Telling the Tale: Recent Episodes
Mitchell F. Wolfe
Join us as we explore each and every episode of the late titan among narrative video game developers, Telltale Games. Play along at home as we go through Sam & Max, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and more.
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Next week, we'll -
Thank you for listening.
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Next week, we'll unpack the last three years and see how we feel. Please join us.
NEARLYYYYY THERRREEE.
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We'll finish up next week.
The first part of the middle part of the end.
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The beginning of the end.
Thanks to Summer Jackson for joining us!
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This time, I was offered AI services by the podcast uploader we use. I declined. It would never write something like this. It could never. This is so good.
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Better!!
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Stinky!!
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I cannot get Dustin to leave the metaverse. He's a lifer now.
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Batman is done, moving along.
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Look. This episode (of the show, not the game) is genuinely our worst one. Severe technical issues, de-syncs, bad conversation even. We're putting this one out there for completion's sake. Sorry, but you know, it's a free show. Try paying us, see this episode get better in real time.
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The Brave and the Bold? More like "The Bruce is Now Cold"!
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Mr. Freeze is in this episode and he's really silly.
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This John Doe guy is starting to look REAL familiar.
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I misse Jesse.
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I really think this episode is some of our best work. That's not even a joke, I just feel really good about this one. The conversation was smooth, the game was interesting, we stay on topic. Good stuff, I think.
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We get extremely sidetracked on this one... sorry I guess.
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Maybe Jason Momoa isn't doing this actually.
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Jason Momoa is going to do so good at this.
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"It sucks that space is this cold! Frick! Frick!!" - Dustin Cornelius Jackson
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"Geezus, I'm telling ya! I've had it just about up to here with how cold it is here in this outer space!" - Dustin Cornelius Jackson
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"Guys, pardon my saying, but... it's so cold up here in space!" - Dustin Cornelius Jackson
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"It's so DAMN cold in space." - Dustin Cornelius Jackson
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This episode costs six dollars. The episode of the podcast, I mean. I know we can't enforce that, but I think you should send us six dollars if you listen to this one. It's only fair. We gave the rest of the episodes to you for LITERALLY free. Why wouldn't you give us six dollars for this one?
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"It's so cold in space." - Dustin Cornelius Jackson
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Holy shot, we did it! Like, actually this is pretty incredible. Genuinely surprised we got this done. Law & Order: Legacies was our white whale. Our most difficult game to play. And, today, we can happily report to you that we've played all 7 (seven) episodes of it. Sit back, relax, and allow us to have played this ultra-rare video game for you.
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Two exciting bits: Firstly, we're joined by Eric Geels this episode! Literally a BLOOD RELATIVE to a former Telltale employee and personal friend to Wolfe to cover Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate. I guess you could say we've really hit the big time.
Secondly, we have a Twitch stream coming up this Saturday the 21st of October at 10am PST! It's our first (and likely only) live Telling the Tale outing, in which we'll play through all of Law & Order: Legacies for public scrutiny. You can find us at twitch.tv/thewolfefm
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Eric Geels is a cool guy and you can find him "around."
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Welcome into our CAVALCADE OF INCIDENTALS, a three-part collection of single, one-off episodes each about the sort of extremes of what this podcast is meant to cover. To get us started right, we are joined by Hero Jeff Onan to discuss the canon Monkey Island arc within Rare's pirate MMO-lite, Sea of Thieves, The Legend of Monkey Island. It comes in episodes, so that's how you know it is vaguely and obtusely related to this podcast. We also come in episodes.
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Jeff Onan's work documenting Sea of Thieves can be found on the Golden Sands Blogpost
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We're wrapped up with A New Frontier and, joining us to talk about it, is crowd favorite Courtney AKA Altermentality! She's under the assumption that Victor will not listen to this, so, Victor, if you're reading this now, you have to tell us.
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This week, we're ALL little Drummer boys.
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Dustin ate his microphone again! That's okay, though. If you really listen, if you give yourself to the sounds of the universe, you just might hear him. He's telling you you're doing just fine and that everything is going to be okay.
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GULP! I hope I have enough oxygen to finish writing this description about-
...
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NOTE: We don't address this in the episode, but we're actually taking a break next week! Instead of hopping between The Expanse and The Walking Dead like we have been, it's this, then a week of silence, then another episode of The Expanse to stay current. So see you in two weeks!
