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[ChairmanPoo]

IMO it's rather bad.  A very rudimentary hack and slash. 

[Il Palazzo]

Huh. Their upcoming game looks amazing.

[Cthulhu]

The new one looks neat but Jotun is pretty boring.  Nice art, boring gameplay.

[AlStar]

Newest Humble Bundle is all Telltale games.

IMHO:
At $1, Walking Dead Season 1 is a great game (I'd even go so far as a must-play, for $1), and Hector and Puzzle Agent aren't bad. Poker Night at the Inventory is pretty good if you like poker.

At "Beat the Average" (currently ~$8), Tales from the Borderlands was amazing, and if you've got any love for the Borderlands universe whatsoever should be a must play. I've heard good things about Walking Dead S:2, but haven't played it.

Haven't played either of the $15 entries (Batman and Minecraft: Story Mode).

[ChairmanPoo]

Am I alone in finding Telltale f*ing horible?  I just dont get the appeal about their bland adventure games.  Not only are adventure games a dubious genre, IMO, butthey are emulating the worst of them (Fascination et al)

[Frumple]

Dunno about horrible, but they've certainly never really had the smallest bit of interest to me, at the least. Stuff I look at and go, "Why would I play this instead of watching/reading a LP, not have to deal with the fiddly annoying bits, and still get effectively everything of value from the product?"

I've never had much luck getting into a normal-ish adventure game, though. One of those things where I'd rather just read a book or somethin' -- plot gets in the way of the gameplay, gameplay gets in the way of the plot, and generally the mechanics et al involved are either vaguely unpleasant and/or boring or just functionally nonexistent.

Can see why some folks like 'em, but the things by and large seriously aren't for me. Exceptions have mostly been VNs rather than more western styled stuff along those lines, that have a serious gameplay component alongside the plot-y bits. Only rough bit there is a number of the ones with good-ish gameplay are, well... without a better way of putting it, they're also porn. Which obvs doesn't bother me (save that it tends to detract from the plot and such to some degree), but there's other components involved, heh.

[Sanctume]

@Telltale The Walking Dead series is pretty good, worth it for the $4 I paid. 
Sure I can just watch some YT LP which I did after I first played it. 
But I have an enjoyable experience playing it and learning the story as I progress. 

[Mech#4]

I enjoyed TellTales Sam and Max and Monkey Island series. They were entertaining and the puzzles were nice though maybe not the most challenging. I also really like the music from the Sam and Max series.

I haven't played any of their more recent games, though I understand they're more story driven then puzzle.

[Zangi]

Am I alone in finding Telltale f*ing horible?  I just dont get the appeal about their bland adventure games.  Not only are adventure games a dubious genre, IMO, butthey are emulating the worst of them (Fascination et al)

TellTale games are lobbed in the Visual Novel category of games for me, though it does have an interactive component, so some folks might insist on categorizing it differently.
 
Not my thing, but there is an appeal for it.

[nenjin]

I don't play them because they're in the market of taking anything popular and making something derivative out of it. If there's a popular IP, someone will pay $$ to play some story knock off of it.

[Culise]

Am I alone in finding Telltale f*ing horible?  I just dont get the appeal about their bland adventure games.  Not only are adventure games a dubious genre, IMO, butthey are emulating the worst of them (Fascination et al)

TellTale games are lobbed in the Visual Novel category of games for me, though it does have an interactive component, so some folks might insist on categorizing it differently.
 
Not my thing, but there is an appeal for it.

Eh, I'm not sure if I'd take those folks too seriously if that's the reason they give.  Visual novels have interactivity, even if it's just picking options.  Some have more, but kinetic novels are where it's at for pure story-only "click to the end" "gameplay" "end-quote."  I'd say that Telltale games tend to straddle a line between visual novels and point-and-click adventure, though, drifting more towards the former than the latter as we go. 

Actually, I used to like kinetic novels, though most of the very few I found here or there have slipped from memory since I played.  Planetarian's really the only one I still vaguely recollect.

[Parsely]

Telltale basically sells fan fiction, yes, but good fan fiction. The main appeal of these games is rewarding people who are fans of the original setting the game is based on with references to it and they tend to do right by the setting they're borrowing. The story they make is usually good, at least from a dramatic perspective. The problem is that their gameplay is so boring and the choices often so meaningless (i.e. no replayability unlike something like, say, 999) that you're better off just watching an LP of it instead of spending money to play it since you can get almost the whole experience just by watching. This is FINE, there are good VNs out there with no choices to make. Sure, maybe it stretches the definition of "video game", but as long as there's some potential for enjoyment and the consumer is not being tricked into thinking there's gameplay, then who cares? That just means it's not for everyone, not that it's inherently bad.

However, Tales From the Borderlands was pretty fucking good IMO. If you haven't watched an LP of that one I recommend it. It's funny and while it's not something I'd replay over and over, it has multiple endings and the story is interesting. The narrative takes advantage of the preexisting setting and feels original in spite of that. It's also finished so you don't have to wait for episodes. Definitely the best Telltale game and the only one I'd ever recommend spending money on.

[Folly]

I have fond memories of Visual Novels, from back in the days when I had limited options to choose from. Sadly, these days I have a backlog of intense actiony games waiting to be played; otherwise, I'd totally be all over Telltale's offerings.

Telltale basically sells fan fiction, yes, but good fan fiction.

afaik, Telltale's games are usually canon, or at a minimum are fiction sanctioned by the owner of the IP, setting them apart from fan-fiction. You did use the qualifier 'basically' though...so yeah.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Sometimes the choices matter, at least a little. For example, the last episode of the GoT series they did, because, uh... at least a few different characters can either die or live depending on what you pick. In fact, at the end of the next to last, you have to make a pretty important decision [censored actually because spoiler], which changes the last episode. So it'll be interesting to see how that affects Season 2 of it... unless they just focus exclusively on Gerad, who was kind of off doing his own thing the whole time.

[Retropunch]

Telltale stuff is only any good if you're a huge fan of the series - the choices aren't huge, but they're enough if you're a fan and care about the characters/world. However if you're not really a fan of that particular series, the choices don't seem to have a big enough impact for a game centred around making choices.

Don't bother with them if you're not a big fan of whatever it is, as they lack the gameplay elements to make up for it.