Am I the only one here who - gasp - doesn't like Sam & Max?
I don't like Sam & Max. I really don't.
I don't like the Lucasarts adventure or the Telltale series.
I've no interest in reading the comic strips or watching the old cartoons.
It's not due to a lack of quality on the part of any of these things, I simply have no interest in the characters or setting. I groan whenever Telltale announces a new Sam & Max season because it means that they won't be releasing anything interest until it's over.
I wonder if I'm the only one here who dislikes Sam & Max in all its various tedious incarnations? Surely I can't be the only one.
I don't like the Lucasarts adventure or the Telltale series.
I've no interest in reading the comic strips or watching the old cartoons.
It's not due to a lack of quality on the part of any of these things, I simply have no interest in the characters or setting. I groan whenever Telltale announces a new Sam & Max season because it means that they won't be releasing anything interest until it's over.
I wonder if I'm the only one here who dislikes Sam & Max in all its various tedious incarnations? Surely I can't be the only one.
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I'm curious about how you discover Telltale. Are you a fan of Bone, Homestar Runner.com, Wallace and Gromit, or Monkey Island, or all of them? The thing is, pretty much most people discovered Telltale because they found out that a franchise they like is being made into adventure games, or are people who are new to adventure games and are interested in trying them out.
I've known about Telltale ever since they started up, simply because I'm interestested in adventure games. I don't consider myself to be a "fan" of any game franchise because my critical faculties always kick in before I can become a fan of anything!
Having said that, I bought Tales of Monkey Island (it's the only Telltale series that I've purchased) due to having fond childhood memories of playing Monkey Island 2 as a child. I enjoyed Tales, but I think that the series has pretty much run its course now.
These days I'm only really interested in new characters, stories, themes, and settings. Warmed up old game/TV/comic/movie franchises just don't do it for me. I understand that they are safer to produce than original titles due to having a pre-existing fanbase, but I look for a little more freshness and a little less comfortable familiarity than they can offer.
But since they are so famous and popular in the adventure gaming world, probably most of Telltale's customers discovered the company through the Sam and Max games. So my guess is, that's why it feels like you are the only one.
According to a poll a while back, Sam and Max was by far most customers' favourite Telltale series. But Monkey Island wasn't on the poll and I expect that has attracted a lot of customers too.
It wasn't cancelled, just not renewed. Same end result, just different cause. But it was reported to have performed quite well during its run.
I imagine that many of the original followers of TTG came here for Sam & Max (myself included), since the company was essentially created from the events surrounding Sam & Max: Freelance Police. Sam & Max was the proper launch title for TTG, with a bigger impact than Bone made.
Live and learn.
I don't know about everyone else, but I actually like the Sam and Max series more than the Monkey Island series.
WHAT.
(Respecting your opinion, but this has really shocked me!)
Depends on the MI game. Lechuck's Revenge floors me with the quality of the writing. Secret too seeing as it was a game that wasn't originally intended to be a comedy.
The first game is bad, but the sequel is a lot worse. The first hour is spent doing office work. *shudders*
I never knew Phantasmorgia was inspired by Dilbert and Ricky Gervais.
People who claim to dislike Sam and Max (or Monkey Island) need to start playing shitty Adventure games - when they do, they'll gain a new appreciation for the classics.
*raises hand*
I loved Phantasmagoria. It basically played itself, but it's cheesy horror gold.I even liked the sequel to some extent, despite having the second worst puzzle in all of adventure gaming.
Get to around Episode 4, that's when it really peaks. If you still don't like it by then well fair enough. Just a heads up, Episode 2 actually takes a couple of steps back from Episode 1.
I wouldn't say that's a compliment to Sam & Max.
Haha! I remember that game, now. My mother loved it.
I kinda of glanced at it with a passing interest.
Back then, I was always playing the LucasArts adv games and she was always playing the Sierra adv games (Kings Quest,Kyrandia, etc)
I couldn't understand how she could pass up Guybrush or Sam and Max for some plain guy in a green hat in a game that appeared to be full of the bland and humorless...
but she still swears by them to this day.
Your such a horrible person for not liking Forest Gump or Titanic!
Oh...wait..never mind, I just realized those movies are overplayed, it's okay i'll show myself out.
Never heard of this Phantasmorgia (until now) but the name of it reminds me of the 1908 animation Phantasmagorie. By any chance does it have anything to do with that? If so I imagine the game's pretty strange.
I still haven't seen either of those. How's that for weird? XD
While I'm pretty much a fan of all franchises Telltale has done, it was actually Bone that drew me in. I was interested because I never thought that anyone would actually make a game based on a comic book series that's pretty obscure compared to the others. Though, in the end, I didn't quite like it that much, since it changed some parts of the storyline and gave voices to the characters (I know this is inevitable when making an adventure game based on an existing story, but I still didn't like it)
When Sam and Max came out, I was excited, yet not without doubts. Fortunately, though, the story drew me in the second I started playing, and the humor of the old game, comics, and cartoons are still intact, and that's when I became a Telltale fan.
And Forrest Gump is above average, but not a perfect ten. I have no strong feelings about Titanic.
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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!!! WHAT WAS ROBERTA WILLIAMS THINKING. GROAR. (cue Godzilla roar and arm flailing)
Though I'll admit the story does sound quite well written (it has a magician so I can see how Roberta Williams thought it up) but the game is FMV, so you know it's gotta be sick. If it was just pixels I could handle it no problem, especially Sierra's pixel style, but it's FMV. I wouldn't have played Trilby's Notes if it was FM.....actually yes I would. Get to it Yahtzee!
I'm also not a fan of Leisure Suit Larry. I didn't find the first one to be very "classic", though the premise was good. The third one was brilliant and hit the right nails on the right heads but then I got stuck cause I FORGOT TO CLOSE MY LOCKER AND WAS STRANDED NUDE and COULDN'T FINISH THE GAME. And if you took that sentence out of context you could have a lot of cheap laughs at my expense. Leisure Suit Larry 5 was all right and it had some funny moments, but the art style is what mostly set it apart. I didn't bother with 6 because the art style was just UGLY in that. Seven looked good stylishly but by then I just don't feel like it any more. To me, three is the only one I'm a fan of and the only one in the series I'd really go back and play again.
It's all good ^_^
I cried on Titanic! Well, I was like 5 years old and I didn't know what the hell was going on the ship except for the iceberg but the music was weird enough to make me cry. Me being really hungry also helped.
...but still counts!
Oh thanks, now I know how the movie ends...
I cried, too, tears of joy when
Wait, you were hungry? Why didn't somebody buy your popcorn or something? And why did they take a five year old to an "R" rated film?
Titanic wasn't R-rated when it came out it was PG-13 despite, the necklace drawing scene.
I beleive it may still have the PG-13 rating.