Your whole opinion on the 305 ending. What did you think? (spoilers)

[SlasherMan]

The much talked about ending, what did you think?
I thought it was so-so since well I wanted Max to come back, but the way he does is just not the way i hoped and expected it would be. I was thinking, when Sam saluted the decapitated Statue of Liberty I though Max would fall in the water (stating he survived the explotion, somehow) and explained what happened back in Skunkape's ship and after that, they would go somewhere to fight crime. But when i saw the time elevator i was huh?... After everything was revealed my first thought was wait... what? Then i just pondered for a few minutes then i guess i just accepted it after 3 minutes of anger & depression.

Kinda messed up ending or not, I still can't wait for season 4 but i'll be damned if Telltale doesn't mention anything about Real Max

[Rather Dashing]

Well, the final puzzle was pretty cheap if you ask--oh, that.

Eh. I kind of wish that the Adventure ending was the only one, or that we all had the same ending at all, but I guess it was a cute attempt to get people to get the kind of experience at the end that they associate with Sam and Max. "Save Sybil" was pretty deus-ex-y(and not in a "Spontaneous Combustion! How convenient!" way that would have been acceptable), but otherwise I guess the ending hit all the right emotional tones if you wanted to make a Sam and Max film that stops dead now and again to give some weak illusion of interactivity.

[Rakushun]

It left me satisfied. Yeah, some of the developments came out of nowhere and were accepted too quickly, but I don't mind.

[Falanca]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

"Save Sybil" was pretty deus-ex-y(and not in a "Spontaneous Combustion! How convenient!" way that would have been acceptable),

I know, right? In the end, he didn't really do anything but to repeat SAVE SYBIL in himself as an inner monolouge. It didn't even make much sense, but Max's Super-ego was that desperate to count that as a good deed, I guess.

[jeeno0142]

Having just finished it, I would say that I found the ending depressing, but satisfying. However, with there being no poll option for that I instead clicked on satisfying, but not what I expected.

[Shwoo]

The crimefighting ending was extremely satisfying.

[Soeroah]

Originally Posted by Falanca

I know, right? In the end, he didn't really do anything but to repeat SAVE SYBIL in himself as an inner monolouge. It didn't even make much sense, but Max's Super-ego was that desperate to count that as a good deed, I guess.

To be fair, he DID subsequently teleport away from New York so his exploding wouldn't kill any innocent people, which is a little unlike Max.

[Hubert]

I voted, but I wish there was an optional choice.

The two ways that came to mind to describe it after it happened were "Bittersweet" and "Warmly Satisfying", but the poll divides them, heh.

[-=[The_Razgriz_Ace]=-]

I dont understand why people are suggesting the "Past Max" is at all different from "Real Max"...from my point of view the Max that came out of the elevator is Max...the Max that exploded is also Max...as long as they are both from the same time line then they must have to be the same...

Or maybe it was just the fact that I just didnt want to see these games finish here and so Max had to come back somehow...but tbh I'll be happy either way tbh...

What Im wondering now is what they do next...the stories have so far kept ramping up the awesome and the weirdness...how do they top this?

[russell19831983]

its not that people believe max x is not the real max, its just that he hasn't had the same adventures since 102 with the sam we know. He's been on a different adventure since 102. He's got different memories to the max that died. So he's not the same really, and i expect it would be the same for max x. He has been on an adventure with his friend who he had to kill, but the alternate sam he found mourning for his alternate would have different memories to the sam he knew. But at least they can talk about the adventures each of them missed.

[Keevi]

Originally Posted by Soeroah

To be fair, he DID subsequently teleport away from New York so his exploding wouldn't kill any innocent people, which is a little unlike Max.

IMO: He did it to save Sam not the rest

[russell19831983]

I agree. On a side note why have you got a spoiler tag in a forum that points out that there is spoilers? Also this forum discusses the end of the episode so they would have seen everything you've covering up with spoiler tags anyway.

