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What was your first Telltale game?

EznyEzny
edited March 2014 in General Chat
Also favorite and least favorite game? I'm just curious.

Mine was Sam & Max: Save the World. [XBLA]


...Followed by ToMI & S&M: Beyond Time and Space [pretty much at the same time.]
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  • doodo!doodo!
    edited May 2010
    Unless I played the Bone demo, kind of remember it...I think I played SnM first.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited May 2010
    First one played or first one owned?
  • EznyEzny
    edited May 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    First one played or first one owned?

    Hmmm that's a good question... I'll say first played all the way through... whether or not you owned it. [maybe you played at a friend's house? or something.]
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited May 2010
    Homestar Ruiner, though I wasn't really a huge fan of telltale til' Tales rolled around.
  • RemolayRemolay
    edited May 2010
    Crap, I voted for the wrong one. My first was Tales.
  • brunnerbrunner
    edited May 2010
    Sam & Max Season One. I've been a huge Sam & Max nerd since I was a child. :-)
  • Power46Power46
    edited May 2010
    Sam and Max: Save the World!, or more specifically, Abe Lincoln Must Die, (the free one).
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited May 2010
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    Homestar Ruiner, though I wasn't really a huge fan of telltale til' Tales rolled around.

    This. I picked up the first two episodes on WiiWare but couldn't afford the rest until I'd already lost interest and forgotten the game. So my first Telltale game was SBCG4AP, but my first complete Telltale season was Tales.

    Now that I own the full season of Strong Bad on the PC, I really need to get around to completing it.
  • EznyEzny
    edited May 2010
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    Now that I own the full season of Strong Bad on the PC, I really need to get around to completing it.

    The final three episodes were my favorites.
  • GTALostHeavenGTALostHeaven
    edited May 2010
    I downloaded the free abe lincoln episode when it was first released but I didnt really get into it, it all seemed a bit odd, in retrospect if the episode had started in the office I might have got into it earlier.

    But the first game I got was StrongBad, then Sam & Max1 & 2 and I only really got wallace and gromit to fill a hole before Monkey Island
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited May 2010
    CSI first, then first chapter of Tales, then Sam & Max Season 1, then second chapter of Tales, then Sam & Max Season 2, then rest of Tales.
  • taumeltaumel
    edited May 2010
    I started with the Texas Hold'em poker game because i was waiting for the first episode of Sam&Max season 1 beeing released and wanted to see what they had done so far. I ignored the Bone games due to that i wasn't fond of the characters, which was a big mistake on my side because after you got used to them these games are great and especially Bone 2 in my opinion so far is TTG's masterpiece.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited May 2010
    Tales of Monkey Island was my first Telltale game that I played. Launch of the Screaming Narwhal was the first chapter that I played, Culture Shock was the second episode I played, Siege of Spinner Cay was the third episode.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited May 2010
    Every time I see a mention of Bone, it makes me want to go back and read the comics again. Which is annoying, because I no longer have access to any of them except Out From Boneville and The Great Cow Race, and I don't even know where those two are. When I finally did read the whole series, it was because my high school's library had just acquired them.

    And I just realized that I've been a Bone fan for 12-13 years and that freaks me out a little.
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited May 2010
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    This. I picked up the first two episodes on WiiWare but couldn't afford the rest until I'd already lost interest and forgotten the game. So my first Telltale game was SBCG4AP, but my first complete Telltale season was Tales.

    Actually this is exactly what happened with me.
  • meretchenmeretchen
    edited May 2010
    Sam & Max Save the World. :)
    Have played just about everything from Telltale ever since.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited May 2010
    Sam & Max: Season One.
  • Little WriterLittle Writer
    edited May 2010
    A combination, actually.

