@KratosMD Yeah, being a fan of Telltale myself, I am a little concerned about the future of the games. I believe the physical discs since Game of Thrones all just have the first episode on disc, or maybe the first couple episodes. The perk to having the disc is that it is fully resellable and you can still buy it second hand and it will still unlock the ability to download all the episodes of the whole season. The downside is that you have to download the episodes and have the disc in your console to play it.
I’m not sure why Minecraft Story Mode is the only game that was ripped from the storefront. It may relate to licensing contracts and such. Either way, you may want to hurry up and play the games you want from the developer. The stories that they do are always well done, even if the game engine is antiquated and a little janky. I liked season 3 of TWD quite a bit.
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@KratosMD i assume that with licensed titles the publishing rights have reverted back the owners of those titles (EG: GotG back to Marvel) and as such it would be up to them if the games were discounted or removed but as far as i'm aware most of the games can still be downloaded if you buy the physical version but like you i haven't been brave enough to buy one and find out
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Really is a shame with those Tell Tale games. I've played 4 of them (actually just finished minecraft story mode season 2 with the kids last night) and they are spectacular for the most part. Hope they can get re-released in some capacity in the future
@KratosMD I don’t believe that I’ve seen any sales in TT games since they shut down. I’m not sure who gets the proceeds with any new game sales anyways. Before TT went under, the games went on sale frequently and I picked up the complete season of GotG for like $8 during one sale. I haven’t tried to download it yet, but I’m feeling like I should before too long. I recently played GoT but I had downloaded the episodes a long time ago.
Just prior to the studio going down, they were giving away TT games on PS Plus like almost every month. Seems like 3-4 months in a row we had TWD2, GoT, Tales of the BL, and Batman. I guess that was the hand writing on the wall before they went bankrupt.
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@KratosMD see like i said the licence goes back to the original owner and it's up to them to re-release it
still it's great news for anyone who missed out on it
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@KratosMD that's cool! Not really a fan of the source material but that's awesome that it's getting re-released. Hopefully the rest of their cat gets similar treatment
Well, it looks like PSN is having issues. Sigh. I retried my PS4 and it said maintenance was undergoing, even though Sony’s official site claims it’s all up and running. Explains why the free games wouldn’t load on the PS Store. I also saw a few problem go offline at the same time , so yeah. C’’mon Sony. I hope this fixes itself. @get2sammyB any issues on your guys end?
@Jaz007 Seemed fine here in the UK yesterday evening, and I was able to add Sniper Elite 4 to my library. Might have just been a blip or something wrong at your end.
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@JohnnyShoulder I have been rumbled... all these years and all these Playstation comments on Pushsquare based on nothing but misinformation. I don't even know who Nathan Drakles is... let alone Kwatos.
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@Kidfried Yeah, I have tried to be more honest with myself on some of those games that I just am not enjoying and need to cross off if they don’t sell me on their content in the first couple hours. I have some of those too. Transistor took me a while, but in the end, I finished it and felt it a decent experience. Perhaps over-rated, but I didn’t feel it a waste. Now Drawn to Death on the other hand....
You do have have to be quite brutal and more realistic at times. I know some of the games I mentioned before I will never get round to finishing or playing. I try not to concentrate so much on the number game as I know I will get overwhelmed by it.
@Kidfried Yeah it seems like LiS2 has fizzled a little bit in the hype department. With such delays between episodes, it’s hard to keep a game in the public consciousness.
I would be curious to see how the average episodic game’s sales figures break down. I wonder if they usually get much buy-in early on, or if most of the games’ sales occur after all the episodes are released. I would suspect the latter. But these companies keep doing this episodic release thing so apparently some people out there actually buy these games one episode at at time in the annoying drip-feed fashion and/or buy a season pass early on even though they have to wait a year to see the full product. To each their own, but not me... I always wait and buy it all after it’s complete.
Speaking of ridiculous episodic releases — I need to play the final season of The Walking Dead. Despite the tumultuous development, it seems like Clementine’s series ends on a high note. I’ve played 3 of the 4 TWD seasons, so I can’t stop now. Skybound seems to have done the fans of the game a solid with how they saved the last episode from the grave. (Hmmm... symbolic, actually. The game rose from the dead, just like a zombie.)
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@Th3solution I thought episodic was dying out tbh. Off the top of my head I can only think of Life of Strange and The Council that currently use the system. There is of course FFVII Remake, but that is a different beast to the rest.
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@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I think you’re right. Surely the crash of Telltale Games is a cautionary tale for publishers. I think the episodic format was but one of many issues with TT, but it certainly didn’t help their cause. To me, the concept seems kinda like living off of too much credit — it’s just too easy to over extend yourself and spend money you don’t have yet by constantly borrowing from the future to pay for the present.
The only other one game that comes to mind is Man of Medan. It’s not truly “episodic” I guess but rather an “anthology” of related games, but to me that seems a variant of the episodic model.
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After finishing Hellblade, I needed something to dip into that isn’t too heavy as I’m going on holiday early next week so didn’t want to start a story heavy game.
I gave Onrush a go and did all the training levels to get a feel for it and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing Any takedowns seemed pure fluke rather than skill. And AI vehicles seem to land on me witch alarming regularity while I didn’t do it once to then.
Quite a sensory overload as well that game. Pretty much the antithesis to Hellblade!
@Frigate@RogerRoger This might not work for some reason, as I've never tried it, but couldn't a solution to not getting the perfect screenshot be saving the video, and then screenshotting it from there where you can pause? Just a thought.
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