New E3 info - Walking Dead game to feature new cast
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http://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/220092/e3-2011-the-walking-dead-game-not-really-based-on-the-walking-dead/
Although not a lot of info was given here, this article describes how Telltale is replacing the cast of the series with original characters for the game.
Although not a lot of info was given here, this article describes how Telltale is replacing the cast of the series with original characters for the game.
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1.Less drama since it has to be with the comics so you cant kill anyone else without explaining it to the comic buyers that dont get the game
2.It gets obvious that new characters will either leave or die, and with this series... they will most likely die.
3.Hard for the comics to be released monthly as well.
This on the otherhand is a much better approach.
Understandable.
Hmm. So it's not a conventional Sam and Max-style point and click either, then?
Guess we've got to wait until Comic-Con.
Fingers crossed you like stuff as we release it!
Come to think of it, how much convincing did it take to get Kirkman on board with this idea? Was he on board with this from the start, or did it take a fire works display saying "This will work"?
I'm still worried/anxious about gameplay. I don't see myself as a "traditionalist" when it comes to adventures, and many of my favorite adventures broke the mold of their time in some strong and noticeable way, but Back to the Future has caused a really nasty drop in what I now expect out of a Telltale game. I'm feeling so much more cautious about this title than I would have been in a pre-Back to the Future: The Game world.
This is probably a question for the cast, but as our last one (the debut!) had sound issues and we're slammed for a couple weeks, I'll just answer it:
Kirkman was incredibly cool. When we sat down, I spent a couple minutes just talking the avenues we were considering: we don't think it's creatively interesting to give you a THIRD telling of the comic book story and we feel that the franchise is best served by giving the player the opportunity to experience things the way Rick does -- fresh with little to no sense of what is the "right" call. If you play AS Rick, you, the player, know what Rick did in any given situation and a) you'll do what he did or b) you won't and we'll break canon. Not really interesting to us.
A new character who is seeing the whole thing from the same area but a different perspective felt like the way to go. And selfishly, that meant I got to write a thing from scratch. Kirkman listened for about five or ten minutes and just said "that sounds pretty cool," and then we ate some Pad Thai. It was a pretty good meeting.
I love behind the scenes stories like this, no matter how small. They make working for a video game company (or any other type of creative business) seem so much more fun than I'm guessing it actually is. Hopefully if I ever make it big as a writer I'll be able to share some worthwhile anecdotes of my own.
Anyway, will we be hearing more about the gameplay come Comic-Con? When is that, anyway?
I hear eating Pad Thai is a sign that the owner of a license is happy with your suggestions Good work
ask most people who want this game with not much action by silly questions better run from the zombies and kill them as well as the set of DEAD ISLAND.
Telltale does point and click games focused on story and character development (which is also what I hear The Walking Dead comics focus on), not action games. Go play Left 4 Dead or Dead Island if you want your zombie shooting fix.
If you read the comics, you would see it isnt at all about action, but character development with the zombies being 1 obstical they must face.
Secondly, your grammar is terrible.
thirdly, there are way too many zombie action games. Go play Left 4 dead if you want that.
Please tell me English is not your first language.
And that you didnt think the walking dead would actually be an action game. It never was, read the comics and you would see that you can have zombies and it doesnt focus entirely around action.
Ttg makes character and story driven games that is exactly what the walking dead needs... As long as you want something true to the source material. I'm not saying shooters and RPG games are not fun because I think dead island looks amazing.... But that isn't really on source for Twd.
...this is the greatest thing I've read all day.
How did they ruin it?
Telltale just didnt want to retell the series for a third time.
Even Robert Kirman likes this idea.
Did not want to just Telltale retell the series for a third time.
Even Robert Kirman likes this idea.
yes, but then disappointed
How can they ruin a series when:
1- Nobody has seen the game yet;
2- They are doing something parallel to it, not continuing or retelling the original.
I honestly like the direction they are taking and I was undecided about reading the comic before or after the game so as not to spoil anything. Now there's not much to spoil.
Seriously though dude. There's already two Left 4 Deads, two Dead Risings, Dead Island, Call of Duty zombie mode, Red Dead Redemption's zombie add-on, Borderlands' zombie add-on, Dead Space, the old Resident Evil games... do I really need to go on? What's wrong with something different?
Same way with me. I intend to read the comics, but at the moment there's so much other stuff on my list that I don't know if I get around to read them until this game gets published. So it's good to hear that I (probably) won't be spoilered.
Go try "Project Zomboid".
You'll be in for a treat.
sum morons thank is god too!
I so thank the game is god.
No, I think he means that morons' thanks are god. As in, if a moron were to give thanks to you, he'd be giving you god. Like, a tiny, all-powerful, pocket-size god.
I look forward to finding out what Telltale has in store for us.
Is it due out this year, or in 2012?
You do realise that The Walking Dead is a comic series right? The TV series is based off of it.
But everything you said still stands since the series is pretty close to the comics from what Ive heard.
Yep! They're good.