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Telltale Games’ catalog being pulled from GOG on May 27
- Thread starter Shard Shinjuku
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Oh god i hope this doesn't effect steam. I'm gonna have to scramble and buy up telltale games, even though i have a large majority of their games already.
Wish GOG Connect would be supported for this.
Also wish they would put these games on sale at the very least.
The only one I dont have in GOG (or steam) is Strong bad but I aint payin $20 for that.
Also I dont have any of the Minecraft games cause I didnt have the funds for it before they pulled it off the stores that sold them at a sale price.
Wish MS would re-release the Minecraft games at the least.
TWD4/Final Season is safe right?
Also wish they would put these games on sale at the very least.
The only one I dont have in GOG (or steam) is Strong bad but I aint payin $20 for that.
Also I dont have any of the Minecraft games cause I didnt have the funds for it before they pulled it off the stores that sold them at a sale price.
Wish MS would re-release the Minecraft games at the least.
TWD4/Final Season is safe right?
I nothing. You what? Piracy is the future for delisted games. The availability of Telltale games could be in jeopardy. DRM-free exes make piracy easier. It's fortunate that Telltale released DRM-free versions of their games and that DRM-free versions also exist from GOG.
I'm not recommending pirating these games. But it's possible that in the future if one wants to play them that could be their only option. Let's hope not.
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Ha ha I just did exactly that off of Humble Bundle, got all three for 55$ not bad
GOG was selling them at twice the price I got off of HB, price you pay I guess for DRM free direct download, I just grabbed the steam keys from HB instead.
GreenManGaming has Steam keys for the 2 Batman games and Guardians of the Galaxy for $12.74 so you can get a little bit of a discount if you're looking for the Steam versions of those games.
Why the FUD around preservation?
GOG sales are DRM free.
No, that would be piracy.
Wow Guardians runs like shit on my phone, but Borderlands runs quite fine lol (granted it is a older game). Maybe I will look into Borderlands, since I am already liking what I have been through. I believe 2k is working on keeping it around least, since it already disappeared from a few places.
I have several Telltale physical copies that does not require steam thank god such as Monkey Island and Back to the future
What a disaster. I remember when Telltale first started as a way to keep point and click adventure games alive. Well, thank you TTG because it looks like adventure games survived longer than you did.
Small comfort is that when you buy from GOG you can download the non-Galaxy installer and burn it to a disc, technically giving you a physical version.
I own every telltale game except for the 2 batman ones , gotg, and the final season of twd. I'm really sad they're folding because I like all of their games even the old pre TWD ones. I even dig their csi & ncis games although I only own one of those on steam. If they'd make a full collection of telltale games available at a reduced price I'd totally buy it but I guess that's a pipedream.
Is GOTG any good?
It's the only one with TWD final season that I don't own and was wondering if it was worth it.
It's the only one with TWD final season that I don't own and was wondering if it was worth it.
It is ok. I wouldnt say it is anything grand imo but it is ok.
If anyone is interested
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Law-Order-...rder+legacies&qid=1558683800&s=gateway&sr=8-3
I do not know if the key is region locked but this a decent adventure game from telltale's early years.
If there is no way to physically or digitally purchase the games, how can it be piracy? Surely preservation of what the developers have created at that point supersedes any moral conundrum over if it's piracy or not? Game preservation is important.
I mean, there will likely be a flood of people buying physical copies second hand on eBay now, the developers and publishers will get 0% of that money, you could argue that buying second hand is pirating games with that logic.
For the record, I am 100% against pirating games, it's stealing and there is no justifying it and I am not advocating for it.
All I can think of as an example is the game no one lives forever, it has been stuck in limbo in terms of digital distribution for years and currently the only way to play it is via fan distribution, at the end of the day, if it wasn't for that fan site the game would have likely been forgotten at this point and nobody would have the means to play it.
The same could happen to these telltale games after they stop being sold.
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Is the Strongbad game any good? Not sure if i should spend $20 on GOG or $15 on PS3 or if it's just not worth it. Strongbad and Puzzle Agent are really the two main ones I don't have.
My library has a few of the games that would be delisted and I hope they would still work since they are physical.
My library has a few of the games that would be delisted and I hope they would still work since they are physical.
It's good. A funny and solid PnC adventure game.
Wingamestore has many of the Telltale games on there for anyone interested.
Thanks for this, I just picked it up! It didn't make any mention of region when I redeemed on Steam, just Law & Order Legacies Retail, so think it should be ok for US buyers.
If you have an NVidia card, I'd suggest using it to apply SSGSS anti aliasing or just downsample for stuff to look cleaner.
Anyone know anything about Hector: Badge of Carnage? In looking at Telltale games I may have missed, this popped up as something they published but didn't develop. I am wondering if it's going to remain on the store and if not, is it worth a purchase.
I'll be the only one to do so but I'm pouring one out for the Puzzle Agent games. *sound of pouring*
Strongbad is okay, but you really need to be into Homestar Runner to get most of the jokes. I'd highly suggest Puzzle Agent, though. It's one of Telltale's best, imo.
I'm gonna guess the Homestar games will be republished at some point, assuming the rights to those games go straight back to Brothers Chaps. Would be awesome to have those ported up, honestly.
I imagine GoT and GotG are dead though. I'd be optimistic about Batman and Wolf Among Us, if only because Warner Bros. has its game division 'n all. I doubt we'll see new games, though.
I imagine GoT and GotG are dead though. I'd be optimistic about Batman and Wolf Among Us, if only because Warner Bros. has its game division 'n all. I doubt we'll see new games, though.
Yall keep saying that someone should buy them to keep their IP alive
What IP? every single thing they worked on was licensed, including puzzle agent. There isn't any original IP to save here.
What IP? every single thing they worked on was licensed, including puzzle agent. There isn't any original IP to save here.
I know, right? The only thing I can think is that someone could possibly buy the company out of bankruptcy and assume all of the licensing agreements, but I guess that really depends on how the agreements are written. Could Epic swoop in and do that? Would they even want to? That remains to be seen.
Thanks. I watched it a long, long time ago and enjoyed it. I ended up just buying it on GOG in case it's gone for good. It sounds like it's a unique and fun game.
I never knew of Strong Bad til I played the game way back on the PS3 for the first time. I enjoyed it despite knowing nothing about Strong Bad series.
Not saying you can't enjoy it, but you'd definitely get more out of it if you're familiar with Homestar Runner. Kinda like how someone can still enjoy Avengers: Endgame if they never watched any of the Marvel movies, but it's more enjoyable if you have.
Speaking of Homester Runner, if you've never watched the cartoons, the Brothers Chap have been slowly re-uploading them to Youtube.
It's GOG, just keep the games on a disc or usb drive. Installers and all.
It's a decent point-and-click adventure game, and can be funny... but nothing really essential. Give it a shot if you're a big fan of the genre, otherwise it can probably be skipped.
Wingamestore has Season 1 and 2 last I checked but they are not discounted.
Abandonware is still piracy. Only public domain would render it no longer piracy. The problem with that is that these are all licensed properties and the rights holders would be able to prevent it from becoming PD.
Honestly, this is what happens in any other medium. As was already mentioned, anything pre-digital gaming is pretty much in this case: if it's to re-released as part of a collection or on a digital service the only way to legally play them is to own the actual original physical copy. Books stop being printed. Movies get a release on disc and then no more printings are made until interest is generated or it reaches some semi-random anniversary to rerelease it.