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Early morning recording. In the hurricane. During an earthquake. Different vibe!
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Space is quiet........... TOO QUI-
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Dustin's choice for how to introduce himself this episode really bewildered Wolfe. Really flicked his bean, so to speak.
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Neo-Telltale made a game! In many ways, this is what this whole podcast was leading toward: understanding the history of Telltale video games as well as possible so that we may look toward the future of the narrative adventure genre with wizened eyes. Our eyes are SO wizened now, it's cray.
Also, Dustin peed on the microphone this week, so audio quality is a little down. Still, the EMOTION is all there.
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Someone once told me that they appreciate my "comical overuse of colons in the episode titles." I'm tellin' ya, that's just how many are needed to convey the meaning of the thing. That's what it's called! I don't even spell out the full word "episode" and it's still long. I do not know how I'd do it any shorter without losing information.
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Where's Falconi!?! Nah, jk. He's dead. 'sall about Alfred now.
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This Great Summer(tm) keep rolling and we keep scrolling (through this list of Telltale video games). By the by, did you know it's only considered a "video" game if it's sourced from the hills of Montevideo? Otherwise it's just "sparkling wine" - err, I mean "interactive media."
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Are you all remembering to have a great summer? It's not just a really snappy catchphrase. We mean it.
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Not going to sugarcoat it, the vibes are a little weird on this one. At one point, Wolfe completely tricks himself into thinking about a Batman character named "Arthur" who doesn't exist. That's what we're dealing with here this week. Sometimes you'll have those.
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Dananananananananananananananana Bat Tale!
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In this episode, Wolfe and Dusterino will cover all five episodes of CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, both finally wrapping up our time with the CSI franchise on this podcast and also crossing the 100 episode line! We've now played over 100 Telltale episodes! Wowee, that's so exciting, we forget to even mention it in the show!
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A... cold reception?!?!?!?!
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Vipers be vipin', so my sword comes a-swipin'.
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You saw my dragon?! Doubt it! Anyway...
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I heawd thew was a dwagon.
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I'm ruined!
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When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you have a slightly different experience tailored to your choices or playstyle.
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In this very special episode, we finish off Minecraft Story Mode Season One! Also this week: Dustin is too loud. Mixing is a bit wonky in general. We apologize, but also, don't you enjoy that guy? We think that him being too loud is actually a good thing and maybe we should do it more often.
Dearest special thanks to our guest this week and the director of the game, Vahram Antonian!
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Have a block-tastic day
What if it was all a simulation? I'll do you one better: What if it was all a simulation, dude?
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We're back! Join us as we dive into (just the first episode of) the Adventure Pass for Minecraft Story Mode!
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Join us as we talk about (APPARENTLY) the "premier" of the Server Hopping arc of Minecraft Story Mode!
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Join us as we talk about (APPARENTLY) the "finale" of the Witherstorm Arc of Minecraft: Story Mode!
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Ivor! Not in this one!
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Ivor! What a villain!
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I want to build so badly. I want to be a builder! The best one!
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Leave your daughters, stay with them, I don't know. All I can say is this: the song "Why Did Love Put a Gun in My Hand" by Dorothy is, in fact, not in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2.
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This episode has some... flare! hahahahahahahaha, that's so funny if you know why that's funny.
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Who's my good friend? Why, she's Michonne of course!
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Well, Octavio, Fran, and Anu have had their final appointment with Wolfe and Dustin. How did it go? Look, mang. You need to stop expecting me to tell you how it went in the episode descriptions. That doesn't make any sense. The whole point is for you to listen to the episode, ya gotta do it. Please, just take a listen. It's important to me that someone listens to this. It takes time to make.
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Woooooowww, we're all over the place. Is it a war game? A start-up business sim? A day-in-the-life on Promethea? A sci-fantasy action adventure? Something else? Yes, something else.
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PHEW. Okay. That's... that's fine. Okay, cool. This is episode 4 of New Tales from the Borderlands, Capital Pains.
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What a turn! We had a SIGNIFICANT opinion change on this episode versus the last one. Like, a real bigg'un. Whow, boyos. Just a flipper and a half. A flip flop. We thought one thing... and then thought a completely different thing. Dang, you should have been there. Top tier opinion changing right there, I reckon.
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We're back in VSE (very special episode) territory!
