THOSE VOICE ACTORS
THAT EVERYTHING
OH GOD RAMSAY SNOW
IT'S HAPPENING :hyper:
THOSE VOICE ACTORS
THAT EVERYTHING
OH GOD RAMSAY SNOW
IT'S HAPPENING :hyper:
Oh wow, they DID get the actors to do the voices, didn't they. It's interesting to see GoT in a stylized format, but I think they nailed it (which they've had a habit of doing as of late). I had faith. Sadly, I refuse to buy episodes, so I'll have to wait until its all out >.> Which reminds me, I need to get The Wolf Among Us
HBO had a hand in it directly. That's impressive. I mean telltale has been doing an awesome job but having HBO directly involved as well rather than the other GoT game, ugh dat combat :barf:, this will probably prove to be a very compelling and interesting side story.
I can't wait for this :excited:
First game I pre-ordered for like two years. Oh. My. smurfing. God.
Super freaking stoked.
Faster than expected, as well.
December 2 on PC and PlayStation 4
December 3 on Xbox One and Xbox 360
December 4 on iOS
PlayStation 3 on December 9
Wow, all the voice actors and everything? Very impressive. I'm only disappointed that it happens during the series at around its current place rather than being a prequel of some kind. I'd love to watch/play through some of the events that happen before GoT starts.
BUT THAT'S TODayauhioasd&asdiadijakopdokpaSDOKPASDKOPASKOPFPSEPQuote:
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WAIT WHATQuote:
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Dammit TellTale. I need to buy Tales of the Borderlands too! Stop releasing games! >:o
I have to wait a week for ps3? UGH
IT'S ON STEAM AND PLAYABLE LIKE RIGHT NOW :omg:
trying to decide whether to get it for full price or see if it sales at some point in the next week or so ahaha
Oh man... Isn't the first episode usually free on these things? >.< lol
Nah it's usually a demo of the first bit of the first episode.
DOWNLOAD FASTER DAMNIT
Argh I didn't know it'd be here NOW
Hnggggh
Bought it D:
Oops I keep doing bad things.
So, what exactly do you do in this game?
It's a pleasant surprise, that's for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rantz
Telltale has spent months talking about Tales from the Borderlands so I think it was totally unexpected to see the trailer up a week or so ago. Aside from the 30 second teaser last December, we didn't see a whole lot for the longest time.
I'll have to wait til the 4th, but I'm super stoked about this!
Make decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinx
The telltale games are kind of like point and clicks or choose your own adventure kinda puzzle game. But awesome writing that makes you cry and get very upset. "So and so will remember that" and you're like smurf I should have said something else. Depending on your choices, the outcome of the story will be slightly different. Great games, I highly recommend them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinx
So basically you're just given dilemmas and you decide what you want to do...basically an interactive story book? That's cool.
So I may have lost the Game of Thrones. What happens if you don't win said game? Someone remind me. :erm:
Bought! :jess:
I likely won't be able to play until this weekend, though, and it'll be there nagging at me all week ;-;
Something about celebrating the love of life and the loss of it? I think?Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
I'd love to play it, but neither myself nor Denmark has the graphics card suggested/required.
Well it's on PC, PS3, PS4, XBoX 360, Xbox One, iOS and android. So you can play them on pretty much everything!
Out of those I literally only have a PC.
It's essentially a visual novel that is accepted by Western society.Quote:
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ugh i want to plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay D:
There are probably let's plays all over YouTube already if you just want to experience it
I just compared these games to visual novels myself to someone at work. But they're pretty high caliber in that regard. The point and click adventure is a good comparison as well. Just without so much point and click. They usually let you actually walk around and interact with people and things but same basic concept. Minimal puzzles too. Just generally great stories and characters and choices for the story
Some people are disappointed the choices don't always make much of a difference and can be more of a novelty. It's not Mass Effect or anything. But still generally a fantastic experience
How much do you get to customize yourself/main character.
You don't~ It's a storybook. The main character is already there for you.
Cersei is a gigantic bitch and Ramsay is a total :bou::bou::bou::bou:. No surprises there then.
