Playable Max

[splash1]

you know what would be great? being able to play as Max...after all you gotta have to play someone who can attack suspects!

[mre]

You can't control Max. Period.

[mindless]

that would be neat, or even better you could control them seperatly.

There are a number of adventure games where you can control more than one player, think day of the tenticle or gabriel knight, maybe we could have an episode where sam and max get seperated and you control each of them individualy to try to re-unite them again.

I know that they work well as a comedy pairing so maybe sperating them could be considered a risky move, but it would be a nice new twist to the series if just one episode featured something like this. wouldn't even need to be for a long time, just to test the waters and see if folks buy into it.

it would raise the potential for more complex puzzles as there may be certain things only max could access which sam could not, and vice versa.

[Hero1]

It would be great if you controlled Max for an entire episode..just to change things up a little

[Buuga]

..think day of the tenticle or...


Interesting game...

Edit: omg.. I got it totally wrong.. It had letter s..

[jmm]

Lol!!!! Buuga.... :)

I think Max would not let you control him.
Maybe you can suggest things to do, but it's up to him to perform your suggestion, or not, or more likely, Max will do something completely different.

[delimew]

maybe we could have an episode where sam and max get seperated and you control each of them individualy


*thinks of how many times max has had his own ideas on how to deal with something, but didn't do them purely because of sam*

[splash1]

yes you're probaly right, if you pulled out his gun and pointed it at someone he'd probaly shoot them or Sam would say...Max no shooting anyone until further times but i mean you could still use him in certain puzzles or just to make the fans happy

[Quuux]

I think being able to control Max would ruin the mystique of the duo. It's much nicer occasionally having Sam say, "Sic 'im little buddy." and watching hijinx ensue.

[Murray the Chao]

But how many times have we actually seen that (and had it be violent) in Season 1-2? Unlike in HtR, where we had the intro, the phone fight (which was only implied througout Season 1), the brawl at Gator Golf, and the hillarity that ensues when the alarm is set off at Bumpusville.

[splash1]

you're so right, the only time we've ever seen Sam say "sic em little buddy"
was in The Mole the Mob & the Meatball

[shurlogg]

you're so right, the only time we've ever seen Sam say "sic em little buddy"
was in The Mole the Mob & the Meatball
To be exact, that was the only time we heard him say that. The only time we saw him say it was in the "Night of the Raving Dead" trailer. ;)

[NickTTG]

playable max would be ridiculous! it could never happen...

[splash1]

and why not Nick? because you're ploting for Max to be the new enemy?!

[NickTTG]

I just can't imagine a world where you can control a fake rabbit. my mind can't even begin to fathom the implications.

[splash1]

suuurreee Nick...you just don't want to admit that Max in the new villan!

[NickTTG]

that's true splash1. you're right man

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I'd quite like Nick as a playable character.

[Hyperkinetic_Martian]

To be exact, that was the only time we heard him say that. The only time we saw him say it was in the "Night of the Raving Dead" trailer. ;)

Actually, we do see Sam say it in that episode.

On topic: I think it would be interesting to be able to play as Max, but only in moderation. To me it's more fun to watch him follow you around and do his random, child-like eccentric actions.

[NickTTG]

I'd quite like Nick as a playable character.

playing as me isn't actually as fun as it sounds. Especially when you have to play the part when you don't have money in the bank and have to eat taco bell everyday.

Also, I always lose the boss fights. Fighting with your boss is never a fun battle. And I don't have the goggles that highlight my opponents weak points and I can't take an hour to chose that perfect line of dialog.

Its like GTA, except I'm the guy who gets thrown out of the car and onto the pavement.

[Hero1]

the problem is we can't "use max" and we can't "play max" so we are losing some opportunity there..if all max does is deliver the punchline to every piece of dialogue we lose some of his character and our involvement/interactions with him..it is a duo remember

[Tester Scott]

Its like GTA, except I'm the guy who gets thrown out of the car and onto the pavement.

I could totally see that happening.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

Make Max as usable object in the inventory

[NickTTG]

Make Max as usable object in the inventory

go play 101 again

[splash1]

um i don't remember Max being in the inventory in 101

[jmm]

Someone lost his head...

