I'm in the same boat as you, Fawful. It would be a shame to lose contact with yourself and many others though. I don't know how we could all agree upon and be happy with another single forum though, were we all to jump ship.
I guess that things change; people come, people go, it's the way of life.
Oh, and I'm selling pitchforks and torches if anyone needs some.
I'll take one of each please but only because I need to do some gardening tomorrow anyway and it's awful dark outside when I go out for a cigarette, so lighting up a torch for be very handy indeed. Thanks.
Just seen that the DF forums have their own version of 'The "whatever's on your mind" thread', though not as many posts despite running for longer than I've been a member here.
I came for the games, but I stay for the community.
If I leave, it will be because Telltale has turned the forums into their own brand of Reddit, thereby making it very difficult to have normal conversations since posts won't be in chronological order.
I'll take one of each please but only because I need to do some gardening tomorrow anyway and it's awful dark outside when I go out for a cigarette, so lighting up a torch for be very handy indeed. Thanks.
In regards to the new site: we recently hired for a new position, VP of Online, and he's getting involved in the design. I'm not privy to the detail of exactly what is changing, but I believe the final release will be at least somewhat different to the beta.
As long as the forum part of the site is different, more conversationally friendly then I'll be happy and I'm sure the same is true for most others. The rest of the site looks nice and more functional.
I really would like to be able to know where everyone is going to go if/when it happens. I like our community, and so wouldn't want to be left wandering the interwebs looking for where my friends have gone off to.
Well, my home away from home is currently myth-weavers at the moment, but I think if everyone started flocking away from here, I'd go hang at Doublefine for my gaming conversation needs.
I only have here and NeoGAF. And NeoGAF is the easiest place to get banned on I have ever seen. So I don't know. I wanted to be around the Double Fine forums, but the community is so big I figured I couldn't get my voice heard amongst it, so I don't post.
It's funny that right now this forum is exactly what I want it to be, with interesting discussions and so forth. It's a shame that the reasons for the discussions are what they are but it's good to see this part of the place as busy as it is.
It also makes it more annoying that it's nearly 2:30 am here and that I've got stuff planned for tomorrow that I have to get up early to start. Bah.
I'll be staying for sure. I liked The Walking Dead game, and I think I will like The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead Season 2. However I downright hated the community The Walking Dead attracted, if that sort of immaturity and idiocy spreads over unto the entire forum then I want no part of it, quite frankly. Also assuming a lot of the "Older Kids" stick around, I'm sure I'll be here too!
It's funny that right now this forum is exactly what I want it to be, with interesting discussions and so forth. It's a shame that the reasons for the discussions are what they are but it's good to see this part of the place as busy as it is.
It also makes it more annoying that it's nearly 2:30 am here and that I've got stuff planned for tomorrow that I have to get up early to start. Bah.
I couldn't have put it better myself (right down to the 2:30 part).
I'm disappointed that TTG seems to just be aiming more towards story and won't be going back from it for a while but I am staying on the fourms. There is still good threads and its interesting hearing people's thoughts on things. Also most people here are friendly and good to here people's thoughts on things like Lucasfilms being bought by Disney etc.
Also I did enjoy TWD but was really disappointed at how half of the new people acted by complaining all the time about dates and taking over blog posts in the comments by changing the subject completely. I think that's why you can't comment in blog posts anymore:/
Sorry it comes down to this but I am leaving this forum.
Telltale Games is no longer the Telltale Games that I joined back in 2007. They no longer make proper point and click adventure games that I can play without violating my conscience. I have no interest in playing games that contain foul and vulgar language like the walking dead series.
The Law and Order series that wasn't a true game, to be honest I felt ripped off by it. No real puzzles, nothing.
Back to the Future a massive let down. By the way I never downloaded episodes 3 to 5.
It is a pity that Telltale have gone downhill.
So goodbye people it was fun while it lasted but am moving on.
You're no worthy of a quitter if you didn't subject yourself to the suffering Back to the Future puts you through from start to that excuse of a climax.
I came for the games, but I stay for the community.
Exactly. Entertaining, passionate people with similar interests are what make such forums fun.
As a big fan of classic point-and-click adventures, I am disappointed with the direction that Telltale is taking. I have been turned off by statements from several recent Telltale representatives, who have each offered different variations of: "Point-and-click adventures with exploration and lots of puzzles are the past, we are the future. We want to take advantage of big hip pop culture IP's instead of traditional IP's or create original IP. We are evolving things. We have evolved. Let's all evolve. Let me use the words 'modern' and 'evolve' a few more times so you don't miss the key message." It's like they were all given a talking points memo of key terms and points to get across.