    First I played "Abe Lincoln Must Die". Then I got the dvd of "S&M:BT&S", followed by "Tales". Now I really need to continue the new S&M season, but I haven't played episode 2 since its release (currently I'm more in a reading than gaming mood ...)
  • TeaTea
    edited May 2010
    I came here for Tales of Monkey Island and preordered. I made Culture Shock my first episode then subsequently blew all my money on the rest of the series.
  • jeeno0142jeeno0142
    edited May 2010
    I didn't even know about the existence of TTG until last year when they announced 'Tales of Monkey Island'. I wish I did because this is my favourite genre of game. I have, for the past 10 years, been checking any update on the Lucasarts website hoping that they'll start up another adventure game. My heart almost stopped when I saw SoMI:SE and then when I found the link to over here it did stop! (But only momentarily or I wouldn't have been alive to play the game)!
  • monkeymoviesmonkeymovies
    edited May 2010
    My first TTG was Tales of Monkey Island, it was on Wii, however, so afterwards I bought all of the episodes on PC instead. It ranked as one of the best in the Monkey Island series to me, and I woke up to how awesome TTG was. Since then, I bought all three Sam and Max seasons, as well as Strong Bad. Only on episode 2 of Strong Bad so far, but I enjoied the first episode. Sam and Max season 1 was kinda hit and miss, but Season 2 was consistently brilliant, and one of my two favourites with Tales of Monkey Island (can't decide which one I liked better), The Devil's Playhouse looks like it may be Telltale's best game of all though.
  • Javi-Wan KenobiJavi-Wan Kenobi
    edited May 2010
    My very first Telltale game was CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder. I love the TV show and I liked the previous games (not made by Telltale). I think that, when that game was released, the first season of Sam & Max was already out, but only on the Telltale Store, and at that time I didn't liked very much the online shopping thing.
  • Mr NuttMr Nutt
    edited May 2010
    My first Telltale game was a demo of Culture Shock when it was new and as you can see from my join date it took me a while to actually buy their games and now I've got all the games apart from the CSI ones and Puzzle Agent. The only reason I found Telltale was because of a blog post in Concerned (Half-Life web comic).
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited May 2010
    I debated buying Telltale Texas Hold'Em when it came out just so I could support the company, but I'm not a big poker fan, and the game didn't interest me. I was watching the Telltale blog eagerly for adventures, so I waited until Out from Boneville came out to purchase and play a Telltale game.

    I later bought Telltale Texas Hold'Em and liked it a lot. I was surprised that the jokes are actually funny and the characters are voiced so well. I guess I was thinking that a casual card game wouldn't have high production values, but I was glad to be proven wrong. If Telltale ever releases another game that isn't an adventure or an adventure-hybrid (like Puzzle Agent), I'll certainly buy it. :)
  • jaden551jaden551
    edited June 2010
    sam and max SEASON 1! before it was renamed, I'm over it now but by a technuicality The first one I played isn't sold
  • PecanBluePecanBlue
    edited June 2010
    Tales of Monkey Island, also being my first Monkey Island game, despite that I only played a little bit of episode one before deciding to play the whole series and switched to SoMI:SE after.
  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited June 2010
    Mine was SGCG4AP. I went to Phukhet a week after seeing the "extremely well-paid commercial advertisement and not really funny cartoon" and tried to find it, got home disappointed, found out it was some newfangled "Digital Distribution" and got it all on Wii, found out about Telltale Games 2 months after 8-Bit (I just saw the episodes on WiiWare, had no idea who made them), saw that Abe Lincoln Must Die! was free, and got into Sam & Max, and here I am, proud owner of every Telltale Game except Texzs Hold'em and CSI (but that doesn't count)
  • SillyStellSillyStell
    edited June 2010
    It was SGCG4AP on WiiWare, I was a big homestar runner fan then but I only bought two episodes. Time passes and I find out about Sam and Max and waste a good chunk of money on all the seasons, worth it though.
  • FriarFriar
    edited June 2010
    Well, the first game i bought was Tales (i hadn't really heard of TTG before then). After Chapter one, i bought Sam&Max Season 1 (wii), then TMI Chapter 2, then the PC version of TMI, then Sam&Max season 2 during a sale, then Strongbad on Trogdor Day, then Sam&Max Season 3.
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited June 2010
    I was aware of TTG when Hold'em came out, I'm not a fan of poker games so I didn't really care to try it. I heard they were making a Bone adventure game, and then tried the demo later on, but wasn't impressed by it, so I didn't buy it. When Sam and Max was announced was when I started to become a lot more interested in TTG, and season one was the first game of theirs I actually bought, after playing it initially on Gametap, to get the DVD.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited June 2010
    Culture Shock was my first. Believe it or not, Sam & Max was a non-entity for me until that point. I remembered the show and HtR, but never partook in either. (I was a Sierra diehard, and I just never tried the show for some reason.)