And If I'm being too subtle (never happened before)

Gee, if that thing wasn't normally attached by the neck... it would drift away.
And if that happens, there is only one way to fix that, .... re-attach the head :)


And if that doesn't help, maybe you're playing the wrong games, pal!
(I'm joking, am I???)


Remember when you were purging Brady Culture from Sam's mind.
Remember Max's head.... ding! ding! ding! Max as a usable object in the inventory

[NickTTG]

um i don't remember Max being in the inventory in 101

durrr....

[splash1]

Remember when you were purging Brady Culture from Sam's mind.
Remember Max's head.... ding! ding! ding! Max as a usable object in the inventory


oh yeah but you can only use Max for 1 thing

[Jake]

Still, that's all you need, right? Check that sucker off the list!

[Anvilania]

Thats acculy a good idea!!!

[NickTTG]

Still, that's all you need, right? Check that sucker off the list!

i laughed too hard at this haha

[splash1]

Still, that's all you need, right? Check that sucker off the list!
huh? i don't get it :confused:

[NickTTG]

shhhh shhh shh...

[splash1]

huh? Nick whatcha talkin bout?

[Mysterysheep]

Hehe! Childish Nick! :D

[patters]

for added realism he goes to the opposite point you click

[DrakeFox]

Best game I recall where you had more characters was Gobliins 2 from Sierra. Great hard adventure puzzle game. Sometimes didn't make sense, but was cool to have one character distract someone while the other steals something, or one activating something and the other using something across the screen at the same time.
This does however require a deal of precision and timing at times, and could be fun, I just couldn't see it work in Sam & Max. For one. Max isn't like Winkle, seem to have a few more braincells and more lust for violence. Also in Gobliins you had the entire screen visible. I've several times had trouble clicking something in S&M while moving the screen, and this would just make any sequence like this even more horrible.

I do however like the conversations where you can speak as max... like when interrogating jimmy or trying to make someone cry. Wish there were a selection of Max quotes for all dialogs in the game. Not nescesarily deep ones or many of them, but just a way to bother people in general.

[James-Kond]

Not to spoil anything.. but you can play as Max at one point.. :)

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Not to spoil anything.. but you can play as Max at one point.. :)

HOLY FLIPPIN' FLAT BREAD! Use spoiler tags, man! :D

[Mysterysheep]

Damn! I saw it before it was tagged! You should've kept it as a secret anyway. That way we'd be slapping ourselves afterwards for arguing about this! :)

[James-Kond]

oh.. sorry.. how the poo do i use spoiler tags anyways :P

[Jake]

your spoiler here[/spoiler ]

remove the spaces before the ]'s and it becomes...

[spoiler]your spoiler here

[splash1]

woot Telltale thank you for letting us play Max :D now all you need to do is let us play him forever :)

[Dangerzone]

what sealed the deal was... sam acting like max.. scratching his ass, menacing things and wandering around... etc. talking to max in that scene was funny as all hell too... "give me my stuff back", "so thats where you keep your gun" :rolleyes:

[NickTTG]

this is why i loved reading this thread lol

[some nerdy guy]

playing as me isn't actually as fun as it sounds. Especially when you have to play the part when you don't have money in the bank and have to eat taco bell everyday.


I'd play it, I'm usually good at games involving some form of tacos!

[splash1]

that's.........kinda disturbing

[NickTTG]

I'd play it, I'm usually good at games involving some form of tacos!

If only we had a soul-mater...

[Guybrush Threepwood]

How about... playable Bosco?!?

[NickTTG]

How about... playable Bosco?!?

I smell a new thread

[Jake]

I smell a spinoff

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I smell a spinoff

I like that smell!

[splash1]

i smell.....*sniff sniff* A CONSPIRACY!!!! and more playable characters..

