to deliver.
  • jaden551jaden551
    edited June 2010
    EwenW wrote: »
    Back to the Future should make a great adventure game and I trust Telltale to deliver.

    But it is an episodic games that you download how can they deliver it to you? :p
  • WarpSpeedWarpSpeed
    edited June 2010
    Maybe you can time travel forward in the DeLorean to a point where Season 2 is available, download the game, and play it in game!

    (Adventure games inside adventure games have been done before! ;) )
  • jaden551jaden551
    edited June 2010
    WarpSpeed wrote: »
    Maybe you can time travel forward in the DeLorean to a point where Season 2 is available, download the game, and play it in game!

    (Adventure games inside adventure games have been done before! ;) )

    Go manic mansion!
  • MegaaceMegaace
    edited June 2010
    Play other adventure games. Play other non-adventure games. There's some great stuff out there at the moment.
    Why do you assume I only play Telltale games? Do you assume I don't like another genres, too? Well, this week alone I have been playing Red Dead Rendeption, Final Fantasy XIII, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Battlefield bad Company 2, Split/Second, Blur, and Assassin Creed 2. All of them are great games. All of them play like thousands games I have played before. For me, the Telltale adventures are unique. I don't want they lose it...
    serweet wrote: »
    Having a new season so soon after the first would almost ruin the brilliance of it, I feel. Telltale won't have had enough time to write a good set of scripts, let alone start to construct the game.
    Well we have had almost a season of Sam & Max every year... Tales of Monkey Island is one year old, I think it is the right time for a second season, like it is happening with Sam & Max...

    I am been a little sensitive, it is true, but it is because I am very realistic, too... Come on guys, BttF and Jurassic Park are mostly action films, and Telltale has been hired by Universal... Do you think Universal want graphic adventures without action and arcade scenes?
    In the last years Telltale has been publishing at last two adventures at the same time (Sam & Max with Wallace and Gromit, Sam & Max with Tales of MI or Strong bad...). Now we only have S&M season 3... and nothing... Puzzle Agent? Well, it seems a puzzle game like Professor Layton series...

    Of course I am speculating (it is a forum after all, you talk about facts or you speculate), and I trust Telltale and want to see what they are doing with BttF and Jurassic Park, but after years of wonderful graphic adventures the true is that, today, there is nothing like them after Sam & Max Season 3...
    And this is a fact...
  • DangeresqueDangeresque
    edited June 2010
    Megaace wrote: »

    Come guys, BttF and Jurassic Park are mostly action films, and Telltale has been hired by Universal... Do you think Universal want graphic adventures without action and arcade scenes?

    Well firstly i cant place either bttf or jp in the action genre. i consider them as mostly adventure movies. with jp ok its got a little more action than bttf but bttf is adventure comedy or something. then again this genre thing is always placed ever so delicately on fine lines you've got a bunch of genres mixed together.

    secondly if universal wanted action games they wouldn't have chosen telltale to create the games so obviously they want adventure games
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    Megaace wrote: »
    Why do you assume I only play Telltale games? Do you assume I don't like another genres, too? Well, this week alone I have been playing Red Dead Rendeption, Final Fantasy XIII, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Battlefield bad Company 2, Split/Second, Blur, and Assassin Creed 2. All of them are great games. All of them play like thousands games I have .


    Try playing Adventure games not Action RPGS/ RPGS...If you never played Broken Sword before then play it. Still Life, The Last Express, Full Throttle, Gabriel Knight, Indiana Jones Last Crusade/ Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Grim Fandago, The Dig, Loom, Day of the Tentacle, Star Trek A Final Unity/ Judgment Rites/ 25th Anniversary, A Vampyre Story, Kings Quest, Simon The sorcerer, just to name a few.
  • MegaaceMegaace
    edited June 2010
    Come on, I have played all of them... You don't understand anything I am trying to say...
    It is not what I play or not, it is about I think the Telltale games are unique, and I don't want they lose it...
  • EduardoEduardo
    edited June 2010
    I really shouldn't do this, but well... :)

    Ruined_forever2.jpg

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuinedFOREVER
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited June 2010
    Don't worry. First, I think BttF is definitely a good fit for an adventure game. Jurassic Park had me go "what?" though.
    Secondly, I personally got over it. Now I'm kinda happy. Maybe they'll fuel all their "cinematic" stuff into games like these, and the pilots will be more along the lines of games I'd be more interested in. Either way, I still get games.
    And Puzzle Agent is looking more interesting by the minute. So even if they "split into two" or something I'm fine with that.

