The International House of Mojo

To be fair, while we could all understand how Telltale might want to be more "casual" friendly, the last things they have produced have been total disasters.

It's not "casual", it's "lame". Heavy Rain was pretty casual, and while it had flaws due to Cage's unability to be consistent, it was still a pretty nice experience.

I'm actually glad "Max" made it clear in the review. (Many Xbox trollers think Heavy Rain is just about QTE while it really isn't)

What Telltale forgot, and which is, in my opinion the most important of all, is INTERACTIONS.

Back to the Future was a SHAME. That's when I started to hate them. There's no way you can be an adventure fan and ruin a BTTF game. And yet they did in so many ways possible.

It's even more obvious with JP, but there's only one or two instances in the whole game where a choice you make can change ANYTHING. While not all adventure games had different "paths", they at least had the decency to let you go where you wanted, try out different things (without having a generic "ah, can't do that" for every solution they didn't think of), do it in the order you want, you could explore, you could feel immersed in the universe, you could TALK to people and they had interesting things to say, or if you didn't like one you could just avoid talking to him.

Some Telltale fanboys said those were movie games and they couldn't do better.

Well. Well.

Blade Runner, anyone ?

That game WAS completely casual, and it remains one of the best game I ever played.

- revolutionnary system that changed who was a replicant (who you could trust, including yourself) with each new game

- Graphics were great for the time (though, unlike beauties like Dott or Full Throttle, that one got attrocious for nowaydays' eyes :/ )
- Incredibly faithful universe

- CHOICES/Interaction. That's where it was incredible. You had different ways to lead your investigation, and there were many different endings.

While not every game needs different endings, I think the least they can provide, is giving the player the freedom to just have his own experience. Not just be forced to walk there to talk to an npc to trigger some stupid cutscenes, just to do it again (and it got worst with JP since you can't even walk anymore).

Also, everyone is always praising Telltale for the writing/graphics etc...

Where do you live ? Weither it's the graphics or the writing, everything is pretty substandard. I mean, JP feels completely "meh" (what works for a 2 hours action movie does not have enough content and interest for a game, especially when everything that made said movie was the incredible FX and nice cast). It's not "bad" per say, but there's nothing worth of note.

Though with BTTF, as I said, I hate them. How in hell could they be SO bland with such a material ? They even had Bob Gale and Chris Lloyd and they failed completely. It was terrible. Did anybody feel like "being in Hill valley" ? I surely didn't. Even the time travel aspect was completely failed.

Anyway, since those two games are the most successful telltale games ever (not because they're any good or because telltale is so great, which is that they think, but because THOSE ARE HUGE MOVIES), you can understand why they're completely ignoring the adventure gamers that made them be in the first place.

May they rot.

Long live to Double Fine, Tim and Ron. I donated as soon as I heard !

Right...

Sorry, I forgot we live in the world where we must all have the same opinion as Shmargin.

Nah, I'll stick with being a cunt. You guys lost your edge years ago, and ever since telltale came around, all you've done is suck their dicks over every mediocre adventure they've shitted out. Remember when they launched, and talked about how releasing games as episodes let them listen to the community and make improvements on the fly?

Now they release all episodes at once, hoping to nickel and dime people that only have $5 to spend, and still collecting $40 from someone who's willing to hope they haven't ruined another good license. Nothing they've done has been worth a full price game, with the partial exception of monkey island. And that's only because they had 4 previous games to mooch good material and in jokes from.

I might consider not being a cunt in the comments when I see news posts and comments that don't deserve the treatment.

Grow a pair and give opinions not based on fan boy attitude, and review games without worrying about offending the people that made it, and maybe those people would quit making mediocre shit.

Not being a cunt in the comments also helps getting your review posted.

MY review made it clear it was for the iPad version....lol. But no, mine probably didn't have this reviewers spark like this one. Although this guy also didn't point out that it runs like shit, even on an iPad 2.

There's a big problem with this review, in that you've just reviewed the iPad version. You need to make it VERY clear that this review applies ONLY to the iPad version. I can understand that the iPad version would be totally different to my PC version. However, you need to WARN people to absolutely avoid this total disaster of a "game" on PC. It is honestly the worst PC game I've played for at least 10 years. They just took the iPad game and ported it to PC without changing anything and the result is something truly redious, stupid and unbelievably bad. I really mean very, very, very bad. Atrocious. I like the graphics, the sound, I love the story, I love the world they created. And then they gave it this completely retarded gameplay that makes you feel like a 3 year old learning how to identify shapes on the screen.

You can't post the iPad review and finish with, "There's no reason to avoid Jurassic Park". Trust me, the PC version is the biggest load of rubbish I've ever seen. I've never felt so ripped off in my life, and I love ALL the other Telltale games. This is not a game, it's a total embarassment for Telltale. Please, I beg you, tell people not to buy the PC version. Telltale should not even be selling it until they actually MAKE a PC version.

It's total, utter crap. Sorry but it just is. And I'm usually the first one to show some love towards Telltale. They deserve no more.

Totally, I'd love to write more.

Err...we've decided to post your awesome Jurassic Park review, Max!

Cool? ;

Hey, I wrote that review...

...3 weeks ago.

How come nobody told me it was going to be posted?

Nah, I think it was the monks. :P

I think Max sent in his review a week before you did, Schmargin. Yours was good - as was everyone else's! - but I guess the majority thought we'd ask Max to write us a review for now.

Only about a month later than my review, not bad mojo.

I can see how this ones better though. While I did have a dinosaur saying woot, I failed to include a photo of monks riding a roller coaster. Next time I guess.

Nice one. Both the game and Jurassic Park in general are not my cup of tea though.