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Escapist loves Telltale 21 Aug, 2010 / 2 comments

The Escapist magazine looks at the rise, fall, and rise of adventure games. The latter it attributes predominantly to Telltale games.

Telltale deserve the business for doing brilliant work in a risky market. These new adventure games are smarter, wittier, better looking, and more fun than their ancestors ever were. The key to their recent success is that instead of whining about how gamers are just a bunch of shoot-happy stupids who are easily distracted by bling-mapping, Telltale sat down and re-thought the entire genre. They figured out what made the games fun and they ripped out and re-designed everything else.


In other Telltale news, they've employed Alan Johnson, formerly of 1Up, as their new Community Manager after Metallus' David E's recent resignation.

Source: The Escapist

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    Sabre on 21 Aug, 2010, 12:13…
    Alan Johnson? I know the Labour party is hard up at the moment, but I thought the former home secretary would be able to do a bit better than this....


    .... sorry...
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    Kroms on 21 Aug, 2010, 10:03…
    Dunno if they're *wittier*. They're all great writers, but they still have trouble figuring out truly, truly great side characters, with a couple of exceptions. No lines as clever as the ones in Grim Fandango, DotT, Monkey 2 and 3 yet. I have hope, though, since they're getting much better at writing good dialogue in their limited time frame. Either way, they're still very good.

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