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okr said:

I will soon play Telltale's Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us (the first games I'll play from them since the overrated and disapponting Tales of MI). I heard they're pretty good and I actually look forward to playing them (plus I love Bill Willingham's Fables), but the English speaking media declaring Telltale as saviours of the adventure game genre still makes me mad. Their classic-style adventure games were ugly as heck and decent at best (mainly Sam & Max) and then they saw the sales figures of Heavy Rain...

I haven't played Tales from the Borderlands, but as someone who has never read the comics I thought TWAU was absolutely fantastic. I hear Borderlands is pretty great, too, but it's a bit unseemly to see Telltale just grabbing up every popular license they can lay their hands on while they're still hot after the success of The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones isn't so offensive, as the setting seems perfect for another of the strong, dark stories that seem to be their forte lately, but does the world really need or want this Minecraft thing? Blech.

I'd also think a lot more highly of them as a developer if they did more offbeat original stuff in the vein of Puzzle Agent.



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There are some in here I agree with, Tell Tale Games, Double Fine, Bethesda, and Platinum Games, but I'd say Nintendo is top tier overrated. There's no denying that they make some great games, and at the same time there's a lot of garbage that gets praised like it's of the same quality.



Dudes who make bioshock and valve



Nintendo, the rehashes same old ideas same games same characters. Severely overrated.



Naughty dog because they are not using the medium in a unique way, they are trying to make movies instead of playing to the strengths of the medium. Storytelling in videogames has so much potential but they are going in completely the wrong direction. They do make very enjoyable games just not masterpieces.



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pikashoe said:
Naughty dog because they are not using the medium in a unique way, they are trying to make movies instead of playing to the strengths of the medium. Storytelling in videogames has so much potential but they are going in completely the wrong direction. They do make very enjoyable games just not masterpieces.


if storytelling is your reason, then theres 100 other highly rated developers who cant tell a story half as good as ND.... infact many of those dont even bother with dialogue or cutscenes, and unlike ND games dont progress story during gameplay either.



Drazgonow said:
Nintendo, the rehashes same old ideas same games same characters. Severely overrated.

So much wrong in this sentence it hurts, they can be considered overrated, but not for these reasons because bar Mario being overused everything in this sentence is just ridiculous.



Naughty Dog.



CGI-Quality said:
fps_d0minat0r said:


if storytelling is your reason, then theres 100 other highly rated developers who cant tell a story half as good as ND.... infact many of those dont even bother with dialogue or cutscenes, and unlike ND games dont progress story during gameplay either.

One must ask themselves how Naughty Dog produces the most awarded game in history, but are headed in the wrong direction.

Because their games are basically just interactive movies and have no gameplay at all, duh!!



I think people have misunderstood my post I'm not saying they are overrated because they tell a story, I'm saying they overrated because they are bring story telling in gaming in the wrong direction. Games can be fantastic without a story, but for naughty dogs recent games story has been the main selling point and sadly they ain't bringing out its full potential, the makers of the bioshock series are probably a better example for overrated storytelling