The Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us games chug occasionally on XB1. It's pathetic. They are wonderful, fantastic games, but the rare chug on the XB1 versions is unacceptable.
I love the art style in the new Game of Thrones game. The blurry water colour filter is beautiful. But the game is a mess otherwise. The story in episode one was boring. House Forrester is boring as hell.
There were some laughable moments early on. Episode one starts off at the "you-know-what wedding", a significant moment at the end of season 3 of the show. The main character is bound by duty to protect his lord's son, Rodrick, during an attack. So the main character, like an idiot, is yelling "Rodrick!!!!!!" while Rodrick is busy fighting traitors. Surprise surprise, Rodrick is attacked and dies due to the distraction. It's so awful.
Also, both Borderlands and GOT have spelling errors in dialogue. GOT misspells entirely as "eniterly" or something similar - I don't remember the context. Borderlands misspells the word friend as "freind" - I don't remember the context. Pretty embarrassing.
Check this video. It's the GOT theme song in Telltale's game. First impression was "Oh gosh, this is incredible, based TellTale, they did it,
they actually did it!!!! They got the HBO theme song! And they're going through the world's geography just like in the show!!!"
http://xboxclips.com/OdadjianActual/ee175ce9-2108-4112-a55d-a15c979ac0d3
First: The graphics during the theme song are horrendous. This is a cut scene and it is incredibly choppy. Second: the textures at King's Landing and The Wall are embarrassingly bad, as if this was a D+ student's remedial OpenGL project. Third: after the camera pans past The Wall, the song skips awkwardly in a pathetic attempt to accelerate the theme song. Seriously, listen closely once the geography pans over The Wall: the music skips inexplicably like a Sony Walkman falling down Mount Everest.
Most importantly, TellTale has the balls to show The Wall during the theme song but The Wall ends up not even being a location you visit in episode one - just awful.
Even Borderlands was boring, although that game was miles more polished than GOT - it had good graphics, a far better story, good performance, and decent characters. But the stakes in these two games are so low. How can these stories possibly compare to post-apocalyptic zombie environments (Walking Dead) or a gritty, dark, rated-M tale about poverty, murder, prostitution, and slavery (Wolf Among Us)?
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