Miles Quaritch
Member
Hey, I've played Advent Rising. Advent Rising. I still consider this to be the buggiest game I've played to date.
Sorry about that. I thought I mentioned it was on 360, but I guess my anger with the issues made me forget...
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Telltale Games Should be Embarrassed...
- Thread starter Miles Quaritch
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Hey, I've played Advent Rising. Advent Rising. I still consider this to be the buggiest game I've played to date.
Sorry about that. I thought I mentioned it was on 360, but I guess my anger with the issues made me forget...
Visualante2
Member
held off on their current two shows because of technical concerns. had a greater interest in TWAU frankly. you'd think with all that walking dead monet they could fix it. back to the drawing board, please.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I was watch Two Best Friend's Let's Play of it and does it really just freeze in the middle of a scene while loading? That is the most jarring thing.
To be fair, Respawn is only working on one game whereas Telltale has a few ongoing projects, but as I've already said this doesn't excuse the lack of post-release support.
Noticed big slowdown issues on both episodes for 360, but only during scene transitions/loading areas. Because I'm digging the story so much, and the fact that I'm only shelling out 5 bucks every once in a long while for the next episode, I'm not even mad.
I don't even see this as a real game. It's like some odd pay-per-view serial interactive experience.
I don't even see this as a real game. It's like some odd pay-per-view serial interactive experience.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Episode 2 felt a lot less polished than Episode 1 on the 360, in my opinion.
Backfoggen
Banned
It's pretty bad, you'd expect they'd put some of that Season 1 money into better tech.
not_so_special
Banned
50 artists? HAH
dragonbane
Member
Totally agreed. They should read up the definition of Quality Assurance. I'm convinced such a department doesn't exist at their studio lol
Also you should demand a refund. They did some scummy shit in the past too. Only if they see action they might change something...
Also you should demand a refund. They did some scummy shit in the past too. Only if they see action they might change something...
One of the things that prevented me from fully liking TWD was the atrocious framerate issues at times. I thought that was purely b/c I was using the discs, but after watching TBFP LP of the 2nd episode, it led me to believe it was more the game itself (digital or physical). A shame really, I would've hoped Telltales fixed that problem from TWD to TWAU
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Miles Quaritch
Member
Yep. that can happen. It's especially bad when you unlock an achievement, it comes to a virtual standstill with no indication of it's crashed or just having trouble loading. The little icon in the corner just freezes and you can't open the guide, so you're pretty much left to decide to if it's crashed or not...
Walter Matthau
Member
I've played many of their games and enjoyed all of them, but it does feel like they get a free pass somehow for general poor performance where other developers would be overcome with negative publicity.
pretty much
0 animators? Hmm, your math checks out!
Every time I play one of their games I'm shocked at how bad the animation is. The typical scene is two people talking to each other, and occasionally one of the characters walks a few steps away and then turns around to continue talking, so why is the animation always so noticeably awful?
Throw in slowdown and long load times and yeah even when they don't crash or corrupt save games their games at best are technically barely acceptable.
OverBlood 3
Banned
Episode 2 ran like an absolute dog on the 360. Don't know why I keep giving them my money.
Also the disregard for my actions in the story was the laziest shit in any of the TT games. Ridiculous.
Almost forgot about Snow White holding that brooch and having it hovering around and clipping through her fingers.
No it isn't, he's completely right.
Also the disregard for my actions in the story was the laziest shit in any of the TT games. Ridiculous.
Almost forgot about Snow White holding that brooch and having it hovering around and clipping through her fingers.
No it isn't, he's completely right.
I downloaded the first episode when they were giving it away for free on 360 and couldn't believe how badly it performed compared to the PC version. Sure, on PC I was running from an SSD and have a pretty nice machine, but I found the 360 version to be so poor.
In the first fight against
, I could barely figure out what was happening and what prompts I needed to hit. Failed it like 3 times but never had one issue on PC.
In the first fight against
The Woodsman
This. Telltale is quickly becoming the company I don't want them to become.
Henry Jones Jr
Member
I'm not sure I will buy another telltale game after the problems I had with The Walking Dead (PC). My save file never carried over to the next episode. I had to use a randomly generated one every fucking time. And from what I've heard, that problem is still around in their newer games for some people.
lol
Miles Quaritch
Member
Yep, that's why I'm giving serious thought to pushing MS for a refund. What really annoys me is that MS have cert is place and yet this still managed to pass for release...
