Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series

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  1. vorgbardo
    Nov 29, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. By far the worst product so far by Telltale Games. This is bad both as a game, and as a Game of Thrones adaption.

    The good things first. Graphics are mostly OK, voice acting is very good.

    The bad things. This ordeal misses the whole point of "choose your own adventure" games, and also makes a complete mess of a glorious opportunity with GoT. The world of Game of Thrones would be a perfect setting for plotting, intrigue, schemes both grand and small; a place where your choices could really count and result in either small victories or horrible calamities. What do we get instead? 6 episodes where you do not get to make a SINGLE decision that would affect the outcome ot things even in the slightest.

    And not only that, the plot lacks all dynamics. There are no highs and lows, there are no funny moments, there is not even sex that is so abundant in both the books and the TV show, balancing the gore and horrors in both. At several points there is no logic behind what happens. There are only bad things happening to you in a steady flow, with no other options available than to sit and watch, apart from annoying quick-time events that you have to react to in order to keep the "fun" going. And, incredibly, at the end there is not even a resolution to the events of the season.

    All in all, this series amounts to a stunningly bad gaming experience. I feel cheated and would like my money and 10 hours back.    … Expand
  2. Zaltys
    Feb 10, 2016
    4
    Telltale's Game of Thrones is a six part episodic game series where you play as an insignificantly small house in the Game of Thrones setting.

    The story starts strong, but devolves into a poorly written mess, chock-full of plot holes and inconsistencies. It would feel more in place in The Walking Dead than in Game of Thrones: the core cast is small, there's no character growth, and main    Telltale's Game of Thrones is a six part episodic game series where you play as an insignificantly small house in the Game of Thrones setting.

    The story starts strong, but devolves into a poorly written mess, chock-full of plot holes and inconsistencies. It would feel more in place in The Walking Dead than in Game of Thrones: the core cast is small, there's no character growth, and main characters are randomly killed off for pure shock value. There's hardly any scheming, all you do is try to survive the immediate threats. This series also lacks the dark humor that GoT is known for: everyone is always deadly serious, and many characters only have a single facial expression: worried frown.

    There's no replay value, because your choices matter far less than in most Telltale games. The events play out exactly the same even if you choose to stay silent, and illusion of choice is more obvious than ever. Except for one big choice in chapter one and a few more in the last two chapters, most of your choices change no more than a couple of immediate lines of dialogue.

    And this isn't even a complete game. Telltale signed a deal for three seasons of this. There's no ending beyond 'buy the next season to find out what happens to the few characters that we didn't kill off already'.    … Expand
  3. MetaAwesome
    May 30, 2015
    4
    Pros:
    - The game offers some brutal deaths. BRUTAL. DEATHS.
    - Really good art style. REALLY. GOOD. - Conversations with main characters is pretty cool. ESPECIALLY. TYRION. Cons: - Your dialogue choices DO NOT MATTER a great deal. Compared to choices in games like Witcher, this one doesn't come close. - Script has been DUMBED DOWN for a younger audience (despite still being    Pros:
    - The game offers some brutal deaths. BRUTAL. DEATHS.
    - Really good art style. REALLY. GOOD.
    - Conversations with main characters is pretty cool. ESPECIALLY. TYRION.

    Cons:
    - Your dialogue choices DO NOT MATTER a great deal. Compared to choices in games like Witcher, this one doesn't come close.
    - Script has been DUMBED DOWN for a younger audience (despite still being 18+). It is not as eloquent or complex as the tv series.
    - Music feels AWKWARD, it is not the licenced GoT music, and is NOT GREAT.
    - The graphics were RUSHED in places.
    - Some elements of the game - even the startup menu - are 'JUDDERY' when they load - for example the music CUTTING out and changing volume on load. These elements feel UNPOLISHED.
    - Some characters react to your choices in NON-SENSICAL manner - especially if the dialogue or plot continues on the SAME PATH REGARDLESS of any choices you make. Sometimes the dialogue options essentially mean the SAME THING, and yield the EXACT SAME RESPONSE from a character.

