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Sam and Max: Bright Side of the Moon, April 25th!
JamesDM
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Sam and Max: Freelance Police!
As far as episodic games go Sam and Max has been the only game to really deliver new episodes in a timely manner while still keeping it relatively fresh. There is a bit of repetition but overall the episodes are all very playable and generally fun all around.
The last episode of Sam and Max season 1 comes out tomorrow. I've got a bit of info for those of you who have no idea about it.
What is it called?
Sam and Max: Episode 6, Bright Side of the Moon.
What the hell is it about?
What started out as a local mind-control scheme has grown to global proportions, and Sam & Max are off to the moon to save the entire planet from a lifetime of hypnotic enslavement. But when chaos collides with tranquility, have the Freelance Police finally met their match?
When is it out?
April 25th... Tomorrow... Do it!
Pictures? You bet!
Website so I can find out more about this... "Sam and Max"
http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/
So... Discussion about Sam and Max and episodic games... GO!
As far as episodic games go Sam and Max has been the only game to really deliver new episodes in a timely manner while still keeping it relatively fresh. There is a bit of repetition but overall the episodes are all very playable and generally fun all around.
The last episode of Sam and Max season 1 comes out tomorrow. I've got a bit of info for those of you who have no idea about it.
What is it called?
Sam and Max: Episode 6, Bright Side of the Moon.
What the hell is it about?
What started out as a local mind-control scheme has grown to global proportions, and Sam & Max are off to the moon to save the entire planet from a lifetime of hypnotic enslavement. But when chaos collides with tranquility, have the Freelance Police finally met their match?
When is it out?
April 25th... Tomorrow... Do it!
Pictures? You bet!
Website so I can find out more about this... "Sam and Max"
http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/
So... Discussion about Sam and Max and episodic games... GO!
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Tomorrow for Gametap subscribers, May the 10th for those of us unwilling or unable (ie anyone not in America) to join up to Gametap.
Dick :P
Seriously though, more people need to be in on these, they are awesome pointy clicky fun and really have improved with each episode. I have not once regretted purchasing the full season.
Season subscribers have been promised the full series on disc for the cost of postage once the season is over.
I actually got caught up in work and didn't get the chance to play Abe Lincoln Must Die or Version 2.0, so I played them back to back... It was one of the greatest afternoons I've had since Fallout came out.
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But yeah, the Season has been overall awesome so far. Some downers, some stupendous high-points (cooking without looking / "They're probably hiding a cow..") and a fantastic story that just sort of clicks into place has really made me glad about just straight-up buying the full season pass.
Can't wait for the disk version and the next Season.. Maybe with an upgraded Telltale Tool so it doesn't look as blocky at 1920..
On a related note, did they give up on Bone?
-Louis C.K.
So far so good though...fun episode.
I'm not sure it's better than Reality 2.0 yet.
:x I wish I had a single creative bone in my body when it comes to writing so I could review things. Drez I officially hate you.
On a good note, this being the last episode of the season it should be decidedly epic.
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I thought it was pretty cool. There is less running back and forth in the DeSoto and the ending is quite hilarious... or I thought it was anyway.
*not that this helps much as it's more of my opinion on the game instead of how it actually compares.*
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I guess the only thing that kind of sucks about waiting for the full season is that each game is its own individual story but they all have the same background and all tie-in to one another. Played over time they are great with the story being memorable enough and the time between each episode short enough that you won't forget the details. I'm sure you'll get just as awesome of an experience playing them all together though.
Steam, PSN, XBL, Xfire and everything else JamesDM
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Sorry I was posting all over and playing Bright Side Of The Moon so I read Suds' post but didn't get to respond.
I was going to suggest Syberia. I haven't beaten them, but I found them fun.
Post Mortem is an investigative, conversation-heavy Noir-type game.
I'm not sure where Fahrenheit fits in...it's kind of an Action/Graphic Adventure hybrid, but I enjoyed the puzzles and whatnot even if the end was extremely surreal.
A game no one seems to know about is Delaware St. John...it's more in the Alida/Myst type games (you don't see your character, you see through his eyes) and it's kind of easy overall, but I liked the setting and it was obviously patterned after Gabriel Knight. Pretty good stuff, I thought, for an indie project...and I thought the voice acting was well done for not being high-production (I think the developers did the voices).
Once the last episode is released there will be a CD version of the entire season, right now they are on a "You get every episode online when we release it then when we finish you will get the CD" deal.
http://www.telltalegames.com/store/samandmax-season1
Steam, PSN, XBL, Xfire and everything else JamesDM
Although Bright Side of the Moon seemed a bit shorter than the other segments it really felt like a Sam & Max finish to me. Completely over the top and everything I would have expected out of the last chapter in a Sam & Max game.
I wonder if Telltale will compile them into one game, so that you don't have to watch the credits after you beat each one.
I am pretty floored by the amount of bonus content they are putting on this disc. I was expecting something very bare-bones. Makes me that much happier to be a Season 1 subscriber. :^:
I'm pretty happy with the length of the episodes (though the could have been an hour or so longer) as it seems to be a little less then 1 nights worth of play per episode. However, they all seemed rather too easy. Maybe if they had dummy items (that is, items that don't actually do anything) and npcs, the puzzles could have been more tricky. As it was, there was really only 1 logical solution to each one, most of them pretty obvious. Maybe that ties in with why I thought it was a little short, because I was able to breeze through the puzzles, even though I made a habit out of exploring every dialog tree and inspecting every item so I could hear the funny stuff they put in the game.
On the subject of the dialog, that was really made this a worthwhile purchase. I forget how many times I've laughed out loud at something Max has done or said, as well as the funny minor characters stuff.
Hopefully the second season will be just as witty but I really am hoping for a slightly harder/longer game.
I don't know, I've always hated dummy items in adventure games. I think the difficulty of these games was pretty good. I enjoyed going through an adventure game without having any frustrating running around using everything with everything else hoping it will advance the story moments.
I'm having audio issues with the Season 1 disc.
The music doesn't play, replaced by lots of static, and sometimes the first few lines in dialogue skip.
None of the tech support resolutions on the website applied(lowering the acceleration, updating DirectX).
Any advice?
Oh, and I love the dialogue. The new voices took getting used to, but they'll do. I like Sam's. Max's... not quite so much.
What? What?!?
Fuckawesome.
Where did you find this info? I'm out of the loop as far as Wii software goes.
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The guy at the Sam and Max booth at the Leipzig Games Convention told me.