9 Terrible Video Games With AWESOME Stories

1. Every Telltale Game After The Walking Dead Season 1

As we'd later find out from the studio shuttering after years of increasingly disastrous sales, 2012's first season of The Walking Dead was something of a fluke.

Not taking anything away from the incredible story, sense of causality and tension throughout, but in terms of mainstream appeal or even why Telltale are a household name, it came from a game releasing right when its TV counterpart was at the height of popularity.

Everything after Walking Dead season 1 got demonstrably worse sales-wise, but it's here where you can throw in the ramifications of a developer and publisher accepting as many projects as possible.

Game of Thrones, Batman, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands - all brilliant stories (especially Batman and Borderlands), but gameplay was some of the most tedious around.

Besides a reused engine that was already straining in 2012, we had arbitrary quick-time events, slowly placing icons over in-motion scenes to trigger actions, and a level of animation quality that felt decidedly locked in the last generation.

It got so bad with Game of Thrones that the entire score and dialogue could drop out at any moment, leaving you with sound effects set against a completely silent backdrop.

Telltale will ultimately remain recommendable, but they're also a testament to the adage of "too much, too fast".