Gaming! So many games, not enough posts!
Anyone play Telltale Games?
They seem more like stories than "games", filled with Quicktime Events and dialogue choices. Anyone like them? If so, what are the best ones?

They seem more like stories than "games", filled with Quicktime Events and dialogue choices. Anyone like them? If so, what are the best ones?
A lot of people skipped Tales From The Borderlands because who really cares about the Borderlands universe, but even as somebody who doesn't even like those games or their writing, TFTB was FANTASTIC. Likeable characters, hilarious set-pieces, some genuine emotional tugs. The best thing they've done.
TFTB was my absolute favorite! I need to play through, again, and see how it goes if I acknowledge Jack. (My first time through, I took every opportunity to either ignore him or tell him what a jerk he was.)
Game of Thrones...whooooo, boy. It was excellent. However, it left me feeling like I had been repeatedly kicked in the gut. You made the best choices you could and it just didn't matter. Everything always went all pear-shaped in the worst possible way. Still, it was great storytelling!
Games of Thrones had some definite ups and downs I felt, but holy shit that "hold the gate" choice (you know the one) is probably the toughest decision in a telltale game
OMG. That was gut-wrenching! I was just like, "No. No, no, no! You don't make me choose this, you bastards!"
Their Walking Dead games are great; The Wolf Among Us is good but too slow for my tastes.
On a side-note, I'll never understand why folks feel the need to deride games like these as being "not games". They're as much games as Mass Effect or Monkey Island, just with more of a focus on storytelling than combat gameplay; it's like saying that The Wolf of Wall Street isn't a movie because it puts too much emphasis on storytelling rather than action.
I think their Walking Dead series and The Wolf Among Us are among their best works
I've played a few, Sam & Max Save the World, Tales from the Borderlands, and Takes of Monkey Island come to mind. I find story based games (even some Visual Novels) to be an entirely enjoyable experience.
"Even" visual novels? You break my geeky heart.
Most of the geeks I know have no idea what a VN is...
I adore VNs! Nothing like a great story to grab you and pull you into another world.
You hang out with the wrong geeks.
It may be that I don't hang out with enough geeks...
Well, I definitely empathize with the antisocial part of your userid.. :) It's a joke, anyway. There are board game geeks and PC geeks and otaku geeks and subgroups like otome obsessed geeks... The last subgroup got me from a vague interest in VNs to full fledged obsession.
The Wolf Among Us is far and away one of the absolute best "advebture games" I have ever played. Myst didn't make me get the feels: WAU did.
Having dialogue choices alone makes them more "games" than all the kinetic novels on my Steam account whose only interaction is to press the space bar when you've finished reading. :D As long as things use game engines and are sold through game distributors, "game" is the best name we have for them.
I could do without the quicktime events--they seem like useless attempts to justify the game level.
Anyway, Minecraft Story Mode is cute.
I don't like QTE, or at least I didn't until tomb raider 2013, it always felt like cop out on the devs part but TR actually felt like a way to make a cut scene interactive. It broke up the gameplay and felt like a whole experience.
Yes I do!! and thoroughly enjoy them. My favourite one to date is The Wolf Among Us. But I'm certainly looking forward to The Walking Dead Season 3. I will admit, I wait for all the episodes to be out before I purchase a series. =)