    Some dialogue is INSANELY BAD, for example (NO SPOILERS DON'T WORRY):
    *in conversation with Margerie*
    - Margerie asks your character to do as Cercei says and to agree with everything Cersei says, in order for you and Margerie to feign loyalty to the King.
    - During said conversation, you side with Cercei and agree with everything she says, JUST LIKE MARGERIE ASKED you to.
    - After said conversation, Margerie HAS A GO AT YOU for siding with Cersei and says how disloyal you are to her.

    ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME
    AND THIS HAPPENS LOTS

    The game is relentlessly PUNISHING the player for making devious and intruiging dialogue choices, and yet this is what GoT SHOULD BE REWARDING.

    - Bugs. Running a HIGH END SYSTEM and NEVER have problems with games, but the bugs are there and support is hard to come by on the developer's website. Had to REINSTALL the game once for a COMMON PROBLEM where the START MENU DOES NOT APPEAR.

    To clarify - this reviewer is a fan of the Walking Dead Telltale series and a huge fan of Game of Thrones. With this installment of games Telltale has hit a wall, LARGER THAN 'THE WALL' ITSELF.    … Expand
  4. astormofswords1
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Considering you play telltale games largely for the plot you'd have thought telltale would put the most amount of effort into that area. Obviously not. Telltale thinks "shock" writing = good writing, which is definitely not the case. Having the bad guys ALWAYS win, regardless of your own personal choices, is bad writing plain and simple. Having a majority of your characters butchered regardless of your ingame choices is also bad writing.
    It got to a point with choices where I was like "f*ck it, who cares what I pick, my characters probably going to die anyway".
    The final episode was so open ended and weak I found myself having literally no investment in the outcomes of the game.

    Overall just extremely disappointing.    … Expand
  5. Iplaygamesson
    Nov 17, 2015
    2
    Your choices don't matter - Have played through a few times choosing different paths(or so I thought) it ends up the exact same each time. It is somewhat fun to play with your partner if you're into the show, if you take turns, but yeah sadly no replayability, even though they make you think there is a lot of it...
  6. zgrenwell
    Jun 26, 2016
    0
    Playing Telltale's Game of Thrones series is similar to being gang raped in that you repeatedly get **** and you do not have any choice about it. This is less of a game a more of a test of you r personal pain threshold. Everything is bad and there is nothing you can do about it. Why would anyone want to play this? Anyone who completes all six episodes is a masochist. Shame on everyone whoPlaying Telltale's Game of Thrones series is similar to being gang raped in that you repeatedly get **** and you do not have any choice about it. This is less of a game a more of a test of you r personal pain threshold. Everything is bad and there is nothing you can do about it. Why would anyone want to play this? Anyone who completes all six episodes is a masochist. Shame on everyone who worked on this god forsaken hell posing as an interactive experience.… Expand
  7. Heraldofmyself
    Jul 8, 2015
    4
    The masochists' wet dream Also Known As Trollface: The Game

    It's as if the developers watched an entirely different Game of Thrones than I did. One where everything was set in stone, with mind-numbingly unbelievably corny and hyper-unrealistic personae and where there was no ultimate progression except the high-profile deaths. The one I watched had dynamic and believable character    The masochists' wet dream Also Known As Trollface: The Game

    It's as if the developers watched an entirely different Game of Thrones than I did. One where everything was set in stone, with mind-numbingly unbelievably corny and hyper-unrealistic personae and where there was no ultimate progression except the high-profile deaths. The one I watched had dynamic and believable character development, mobility as well as diverse types of stories and interactions.

    This "game" on the other hand, offers only misery in seemingly endless proportion. The family viewpoint I'm afraid is exactly to blame for that, resulting in the only tolerable way to get through the ordeal being to detach yourself as much as you possibly can. At the end I even resorted to muting the damn thing just to get it over with. And yes, I did (somehow) manage to play episodes 1-4.

