Board 8 > Choose my next series playthrough after Telltale Hell

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So I still have a ways to go on Telltale Hell but when I'm done I want to do well another series/franchise ish playthrough. I asked for some noms from certain people.

Gonna try to keep bumping this til I finish out my telltale hell.
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What did the Telltale playthrough consist of?

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ryuu ga gotoku
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Done so far
Back to the Future (At times brilliant but mostly a chore)
Batman S1 (REALLY Good)
Batman S2 (Felt pretty lazy at first got better in the end)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Pain until last episode)

Almost done Minecraft Story Mode (shockingly decent for what its aimed at, children)

To Do
Minecraft Story Mode Season 2
Game of Thrones
Tales from Borderlands
Wolf Among Us
Walking Dead S1
Walking Dead S2
Walking Dead S3
Walking Dead S4
Walking Dead Michonne
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I vote DQ. It's a magical journey and the oldschool feel stays pretty consistent in the main entries.

MegamanX posted...

Done so far
Back to the Future (At times brilliant but mostly a chore)
Batman S1 (REALLY Good)
Batman S2 (Felt pretty lazy at first got better in the end)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Pain until last episode)

Almost done Minecraft Story Mode (shockingly decent for what its aimed at, children)

To Do
Minecraft Story Mode Season 2
Game of Thrones
Tales from Borderlands
Wolf Among Us
Walking Dead S1
Walking Dead S2
Walking Dead S3
Walking Dead S4
Walking Dead Michonne

Interesting omissions!

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Jakyl25 posted...

MegamanX posted...

Done so far
Back to the Future (At times brilliant but mostly a chore)
Batman S1 (REALLY Good)
Batman S2 (Felt pretty lazy at first got better in the end)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Pain until last episode)

Almost done Minecraft Story Mode (shockingly decent for what its aimed at, children)

To Do
Minecraft Story Mode Season 2
Game of Thrones
Tales from Borderlands
Wolf Among Us
Walking Dead S1
Walking Dead S2
Walking Dead S3
Walking Dead S4
Walking Dead Michonne

Interesting omissions!

Oh I guess I've done Sam & Max S1-2 as well, and Wallace & gromit. And both weird poker games
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The Wolf Among Us the best of those
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You've still got TftB and that's the best one.

But you've also got GoT and that... Christ on a cracker.
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ninkendo posted...

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I'm doing the fantranslated snes for those if that wins
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bryans7 posted...

You've still got TftB and that's the best one.

But you've also got GoT and that... Christ on a cracker.

I did the first episode of Game of Thrones....it was pretty painful
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Im so torn on Batman S1 because the story is AMAZING but your choices mean almost nothing

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Jakyl25 posted...

Im so torn on Batman S1 because the story is AMAZING but your choices mean almost nothing

so it's a Telltale game
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I absolutely love that B8 has become a place where Yakuza can win this poll.
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As expected, the only vote for Far Cry.
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ninkendo posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Im so torn on Batman S1 because the story is AMAZING but your choices mean almost nothing

so it's a Telltale game

kinda this
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KCF0107 posted...

As expected, the only vote for Far Cry.

Far cry is great doesnt get much love
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MegamanX posted...

I did the first episode of Game of Thrones....it was pretty painful

It gets no better. I was angry after I was done. Angry at myself for having played it.
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MegamanX posted...

KCF0107 posted...

As expected, the only vote for Far Cry.

Far cry is great doesnt get much love

this is board 8 so I'm not surprised
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FF jumped up a lot this polls gonna be up awhile
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The most your choices ever mattered in Telltale was early TWD S1, and even that was limited.

Well maybe some of the older stuff, but afaik TWD was when they started pushing that tag line.
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Actually, now that I think about it, Batman S2 might actually surpass that thanks to the last chapter.
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yeah, you gotta go into telltale games knowing that you're more choosing *how* you get to your destination, not necessarily dramatically changing what that destination is

they have to loop everything back to manageable development scope somehow
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Can never get those "choices don't matter complaint"
Please give me examples of games that choices do matter, thanks

Anyway
Top Tier - TWD S1, Tales from the Borderlands
High Tier - TWD S4
Mid Tier - TWD S2, The Wolf Among Us
Meh Tier - TWD S3, Michonne
A pile of dogshit tier - Game of Thrones

Also, you do not do a series marathon and decide to ignore some of them. I mean, it's your choice, but it's still dumb
Yes, you need to play Jurassic Park too, enjoy


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Devil May Cry or Yakuza.

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Nanis23 posted...

Can never get those "choices don't matter complaint"
Please give me examples of games that choices do matter, thanks

Undertale
Planescape: Torment
Mass Effect 3 (ending aside)
Dragon Age 1
Fallout: New Vegas
Vampyr
Fire Emblem Three Houses

Off the top of my head.

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Don't forget FF6 choices
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Nanis23 posted...

