44c136 No.13754756
http://archive.is/HrI22
>Telltale Games has laid off 25% of its staff, or roughly 90 employees. CEO Pete Hawley explained that he wants to make Telltale Games great again by focusing on smaller teams working on fewer but higher-quality games.
So Telltale dropped 1/4th of it's staff so it can do less but do it better.
Thoughts? Genuine attempt to improve quality or is the interest in Telltale's trash finally ending and they need to downscale if they're to survive the fading popularity. I've heard nothing good about their shit in years, all the good will from the first Walking Dead game they did has faded and people are aware of, and tired of, the formula.
867274 No.13754760
>>13754756
"quality" games
03308e No.13754770
>>13754760
NOOOOOOO I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT EXISTED WHYYYYYYYYYY
ac5d6c No.13754774
I'm guessing TWD season 3 didn't do so hot. Damn near the entirety of their popularity stems from the first one and I'm absolutely convinced that it was just a fluke. I don't think they have it in them to do it again.
69e7c9 No.13754788
Make movie games great again
cfb985 No.13754793
>>13754756
>laid of 25% of it's staff
>90 people
360 people sounds like a lot, for the kinds of games they make. I could image 90 being a decent sized dev team for what's essentially a 3D visual novel. I'm guessing they just have a lot of artists and animators.
efd3c0 No.13754833
>360 people are needed to make telltale visual novels
better ones have been made with less than 5 staff
92826b No.13754853
>>13754756
They have never made a good game. If you played more than 30 minutes of TWD you have shit taste.
fa0826 No.13754889
I dunno, I thought TWAU was alright, for the most part. It certainly could have been better, but if they threw in some actual detective work, it might turn out to be good.
they won't
1954c5 No.13754926
>>13754756
>Make Telltale great again
This might be interesting.
25078b No.13754938
>>13754760
I seriously wonder how this game is
fa0826 No.13754960
867274 No.13754966
>>13754938
Type "minecraft animation music video" into youtube and that's the jist.
8d17f6 No.13755069
>>13754756
That's how the headlines sounds, but in truth, they just fired all the white problematic male developers.
928da7 No.13755079
>>13754760
Must mean they want the last of us tier movies, because we know you cannot possibly lose in a telltale """""game"""""". So they won't be raising gameplay quality.
d0bf28 No.13755080
Good, fuck them and their shitty episodic visual novels that ride off of other ips, they can't die soon enough
15fdaa No.13755085
>>13754760
Starring everybodies favourite comedian Oswald "the ladykiller" Patton.
66057b No.13755092
>>13755048
That has to be satire.
928da7 No.13755095
>>13754938
You can literally do nothing for most of the events you have control over and the "game" will eventually do it for you.
15fdaa No.13755096
>>13755048
To be fair Rueben the pig was the most interesting character, which is exactly why they kill him off. The other characters are so cliche and obnoxious, the audience would cheer their death.
44c136 No.13755145
>>13755096
>To be fair Rueben the pig was the most interesting character
Get in the shame cube and think about what you just wrote.
b60c19 No.13755188
Well about time. The third season of the walking dead was shit. Also I had no idea they wore so huge, if 90 people is just 25%, that means they had 360 people working on their games which is amazing considering how poorly and slowly they are made.
33be1c No.13755237
2085e4 No.13755245
>>13754756
GIVE ME FUCKING MORE HOMESTARRUNNER FUCKING EPISODES
44c136 No.13755249
ac5d6c No.13755260
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>>13755145
>Get in the shame cube and think about what you just wrote.
>shame cube
Man that takes me back.
0e59a1 No.13755371
glorified walking sims, they are doomed
6f8f7c No.13755421
The only good thing they ever did were the 3 Sam & Max Seasons (Who has the IP rights to those nowadays?) and the first TWD. After that it's been a steady downward spiral.
Sam & Max Season 3 is still fucking hilarious
5acfc4 No.13755474
>The Walking Dead
Kino
>The Wolf Among Us
Kino
<The Walking Dead: Season 02
Kenny was good, but they had some hamfisted, forced political bullshit/feminist garbage.