    Now, that's what you're "getting" from this game, in terms of emotional palette. It's so **** black and white.

    In terms of game features, well I did give it a 4 overall...which simply means it isn't (technically) unplayable and it does have tolerable graphics and smooth performance.

    Now we get to the point of gameplay, of which there is actually none. It's a bunch of stupid QTE events (I learned from the first time the big Q came around I couldn't physically press it fast enough to actually do any of them, so I had to **** make a macro turned on permanently just to get through that BS) spiced with various assortments of clunky-robot strafing and panning around. To top it all off, some genius thought it'd be a brilliant idea if you had to be ready both on QTEDR(?!?), the arrows keys AND the **** mouse (aim and click). I guess the new Jurassic Park wasn't that far off, we really can quite easily manipulate animal genes (like Octopuses, for example).

    The whole experience felt like being imprisoned inside someone else's mind, only ever being allowed to see their thoughts. In other words: Mental torture.

    If you want a good story-driven and choice-driven e-novel, I suggest you check out Tin Star (or similar). It's totally non-pretentious and all-text, but at least it does a damn good job of that. Here your choices will matter (a lot!), and you get to make them instead of the game either not caring or basically forcing you to pick one "right" choice.

    If you want a Game of Thrones game, there really isn't a good official one. Instead, go pick up the mods for CKII and M&B:WB - they have everything: Freedom, engaging dynamic story and authentic lore.    … Expand
  8. DelleAlpi
    Nov 25, 2015
    4
    The first 4 episodes are amazing. I really enjoyed playing it and experiencing the story. But the last 2 episodes indicate Telltale Game's quality deteriorated and the last episode is clearly a marketing fraud. Telltale Games should stop making any game like this which has no ending. The Walking Dead Season 1 ended rather conclusively. So did Season 2, The Wolf Among Us and Borderland. ButThe first 4 episodes are amazing. I really enjoyed playing it and experiencing the story. But the last 2 episodes indicate Telltale Game's quality deteriorated and the last episode is clearly a marketing fraud. Telltale Games should stop making any game like this which has no ending. The Walking Dead Season 1 ended rather conclusively. So did Season 2, The Wolf Among Us and Borderland. But this game is just something else.
    In the future, I advise against preordering any Telltale games until the final episode is out.    … Expand
  9. Karl_marx
    Dec 15, 2014
    0
    This game is not fun to play, and it's main selling point, the story, is not that interesting. It is clearly just a way to cash in on the large fanbase of the Game of thrones series. You don't need to make a good game to entice already devoted fans, just include some memorable characters from the show and you're good!

    Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, does not offer any    This game is not fun to play, and it's main selling point, the story, is not that interesting. It is clearly just a way to cash in on the large fanbase of the Game of thrones series. You don't need to make a good game to entice already devoted fans, just include some memorable characters from the show and you're good!

    Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, does not offer any additional value to the show. It is the same intrigues from the show all over, which shouldn't be a problem since it is a Telltale game where your dialogue options are supposed to alter the story. My main issue with this is that the dialogue options are all the same! You often get three dialogue options to pick from, but they all point towards the same end, and so in the end it doesn't matter what you choose.

    Pros:
    +Real, well animated characters from the television series.

    Cons:
    -Bland color palette
    -Boring story
    -Bugged controls
    -Blocky graphics. Previous telltale titles look much better for some reason. Guess they didn't have the budget for this one... oh wait!

    Stay away from this one, unless you are a really diehard fan of the Game of thrones series.    … Expand
  10. Carter81
    Nov 24, 2015
    0
    Pros: Episodes 1-4 aren't horrible.

    Cons: Episodes 5-6 are horrible.

    Episode 5 has one of the biggest plot holes you will ever see in a story.

    Episode 6 is literally nothing more than one big advertisement for their next game.

