Noclip's documentary Telltale: The Human Stories Behind the Games is out today. As per the fear Jason voiced in the original news post two weeks ago, the documentary is indeed myopic, pretending that pre-Walking Dead Telltale wasn't a thing.
This is partially because of the format of the documentary, which has interview subjects candidly discuss life during their time at Telltale, and most (if not all) of these came on board after the switch.
It's an interesting watch, and one which will take on some more significance once/if the full story of Telltale's collapse emerges. Watch it here:
Source: YouTube
Jason
I thought this was good for what it was.
I've been snooping around the channel, increasingly impressed. They're onto something potentially great.
Rum_Rogers
custard
I'd say think of it being more the recollections of 4 people working at Telltale, rather than a documentary about history of Telltale. With that in mind, it's fair that it only briefly mentions the early games, since the person they talked to who worked at Telltale the longest joined during BTTF.
From this perspective it makes perfect sense.
Oh well, only idiots never change their minds, I'll give it a go.
Yeah they make it very clear in the beginning that they're not really making a documentary about the games themselves, but more about the closure/layoffs and the people affected by it. Their reasoning for it makes sense and it's the right choice given the circumstances. Even though it's not really 'our' era of Telltale that's being discussed here, it's pretty good, and very heartbreaking. It's mind boggling how so many lives (hundreds!) were so incredibly heavily impacted by bad management, and even sadder when you realize these kinds of things are super common in the industry. And in Telltale's case so many of these problems could have been avoided. Depressing stuff.
custard
I'd say think of it being more the recollections of 4 people working at Telltale, rather than a documentary about history of Telltale. With that in mind, it's fair that it only briefly mentions the early games, since the person they talked to who worked at Telltale the longest joined during BTTF.
From this perspective it makes perfect sense.
Oh well, only idiots never change their minds, I'll give it a go.
Rum_Rogers
If they really pretend pre-TWD Telltale wasn't of any importance, they won't mind me stating I don't give a damn about post-TWD Telltale and their documentary.
I'm so sorry for the employees and that's about it.
I'd say think of it being more the recollections of 4 people working at Telltale, rather than a documentary about history of Telltale. With that in mind, it's fair that it only briefly mentions the early games, since the person they talked to who worked at Telltale the longest joined during BTTF.
I'm so sorry for the employees and that's about it.