I stopped supporting them at that point, the dialogue formula had become so predicable for me, that I was able to effortlessly guide myself though the narrative to get the best results.
It seemed like their game really went downhill after that. I remember hearing is how Meemlands and Game of Thrones were complete garbage.
61c142 No.13755489
>>13754756
Is that Bane in the OP pic
61c142 No.13755494
>>13755048
the pork chop gets me every time
b37c95 No.13755544
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Get a load of these high quality death animations anons.
c25387 No.13755556
>>13754756
>make ttg great again
7789f1 No.13755605
>>13754889
>95% of what they make anymore is fucking licensed shit
Will they make something original now?
>>13755048
>actual game
>kill pigs for porkchops
>interactive movie suddenly turns them into pets for an out of place injun looking cunt
b5ac7e No.13755653
I never hear anyone mention Tales of Monkey Island or Wallace & Gromit in Telltale threads, not even to say it's shit. How were they?
>>13754853
Strong Bad was decent. Problem is the Chapmans made far more of it than Telltale.
6f8f7c No.13755685
>>13755653
I couldn't play past 5 minutes of Tales of Monkey Island so I wouldn't honestly know.
a72c57 No.13755740
I only actually enjoyed the first The Walking Dead. Now they can die as a company for all I care. It's a one-pony trick.
6f8f7c No.13755775
>>13755740
>one-pony trick
Better stick your tits between her dicks.
076d49 No.13755778
>>13755740
Pretty much. The writing has gotten steadily worse and they completely failed to deliver on the choices and consequences. When they go under nothing of value will be lost.
d4251d No.13756071
>>13755421
It's a real shame, once they released that Jurassic Park trash it was obvious they were losing their shit.
e74c74 No.13756087
>>13755778
I only play the TWD first one, once it became clear nothing mattered choice wise I never bought another of their products.
934514 No.13756169
>less shit games from a shit genre are going to be made
Good news altogether then
d03453 No.13756173
>>13754756
>he wants to make Telltale Games great again
kek
ba0e19 No.13756210
>>13754756
>Genuine attempt to improve quality
For them, even a genuine attempt probably won't amount to much.
baf1af No.13756372
>>13754756
>Thoughts?
Greedy yids are cutting the fat to save their shekels. Come on, you should know that if you lurked more OP.
44fd6c No.13756761
>Yfw its because they missed the boat and kids moved from minecraft to GTAV online and rockstar wont give them the license.
0002a1 No.13756866
>>13754756
I mean…. I can say much because I don't play their games that much. I did play the first walking dead game they made and I have played twau, but that's it. I mean a lot of people called their first walking dead game goty material, so I guess they got excited and hired a lot of people to create new games? And now they want to kick people off so they can make a few but better games? That's my guess.
Because they surely read online comments about them, and they probably know that people think they are total cancer for making that minecraft game. They probably also noticed that people dislike them for not having a lot of impact in game. I hope they want to change this in their future games?
>>13754889
Snow was hot, but also a total piece of shit. I blame it on bad writing.
8fd33a No.13757119
you know I bet they would make a killing if they made choose your own adventure games with ACTUAL choices instead of just making movies where sometimes you get to make a really insignificant choice.
e57268 No.13757133
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>>13754756
>one angry redditor
Please tell me you don't actually get news from this website.
>>13757119
Something like Joe Dever's Lone Wolf but with less combat? I'd play it.
480efc No.13757168
>>13756866
Naaaaa also in the comics she is a cunt so was pretty accurate
fb97a5 No.13757282
>>13754756
>He wants to make telltale great again
>Laid off 90 employees
>That trump reference
He just fired all the sjws in his company. They're learning.
a7ebdf No.13757297
If I recall Telltale is now SJW central with warning color hair everywhere
da559d No.13757314
>>13754756
Nothing's going to change because they'll still make games that are formulaic and where your choices don't actually matter. I doubt this "push for quality" is gonna result in anything more than just a smaller number of shitty, half-baked animations appearing in their games.
a7ebdf No.13757321
>>13757133
>Usher
>oneangryredditor
I heard you can go back to neofag already, please do.
e57268 No.13757347
>>13757321
>He wants to restore Telltale games when they were making games that made people’s eyes well up with emotion, and caused sales to skyrocket across game consoles and PC alike. Hawley, in practically no uncertain terms, is looking to emerge out of the locker room and grab success by the… pong paddle and bring home a victory for the team.