Finished the first episode. Not bad. I like the story and the characters we get to follow. I wish there was a little bit more subtlety in the choices you make at Ironrath (it basically always comes down to ruling by either diplomacy or strength, or sometimes a non-committal option in between), but the King's Landing storyline felt a bit more nuanced in that regard. I really enjoyed the conversation with Cersei, which felt something like a balancing act.
I agree, King's Landing was definitely the more subtle of the two. On Ironrath, (SPOILER)it's all for nothing as apparently Ramsay does that no matter what you do. The only decision that was slightly, and I do say slightly, nuanced was the justice one.
Also the family is very much the Starks 2.0 which is kinda ehhh to me.
I figured as much. (SPOILER)Would be really cool and impressive if your actions could influence big picture things like that, though, without necessarily resulting in a Game Over if one of your characters die. Imagine the tension of choosing your words if you knew their result could be anything from a complete success to the death of your character. It would be tougher to develop, of course, but it would really capture the essence of ASOIAF.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
Yeah, the one woman looks exactly like Cat. That's who I thought it was at first.
episode 1I'm really glad it lets you follow various characters like the books and show. My mouth opened in shock after we lost our guy, but considering it's Westeros, I probably should have seen it coming.
I'm looking forward to meeting his brother coming back from Essos.
Who did you make the sentinel? I like Duncan more but I chose Royland because it's the troutheads who get stuff done.
(SPOILER)Same. Those guys' rivalry was groanworthy, though. "Hey Duncan what do you think about-" "Um well you made Royland sentinel instead of me so maybe you should ask HIM instead"Quote:
Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart
(SPOILER)Yeah it was dumb. I picked Ser Royland too because I felt the "smart guy" was the obvious choice. Duncan tells me it would be a mistake to pick Ser Royland as he would lose his temper... before flipping the smurf out in the Great Hall, saying Ethan is too inexperienced and refusing to even turn up when Ramsay comes to town. Yeah, Ser Royland is the one who can't control his temper you dick.
(SPOILER) I picked Duncan, royland doesn't show up either.
Argh Ramsey, that little trout. smurf. And cersei, that bitch. Arrrrgh. Playing this made me more angry than the show stuff because it was me in control of the characters. So basically I got stabbed. smurf Ramsey!
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Originally Posted by Rantz(SPOILER)Same. Those guys' rivalry was groanworthy, though. "Hey Duncan what do you think about-" "Um well you made Royland sentinel instead of me so maybe you should ask HIM instead"Quote:
Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart
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Ah, so just like the GoT TV thread. Do we need to add 'game player' to the labels of 'book reader' and 'series watcher'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Freya
Well this is the thread for the game....
The spoilers are for those who haven't played the episode yet.
I day one bought the crap out of this thing. Wasn't disappointed. The conversation with Cersei and Tyrion was my favorite part.
Well this is on sale on Steam right now.
~rofls all the way to the checkout~
I started a LP of this on my other YT channel (boasting 6 subs!!!) a couple of weeks ago if anyone wants to see.
I was ill and messing about with mic settings so my voice is a little different from what you're used to if you've seen Sims/FF3.
Psy, I told Huxley that I like your Let's Plays because you're MISTER BIG TOUGH ADMIN but your voice is cute :3: and he insisted that I tell you, because I guess he thinks it's funny xD
I enjoyed this a great deal. It certainly captured the feeling of the franchise!
However there were a loooot of graphical bugs and errors.
I know, everyone says all sorts of things about my voice and I always say "REALLY? :irked:" but inside it's like ":3:"
I am interested in your LP, but I wish to play the game for myself first.
I will subscribe for later.
Ditto, Shauna's excuse
There were so many bugs. I hope they get that sorted out for the next episode. As far as episodes go "it was okay". I played Tales from the Borderlands' first episode right after it and it shat all over this first episode.
Best way to go about it really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shauna
I need to get Tales from the Borderlands, and The Wolf Among Us while I'm at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiny
EPISODE TWO TRAILER
Feb 3 :3
trout, I better finish my Let's Play xD
February 3rd!? I'm gonna have to take out a loan.
So the Lost Lords is out today! Anybody else played it? A pretty big pair of choices (SPOILER)forging Margaery's letter and then forcing Elaena Glenmore to marry you - naturally I did both :smug: Also Rodrik! Alive! Did not see that coming!