Wolfe and Dustin are diving into Gearbox's spiritual succession to the Telltale formula. How'd it go? Why would I tell you in the description? You gotta listen to the episode, that's the whole bit. We're an audio medium.
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Wolfe and Dustin are joined by Adam! You know, the famous Dustin's roommate Adam, who we've referenced multiple times before. This one's cool because Adam actually has some reference for what Borderlands is. He might have played a couple! That's valuable round these parts.
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Hoo, boy. The juice on this puppy. Full of juice.
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Romance?!?!?!
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We're SO SORRY we were gone. But we're SO GLAD to be back. And we're SO HUNGRY for that sandwich Fiona's sister Sasha makes in this episode and then drops on the ground.
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(should we even be linking Twitters anymore? almost seems like a relic already.)
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During the excitement of a brand-new Monkey Island release, a grapple with a whole-hog CSI game, and the computer that these podcast episodes are edited on literally becoming one with death, Dustin and Wolfe are back at it again. Those scoundrels! They missed a whole New Tales of the Borderlands release! That's an honest-to-goodbuddy continuation of one of Telltale's own series, still in episodic form and with input from ex-Telltale devs. Of course we have to cover that right away.
Only issue, we haven't even covered the original Tales from the Borderlands yet! So, that all begins now. We'll be playing both the original and "New" Tales from the Borderlands games back to back (that's 10 episodes in a row!) starting with the very first: Zer0 Sum.
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CSI baybeeeeeeeee
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Terrible Toybox has just finished crafting up their latest game, a long-awaited return to Monkey Island called just that! Dustin and Wolfe have been excited for this one for a while, and there are a lot of thoughts. So many thoughts, dawg. Just a jamboree of wild thoughts we're having.
18:55 - We start getting into spoilers. Both for Return to Monkey Island and Terrible Toybox's first game, Thimbleweed Park.
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What happens when you die? I'll give you a hint: Guybrush is there.
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Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?
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Look at that episode count. That's halfway, baby! I drank a beer to celebrate, but you don't need to make a big deal about it. It's chill. It's more our thing to celebrate.
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NICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICENICE
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LEATHER JACKETS
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We're joined by a special guest, Andrew "Ape," as we jump into the final episode of The Walking Dead Season 2, No Going Back. No joke, this one's long, so strap in.
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In this one, we get really mad about wood strength. Sorry, Wolfe gets mad about wood strength. Dustin empathizes with his feelings about wood strength, but it would be unfair to say he gets equally upset about it.
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In this one, Dustin confesses his love?!?!
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I hate this divided house.
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All That Remains is just listening to this good, good pod!
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The first whole chunk of this episode is actually spent on discussing the Return to Monkey Island reveal, but we definitely DO talk about the fourth and final episode of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, The Bogey Man. It's 100%... about golf. We love that!
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I love a good doggywog.
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I was going to make a podcast, but then it started raining!!!!
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ohmigahdtheresabeeeeeeeeeeohhhhnooootheresabeeeeeeee!!!!!!
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Deal me in, bucko.
This episode covers both Poker Night at the Inventory and Poker Night 2.
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Wolfe is like Wolf, if you think about it. We finish this whole game in this one.
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SUPER SPECIAL GUEST Courtney Svatek is @altermentality
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Look. The episode is called "In Sheep's Clothing"and we don't know why. It doesn't fit the theme. There is no sheep in it. We're not very smart. But also, maybe we're smart enough that we're justified in being confused about it. This is a game with talking animal people, so you'd definitely assume there'd be a sheep guy, right? Not so much!
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Who is the Crooked Mile? Man. Crooked Man.
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Look, buddy. This is an episode of the podcast covering episode two of The Wolf Among Us, Smoke & Mirrors. We also talk about the recent announcement of a new Tales from the Borderlands. But that's it! Nothin' fancy! We're not going to blow your minds. Temper your expectations! We're just two guys!
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Heads will roll.
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Ron Gilbert announced a new Monkey Island game! The true third Monkey Island game is coming this year, and we discuss that in full. Oh, also we'll be talking about Case 5: The Peacemaker from off of CSI: Hard Evidence.
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We hit 50 episodes! (episodes of game, not of pod). We celebrate that by not doing anything special or even mentioning that fact once during this episode. We just talking about Case 3: Shock Rock and Case 4: In Your Eyes of CSI: Hard Evidence. Oh well, only 90 episodes to go.
