Some suggestions
I just finally ordered season 1 after about 2 years of playing demos on release days and downloading free games when given. I guess I wasn't completely satisfied with episode 1 when I bought it the first day, but I must say things rapidly improve and my season 2 purchase will be before too long (does the price drop when season 3 is released, in the way that season 1's did?) You guys made quality games, and nearing the end of episode 5, I'm overjoyed to have a puzzle I'm stumped on.
But as I said, I've played the demos of season 2 as well as my free Ice Station Santa for signing up for the e-mail list and have a good idea of how it continues, which is fantastic. I thought I might offer a few ideas, since the Season 3 Ideas forum is getting way too long to think anyone from telltale will read my post.
I think the biggest one is about old characters. I love how you guys built all of these characters and have them recurring from the first couple episodes into the second season and (probably) beyond. A thing commonly overlooked in adventure games, but much needed. But what about the old characters--from hit the road? Not to put yours down but there's a nostalgia that accompanies buying a sam & max adventure game that doesn't necessarily mean one's read the comic. Lucasarts can't possibly have all those old faces copyrighted (written?). I'm just saying it'd be amazing to have a cameo (or preferably episode/season written with) conroy bumpus, bruno the bigfoot, trixie the giraffe-necked girl, or any of the amazing characters that graced our vga monitors 13 years ago.
Next, I noticed in the demo of Strong Bad the points and collectibles system that gives it an extra...flair. Do that! Do that, give us unnecessary collectibles or ranks to achieve for. Talk about replay value beyond more pithy comments (I don't even know what pithy means).
I guess those are my two things, but great job on them. That's what you miss out on when you're too cheap.
But as I said, I've played the demos of season 2 as well as my free Ice Station Santa for signing up for the e-mail list and have a good idea of how it continues, which is fantastic. I thought I might offer a few ideas, since the Season 3 Ideas forum is getting way too long to think anyone from telltale will read my post.
I think the biggest one is about old characters. I love how you guys built all of these characters and have them recurring from the first couple episodes into the second season and (probably) beyond. A thing commonly overlooked in adventure games, but much needed. But what about the old characters--from hit the road? Not to put yours down but there's a nostalgia that accompanies buying a sam & max adventure game that doesn't necessarily mean one's read the comic. Lucasarts can't possibly have all those old faces copyrighted (written?). I'm just saying it'd be amazing to have a cameo (or preferably episode/season written with) conroy bumpus, bruno the bigfoot, trixie the giraffe-necked girl, or any of the amazing characters that graced our vga monitors 13 years ago.
Next, I noticed in the demo of Strong Bad the points and collectibles system that gives it an extra...flair. Do that! Do that, give us unnecessary collectibles or ranks to achieve for. Talk about replay value beyond more pithy comments (I don't even know what pithy means).
I guess those are my two things, but great job on them. That's what you miss out on when you're too cheap.
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Sadly, they do. We could have a mole man appear who isn't Doug or the other guy*, we could have a bigfoot appear who isn't Bruno, but we can't have actual characters from Hit the Road just waltz in unannounced, unless they were in the comics first. Characters created just for HTR, as far as I know, fall under LucasArts' domain to enough of a degree that we can't just use them.
While not as advanced as Strong Bad's system, the driving games in Season Two do have a season-wide upgrade and collectibles mechanic for the DeSoto, where if you get everything, it becomes fairly ridiculous by the end of the year.
* spoiler: we did!
What I'm trying to say is that what you're doing is not going unnoticed--keep up the amazing work! While my interest in the SB universe has dwindled over the past few years, I still have that to consider once I've purchased Season 2, and Wallace and Gromit looks to be another fun series.
So keep innovating, keep adventure games strong, and keep on truckin'. Oh, and finish Bone someday!
But, shouldn't Steve Purcell have the rights to use them?
He made them after all.
Obviously, Steve Purcell owns the actual Sam and Max characters, as well as any characters that he created for comics, but anything original that appeared in the LucasArts game is owned by LucasArts. That's just how it works, or at least how it worked in that case. (I suppose if you're someone with enough clout and money like George Lucas or something, you can keep the rights to your IP despite it being funded by another party.)
They don't want to make the sequel but they
also don't want to give away the rights.
Although, it's not like they're coming out with anything I'm interested in...
Okay, then, Mr. Wise Guy... I'm going to ask this instead... what happened when Enron shut down?
I mean, if Telltale or whoever managed to get the Freelance Police code, and actually released it, all well and good. But getting mad because people aren't answering "what-if" questions doesn't really seem to be getting you anywhere.
If it really means so much to you, I guess you could start up a rival company, making Star Trek games or whatever, and then just buy out LucasFilm.
...and this thread just passed out of the lands of utility and into the futile wastelands.