As with Iron from Ice I'm doing a let's play right now if anyone wants to see the story but can't/don't have the time to play the game for whatever reason!
You're probably best starting from Episode 1 if you haven't seen it though!
Oh yeah. I was gonna play that but then got distracted by learnin'.
Maybe I'll give it a whirl tomorrow.
I figured who the other playable character would be. It's honestly really obvious if you compare the shadow on the opening screen. I have to wait till tomorrow to play it. Stupid Microsoft :(
Another good episode. I was just relieved I didn't have to pay extra to get the individual episode on my game.
I'm probably too loyal to Margaery for my family's good.
Just completed episode 2, had no idea who the new character was going to be so that was a nice surprise. I'm always interested to see what choices people made at the end of Telltale games. Only 20% of people made the same choice as me at one of the crossroads in this episode :S
I decided to revive this in the spirit of Game of Thrones!
Who's up to date on this? :D
Oh! Oh! I am! Though not with my LPs (or anything on my channel) :shobon:
I've really really pissed off Margaery as Mira. She wouldn't even let me do her hair for the wedding! THE HUMANITY :( Mira is playing the most dangerous game of all actually, I fear for her. I finally stopped defying the Whitehills as Rodrik too, they broke him :(
I've made Margaery mad too. xD Look, Tyrion wanted to speak to me! Who am I do defy the Master of Coin!? Surely, of all people, Margaery Tyrell would understand this predicament.
Yes, the Whitehills are a nasty bunch. :( Bend the knee for now, until we have a plan. I managed to get a wedding agreed with the Glenmores, so we'll see what happens there. I wonder who the spy among the ranks is though. Royland is an arse, but I think he's too easy a target for this one.
Margaery still gets mad at you even if you agree to stay with her.
I was jumping for joy when I saw Dany at the end. Can't wait for Episode 4 now.
I've been convinced since episode 1 that Maester Ortengryn can't be trusted (especially after he wanted to cut a deal with the Whitehills) so I was pretty :smug: when they said there was a spy. Also Royland is a bro, you should've made him Sentinel!
I made him Sentinel :cool:
Yeah, I suspect the Maester. I wouldn't even tell the smurfing mother about the spy I was so paranoid.
I saw someone pose the idea that it could be Lady Forrester, because she wants her son back safe and to not lose any more of her family to this feud. It made me ponder. I don't think it's her at all, but it's a fair notion.
GAH I WANT TO PLAY THIS
I just finished episode 2. smurf that whitehill guy. I did not kiss his ring. smurf him.
You are a braver Rodrik than I.
Yah i'd probably die in GoT. I'm too defiant.
Yeah I didn't kiss his stupid ring either and it was fine. But then in Episode 3 I wanted to come to a deal with Gwyn so sucked it up for that.
UGH I STILL WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME
I like it requires no skill and is basically a Choose Your Own Adventure.
Is there a chance you'll have some way to play it? If not, maybe you can watch a let's play?
Just live vicariously through my Let's Plays!
Or that!
What are your laptop specs? :3Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinx
DENMARK GOT THIS LAST NIGHT AND IMMA PLAY IT SOON
Denmark bought this game and I played it for a couple hours. I'm already planning on starting up another save file where I'm just a dick to EVERYONE no matter who they are or what I'm doing. xD
Why not be a dick anyway? I usually am (to rude people!) and nothing bad has ever happened!
I was a bit of a dick to Lord Whitehill. I worshiped Margaery, though, and she loves me and is gonna help out.
I can't wait for all the episodes to become available so I can do a review of it. I usually like to wait for the whole season to be out before I write one. And there's the joy of playing through it all back to back instead of having to wait months between each episode.
Game of Thrones: the fandom that waits.
