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Poker Night 2 |OT?|
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Shotgun Kiss
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This just made me watch Evil Dead for the first time.
Hmm. Can't say I was too keen. And Ash is nothing like he is in Poker Night 2. I assume he becomes more of a badass in the later ones. Do the later ones get better? Unfortuntely, only the first one is on Netflix.
Oh, and I definitely think the characters have different AI. I've never seen it go down to just me and Brock, but all the other characters have made it to the last two plenty of times.
Also Ash is definitely the boldest when it comes to raising, whereas Sam very rarely raises, and actually folds quite often.
Hmm. Can't say I was too keen. And Ash is nothing like he is in Poker Night 2. I assume he becomes more of a badass in the later ones. Do the later ones get better? Unfortuntely, only the first one is on Netflix.
Oh, and I definitely think the characters have different AI. I've never seen it go down to just me and Brock, but all the other characters have made it to the last two plenty of times.
Also Ash is definitely the boldest when it comes to raising, whereas Sam very rarely raises, and actually folds quite often.
Finally got all the TF2/BL2 items, took me about 5 hours. Apparently you can change new bounty challenges as well, my last ones were really hard and I just restarted the game and it gave me easier ones like buying everyone a drink.
I really enjoyed the game though, poker isn't really my thing but jokes are already enough to justify the price. Characters were also good, even though I really didn't like Ash and Marcus/Handsome Jack would have been less annoying character from Borderlands than Claptrap. Hopefully they make 3rd one after few years again. Heyoooo!
I really enjoyed the game though, poker isn't really my thing but jokes are already enough to justify the price. Characters were also good, even though I really didn't like Ash and Marcus/Handsome Jack would have been less annoying character from Borderlands than Claptrap. Hopefully they make 3rd one after few years again. Heyoooo!
I sure hope they make a third one, need a walking dead character.
I actually looked it up and the first game came out in 2010, wow. It's already been 3 years.
Jay Shadow
Member
Yeah, there's a reason they list him as Ash from Army of Darkness rather than Evil Dead. Cause Army of Darkness has pretty much every scene the character is known for.
speculawyer
Member
Evil Dead was a no-budget movie basically made by a bunch of students. Evil Dead 2 is a remake that is a more professional movie that goes more into the splatstick (comedy-horror). Still kinda low-budget though.
The Ash in this game is based mostly on the Ash from Army of Darkness. That Ash is more of a comedic action guy.
Mystic_Wanderer
Member
Anyone know what the update was for? About 1/5 of the game size by itself.
360 controller is supported on PC. I don't know how wide the gamepad support is, but most controllers which are structured like a 360 pad seem to work.
Ash talks about her in his multi-tournament dialog. She's some girl he is dating right now. If you get on the thread where Ash starts talking about her in detail, odds are the next time you launch the game he'll report back about what happened between play sessions. There are something like 15 or 16 of those stories which take place over multiple sessions.
ReeseHoward
Banned
I haven't gotten my 360 controller to work.
Madrugador
Member
My wired 360 controller worked without any problems.
SolarKnight
Member
Do you have the drivers installed?
I noticed that, it was pretty neat. The first time it was about how he was going to propose to her, then the next time I thought he was going to repeat all that, but instead I was very pleasantly surprised to listen the continuation of that story with her saying yes and then suddenly monsters attacking.
Btw, about how much of the dialogue is "locked" behind the themes? Like, how many exclusive lines do they usually have?
I noticed that, it was pretty neat. The first time it was about how he was going to propose to her, then the next time I thought he was going to repeat all that, but instead I was very pleasantly surprised to listen the continuation of that story with her saying yes and then suddenly monsters attacking.
Btw, about how much of the dialogue is "locked" behind the themes? Like, how many exclusive lines do they usually have?
SolarKnight
Member
That too, I still have no idea what that patch to the first game before the release did even though it was 90+MB.
Azure Dream
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...On the Sam & Max board... they just...
It again reminds me why characters suiciding early on bad hands sucks, because you miss stuff like this, since it involved every character.
Edit: It still annoys me how once they get below a certain threshold (but not at the point where they're required to), they start constantly going All In no matter what they have.
broke into song, singing a theme for Sam & Max Hit the Road. Everyone, including GLaDOS and Reginald.
It again reminds me why characters suiciding early on bad hands sucks, because you miss stuff like this, since it involved every character.
Edit: It still annoys me how once they get below a certain threshold (but not at the point where they're required to), they start constantly going All In no matter what they have.
Sam and Max have both been so ridiculously buggy for me. Constantly jumping back and forth between animations, repeating the same line of dialogue they said on the previous hand (not continuing, starting over after it was complete), and Sam froze two games by taking three consecutive actions. My favorite was Max, who didn't have his booster seat the first time my game launched. Every time he was on screen he'd start out at child-seat height and slowly float down as the scene went on.
SolarKnight
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Click on the bounty and choose download.
PastorOfMuppets
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It's kind of funny to me as a guy who plays a lot of online poker for real money how very few people here are discussing the poker aspect of this game.
For those who have played, do you guys apply "real life" poker strategies to the game or do you just play cards whenever you feel like? Also, is Omaha played as pot limit or no limit?
Nothing advanced, just basic stuff like playing in position (a really important concept in Omaha) and selecting cards that are likely to make the nuts?
For those who have played, do you guys apply "real life" poker strategies to the game or do you just play cards whenever you feel like? Also, is Omaha played as pot limit or no limit?
Nothing advanced, just basic stuff like playing in position (a really important concept in Omaha) and selecting cards that are likely to make the nuts?
