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Arnold of Soissons posted:People comparing the dialog to Alpha Protocol makes me want to try out the game, but I have a few questions. Well it does seem to bee setting up AP long term consequences especially for how the other survivors in the party view your character. And there are some minor story shifts such as for the house part of the episode searching for survivors earlier means Chet doesn't get killed in the town.
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One thing I was confused about was duck actually bitten? Larry says he didn't know beacuse the kid was dirty, but I think a child would be crying his rear end off if he had a chunk of flesh missing. I also notice that in the next episode previews Larry's daughter complained that I took duck's side over her dad, I really hope I can bring up the fact that He kick me in the loving face and left me for dead after I helped save his worthless life
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 15:20 |
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Yeah, it's similar to Alpha Protocol in some ways, but it feels like you're making more choices with relatively small impacts on personal relationships, and occasionally encountering a BIG DECISION. Alpha Protocol's system worked for a big web of intrigue with a zillion conflicting factions, and this feels appropriately scaled back for small groups of people occasionally forced into tough survival scenarios with lasting consequences. I don't think you'll be able to play it 6+ times to get vastly different outcomes like AP. You'll probably be able to play it once and feel like you're having a natural, meaningful impact, then go back and do the opposite to see how things would play out if you let certain people live or treat everyone differently. Corin Tucker's Stalker fucked around with this message at Apr 27, 2012 around 15:25 |
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DrManiac posted:One thing I was confused about was duck actually bitten? Larry says he didn't know beacuse the kid was dirty, but I think a child would be crying his rear end off if he had a chunk of flesh missing. Not to mention Larry whining for pills is responsible for costing someone else their life.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 15:30 |
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The framerate doesn't seem great (playing on 360) but I'm definitely hooked. Didn't care for the TV series but I can see myself buying the rest of these episodes. The graphics remind me of the early Tony Moore issues of The Walking Dead (which I preferred) so that's pretty neat. One thing that confused me, maybe I missed something why did Lee and Carly go out to find Glenn without the narrative seeming to address it? It seemed quite random to suddenly be at the motor inn.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 16:06 |
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AaronB posted:One thing that confused me, maybe I missed something why did Lee and Carly go out to find Glenn without the narrative seeming to address it? It seemed quite random to suddenly be at the motor inn. Talking to Clem gets a SOS call from Glen over the walk-talkie, which sets up the motel scene where you get your new fire axe.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 16:12 |
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ja2ke posted:Especially when the last notable black and white mode, in LA Noire, was a hand tuned work of art. I noticed that about LA Noire too. When I turned it on and the game resumed, some of the brightnesses of various colors actually shifted everything was still easy to see, rather than being a muddy mess like I was expecting. It was pleasant enough that I kept it on for the rest of the game.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 16:24 |
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And the game has a frame rate glitch for ATI cards, turn off shadows to reduce the amount of annoying frame rate stuttering.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 16:44 |
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etalian posted:Talking to Clem gets a SOS call from Glen over the walk-talkie, which sets up the motel scene where you get your new fire axe. Ah, must have missed it. A tooltip popped up while I was looking around that told me to talk to Carly and then bam, we're at the motel I haven't heard about.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 16:56 |
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AaronB posted:Ah, must have missed it. A tooltip popped up while I was looking around that told me to talk to Carly and then bam, we're at the motel I haven't heard about. Specifically, for me at least, the call came in on Clem's walkie-talkie after I fixed the radio. Speaking of which: I totally forgot about the loving radio. Carly may be a good shot but she is straight up retarded. "The radio won't work, I'm trying to fix it" *inspect radio, no batteries* "There are no batteries in here" "oh" "Ok, here are some batteries." "It still doesn't work!" *inspects radio again, batteries are backwards* ...Yeah, I think Doug was the right choice.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 17:03 |
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AaronB posted:One thing that confused me, maybe I missed something why did Lee and Carly go out to find Glenn without the narrative seeming to address it? It seemed quite random to suddenly be at the motor inn. I got this same glitch the first time I played it. I was mightily confused. Second run-through triggered the call as intended though.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 17:13 |
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Arnold of Soissons posted:1- is it interesting to replay? The best thing in AP was how not only could you find things out with certain decision paths that otherwise you would never, ever know, but also that the cannon of the story could change from playthrough to playthrough depending on your actions. Does this have that, or just a little, or not at all really? There's about two hours or so of content in this episode. So, eventually things should start changing in future eps (there's at least one big decision in ep1 that pretty much has to) but there's almost nothing you do ep1 that actually has implications in ep1 beyond a changed line of dialogue I didn't even notice the clicking thing, hotspots will suck up the cursor anyway; it's a non-issue.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 17:35 |
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What are the dialog options affecting decision 1? I've played through a couple times, and I cannot change the value of the first decision point. Edit for clarity Merry Magpie fucked around with this message at Apr 27, 2012 around 22:04 |
| # ? Apr 27, 2012 18:08 |
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RentACop posted:There's about two hours or so of content in this episode. So, eventually things should start changing in future eps (there's at least one big decision in ep1 that pretty much has to) but there's almost nothing you do ep1 that actually has implications in ep1 beyond a changed line of dialogue Thanks for the info!