NOOOO
THEY NEED TO STOP MAKING OTHER COOL trout LIKE GoT GAMES
SO THEY CAN FINISH THE WOLF AMONG US SEASON 2
Were they actually working on a Season 2? Because it was my understanding that that was a one off since it's supposed to be a prequel to the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bones
Same or I'd be like Littlefinger and be a conniving little twit who pushes bishes down giant holes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freya
Will this be like the other games they've done where you don't have to be familiar with the source material to play? I've never even touched any part of this series and I don't want to be spoiled :p
You don't have to be familiar with the source material, but it's pretty spoilers heavy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪
I was under the impression they were working on it and that the first episode would be released in 2016 but... I think I was only getting my hopes up. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJWere they actually working on a Season 2? Because it was my understanding that that was a one off since it's supposed to be a prequel to the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bones
-pats- You and the rest of the fanbase, bruh.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonesI was under the impression they were working on it and that the first episode would be released in 2016 but... I think I was only getting my hopes up. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJWere they actually working on a Season 2? Because it was my understanding that that was a one off since it's supposed to be a prequel to the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bones
Just seen this, but not true. You don't need to be familiar with Walking Dead at all to play any of the Walking Dead games they've done. Same goes for their Borderlands game. For this one however it helps to at least know a bit about the different families and certain events that are cannon are spoiled in the first few minutes of the first episode in fact!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪
Has anyone played Episode 4 yet? It was good. Mira continues to find ways to make me like her more. I'm growing to like Asher more, too. "Just point us in the direction of the people you want killed and we'll take it from there." Hilarious.
Yeah, the Asher sequence was great. Though I still like what is happening at Ironrath, I thought I was going to get Red Weddinged for sure when we went to Highpoint.
Oh, I like those, too. Speaking of Highpoint:Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
Episode 4 SpoilersI got myself killed when I went for the 'Kill Lord Whitehill' option. Not sure if you can actually get away with murdering him if you bring the archers with you, but knowing Telltale probably not. I decided to call his bluff after that.
Hated the ending though. WHY IS RAMSEY THERE. Who is the traitor. smurf cliffhangers
:|
I made the game choose for me.
Is the next episode out already? Crap! And so is Life is Strange! Uhhhhh all I need is for Tales from the Borderlands to come out and I will have so many things to play.
Episode 5 is out? So much for sleep.
That last decision was the hardest in the game for me but I chose Asher because he can control those rowdy warriors. Still very gutted tho especially since Gryff's smug ass smirk. Easiest decision was taking a stab at Ramsay.
You're all familiar with the expression "When you play the Game of Thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground" I'm sure. Well, judging from the absolute corpse mountain I've just left behind I'm pretty smurfing sure I just lost. What can I say? My face was really pissing me off and cutting my nose off seemed the best way to tell it to go smurf itself.
Yeah, Episode 6 just plain pissed me off and proved something I should have known going in.
The Game of Thrones formula doesn't work for a game. It just doesn't. Furthermore, not a single smurfing storyline was resolved. Feels like they're planning a sequel, but since people already consider this the worst game they put out since TWD S2 (though I don't understand why that is getting shat on so much by the fanbase) I can't see that happening.
I have yet to play the finale myself, but this reaction seems to be widespread, so I'm not looking forward to booting it up.
My friend, I am not sure if you know how the gaming industry works.Quote:
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Apparently not.Quote:
Originally Posted by PsychoticMy friend, I am not sure if you know how the gaming industry works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ayen
I won't expect to be able to play any of the characters from the first season besides Gared since the rest became player-determined which is basically Telltale's kiss of death. I personally found Gared to be the least interesting one in the whole lot.
This game is pretty poor in doing what it says it is going to do. The reality of it is that your choices affect absolutely smurf all.
Huge spoilers duhTake Mira. You're going to get accused of murder no matter what. Did you choose not to kill the guy in question? Doesn't matter. Did you throw the knife into the bushes instead of keeping it? Doesn't matter. Are you in the good graces of both Margaery and Cersei or even just one of them? Doesn't smurfing matter. You're getting thrown in jail.
And how smurfing ridiculous is it that a lady of a noble house gets executed on the say so of a smurfing random lumber merchant with zero proof for the murder of a random bumsmurf lowborn guard? Without even a god damn trial? Even Tyrion got a trial for murdering the trout out of Joffrey. It would've been an improvement if they'd had a trial and you had various people like Margaery, Cersei, Sera, coal boy etc. come as witnesses for you and then how you've treated everyone affects the testimony they give. But nope.