OverBlood 3
Banned
Same thing happened to me and you realise pretty quickly that none of your actions really matter anyway.
dragonbane
Member
Just a quick reminder. Telltale thinks it is somehow ok to release THIS to the public and demand $30 for it! They had all the money and the time in the world to get the disc version of TWD right, but they didn't just to make a quick buck. Even worse, affected customers had to fill out a crazy form sending pictures of their receipt, the game box standing next to the TV and other stuff just to get a refund from Telltale and it took more than 8 weeks for some of them to get any answer.
It's absolutely disgusting how they treat their paying customers...
It's absolutely disgusting how they treat their paying customers...
Chittagong
Gold Member
It's incredible how many threads here cover the broken shit Telltale ships to gamers, and still they have millions of buying their games. They're shameless.
yah, that's just straight up broken and should never have been released. No excuses.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Telltale just don't make good games. It's all janky stuff with bad tech, bad gameplay, bad animations, etc. I haven't played TWAU yet, but TWD really was the epitome of a good story told through a bad game. I enjoyed it overall, but not without constantly being reminded that the actual game I was playing wasn't a good one.
To make even worse games? Unity is one of the worst engines you can pick.
Miles Quaritch
Member
That video is pretty accurate is highlighting the various issues that TWAU suffers from too on 360.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Kinda wondering why they aren't getting more shit from the media because of this.
Because people are ready to forgive anything if a game can pull a tear out of them.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
That reminds me I have the first episode of The Wolf Among Us for free on the 360 too! Maybe I should try experiencing it for myself later.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Episode 1 has some issues but it's mostly playable. Episode 2 is really on a whole other level in terms of issues.
The video posted by Dragon showing the issues in TWD S1 is pretty representative of some of the issues I encountered in TWAU episode 2.
That Wont Fit In There
Member
I've had a lot of those problems with the first season of TWD. Don't understand why they win so many awards. I love the stories but the game itself is just so poorly optimized. Like why do they have so many delays and never fix anything? What the hell are they doing?
terrdactycalsrock
Member
Of course you're welcomed to your opinion. In fact, I have a friend who was very upset about the entire season pass thing. But to say that TellTale is one worst company in the industry is hyperbole. One incident doesn't match what EA has done with Battlefield 4, Dungeon Keeper, etc. it doesn't match the weirdness that came from Silicone Knights, with its lawsuits and the strange KS stuff from Dyack. I could go on, but the point is that they fucked up once. One bad moment doesnt crystallize them as "one of the worst developers currently in business". From a consumer end, it does suck, and Im sorry you had a bad experience. However, perspective is important.
devonraynor
Member
Episode 2 ran very poor on my ps3 as well.
Lots of stuttering in the cutscenes
Lots of stuttering in the cutscenes
Yes, they even moved to a bigger building not long ago, didn't they?
But even if they were a small studio, people shouldn't give them a pass either, considering not only they fail to address many issues on their games while continuously pumping out new ones, they don't communicate well with the audience either. In fact they are pretty good at making excuses, and ignoring them.
CaptainTiptop
Member
Well I'm glad TellTale haven't bitten off more than they can chew and taken too many projects on at--WAIT A MINUTE.
Episode 2 ran like fucking arse on my PS3. Glad I didn't wait for the Vita port in the end though, yeesh.
Episode 2 ran like fucking arse on my PS3. Glad I didn't wait for the Vita port in the end though, yeesh.
Off-Kilter
Banned
I haven't played TWAU (and refuse to do so until the whole season is out) but I did play both seasons of Sam & Max on Xbox 360 and they both performed terribly. Lots of slow down, especially when walking around Sam & Max's street, missing audio at certain points, that kind of stuff. It was annoying for sure but fortunately the games made up for it.
Yeah, Telltale Tool needs some fixing.
Yeah, Telltale Tool needs some fixing.
Have you ever used it? I use it everyday and it's one of the most powerful and flexible tools I've ever seen. I don't see many janky games here.
On the technical side, this guy seems to be doing pretty well with Unity.
StealthGoblin
Banned
Played it on the 360 (TWAU) and it ran like shit.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Green Wiggly
Member
You forgot: 1 customer service rep, 49 game award trophy cabinet builders.
The way they handled the PC save game issue (or rather didn't) really put me off. Didn't play the Vita version past chapter 1 due to all that stuttering.
Its been significnatly more than one fuck up
Neuromancer
Member
Man its been so long, but now I remember some of the bugs I had in TWD. Falling through the world, multiple times. The camera getting stuck above the roof of a train I was in so I couldn't see anything. Having a character talking to me with a guitar sticking out of his crotch.
You're probably right. =\