Honestly, Telltale's new stuff feels like interactive movies with progressively less challenging and dumbed down gameplay. Don't consider this new or modern at all, but they can describe things however they wish. It's just sad that they are turning away from the classic adventure game community, when it is fans of the classic adventures who have been some of TTG's most passionate fans for years. I know a lot of people still like TTG's new interactive movie stuff, but I have less interest in it. Now when I see that a project is being developed by Telltale, I quickly move on. At no point in Telltale's history has it been as great or influential as either Sierra (certainly) or, even, LucasArts were; today Telltale is a very different developer than it was a few years ago, and a less attractive one to me.
I think the people and moderators here on the forum are great, though.
Also I did enjoy TWD but was really disappointed at how half of the new people acted by complaining all the time about dates and taking over blog posts in the comments by changing the subject completely. I think that's why you can't comment in blog posts anymore:/
It's because people couldn't stop being disruptive, because people kept harassing others, and because under the old system, comments didn't require login and the normal forum moderators didn't have any power over the comments (which is one of the few good changes about the most recent iteration of new site). We kept having to tell staff when there was a problem until it was just too much to handle.
He's an old-school Sierra adventure game fan who came to the King's Quest forums a few months ago, expressing interest in talking KQ (though many in the forum didn't appreciate reliving old conversations). And he was really doing his damnedest to be enthusiastic about TTG's KQ project and to respark our interest in it.
He still maintains that someone will make a good (official) KQ game in future, but the recent announcement about TTG's official KQ cancellation seems to have thoroughly turned him off the company.
However, it also seems to have pulled him into General Chat to hang out with the rest of us old-school adventure game fans.
I came for the games, but I stay for the community.
If I leave, it will be because Telltale has turned the forums into their own brand of Reddit, thereby making it very difficult to have normal conversations since posts won't be in chronological order.
Exactly. Entertaining, passionate people with similar interests are what make such forums fun.
As a big fan of classic point-and-click adventures, I am disappointed with the direction that Telltale is taking. I have been turned off by statements from several recent Telltale representatives, who have each offered different variations of: "Point-and-click adventures with exploration and lots of puzzles are the past, we are the future. We want to take advantage of big hip pop culture IP's instead of traditional IP's or create original IP. We are evolving things. We have evolved. Let's all evolve. Let me use the words 'modern' and 'evolve' a few more times so you don't miss the key message." It's like they were all given a talking points memo of key terms and points to get across.
Honestly, Telltale's new stuff feels like interactive movies with progressively less challenging and dumbed down gameplay. Don't consider this new or modern at all, but they can describe things however they wish. It's just sad that they are turning away from the classic adventure game community, when it is fans of the classic adventures who have been some of TTG's most passionate fans for years. I know a lot of people still like TTG's new interactive movie stuff, but I have less interest in it. Now when I see that a project is being developed by Telltale, I quickly move on. At no point in Telltale's history has it been as great or influential as either Sierra (certainly) or, even, LucasArts were; today Telltale is a very different developer than it was a few years ago, and a less attractive one to me.
I think the people and moderators here on the forum are great, though.
These two posts sum up my feelings about Telltale and this place perfectly. I love you guys (yes, even you Ryan, but if you quote me on that it's an instaban ) and I love chatting with you all, but Telltale as a company has been getting increasingly distant from what made me love them. The last time I got excited for anything they did was MI, and even then it was tempered by the console-oriented controls.
So if, as suggested elsewhere, you guys jump ship for somewhere else, I'll more than likely tag along. I mean, who else would be willing to do a Steam Sale Spotlight thread? (Seriously, that thing is habit forming)
Staying so far, I feel I am part of something even though I am not really. If that makes any sense? I guess I just like the feeling of belonging.
Anyway, the change in games that telltale has done has made me come here less and less.
I have not in anyway been even remotely interested in what they have done since BTTF.
I still like to post occasionally in interesting posts like this one, or in 'rate the last whatever' threads.
Will I jump ship if more people here leave, not really sure, don't think people would know who I am anyway.
Still a HUGE Telltale fan, and probably will be for quite some time.
Became a fan when Sam & Max was released.
Loved Monkey Island.
Loved Back To The Future.
Liked Jurassic Park.
Loved The Walking Dead.
My only real criticism is their tech. support, that could and SHOULD be improved. With no disrespect to DjNDB though. He saved a lot of our asses.
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone would dislike a game or studio just because of the violence or language. In my mind that's just sad. Move out of your bubble, take a look at the world around you and just relax.
Ill say it again; there are no bad words, only bad intentions.
I will stay in these Forums until the day Sam and Max and Monkey Island are put into Classics...
It will be a shame if all the other fans of classic point and clicks leave this forum
If it continues like this we will be left only with the new fans which are all just asking 'Where is the walking dead?' and don't like point and clicks...
Hopefully some of you will stay, I haven't been here too long but I have really began to enjoy these forums but if Sam and Max or Monkey Island ever become as abandoned as Strong Bad and Wallace and Gromit (which were my first Telltale games) it will kill the forums.
