What about a deluxe version with better bitrate for voices ?
I imagine the big reason for the low voices bitrate is the size of the download (bigger download, bigger the costs), but for the full season CD edition, maybe you could do a 2CDs pack instead of the single CD and double the voices data bitrate.
The bubble/wobble effect of low bitrate really make my ears uneasy. Hopefully i have a good soundcard and even better speakers system but applying filters to reduce that has a bad impact on the wonderful soundtrack playing in the background.
I truly love the game, and that's the only complaint i really have.
i don't care the difficulty, it is so damn funny and that is just the first case. i guess they will rise the difficulty until they receive hint requests that would indicate the game is getting too hard for the sam and max target audience. Or maybe implement the Max giving hints idea...
Ho well, back to the original point, i guess i am not the only one bothered with the low bitrate, am i ?
The bubble/wobble effect of low bitrate really make my ears uneasy. Hopefully i have a good soundcard and even better speakers system but applying filters to reduce that has a bad impact on the wonderful soundtrack playing in the background.
I truly love the game, and that's the only complaint i really have.
i don't care the difficulty, it is so damn funny and that is just the first case. i guess they will rise the difficulty until they receive hint requests that would indicate the game is getting too hard for the sam and max target audience. Or maybe implement the Max giving hints idea...
Ho well, back to the original point, i guess i am not the only one bothered with the low bitrate, am i ?
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Also, the forum registration thing - I had to do that eyetest three times 'cos I got some of the squiggles wrong. There was a backwards S - so I put S. 'cos that's all it can be. It's not a Z 'cos they're straight Pain in the arse.
Great demo, though - I'll buy the full thing shortly I think. If the full version has a decent bitrate I'll buy the full 6 episodes right now - I've waited 13 years for this!
Tobias
and sometimes the cursor does not revert back from item to pointer,
happened in the big fight against brady
other than that: i was delighted and laughed out loud a few times !!!!
quailty stuff !!!!!
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11556
(And frankly, the Soda Poppers' voices were annoying enough to begin with.)
To clarify that a bit, I don't know if the voice compression quality is going to be improved by Episode 2, but we've already moved the sound effects to a higher quality audio format for that episode (sound effects now use the same format we use for the music). The voice quality in particular is something everyone's aware of, though, and its one we hope to offer a solution to sooner rather than later.
Since the voices are simple .VOX files in the data-folder of the game, why not offer a higher quality install-package as an additional download, to replace these?
You know, say what you will about episodic gaming, but the opportunity that we have to communicate so closely with the people involved in developing the game is really spectacular.
Hopefully the team doesn't get bummed about all of the criticism. People just care so much about Sam and Max! It's almost as though the people on the forum are a member of the development team, and it makes this whole thing a very interesting experiment.
Everything seems to be stored as plain .vox files (and not in one big .sou file like the old game), so I'm all for a separate download with just higher quality audio in it. Bandwidth is cheap and my sensitive ears sure wouldn't mind a download size twice as big or more.
The current size of the entire S&M game isn't even as big as some of the movie trailers for other episodic games like Half Life 2
Still, this is the best 35 bucks I've spent since I bought that detachable third arm a couple years back...
Lucasarts are loaded and that's part of the reason they ditched the project....
I've paid up in full...my theory is if they make enough money you'll need a 10mb connection to download the final chapter in under an hour...
c'mon guys where's your SUPPORT!!
:rolleyes:
I really don't mind if the game takes 1h to download, or 5h.
Most people have a flatrate anyway...
Even if some people don't have a flatrate - give them a choice.
A big high res version (maybe with high res graphics) an a low res version.
And everybody is happy