Sam and Max, and my thoughts on the games so far.
Hey,
I am new to Sam and Max but Does anybody know how They meet?
My thoughts on the game:
I think the two episodes are great fun however I think they are continuing with the wrong story.
Thoughts? And also please answer the question above
~Matt / Me
I am new to Sam and Max but Does anybody know how They meet?
My thoughts on the game:
I think the two episodes are great fun however I think they are continuing with the wrong story.
To continue with the hypnotism is pointless and very childish
I think they should have combined the two stories for Ep 3 and 2. Instead of Sybil seeing the horrific crime that will get her killed, How about Myra sees the act and is going to be killed. So in a desperate act to survive she holds her audience hostage and tries to keep the show going forever so she doesn't have to go outside and get murdered. This would have been a far more adult story and is much better then
a hypnotism
story.Thoughts? And also please answer the question above
~Matt / Me
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Here are some ideas that the people at Telltale games would be fools to ignore:
Sam gets cancer, and because they don't have health insurance, Max holds a hospital staff at gunpoint until they agree to treat his partner.
One of them gets pregnant and they have a frank discussion about abortion.
They go in search of the cold-blooded murderer of Sam's father. (Possible dialog line: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.")
It's Sam & Max's job to find out who and how the victims are related.
One victim per episode!
I'm actually thinking about writting a Sam & Max novel/story about this
Please tell me your joking. What do you want, lagomorph porn?
A legal drama?
Sam getting Sybil pregnant and selling their children to the black market, thus forcing her to get a restraining order and move to Istanbul and in a whirlwind passion marry a tragically misunderstood ex-juggler named Herschel, much to the chagrin of his former lover who turned out to be a schitzophrenic mass murderer who just happens to have it out for former psychotherapists?
It's a DOG and a RABBIT solving wacked-out mysteries. I repeat. A DOG and A RABBIT. I love a good thriller and all, but we're talking about a game starring a DOG and a RABBIT, for crying out loud.
OH YEAH !!!
that would be awesome
lol, sheer genius!
Max has an uncle in the music industry looking for the next sensational music group. Sam starts a musical group of singing dogs just for this; they practice every evening and even record a music video.
Sometime later Sam finds out that he's not doing so well in one of his classes. He doesn't quite have a straight A average, and he definitely needs one to get in Stanford. So he decides to study real hard. Unfortunately, his burgeoning musical career needs some study time too.
With such a busy schedule, Sam has begun to pop caffeine pills in order to study all day and sing all evening. Sybil finds out about his burgeoning drug addiction, so she tells him that "those things are trouble."
In a particularly frightening scene, Sam sits in an empty hallway, sneaks a look around him and pops a pill. 'No Sam!' you will cry, as you begin to see his descent into madness.
Later, Sybil confronts Max about Sam's drug use, which he refuses to believe for some reason. "He's my friend!" Max loudly screams. Max must have alcoholic parents, because he's an enabler in the very worst way.
Finally the day of reckoning comes. It's the big audition day, but it's also the day of that major test that Sam has been up studying for a week.
In the classroom, Sam twitches and speaks much too loudly as he proudly finishes his test with what appears to be 100 percent correctness. Well by-gummit, the little druggy has really done it! Now all he has to do is finish the audition and his plan for domination is complete.
Alas, that is not to be. Our next scene opens on Sam asleep on the bed. Max enters the room eager to wake him. The audition is about to start. Sam groggily wakes up and begins to spout useless math terms like a drunken Einstein. Max tells him that he's confused and he already had the test. Sam needs to get ready but Max tells him that there's no time.
Sam: "No time! No time! There's never enough time!"
Max: "C'mon Sam! You have to sing!"
Sam: "Sing? Sing? I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so...scared!"
Sam collapses into Max's arms where he begins to tell him about the good times they had together when they were young.