>I do wonder how Batman: The Enemy Within will be affected by this? And it also makes me wonder if it will come back for a second season? I’m pretty sure Minecraft: Story Mode is finished, though.
Please don't act like this isn't the kind of awful, childish writing you'd find on reddit or any site like it; it's also riddled with grammatical errors, which is especially shameful given he's ripping the story from GamesIndustry.
981d53 No.13757354
>muh daughteru XDDDDDD
You know who you are, and what must be done.
155bc9 No.13757363
d3b3d7 No.13757365
>>13757354
Who the fuck is that?
e57268 No.13757370
>>13757365
That appears to be Jed Whittaker, a literally who game journo fired earlier this year. He wrote a bit twitter rant about how he worked for peanuts at Destructoid and other publications for a year ("without being paid" were his words, I believe) before he was laid off.
He now operates a Twitch channel where you can pay money to see him play Garden Warfare and make rape jokes while drinking Red Bull.
d3b3d7 No.13757408
>>13757370
>complains about not being paid
>get fired
Please tell me there was banter directed at him.
a7ebdf No.13757428
>>13757347
Leave any time.
e57268 No.13757552
>>13757408
That's just it, he didn't complain. He happily toiled for free for over a year before he was laid off since the rag he worked for couldn't afford to keep him on. He got real mad on Twitter and everyone shit-talked him for it.
>>13757428
Not an argument. One Angry Memer is a shitty website and you should not use it.
934514 No.13757566
>>13757370
>Jed Whitaker
I thought nowadays he made reviews of how amiibos felt inside his ass
86cebb No.13757582
>>13755474
>The Wolf Among Us
>Kino
You are aware that the fables and their ghetto are officially a reference to Jews and Israel?
a7ebdf No.13757586
>>13757552
You seriously think your shit will work here?
e57268 No.13757595
>>13757586
I'm simply telling you the truth: everything I've had the misfortune to read from that website is garbage, and the writing is obviously biased to the point it obscures information. It's the definition of bad reporting.
a7ebdf No.13757614
>>13757595
Seriously, it's not working here.
e57268 No.13757642
>>13757614
Feel free to explain what the fuck you mean any time. Sage for off-topic.
a7ebdf No.13757662
407557 No.13757663
It's good that they're trying to make something good assuming this is true, but they never even made a "game" that wasn't shit.
076d49 No.13757671
>>13757663
>they're trying to make something good
One would expect they were trying, and failing badly, to create something good all along.
480efc No.13758095
>>13757582
>monster have to hide
>muh joose allegory
Are we being raided? All thread have a shitposter clear as sky
Do you have any idea how many schlock had this idea of monster hiding between humans to survive? Izombie, Dylan dog movie, blade trilogy, Buffy
Go fellate a gun
3864ba No.13758120
>>13758095
just hide and ignore, anon.
480efc No.13758133
>>13758120
I can't, it piss me off this low effort shitposting of D&C trying to create another /pol/-/leftypol/ bullshit bait
I've reported but fuck I'm pissed
000000 No.13758264
>>13754756
>Telltale had around 360 employees.
Fucking why. They make the same game over and over again, and never change their technology. They need, at most, a few dozen artists, a handful of musicians, and maybe ten programmers script kiddies.
82cd82 No.13758281
>they made some shitty licensed games like Minecraft, Game of Thrones, Batman, and whatever other shitty title they got instead of making Sam and Max
They deserved it.
2ca599 No.13758461
>>13757552
>He happily toiled for free for over a year
That's his own fault and a bad decision. I worked at a place once where we had our paychecks bounce one period. It was fixed within half an hour when we made it known, but it was enough to make one of our graphics people quit right there, on the spot, with no notice or two week transition. The whole arrangement between company and employees hinges on the paycheck. Why was this guy working for free for a year, if he wasn't an intern, and how did he even manage to eat or keep the rent paid?