Dear Telltale...
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In response to everyone who has posted a reply to this, let me be clear: My sole reason for this post is to address the fact that The Walking Dead is a point-and-click game, but such information is not given on the game's Steam store page.
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Dear Telltale Games,
Please take the following as a bit of advice with no intent of malice or offense:
I'd love to buy The Walking Dead, but not without knowing what it's all about and frankly, Telltale, you have done a really sh*tty job of marketing it. Steam lists the genre as "adventure." That's pretty F*cking vague. On top of that your trailers and screenshots on the Steam store show only bits of cut scenes or random in-game stills. Honestly, I don't think it's too much to ask that you provide me with a good idea of what I'm getting for my $25. When I see your game advertised at a Point of Sale, should I really then have to go poking around the internet just to find out if the game is first person or third person?
So what kind of game is this? What do you actually do? Do you get weapons or do you always run away? Do you have to solve puzzles or just make it from point A to point B alive?
Please consider this in future advertisements.
Signed,
Planex
In response to everyone who has posted a reply to this, let me be clear: My sole reason for this post is to address the fact that The Walking Dead is a point-and-click game, but such information is not given on the game's Steam store page.
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Dear Telltale Games,
Please take the following as a bit of advice with no intent of malice or offense:
I'd love to buy The Walking Dead, but not without knowing what it's all about and frankly, Telltale, you have done a really sh*tty job of marketing it. Steam lists the genre as "adventure." That's pretty F*cking vague. On top of that your trailers and screenshots on the Steam store show only bits of cut scenes or random in-game stills. Honestly, I don't think it's too much to ask that you provide me with a good idea of what I'm getting for my $25. When I see your game advertised at a Point of Sale, should I really then have to go poking around the internet just to find out if the game is first person or third person?
So what kind of game is this? What do you actually do? Do you get weapons or do you always run away? Do you have to solve puzzles or just make it from point A to point B alive?
Please consider this in future advertisements.
Signed,
Planex
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This will get deleted so Fast i might not even be able to read it:)
Alright, I read it now and don't want to be affiliated with this poster's remark. A simple Google Search would've cured it:) or read reviews, or video reviews....
The entire point was that I shouldn't have to. I mean, they are actually trying to sell copies of this game, right?
Trust me, the fact that it's hard to describe the game should be a good thing. Try a google search I'm sure we do for even the games we know how they play such as cod and Crysis...
This just seems like knit picking imo, but you are entitled to your opinion.
If any1 is a Shenmue fan, I'd just like to refer to it as the QTE games:)
Well, vote with your wallet. If you don't buy the game then they won't get their money.
There is definitely a lesson in this, I wouldn't go as far as buying but from now on...I mean I won't but still, pre ordering is for suckers;) <---This I'm going to promise!
Learned my lesson the hardway twice:
Sonic Generations (at least this booted up and there was a manual fix)
Walking dead
TTG makes adventure games...
They have shown gameplay on their own website..
I didn't have to. Infinity Ward and EA did such a good job marketing those games that I knew what I was getting before I bought them.
Really? hmmm
I had to search google for COd to see if it was completely the same as 2 and Crysis 2 if it was open world like the first.
P.S
Both Disappointed:) but they were decent games. I still play Cod.
Tolli, with the quick responses from mods, admins, and programmers alike, I'm surprised that you're acting like Telltale is simply after money. They're a business, of course they want money, but they take care of their customers and make the business feel very friendly and personal. With as hard as they're working to identify what's causing the bugs (which, as far as I can see, is usually a user's problem such as having out of date equipment), it's hardly a "we have your money now p*ss off" situation.
As I said, "Adventure" is far too vague for the current state of the gaming world. And again, why aren't these videos shown at Point of Sale? Why do I have to go to an outside site and track them down?
To be fair all companies would do that if they could, and private companies need to play it extra safe;)
Way to be a responsible consumer. Nothing like buying random games based on pretty pictures and marketing hyperbole.
THANK YOU! Seriously, I mean it. That one sentence told me more about the game than all of the information on the Steam store page.
I wish I said this:) Unfortunately this is true for some and untrue for most...such as the wide spread boot problems ppl are having.
Sigh*
That argument is so false I don't even know how to being tackling it. I'm asking them to market better and you're telling me to... what? Shop harder? That's not how capitalism works - not if you want to actually sell your product anyway.
People are getting a little too spoiled
Reposting to Steam a few higher quality videos (which they've already produced) isn't going to cost them much in terms of how many more units they're likely to sell.
Actually, the definition of "Adventure game" has not changed since its inception. Monkey Island? Full Throttle? Maniac Mansion? All adventure games. The fact you are confused by this is partially willful ignorance and partially the gaming industry's fault for coining phrases such as "Action/Adventure." Adventure games are now as they always have been: puzzle based games with an objective driving the player to solve them.
I loved MANIAC MANSION! + Hugo's House of Horrors!
No sir what I think you are trying to get at is how this particular adventure game plays out. There are plenty of videos on here and youtube that show that. I always look at gameplay videos before I purchase a game. It should be common practice and not considered extra work.
You do realize that "puzzle based games with an objective" is vague, right? Is Half-Life a puzzle based game? Yes. Is it a first person shooter? Yes. Is Minecarft a puzzle based game? No. Is it an adventure game? Yes.
All an adventure game means is that you're doing something adventurous. Hence... you know... the word "adventure." It says nothing of how the game actually PLAYS.
Oh well if you are going to complain that you had to go to the actual developer's site to watch the videos I have only one thing to say to you, sir.
Actually...no it isn't. Its a crappy rpg.
I'd say it's more of sandbox creation game. I don't see RPG elements implemented into it. At least with a function:)
That doesn't disprove my argument... You want to take another crack at that?
Um...you realize rpgs are a completely different genre of games, right?
Here, I'll do it for you.
http://bit.ly/I3Qa4H
What I'm saying is that "adventure" does not adequately describe the mode of play.
Granted Ive an idea how Adventure games work, big fan of Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle and all the classics really but it was still vague. There have been some examples of adventure games that required you to use WASD and control the character more. Grim Fandango I thought was an adventure game but you could control his movement via WASD. Older version of the MYST series as well. Point and click movement would of been enough for me to know the mechanics a little better.
Point to my last post and wait for you to make an intelligible argument that fits the context, which I reiterate is mode of play.
Exactly, this is the internet. There's almost no excuse besides laziness to be ignorant.