Telltale's episodic output thus far could be confidently filed in the single player drawer, but the company's trying to change that notion with its upcoming Batman series. According to ShackNews, the title will boast a new feature named Crowd Play, which will enable onlookers to vote on major narrative decisions in the game.
The mode will work a little like the Jackbox games: a unique URL will be generated for each game, and you'll then be able to share that with the people around you – or presumably an audience on, say, Twitch. Said website will then allow participants to interact directly with the game, voting on key plot points as they occur.
It's a nice idea, then, for those who want to get social with a typically story-driven experience – either locally or online. Telltale's said that this feature may be implemented into its future games if it proves popular, which we're confident that it will. Should take the pressure off in The Walking Dead: Season 3, eh?
[source shacknews.com]
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Phew,for a minute there I thought you meant it was going to have "Proper" multiplayer..
I love Telltale and looking forward to this one,love their stories and making you feel like your decisions really count.Don't want anyone else making those decisions for me..
Makes sense, I'm sure a lot of streamers will be able to get some mileage out of this.
Twitch plays batman
It sounds to me like streamers and Youtuber will get more use out of this then your normal player.
@Tasuki @ShogunRok telltale held this during an event (comiccon I think) were the crowd shouted out what decisions to run with during a section of TFTB. It went really well and was super funny.
So it's essentially a "Twitch Plays" deal. I don't consider that multiplayer but okay.
Certain streamers, like SGF, already do this when possible, but it's interesting to see official support for it.
I get the idea but I'm not a fan, personally.
With Telltale games, I feel like I'm on rails until I get to a decision. That's really the only thing you get to do in their games other than solve sometimes too-easy, other times frustratingly obscure puzzles. You're on rails until it's time to make a choice.
And with this, they've taken that out of the hands of the player, should they choose to open up their playthrough to others.
With other people calling the shots you become the person sluggishly moving the player character around the screen. You're doing the least fun thing in the game while everyone else is having all the fun.
This might be enjoyable if you have company over, but I've never had people over where we did nothing but play a Telltale game for six hours.
Eeeeeeeh.
This is not multiplayer.
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