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 18:22 |
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Finished episode one today and loved it. The style is mostly fantastic looking, but I thought with some characters Telltales style overrode The Walking Deads look (specifically with Larry and some of the zombies) so its like bits of a cartoon in a comic but mostly it looks great. I feel like the subtle choices were generally handled very well, while the big obvious ones like giving the girl the gun or not were a bit too video-gamey and really wanted to make sure you know YOU HAD THE CHOICE AND HERE'S SOMEBODY BEING PISSED AT YOU SO BOTH CHOICES ARE EQUAL. I'm also worried Telltale collecting the choices you made will lead future writers to putting more into the more popular choices. [spoiler]I liked gun reporter and all but remote nerd seems like he could be a lot more useful after everyone has a weapon. Plus I was hoping I could grab the gun after she dropped it.[spoiler] Looking forward to more, just wish they'd dial back the THIS IS A GAME AND YOUUUU ARE MAKING THE CHOICES. now please give Telltale the Doctor Who license so we can get some proper adventure games out of it.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 18:25 |
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I had no idea this game was coming out on XBLA until I saw the announcement on Major Nelson's twitter feed today. For some reason I thought it was iOS only. Does this mean that Telltale's made up with XBLA and we might actually see Sam and Max Season 3 and Monkey Island at some point?
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So where does the game take place in the Walking Dead timeline? I assume a few weeks after the initial outbreak since a majority of the Walkers are badly decayed.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 18:34 |
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etalian posted:So where does the game take place in the Walking Dead timeline? The official line is "while Rick's in a coma".
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 18:37 |
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Kyle Hyde posted:Specifically, for me at least, the call came in on Clem's walkie-talkie after I fixed the radio. The whole battery puzzle was really hilarious. Also it's pretty amusing that the Save Doug or Carly decision is really skewed to one side. Especially since Doug was fan-fic esque insertion from the game developers based on a friend.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 18:52 |
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The stuttering and audio issues are kinda offputting. Running i5 2500k with GTX460 and a USB Logitech headset. Also ya like someone said earlier in the thread the audio isn't the highest quality.
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etalian posted:So where does the game take place in the Walking Dead timeline? Less than a week.
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E2M2 posted:The stuttering and audio issues are kinda offputting. Running i5 2500k with GTX460 and a USB Logitech headset. Also ya like someone said earlier in the thread the audio isn't the highest quality. The episode size is only 500mb which means they really compressed all the sounds leading the mushy overall weak feel for the audio. Which is sort of shame since the voice acting is pretty decent overall.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 19:19 |
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Enentol posted:I'm running it on an early 2011 Pro if that helps. Using bootcamp I can run it on Max settings on a 2010 pro, so try bootcamp.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 19:20 |
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the black husserl posted:Using bootcamp I can run it on Max settings on a 2010 pro, so try bootcamp. I'll give it a try. It's nice to know that this laptop will run Diablo 3 at some pretty decent settings and that Telltale is too lazy to optimize their game for one of the most popular platforms.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 19:32 |
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etalian posted:The episode size is only 500mb which means they really compressed all the sounds leading the mushy overall weak feel for the audio. Yeah, I really wish Telltale would sort this stuff out, as it's been around since Sam & Max. In this case, it's one of the only major things holding it back.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 19:37 |
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ja2ke, is there any chance of getting gamepad remapping for the Steam version? I pair a PS3 controller to my Mac as a controller and it would work perfectly if the buttons weren't in the wrong order. I know the prompts would still be XBox symbols, but that's easy enough to figure out. External remapping programs can't seem to be able to swap gamepad buttons around. Thanks.
