Sentences with phrase «episodic games»

On the Windows Store, we're adding support so gamers can browse and purchase bundles, episodic games, season passes, virtual currency and other game add - ons and DLC.

In the Windows Store, Microsoft said you'll be able to browse and purchase bundles, episodic games, and season passes.

In a frank discussion about the modern games industry, Phil Spencer discusses the potential of episodic games and the pros and cons of downloadable content

If you're not familiar with the series, they are episodic games that mainly focus on narrative, decision - making, and quick - time events.

In April, Microsoft is offering up a variety of titles, including an entry in Ubisoft's long - running Assassin's Creed franchise, the second season of one of Telltale Games» most applauded episodic games and an Xbox One launch title.

There's plenty wrong with the current crop of entities eyeing episodic games up, however.

There have of course been great episodic games, none more obvious than the superb success that Telltale has had with its The Walking Dead series and other licensed properties, ranging from Game of Thrones to Jurassic Park, which weave a story through a modernised take on the point - and - click genre.

The front page has a pic from telltales's games (jack) and the title problems episodic games... I've had no issue with their episodic titles and have ravenously eaten them up when they interested me.

Most episodic games come out over a period of a few months, not nearly a year later (at least, it feels like that).

I'm not a fan of episodic games.

TellTale's episodic games are often style over graphical substance — there's usually not too much when it comes to the complexity of the models or animation, and instead, they are highly stylized to look like comic books come to life.

Telltale Games has several years of experience with episodic games such as CSI, Back to the Future, and Game of Thrones created the long awaited story mode to the successful sandbox game.

What successes of other episodic games (like TellTale's The Walking Dead) are you hoping to replicate and what mistakes of other episodic games are you trying to avoid?

Episodic games allows us to get feedback from our community (the Order) much quicker than traditionally, which will allow us to improve the quality of subsequent episodes which we feel should make for a better product.

I hope Telltale releases more episodic games for The Walking Dead.

Like in so many Telltale episodic games before it, Minecraft: Story Mode will be in the same vain, with the first episode scheduled to arrive later this year.

Episodic games: When a game is released in episodes which can be purchased individually, each episode may be reviewed separately, but we may decide it's most helpful to review the full season as a package, as we did with Hitman.

Life Is Strange has to be one of my favourite episodic games due to its captivating story, art style and soundtrack.

During an interview published by The Guardian, Head of Xbox division Phil Spencer talked about a variety of topics ranging from episodic games to downloadable content.

Spoilers ahead for the episodic games Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Life is Strange.

In the past few years, it has seen a ton of critical and sales success from its licensed episodic games based on properties like The Walking Dead, Jurassic Park, Game of Thrones, Borderlands, Batman, and others.

Resident Evil Revelations was a welcome step back to the retro camera, but Revelations brings us back to the future with a shoulder cam, So how does it fare... With Episodic games becoming more and more popular, It's a brave move by Capcom, The 2 hour,... Read More»

I had no idea these episodic games existed until I heard about the ones for The Walking Dead, but they've been in existence for quite some time, and now may expand to the glorious...

It's always amazed me how people complain about the price of games now, but back then we had episodic games at $ 50 a piece.

Telltale's dialogue - heavy episodic games are enjoying excellent sales and general critical acclaim, Kickstarter's main legacy in gaming may well end up being dragging many veteran adventure game designers back out for another game, the PC market just might be the strongest it's ever been, and touch interfaces have proven to be a natural second home for point and click - style games.

Following the massive success of The Walking Dead, episodic games have suddenly been catapulted into the lime light.

While the increased stake in the share capital of Kylotonn Racing guaranteed Bigben a strong position in racing simulation games, the acquisition of Cyanide studio will allow the Group to extend its offer to major gaming genres not yet present in its current portfolio (strategic and tactical games, narrative and episodic games, shooting games, management games) or complementary to its catalogue (sport simulations and action - adventure games), thus strengthening its publishing strategy.

It's the only downside to playing episodic games, needing to wait for them to release over time.

The US independent studio, which focuses on developing episodic games, is said has studied the Jurassic Park movies in a bid to create a more faithful ad filmic gameplay experience.

Telltale Games has in recent years focused its business on creating episodic games based on film and TV franchises, from CSI to Wallace and Gromit.

Telltale Games have gradually become more popular with every game having developed the cult classic Sam and Max seasons to episodic games based upon such well known licensed properties as Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, Minecraft: Story Mode, Game of Thrones and Batman with Telltale's star rising upon every release which has led to a certainly bright future ahead.

«The future of downloadable, episodic games is just around the corner.

The Player Choices feature is quite reminiscent of the My Choices feature found in Telltale's previous games such as both seasons of The Walking Dead episodic games by providing an entire listing of your choices including the statistical analysis regarding the percentage of players who have made the same choice as you for each moral decision as well as a variety of decisions that are scattered throughout the chapters of each episode such as backing away from a fight when the opposing Fable has been stunned, who you have decided to place suspicion upon, who you have arrested and much more besides with the feature being directly available from the main menu and at the end of each episode.

Telltale has never been overly quick when it comes to releasing follow up episodes in their episodic games, as an example you can look at Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands where the episo...

It seems that ps store asia didn't sell episodic games, well for example i also can't find walking dead michone

The only online thing in Hidden Agenda is global stats (like in the TellTale episodic games).

This was a grand plan to have 4 episodic games, where the original developer bailed half - way leaving the story untold.

No spoilers here on the story, because that is the main point of these episodic games, and heck if I know what is going to happen in the next few releases!

He used the example episodic games (e.g. Kings Quest) arriving on the service day one of their release or only being released on the service.

All of these excellent pieces culminate to make a great story, which I would argue is the most important part of these episodic games.

TellTale Games, best known for their impressive Walking Dead episodic games and the recently released Wolf Among Us, are teaming up with Gearbox to create an episodic series based on Borderlands, featuring everyone's favorite douchebag, Handsome Jack.

With the latest Hitman game breaking from tradition by being carved up chapters for release over a series of months, has the trend for episodic games outstayed its welcome?

Looking at other episodic games, their tactics vary widely: From announcing the release date a week before (Life is Strange) to simply announcing the moment the episode becomes available, like most mobile games.

Looking at the coverage breakdown though (graph above), we would highly recommend this approach for promoting smaller episodic games.

On the Windows Store, we're adding support so gamers can soon browse and purchase bundles, episodic games, season passes, virtual currency and other game add - ons and DLC.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against episodic games per se, indeed the Quit or Continue crew played through Resident Evil Revelations 2 (and podcasted our thoughts).

For The Lion's Song, we took advantage of the tool and looked into data from other episodic games like Life is Strange, Hitman, King's Quest or Tales from the Borderlands to see how their coverage evolved over time.

Where the best of episodic games manage to make each chapter feel fulfilling on its own while still contributing to the overarching story, Bear With Me Episode One feels incomplete.

Finally, two episodic games will receive new entries this week as Telltale's Game of Thrones: The Sword in the Darkness (Episode 3 of 6) and Dontnod's Life Is Strange: Out of Time (Episode 2 of 5) are now available on the Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Calum Petrie with five ideas for future Telltale games... Telltale Games has now been pushing out narrative driven episodic games for a number of years, and the source material has always came from an outside property.