# Telltale games. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 17, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612 "2016-06-17T16:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/1 "2016-06-17T16:27:56Z")
In my opinion, Telltale can do no wrong. They’re the only company whose games I have all fully enjoyed 100 percent, every time, each one. I haven’t played them all yet, but the ones I have played: _Back To The Future, Jurassic Park, The Walking Dead Seasons 1, 2, 400 Days_, and _Michonne, The Wolf Among Us,_ and now half of _Game of Thrones_; hey have all been spectacular with great storytelling and great choices. I know, I know…a lot of people might not be so impressed with the whole “But your choices don’t matter in the long run…it all comes out to mostly the same in the end”, but don’t bother. I don’t want to hear it. I still love it, still think it’s great storytelling, and think Telltale knows how to make great games with a very deep story and great characters. They can really bring out strong emotion of all kinds, it’s just incredible how good their games are to play. I’ve never even watched _Game of Thrones_ and nor do I think I’d even like the show much, but the game is excellent. I wasn’t sure I’d like the game. Truth be told, I thought I’d find it boring…but after the first episode, I was hooked and by episode FOUR now, it’s drawn me into it’s amazing story with strong characters. I cannot wait to try out their _Minecraft_ game, their _Borderlands_ game, and the upcoming one about _BATMAN_ might just be the most amazing one they put out if they can get it right…and if it’s anything like the other games are, it will be. And then of course there’s The Walking Dead Season three announced and the teaser trailer is up. I can’t wait. What do you think about Telltale games? What are the best ones and worst ones in your opinion? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/2 "2016-06-17T16:55:52Z")
I’ve played the last two _Sam & Max_ seasons, _Jurassic Park_, _Back to the Future_, _The Curse of Monkey Island_ and I started _The Walking Dead_ but never finished it. I also have both of the poker games. They’re clearly the best producer of modern point-and-click adventure games. I was a big fan of the classic Sierra On-Line “Quest” games back in the day, and it was fun to play modern iterations of the genre. That said, while I mostly enjoyed the games I played, I’m just not that big on point-and-click adventuring anymore. I quickly tire of huge, near-endlessly branching dialogue wheels and listening to long soliloquies and exposition. I guess I just prefer having more to _do_ in my games these days. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/3 "2016-06-17T18:47:27Z")
I love their games. I played most of them and every one they release is a must buy if I am interested in the subject matter. I have played the Walking Dead games (never heard of the Michonne expansion before reading your post though), Back to the Future, some of the Game of thrones and Jurassic Park games. Will finish them both eventually. Great stories, especially Walking dead Season one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/4 "2016-06-17T23:52:42Z")
I like the work they do, even as they transitioned from doing old fashioned point-and-click adventures to interactive cinematics based on non-adventure-game franchises. Used to be I’d pre-order anything they put out because I wanted to support them. And with pre-orders you could get an actual disc sent to you after the game was published. But they stopped pushing pre-orders from their own site so hard, and frankly stopped acting like the kind of plucky little company I was proud to support. So, fuck it. I now buy their games when they go on sale later. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/5 "2016-06-23T21:07:33Z")
Telltale recently announced, [The Walking Dead 3](https://www.telltalegames.com/blog/106884/) and [Batman](https://www.telltalegames.com/blog/106859/). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/6 "2016-06-23T21:49:43Z")
Borderlands was one of the funniest games I’ve played in years. I’ve never played one of the main games, either. It was just grossly entertaining and awesome. I’ve played almost all of their story games and it was the highlight, along with Walking Dead season 1. I want Tales of Monkey Island 2 so bad. I’m disappointed it is never coming. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/7 "2016-06-23T22:01:21Z")
Yeah, sadly there will be no more Sam & Max or Strong Bad games either. Maybe some other plucky little company will be the ones to take over those abandoned franchises. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/8 "2016-06-24T14:58:07Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’ve played the last two _Sam & Max_ seasons, _Jurassic Park_, _Back to the Future_, _The Curse of Monkey Island_ and I started _The Walking Dead_ but never finished it. I also have both of the poker games. > > They’re clearly the best producer of modern point-and-click adventure games. I was a big fan of the classic Sierra On-Line “Quest” games back in the day, and it was fun to play modern iterations of the genre. > > That said, while I mostly enjoyed the games I played, I’m just not that big on point-and-click adventuring anymore. I quickly tire of huge, near-endlessly branching dialogue wheels and listening to long soliloquies and exposition. I guess I just prefer having more to _do_ in my games these days. Wait, curse of monkey island isn’t Telltale! Did they do a remaster or something? ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/9 "2016-06-24T15:06:05Z")
I only got into their games with The Walking Dead. Where they ditched the pixel hunting and inane “puzzle” elements of old adventure games - to clarify, there have been great puzzle elements to many old adventure games, but too many relied on nonsensical, arbitrary rules involving combining random items with elements on the screen. This was never fun for me, only frustrating. They’re take on game-fying the narrative elements worked really well. The games have been fantastic at telling great stories with (mostly) interesting characters, and the narrative agency, both real and illusionary, has always kept the games engaging and fun for me. I devoured both seasons of the walking dead and enjoyed Game of Thrones, but I haven’t been back since. I’ll probably come back with the new Season of Walking Dead, and I’m hearing good things about the Borderlands series too. Hmmm, gonna check if it’s on sale on Steam! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/10 "2016-06-24T15:14:54Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > Wait, curse of monkey island isn’t Telltale! Did they do a remaster or something? Sorry I got my titles mixed up. I meant _Tales of Monkey Island_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telltale-games/757612/11 "2016-06-24T18:57:08Z")
I found that Telltale’s actual point-and-click adventures were excellently balanced. There was satisfaction in solving a puzzle, but trying to figure it out didn’t get tedious. I actually got into Borderlands because Telltale had a game about it coming out. I got 1 and 2 cheap in sales, and enjoyed playing through them. Sometime later, a third game came out called Borderlands The Pre-sequel, but before that was cheap enough for me to bother with, I had a hold of the Telltale game. Turns out that after playing the two games available when Telltale announced their game, I was still missing background information that would come up in the Telltale game that you wouldn’t know if you hadn’t played the Pre-sequel. Fuckers. So, when I get around to picking up Game of Thrones, fuck it. I’m not doing any background research.