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We did it again! This game is just hard to play a lot of at once, so we're going a little slower than we thought. So, here's an even shorter, slightly-antagonistic episode on CSI: Hard Evidence's second case: Double Down.
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So, look. We tried to play a bunch of CSI cases before the recording. We played one. So this is an episode on just the first case of CSI: Hard Evidence: Burning for You. It's not long. The podcast critics will say this one doesn't have much "information." That's just our unique brand. That's our style.
... We are allowed to do this. We checked.
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400 Days?! I guess!
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This week's Telling the Tale is super long. We know that. You don't need to write in and tell us how long it is. We know.
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Will our group reach Savannah? Yes. And more questions on this week's Telling the Tale!
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We're sad this time.
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The Walking Dead keeps being good, but look. This episode is gross. So, buyer beware. Still, like I said, it's good. Your call.
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This one's perrty gurd.
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We're back! And we're beautiful! WE'RE EXQUISITE! WE ARE OPULENT PICTURES OF PERFECTION AND GRACE! I LOVE US. OH MY; WHAT AN HONOR TO BE US. WE ARE SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD
...Sorry. This is Jurassic Park: The Game. We've decided to do all four episodes of the game in one large podcast episode for reasons we go into in the episode itself. Again, I'm sorry about earlier. I got carried away.
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HITTING NEW WEIGHT RECORDS HOLY CRAP SO HEAVY
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NOTE: We'll be taking the month of January off to recharge and do some planning, so the first episode of Jurassic Park will release some time between late Jan/early Feb. Please understand.
HEAVY AS HECK
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INCREDIBLY HEAVY
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SO HEAVY
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HEAVY
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Too much! We've gone too much full boar. Dustin and Wolfe are each ENTIRE boars. Fully. We're actually talking about CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder. We have thoughts! This time, it's more!
This episode of the podcast covers the last two of the five cases contained in the game: "Rough Cut" and "The Big White Lie." Notably, the PS2 version of the game contains one more case, but that case is a preview of this game's sequel, CSI: Hard Evidence, so we'll cover it when we get to that game.
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We're doing it. We're going full boar. Dustin and Wolfe are each boars. Fully. We're actually talking about CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder. We have thoughts!
This episode of the podcast covers the first three of the five cases contained in the game: "Pictures at an Execution," "First-Person Shooter," and "Daddy's Girl."
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Happy Halloween and thank you Sam & Max. This is The City that Dares Not Sleep.
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Dagnab ol' puppets. What's good about puppets? Lie-fueled lumber production? Actually, I guess that's pretty cool. Did you know that in the Disney movie Pinocchio, the whole nose-growing thing was only in it for like one scene for a very small amount of time? It wasn't even a thing about him; it was something the fairy was doing TO him. And then, pretty much any time Pinocchio is referenced in pop-culture, it's the nose thing! As if that's his main thing! Dude was an actor. He had dreams... Well, anyway, this is Beyond the Alley of the Dolls!
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We use our brains for so many little things. Like, you just read that. That was your brain! Intense, right? Unfathomable, haha. Yeah, just... just wild. H-yep... Well, anyway, this is They Stole Max's Brain!
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Ever been to Egypt? Follow up question: ever watched a movie? Well, anyway, this is The Tomb of Sammun-Mak.
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Damnnnnnn, it's funny to say "penal zone." One of the funniest things thus far, I'd wager. Well, anyway, this is The Penal Zone.
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Look how short that title is! That's amazing! All of our episode titles so far are WAY too long. This one? Mwah. Short and sweet.
Who's on the moon, gang? Is it gnomes? Probably gnomes. Well, anyway, this is Puzzle Agent 2.
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In the entirety of Telltale Games' 14-year-long existence, they only made one series of games with a wholly original, non-adaptation story. What happens when the President of the United States runs out of erasers? Something to do with gnomes? Aww buddy, I super think it's gnome related. No? Well, anyway, this is Nelson Tethers Puzzle Agent.
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Video games, you know. We like video games. Dustin draws stuff from them. Wolfe pretends to work on them. Video games. Strong Bad likes video games too. Like Stinkoman 20X6, Peasant's Quest, Snake Boxer 5, Lade Crate Ape, Mista Fixit, Math Kickers feat. The Algebros, Space Circus Catastrophe, Thy Dungeonman, Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder... Anyway, this is 8-Bit is Enough.
