inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-square58fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down16
arrow-up1345arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squaretatann@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·2 days 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-up3·1 day 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-up4·1 day 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-21 day 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.