One of these days, I'd really like to see the dart board Telltale apparently uses to decide which games they're bringing to Wii U.

Neat, I guess?

Heh. The Walking Dead and Minecraft are probably the two most lucrative licenses Telltale has. Not hard to figure out, sadly.

And yet Walking Dead S2 is one of the most disliked Telltale Games from both fans and critics, but it's getting a Wii U release. Tales from the Borderlands has been probably their biggest critical and commercial success since WD Season 1, and The Wolf Among Us is generally well-liked. No Wii U version. Game of Thrones is one of the biggest shows on TV. No Wii U release. Minecraft isn't even ON Nintendo devices, but their terrible-looking "Story Mode?" Wii U release.

No online mode, no buy.

Why must they torment us?!?

Minecraft's good as it. LEAVE IT THE F#CK ALONE!

Sure, why not?

Hint that Minecraft is coming?

That is just not true. Maybe you don't like it, but it's gotten pretty good reviews from both fans and critics. For example, it has an average of 80 on Metacritic; lower than season 1, but about the same as other Telltalle games like Tales from the Borderlands (which has a 81 average) and Sam & Max. Looking at the average reviews of the games, it would appear that most critics like their Walking Dead Season Two games.

Remember last year when Nintendo was asked about Minecraft they made a cryptic comment about how they were aware of it and may have been working on that route? Maybe they have been building their own version as well similar to Sony? If they cut a deal before selling it could still be in the works.

I didn't play enough of Season 2 to have a feeling one way or the other about it: because Telltale apparently doesn't allow you to upload your PS3 saves to the cloud, I lost my Season 1 & 2 save file around the end of episode 2 of Season 2 when my PS3's hard drive corrupted. In order to fully experience Season 2, I'd have to play through Season 1 again (because your Season 1 save transfers into Season 2) and I really don't want to do that.  I suspect, though, that public sentiment towards Season 2 is a lot worse than it looks on metacritic. No one seemed to talk about it when it was out, and whenever I see people mention it in forums or on podcast, the general consensus seemed to be that it wasn't very good. *shrug*

Season 2 of Telltale's The Walking Dead isn't as well put together as season 1, but it has enough moments to be enjoyable. There are a lot of new characters and they just aren't developed as well as season 1's core group. The 2nd season peaks in episode 3, and meanders afterwards in terms of the overarching plot. There are character turns that either don't feel earned or aren't telegraphed well (episode 5 being a sticking point).

Still, there are good dramatic beats that are worth playing through. Maybe this is cognitive dissonance of the buyer acting up, but I didn't find season 2 to be awful. At worst, I'd say it's a disappointing sophomore slump.

The Walking Dead: Season Two is good, not great.  I enjoyed it because I generally like these story based games where they make you feel like your choices matter in the game. 

Biggest problems with The Walking Dead Season 2 are (spoiler tags in case anyone cares): The most impactful story arcs revolve around leftovers from Season One.The survivor group you're paired with generally isn't that interesting/enjoyable to be a part of.  Additionally, the new people they try to have you bond with seem like forced relationships, whereas the Lee & Clem relationship felt a lot more natural & lasted throughout the entire game.The game didn't make you feel like you had as much agency as Season One.  Even if you know the choices don't affect the outcome, Season one gave you lots of choices that left the impression that it mattered.  Season two has a lot less of those, which might make sense for a child living in a world of surviving adults, but there were maybe 2 or 3 really meaningful ones, including at the end that branches the ending in 4 possible ways, but for anyone who played the first season, it didn't necessarily seem like that hard a choice.


Written down, that seems like a  lot of complaining, but Season 2's biggest faults are that it was the follow-up to Season 1 which did enough things right to broom any of the faults under the rug to me. 

Frankly, The Wolf Among Us S1 might be my favorite out of the three at this point.

In regards to the actual article....

Seems odd that the Telltale story version of Minecraft will end up on Wii U before the actual game, but my guess is that since Telltale paid for the license to Minecraft, they're able to work independently from Mojang to release the game at will.  Microsoft/Mojang probably haven't bothered with Wii U ports of the proper game because the cost to port vs the perceived sales they'd get probably doesn't justify it.  This very may well be the only minecraft you see on Wii U.

Plus Microsoft would probably not want to give help to the Wii U. I could see them doing a 3DS version though. Microsoft has been willing to release games on Nintendo handhelds in the past.

They're still selling it on PlayStation platforms, which I'd think they'd be even less likely to want to help.

I always figured that was because they inked a deal "pre-Microsoft sale" so it still had to be honored.