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[Wii] Sam & Max Season 1 is $30 and OUT RIGHT NOW, mofos!
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UPDATE 2: There was a manufacturing delay, but now the game is showing as in-stock at GameStops in my area. I'm picking this up tonight. Support your local 6-foot tall anthropomorphic dogs and hyperkinetic rabbity things!
(I know we had another thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.)
This was a compelling buy for me at $50, but at $30 it's a no-brainer, since I haven't played the PC version (which is apparently dirt cheap nowadays). The Wii version also adds widescreen and a tutorial for people either not familiar with Sam & Max or with point-and-click adventures; it's hard to tell from the PR speak.
But yeah! Sam & Max! Fuck yeah! Also, Telltale has a GameStop preorder exclusive:
I might actually be compelled to preorder, for once.
(I know we had another thread somewhere, but I couldn't find it.)
SAN RAFAEL, September 17, 2008 – Telltale and The Adventure Company are announcing that the highly-anticipated Sam & Max Season One for Wii™ will be in retail stores across North America starting October 7. Thanks to this console debut, for the first time Telltale's award-winning comedy series can be enjoyed in the comfort of the living room, bringing you closer than ever to the experience of playing your favorite television show.
The Sam & Max series is structured like a TV series, with self-contained episodes that tie into a larger overarching storyline as the season progresses. The Wii version collects the first six-episode "season" of Sam & Max games on one retail disc. In Season One, straight-laced canine detective Sam and his psychotic "rabbity-thing" sidekick Max are on the hunt for the mastermind behind a baffling hypnosis conspiracy. Players get to interrogate suspects (with amusing results), uncover clues, solve puzzles, and ultimately piece together the underlying mystery that links the episodes.
The story-focused gameplay and simple "point and click" interface have a low learning curve, and a new tutorial ensures that even players new to the Sam & Max experience will be up to speed in minutes. Sam & Max Season One for Wii also has a few technical improvements over the PC original, including widescreen support.
This was a compelling buy for me at $50, but at $30 it's a no-brainer, since I haven't played the PC version (which is apparently dirt cheap nowadays). The Wii version also adds widescreen and a tutorial for people either not familiar with Sam & Max or with point-and-click adventures; it's hard to tell from the PR speak.
But yeah! Sam & Max! Fuck yeah! Also, Telltale has a GameStop preorder exclusive:
Customers who reserve the game in stores or through GameStop.com before the October 7 release will receive a CD containing Sam & Max bonus content, including a behind-the-scenes "making of" featurette, trailers, concept art, a soundtrack sampler, and desktop wallpapers. More details can be found here.
I might actually be compelled to preorder, for once.
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But even without that: so bought'd.
I'm kind of waiting for the same reason—that and lack of desire to clean out the fridge, anyway.
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I would but for some reason I can't upload images to hosting sites so it'd be a very Spartan OP. I just want somewhere to talk about the game.
Source? Because if that's the case, then what's happening with Bomberman Blast?
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This LJ Discussion with one of the guys on Telltale's staff. Specifically, this post.
they'd never put that game on a disc with the less good Season One. but id love it too.
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But this gives us a week to salivate and build up hype, anyway.
That's why its nice to see Sam & Max get a disc release, since I can just rent it.
Coincidentally, the Strong Bad games are only 9$ a pop on the PC, and only 35$ for the whole set, plus with the whole set you get a physical copy at the end of the season with some bonus features to boot. Good times.
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It's out! Go buy it! I'm picking it up on my lunch break, will report back with impressions if I can get some time in tonight.
I put in about an hour and a half last night and I'm really digging it so far. Note that I loved and adored the PC S&M Hit the Road and have been completely oblivious as to the PC release of this, but so far Season 1 is pretty good. It feels a little bit low-budget at times—some of the voice clips cut short a second or two randomly, the graphics seem a little rough and the tutorial (which is optional and kind of a hand-holding walk through the first part of the first case) felt very disjointed, although it was made specifically for the Wii version so Sam references the actual buttons and pointing you have to do—but the best reason to play this, obviously, is the writing, and so far it's been great.
Anyone else pick this up?
Point and click just feels so right on the Wii. It's relaxing to have a one-handed game (...:winky:) to kick back on the couch and just enjoy. There are also some controller shortcuts, so you can use Minus to bring up your inventory and use the D-pad to select different lines of dialogue, which is faster than pointing at the dialogue and clicking it since they're a little close together and easy to miss.
Also, I don't know how the PC games were when you bought the full season, but all six episodes are unlocked and selectable right from the beginning of the game, so if you've played it before you can just skip ahead. It also has a liberal auto-save function and even tells you in the instruction manual that you can have three different manual save files "to come back to parts you enjoy."
I really hope the rest of it comes out on Wii too, I hate owning just part of a collection on a given system.
Heartily reccommended to all fans of the genre.
In fact much love for Telltale in general. S&M 1 and 2 were both great, as is Strongbad so far. I can't wait to see what they do with Wallace and Gromit
I find myself anticipating the gags that change between each episode (Sylvia, the TV, the gumball machine, Bosko, et al) more than the actual plot. Is that wrong?
I think my favorite part so far has been the psychoanalysis in Episode 1. Least favorite was chasing the rats in Episode 2.
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Max is a Lagomorph.
Also so bought once I can find a copy.
I really hope this game doesn't get lost in the shuffle of this fall. Let's not forget that Telltale specifically made the Wii version due to the overwhelming fan requests for the game to be ported to the Wii. If no one buys it as a result, they might not bring over Season 2 ... and I need Season 2, so none of you had better screw this up for me. :x