2011 release?
Was I seeing things when I saw that this would be released in 2011 remember reading that about 2 months back, since Jurassic park hasn't come out yet I wasn't really expecting a Walking Dead release.
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The Walking Dead has a season break this year?
Yup, it is because the second season is 13 episodes as supposed to the first one which was only six. AMC are financing the whole thing and probably want to see as much returns as they can get as quickly as they can get it.
Good to hear that there will be more episodes to watch; unfortunately, my brain is starting to liken the "Lost girl" story arc to Dragon Ball Z, where a 5-minute charge-up and battle time frame is stretched into 6+ half-hour episodes, so although I can understand keeping most of the story at this one house in Alabama to reduce budget costs (Speculation on my part), I'm going to be really disappointed if it takes all 13 episodes for them to find the girl and move on to the next plot of land.
Yeah, I wouldn't count on a December release. I seriously doubt there'd be so short a gap between this and Jurassic Park.
On the bright side, now that JP is out we should start hearing more about the game.
Are you kidding me? They released gameplay trailers for Batman AA almost a year before it came out!
The last years were a pretty exiting experience because you just didn't know what TTG would do next. And when they made an announcement, chances were that you'd have the first episode of the franchise only 3 or 4 months later. That's far better than a trailer.
Can't say when we'll finally have this game. Might be a while. If I had to guess, I'd say first half of 2012. After all, it seems to be TTG's next project on the schedule.
The game isn't explicitly following the television series, and will be based more off the comics than anything else, so why would releasing it during a season of the TV series make a difference?
Because the hype associated with the franchise will be at a high when the show is on. Imagine all the fans of The Walking Dead TV show who don't know a thing about this game. Play some ads for the game during the show and bam, you're informing a lot of your potential customers at once.
I hope they do advertise during the show's time slot... even if its a small teaser trailer... let fans of the show know its coming... But I imagine its something TT has thought/talked about internally.
I suppose, but when have you ever seen a television commercial for a Telltale Games title?
Never, but I live in Australia. TBH I have no idea if they show commercials in the US or not. Even if they don't now it doesn't necessarily mean they never will in the future, though perhaps they'd prefer to spend their money elsewhere.
It is my personal belief that TTG has enough of a following that they could get away with little to no marketing budget; just enough to write a blog post, author a press release, and forward it to major gaming blogs, which takes, what, a couple hours at the most? Of course, in reality, I'm sure it's more involved than that.
Several months ago, Beyond Time and Space was going out on retail.
I wouldn't mind seeing one, though. I wonder how expensive they are...
It depends on the channel, the time of day and the popularity of the program being shown at that time. I'd imagine ad slots during a show like The Walking Dead would be at a premium.
Maybe they could clear this all up :-s
Yeah they do. Heck they organize TF2 events and play with us. Althoughh they haven't said much yet, I don't even think they've responded on the wherabouts of the Puzzle Agent wiiware port.:D
Walking Dead just went on its hiatus until February, I think, so maybe they'll release during the second half of the TV season.
Telltale also made three CSI games that were published by Ubisoft.
If there's no official info, it's likely because
(a) they don't know themselves
(b) they don't want the info out yet or
(c) the answer is obvious.
Concerning (c), I think we can at least answer the question asked in the thread title with a huge, resounding: "No".
Or (d) because official timeline stuff should probably come from the right channels. I could give my grain-of-salt "it's looking like X", but then I'd hate to see my name show up on Kotaku as a cited source for an expected release date. Telltale's got other folks who can handle that pressure better than me!
That is what I was thinking too.
I hope we are both correct!
So sometime after March then.
Dammit, March isn't winter! ...Well, OK, technically prior to the 21st it is, but you know what I mean.
X as in 10? Just kidding.