Can never get those "choices don't matter complaint"
Please give me examples of games that choices do matter, thanks

The game sells itself, or at least heavily implies, that choices matter. And they don't. Which is annoying. If a game doesn't give that illusion at all there's no issue, but it's disappointing when you think they will because they really should and they don't.
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Nanis will remember that.
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I may be crazy, and I know that I have brought this up before here or on Discord, but I swear that in The Walking Dead S1, Telltale used to have a message before each episode explicitly or heavily implying that our choices would have a profound impact on the story. After that turned out to not be the case and Telltale received criticism for it, it was patched to contain a more accurate message and future games used it.
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KamikazePotato posted...

Undertale
Planescape: Torment
Mass Effect 3 (ending aside)
Dragon Age 1
Fallout: New Vegas
Vampyr
Fire Emblem Three Houses

Off the top of my head.

Only played Undertale and Mass Effect from that list
Undertale is split into 2 parts. Everything else are minor things that matter, like Telltale games
Mass Effect is the same thing, your choices matter for little things as well


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KCF0107 posted...

I may be crazy, and I know that I have brought this up before here or on Discord, but I swear that in The Walking Dead S1, Telltale used to have a message before each episode explicitly or heavily implying that our choices would have a profound impact on the story. After that turned out to not be the case and Telltale received criticism for it, it was patched to contain a more accurate message and future games used it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APciZGsWg9g" data-time="&start=108
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Yeah Telltale games are fun rides when the story is good and you accept choice is meaningless. But then you get something like Guardians of the Galaxy where not only is choice meaningless but everything feels pointless from characterization to puzzles to set pieces.
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Nanis23 posted...

Only played Undertale and Mass Effect from that list
Undertale is split into 2 parts. Everything else are minor things that matter, like Telltale games
Mass Effect is the same thing, your choices matter for little things as well

Undertale has a lot of little things that affect how the world reacts to you in a non-Genocide route, with characters' opinions of you and their eventual fate changing based on who you kill. And the Genocide route itself is so wildly different in tone and story that it's maybe the best usage of choice in gaming ever, especially with how often it hammers into you that you can stop being a monster at any time if you chose to.

Mass Effect choices mostly affect little things, but 3 actually has quite a few things that decide the fates of major characters and entire races, with many of your options being limited based on what you did in previous games. If the ending hadn't been so bad then it would be heralded as one of the best examples of a 'decisions matter' game.

Most Telltale games don't even throw you a bone. Everyone you save will end up dead in 2 seconds anyway, and every situation plays out exactly the same no matter how you approach them.

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I completely missed that they even did GotG until this topic.
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Choices mattered in Mass Effect but a lot of the time it was whether you "chose" to complete optional content that affected whether or not stuff happened. And that heavily affected the EMS score in 3. If you ended up with a high EMS score in ME3 and good endings to the various subplots (Rannoch, Tuchanka, etc) then that usually meant you were thorough more than it means you made "good" choices when presented with two options. For example, on Rannoch, a non-thorough player would have to choose between the Geth and the Quarians. A thorough player who did Tali and Legion's loyalty missions, did enough side missions/tasks etc in the game to get a high reputation bar, and did the relevant side missions in ME3, gets the third option to make peace, which is indisputably the best option to the point it's not even so much an option as "the way you should go". And those are all down to the choice to play and be thorough, not a difficult choice between two options.

So choices matter in ME in a huge way - but not the choices people sometimes think, is the point I'm trying to make I guess.

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So wait you never played devil may cry games

ertyu0078 posted...

So wait you never played devil may cry games

Nope not yet
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Why would you do this? I feel like you'd get a massive burn-out playing the same series in a row. Especially stuff like AC, Far Cry or DQ, it feels like it'd be a mind-numbing experience. I mean, you do you man, but it just baffles me how can you get through it.
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Yeah, I always change things up with video games. I essentially never play the same series or genre consecutively or concurrently.
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Thirding that sentiment; playing games like this seems like an easy way to make me hate just about everything I play, lol.
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I might have done that with AC as 3 was coming out, but it's arguable that was less burnout and more 3 being massively disappointing.
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Done so far
Back to the Future (At times brilliant but mostly a chore)
Batman S1 (REALLY Good)
Batman S2 (Felt pretty lazy at first got better in the end)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Pain until last episode)

Almost done Minecraft Story Mode (shockingly decent for what its aimed at, children)

To Do
Minecraft Story Mode Season 2
Game of Thrones
Tales from Borderlands
Wolf Among Us
Walking Dead S1
Walking Dead S2
Walking Dead S3
Walking Dead S4
Walking Dead Michonne
Strong Bad Cool Game for Attractive People
Jurassic Park
Puzzle Agent 1
Tales of Monkey Island

Recovered 4 from ps3 hell
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Burnout is def real so im alternating a game inbetween most of these. Otherwise I have too vast interest in games that I'll never get to some of this stuff. *shrug*
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RyoCaliente posted...

Why would you do this? I feel like you'd get a massive burn-out playing the same series in a row. Especially stuff like AC, Far Cry or DQ, it feels like it'd be a mind-numbing experience. I mean, you do you man, but it just baffles me how can you get through it.

Can confirm
Been doing a Resident Evil Marathon (even the shitty spin-off games) for 8 months and I want to kill myself

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Choices in Telltale games changes plot, but not story...

If I feel burnout the idea will turn into regular polls I guess
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safety and peace bump
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Another solid save
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