    This game will leave you incredibly unsatisfied.
  11. Robobob
    Nov 28, 2015
    0
    Wouldn't it be fun to live in the Game of Thrones universe but have a different experience than the show? Maybe with some cunning or play-through you could conquer the bad guys and save your family? I would. Instead you get a miserable experience where every choice you make is wrong and the game always plays out the same. Doesn't sound like fun does it? It wasn't.

    I usually don't give    Wouldn't it be fun to live in the Game of Thrones universe but have a different experience than the show? Maybe with some cunning or play-through you could conquer the bad guys and save your family? I would. Instead you get a miserable experience where every choice you make is wrong and the game always plays out the same. Doesn't sound like fun does it? It wasn't.

    I usually don't give ZERO ratings but this game actually made me angry at the way the story developed and it's a game all about story. I felt obligated to play through the game because I had purchased the season pass even though it was painful to play through. On top of that.. I couldn't play any further through the last chapter because basically you lose at everything you set to accomplish and I was just done at that point.

    I won't ever be buying a season pass from Telltale again because playing this game was downright depressing. Game of Thrones might be an amazing story to watch, but one that makes a horrible gaming experience.    … Expand
  12. riley794
    Jul 29, 2015
    0
    Was hoping for hope with this game. Hope is something that the novel has but HBO has decided to abandon in favor of "shock value." This game goes the same route by forcing the player to feel like they have any choice in witnessing the destruction of a family. The story is terrible, and game-play consist of little more than pressing the right button at the right time. Basically theWas hoping for hope with this game. Hope is something that the novel has but HBO has decided to abandon in favor of "shock value." This game goes the same route by forcing the player to feel like they have any choice in witnessing the destruction of a family. The story is terrible, and game-play consist of little more than pressing the right button at the right time. Basically the game is a spin off of the HBO show not the novel. If you are like 99% of GOT fans you are cheering for the north and all who are loyal to the Starks. This game, just like the show, uses this against you and forces you to witness the horror another family in the north had to experience following the events of the red wedding. ***Spoiler alert*** If you enjoy watching Sansa get raped or watching John get betrayed and murdered by his brothers on the Night's Watch then you will like this game.
    In conclusion, this game is all about the story and this story is HBO drivel written purely for shock value. So many great places this game could have the GOT licence, but it didn't, not even a little.    … Expand
  13. Gaghar
    Nov 21, 2015
    2
    Игрок не влияет никак на историю, все варианты ответов в диалогах приводят к одному и тому же, 90% всей игры утомительная тягомотина, клише на клише, мало того бедный игрок вытерпевший всю скуку, в финале СЕЗОНА (6 эпизодов) получит плевок в лицо в виде "продолжение следует". Такая игра достойна быть купленной разве что на мега распродаже за 2 бакса в одной корзинке с еще десятью такими жеИгрок не влияет никак на историю, все варианты ответов в диалогах приводят к одному и тому же, 90% всей игры утомительная тягомотина, клише на клише, мало того бедный игрок вытерпевший всю скуку, в финале СЕЗОНА (6 эпизодов) получит плевок в лицо в виде "продолжение следует". Такая игра достойна быть купленной разве что на мега распродаже за 2 бакса в одной корзинке с еще десятью такими же паршивыми играми.… Expand
  14. lakin777
    May 30, 2015
    4
    Just a standard run of the mill telltale game with really nothing new to show you expect a different license.
    Now thats not a bad thing, but the optimization of this game is for 2015 unacceptable, and telltale should finally do something with theyre ancient engine theyre using for so long now. graphics options high or low just dont cut it anymore no matter how the game looks.
    For the    Just a standard run of the mill telltale game with really nothing new to show you expect a different license.
    Now thats not a bad thing, but the optimization of this game is for 2015 unacceptable, and telltale should finally do something with theyre ancient engine theyre using for so long now. graphics options high or low just dont cut it anymore no matter how the game looks.
    For the story its good but what really hurts is that none of what you do matters, yes you might get a dialog or an item of no importance but with those big choices you get in this series it really hurts to see them come in vain.
