Underrated/Unregarded Episodes
The much loved and highly rated episodes from the telltale series are most commonly Chariots of the Dogs, Culture Shock, Reality 2.0, Abe Lincoln Must Die!, Moai Better Blues, Night of the Raving Dead, What's New Beezlebub and I think I heard somebody even say The Mole, The Mob and The Meatball was a favourite of theirs...
Now I ask upon you to think of the ones that aren't so often commended or regarded for good play, which is...
Situation Comedy
Bright Side of the Moon
Ice Station Santa
So do we really think these are the worst episodes, or do some individuals actually regard some of these as their favourites?
Now I ask upon you to think of the ones that aren't so often commended or regarded for good play, which is...
Situation Comedy
Bright Side of the Moon
Ice Station Santa
So do we really think these are the worst episodes, or do some individuals actually regard some of these as their favourites?
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Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Reality 2.0
Chariots of the Dogs
What's New, Beezlebub?
Medium rated episodes:
Culture Shock
Bright Side of the Moon
Ice Station Santa
Moai Better Blues
Worse rated episodes:
Situation Comedy
The Mole, The Mob, and the Meatball
Night of the Raving Dead
That is going by metacritic, of course.
I disagree with the statement in the original post because 102,106,201, and 202 are my top four episodes. (I've only gotten up to Moai Better Blues) 106 is the best episode of Season One in my opinion.
I for one love 102 and 202.
I'm just curious why you love 106 and 201 so much? Care to share?
I love The Mole, The Mob, and the Meatball. The whole toy mafia setup and the tune are hilarious.
I like Reality 2.0 the least. It just doesn't look as good as other episodes. The whole idea of computer games within computer games doesn't work so well IMHO.
I do 'go with the crowd' on Situation Comedy. Although the episode is fine, the last puzzle is very not cool. You get tired of the "bla..bla..bla..yekedy...yekedy..yeck' line VERY FAST. They should have just muted Myra instead.
In a way, Season 1 is really rounded. I can't really think and tell you with a straight face which one I consider the best or the worst of this season. Season 2, in the other hand, has my favorite episode (Chariots of the Dogs, in part because I love time traveling episodes ^^!) and my least favorite episode (Moai Better Blues, don't ask me why). So, that's what I think.
I love 106 because it was amazing to see it all come together in a mystical display of magic, guns, and wonderment. Hugh Bliss, (ding), is my favorite Sam and Max character, period. Seeing him
201 is amazing because of how it actually manages to make you want to kill jolly old saint nick.
I don't know. In the whole episode were three things I liked: The Parking Break, Scaring Bosco to death and Sam and Max become kids. And the Iorana reference, but just because they did the research.
Not with me. But was the First Time (The Second where the Howard Duck Holiday Special) were I think "Santa is Badass"
For me seeing him turn evil, made him not my favourite character since.
I enjoyed Reality 2.0 a lot too, though I know a lot of people did. I loved how you could
I've only just started on season 2 though so I'll give my opinions on those at a later date.
Anyway...
1. Chariots of the Dogs
2. Bright Side of the Moon
3. Abe Lincoln Must Die (I wouldn't be here without the free episode!)
4. Ice Station Santa
5. What's New, Beelzebub?
6. Situation: Comedy
7. Reality 2.0
8. Moai Better Blues
9. Night of the Raving Dead
10. Culture Shock
11. The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball (still fantastic, but not as good as the rest)
The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball definitely had my favourite soundtrack. I loved the music there!
Situation comedy also was great. So many good lines, and the idea of being a TV-star was nice, as well. (got to love the Idols contest! )
Reality 2.0 was one of my real faves, too. Because I'm a videogame freak, so the jokes did really hit me
..in fact, I don't really dislike ANY of the episodes.
That the freaking point!
Agreed here, Cogs in Motion is my favourite Sam & Max tune!
The episode itself, although it was set up very well, just fell flat somehow.
You forgot Flint Paper, apparently. Although he isn't "new" per se.
Ummm, I think I have too many favourite episodes in Season 2 - basically each one of them except the Moais, with Ep4 having a slight edge.
When I was young and had a C64, I certainly didn't expect that 20 years later, I'll replay Paperboy with zombies
I didn't think it was bad, just too easy. I think I completed it somewhere between 1-2 hours, and I'm not usually particularly fast.
Er...Harry Moleman was introduced in The Mole, The Mob and The Meatball actually.
