Telltale might be closing it's doors. All games cancelled. Massive layoffs.

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Originally Posted by SegataS

How is it even possible to never have heard of Telltale? You would have to live under Mount Olympus Mons way over in Mars as Helen Keller to never hear of Telltale if you played any games within the last 20 years.

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Honestly I hadn't heard of them myself until sometime last year.

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Originally Posted by SegataS

How is it even possible to never have heard of Telltale? You would have to live under Mount Olympus Mons way over in Mars as Helen Keller to never hear of Telltale if you played any games within the last 20 years.

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You’re right. You just described me.

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Originally Posted by SegataS

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This really is the norm and sadly these people were dumb giving away their work time for free. I'm sure they'll find jobs elsewhere with the talent they have so it's fine. Life just goes on.

It's not so much that they're dumb but that it's practically impossible to find a job in the game industry that doesn't do that shit. In particular it's one of the few industries left where there's no unionization at all which is what allows all that rampant abuse (with crunch being the norm, layoffs every year to rehire half a year later being essentially a business model, etc.). Also it seems some of the employees had just started a week ago… and consider these people are often told to move to a new place to get a job.

Incidentally only now there's finally some push for unionization, and amusingly it seems the trigger has been the last VA strike (because VAs starting asking devs why don't they unionize). Whether anything comes out of that is to be seen.

I assume anybody who hadn't heard of Telltale does not play point-and-click adventure games. Telltale was pretty much synonymous with adventure games in the past 10 years, for better or worse.

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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118

I'm not. I've never gotten the amount of jerking off that studio seems to get. Their games are mediocre at best. People claim they try to capture the joy of old LucasArts point and click adventures, but honestly their games don't even hold a candle to those older titles. The games represent just what's wrong with modern gaming with drawn out small episodic releases and the need to buy Season Passes. The stories really don't have much going for them and the gameplay isn't anything great either. They're just ok games and stories riding on the coat tails of an immensely popular existing franchise. If you took that aspect out of their games, I doubt there would be much to write home about.

If I want to read fan fiction about my favorite TV Shows or Movies, I know where to go to get it for free. I'm not about to pay for what boils down to episodic releases of interactive comic book versions of fan fiction.



I don't like seeing people lose jobs. At the same time though I'm not going to lose sleep over a mediocre studio who's only claim to fame was "They made that game about my favorite TV Show/Comic Book/Movie!" closing down. The good talented people who worked there will find work soon enough. The job market is exploding right now, especially for talented software developers.

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Agreed, well put. Talent will always find work, not that one really takes any joy from people need to look for new work and the studio never did anything that I liked and I agree the games were a million miles away from the likes of what LucasArts used to produce.

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Originally Posted by Gryson

I assume anybody who hadn't heard of Telltale does not play point-and-click adventure games. Telltale was pretty much synonymous with adventure games in the past 10 years, for better or worse.

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I used to play King's Quest back in the day.

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Originally Posted by BonusKun

I used to play King's Quest back in the day.

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New KQ is good

....aaaaaaand it's dead.
https://www.destructoid.com/telltale...s-525765.phtml

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Originally Posted by BonusKun

I used to play King's Quest back in the day.

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