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Wolfe and Dustin are having just the swellest time with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and this episode is ridiculous. Pure bananers. Have you ever played a movie? Have you ever watched a game? This is sort of like both those things, but also Dangeresque is there and he's got to get the formula. You know, the formula that makes plants grow good? And also he has to get the rocket's launch codes back from Perducci. And also, he's gotta find Sultry Buttons in Paris. Or maybe it was Tokyo? Or Cairo? Maybe Ireland? And also he's gotta rescue his partner Renaldo. And also he's gotta fight Uzi Bazooka on the sun. And also... Anyway, this is Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective.
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In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, only the rockingest may thrive. Do Wolfe and Dustin have what it takes to win a battle of the bands? Absolutely not. Wolfe plays trumpet. That's an automatic DQ. Ooh, DQ. Dairy Queen. Haven't been there in a while. They used to have one near me, but it hasn't been there for like a decade. It's not like there aren't ice cream places, but DQ had some specific things like that chocolate drizzle that hardened as soon as it touched the ice cream cone. How did that work? I can never get my chocolate to stick like that. Anyway, this is the Baddest of the Bands.
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War is hell. War is human. War is Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. This is Strong Badia the Free.
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Wolfe and Dustin love just one thing. 1: Enjoying a cool one at the bar after a hard day's work, 2: expanding our professional networks in satisfying, fulfilling ways, and 3: talking about Homestar Runner. Now, we get to do that third thing. So, join us as we FINALLY get to talk about Homestar Ruiner, the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
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Piss and hell, baby. This one's about hell! Join us for this episode of the Telling the Tale podcast, where we'll talk about the final episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, What's New Beelzebub?!
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Temporal paradox detected.
Please back away from the pod bay doors.
Space.
These aren't the droids you're askin' me about.
Danger, Will Robinson.
Star Trek quotes.
Get out of mah swamp!
...where we talk about the penultimate episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Chariots of the Dogs!
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Welcome vamps and tramps to this week's episode of Telling the Tale. We've come a long way since we covered Culture Shock three months or so ago, but check it: we're zombies. We've been zombies the whole time. Did we just blow your gourd? I know, right!? It's wild! Dustin and Wolfe (more like "were"wolfe, am I right?) have just been shambling around, sucking brain and feeling no pain. We haven't been shuffling on the mortal coil for a fat minute.
Is that spooky? Is that a scary thing to think about? I bet it is, you lifer [editor's note: "lifer" is a highly derogatory term zombies use for the living. we apologize for its cavalier use in this podcast description]. I bet your timbers are thoroughly shook. Well, if you do have the constitution to read this far into this spooky summary, maybe, JUST MAYBE, you'll have the guts to listen to this episode, where we talk about the third episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Night of the Raving Dead!
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Hmm! Interesting! This is it? This is the episode? Huh! Neat! Well, is it the whole... it is? Cool, I think. It's... hmm! on Telling the Tale.
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Wolfe and Dustin, after their poker and Bone vacation, are now eager to jump back into Sam & Max. 'Tis the season, you might say. Because it's the Christmas episode! Sam & Max has a Christmas episode, we love these. How will Sam & Max's second season (also known as "Beyond Time and Space") fair against the highs of season one? We'll take a look at its first episode, Ice Station Santa, right here, right now, on Telling the Tale.
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While Sam & Max is where Telltale Games first acquired its fame within the industry, it was not their first attempt at the adventure game genre. That would be Bone. On this episode of Telling the Tale, Wolfe and Dustin will be covering Bone: Out from Boneville, the first of Telltale's two Bone game episodes. Technically these aren't episodes? They were marketed as their own full games. But they're clearly episode-length. Also technically, it's "Bone... Out from Boneville" with a big space after the word "Bone." But it's WAY more fun to say "bone out from boneville" as if "boning out" is a cool skateboarding trick and a "boneville" is a cool skateboarding ramp. Always go with what sounds good over what is technically correct. That's writing 101.