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

go play 101 again
Dude, I totally forgot about that! Touché! :D

[Blehboy]

playing as max and then right after playing as the monster was clutch. It was hilarious when they both say a line and then Sam gets mad that Max tried saying a better line than him

great times

[Amaterasu]

something like in DoTT or Gobliins 2. I want a system that will let you change you control, and each character says different stuff on items and talk with others.
Though I like controling both, Putting Max in the lead for once would be fun. XD
Maybe if they are stuck in different places, like in DoTT?

[Jake]

Did you play Bone: The Great Cow Race? We did exactly that in that game. :)

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Did you play Bone: The Great Cow Race? We did exactly that in that game. :)

Ah, but did you do that in the third Bone game? (http://www.gopetition.com/online/14474.html)
Oh...
;)

[Jake]

Of course we did. Haven't you played it?

[splash1]

wha.....don't you guys know there is no Bone 3 out yet? and there probaly never will be....:(

[NickTTG]

man its my favorite game. haven't you played it splash?

[TrogLlama]

wha.....don't you guys know there is no Bone 3 out yet? and there probaly never will be....:(
What are you talking about? It's Bone 3, man! It's been out for a year. It even got a 100% score from every respected game reviewer. And you call yourself a person who pays attention to the things Telltale does.

[splash1]

are you guys trying to confuse me????

[jmm]

Of course not, we wouldn't do that.

Just head to [broken_url]

[splash1]

bu.....Bone 3 never came out! Telltale never confirmed it would be released anytime soon!!

[Jake]

There's no Bone 3, sorry. We're just fooling around in this thread!

Bone episode 5, though, is amazing. I saw it in a shop the other day.

[Amaterasu]

Did you play Bone: The Great Cow Race? We did exactly that in that game. :)

Ya, but Bone isn't the president of the USA. XD

We wanna play the president! XD

[Jake]

Phoney Bone is Mayor of Boneville (http://files.telltalegames.com/bone2/soundtrack/phoneysschemingtheme.mp3)! Isn't that good enough for you?

[tabacco]

WAS mayor, Jake. Was mayor.

[Jake]

He never gets a break.

[splash1]

well last time we saw him, the town members were trying to "break" his bones...

[Hero1]

Ah, but did you do that in the third Bone game? (http://www.gopetition.com/online/14474.html)
Oh...
;)

Petitions don't work.

[splash1]

yes they do!....of course the petition has been there for the last, i don't know..
9 or more months?!

[splash1]

hey Season 2 is over, we got to play Maimtron 9000
could Season 3 have playable characters? maybe, what could happen.. but i have 2 words for everyone: Playable..Max

[tobar]

Petitions don't work.

Tell that to Jek Porkins.

[ladognome]

Does anyone remember when you got to control the girl in Fate of Atlantis instead of Indy for like one dialogue? Maybe it could be something like that...except with walking instead of talking.

Oh! maybe like a small crevice that Sam can't fit into! That would be awesome.

[Rather Dashing]

I'm still trying to find the narrative benefits to "playing as" Max. We can already use his dialogue trees in conversations(something that I really wish could be exploited far more often), and other than that you'd just have walking and....him commenting on things. And I don't know about you, but I think that Sam really has the whole observation thing down, and Max does great with the whole...well. Those things that he do.

[splash1]

I'm still trying to find the narrative benefits to "playing as" Max. We can already use his dialogue trees in conversations(something that I really wish could be exploited far more often), and other than that you'd just have walking and....him commenting on things. And I don't know about you, but I think that Sam really has the whole observation thing down, and Max does great with the whole...well. Those things that he do.

you're kiddin right?

[MaxFan]

Max does great with the whole...well. Those things that he do.

Wanton violence and destruction, of course.

[Rather Dashing]

you're kiddin right?

I didn't think I sounded like I was kidding, no.

Max has no benefits when it comes to being a playable character. He has no idea what has just transpired half the time. I think what people expect from a playable Max is something that would be far better added through more Max dialogue trees.

[splash1]

he has 1, he's cool

[Shambling Corporate Poster]

hey Season 2 is over, we got to play Maimtron 9000
could Season 3 have playable characters? maybe, what could happen.. but i have 2 words for everyone: Playable..Max

we got to play as Maimtron??? Since when?!

