When the Season is finished....
I don't know if anyone has already suggested this, but it would be great to be able to download some sort of 'front end' that we can place all of our episodes in and play them as a full season.
Maybe it could run episodes into each other, so that when you have finished one, the credits don't roll, but the next episode starts, therefore turning them into one big game.
Or maybe just a simple front end that when opened, displays all the episodes in some sort of selectable list.
Maybe it could run episodes into each other, so that when you have finished one, the credits don't roll, but the next episode starts, therefore turning them into one big game.
Or maybe just a simple front end that when opened, displays all the episodes in some sort of selectable list.
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Ok, so a launcher would be better. Possible Ideas:
Easier solution: Launcher that launches launchers of individual games.
Slightly sleeker: Launcher launches straight into games, but each must be individually chosen.
What I would like: Launcher where you can choose which episode you would like to start off in. At end of episode, choice of return to launcher or to continue on to next episode immediately.
Extras: Every movie/screenshot you have released on Gametap and here. Behind the scenes documentary. Wallpapers. Numble's listed trailers. Desktop calendar, featuring TTG employees in seductive poses. OST. Minigames (like whack-a-rat). Comics. Best of fanart and fancomics. My autograph on every box.
That about does it.
There should also be a universal option setting. The one thing that I didn't like when Episode 2 started was that I had to immediately reconfigure it once the intro was over just so it would run properly. In the final run, whatever options you set should only be set once and then kept consistantly with the rest of the episodes.
There should also be, as meantioned by Derwin, an extras option featuring the Machina shorts, the soundtrack, Desktop wall papers, and other things that Sam & Max fans may or may not be interested (my own personal list will be included later).
Launcher: For those that are playing through the game the first time, they should experiance each episode back to back with a massive credit sequence at the end. For those of us that have already played through each part, we would go straight to the GUI as if we were coming back to the game after saving it and then quitting for the day, similar to how the episodes launch now.
Naturally, their should be an option to pick between either playing the game as one big thing or in episodes.
Extras: Each extra should be an unlockable depending on what you do in the game. Get pass the Embarassing Idol puzzle and unlock a special Embarassing Idol logo desktop image. You know, that kind of thing that may or may not be easily hacked and/or distributed among the interweb. Naturally, the more rewarding the extra, the harder it is to get.
My personal list of extras and how I would like to unlock them are as follows:
Machinena Shorts - Each of the three shorts unlocks after you play the episode it relates to (similar to how they are uploaded now)
Soundtrack - Initally, only the Sam & Max theme, office and street tracks will be available to listen to on Sam & Max's answering machine (What? They can use it as a radio!). As you complete each level, you get access to more and more tracks, as well as a preview track from the next batch.
"Next Time" trailers - If the game is set to the episodic setting, the trailers would come up at the end of each episode (barring the one for Episode 1, of course) as a way to make it seem more like a TV show before returning to the main menu. If not set to the epsiodic way of playing, they don't play but end up being unlocked anyway.
Desktop Images - Fun images like Sam & Max with Hugh Bliss (both the normal shot and
Trailers and Links to other Telltale Games - Available initially.
"The Making Of" Documentary - Should be unlocked after playing all of the episodes the first time through. For those of us that played each episode individually, it would be already unlocked for us.
Character Gallery - A collection of Steve Purcell and the other artists 2D renderings and concept sketches for Bosco, Sybill, the Soda Poppers, Myra, the Director, etc. Available after you meet those characters in each episode.
The extras I would like but probably won't get because of legal issues:
The inclusion of the original Sam & Max: Hit the Road game.
All of the Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon episodes on an extra DVD that comes with the box.
You still want people to be playing these games 13 years from now, don't you? Eh? Eh?
Probably the same amount us Season Subscribers had to pay.
Not because the art style is bad. I like it. Just because mixing things up keeps things fresh. Of course, I know Telltale is not a powerhouse animation studio, so it could be difficult.
I'd just like to see different takes on the art. Kind of like the different musical styles used by the game's soundtrack.
Why not at least allow people to do it? It's either that or people have to keep a bunch of savegames stored up. A lot of games let you do a mission/chapter select (Splinter Cell, Half-Life 2), so with a game that was episodic to begin with, I think it's only natural.
Okay, point. But it would be nice if you could play it both ways seamlessly.
Or the credits are translucent and they scroll over the intros....
But then you miss out on the Simpson-like introduction where Sam & Max do something different when they close up on them in the driver's seat.
They do? Man, now I need to rewatch those intros