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Here on Telling the Tale, we're not necessarily covering all of Telltale's work in release order. We want to go roughly chronologically (i.e. starting with mostly older things and graduating to mostly later things), but we've reserved the right to hop around back and forth. This, then, is a very special episode as we are covering Telltale's very first game, Telltale Texas Hold'em. It's about poker! It is so very much about poker. It's not about very many other things! Do we, two humble gamespeople who don't know much about poker, have the ability to record a full hour podcast about poker? There's only one way to find out!
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It's a Max, Max, Max, Max, Max, Max world on this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Wolfe and Dustin have wrapped up their playthroughs of Sam & Max Save the World and at least one of them has a lot of feelings on the secret identity of the season's villain. Is it super problematic? Is it super problematic, but that's okay? Is it super problematic and not okay, but we shouldn't really be the voices on it as two straight, white men? We don't know; we're two straight white men.
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"We heard you like video games so we put a video game in your video game." - Ed Hibition on this week's episode of Telling the Tale.
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It's time for a very special political episode. Watch us bob and weave through Bush-era-specific presidential humor and emerge without a scratch. This episode marks an increase in episode-scope at the ol' Telltale factories, and Wolfe and Dustin definitely have some thoughts about what that means for the future of Sam & Max. All that and more in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.
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Check it out: mob stuff. This is the mob episode! Sam and Max can't GET enough mob style hijinx going on. All your leaning on folks, whacking folks, playin' cards, and general mobliness: all in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.
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Boy howdy, that there sure is a lot of colons for the name of a video game, huh?
Sam & Max break out into television stardom, so of course Dustin and Wolfe have some thoughts. More than last week, the 2006-ness of Telltale's first season of Sam & Max is starting to show. How do each of the hosts feel about that? Find out in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.
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Wolfe and Dustin kick off the podcast by talking about Culture Shock, the first episode of Telltale's early flagship game, Sam & Max Save the World. How does it hold up in 2021? Is it a good first kick into the mainstream for Telltale? Do children understand what Swiss cheese is? These questions and more are sort-of-answered/sort-of-dodged in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.
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On September 20th of 2018, things were looking good for the employees of Telltale Games. They were nearly finished with the final season of their award-winning episodic video game series, The Walking Dead, and their next-scheduled game, this one based on the show Stranger Things, was primed to be another in their long line of successes. Over the years, they acquired the licenses to make narrative-focused, episodically-released games in a ridiculously large number of franchises. They made games for Homestar Runner, Game of Thrones, and Jurassic Park. They gave Minecraft a “Story Mode.” They managed to get both DC and Marvel under their belt. And, perhaps most impressively, Universal let them make what is essentially Back to the Future 4 with Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as Doc Brown.
In an industry where licensed games, episodic games, and games in the narrative adventure genre were all pretty far away from the image of a typical blockbuster, Telltale Games were an aberration. They filled a niche, but they were the kings of that niche. Counting each episode they released as its own game, Telltale had put out over 130 video games in less than 15 years of being active. That’s a staggering statistic, and the machine showed no signs of slowing.
On September 21st, however, the studio closed for good. Employees were shocked by the news that, not only was Telltale Games apparently NOT doing excellently, but also that they had just 30 minutes to leave their offices. A titan in narrative video game development for nearly a decade and a half: gone in a half hour.
What happened? Was it a major investor suddenly getting cold feet? Was it a culture of work crunch, steadily draining developers of their spirit over the course of years? Was it regular old poor management?
-Dude, I don’t know.
I’m Mitchell Wolfe and I am a game developer, but I never worked at Telltale Games, so I don’t know what happened. What I do know is what happened next. Many of Telltale’s games suddenly disappeared from online retailers. They kind of had to, Telltale was gone. Who would you pay for the game? Where would you download it from? Some titles were saved by groups who were able to purchase their rights from the auctioning off of Telltale’s assets, one such group even acquiring the name “Telltale” and using it to rebrand themselves. Still, not every one of their games survived. If you’d like to play that Back to the Future game with actual Doc Brown, good luck finding it. Video game preservation is in such a difficult spot these days that something as simple as being delisted from Steam or the Playstation Network might be enough to bury a work of art in time forever.
The real tragedy of the fall of Telltale Games is the employees losing their jobs. Especially considering that they were living in the Bay Area [yeesh, that's expensive]. A secondary tragedy is the loss of their work.
I can’t tell you what happened at Telltale that led to the events of September 21st 2018, but I can tell you about how they spent the previous 14 years. They were making games, and we’re going to talk about every single one of them.
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