    But I kept seeing the banner ads for Culture Shock around the internets, and I said "What the hey, let's give 'er a try." Best decision ever. Now I hardly go a day without quoting Sam & Max (or Monkey Island, another franchise that took forever to win me over)
  • NagaokaNagaoka
    edited June 2010
    I believe my first one was Launch of the Screaming Narwhal when it was free for Talk like a Pirate Day. It was also the day I bought the Special Edition when it was half off on Steam, so I was really pleased to FINALLY get into the MI series I had always heard about. After SoMI I played Narwhal and really really really enjoyed it, but couldn't justify purchasing the rest of the series, to my dismay.

    Then I got 8-bit is Not Enough free for Trogday, but didn't play, didn't have time. Much later I finally got to play, and bought the season when it was on sale.

    But before that, the pre-order for Devil's Playhouse came up alongside the Tales of Monkey Island dvd free shipping offer. I didn't care about Sam and Max, I just REALLY wanted to finish Tales.....what a poor naive fool I was! Tales was fantastic though.


    Then I finally remembered Devil's Playhouse a little after it came out. Played it.....it was magical. Bought Surfin' the Highway, the animated series (why'd my dog have to eat it?), when the Puzzle Agent 50% off thing came up I snatched up Seasons 1 and 2 instantly. Addiction is a beautiful thing!
  • SHODANFreemanSHODANFreeman
    edited June 2010
    Nagaoka wrote: »
    the animated series (why'd my dog have to eat it?)

    If a dog ate my copy of the animated series, I'd eat the dog.
  • NagaokaNagaoka
    edited June 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    If a dog ate my copy of the animated series, I'd eat the dog.

    But then some bigger dog would come along and eat me...I don't know if I'd like that.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited June 2010
    Nagaoka wrote: »
    But then some bigger dog would come along and eat me...I don't know if I'd like that.

    I think that only applies to fish, thankfully.
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited June 2010
    I bought the Season one DVD at PAX after attending their panel. I'm pretty sure I've written all this out before, about knowing about them from Grossman's blog post of learning how to smoke from Purcell, buying that DVD and liking it, and feeling that the company had a ton of potential, etc. so you guys get the condensed version this time. Really, I want to suggest people take a look at Hold 'Em, it's actually pretty funny, and even if you get eliminated early on you can choose to leave the game running so you can still listen to the character's banter even if you can't play. Not that I'm stunningly inept at poker and will usually lose within five rounds. Nope.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited June 2010
    I never even heard of telltale until sbcg4ap was announced.
    That of course was my first game and I thought that was it but then I played season 1 of sam and max on wii(my second series) followed by a bit of tales(wasnt fully out on wiiware yet) season 2 of sam and max xbla, the rest of tales, muzzled(have bogey man but I havent played it yet due to my laptop) and now devils playhouse on PC(yes I have a Wii sam and max, and xbox sam and max, and a PC sam and max.
  • EznyEzny
    edited June 2010
    Here's my full[er] story:

    I thought adventure games were dead for good. :(

    One night I was browsing through the Xbox Live Arcade selection, and saw a Sam & Max game [season one]. I never saw the cartoon [which is odd, or I don't remember, because I watched Fox Kids all the time..] or read the comic then, but I knew there was an old adventure game from some ad I had seen, which I tried to buy a long time ago but couldn't find. So I didn't know much about them except that I had seen them in the MI games and a couple ads from some comic books probably.

    I thought 'hey that's cool, haven't seen them in a while' and figured the chances that it was actually an adventure game were most likely very slim. I kept thinking, it sure would be nice if it were an adventure game.

