What is your favorite Telltale game or episode?

Telltale still exists as a company called "Telltale", but with most people who have done it as it was, she was fired without a break, she does not really exist anymore. Should it be rebuilt in one way or another, who knows what would become of it?

We talked a lot this week about people who lost their jobs (at Telltale and elsewhere in the industry in the last 12 months), and of course we talked about all the games they created. Did Telltale care too much about the formulas his technology was best at? Perhaps, but there was not much overlap when five of us were asked to name a favorite Telltale game. Some are better than others, but Telltale has done a lot of good, creative, and distinct games (probably too much, because we now hear about overtime shots for everything to happen).

So, for the question this week, tell us in the comments what is your favorite Telltale game – or, if you want to be more granular, your favorite episode of a Telltale game. Our answers are below.

Steven Messner: The wolf among us

OK, so technically it's the only Telltale game I've ever finished, though they've all bought them. But where others have not caught my attention for a long time, The Wolf Among Us has come to be one of my most cherished game memories. I played it with my partner of the time who was little interested in games but was a big fan of fantastic TV series like True Blood. The Wolf Among Us ended up being that perfect bridge between our interests and we spent a few weeks hastily crunching each episode – me on the controller with it deciding what choices Bigby should make (except for a few rare circumstances where sensible option to time and make a choice without his consent). For me, The Wolf Among Us was the perfect setting for a Telltale style adventure game. The atmosphere, the art and the story all clicked and made something that both immediately seduced us. Like any good TV show, we were breathless at each revelation, speculating on what would happen next, and eagerly cutting out each night to play. Although I am the worst on the merits of Telltale Games, The Wolf Among Us at least helped me understand what it was.

James Davenport: The Sam and Max series

Before I arrived at Sam and Max: Tales from the Borderlands had no right to be as good as it was. Borderlands series have the impression of being written by an AI that scraped Reddit comments and Twitter threads on the same powerful ones. They are a minefield of dated jokes with some surprising pathos moments to keep things on track, but who played Borderlands for the story? This is a great video game video game with wild guns and addictive booty systems. Yet Tales from the Borderlands largely ignores its origins even there and looks at the slapstick, with hilarious fight scenes that satirize the tired quicktime events of Telltale. I thought I'd finished with the Telltale Games when The Wolf Among Us failed to do much for me, but Tales from the Borderlands' brazen self-awareness, lovable characters and style confident m & # 39; s immediately brought back.

In truth, I loved Telltale even more. The Sam and Max games are not classic adventure games, but I have enjoyed them as a decent Simpson season. They were a solid tradition for me, some of the only adventure games I had access to while growing up. I played them with my brother right out each month. This is the last time I connect a member of my family to a video game, aimlessly combining objects and clicks all over the stage to pick up items we had missed, waiting for stupid puns and duplicates.

Samuel Roberts: the walker season

I will admit that I am one of the people who played the first season of TWD and the first episodes of the other Telltale games – The Wolf Among Us and Batman. I never came back for the second season. But I really liked this first year. He came out at the same time as I was working on a science fiction magazine and we were also covering the very popular CMA show. And this show has never been so good.

The obsession has become a consequence of the Telltale games, but these are the individual moments where these games have flourished. I remember having so much evangelized about this first season. Maybe now I'll find time to play The Wolf Among Us, finally.

Christopher Livingston: Poker Night at the Inventory

I am a casual poker fan, more interested in solo poker against AI than against real players online – I find it stressful, even with counterfeit money – so I'm always looking for # 39, a good game of poker. Poker Night at the Inventory (and Poker Night 2) are not fantastic poker simulations, but nice opponents like Heavy Weapons Guy, Sam & Max's (Sam & Max's), Brock Sampson's from Venture Bros and GLaDOS from the Portal series . It's fun to see these characters chat and interact with each other and make me wish there are more cross-games like the Poker Night series. ClapTrap is there too, so it's fun to try to get it out of the table first (I'm not a fan). The games are fun, fun and casual, and once you've heard all the lines of all the characters, you can turn off the dialogue and play poker.

Jody Macgregor: Borderlands Tales

At the start of every Borderlands game, someone runs on a skag, one of the most famous dogbeasts in the series, and he explodes a bit of physical comedy. At the beginning of Tales from the Borderlands, Rhys and Vaughn run on one of them, and then stop their car with horror because that is what normal people would do. This is the concept for Tales from the Borderlands, which assumes that the entire world of Pandora runs as a backdrop for an excessive first-person shooter and casts a cast of characters totally inconsistent with the requirements of that game disturbed world. It's hilarious. I like Borderlands games, but Tales from the Borderlands has turned out better than any of them.