I'm sorry for the Walking Dead fans, but I honestly won't miss them much. I played The Wolf among us, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead Season 2 and neither of the games impressed me very much. I like that TWAU introduced me to Fables, which seems to be great (only read Volume 1 so far) but the lack of any meaningful choices except for "who of these two people will you let die?" which always seemed kinda inevitable to me, the crappy engine (sometimes I would go Game Over because the game demanded to press a button before the scene had even loaded) and the interesting, but (to me) rather mediocre artstyle lost my interest quickly. I don't mind when games leave the option to make a sequel but it's absolutely horrible to give you just half a game that ends on several open strings to say "to be continued" - if you are not absolutely sure that you will make a sequel (and even then it's kinda questionable) I don't want games to leave you at a point where you actually don't really have an ending (like GoT) and you never get one because they won't make one. Or won't tell you when and if ever and instead go buying more and more IPs to throw the same formula onto it again and again. It's sad for the employees though.
This was always my biggest gripe with Telltale, they were so good (as in not good) at ending games on cliffhangers whether they needed to or not.
Tales From Monkey Island: Cliffhanger. Will this series ever see a proper conclusion? Probably not. Thanks for continuing the trend then ditching it, Telltale.
Back to the Future: Cliffhanger (kind of). Due to the light-hearted nature of it, it was definitely open for a sequel without needing to be the way they ended it. Could have come off as more to come, or just as the idea that Doc and Marty's adventures would always continue.
The Wolf Among Us: Another cliffhanger that felt more stylistic than anything. Did we NEED more, no. But I was always left with a feeling like I needed more to be wholly satisfied after the big revelation finally hits at the end and it cuts to black. An announcement of a sequel after so many years made me jump for joy, but not anymore (I know I know, there's always Fables. But I wanted more of this particular story thread).
Game of Thrones: HUGE-ASS CLIFFHANGER. Pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that they wanted to have multiple seasons of the game spanning multiple seasons of the show. They were for sure planning on making more of this, but what the hell ever happened to it? It's like they decided to put it on hold while they pumped out 8 other different things instead of just finishing what they'd started.
Tales From the Borderlands: Cliffhanger (kind of). What were the fates of our protagonists? Do we really need a sequel? No. Was the cliffhanger necessary? Also no. I would have loved for them to have dropped the previously mentioned "stylistic" choice of cliffhanger and just start ending solid stories conclusively. This game could have had no cliffhanger at all and they still could have made a sequel someday if they wanted to. Instead we're left wondering the fates of the two main characters with no sequel in sight ever, unless you want to hope they show up in Borderlands 3 if that ever actually happens. But even then, I'm not a big fan of the ACTUAL Borderlands games.
Minecraft Story Mode had a definitive ending in Episode 4. So what's episode 5, an epilogue? Kind of. An epilogue that leaves you on a cliffhanger that can only be resolved if you buy all the dlc episodes. Congratulations season pass holders, you have to spend more money for a complete story now.
And then The Walking Dead New Frontier ended with an in your face message telling you Clementine's story would continue after it was left unresolved in this game. And it did continue, but will it actually end? Now we have to wait and see.
Screw the cliffhanger trend Telltale Games was following. THIS is why I didn't expect it to be as bad as it turned out to be, so many projects were set up for so much more and it was like, how could someone do that if they had any idea they may not be able to get to all of it?