Freshly Buried: Telltale Games
http://www.telltalegames.com/
In this age of realistic graphics, rhythm games and overhyped products, it seems gamers have abandoned a once glorious genre. Point and click adventures have seemed to disappear from John Q. Gamer’s radar and now only the hardcore remember old heroes like Guybrush Threepwood and Roger Wilco.
I have always been a big fan of point and click adventures. I would guess that I have played every point and click adventure worth playing, and certainly every one with any kind of renown. To a fan like me, the state of the point and click industry was depressing, to say the least. In the past, I thought the poor sales of newer point and clicks (Grim Fandango and Psychonauts (Another unappreciated masterpiece by Tim Schafer, but not necessarily a point and click.)) had all but murdered the genre. Apparently, I was wrong.
I first heard about Telltale Games when I heard someone was continuing the classic Sam and Max game. This prospect breathed a breath of fresh air into me and I immediately got my hands on the new Same and Max game. I had not played for more then 2 minutes, when a tear struck my eye. The introduction alone was absolutely beautiful. Telltale Games had done it. They didn’t simply remake the old Sam and Max games, this was no clone. They brought point and clicks into the next millennium.
As I played the game more and more, my jaw swung lower and lower. The game was very impressive, and It made me feel like a socially detached kid again. I could not stop playing. I ignored my friends, my family, and a couple of drive-bys in a majestic return to my obsessive youth. Yes dear reader, Telltale Games is the new face of point and clicks.
The writers of Homestarrunner.com have recently announced their collaboration with Telltale Games to produce a Nietzsche-esque supergame. An episodic homestar runner point and click. Read that again. A friggin’ homestar point and click! Soon, very soon, my new favorite game studio will unleash a game of epic proportions, and I will be there to tame the titan. Will you?