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Hakkesshu posted:Yeah, I really wish Telltale would sort this stuff out, as it's been around since Sam & Max. In this case, it's one of the only major things holding it back. Is there some sort of additional fee for DL titles once you pass the 500mb mark? And if so, is it for all platforms or just the consoles? I can't imagine Steam being picky about this, but I'm no expert.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 19:56 |
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Man, I'm so glad I picked this up. I have no familiarity whatsoever with the underlying source material or TV show. Saw a QuickLook on Giantbomb, and was intrigued. 400MSP well loving spent indeed. I was just gripped the whole time. And if I wasn't pumped enough for the next installment, by virtue of really enjoying Ep 1, the way they teased it sure did the trick. Edit: Also, I need to look up the VO for Lee, because he sure sounded a lot like Ronald Taylor from Mass Effect 2.
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Mindblast posted:Is there some sort of additional fee for DL titles once you pass the 500mb mark? And if so, is it for all platforms or just the consoles? I can't imagine Steam being picky about this, but I'm no expert. It's a really weird decision especially in the age of broadband where people download multi-GB games all the time on Steam.
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| # ? Apr 27, 2012 20:10 |
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etalian posted:The episode size is only 500mb which means they really compressed all the sounds leading the mushy overall weak feel for the audio. Sure you're not imagining this? I didn't notice anything odd or weak about the audio except for the occasional drops. 
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Xoidanor posted:Sure you're not imagining this? I didn't notice anything odd or weak about the audio except for the occasional drops. I didn't have any audio problems either, except for the occasional quick looping when it cut to a loading screen that would last for maybe 2 seconds or so.
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magimix posted:Edit: Also, I need to look up the VO for Lee, because he sure sounded a lot like Ronald Taylor from Mass Effect 2. Looking at the cast in the credits, the one name I recognized was Lilly, who also played Morgan in Tales of Monkey Island and (ironically) Lili in Psychonauts. And you're right about Lee's voice.
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And poor Glen having no luck in his quest to find a boyfriend free girl, especially his hilarious animation after rescuing the damsel in distress.
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Behonkiss posted:Looking at the cast in the credits, the one name I recognized was Lilly, who also played Morgan in Tales of Monkey Island and (ironically) Lili in Psychonauts. And you're right about Lee's voice. Whoa, he was Warlord Okeer as well?  Still, the quality of his VO was an important part of why I liked this first installment so much.
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magimix posted:Whoa, he was Warlord Okeer as well? I dunno whether it changes based on the dialog you choose because I've only done one run through so far, but I really liked that the VO came across as Lee regretting his involvement with the senator but perhaps wasn't necessarily responsible, which was how I was playing him. Maybe that will change as more information comes forward, but I liked how it meshed with how I naturally played the game.
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magimix posted:Whoa, he was Warlord Okeer as well? And Gabriel Tosh, the SC2 space voodoo mon!
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Xoidanor posted:Sure you're not imagining this? I didn't notice anything odd or weak about the audio except for the occasional drops. It's pretty obvious, and it's present across all their games on every platform, so I doubt anyone's imagining it. It's like encoding an mp3 at a low bitrate. If you're not using good speakers, you may not notice it.  Also, some people just don't care about that sort of thing. So, I played for a little bit today (on PS3) while I was waiting for a dishwasher to be delivered to my place, and I'm already way invested in the characters. Good poo poo.
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Teenage Fansub posted:ja2ke, is there any chance of getting gamepad remapping for the Steam version? This makes it sound even worse, but I honestly didn't even know we supported gamepads on Mac. I'm probably not the person to help. You may want to ask on the Telltale forum. magimix posted:Edit: Also, I need to look up the VO for Lee, because he sure sounded a lot like Ronald Taylor from Mass Effect 2. *You guys already said this. Sweet. ja2ke fucked around with this message at Apr 27, 2012 around 21:49 |
| # ? Apr 27, 2012 21:39 |
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etalian posted:So where does the game take place in the Walking Dead timeline? It's sort of hard to tell, because it would be completely ridiculous if Lee and the cop hadn't heard about a ZOMBIE PLAGUE, so that makes it seem like the game takes place close to the very beginning of the outbreak. But there are a LOT of zombies in the game from the word go, and like you said they seem very decayed, even for a hot and humid climate. So I don't really know when it is.
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ja2ke posted:This makes it sound even worse, but I honestly didn't even know we supported gamepads on Mac. I'm probably not the person to help. You may want to ask on the Telltale forum. I posted this http://www.telltalegames.com/forums...ead.php?t=29465 The FAQ says gamepads aren't supported so I didn't assume I'd get any official help, but they sure do work. It switches to gamepad mode, the sticks work, there are prompts. The problem is Y is on R1, Dpad UP is left stick clicking in, etc. I have a Logitech dual stick usb pad as well and the mapping is a different arrangement of mixed up. I don't see why there couldn't be a little option to remap so anyone could use whatever pad they'd like. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at Apr 27, 2012 around 22:20 |
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