Meanwhile, at the studio, The group performs with Bosco in Sam's role. This is stupid beyond the use of words. So is the end of the episode, where the gang gathers around Sam's bed. He's getting help he tells the gang. End of episode.
With apologies to Jessie's Song
Mattb - I think Sam & Max met when they were were kids... They're shown together in the comics as kids quite a few times, including the cover of the Epic Color Collection:
Other than that, their origins are a mystery (probably for the best).
Sam could earn bulletproof armour / flak jackets etc to up his chances of winning in a firefight.
And if you don't like that idea, let me tell you about my thoughts on a Sam & Max RTS.
I also quite like Hero1's Idea; however does anybody have any thoughts on my idea?
Hehe, no harm was intended, I just found the idea of a Sam n' Max drama too funny to pass up :P
Ah, so *that's* where the art on the last page of Surfin' the Highway is from!
IMO Brady, Myra, Soda Poppers, Sybil and Bosco (he is hilarious, though) shouldn´t have been included and istead there should have been villains with fish bowls as their heads, roaches and Flint Paper. The games feel quite how should I put it, "safe", like a cartoon for children even though with mature content. And the stories have been quite safe too, I would have preferred more twisted and weird world (and I am not talking about mystery vortexes and stuff like that) where there´s nothing predictable. You know, like skinbodies from ep.2, that cracked me up.
But, it´s not even an issue worth complaining about, it´s more of an opinion how I would have liked it better. Heck, maybe the story takes just the turn I am talking about.
What about with scary giant Teddy Bear masks as heads?
I kind of agree with this here, actually. They do feel a bit 'safe' for the lack of a better word. Though I also agree that this isn't really that big of a deal, but hoping that the games would improve from where they are now, more crazy, interesting and unpredictable storylines and characters would be nice.
The comics have also had the duo traveling through time and space, so here's hoping Season 2 will expand upon some more ambitious plot lines. Though thinking about the names of the upcoming episodes, the later episodes in this season might turn out to be pretty zany as well.
You know, a conventional and safe storyline would be a story about former childstars getting hypnotized and a villain with a hip afro trying to be "popular".
Something unconventional and not so safe would be a story about rats who are "skinbodies" and shave their hair and misbehave (Hehe, I loved how they were introduced). Or maybe a story about going to the moon with paper bags as helmets and there would be giant cockroaches and stuff.
I am talking about something a little more original. Also, the games shouldn´t be too tied to this time. I am talking about Idol and millionaire stuff. Those things will get old soon enough. I am hoping for something more timeless.
Well, fish bowls would be avantgarde, and I like avantgardish stuff. You know, Teddy bear masks are kinda "safe", but fish bowls, they would be pretty unpredictable. Maybe I just wish there were more "hehe, what... the... fuck..." -kind of moments in the games.
I LOVE 'EM
It's not just the "wackiness", which by now seems to be getting into its stride (though not quite reaching the clever surrealism of the comics yet), but I guess Max... could do with being a bit more psychotic. So far there's been the
I appreciate, though, that there might be some kind of age rating concerns and it's not that big a deal for me either. Still, some more gratuitous acts of senseless violence would be nice (I never thought I'd say that about a game!)
Instead I get Sam slapping Max out of the way to a gleeful "whee!" sound as he flies off camera.
Is that so bad?
It was fun until you guys removed the sound bite in Episode 2. Now he doesn't even say "Whee!" when Sam slaps him off camera.
It would seem to me that the replacement or equivalent to using Max as an inventory item is that there are a small number of times in the first two episodes where you can direct what he says, which is certainly something you couldn't do in Hit the Road.
How about an interface option for slap/noslap? Kind of like the old blood/noblood option in FPS games? =p
Unfortunately, if memory serves me correctly, there was only one time you could actually control Max through dialouge choices, which was when
I'd actually like to use max in a similar fashion to how you "used" him
Dead horse beating aside, I think the
First post, btw...
It's back in in 3-6. The "Wheee" was left out of ep 2 by mistake, so rest easy.