Ironrath is ridiculous too. There is no choice to be made because no matter what you do, whether Rodrik is Lord, Asher is Lord or whether you want to sue for peace and surrender to the Whitehills there is still going to be a smurfing bloodbath. If you surrender, Lady Forrester stabs Ludd anyway and the Whitehills attack Ironrath. If you are Rodrik, you attack the camp and can kill either Ludd or Gryff and then the Whitehills attack Ironrath. If you're Asher, you can either kill Ludd (poison) or Gryff (ambush) and then yes they attack Ironrath. Do you choose to guard the smallfolk or the gate? Doesn't matter, gate is still getting bashed in.
I also am let down because they kept saying "Oh yes we need Garred, Asher and Mira's help to survive!" Garred has had absolutely smurf all impact on Ironrath whatsoever. Mira was a potentially interesting one, where you could forge the letter and get Elaena to marry you and you have a tricky choice, do you make one character vulnerable to strengthen the position of another? ...except if you don't forge the letter she'll want to smurfing marry you anyway. Not that it makes any difference to the defence of Ironrath because the Glenmores are all dead before then. Why is she smurfing about with all these random lumber merchants or getting Margaery onside when none of them help? Same for Asher. Oh yes, we need to hire all these sellswords you can't fail our house in this... except you can't not hire them and they all die anyway.
I appreciate there's always going to be limitations on these things but when this is the whole defining point of your game you expect more. And I mean how hard would it have been to set it so that if Mira was successful in brokering an Ironwood deal you get extra Ironwood defences in the battle which stops (random character X) dying. Or Asher can fail or succeed in hiring the sellswords and if he doesn't you can't kill that bearded prick (you know who I mean) Whitehill guy as idk the sellswords are needed to surround him. Or maybe you can choose to hire either a Dothraki Horde or a Ghiscari Legion and choosing the former gives you the opportunity to do a LotR stye glorious charge out the gates while the latter sees you turtling up. Let us have some meaningful impact on this battle given that's what the last five episodes have been building up to.
The worst thing about it is that there is just a never ending torrent of loss and humiliation. Yes, yes, it's Game of Thrones. Except, and I've made this point in the TV show thread, there's still triumphs and victories for all characters too. Jon becomes commander, Arya gets revenge on the people on her list, Robb becomes King in the North etc. Yes, they get a trout sandwich each and I'm not saying that's a problem, but what victories, even little ones, have the Forresters had? We punched Gryff once, I guess? I suppose we killed Ludd while sacrificing our mother to do so?
I can understand why they'd want to do multiple seasons of GoT given what a huge franchise it is right now, but surely the best way to do it would just be to start over with new characters so that choices have meaning? Keep Garred and one or two others, then introduce a new house. The Forresters get a good or bad ending depending on what you do. Not a bad ending with specified characters surviving and dying no matter what.
sigh
I kept forgetting Mira was a noble because how many nobles become handmaidens for other Houses?
just play tales from the borderlands - 100% better than this noise
ugh what was even the point of any of this
To capitalize on a popular selling franchise to make money.
But this seem to be a pattern, I notice. During the development of The Wolf Among Us, they were also working on TWD Season 2. The former saw great success, and the latter fell under a lot more criticism.
This time around they were working on Tales from the Borderland and Game of Thrones, and the former saw great success while the latter received far more criticism.
I'm starting to think Telltale should just focus on one game at a time.
I was meaning more what was the point of anything we did over the course of the Season rather than what was the point of the game. I understand why it exists.
Anyway. Disagree - if they were focusing on one game at a time then they would focus on the flagship titles, so Wolf and Blands wouldn't even exist. :3
I totally agree that it'd be great if your decisions had larger scale consequences, but honestly, for me that's a rather minor problem. The consequences of your actions in this game weren't much smaller than most other Telltale games I've played and probably larger than Wolf Among Us - though admittedly, you come to expect quite a butterfly effect in the world of GoT simply by association with the books and show.
Maybe it's just my disproportionate fondness for the Telltale formula, which I thought worked exceedingly well with GoT's multi-character type story. I thoroughly enjoyed affecting each character's personality in different directions (even though my complaint from episode 1 still stands, that the personality choices mostly seems to be passionate & reckless vs. cunning & sycophantic).
I still feel that I accomplished more in The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, then I have playing a single second of Game of Thrones.