Man this is dumb (but not in a good way). All about the money, I guess.
Minecraft: Story Mode
Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Oct 13, 2015
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A Telltale adventure game inspired by the sandbox game of the same name (and its numerous fan-created video series), as newbie builder Jesse and their friends search the lands of Minecraft for a group of legendary adventurers to save the world.
Telltale, Mojang Partnering for Minecraft: Story Mode
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
The irony of these post is that Minecraft in its current sandbox - emergent gameplay form is actually way more of a game than most traditional videogames due to its huge possibilities of player choice.
And in fact game theory-design wise Tell Tale "games" are more like linear interactive stories. Talk about erroneous pre conceived notions of what a video game is or could be.
@fazzle It has no score, you can't level up, you can't kill stuff... It can't be a videogame!
Can you win Minecraft? No. Can you win (ie: finish) a Telltale game? Yes.
Minecraft is not a game, it is a toy or a creation tool.
@larrydavis: Technically if you kill the ender dragon you win minecraft, it is a game for WINNERS!
you even get an achievement for doing that
What kind of story can be told from the minecraft universe? Granted I've never played minecraft, but I was under the impression that there wasn't really a story for it.
@bargainben: The countless years of the super successful Sonic comic book would say that it's worth indulging at the very least.
I'm genuinely interested in who approached who. A knee-jerk reaction would assume that Microsoft approached Telltale, but then I see the Borderlands game, and I have to imagine Telltale went after that one themselves. Maybe they just have a form e-mail they send everywhere.
I can't wait for Telltale's version of Resident Evil and Deus Ex.
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
The irony of these post is that Minecraft in its current sandbox - emergent gameplay form is actually way more of a game than most traditional videogames due to its huge possibilities of player choice.
And in fact game theory-design wise Tell Tale "games" are more like linear interactive stories. Talk about erroneous pre conceived notions of what a video game is or could be.
@fazzle It has no score, you can't level up, you can't kill stuff... It can't be a videogame!
"Make your own fun" things are not games there level editors without a game to export to :^)
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
The irony of these post is that Minecraft in its current sandbox - emergent gameplay form is actually way more of a game than most traditional videogames due to its huge possibilities of player choice.
And in fact game theory-design wise Tell Tale "games" are more like linear interactive stories. Talk about erroneous pre conceived notions of what a video game is or could be.
@fazzle It has no score, you can't level up, you can't kill stuff... It can't be a videogame!
Can you win Minecraft? No. Can you win (ie: finish) a Telltale game? Yes.
Minecraft is not a game, it is a toy or a creation tool.
Notch won at life by creating Minecraft (itself being an abstracted simulacrum of life) so that everyone else can pretend they own a $70 million megamansion :P
@bargainben: I don't think its being added to the game, just a Minecraft set Telltale game, called story mode to be cute. I wonder if it will do much better than their other series, it's not like GoT and The Walking Dead aren't popular. Maybe I'm underestimating Minecrafts popularity, but I don't think a seven year old thats into minecraft is going to want to play Telltale's style of game.
I hope this isn't a sign for what Microsoft has in mind for the future of Minecraft. They may be missing what it is that makes Minecraft great.
@49th: Big Kids too, Though I do like Telltale games but this got me way too excited when I read this was coming lol
It makes no sense and shouldn't exist but i will play it
Seriously, these are great news, i always wanted to try minecraft, but the idea of not having a certain goal turns me off..
This is why i love Starbound, it's a randomly generated game with a fun quest line, if you haven't tried starbound yet then i recommend checking it out.
Meanwhile..
Markus "Notch" Persson recently set a new record, this one outside of the gaming community: The Minecraft creator just bought a sprawling mansion in Beverly Hills, California, for $70 million.
It is the "highest price ever paid for a home in Beverly Hills," according to a press release from John Aaroe Group, the luxury real estate firm that sold the property. Curbed LA reports that Notch beat out none other than Jay-Z and Beyonce, among other interested parties, for the house.
@dizzyhippos: this makes it less of a game imo..
Wouldn't it be crazy if this was just a playable version of The Yogscast's "Shadow of Israphel" series? XD
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
There's more game in Minecraft than some new games these days.
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
So Minecraft is finally becoming a game?
The irony of these post is that Minecraft in its current sandbox - emergent gameplay form is actually way more of a game than most traditional videogames due to its huge possibilities of player choice.
And in fact game theory-design wise Tell Tale "games" are more like linear interactive stories. Talk about erroneous pre conceived notions of what a video game is or could be.
@fazzle It has no score, you can't level up, you can't kill stuff... It can't be a videogame!
"Make your own fun" things are not games there level editors without a game to export to :^)
What a ridiculous statement.
@finaldasa: If you see people making their own stories in this game as a "void" I think maybe you don't get this game. Making your own story is the game. That's not a void to be filled. The new people running Minecraft don't understand why it makes money so they're adding conventional tangible things they do understand (that miss the point of the game). I have to imagine the people who own Minecraft now might have seen the main thing that made the game popular as a "void" to be filled, like you did, and that's distressing for the future of the IP.
Yep. This, pretty much. Here, we see the beginning of the end of Minecraft. While not my sort of thing, I could TOTALLY see why people were into it. Clearly Microsoft can't, and it'll be the end of the franchise.
Not the end of the concept, however. I think we're going to see another company with a clone or an evolved take on the original idea snatch the mantle from Minecraft in the coming years.
Minecraft:story mode? Is that really the title? thats lame
It's likely a reference to Minecraft's game modes. Within Minecraft you have Survival Mode (the default game, where you can do whatever you want [up to and including "beat the game". There is an actual ending to be had if one wishes for it]), Creative Mode (Where you have infinite of all the blocks, do not need to mine, can fly, and are invincible), and Adventure Mode (where you cannot break the vast majority of blocks, but can interact with the interactive blocks like levers, buttons, and the like). This being named Story Mode tells you exactly what audience they're expecting to be interested, I feel, and keeps to an internal theme.
It is, still, a pretty lame name, even knowing the rational behind it.
It's going to follow the tale of Steve, the eccentric billionaire, who decides to sell his miraculous creativity tool, his integrity, and his ideology in order to accrue more money and do fuck all. You beat it by giving up.
It's going to follow the tale of Steve, the eccentric billionaire, who decides to sell his miraculous creativity tool, his integrity, and his ideology in order to accrue more money and do fuck all. You beat it by giving up.
Don't forget the part where he slams another company for the exact thing only a few months before he does it.
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