GameSpot reports on some shenanigans on the
Jurassic Park: The Game Metacritic Page, where they spotted what they cleverly call "telltale signs" that Telltale employees submitted user reviews giving the recently released movie tie-in perfect 10/10 scores. GameSpot, no stranger to
review controversy, explains what aroused their suspicions: "Between the reviewers' constant lionizing of Telltale Games, complete sentences, proper punctuation, and paucity of spelling errors, we began to suspect that the user reviews were not the product of actual players, but of Telltale representatives. Sure enough, a cursory Google search on the reviewers' user names backed up our suspicions. One of the reviewers was a user interface artist at Telltale; another was a cinematic artist. According to their LinkedIn profiles, both were relatively new to the studio, but they should have more than enough experience in the industry to understand this was a bad idea."
This recalls a controversy
earlier this year when a BioWare employee submitted a positive user review for Dragon Age II, and GameSpot received the following explanation from Telltale on their policy in matters like this: "Telltale Games do not censor or muzzle its employees in what they post on the internet. However, it is being communicated internally that anyone who posts in an industry forum will acknowledge that they are a Telltale employee. In this instance, two people who were proud of the game they worked on, posted positively on Metacritic under recognizable online forum and XBLA account names." Both GameSpot and Metacritic are properties of CBS Interactive.
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nin wrote on Nov 18, 2011, 12:05:
If you're a fan of traditional adventure games, or a fan of previous Telltale games like Sam & Max or Tales of Monkey Island, I recommend you stay away from this. I was just thinking about that last night, and wondering why they didn't go the traditional adventure game route. I would have been much more interested in that. My guess is that they wanted to but the IP owners exerted pressure to pump up the action. I haven't really been all that impressed with Telltale's adventures lately, they are far too simplistic and easy. Which wouldn't be too big of a problem if they had a more interesting (to me) setting/story, like Gemini Rue, L.A. Noire, Syberia, TLJ...
I guess I want my comedy adventures with difficult and wacky puzzles and my dramatic adventures with engrossing story and environment.
Something really niche that I would love would be to bring back parsers (with Watson/Siri-like understanding) alongside graphical environments. Some of the best adventure games I've played over the past decade have been from the IF competition. Take one of the winners and give it some graphics but keep the parser.
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