Projects for Telltale

[Thomas Barnsley]

Telltale are well known for their fairly unique (especially nowadays) episodic games and point and click gameplay. And everyone knows about their recent takeoff into prominence due to their phenomenal Walking Dead game.
I would also think that most people on the escapist know about all the new IP the developers have taken on, including Borderlands and Game of Thrones.

I was just thinking, what other stuff would look good with the Telltale treatment? Games, movies, books, genres; what do you guys think?

(Note: There are many people of the opinion that Telltale are taking on too much, they'll trade quality for quantity, etc. That is not the issue under discussion. Pretend that they have limitless resources and have fun daydreaming up ideas for them!)

My ideas:

Lovecraft. I think they'd make a great Cthulhu mythos game, maybe a Call of Cthulhu table top RPG sort of set up. I think the art style they favour could be subtlety altered into something that really does justice to the horror of the source material.

TF2. Ok, I know this sounds weird, but anyone who has read Valve's TF2 web comics will know just how expansive the universe actually is. And knowing that, to me it is quite aparent how well the material would sit with Telltale; the art style, the distinctive characters, the humour (to some extent). I could easily imagine something where you play Ms Pauling and get to some intense corporate espionage and robot battles. Hell, they could even include some G mod monsters and Saxxy material.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I really would like a TF2 point and click game made by Telltale, mostly because the TF2 lore, when you get into it, is freaking hilarious and pretty unexpected because of how often they stray into farce territory.

What I want is about any IP with an alternate world. Something more along the lines of what The Wolf Among Us is, with quasi-immortal beings living alongside mortals in secret. Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are pretty clearcut worlds of zombie apocalypse and fantasyscape (if you could say that about Game of Thrones). I want something very different and interesting in the worlds, because I'm certain Telltale can give a lot of life to that background. I was blown away by how wonderfully decadent Manhattan in The Wolf Among Us was.

I don't really know what IP they can use for that though. I wouldn't mind a historical reimagining like Steampunk.

 

[shrekfan246]

I don't really know what IP they can use for that though. I wouldn't mind a historical reimagining like Steampunk.

Sherlock Holmes, maybe?

OT: The first thing that comes to mind is Star Trek.

While I still want to see another game like Starfleet Command 3 (with the space mechanics of Star Trek Online), most Star Trek games focused around the Federation have really kinda flubbed the whole "diplomacy" thing and the political aspects of the franchise, and I think that's an avenue Telltale would be able to do a lot with.

Otherwise, A Song of Ice & Fire is really the only thing I'd be clamoring for from them. I was saying even a few days before the rumor of them working on a Game of Thrones game that they'd be the perfect fit for an actual good GoT game.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I don't really know what IP they can use for that though. I wouldn't mind a historical reimagining like Steampunk.

Sherlock Holmes, maybe?

I feel like The Wolf Among Us is going to bleed Telltale dry of all mystery ideas and detective protagonists. I wouldn't mind it though, I really enjoyed the recent movies about Sherlock.

 

[Zhukov]

My inner fanboy is screaming "Mass Effect!" at the very top of his rather hefty lungs.

Maybe Ian M. Banks' The Culture universe?

The Starcraft universe?

Or... OH! OHHH! Discworld! Now that would be a God damn match made in heaven. Quick, someone get on to Pratchett before he dies!

But really, at this point is there anything they couldn't do? Their point-and-click-QTE formula is extremely adaptable. It'd work it basically any decent setting so long as they have a good idea for a story.

I'm pretty much on board with whatever they do. If they can make me to enjoy Fable refugees living in modern inner-city America, a concept I find dumb as hell, then they can do damn near anything.

Although I am a bit iffy on the Borderlands thing. As I get older I find my tolerance for "OMG so whacky! Lol!" material in sharp decline, and it was never that high to begin with (I was always that one kid who hated the whacky-lol comic relief sidekick in Disney movies). But I shall wait and see.

 

[Elfgore]

Is the Borderland game point-n-click? If so I will check it out. I don't care for the Borderland series, but the lore and characters are awesome.

I feel a game about Roman Gladiators would be fun. The first episode can be you being caught and trained, the second and third about fighting and the politics involved with gladiators, the fourth is a rebellion, and the fifth is the eventually defeat of the gladiators. So pretty much Spartacus.

The Elder Scrolls or something could be cool. Good way to see the lore that we rarely get to see.

 

[Corven]

The best project they can work on is a new game engine that doesn't take forever to load the next scene, and then stutter when that scene, or most scenes after making a decision, starts.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

My inner fanboy is screaming "Mass Effect!" at the very top of his rather hefty lungs.

Maybe Ian M. Banks' The Culture universe?

The Starcraft universe?

Or... OH! OHHH! Discworld! Now that would be a God damn match made in heaven. Quick, someone get on to Pratchett before he dies!

But really, at this point is there anything they couldn't do? Their point-and-click-QTE formula is extremely adaptable. It'd work it basically any decent setting so long as they have a good idea for a story.

I'm pretty much on board with whatever they do. If they can make me to enjoy Fable refugees living in modern inner-city America, a concept I find dumb as hell, then they can do damn near anything.

Although I am a bit iffy on the Borderlands thing. As I get older I find my tolerance for "OMG so whacky! Lol!" material in sharp decline, and it was never that high to begin with (I was always that one kid who hated the whacky-lol comic relief sidekick in Disney movies). But I shall wait and see.

I reckon any bioware franchise would do well, but I would personally rather see Mass Effect done with Xcom style combat. That would be fun. And I LOVE the discworld idea! It would be so cool to play Rincewind, or even death.
Now I'm thinking Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...

Is the Borderland game point-n-click? If so I will check it out. I don't care for the Borderland series, but the lore and characters are awesome.

I feel a game about Roman Gladiators would be fun. The first episode can be you being caught and trained, the second and third about fighting and the politics involved with gladiators, the fourth is a rebellion, and the fifth is the eventually defeat of the gladiators. So pretty much Spartacus.

The Elder Scrolls or something could be cool. Good way to see the lore that we rarely get to see.

Spartacus would be interesting. I think a better combat system would be required, at least something more than a sequence of QTEs, but other than that it would be sweet. I agree about Borderlands, to be honest I find the gameplay completely atrocious but the setting and characters are cool.

 

[TekMoney]

I really want to see them do a game based on the comic DMZ.

 

[Total LOLige]

Fucking get Episode 2 of The Wolf Among Us finished

I'd like a game made by Telltale based in the Venture Bros universe.