In season One I liked:
101 (the dreams being my favourite part)
103 (the mafia song is funny, I liked wack-a-mole and having to kill Sybil)
104 (loved Superball, although I feel he came back too often and it kinda... "dilluted" how great a character he is)
I didn't like as much:
102, mostly because of the end, but I also thought it was very easy
105, although I liked COPS and the music for Lefty 2.0 is amazing
106. Not sure why, it just didn't do it for me
In season 2 I liked the most:
101 (loved the time travel, especially to the future, trying to guess when that would happen. Liked Santa)
102 (talking to people as kids was great. I loved kid Sam&Max)
105 (I found it longer than the others, which is great. I especially enjoyed the end, from the reveal of the SPs to the credits)
I liked less:
103 (not sure what. I mean, being a zombie was awesome but Jurgen got on my nerve soon and I didn't like the monster that much)
104 (the time travelling was nice, but it starts being inconsistent and the mariarchis were too damn annoying)
Note that I still loved the episodes I liked the least
I agree with you on most points, except that Reality 2.0 rocks!
001: Hit the Road (it was too hard, too long and monotonous, plus I wasn't too fond of the voice acting)
202: Moai Better Blues (not a big enough new area to explore, the babies had no bite, the ocean chimps were just lame, Easter Island really isn't legendary or cheesy enough and Sybil & Abe was old already, but I do like the lava getting sucked up by the big red triangle at the end)
106: Bright Side of the Moon (liked the setting, still find Hugh Bliss annoying and I found I didn't know what to do too often)
101: Culture Shock (both Brady and the Soda Poppers were annoying and compared with the other episodes it was a bit empty, but was a worthy introduction to the TT Sam & Max Universe)
102: Situation Comedy (I liked the puzzles and the settings but it took ages to figure out the right path in Midtown Cowboys and Myra wouldn't shut up!)
103: M3 (great ideas for plot and puzzles [especially the twist at the end with the Don being the mole] but it left me colder than it should have, somehow)
201: Ice Station Santa (I loved it from start to finish but it doesn't hold up imo to the better ones listed below)
104: Abe Lincoln Must Die! (great introduction of Superball, the puzzles and White House were well executed and that's pretty much it)
105: Reality 2.0 (I'm a retro gaming nerd, so I loved the parody humor and puzzle logic in this one)
203: Night of the Raving Dead (Metal raves in a Gothic castle? Win! Sam & Max doing a Beastie Boys rap hit the spot, the monster building was rather fun and the Sam & Max-turned-into-zombies thing was a good unexpected twist)
205: What's New, Beelzebub? (Satan and Harry Moleman were great, the dioramas were superb and the twist with the Soda Poppers and their subsequent death at the end were fantastic)
204: Chariots of the Dogs (snooping around Bosco's was great, the different locations and dates for the time machine were good, Superball played a better role than I've previously seen, Ms Bosco couldn't have been better, the nerdy young Sam & Max were great, I really enjoyed Old Stinky and the nerdy humour surrounding the anomalies and paradoxes really hit the spot)
Best
Just my two cents.
Just curious - when did you play Hit the Road? Because back in '93, it was a definitive adventure game, one of the best of the genre. And I think the talkie version appeared a while later.
I played it two months ago, to warm myself up for the TT seasons. It's not that I dislike games from that era - I liked Monkey 2 and I think Fate of Atlantis is the best game of that era.
Furthermore, I didn't play Maniac Mansion and McKraken until recently either and found the interface really hard to get on with. Monkey 1 seems the first game where they dropped the unnecessary verbs and made the objects appear in the sentence line upon mouseover.
The Monkey Island games are the only LucasArts adventures I played when they came out. I was only a kid when 1-Curse came out, so it wasn't up to me.
OK, then you didn't follow the evolution as it unfolded. That explains it.
In all fairness, if I had come across it in those days, I wouldn't have understood it and got frustrated anyway. You tend to have more patience when you're 23 than when you're 5.
You missed my point. What I was saying was that the episode DID NOT introduce a new character, and that the closest thing to a new character that was offered was Harry Moleman sans-robotic suit (his personality was much more mild mannered, and he was fairly different, but still, as I said, not a new character).
Oh yeah, I misinterpreted that, sorry.
Yes. Funnily enough, it also seems that you have more patience when you're 23 than when you're 34. Strange...