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shingi_70

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In other news, we’re collaborating with Telltale Games to create Minecraft: Story Mode! Here are some bullet points to celebrate!

  • Minecraft: Story mode will be a narrative-driven video game created by Telltale Games. It will be about Minecraft.
  • Mojang is collaborating with Telltale and members of the community to make Minecraft: Story Mode as Minecrafty as possible.
  • The first episode will be released some time in 2015, and will be available on Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices.
  • Minecraft: Story Mode will be released episodically, just like The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, or the recent Tales from the Borderlands, which is another developer-collaboration series between Telltale Games and Gearbox Software.
  • We’re not intending on creating an “official” story for Steve, or explaining the world of Minecraft in detail. It will be a cool game.
  • The Minecraft 2 thing was a joke. No really. It was a joke.

As 2014 comes to a close, we are delighted to confirm our partnership with Mojang to create a new episodic game series based on one of the most popular video games in history - Minecraft.

Minecraft: Story Mode will be an all-new narrative-driven game series developed by Telltale in collaboration with Mojang. Set in the world of Minecraft, the series will feature an original story, driven by player choice. It will not be an add-on for Minecraft, but rather a separate stand-alone product that will premiere in 2015 on consoles, computers and mobile devices.

Telltale's game series will mix new characters with familiar themes, in an entirely original Minecraft experience, inspired by the Minecraft community and the game that continues to inspire a generation.

I know Microsoft said they were going to heavily market Minecraft after the purchase but this a weird Hyrule Warriors style collaboration between the two brands. I always assumed if we were going to get a proper narrative in Minecraft it would be through an update or a sequel to the first game. The game isn't due out into sometime 2015 and I'm guessing it might be a late spring or summer release. The game won't focus on steve either and you can tell this was a push made by Microsoft to deepen the lore. I'm down for anything made by telltale these days but I hve to saw I was hoping their next game would have been Star Wars or Halo.

This is Telltales first attempt at all ages content since Strong Bad and the last monkey island. For those not familer here's the trailer to Telltales current and last series.

Werid thing is how successful they've been and how many other developers are taking the Telltale/Quantic Dream approach to episodic and a more dumbed down your watching a movie point to click game.

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Jazzer94 wrote:

Why just why?
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Telltale is a popular formula and attaches themselves to puolar brands. Minecraft is probably one of the most popular brands for kids/teens these days and they'll buy anything with the name on it. After seeing how well Telltale sales does its a smart move to put recognizable kids brand onto their platform .

Seriouslly dude, I was talking to my 9 year old nephew about what gaming console he wanted and he straight up said no to the Wii U because it didn't have Minecraft, Sports Games, and any major shooters of some kind.

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Jazzer94

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Jazzer94 wrote:

Why just why?
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Telltale is a popular formula and attaches themselves to puolar brands. Minecraft is probably one of the most popular brands for kids/teens these days and they'll buy anything with the name on it. After seeing how well Telltale sales does its a smart move to put recognizable kids brand onto their platform .

Seriouslly dude, I was talking to my 9 year old nephew about what gaming console he wanted and he straight up said no to the Wii U because it didn't have Minecraft, Sports Games, and any major shooters of some kind.

And Minecrafts popularity is in no way related to having a story, so again why?

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shingi_70

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shingi_70 wrote:

Jazzer94 wrote:

Why just why?
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Telltale is a popular formula and attaches themselves to puolar brands. Minecraft is probably one of the most popular brands for kids/teens these days and they'll buy anything with the name on it. After seeing how well Telltale sales does its a smart move to put recognizable kids brand onto their platform .

Seriouslly dude, I was talking to my 9 year old nephew about what gaming console he wanted and he straight up said no to the Wii U because it didn't have Minecraft, Sports Games, and any major shooters of some kind.

And Minecrafts popularity is in no way related to having a story, so again why?

Do you really have ato ask yourself why would telltale attach themselves to a strong brand. Its like asking why is their a Lego movie or GI Joe is a thing. Probably was chosen because those unofficial minecraft books and Minecraft Machinma tends to do well at book stores and on youtube.

The answer is its going to be popular. Hell borderlands barley has any story and the new series from telltale is pretty good.

The only problem I see is that Telltale hasn't worked on anything Original so they could lose it all if licensing falls from under them. This will probably run over the spring-summer so the next series they put out alongside Walking dead seaon 3 needs to be something new and a IP they own.

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Still, the original game isn't coming to Wii U.

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Yoshi_Prime

shingi_70 wrote:

Hell borderlands barley has any story and the new series from telltale is pretty good.

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Yoshi_Prime wrote:

shingi_70 wrote:

Hell borderlands barley has any story and the new series from telltale is pretty good.

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Borderlands is a series that doesn't really focus on narrative that much, espct as a means for you to go around killing stuff. Despite this the first episode of Tales from Borderlands does a good job of fleshing out the universe and works despite the other two games don't really focus on story.

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shingi_70 wrote:

Yoshi_Prime wrote:

shingi_70 wrote:

Hell borderlands barley has any story and the new series from telltale is pretty good.

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Borderlands is a series that doesn't really focus on narrative that much, espct as a means for you to go around killing stuff. Despite this the first episode of Tales from Borderlands does a good job of fleshing out the universe and works despite the other two games don't really focus on story.

Borderlands had a lot of lore to create a story from. I feel trying to make a story in Minecraft will be something very silly or something that takes itself to seriously. It will be hard to get people to care about the story. Best of luck to them, even though I probably will never play it.

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Don't know if I will play it as I haven't even played Minecraft yet but Telltale does good work so if I was a Minecraft fan I would have faith.

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