Yes, I've done that multiple times. Nothing happens, and I didn't see anything in BL2.
Kuro Madoushi
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When it gets really low, you have to be more aggressive otherwise the player with the higher chips can pretty much clown you around.
If you're that low, the only way out is to go all in and rely on luck. Though sometimes I feel people just want to end the game at that point since a comeback would take ages and some super lucky draws.
Do you have a shift account?
PastorOfMuppets
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That's an important concept to learn in tournament poker. As the blinds goes up (or your stack size decreases) you have to widen the range of hands you're willing to go all in with.
You can't be waiting for Aces or Kings if you have ~10 big blinds in your stack for instance. You don't have a large enough of a stack to bully people around after the flop so your action has to be all in or fold. You also can't be waiting for hands because the blinds will diminish your stack to the point of irrelevance if you don't act fast. At this point, you have to be shoving with suited Aces, any two broadway cards, all pocket pairs. If the preflop action folds around to you and you're in late position, you either fold or shove.
That was it.
Just all in'ed on the second hand of the game knocking both brock and sam out.
Werewolf Jones
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The feeling of going all in against the final player only for them to get a lucky three of a kind is really crushing. I've only unlocked Brock's knife so far. A lot better than the first game though, although I miss turning the dialogue off since it gets fairly repetitive.
RibbedHero
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I don't play online poker much, but I play cash tables at the casino every other week and £50-100 buy-in tournaments once a month (UK, so 100% legal).
As far as strategy goes I tend to use real life strategy, but slow play a little bit more in-game than in real life. Playing position is key, especially when you're heads up and they're constantly preflop raising. I don't play Omaha in real life, so I'm totally lost when playing it in this game.
bug_42
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This Ash is from the Army of Darkness movie. I would watch them in order, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and the Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3)
I think Evil Dead 2 is where Ash really finds his groove. From memory.
Didn't he have some shitty PS1 game back in the day?
This is by Telltale, what did you expect?
My game is getting heavily bugged. I just stuck in a loop of thoughts with Sam. When I tried to Esc out to the menu and back my cards had changed!
I've been beat on the flop by claptrap more than any other character. I think his, what did he call it...quantum predictability field or something...helps him a bit at times.
Buying drinks I'm not sure if it helps all the time, they certainly go all in more and are easier to bait into wasting chips, but sometimes they still have the right cards.
Game is great, especially for $5. If Bruce Campbell had voiced Ash I would have paid full price for this.
I expect nothing! Some bugs are just weird
KojiKnight
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"Black hawk down! Black hawk down!"
speculawyer
Member
I had like 3 showdowns with Ash the other day where I went in with around ~70% to ~80% chance of winning . . . he kept pulling the magic card to get himself the win. Ugh.
I've got way more than my $5 out of this game. If I didn't play so crappy, I should have all the achievements by now but I'm played bad and can't get near the $1 million bank.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Are there any Telltale devs on gaf so we can get some answers about patch notes
(did they ever say anything about Walking Dead Save files btw? My friend just got one and I feel pretty bad for her, can't believed they still haven't done shit to fix it. How long has it been?!)
Afaik there has never been official word on a patch to fix it beyond telling people to try a workaround that only works for some people
RibbedHero
Member
So I finally unlocked everything in the game, but in my impatient pursuit of tokens and bounty challenges I'm down to a net positive of $580,000. Might leave it at 17/18 achievements, though I really want that $1M achievement.
I'll probably return to the game in a few days/weeks/months to get it.
I'll probably return to the game in a few days/weeks/months to get it.
I need 1 more win and I will have unlocked everything as well. Then I'll play a few games on the full portal set and try and get closer to the 1 million achievement.
Just need 10 wins in a row I guess to get it the fastest way possible.
RibbedHero
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It shouldn't be too hard to tell if someone's got a flush or a straight, though it annoys when they call my preflop raise with what turns out to be 3-5 offsuit and luck out on the river to get a straight. How am I to expect them to have such shit cards especially after a large preflop bet?
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
Man, there's loads I could write about Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) since it's my main game. It's very similar to Hold'Em on the surface with the key difference being you need to use two cards in your hand and three on the board whereas Hold'Em you use the best possible combination of five cards to make the best hand.
Starting hand selection in PLO is a bit more nebulous than Hold'Em since you can flop a lot of very strong drawing hands. The basic preflop strategy is to play hands that can make very high flushes or straights and if not that, than flop very strong draws. Top pair - even top pair of aces does not hold up that often in PLO. AAxx (xx being two random cards) vs a hand like say - 10 9 7 8 will hold up about 60% of the time. In hold'em, AA vs 10 9 or 78 will hold up about 80% of the time.
KojiKnight
Member
Hmm... I'm wondering this too, if maybe they got too many complaints. I went from 200k in the hole to 300k in the positive... and got all of my stuff.
I chocked it up to better paying attention to their hands and actions... but it does seem a little.... convenient. If so, that's majorly disappointing.
I seem to be missing a lot of conversation stuff that others saw though in my runs. I never had Ash go into anything in-depth with Wendy, I never seem to get anything cool to happen on the portal map (and the muzak is terrible on the level which makes me sad and never wanting to play on it anymore)
RibbedHero
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Hand evaluation is where I struggle with Omaha. I'm getting the hang of it, but it's a whole paradigm shift for me. From what I hear in the casino and from my semi-pro friend is that Omaha is even more strategy based than Hold 'em and you're less likely to lose due to a bad break and more due to a poor move on your part.
What's the Omaha version of pocket Jacks by the way? The kind of hand which looks good, but is notoriously hard to play.