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Start the hype: New Sam & Max
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Meatpuppet
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New Sam & Max -> Fuck Yeah!
Episodic Content -> Fuck off!
I really don't support the rise of episode-based content distribution. If I'm having a blast with a game, I don't want to be told "Thank you for playing. The next installment is due out in a month, priced $9.99" after completing a few chapters, I want to be able to play through to the end.
Episodic Content -> Fuck off!
I really don't support the rise of episode-based content distribution. If I'm having a blast with a game, I don't want to be told "Thank you for playing. The next installment is due out in a month, priced $9.99" after completing a few chapters, I want to be able to play through to the end.
Eel O'Brian
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I'd say it's more like buying a DVD of half a television episode, then having to wait a couple of months to watch the end.
. I'm torn on this. Will they be using the same voice actors? Will the quality of the game and the writing be top notch? Sorry for being such a gloomy gus but the Freelance Police looked sooooooo good.Beer Monkey
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After all the episodes of the first 'game' are completed, a compilation of the full adventure is inevitable.
Also, Telltale has stated that they are open to the idea of console ports, and micropayment inititiatives notwithstanding, I suspect they'd go with a full game disc in that environment (360 memory card or Revolution flash isn't going to have enough capacity).
Telltale has licensed some pretty strong intellectual property in Bone and Sam&Max. I'm interested. And I'll 'suffer' through episodic delivery if that's what it takes to get these games. If the market rejects this system, I think they'll come up with the capital to start delivering 'full' games.
Also, Telltale has stated that they are open to the idea of console ports, and micropayment inititiatives notwithstanding, I suspect they'd go with a full game disc in that environment (360 memory card or Revolution flash isn't going to have enough capacity).
Telltale has licensed some pretty strong intellectual property in Bone and Sam&Max. I'm interested. And I'll 'suffer' through episodic delivery if that's what it takes to get these games. If the market rejects this system, I think they'll come up with the capital to start delivering 'full' games.
Actually its more like buying the first season.
Their first game is Book 1 of Bone. Which is in of itself, a complete story with a proper 3 part arching narrative.
They don't end in cliff hangers, but they set up the events for the following part (much the way one season of a television show ends).
The game won't just stop in the middle of a puzzle. It'd stop at a logical point where you've felt like you've accomplished something, then in 6 months when the next installment comes out you pick up from there.
Their first game is Book 1 of Bone. Which is in of itself, a complete story with a proper 3 part arching narrative.
They don't end in cliff hangers, but they set up the events for the following part (much the way one season of a television show ends).
The game won't just stop in the middle of a puzzle. It'd stop at a logical point where you've felt like you've accomplished something, then in 6 months when the next installment comes out you pick up from there.
This is some of the best news I've heard in a while. I really enjoyed Sam & Max.
To people getting all pissy over episodic content, keep these in mind:
-Adventure gaming (of the point-and-click, thinking variety) is basically a dead genre at this point.
-Adventure games are by nature driven 99% by content and 1% by code. Getting the engine is the easy part, writing scripts and doing artwork and voicework is extremely expensive and time-consuming.
-Without a major publisher (and it's unlikely to get one), the game will probably have to be distributed over the Internet anyway, lending well to an episodic model.
-A very small number of people give a rat's ass about adventure games, anyway. So rather than charge them a premium >$50 to cover costs on a major game, why not provide them with a steady flow of content that's reasonably priced, with the assurance that they'll keep buying it, since they're content whores?
-Because most adventure games are pretty short to begin with, going with an episodic model almost guarantees that the user will ultimately get to experience MORE content than if the game were a self-contained unit.
-More content is good.
Sure, there might be an awkward pricing method, but for adventure games, episodic content seems to be the only way for it to survive.
Simple adventure games SHOULD BE modelled like TV and movies, because they really are so content driven that they're really only interactive as far as the figuring out of the puzzles goes. And that just takes place in the player's head.
I think paying $30 for the Sam & Max game player and the first episode with $5-10 for each subsequent episode would be entirely reasonable, assuming each episode provided at least a few solid hours of gameplay.
To people getting all pissy over episodic content, keep these in mind:
-Adventure gaming (of the point-and-click, thinking variety) is basically a dead genre at this point.
-Adventure games are by nature driven 99% by content and 1% by code. Getting the engine is the easy part, writing scripts and doing artwork and voicework is extremely expensive and time-consuming.
-Without a major publisher (and it's unlikely to get one), the game will probably have to be distributed over the Internet anyway, lending well to an episodic model.
-A very small number of people give a rat's ass about adventure games, anyway. So rather than charge them a premium >$50 to cover costs on a major game, why not provide them with a steady flow of content that's reasonably priced, with the assurance that they'll keep buying it, since they're content whores?
-Because most adventure games are pretty short to begin with, going with an episodic model almost guarantees that the user will ultimately get to experience MORE content than if the game were a self-contained unit.
-More content is good.
Sure, there might be an awkward pricing method, but for adventure games, episodic content seems to be the only way for it to survive.
Simple adventure games SHOULD BE modelled like TV and movies, because they really are so content driven that they're really only interactive as far as the figuring out of the puzzles goes. And that just takes place in the player's head.
I think paying $30 for the Sam & Max game player and the first episode with $5-10 for each subsequent episode would be entirely reasonable, assuming each episode provided at least a few solid hours of gameplay.
This is brilliant news. Absolutley brilliant news. I'm still skeptical because there are quite a few things that can go wrong but I'll be damned if I'm not excited as hell. The episodic content portion doesn't bother me that much. They wouldn't be stupid enough to only give you the first few hours of plotline and then end in a completely arbitrary place. Still, I would prefer the whole game but this is still great news. Now all they need are the voice actors from the Freelance Police trailer.
Willy Wanka
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Hell yes. Great news 
Beer Monkey
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