inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoFormer BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chopwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1381arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1375arrow-down1external-linkFormer BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chopwww.pcgamer.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square74fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squaretatann@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·1 day agoTelltale (a decade ago) could have made a great story-focused game in the ME universe, Bioware didn’t even need to sell the IP for that
minus-squareVespair@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoI will never understand the hype for Telltale. Wildly overrated, and they’re bullshit for calling their visual novels “adventure games.”
minus-squaretatann@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours ago Some people like mindless FPS à la CoD, others like narrative games, others puking blood playing souls-like games
minus-squareVespair@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-210 hours agoI like visual novels well enough, I just think there’s a lot disingenuous about the presentation and marketing of Telltale’s products as anything but visual novels.
Sell the IP.
Telltale (a decade ago) could have made a great story-focused game in the ME universe, Bioware didn’t even need to sell the IP for that
I will never understand the hype for Telltale. Wildly overrated, and they’re bullshit for calling their visual novels “adventure games.”
Some people like mindless FPS à la CoD, others like narrative games, others
puking bloodplaying souls-like gamesI like visual novels well enough, I just think there’s a lot disingenuous about the presentation and marketing of Telltale’s products as anything but visual novels.