    Anyways about a few weeks later, I finally decided to try the demo, just to find out more about this mysterious 'Sam & Max' I had been seeing here and there all these years. As soon as I clicked to walk, commented on an item, and saw a dialogue tree, I knew it was an adventure game! I didn't even finish the demo because I didn't want to spoil anything. I bought it right away, and loved the dialogue between Sam & Max right before quitting the demo. :D

    Some time later I found out that TT was making a new MI game, and I thought 'Hey those are the guys that made the Sam & Max game, this should be good.'

    So then it was Launch of the Screaming Narwhal, then S&M BT&S, then the rest of ToMI. With a little W&G mixed in. I just finished Bogey Man a little over a month ago though.

    Only TT games I haven't played are Texas Hold 'Em, CSI, and Bone. I plan to play the Bone episodes eventually though.
  • queen_of_the_lobstersqueen_of_the_lobsters
    edited June 2010
    My first game was Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People. I was an on-again off-again fan of homestarrunner.com when the ads started coming out, and I checked the website for any new Teen Girl Squads, because I was bored. Then I saw the extremely-well-paid-advertisement and knew I had to buy the game, since I had a Wii. I had enough WiiPoints saved up to get Homestar Ruiner and Strongbadia the Free, but I bought Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective (in 3D!) with my own money. And that was the extent I was into Telltale for the time being. (I saw a few ads for What's New Beelzebub on Adult Swim, but it didn't appeal to me at the time, especially since I didn't have a Gametap account)

    After a year of getting into Super Paper Mario, and returning to college for my sophmore year (this year) I saw G.W. playing adventure games in the common room. This is not unusual, since he loves adventure games (and instrumental movie soundtracks, but that's another story), and I occasionally look over his shoulder to see what he was playing. It turned out to be What's New Beelzebub, at the part where Sam and Max place the AI in the Maimtron, killing all the rats inside, including little Timmy. I remember very clearly Sam saying "If that doesn't get us into Hell, nothing will."

    They got the Soul Token from upstairs, went onto the Soul Train, and went into Hell, LLC. I saw them talk with Jurgen and thought to myself "They probably made up that villain for that episode to give Sam and Max some backstory." I also giggled at the line "Note to self: Get nipples rotated." Then Sam and Max went into the offices, met Hugh Bliss (who may have actually been defeated before; I wasn't sure back then), and started swearing up a censored storm. I loved that part, but I can't remember all the dialogue. Then I muttered something about needing to do homework, G.W. gave me a look, and I left.

    Around the same time, I found the Villain Audition videos for that very episode, mostly because they had a link to the Homestar video in HRWiki. I loved Homestar's diaperbolical plan, so I watched the other stuff they had there (mostly the Future Sam video and some of the clips. I wasn't entirely impressed.) After finding out more about it, I decided to watch some of the playthroughs of the Sam and Max games while cleaning my room, drawing, or having lunch in my room (I had a mini fridge full of Italian lunchmeat. I hated DHall). I checked out the website as well, finding interesting concept art, and a petition for a new Mac game.

    I checked back on the site after Lent, and was disappointed to find that the Mac version of the game wasn't available for a demo. Then I started thinking about playing some computer games in French, because my Listening Comprehension skills were not that good. I was looking for something interactive, with spoken dialogue, and subtitles if possible, and remembered Sam and Max fulfilled all those requirements. I asked Telltale in multiple ways if they had French versions of the game, and started hunting down a decent Windows emulator, or a trial of it if possible. When Telltale came up dry, I started looking for it on Google, then Google France and eventually found a French version on MegaUpload. I then played the entire game in French (Except for Abe Lincoln Must Die! I played the free version in English to see if it was interesting enough).

    At first I considered giving Telltale a donation to compensate for the French gameplay, and then they released The Devil's Playhouse for the Mac, and a discount with Puzzle Agent. I bought them both.

    And that, mes amis, is my convoluted origin story!
  • VeronicanPlayVeronicanPlay
    edited June 2010
    ToMI, owned and played.
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