TOMI nice but...
I'd like to see more adult humour here.
I've played Sam 'N Max and really enjoyed it but still feel the humour is watered down to cater for a family audience, esp. compared to the original.
And I think TOMI's humour is also watered down compared to the original.
Telltale, please for your next franchise create a more adult-oriented game. Some of us are still single you know, and don't have kids yet.
So how about some edgier, darker. more biting humour? Just one season's worth that's all.
And I don't mean every second word has to be a profanity, just something less sugar-coated.
What do others here feel?
I've played Sam 'N Max and really enjoyed it but still feel the humour is watered down to cater for a family audience, esp. compared to the original.
And I think TOMI's humour is also watered down compared to the original.
Telltale, please for your next franchise create a more adult-oriented game. Some of us are still single you know, and don't have kids yet.
So how about some edgier, darker. more biting humour? Just one season's worth that's all.
And I don't mean every second word has to be a profanity, just something less sugar-coated.
What do others here feel?
Sign in to comment in this discussion.
Comments
However the series will get darker as it goes on.
If anything it's the most sinister and adult themed Monkey Island yet! If you're talking atmosphere though I too would like to see the series progress into a darker and edgier world.
A little more like MI2's Woodtick rather than MI4's Jambalaya.
Would you like to rub my unicorn?
Does the carpet match the drapes?
The whole scene where Peepers is seducing Sybil!
As far as Tales of Monkey Island is concerned, look up. ^^^^
What the $#!% do you want!
Don't forget the incessant bleeping of the little rat.
I love Timmy and his violent Tourette's syndrome. It's %@#$ing awesome!
I recommend Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
That's an adult joke. Hmmm. I guess I'm not old enough to get it.
No, I don't know what you mean.
I will say that the original's have a very different 'feeling' or atmosphere over the more recent interpretations.
Maybe that's what you mean?
But both new series have more than enough adult humour as the many examples posted will show you:)
I'd like a bit more 1-ish humor, and no more "talk to the hand" "jokes," please...
OK, I'll try.
The original Sam and Max had a somehow more "untamed" humor, where they would frequently be over-the-top and downright tasteless in order to produce that atmosphere where you could expect anything. You knew that no joke would be too bad for Sam and Max.
Two scenes come to mind:
(While just chatting with Max):
Sam: There's something in my eye
Max: Just pull it out with a fork, that's what I usually do.
(While talking to a constantly swearing guy with a turban at the top of the world's biggest ball of wool, always displayed as %$§$&%§&):
Sam: At-sign, Plus-sign, Dollar-sign...
Max: And don't forget the semicolon
Guy: What are you doing?
Sam: Extensive swearing.
What you do is you get a version of ScummVM from
http://scummvm.org/
(free and open source, like Firefox)
Then you get the normal Sam and Max game from your friendly retailer.
Install both, launch ScummVM and tell it where you've installed Samnmax to and ... that's it. Have fun playing.
I got it 4 50p second hand but the sound doesnt work
Anyway, ScummVM gives you the best experience, so why not use it?
I was never that much of a PC gamer, because all of my computers up until now weren't all that good for playing games on...
That's one of the reasons i like my DS so much, because i can play import games without needing any of that.
Anyway, I remember Hit the Road as being pretty family friendly other than the spoon bending guy. Not to the extent of the cartoon, but more so than the the comics and the current games. Here's an over the top and tasteless throwaway part in the Telltale games.
Sam: What do you think of this computer matchmaking business?
Max: It's an abomination! People should find dates the old-fashioned way.
Sam: A chloroformed rag and a dark alley?
Max: What can I say? I'm set in my ways.
And in that same episode, Max tells a dirty and mostly bleeped joke about the Pope, Chester A. Arthur, and a candiru fish.
Also, the line was "swearing in longhand", not "extensive swearing". I don't know if you played it in a different language, I just mentioned it because it changes the meaning of the joke a little.
I was about to say not to judge TOMI on its first episode alone, but then I remembered the Marquis de Singe idol puzzle. You really can't say the episode is lacking in adult humour.
The comics are definitely even more untamed and aggressive, but I'd say that SnMHtR is the closest thing we can get in videogame form.
P.S. (except maybe Day of the Tentacle)