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Telltale Games 7 36.84%
 
Supermassive Games 4 21.05%
 
Quantic Dream 8 42.11%
 
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Which of those companies have the best adventure games?

Here are some examples:

Telltale Games:

- The Walking Dead

- The Wolf Among Us

- Minecraft: Story Mode

- Guardians of the Galaxy

Supermassive Games:

- Until Dawn

- The Dark Pictures Anthology

- The Quarry

- The Casting of Frank Stone

Quantic Dream:

- Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy

- Heavy Rain

- Beyond Two Souls

- Detroit: Become Human



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QD is gutter trash.



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The first Walking Dead game was and still is the best game TT have ever made. Overall tho, nothing these 3 devs have created come close to QBs Detroit.

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Detriot become human is by far the pinnacle of the genre, you don't realize how deep the choice system is until you go for the platinum, looking at the flow charts just don't cut seeing the differences play out. Not to mention it's an amazing character story, Connor in particular and the buddy cop dynamic is the best in genre, I'm surprised they didn't make a sequel based just on that. However the earlier games aren't nearly as well done in retrospect and rely on story twists more than choices. They were okay for the time but after Deteoit the bar had been raised significantly, very much astronomically. 

Tell tale is trash conpared to the other two, I've played many of them put all they really are visual novels.

Super massive done bloody amazing with Until Dawn but these smaller games don't work for many reasons. Character arks have no chance to unfold for example, you just feel like you're going through the motions and has a feeling like a visual novel with small choices. They aren't interesting enough to replay either and that's where the genre really shines, when you replay Detroit or Until Dawn and see the changes unfold, sometimes cutting off massive amounts of content.

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I mean from writing perspectives, David Cage's own systemic and sexist beliefs do come across so strongly in his characters that I couldn't believe how people could be truly enamored to his stories without getting whiplash. The worst aspects comes in his multiple path stories where only one of the routes he writes comes in as competently done where as the rest are flawed with characters and internal knowledge consistency and unexplored thematics that does not go beyond the surface level.

In that sense, Telltale games aren't giving you much of an actual choice to actually influence the course of their stories but their best written games like The Walking Dead, Takes From the Borderlands or The Wolf Among Us have more competently written through line.

Supermassive games are basically chasing the ghost of Until Dawn's lightning in a bottle success. The runtime of their smaller games are often not enough to actualize their characters journey and make them compelling. It's not like they can't do it per say. I'd argue from the Dark Pictures Anthology series, House of Ashes and Devil Within Me are more interesting tales than their more bigger recent venture like the Quarry.
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Man this reminds me the wolf among us 2 is still not out :(



Telltale Games:

- The Walking Dead [great!]

- The Wolf Among Us [average]

- Minecraft: Story Mode [no interest]

- Guardians of the Galaxy [no interest]

Supermassive Games:

- Until Dawn [great!]

- The Dark Pictures Anthology [average]

- The Quarry [yet to play.. doesn't look up to Until Dawn's standards]

- The Casting of Frank Stone [no interest]

Quantic Dream:

- Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy [great!]

- Heavy Rain [great!]

- Beyond Two Souls [great!]

- Detroit: Become Human [great!]

Quantic Dream for me, although the Tell-Tale Series Walking Dead would be my favourite game/series from the list. Until Dawn also up there with the Quantic Dream's output, but for consistency and the sheer rareness of them letting me down it has to be QD. When are we going to see their next game?



One I'd add to the list.. "As Dusk Falls" by Interior Night ..also great.. and probably the most recent game to add to the list above.. carrying on the tradition.

Quantum Break by Remedy was also good. Yet to play Alan Wake 2...



Having grown up in the 80's and 90's, I found all the above somehow... lacking. Having played through Monkey Island 1+2, Leisure Suit Larry 3, 5-7, Simon the Sorcerer and Day of the Tentacle, you know that those are a different breed of Adventure games than those one grew up with and cherished a lot back then.

That being said, I recently found 3 new Adventures that I absolutely love: Disco Elysium, The Council and The Forgotten City. Their unconventional writing and RPG  (Council and Disco Elysium) or Loop (The Forgotten City) mechanics make for something new that those games simply didn't deliver.

Also, unlike with the Telltale Games Adventures, choices actually do matter in those! A lot!



Bofferbrauer2 said:

Having grown up in the 80's and 90's, I found all the above somehow... lacking. Having played through Monkey Island 1+2, Leisure Suit Larry 3, 5-7, Simon the Sorcerer and Day of the Tentacle, you know that those are a different breed of Adventure games than those one grew up with and cherished a lot back then.

That being said, I recently found 3 new Adventures that I absolutely love: Disco Elysium, The Council and The Forgotten City. Their unconventional writing and RPG  (Council and Disco Elysium) or Loop (The Forgotten City) mechanics make for something new that those games simply didn't deliver.

Also, unlike with the Telltale Games Adventures, choices actually do matter in those! A lot!

The Journey Down is now a decade old but it's a fantastic point-and-click. Reminds me a lot of Grim Fandango.



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