On the bright side I still haven't finished Monkey Island or started King's quest so I have plenty of Old school games to play...
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I guess that things change; people come, people go, it's the way of life.
*sigh*
I don't know...
I'll take one of each please but only because I need to do some gardening tomorrow anyway and it's awful dark outside when I go out for a cigarette, so lighting up a torch for be very handy indeed. Thanks.
If I leave, it will be because Telltale has turned the forums into their own brand of Reddit, thereby making it very difficult to have normal conversations since posts won't be in chronological order.
Until then, I stay.
Oh fuck me, that's hideous!
As long as the forum part of the site is different, more conversationally friendly then I'll be happy and I'm sure the same is true for most others. The rest of the site looks nice and more functional.
Pfft! You'll miss my terrible jokes when I'm gone, Fawful. I'll miss your sarcastic wit as well though.
It also makes it more annoying that it's nearly 2:30 am here and that I've got stuff planned for tomorrow that I have to get up early to start. Bah.
I couldn't have put it better myself (right down to the 2:30 part).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o
Listen to the first 45 seconds of that song imagining that the one singing it is the personification of the adventure game.
WOW
LoL I was actually listening to that great song just a little ago.
That being said, good night, and good luck.
Haha. That's awesome!
Quite. Infact...
Spinal Tap > Everything else ever
You're no worthy of a quitter if you didn't subject yourself to the suffering Back to the Future puts you through from start to that excuse of a climax.
Exactly. Entertaining, passionate people with similar interests are what make such forums fun.
As a big fan of classic point-and-click adventures, I am disappointed with the direction that Telltale is taking. I have been turned off by statements from several recent Telltale representatives, who have each offered different variations of: "Point-and-click adventures with exploration and lots of puzzles are the past, we are the future. We want to take advantage of big hip pop culture IP's instead of traditional IP's or create original IP. We are evolving things. We have evolved. Let's all evolve. Let me use the words 'modern' and 'evolve' a few more times so you don't miss the key message." It's like they were all given a talking points memo of key terms and points to get across.
Honestly, Telltale's new stuff feels like interactive movies with progressively less challenging and dumbed down gameplay. Don't consider this new or modern at all, but they can describe things however they wish. It's just sad that they are turning away from the classic adventure game community, when it is fans of the classic adventures who have been some of TTG's most passionate fans for years. I know a lot of people still like TTG's new interactive movie stuff, but I have less interest in it. Now when I see that a project is being developed by Telltale, I quickly move on. At no point in Telltale's history has it been as great or influential as either Sierra (certainly) or, even, LucasArts were; today Telltale is a very different developer than it was a few years ago, and a less attractive one to me.
I think the people and moderators here on the forum are great, though.
It's because people couldn't stop being disruptive, because people kept harassing others, and because under the old system, comments didn't require login and the normal forum moderators didn't have any power over the comments (which is one of the few good changes about the most recent iteration of new site). We kept having to tell staff when there was a problem until it was just too much to handle.
He still maintains that someone will make a good (official) KQ game in future, but the recent announcement about TTG's official KQ cancellation seems to have thoroughly turned him off the company.
However, it also seems to have pulled him into General Chat to hang out with the rest of us old-school adventure game fans.
So if, as suggested elsewhere, you guys jump ship for somewhere else, I'll more than likely tag along. I mean, who else would be willing to do a Steam Sale Spotlight thread? (Seriously, that thing is habit forming)
Anyway, the change in games that telltale has done has made me come here less and less.
I have not in anyway been even remotely interested in what they have done since BTTF.
I still like to post occasionally in interesting posts like this one, or in 'rate the last whatever' threads.
Will I jump ship if more people here leave, not really sure, don't think people would know who I am anyway.
Became a fan when Sam & Max was released.
Loved Monkey Island.
Loved Back To The Future.
Liked Jurassic Park.
Loved The Walking Dead.
My only real criticism is their tech. support, that could and SHOULD be improved. With no disrespect to DjNDB though. He saved a lot of our asses.
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone would dislike a game or studio just because of the violence or language. In my mind that's just sad. Move out of your bubble, take a look at the world around you and just relax.
Ill say it again; there are no bad words, only bad intentions.
It will be a shame if all the other fans of classic point and clicks leave this forum
If it continues like this we will be left only with the new fans which are all just asking 'Where is the walking dead?' and don't like point and clicks...
Hopefully some of you will stay, I haven't been here too long but I have really began to enjoy these forums but if Sam and Max or Monkey Island ever become as abandoned as Strong Bad and Wallace and Gromit (which were my first Telltale games) it will kill the forums.
On the bright side I still haven't finished Monkey Island or started King's quest so I have plenty of Old school games to play...