Minecraft: Story Mode, by Telltale Games

[Geralt_and_Ciri]

Minecraft: Story Mode, by Telltale Games

" 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. "
https://mojang.com/announcing-minecraft-story-mode/

Well, i haven't play minecraft, but my little brother yes, he say that the game in himself is silly but good to kill time

 

[Sephira]

Yes, well, I wasn't excited about this, and today's announcement proved that my guess was right, the gif describes my reaction.

 

[Foxtrot1994]

What? Minecraft? O-o-okay...

Really, is Telltale beginning to just picking random pre-existing games and make an "adventure" game out of them? First Borderlands, now this (Minecraft??)... I don't know man, it seems like that to me.

 

[Doctalen]

I've barely played Minecraft. I'm interested in seeing how they turn it into a story though.

Now, they better had make a Warhammer 40k game after this or so help me...

 

[Mataresa]

Will it be mine-craft story mode or a telltale game in the "minecraft universe"? If it will be an advanced version of some of the story driven adventure maps from the community it would be great. Sounds like April fools to me though, but it is not April...

 

[KingHochmeister]

Welp ...

 

[Phinnway]

A Minecraft spinoff? So this is what Microsoft decided to do with Minecraft brand. Weird...

 

[Cs__sz__r]

That's odd to say the least.

 

[octavian123]

Yeaaaah....I'm not sure about this. Minecraft is one of the last games that truly impressed me and I'm pretty much addicted to it. I'm not sure how they will make a narrative out of it though, Minecraft is about making YOUR story, not about choosing a set of predetermined dialogues.

One of my best memories for instance is getting my first horse in survival. Boy how many adventures I went through for it. I was basically living in some hill zone with a jungle near it, never really going beyond (except downwards of course). Then I wanted to get a horse and I read that they only spawn in plains so I got ready and looked for a plain (putting little marks on the way so I would not get lost on the way back). Needless to say the nearest plain was very far away and I died a few times until I found this grassy plain with flowers and vegetation I had never seen before in Minecraft and then finally the horse. I got on the horse and then I got terribly lost for a few game days. Then I needed another horse to breed it. This is the kind of story you can only experience in Minecraft

At other times, the game can be genuinely creepy and I find it very hard to be scared in even horror games because I know that what I see is not true but in Minecraft there is this peculiar sense of loneliess and solitude and that no one is ever going to see your grandiose block buildings, that you are all alone in the world and that nothing you do matters and that really creeped me out. I felt really uneasy for a few days. I researched this and found that I was not the only one experiencing this. Here is a very interesting article on the topic

http://blog.8r4d.com/2012/08/29/minecraft-and-philosophy

So if Telltale manage to capture the spirit of Minecraft which for me is curiosity and loneliness and make a story out of it then I think we could have a very interesting story indeed. In fact I think Minecraft feels a LOT like Robinson Crusoe. The player is cast in this harsh, unforgiving and solitary existence, his first task being to survive, then improve the quality of his life and then finally claiming the world as his "own" and expressing himself.

The parallels between Herobrine and Friday are also very interesting because when you are completely alone, the POSSIBILITY of the Other becomes terrifiying, is he a cannibal? Is he a competitor? What is he? Who left this footprint? Who made this block pyramid? I remember that in Robinson Crusoe, Robinson hid for a very long time when he found the footprint. Players have similar reactions to Herobrine. It doesn't matter if he exists or not, what matters is how the player perceives a possible competitor.

The part where Crusoe finds an idyllic part of the Island is also similar to my own discovery of the plain where the horses were and the unique flora found within.

Either way, a traditional, linear narrative with predetermined dialogue choices a'la Witcher or DA is COMPLETELY out of place in Minecraft, it needs something suitably unconventional.

 

[Garrison72]

Lol, fucking hell. This is pure gold.

Keep up the the good work MS.

 

[Totalimmortal]

I don't think children and autistic adults care much about having a story in minecraft, so I don't know how much of a financially good move, or move in general, that was.

Now, they better had make a Warhammer 40k game after this or so help me...

As much as I can never have enough of WH40k games (who am I lying, I had enough after what they did to DoW series with post DoW2), there isn't much "decisions" for Telltale to handle in that universe, here are all your choices basically: Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean. (and don't forget to praise The Emperor (TM)) .... Now that I think about it, it's a perfect game for Telltale.