The purchase of LucasArts: how will it affect Sam and Max?
It's still too early to tell, but I am pretty sure that Disney might do something good with the Sam and Max games LucasArts has.
I mean, when you think about it...
1. The creator of Sam and Max DOES work for Pixar, after all.
and 2. Bill Farmer, who voices Sam in those games, is a Disney Legend! In other words, the voice of Goofy!
And while some people say that Sam and Max Hit the Road might not be a good fit for Disney, think about it... it might qualify as family-friendly. There may be some swearing in it, but it's pretty tame. Plus Sam and Max don't have their guns with them!
The purchase woke a lot of us up... but it might be a good way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sam and Max, even more than the discount on the current games!
What do you think?
I mean, when you think about it...
1. The creator of Sam and Max DOES work for Pixar, after all.
and 2. Bill Farmer, who voices Sam in those games, is a Disney Legend! In other words, the voice of Goofy!
And while some people say that Sam and Max Hit the Road might not be a good fit for Disney, think about it... it might qualify as family-friendly. There may be some swearing in it, but it's pretty tame. Plus Sam and Max don't have their guns with them!
The purchase woke a lot of us up... but it might be a good way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sam and Max, even more than the discount on the current games!
What do you think?
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Exactly this. Even though Disney owns LucasArts, Lucasarts's contract with Steve ended quite some time ago. They can't make Sam and Max games without asking Steve Purcell himself.
I am not too worried about it.. but you never know what the future will bring.. I NEVER thought Uncle George would go and sell his life's work.. and here we are.
How do you know for sure that Freelance Police won't be finished?
Nobody can know that, but if one were to take an educated guess...
How many canceled games do you know of that managed to come out 8+ years later?
Does anyone that was working on Freelance Police even still work for Lucasarts?
Anyway, if LA was going to get back into adventures you can bet they'd test the waters with Monkey Island, a more popular franchise that they actually own, first.
Or maybe Steve just forgot to update his blog in a while!
Doesn't seem very hush-hush, just that there's nothing new to report.
Considering that was posted on the Sam & Max blog and not Spudvision (which hasn't been updated since a month before Sam and Max's last post), I can only guess he means "S&M things" instead of "stuff that's preoccupying my time", but even so, Purcell's a busy dude.
I really, very much doubt we've seen the last of those two in game form, but I also think now's probably the time for patience. Between Fables, King's Quest, and Walking Dead Season 2, there probably won't be any Telltale Sam and Max stuff for a while, and the LucasArts purchase hasn't changed anything, as far as Disney goes.
(besides, when you think about it, the devil's playhouse's ending presents a problem. It'd be weird if Season 4 has Max's powers, since we already had the whole last season's plot revolve around them, and destroyed them. But taking them away would be just as weird, gameplay-wise. So it probably wouldn't be the casual graduation from season-to-season like we're used to.)
Probably not at all.
It would be par for the course if they just took a different approach for season four.
Also, on the "patience" note, this Maybe-Poker-Night 2/TF2 Promo news is exciting! More Sam!
You just copied and pasted from Sir Primalform Magnifico, didn't you? :mad: