I loved PN2! I feel it still needs something
First of all I loved the improvements over the first Poker Night. How characters can be more random instead of knowing what they're going to do based on the first two seconds of their lines. Having percentages on the showdowns are a really nice touch for the uninitiated and mentioning the kickers adds some much needed professionalism.
The first Poker Night game seemed to have three players who were wacko (not really a bad thing). I felt with more intelligent players that not only the small talk was more mature, but the whole game just reflected that it matured as a series. Overall, Great JOB! Please tell us all that you'll keep this series alive!
Here's a few small changes that I hope will be considered either in a patch or a sequel.
-Conversations happen slightly less often. Make them also act like an MP3 player on shuffle. (Random conversations each happen only once until all have been played. Then the process repeats.)
-Once all conversations have been played once, unlock the ability to toggle them off or enable skipping. (Announced at the beginning of the next tournament just like how the bounty challenges were unlocked.)
-Ability to use tokens to reroll a single bounty challenge.
-After getting the final bounty item, keep things interesting and allow characters to mix up their tells and play styles. (Example:
-If there's another Poker Night ever in the works, you guys could put in more than just four guys to play against. Randomly select four of any number of people to play with.
-How about a woman who plays poker? Currently both Poker Night games have been sausage fests (good ones though).
The first Poker Night game seemed to have three players who were wacko (not really a bad thing). I felt with more intelligent players that not only the small talk was more mature, but the whole game just reflected that it matured as a series. Overall, Great JOB! Please tell us all that you'll keep this series alive!
Here's a few small changes that I hope will be considered either in a patch or a sequel.
-Conversations happen slightly less often. Make them also act like an MP3 player on shuffle. (Random conversations each happen only once until all have been played. Then the process repeats.)
-Once all conversations have been played once, unlock the ability to toggle them off or enable skipping. (Announced at the beginning of the next tournament just like how the bounty challenges were unlocked.)
-Ability to use tokens to reroll a single bounty challenge.
-After getting the final bounty item, keep things interesting and allow characters to mix up their tells and play styles. (Example:
Maybe Brock starts to slam his hand on the table just to throw you off. Ash taps his hand on the table to show he's ready to play a good hand. Sam starts to play aggressively and continues to blame Max's influence.
)-If there's another Poker Night ever in the works, you guys could put in more than just four guys to play against. Randomly select four of any number of people to play with.
-How about a woman who plays poker? Currently both Poker Night games have been sausage fests (good ones though).
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I guess Morrigan from Dragon Age could fit the setting. Then there's of course the all-popular cult classics like Lara Croft, but I have a feeling that should would fall flat just like Ash did in this one.
Then there's GLaDOS, but she's already in this one. Who else... I don't even know, too many good female characters are too closely tied to some protagonist male and most games that include women at all usually are going for this.
EDIT: Let me list off characters, you can take a pick which would be interesting:
The Voodoo Lady (Monkey Island)
Carmelita Fox (Sly Cooper)
Mallory Archer (Archer)
Cate Archer (No One Lives Forever...oh, am I the only one who remembers those games?
Veronica Mars (hey, there's a movie coming out - cross promotion!)
This would be great but it would need Sly himself making some cameos and jokes
With that said: Alyx Vance, as one of the single best female characters in any video game(given that she's actually her own person as opposed to being there to service the male lead in giving him a woman as a reward for his heroism) would be an excellent choice for Valve's PNatI3 character.
Just because you could say Calvin and Hobbs is a heartwarming and funny comic strip as a whole, not every single strip within it is only that.
BTW: Can you believe Ashley Williams was in Mass Effect?! (Lol) Anyhow, I think she could show some promise.
Depressing, isn't it? I mean, I know it's no news flash, but still.
For the sake of conversation, two other potential players that I'd love to see in a game of poker:
They'd definitely have a lot to say, considering they hail games with a ton of ingame conversation. I'd like to hear more from any of those characters, except friggin' Nick.
Pam from Archer.
I know Mallory was already mentioned, but a poker tournament does seem like Pam's kind of thing, and she'd be talking way more openly.
And maybe Girl Stinky. Not sure if she'd work as well in large doses.
edit: come to think of it, i would pay $5 just to watch Brock and Pam playing high stakes poker against one another.