    They used to release one game per year or so, now they're going to release one game per year or so that I'll be interested in, with the possibility or more. Sounds good to me.

    EDIT: also, unlike you, I'm not really interested in more Monkey Island or S&M at this point. I'd rather have new stuff.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited June 2010
    Megaace wrote: »
    It is not what I play or not, it is about I think the Telltale games are unique, and I don't want they lose it...

    I find your lack of faith disturbing...
    Avistew wrote: »
    also, unlike you, I'm not really interested in more Monkey Island or S&M at this point. I'd rather have new stuff.

    I'm with you. Just because they aren't making someone's favourite game doesn't mean they're selling out. I mean come on. Give Telltale a little more credit than that! Now that the initial excitement has worn off about BTTF and Jurassic Park, I'm kind of sad about it now. I'll still happily play them and look forward to it, but still.....these IPs are just as old/older than S&M And MI. That doesn't mean it won't be fun. Of course not. But the fresh new material feeling is long gone...gone since the 90s.
  • Strong MaxStrong Max
    edited June 2010
    I don't see why being interested enough to make a deal (a very rare and once-in-a-lifetime kind of deal) to make two games based off hugely popular, respected movies is considered selling out.
  • SpadgeSpadge
    edited June 2010
    I don't get it. Sure, we all love Monkey Island, and sure I won't mind another MI game soon, but if Telltale thinks they can grow, gain popularity and try something new, why not? You can't do the same thing over and over again. It gets old fast. And WHEN they make another MI, all this experience they are getting with JP and BttF would only improve the game. Just look what they did with the Devil's Playhouse compared to previous S&M seasons.
  • AdmonisherAdmonisher
    edited June 2010
    Personally, I'm glad Telltale is branching out. BTTF has the potential to be a blast. As for JP, it doesn't sound like the type of game I like to play myself ... but it IS the type of game I like to watch a friend play! :)

    I wonder if obtaining these licenses gives them the right to use the themes of Alan Silvestri and John Williams, respectively.
  • LaserschwertLaserschwert
    edited June 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Jurassic Park had me go "what?" though.

    Look at it this way: When thinking of the "Indiana Jones" movies, I wouldn't think they'd lend themselves to point and click adventures, with all the action going on in the movies. Still "Fate of Atlantis" is one of the best adventure games ever made. So, there you go. With careful writing and being mindful of the genre, (almost) every franchise can be made into a working adventure game.

    Also, I don't mind if they take their time with another Tales season. The writing has to be excellent, and lately the TT engine makes leaps in quality, so I can only imagine how great a new Tales season might look when it comes out in 2 or so years.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited June 2010
    I agree with what Laserschwert just said above imagine the kind of improvements they will make to their tools for BttF and JP.... If they get to do a second season it will look a ton better than season one.. Maybe the game world will look more populated and lived in.
  • WinterSnowblindWinterSnowblind
    edited June 2010
    There was already a very similar topic, but again I have to say it's far too soon for a new season. Part of the reason Tales was so great was because we had to wait so long for it. The worst thing that could possibly happen to the Monkey Island series would be to have it turn into a yearly franchise.

    I'm sure there will be a sequel, and I really hope there is.
    But I can easily do without it for another few years. Roll on Back to the Future.
  • jaden551jaden551
    edited June 2010
    If WE had a time machine we could just get the game in the future and wouldn't mind if telltale wait a few years, heck with a time-machine I could wait millenia.
  • DragonKazooie89DragonKazooie89
    edited June 2010
    Hey, it takes a lot of work to create a new game and Telltale is busy with other things. They're not as large as some other gaming companies I can think of.

    I wasn't expecting anything about a second season of Tales yet anyways.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    Laserschwert wrote: »
    Look at it this way: When thinking of the "Indiana Jones" movies, I wouldn't think they'd lend themselves to point and click adventures, with all the action going on in the movies. Still "Fate of Atlantis" is one of the best adventure games ever made. So, there you go. With careful writing and being mindful of the genre, (almost) every franchise can be made into a working adventure game.

    "Hi, I'm Jeff Goldblum, and I want to be a T-Rex!"
  • LaserschwertLaserschwert
    edited June 2010
    USE T-Rex WITH Lawyer
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited June 2010
    T-Rex says: No, I'm too scared.
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