New E3 info - Walking Dead game to feature new cast

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edited October 2011 in The Walking Dead
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.
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  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2011
    "Replacing the cast of the series" is a weird way to put it. Nobody is being replaced. The game world is based off of the canon and timeline of the comics, so while the game is focused on telling someone else's story, if a character is around in the comics universe, they are most likely alive and wandering around somewhere in the game universe. That doesn't necessarily mean you'll run into them or that they cross paths with the game's story (though there are some familiar faces) but in terms of the world's story continuity, they're out there alive somewhere.
  • Blind SniperBlind Sniper Moderator
    edited June 2011
    Whoops - I was typing this fast, but I did understand what the article meant however.
  • edited June 2011
    hmmm... I really like this.. its like getting a new story.. without re-hashing the existing story... I wouldn't mind running into the comics characters though.
  • edited June 2011
    The way Telltale is going with this makes sense to me.
  • edited June 2011
    Good because there are so many problems with having the same cast.
    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.
  • edited June 2011
    I heard somewhere that the gameplay is going to represent that of the Jurassic Park like gameplay, is that true?
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2011
    The gameplay in Walking Dead is not something we're talking about much yet, but that is because it's not just a carbon copy of something we've done before.
  • edited June 2011
    Jake wrote: »
    The gameplay in Walking Dead is not something we're talking about much yet, but that is because it's not just a carbon copy of something we've done before.

    Understandable.
  • edited June 2011
    Jake wrote: »
    The gameplay in Walking Dead is not something we're talking about much yet, but that is because it's not just a carbon copy of something we've done before.

    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.
  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2011
    Glad you guys are down with the direction -- it wasn't the obvious way to go and internally, Jake and I had to make a pretty hard sell.

    Fingers crossed you like stuff as we release it!
  • edited June 2011
    Glad you guys are down with the direction -- it wasn't the obvious way to go and internally, Jake and I had to make a pretty hard sell.

    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"?
  • edited June 2011
    Glad you guys are down with the direction -- it wasn't the obvious way to go and internally, Jake and I had to make a pretty hard sell.

    Fingers crossed you like stuff as we release it!
    Story and set-up seem absolutely brilliant. You can't use the comic universe without either doing ANOTHER version of the events(a la the TV series) or having a tie-in that needs to be played in order to understand parts of the comics(dick move). This way is a lot better, keeping it in more or less the same geographical area and running parallel with the comic story arc. Absolutely the best way to go with this franchise.

    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.
  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    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"?

    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.
  • edited June 2011
    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?
  • edited June 2011
    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 hear eating Pad Thai is a sign that the owner of a license is happy with your suggestions :p Good work :)
  • edited June 2011
    then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
    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.
  • Blind SniperBlind Sniper Moderator
    edited June 2011
    then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
    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.
  • edited June 2011
    then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
    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.
    So....do you actually read the comics?
  • edited June 2011
    then this game will do with all respect as the other crap games.
    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.
    Troll.
    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.
  • edited June 2011
    then if you have a crap
  • edited June 2011
    then if you have a crap
    Profound!
  • edited June 2011
    then if you have a crap
    What?

    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.
  • edited June 2011
    im talking about the series i liked the series i had never read the comic but i think this ganme have pontetial for be an survival action zombie game that will have some type of RPG
  • edited June 2011
    I do not see why I can not enjoy both walking dead and dead island... At least that is what I'm planning on doing.

    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.
  • edited June 2011
    then if you have a crap

    ...this is the greatest thing I've read all day.
  • NielsNiels Banned
    edited June 2011
    cool, they ruined a great serie
  • edited June 2011
    Niels wrote: »
    cool, they ruined a great serie

    How did they ruin it?
    Telltale just didnt want to retell the series for a third time.
    Even Robert Kirman likes this idea.
  • edited June 2011
    Nielsen is right are a """""""""""""""
  • edited June 2011
    How did They ruin it?
    Did not want to just Telltale retell the series for a third time.
    Even Robert Kirman likes this idea.


    yes, but then disappointed
  • edited June 2011
    Niels wrote: »
    cool, they ruined a great serie

    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.
  • edited June 2011
    It seems that everyone that's capable of typing in a non-moronic way thinks it's a good way to go.

    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?
  • edited June 2011
    Falzo wrote: »
    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.

    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.
  • edited June 2011
    im talking about the series i liked the series i had never read the comic but i think this ganme have pontetial for be an survival action zombie game that will have some type of RPG

    Go try "Project Zomboid".
    You'll be in for a treat.
  • edited June 2011
    Scnew wrote: »
    It seems that everyone that's capable of typing in a non-moronic way thinks it's a good way to go.

    sum morons thank is god too!
  • edited June 2011
    nomecopies wrote: »
    sum morons thank is god too!

    I so thank the game is god.
  • edited June 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    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.
  • edited June 2011
    Who wants to play as Rick and co when the TV series is already telling that story? I kinda like the parallel story idea. It was obvious from watching the TV series, that the walking dead is not all about killing zombies. In some episodes, there are barely any zombies at all. It is about survival in an apocalyptic zombie world. It seems that a lot of people will be expecting this game to be something it's not.
    I look forward to finding out what Telltale has in store for us.
    Is it due out this year, or in 2012?
  • edited June 2011
    Masta23 wrote: »
    Who wants to play as Rick and co when the TV series is already telling that story? I kinda like the parallel story idea. It was obvious from watching the TV series, that the walking dead is not all about killing zombies. In some episodes, there are barely any zombies at all. It is about survival in an apocalyptic zombie world. It seems that a lot of people will be expecting this game to be something it's not.
    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.
  • edited June 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    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.
    yeah I'm aware of that. I just never read the comics. They are worth checking out?
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2011
    Masta23 wrote: »
    yeah I'm aware of that. I just never read the comics. They are worth checking out?

    Yep! They're good.
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