Check out Sam & Max trailer!
For those who hadn't noticed yet, the trailer is now live on snm.telltalegames.com!
If it happens to hitch on your PC, let it play all the way through one time. It will play smoothly for you the next times through.
Downloadable versions will be available on Monday!
- Joel
If it happens to hitch on your PC, let it play all the way through one time. It will play smoothly for you the next times through.
Downloadable versions will be available on Monday!
- Joel
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Considering the FAQ released just days ago says you don't yet have the voices nailed this hopefully means that Sam's definitive voice won't be the one in the trailer.
EDIT: After watching it an additional couple of times, I think it's the lack of emotion that disturbs me with Sam's voice. Max on the other hand is great.
Is it my imagination, or have I heard the guy playing Max before?
In the Bone games perhaps? It does sound slightly familiar...
I loves it! Though I still disagree on Sam's voice but it's becoming less and less bad by each viewing.
And for the trailer, it didn't really reveal anything about the game itself. Just that it would be released episodically on GameTap.
Hopefully more info will be released soon.
And the voices sound perfectly fine to me...
oh, and the voice actor sound great. and the trailer is generally amazing, and.. and... and I want this game NOW!
On a different note, anyone notice the phone is black unlike the red one in the original game? Noticed that while comparing the voices to the old game. An odd random change. Speaking old the old game, open it up and use the look too on their answering machine in their office. Sam says, "A primitive answering machine, it's an 8 track". And look! it's still there, albeit a bit different looking, in the new version. Had to point that out, it made me laugh. I really hope you can use the look tool on everything in the entire game like the original, that's what made it so great, partially.
I noticed that too! The honeycomb and well bucket. maybe some of the other objects are from CSI?
Dom
first of all what was with all the mentions of gametap? this is supposed to be a trailer promoting the upcoming game.. as ppl have said the FP 1 was better because it showed a sign of things to come.. I would have liked the trailer to be more about the new games and sam and max's return.. instead of episodic content and a partnership with gametap!
The voices: I think max's voice is great i'd be quite happy 2 have it like that 4 the game.. Sam i think was just off.. he just didn't deliver the lines like he should have..for full comedic value
I think the graphics and animations are lookin pretty spot on..if they continue that on with the game I'd be quite happy
Don't forget the sandwich...
Max on the other hand struck me as wrong all together. Both the slight accent he had and the attitude inherent in his voice were missing from . He just didn't seem as... insane.
The problem is not wether ether of them sound like their cartoon selves (and Sam just doesnt - I agree), the problem is that nether of the voice actors seem to have any sense of timing. Or perhaps the dialogue editors have no sense of timing. The lines are there, and they just sit there, flat. poorly delivered, poorly spaced. I would rather play a game with text than listen to the jokes die like this.
Heres hoping they know what they're doing and figure it out.
urf
I'm very happy with it.
Max's final line after the logo came up at the end of the trailer actually had me laugh out loud.
Great job guys.
I found the trailer to be done very well. As I said I have never heard Sam or Max's voice before. So to me they both sounded fine. Sam sounded like a dragnet sort of cop. The dialog was funny and well written. I certainly made me want to check out the games when they are released.
i have to admit,though,sam's voice is not that far off from my former expectations,sedate and deep,and that's a charm.just a bit improvement and it could well do the trick.nevertheless what sucks this time is that this weary puppy sounds a bit over-vigorous here and there and his occasional abused accent kinda of getting on my nerves.
max's voice acting ,well,almost wicked ,which is just the point.however i just couldn't take it the high-pitched squeeky tone of his,too bookish,as in my opinon,it somehow lacks a sense of "streetwise",and that's what made me so addicted to the old hit the road thing.
Could have swaorn it said gameTOWN when it was released yesterday :-/
Plus, he said "ass!" Cool.
ps:i'm a gr8 fan of Sam&max .and this trailer looked amazing,especially the new max model,seemed quite better than the one in the old freelancd police trailer.i'm loving it.cheers
There you go.
The new car totally rocks, though, and Sam & Max sound almost the same as the original voices in ''Hit the Road''. I agree the acting needs some work, but I see potential.
I'm excited!
--Erwin
I can handle the graphics fine. I love that they are animated makes them feel more Sam & Max.
Violence in trailer is good in the humerious way.
The thing that got me is the voices. Like everyone commented if you played the games for XX hours in a darken room the voices really narriated the game. I can still hear sam and max voice when I close my eyes.
To me something about voice of Sam in the trailer is amazingly reality breaking. It doesn't make me feel confortable about the game or bring back the connetion of the game.
Max for most of the lines in the trailer works. One or two get close to reality breaking but not too close.
Though no matter what I am buying this game
Thanks for making a trailer can't wait for the game
By the way, Bassguy, I think it's "through the murky stuff of a human psyche", just to be an annoying nitpicker.
Also, I'm sure SSB: Brawl is going to be great.
Just so long as they put a little more oomph into the lines, especially the guy who plays Sam, I'll be satisfied.
What really surprised me was the fluidity of the animation. Top notch. Telltale has REALLY captured the kind of 'saturday morning cartoon' look to its animation through working with the artists. I didn't expect next-generation graphics (they've never been the most important part of the S&M games, which is perhaps why we all seem to care more about the voices) so the 'polygonal' look of the trailer did not disappoint me. I was still very pleased.
Loved the DeSoto convertible, too. It's something I've always thought Purcell should do.
Umm...
I have mixed feelings about the trailer, too.
The animation is spot on. It looks as good, if not better than Sam & Max: Freelance Police (the game that LucasArts foolishly cancelled). The new Desoto looks especially nice. However, the voices are a different matter. I don't particularly like Sam's new voice. I cannot put my finger on it, but it doesn't sound right. Max's new voice sounds okay. In general, though, the voice acting sounds a bit forced. Although, I'm sure that the voice actors will improve in time for the first episode. Still, it's a shame that Bill Farmer and Nick Jameson were not available, or were demanding too much cash (whichever the case may be).
Regardless, I still cannot wait to play the game. It's near the top of my "must have" list, and this year's E3 has put a lot on that list.
My only issue really is with Max, the voice actor sounds a tiny bit disinterested, like his heart really isn't in it. If there was more passion to Max's voice, I'd have no trouble with it at all. Sam's voice is perfect. I admit it might be spoken through the teeth a tiny bit but it's still really, really good.
I like it mostly because I'm a big fan of film noir, I love it all, whether it's the actual stuff or our good friend Tex Murphy doing a Sci-fi rendition of it. It's all good fun. Now I see Sam as a sort of satire of film noir detective films, albeit as a 6 foot Dog-thing. So the voice actually sort of fits.
If the voices stayed as they are now, I'd be more than satisfied. If the dude doing Max put in a little more emotion, I'd be overjoyed. All in all, they're definitely voices I can live with.
Oh and for those that're interested, I preferred the cartoon over the game, voices-wise and in many other ways. The cartoon actually allowed for greater differentiation between characters. I didn't feel like there was enough of that in the first game, all it seemed was that Max was a slightly more violent version of Sam and that Sam was a somewhat more intellectual version of Max.
I think they really grew thanks to the cartoon, perhaps that's just how I see it, I dunno. I played the original game back when it was first released and I did love it but portraying the characters wasn't its strongest point if you ask me. That took a back seat to outright zany.
I can't decide whether the new game is following the previous game or the comics and the 'toon more yet. The more sombre voices seem to dictate that it's leaning towards the comics, yet it does have a large amount of incredibly zany over the decidedly subtle levels of well-cultured insanity seen in the comics.