Worst Episode Ever
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Thankfully Sam & Max has just been getting better and better and by the end of Season 2 it really became something special. Good job, Telltale, I highly look forward to Season 3
I went for Culture Shock. Whilst adequate at the time, looking back with retrospective of the later Telltale games, it was a really naff episode.
I'm surprised nobody's got it in for Ice Station Santa. What's going on people? I certainly thought it to be the worst of season 2.
Yeah looking back I felt it wasn't as good as I had thought, and consequently recently bumped down from my #3 to #5 position in my favourite S+M's, but I still enjoy the logical plot, puzzles and the psychology testings.
I, on the other hand, think it was a blistering season opener.
"A hairy... bloated... pagan god... Santa Claus!" - this is probably my favourite scene from the entirety of the two series. Also, it featured 4 different Santa Clauses (hey, is this a legal plural at all?), and the SCB. What's not to love?
Oh yes, the psychology puzzle was a classic! :cool:
I really dont like babies and drug abuse in video games.
Almost went for that but decided on Bright Side of the Moon
I enjoyed Ice-Station Santa a lot. It was the first episode I played, and I thought it was a great introduction to the series. It's certainly better than Moai Better Blues and Far Side of the Moon.
The only other episode I didn't particularly enjoy was Culture Shock, and I'd have to say that's the absolute worst. Like I said, I wasn't around at the begining, but I can't believe many were happy with that as the introduction to the new Sam & Max.
I'm surprised to see so much hate for Situation Comedy though, that was one of my favourites
I agree. Reality 2.0 sort of felt off because Sam and Max, along with every other telltale series, seems to come from a not-modern setting. Strong Bad is like an 80sfest, Wallace and Gromit is like the 60s and 70s, and TOMI is in the 17th century. I imagine Sam and Max taking place in the late eighties.
Well, do you know when Al Gore built the original Internet?
All the other episodes had their moments, but aside from Max's 'death' speech, M³ didn't have anything that really stood out for me, making it the worst.
*(Or, in layman's terms, The Mole, The Mob and The Meatball)
Short? Easy? Not necessary?
You can't abbreviate it as M³ because the Mole, Mob, and Meatball aren't being multiplied, they're being added. M+M+M would be more mathematically accurate.
3M?
That would also be accurate
To the person who voted 204: why?
I also loved Culture Shock lol.
Anyway, my vote went to Reality 2.0. I agree with whoever said it wasn't fitting for the time period of this game. I also imagine Sam and Max to be more 80's-90's oriented. The internet thing didn't go well with the feel of the game. I also just didn't care for the puzzles as much, and the text based part at the end was just downright annoying. I have to confess to using walkthroughs on a lot of that episode just to get it overwith.
For season two, I'd pick Moai Better Blues. For some reason I'm not a fan of tropical/island vacation settings. Funny stuff in there, to be sure, but I thought Ice Station Santa was way, way better. Overall, I find it a bit difficult to say what episode is worst. To me, none of them even come close to being bad!
Yeah! That'll do. Thanks!
Personally, I thought Reality 2.0 was fun in it's own way. I have to say that the soundtrack was a bit annoying, though.
As for the worst episode, I would point to Culture Shock. I found Soda Poppers kinda annoying. And when they were hypnotized? Double the annoying-ess.
The only thing I liked about that episode was Sam's "another boot to the pasty ass of crime." It was like he was letting us know, "okay, with that out of the way--let's get started!"
I'm not old enough to remember the text-based adventures of times past firsthand, and I loved Reality 2.0 and its awesomely epic ending. My sister's twelve, and also found it fascinating, fun, and scary in its own way (the silence is what did it). Leaving the whole situation to our imaginations, as well as Sam and Max's, was just a purely ingenious move...but I can see how philistines may not appreciate it.
And for the record, I see each episode as a part of a whole. Which is why Situation: Comedy and Culture Shock remain at the bottom of my list. Situation: Comedy was simply unspectacular, uneventful, and really pretty unfulfilling--the color scheme of the episode was pretty bland, there were few jazzy cues from Mr. Emerson-Johnson, and Sybil had her least interesting job (besides Culture Shock, but she was just being introduced) of the whole game. The ending was pretty "meh" too, with an oddly boring buildup to a fizzling climax. There's just not much to like there, from where I stand.
On the other hand, I had no idea anyone harbored ill will towards Bright Side of the Moon! This was the climatic finish, the penultimate grand finale! My sister and I have never witnessed such a great buildup to a villain-reveal. The sheer fun, epicness, and scope of this final chapter from a storytelling standpoint totally makes up for any shortcomings in gameplay, methinks. The genuine malice of Hugh Bliss alongside the effective feeling of peril for our normally tongue-in-cheek heroes I thought made for an amazing ride. ...gosh, I wish I could play it for the first time again.
Hugh Bliss remains one of my favorite villains of all time.
The season 1 started quite good and then they gets better and better. You can said the season was round. Season 2 for the other side, starts brilliant, but the Second Episode is kind of lame compared with the first. Then gets better and better. So, Moai Better Blues didn't do its job of been a bit better than Ice Station Santa, and that why, for me, its the worst episode. Probably, as a stand alone episode were better than the first three episodes of Season 1, but, didn't do it's job of keep the exitement of the first episode too well.
I must say that the Lincoln episode by far surpasses Culture Shock. Culture Shock was so incredibly easy, with such a tiny game world. It was still funny, but not really well done as a game.
The Lincoln episode on the other hand got me stuck about a couple of times and was realy funny too.
You´ll kill me for this, but I must say that both of the episodes imho wipe the floor with S & M hit the road though. I could never get into that game, I really dislike it. So Telltales really are the ones who first made me appreciate the franchise at all.
I'm even too scared to read the current poll results so far.
That said, babies that talk like adults is the absolute lowest form of comedy. It's not funny with those stock trade commercials, it's not funny on Family Guy, it's not funny on the Look Who's Talking movies. There's just nothing funny about it. Also, the episode is pretty short in comparison to the rest of season 2 and some of the puzzles are kind of a stretch. For some reason I decided to shoot the Gong in Stinky's at the beginning of the game, when Sybil is being chased. I forget what gets said but whatever it was, I remember it causing me to assume there was no reason to ever go back to it when in fact I needed to.
I'm not sure why people don't like Bright Side of the Moon, I thought it was very strong finish. I'll admit I like Situation:Comedy and The Mob, the Mole and the Meatball better than most people, while disliking Abe Lincoln Must Die and Reality 2.0 more than most people. The puzzle solving in the final act of ALMD was like turning on a light switch, walking to the other side of your house to turn on another light switch, then walking back to the first side of your house to turn the first switch off and then repeating the process about 5 times. Reality 2.0 was okay but the jokes were a little cliche but it had its moments. I liked Culture Shock a lot too. Ice Station Santa was a good season opener and I think once they got to Night of the Raving Dead, every episode was raising the bar tremendously.
Especially the first serie also had some not this exciting content but each episode had their nice moments.
Just finished this episode and really hated it!
edit: also I almost punched my monitor because I couldn't skip the musical part in the Abe Lincoln episode.
I will give it credit for having a funny bit with the COPS and their "amazing, completely original idea music game!" though