[Slanzinger]

Gonna spoiler-tag this just in case someone's strayed down this far accidentally.
I'm going to say I was slightly disappointed with the episode in general. If I'd chosen the "crimefighting" option, probably I wouldn't be so much as that was hilarious just after the lift (watched it on Youtube afterwards - Got "adventuring" but didn't find that one particularly amusing, just felt a little cut off)
There were some really neat puzzles, but all of it wound up being a fair bit simpler than the previous episodes in the series - and Sam's change of accent was pretty jarring for me as well, at least at the start- his voice ended up really nasal and irritating for the most part. I noticed it a little less as the episode went through, but as I had only just played pretty much the rest of the series [got it on pre-order but haven't had a chance really to play it apart from in the last month] the difference was really quite noticeable.

I was sincerely hoping, as the credits rolled, that there would be some kind of sting after them - something would happen to continue the episode on a bit. It was an emotional pre-ending, and I really liked that, but it seemed sort of anticlimactic as there wasn't the final puzzle-slash-boss-slash whatever to be had which we've grown to love from the Sam&Max games (the "You may have missed something" puzzle, I'd already discovered that aaaaages beforehand)
Just that the whole thing felt pretty brief really. Loved the rest of the series, and 305 did have some really great moments, but... I dunno really.
Oh and by the way, the Narrator being evil? (at least, evil-ish) I spotted that in the teaser that popped up when I finished ToMI ^_^

[bobtheskutter]

Wait... what?! There are two endings?!

[Tilan]

Apparently, there are three.

[Gohaku]

Originally Posted by bobtheskutter

Wait... what?! There are two endings?!

Oh yes. Two endings and one is slightly different if you don't pick up Sam Jr. before Max goes bye bye.
Dammit! I want my Max! Season 4 has so much potential. Can't wait to see a trailer of what Tell Tale's got cookin'.

[Gohaku]

Originally Posted by Slanzinger

Gonna spoiler-tag this just in case someone's strayed down this far accidentally.
I'm going to say I was slightly disappointed with the episode in general. If I'd chosen the "crimefighting" option, probably I wouldn't be so much as that was hilarious just after the lift (watched it on Youtube afterwards - Got "adventuring" but didn't find that one particularly amusing, just felt a little cut off)
There were some really neat puzzles, but all of it wound up being a fair bit simpler than the previous episodes in the series - and Sam's change of accent was pretty jarring for me as well, at least at the start- his voice ended up really nasal and irritating for the most part. I noticed it a little less as the episode went through, but as I had only just played pretty much the rest of the series [got it on pre-order but haven't had a chance really to play it apart from in the last month] the difference was really quite noticeable.

I was sincerely hoping, as the credits rolled, that there would be some kind of sting after them - something would happen to continue the episode on a bit. It was an emotional pre-ending, and I really liked that, but it seemed sort of anticlimactic as there wasn't the final puzzle-slash-boss-slash whatever to be had which we've grown to love from the Sam&Max games (the "You may have missed something" puzzle, I'd already discovered that aaaaages beforehand)
Just that the whole thing felt pretty brief really. Loved the rest of the series, and 305 did have some really great moments, but... I dunno really.
Oh and by the way, the Narrator being evil? (at least, evil-ish) I spotted that in the teaser that popped up when I finished ToMI ^_^

Slanzinger, I do kind of agree, 304 felt more like the finale than 305. 305 felt like a gigantic cliffhanger in my opinion.
305 explored more of Sam and Max's relationship and their personalities. It showed that despite all of their freelance shennanigans these guys do have hearts. Sam did everything he could to save Max. And Max returned the favor. But what happens now...?
As for Sam's voice I heard the poor guy had a cold but recorded anyway.

[bobtheskutter]

Originally Posted by Gohaku

Oh yes. Two endings and one is slightly different if you don't pick up Sam Jr. before Max goes bye bye.

Times like this I wish I saved games... Ah well.

[Gohaku]

Originally Posted by bobtheskutter

Times like this I wish I saved games... Ah well.

Well it's pretty simple; just get to the part where you choose between Recall Adventuring or Recall Crime Fighting.
Recall Adventuring is the one affected by picking up Sam Jr. as far as I know.

I just realized I completed 2 seasons in a month...
Overload....O_o

[tommhans]

wow, then i def think this was an awesome episode
the game design was insane, but the ending i had where max just randomly time travels(from another paralell univers somehow) to sam is ok since this is sam and max and they did DRIVE UP TO THE MOON WITH A CAR, i mean everything is possible i suppose.

Now i have to play from that part again and see that second ending