That shit is true and blown the hell out of proportion at the same time. I've heard the word "sexism" used so much this past year and a half by bandwagoning idiots, I can't even look at it seriously, outside the context of actual troubles politically and physically.
Anyway, Alyx Vance seems horribly boring and not very good as a female character either. Gordon doesn't talk, so she'll plugging a whole loads of his exploits, because they're way more interesting. They might have been going on the same adventures, but she's still the sidekick. And I doubt Valve is gonna let Telltale make up their own story of what she did when she wasn't running alongside Gordy. Alyx would get reaaally interesting without relying on Kleiner's goofiness or Gordon's deeds after the point, at which Valve halted the Half Life series. I ain't gonna spoil the series, but those who have played them should understand.
Also, there are plenty of interesting female characters. I mean, sure, Telltale doesn't have a lot themselves, but there are some characters with potential at Telltale's side. I mean, Momma Bosco is one of those characters.
And why do we always look at video games? It's not like Venture Brothers had a video game that is of note, or that Army of Darkness had a lot of them. You people are seriously limiting your scopes here. I mean, why else would I name the likes of Harley Quinn, VG Cats Aeris or even characters from some pseudo-erotic parody comedy comic? Because they are also possibilities.
I mean, we've got a whole treasure of female characters that are far more interesting than those in the video game industry, and it's not like video games don't have interesting female characters. Take for example Capcom, they have at least two. I mean, you have Trish and Tron Bonne. I mean, we could also just get Etna from the Disgaea series. Maybe NIS wouldn't be too difficult to allow such a cross-over.
Not to argue or anything, but I think this really does need to be bandwagoned to hell and back. I don't care if it involves idiots or not, the entire industry needs to stop simply acknowledging the problem and deal with it.
The medium as a whole is just embarrassingly, unacceptably adolescent, and the very few exceptions stick out like a sore thumb simply for not objectifying half the entire damned population. Remember when Borderlands 2 made news simply for having that Ellie character?
The video game industry is larger than film now. It was never okay, but it's pretty important that they knock this shit off immediately. If that means the constant watch of bandwagoning ragecomic-creators overreacting to every little thing, then that is an extremely tiny price to pay. I agree it can get annoying, but these discussions and arguments over whether New Vegas' Tabitha or Arkham City's Catwoman are sexist are necessary if any real, widespread change is going to happen, including "Gamer Girl" as a qualifier, or the fact that you need the right set of genitals to be able to use your mic in many games.
I object to any kind of censorship. So while acknowledging the problem is all good well, what really pisses me off when they try to dictate how things should be done or how they should not be done in the creative process. That's what kind of shit should be knocked off immediately and forever.
And no, it's not a tiny price to pay, because those bloody bandwagoning idiots trivialize sexism, they have drowned out the actual people who fight for equality with their projectile-vomiting and in half of the cases - white knighting. If they accomplish one thing, it will be that people will take the problem less seriously. Not to mention that a whole lot of them tend to mix up equality with superiority, so they end up being as ignorant as the people they're "fighting".
All these people fighting for something they don't fully understand and completely misrepresenting it in the process- as long as it's the popular thing to back up right now- is just fucking filthy.
For those that don't know who the character is, firstly Shame on you! Secondly, take a look on youtube for the DOTT hamster in the microwave scene
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Where did you hear that rumor?
It popped up on Appy Gamer when the whole of Lucas Arts games division was shut down by Disney, annoyingly I can't find the damn story now, which puts me in an awkward position of not being able to back up my original statement.
It's times like this that I hate the internet. . .
EDIT: After doing some more searching, it turns out it was a puff-piece by CVG stating who they would LIKE the lucasarts games to go to.
Sorry for the confusion.
(Now I'm all depressed, thought it was a sure thing
The mechromancer girl from borderlands 2 was pretty funny and psycho. I know they already have claptrap, but it is a girl that will add humor. And it doesn't have to be a gaming girl. Brock is from a tv show, not a game. How about Tsunade from Naruto? Shes a gambler and she does have her own funny moments.
Maybe some dlc characters. I would love to see Carl and Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in here. Especially Carl.