What's been the worst Sam and Max episode so far?

edited November 2010 in Sam & Max
Now don't get me wrong. I love Sam and Max and I think all the episodes are great, but I'm just wondering, which do you think was the weakest in terms of writing, gameplay etc.
Just a little question to try to pass the time before They Stole Max's Brain comes out.
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  • edited June 2010
    "Culture Shock" and "Moai Better Blues"? I still like them, but they seemed a little rushed and unpolished.
  • edited June 2010
    Moai Better Blues is just bad.
  • edited June 2010
    Culture Shock AND Moai Better Blues, both of them are so boring, and the supporting characters in Moai Better Blues are awful.
  • edited June 2010
    Yeah I agree, Culture Shock and Moai Better Blues didn't have that shine like the other episodes, I don't HATE them but their a lil' boring in comparison to the others.
  • edited June 2010
    Probably The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball.

    Don't get me wrong I love the story, the factory designs and the ending...but it just wasn't very funny and the puzzles are really pedestrian - I could finish the game in under two hours if I tried hard enough.
  • edited June 2010
    I can see why Culture Shock isn't as good as the others because it's the very first episode.So the worst for me is Situation Comedy.
  • edited June 2010
    Probably The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball.

    Don't get me wrong I love the story, the factory designs and the ending...but it just wasn't very funny and the puzzles are really pedestrian - I could finish the game in under two hours if I tried hard enough.
    I pretty much agree with this. Culture Shock was originally my least favorite, but then I replayed it, and it's actually pretty good.

    I don't quite get the hate for Moai Better Blues. Sure, the babies were the worst supporting characters in Telltale history, I found the rest of it quite good. I still don't get what was so hard about the red-oozing snail puzzle. :confused:
  • edited June 2010
    I actually found Situation : Comedy extremely funny, among the best one. My GF shares this opinion (but not quite so for the best episodes :) )

    It got to be Moai Better Blues. Then, Culture Shock is the second worse. After trying the free Abe Lincoln Must Day and decided to buy the whole seasons, it was quite a letdown. Happily enough, we bought Season 2 at the same time, so we switched to 201, and then came back
  • edited June 2010
    Moai Better Blues easily by a long way
  • edited June 2010
    I think that Culture Shock wasn't so good as the other ones, but for the first episode it's probably predictable since the stories get better after some developement.

    Plus I don't like Brady Culture in general. :P
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    edited June 2010
    tabstis wrote: »
    Moai Better Blues easily by a long way

    This!
  • edited June 2010
    What are you talking about!? I loved moai better blues! Not for evereyone I guess...

    Worst s&M? Hard to choose.... I really do like them all. But Im afraid The award goes to Night of the raving dead. I just didn't get a good vibe from it.
  • edited June 2010
    Worst s&M? Hard to choose.... I really do like them all. But Im afraid The award goes to Night of the raving dead. I just didn't get a good vibe from it.

    :eek: That's one of my favourites! Loving them all so far, but Moai Better Blues is at the bottom of my list too.
  • edited June 2010
    Hm...probably The Penal Zone. For all the style and humor it offered, it just wasn't fun to play because there was no challenge at all to any of it. Now, Telltale adventures aren't going to be insanely difficult or anything, I get that. But I don't think any other episode of any other Telltale series had ever been so horribly straightforward.
  • edited June 2010
    I think it's The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball for me. It was a pretty small episode and the casino was fairly bland, although I liked the concept and story a lot.
  • edited June 2010
    Sadly, I too have to say "Moai Better Blues." It's not horrible, certainly, but it's just slightly...off.
  • edited June 2010
    Culture Shock and The Mole the Mob and the Meatball.

    I really don't see why everyone doesn't like Situation Comedy and Moai Better Blues,
    they're great Episodes. Why all the hate?
  • edited June 2010
    Moai Better Blues.

    I watched a walkthrough online and thought it would be pretty easy and fun to do, but when I actually played it it was pretty annoying and got confusing to finish. Plus the version I own had a lot of glitches in it. But there were some good points too.

