Episodic adventure game developers Telltale Games are clearly pretty happy about how well their Walking Dead titles are being received, because they’ve recently confirmed they’re developing games based on another grownups-only comic book series — the long-running Vertigo series Fables. Telltale quietly announced its Fables games early last year, but we haven’t heard much about them since. Thankfully this re-announcement confirms the project is still very much in the works.
Fables, created by Bill Willingham, takes place in a world where the characters from fairytales and folklore are real. Most of these magical characters and creatures have been expelled from their homelands, and thus they establish a secret community in New York City. Basically it’s pretty much the perfect high concept for an adventure game, and after the great reviews for Telltale’s Walking Dead games, I’m totally jazzed for this.
Hopefully this is just the start of the Telltale/Vertigo collaborations. I’d love to see a Hellblazer adventure game, or Sweet Tooth, or holy s–t, what about Sandman? Or Preacher? So many possibilities. What Vertigo series would you guys like to see get the episodic adventure game treatment?
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Just announced? This was announced almost exactly 20 months ago.
[www.joystiq.com]
Yeah, sorry, bad wording. They announced it a while back, but then said nothing about it forever. They re-announced/confirmed it yesterday and put up a teaser site, so now we know it’s actually happening/probably coming soon. Story edited to clarify.
I’m on the fence about this. The Walking Dead episodic game by Telltale is pretty good I’ll admit, I just finished E4 and I’m looking forward to E5 (and supposedly they will be doing another ‘season’ of episodes after that); however I’m REALLY not a fan of how Telltale mismanaged the whole ‘season pass’ aspect of it, and lying to their customers regarding the episodes.
Originally they came out saying the episodes would be every month.. the first 3 episodes were all EXTREMELY late. I forget which one it was, but one of them (i think 2?) came out roughly 3 months after the one before it dropped! absolutely inexcusable, and an outright lie to all of the people that dropped coin on the season pass in the beginning.
Now some might come to the defense of Telltale, saying “well I’d rather not have them drop the episode until it’s ready. I hate when devs rush a game just to meet a release date.” I agree completely; and that’s why they shouldn’t have marketed the game as “monthly episodes” OR they shouldn’t have released the game game UNTIL ALL OF THE EPISODES WERE COMPLETED. this sounds like common sense right? you’d like a bunch of guys smart enough to write code and create games could manage a damn release schedule.
I’ll continue with TWD game because of my love for everything Walking Dead, but I won’t ever purchase anything from Telltale ever again. fuck ‘em.
The episodes have come out in April, June, August and October — so at first they said monthly and they ended up bi-monthly. I’m not sure that’s anything worth getting so upset over.
Oh, and according to Telltale, the delays are actually mostly due to the fact that they’re releasing them across so many platforms at once (Mac, PC, Xbox, PS3 and iOS). It takes a lot of time to get that many versions certified and rated.
mmm, I think that’s only somewhat true. I remember one of the differences being almost 3 months… maybe an episode came out early April and didn’t get released til VERY late June. something along those lines. anyway, it’s lying to the customer. thousands and thousands of people prepaid under the notion that it was supposed to be *monthly installments.* you can’t then just take it upon yourself to make them bi-monthly, or tri-monthly, or “whenever the fuck you feel like it”-monthly. of course, they changed the wording of the advertisements after everyone already bought the season pass.
were they releasing them (and definitely also trying to finish them) for many different platforms? yeah I’m sure they were. I don’t care. what affects THEIR paycheck isn’t supposed to be more important than what they PROMISED the customer. I’m not supposed to be waiting 2.5 months until the next episode because they decided they’d be rich men by relseasing it for iOS.
either you have all of the episodes already done before you release it, or you release it under the notion that it’s episodic content released “whenever we get around to it.” I was expecting a monthly series, much like a comic book. what I received was not that; and my experience with the game suffered, because when I got to the next episode I found I had to replay the episode before just to remember exactly what the hell happened.
You are a moron.
I feel like I’ve just received several semesters worth of education from an ivy league business school. I don’t know if you’re too old or not, but I know some high schools that are aggressively scouting for new forensic society champions.
Krooner – go fuck yourself.
warmbutter – I’ll take that as a compliment.
I’m not saying Nate’s article was bad, or that Nate was wrong for looking forward to Telltale’s FABLES game. I love Fables, and for all intents and purposes, TWD game by Telltale’s been damn fun. But the moral of the story is, do what you say you’re going to do. I’m not a “moron” because I expect to get what I fucking pay for. You’d be the moron if you’re okay with NOT getting what you pay for. this is called common sense. if you have it, great. if you don’t have it, good fucking luck.
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You’re still getting what you paid for, just slightly slower than originally promised. Having to wait a little longer than you expected for something is a pretty normal part of being a grown up person.
incorrect, and I’m surprised you’re becoming insulting about it.
if you pay money for something, you should get what you pay for. this is the way economics has worked for hundreds of years, and it makes successful businesses thrive and unsuccessful ones die off. imagine going to a store to buy something, you hand them the money and they say “alright cool… we’ll send it to you in a month.”
at the end of the day if you decide to continue supporting Telltale, so be it. I’m not alone, there were plenty of other pissed off people on their forums.
Seeing you think about Sandman makes me smile like an idiot, but honestly I think it would be cool to see another Neil Gaiman piece made into a game: American Gods. Mostly because car blow jobs (uh, SPOILER ALERT?).
I’d love to see a Y: The Last Man, 100 Bullets, or DMZ Telltale game…Out of my 3 I’d say DMZ would be the easiest to create a game in that universe and throw in characters here and there