What Sirrea game series you want Telltale games to do?

A better question is why the distinction of "reviewer" and "critic" is even a salient point.

Yes Yahtzee focuses more on the flaws, but in an industry where 99.999999999% of "objective reviewers" will pretend a shitty game is actually awesome so they won't lose ad revenue (or just because they have moral coniptions about lambasting games), services like that are almost required.

In any case, the industry itself seems to have taken notice. Remember the Prototype vs Infamous challenge?

EDIT: I will say though, that I think a lot of his more recent reviews are kind of stale.

edited 3rd Mar '11 5:17:24 AM by MoeDantes

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Completely off topic, but I swear the internet is being taken over by ponies.

Honestly, I just want two things from Telltale. A new Maniac Mansion first and foremost. To aqcuire the rights to and make a sequel of Blazing Dragons. Omega bless that game.

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Roger Ebert is a "film critic". He writes "reviews." You Keep Using That Word...

Referring to Yatzzee's opinion as "god" is misguided and narrow minded, but so is dismissing his Zero Punctuation opinions and observations as invalid because (he's primarily an entertainer/he's a critic not a reviewer/he does Accentuate the Negative). I have some points of contention with some of his biases (not engaging in the social part of Eve Online is like playing Super Smash Brothers with no items on Final Destination all the time), but the analysis of a game between the entertainment and the Caustic Critic bits tend to be rather accurate (most of the Eve Online-loving players will agree with a lot in his review - the game has its flaws and the players know it...and complain about it.)

edited 3rd Mar '11 11:58:08 PM by Elle

I'm a fan of Yahtzee, but I also take his opinions with a grain of salt. There's games that I've loved that he has said are absolute garbage, and while I disagree with him, I'm not offended, angry, or about to stop watching his entertaining reviews. Most of the time his complaints are two things: Personal disagreements with the game based on what he likes to play, and things like bad mechanics or ways that a concept was mishandled. His criticisms usually have some measure of validity, and I find his reviews to be entertaining, so I'm not cross when he bashes a game I really enjoyed.

Isn't this the same thing?

Whether a game gets praised or panned by the critics/reviewers/cheetas-with-lung-cancer seems to be quite random. Bottomline is that game reviews are nearly useless. At least they should be taken with a big grain of salt. Every single one.

edited 4th Mar '11 1:43:28 AM by Nyarly

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That's odd. I thought this thread was about Telltale doing Kings Quest and speculation over Sierra properties that would make good Telltale games (like Hoyle or Dr. Brain).

edited 4th Mar '11 1:46:56 AM by arks

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edited 4th Mar '11 1:57:04 AM by Nyarly

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

Speaking of Dr. Brain, I wouldn't mind one of those. Yes, I know that the Hidden Object Game has overtaken that niche and evolved back into normal puzzle adventurers (Mystery Case Files is the Most Triumphant Example here), but it had character and it WAS vaguely educational =)

And Hoyle games are still being released almost yearly, though they're all pretty much the same as of 2001 or thereabouts.

edited 4th Mar '11 2:07:24 AM by Noelemahc

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The Hoyle games I played when I was a kid were kind of like Poker Night At The Inventory. You played against Sierra characters. They were great conversationalists as well, like Quarky ("I am not a booger").  ^*

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Hoyle isn't a Sierra property. Hoyle is a company that manufactures playing cards, poker chips and other such equipment. They sometimes license their name out, and Sierra just happened to own the license at the time.

To be honest, there's no reason Telltale or whoever couldn't make a game with a similar premise (IE Sierra characters gambling together). The only thing the Hoyle license really does is give it brand recognition.

edited 4th Mar '11 6:11:33 PM by MoeDantes

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Telltale has officially abandoned King's Quest. Activision has taken the rights back and may be forming their own plans for a new Kings Quest game. The unexpected success of The Walking Dead and work on the Fables game is at least partly responsible.

edited 3rd Apr '13 3:56:22 PM by Elle

Boo. I would've liked to see their attempt on an episodic KQ title.

Especially if we got Jollo, of whom Retsupurae has made me quite a fan.

edited 3rd Apr '13 3:56:45 PM by ShadowHog

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I would love an episodic release of campaigns for the SWAT series.