Anyhoo, playing as Sam is good enough. IMO, Max is too cool to be controlled... quoting SB here: "YOU CAN"T CONTROL ME!!!" is what he'd say to this thread.

Sam, is subtle, and where's clothes. He's more... appealing?

[splash1]

got Max has hammerspace!

[Botap]

I have to agree with Rather Dashing. Sam's role is to set up the jokes for Max, who then spikes them over the net. The dynamic wouldn't work as well with Max in the leading position.

Plus, I can't picture Sam saying "Wheeeeee!" when Max flings him into the air. :)

[vyperspit]

I was just thinking of Max on a solo mission to take out another hostile alien species that are wreaking havoc in Washington D.C.; kinda like in Independence Day. Of course, the motives for Max to take on this adventure would be that Sam was kidnapped by the aliens, and he is outraged when they are stealing his job of destroying helpless countries. Like in the Ratchet&Clank games, Max will discover a variety of alien weaponry and go toast those alien sons of #######! YEAH!!!!

[Rather Dashing]

....

Posts like the one above show me how awful cartoon remakes get done. Someone like this gets into power and says "Hey, let's give the Joker KUNG-FU FEET ACTION so he can actually FIGHT! And some awesome DREADS", and we get ourselves "The Batman".

[TrogLlama]

....

Posts like the one above show me how awful cartoon remakes get done. Someone like this gets into power and says "Hey, let's give the Joker KUNG-FU FEET ACTION so he can actually FIGHT! And some awesome DREADS", and we get ourselves "The Batman".
The Batman wasn't that bad.
No, what people like that reap are far worse shows, absolute abominations like... well, like Looney Toons Unleashed.
"Hey, let's take well-loved and revered classic animation characters and then give them SOOPAPOWUHS! And then they'll fight vague homages to old cartoons! Hells yeah!"

[vyperspit]

Yeah. I have seen remakes of some of my favorite childhood shows that just plain suck. Although, the remakes of He-Man&The Masters of the Universe, and George of the Jungle are not at all bad to me.

[Snocat]

They turned the violent, cross-dressing Looney Toons into politically correct christmas cheeseyness specials where speach impediments are tolerated and Daffy always plays the villian. Nobody has any motive to do anything, and the thing that upsets me most is they took an illogical physics-defying world and turned it into something uniform and predictable. Good job whoever thought they could rape an american icon and leave it to die before the eyes of our children. Good job.

[Bobeo]

I would see Max as an item in the inventory like he was in Hit the Road, but I'd much rather have Sam be the main character.

[Badwolf]

I'm outraged that nobody's suggested playable Bosco, Hugh Bliss, or Leonard Steakcharmer yet.

Actually that would be pretty cool.

[splash1]

I would see Max as an item in the inventory like he was in Hit the Road, but I'd much rather have Sam be the main character.

i'd rather play Max, but Bosco is AAWWEEESSOOME
i'd love to play him just as much!

[yoshimickster]

Maybe using controls to move Max instead of mouse clicking. Like mini-games explaining how Max thinks.

[splash1]

Maybe using controls to move Max instead of mouse clicking. Like mini-games explaining how Max thinks.

That's clever, kind of like on the Grinch, you use the right analog stick to move Max (His Dog)

[Strong Bad Fan]

I think Max should stay a NPC. Controlling Max is like Controlling...um something you cant control.

[Androu1]

As much as I love Max,I don't think it would work.

Max should be more violent,tho. (he thinks violently,but we never really see any violence,I want some HtR style violence!)

[Murray the Chao]

I totally agree on the violence part!

[splash1]

Max should carry more guns or something, he always had something in his "Back Pocket".

[Snocat]

This was parodied in the animated series

*Max pulls out gun*

Sam: "Max! I didn't know you were a marsupial!"

[Three Headed Jacket]

I always thought it was a continuing element of the games where "You don't control Max" is some sort of law

[trogtor123]

i dont think they should split up.
ratchet and clank did that and (from what i hear) that was unfunny.
how bowt a l"lost vikings" thing.