    PROS:
    Rapa Nui/ Easter Island (awesome place)
    evil Mr. Spatula ghost
    Ocean chimps
    Banang!
    Soft marketable baby versions
    Herbal tea and foot rubs (Raining fire and drowning magma)
    Max wearing the sock crown
  • edited June 2010
    Situation Comedy felt more like homework than a video game.
  • edited June 2010
    "Attack the Dog"! One of the best video game lines ever!
  • edited June 2010
    hamza721 wrote: »
    "Attack the Dog"! One of the best video game lines ever!
    I heard that line so many times while figuring out the final puzzle of Culture Shock. Almost as many times as I heard "Another cannon, rapi dimenté!" (Yes, I know I probably spelled that last part incorrectly) in Lair of the Leviathan.
  • edited June 2010
    lombre wrote: »
    I heard that line so many times while figuring out the final puzzle of Culture Shock. Almost as many times as I heard "Another cannon, rapi dimenté!" (Yes, I know I probably spelled that last part incorrectly) in Lair of the Leviathan.
    Rápidamente, for future reference.
  • edited June 2010
    Hm...probably The Penal Zone. For all the style and humor it offered, it just wasn't fun to play because there was no challenge at all to any of it. Now, Telltale adventures aren't going to be insanely difficult or anything, I get that. But I don't think any other episode of any other Telltale series had ever been so horribly straightforward.

    I agree. There was a section in the middle (pizza joint, toy store) where I felt I was just going through the motions or being led on a string. The puzzles were contrived, too easy, and too disconnected from plot advancement, which was just stated as fact after the puzzles were solved. I didn't have the feeling that I was working to track Skunkape. At one point I had to stop just to try to make sense of the chain of events that revealed the various bits of information.
  • edited June 2010
    moai better blues is the worst.
    the penal zone comes in a close 2nd; the crime-tron alone is almost enough to give penal zone 2nd worst episode status, then there's the story, the puzzles, and skunkape...

    fortunately sammun-mak came along and restored my confidence in season 3.
  • edited June 2010
    I'm honestly surprised to see so much hate for The Penal Zone. I really enjoyed it, but I guess everyone's entitled to their own opinions.

    I'm going to have to go with Moai Better Blues. I feel that it's the weakest episode in the series.

    That said, I think that this entire thread is a flawed idea. "Here's 13 very well put together games. Pick which one of them is the worst." Yes, Moai Better Blues is largely considered the worst of the Sam and Max episodes by comparison to the others, but it still had its own high points and it's still an entertaining game. It just happens to be the weakest game in a series of really good games.
  • edited June 2010
    Culture Shock. But I forgive it since it's the first episode.

    102 had some clever moments, and 103 has an okay story. And I can't hate 202 after it lets us be Young Sam.
  • edited June 2010
    You know, I just decided to replay "Moai Better Blues" and... Even though I dislike some aspects of the game I hope we revisit that island in a future adventure. Just no babies, triangles, gongs or cameo picnics this time.
  • edited June 2010
    I played Culture Shock and loved it, my favorite line being "Do you have any two handed broadswords?" Today I decided to buy the rest of the series based on that episode. Glad to hear it's the worst though because there's no where to go but up!
  • edited June 2010
    I agree on Moai but I have no idea how could you possibly hate the babies :P
  • edited June 2010
    probably due to how well they did baby amelia in the tomb of sammun mak

    If all the babies were like that it'd be much better
  • edited June 2010
    I actually think Situation Comedy is a fun episode. Worst episode, hmmm. I'd have to say it's either Bright side of the Moon of Culture Shock, both of them are so bad compared to the other episodes.
  • edited June 2010
    Spadge wrote: »
    You know, I just decided to replay "Moai Better Blues" and... Even though I dislike some aspects of the game I hope we revisit that island in a future adventure. Just no babies, triangles, gongs or cameo picnics this time.

    and please no drug abuse.
  • edited June 2010
    Situation: Comedy was the worst. It was too short, the jokes weren't very funny, and the puzzles were lame (except for the ketchup cake). Culture Shock was good for a first episode, and Moai had great jokes for young sam and max. And banang!
  • edited June 2010
    hamza721 wrote: »
    "Attack the Dog"! One of the best video game lines ever!
    uh... no
  • edited June 2010
    Personally, I hated Ice Station Santa the most. There's no real reason for disliking it, I just hate Christmas specials in general, and this one felt dangerously close to one, what with Santa and Christmas and all.
  • edited June 2010
    Player_2 wrote: »
    Personally, I hated Ice Station Santa the most. There's no real reason for disliking it, I just hate Christmas specials in general, and this one felt dangerously close to one, what with Santa and Christmas and all.

    Ice station Santa is the only thing that's keeping me from totally hating christmas. (okay. Ice Station Santa and the Christmas Critters Episode of South Park)
  • edited June 2010
    The babies were all totally out of place as Sam and Max characters and none of the new characters in the episode were developed at all. The puzzles were weak as well I thought with the triangles.
  • edited June 2010
    tabstis wrote: »
    The babies were all totally out of place as Sam and Max characters and none of the new characters in the episode were developed at all. The puzzles were weak as well I thought with the triangles.

    How can anything be totally out of place in Sam and Max?
  • edited June 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    How can anything be totally out of place in Sam and Max?

    Common sense and sanity.
  • edited June 2010
    and popcorn.
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