    If it wasnt for those half baked QTS which can kill you you could just sit back and watch the "game" play it self and damm would it be a good movie to watch but thats it, theres nothing more apart from a good story which makes you feel important but really your just a spectator in this buggy mess of a game which is not calling it self early acces even though you know deep down there no bloody difference between episodic and EA.
    Buggy, old engine, barely a game which pretends you control its glorious story.
    9/10 for story the rest gets bare 2/10 over all 4/10
    PS: play Life is strange and you see how much telltale is obsolete in their own genre :(    … Expand
  15. Black_Jasmine
    Feb 27, 2016
    1
    horrible. besides of being poor, cheap fantasy of fifteen old boy , who suffers from depression and suppressed sexually and luck of self identification, this movie is all about enjoying humiliating, sadism and uncessary nudity. Horrible attempts to make it look "historical " looking by making beautiful but meaningless decorations do not help. It is parasiting on Medieval history by makinghorrible. besides of being poor, cheap fantasy of fifteen old boy , who suffers from depression and suppressed sexually and luck of self identification, this movie is all about enjoying humiliating, sadism and uncessary nudity. Horrible attempts to make it look "historical " looking by making beautiful but meaningless decorations do not help. It is parasiting on Medieval history by making crap from it plus all those stupid, pull out from butt plot and dialogs. No wo der that our "critics" like this sheat.… Expand
  16. reguire
    Nov 27, 2015
    0
    Presented to you by Telltale. A game where YOUR choices DOES NOT matter at all.
    Good job making me feel playing the game was pointless .
  17. FromPie
    Aug 28, 2016
    4
    Pros: Good design , familiar characters
    Cons: mediocre plot , not too much variation in the dialogues .
    The best game for ''Game of Thrones'' universe , but not enough better coverage throughout history .
  18. v0id17
    Jul 31, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Played 3,5 episodes and I can already tell that this game is not as I expected it to be. Obviously I know that it cannot be about the same actions that are happening in books or TV series, because that would be even more boring than it is now. For me this whole House Forrester, characters (of house Forrester) and plot are just boring. And it's even more boring if you watched the TV series first (I did) You for example now, that Ramsay Snow (Bolton) cannot be killed, because the game is build upon TV series, so he cannot die. If you played it and didn't watch TV series, you probably thought, that you will be able to kill him somehow. How sad. Of course the game was released 4 years ago and if you are playing this game in 2018 and you watched the show, you'll feel the same as I do. I don't know the ending to this, but I can already tell, that House Forrester will fall along with House Glenmore. They didn't appear in TV series, they weren't even mentioned, as far as I can remember. I didn't read the books, so I don't know. And obviously the story is crap, choises as in previous telltale games most of the time don't matter. But I actually expected that. You either humiliate yourself or die. It's not that this game is all to bad. It's just that some certain things are breaking her apart. For example I'm happy that this game lets you play a couple of characters instead of one. But the graphics are terrible. The worst graphics I ever encountered during the play of almost every telltale game.… Expand
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    3
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  20. Shadowxxx
    Aug 10, 2022
    0
    The most fake game I've ever seen u deserve to be killed not bankrupt disgusting

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    65
    The story starts with a bang (during the Red Wedding) but fails to keep the momentum and ultimately comes nowhere near the breathtaking twists of the original. [01/2016, p.72]
  2. ActionTrip
    Feb 2, 2016
    60
    Game of Thrones will give you some pretty cool moments, especially when you start feeling the weight of your decisions. Overall, there’s a good chance you’ll be disappointed and frustrated with the game, rather than being mesmerized by an epic tale and great characters. You know, great characters really aren’t THAT great, unless we have enough time to know them.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Jan 25, 2016
    39
    Telltale’s Game of Thrones is a bad-looking, dumb, predictable drama. It has some powerful moments, but compared to the show and the books, this is nothing more than a farce.
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