...my thoughts about 203 so far

[taumel]

are:

This episode starts like a pure nightmare, in the office *again* and i have to talk to Sybil *again*. Why can't i buy just some dynamite, put it into Abe's ears and blow him up? The DeSoto game isn't good *again* (Paperboy), seems they are running out of ideas here. Hell could be less painful...

Puhhh i made it out of there and went to good old germany.

The castle is modeled very nicely and the lightning is good whilst it also could have been a little bit darker and more dramatic. What i really like is the rain. Is this a texture animation or is it just one placed with offsets? Very nice with the little drops!

I like the sound when you throw up the brain (wonder what it's thinking) to the Gargoyle's bowl. Generally i do like zombies but why on earth do they must have a rave party? This sucks! I would have enjoyed much more such an atmosphere like with Iggy here... ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=y4hPnZUMBwA ) I like that there are zombies and it would have been nice if there would be some work to do on the graveyard, or a garlic/shovel-minigame. Just more vampire like stuff to do...

I lookep up the solution for the song contest in the ttg walkthrough because i'm not interested in getting it out on my own, just too boring. A question pops up my mind: A few years after video games showed up game magazines printed cheats for games which really were strange sometimes. I still wonder if they a) came out during cracking, b) people searched for them by intention, c) if the publisher or developer leaked them or d) if they were released on purpose in order to enlarge the life cycle of a game in a magazine after the reviews.

I didn't get why the phrases should be funny at all. Nice comments on the fake books. The camera would have been much better if it would have been place on an asymetric ellipsoid inside the middle and with 360° movement. I like the dead undead fish swimming upside down. Maybe they could place it in the office bowl.

DJ Booth has some nice buttons like parents and subzero(!). In the poem it's written Jürgen and the rest is Jurgen, ah okay...nnnggggaaaahhhhh Nice music when you step out of the castle again and i like the bat flying around in the background, i love such little details.

Oh no, gaming hell level II, the masters of recycling did it again, you're in the tv station with all the... looking up the walkthrough again and right clicking to go through this as fast as possible, click, click, click, click ,click

Back to the castle, there are some texture issues on the floor at the doorway. Whilst i hate beeing at the tv station, it's a nice riddle. They just should have made it in another way.

Wau i had a hard time coming up with the holy water. The comments on the posters are great and made me laugh! The first time i feel well in the game. A little bit too much travelling with the DeSoto. Yesss, Sam&Max turned undead, i was hoping for this.

><> to be continued ><>

[NickTTG]

do you have friends?

[Mysterysheep]

Originally Posted by NickTTG

do you have friends?

Ha ha!

[Anvilania]

Are you agenst the awsome point of Playing as Max er Sam in Max's body at the near end of the game or something?

4 words: THE GAME WAS AWSOME!!!

[NickTTG]

i don't think he's gotten that far yet nice spoiler tags though

[marsan]

I think he ran out of correction fluid/whiteout

[Dangerzone]

yeh... i was sympathetic to him and his opinion regarding 202 (i agreed with him there somewhat) but i am begining to doubt if we can make this guy happy at all

LET THE FLAME WAR BEGIN!!!!

[splash1]

WOOT

[Zeek]

Originally Posted by Dangerzone

i am begining to doubt if we can make this guy happy at all

Only if TT lets taumel design the game from start to finish. Then we'll see what kind of posts get put up when the tables are turned.

[Dangerzone]

yeah... we really need to drive it into this guys head that the art team can only make 3 new locations between each episode... with minor adds/changes to a handfull of others (i dont have the quote that told us this, but i know it is on this forum somewhere.. can someone with no life please dig it up and quote it for us please?)

re-vamping old locations gives us more to do in the episodes... and thus, makes the games longer... and everything is NOT the same, because they always change the lines for when you click things each episode, does this mean nothing to you tummel?

ill probably bet hes happy we dont get to see boscos in this episode... meanwhile, i was actually kinda bummed out (i would have loved to have gone in there and seen his recent adds to his conspiracy wall, and seen the mess made cause hes gone) but i know why it was cut... the size of the game, this one was over 130 megs.. which is large for a sam and max episode... so i can sympathise with that

[ShaggE]

While I agree that Taumel's posts have been mostly negative for awhile, he *is* just giving his honest opinion.

[flipperthepriest]

his opinion sucks! My only consolation is that a fool and his money are soon parted :P

[Eater]

I stopped reading when I got to the part where you seem to not like paperboy and decided your opinion, in fact, does not matter lol.

[Jake]

Taumel likes to hate. Adventure game fans like the pain, and the hardest hardcore Sam & Max games more than any, it seems. That said, taumel, I wish posts like htis were more than you just groaning loudly in my face for hours, with the occasional self-satisfied punctuations of "ah you did exactly what I wanted for a second, and for that second alone I don't hate you."

[Dangerzone]

jake, dont worry about him... it just sounds like he needs to get laid or something

i like how even when this guy has something "nice" to say... it still sounds like a put down

"I hate the whole game, and i hate seeing all these beloved characters again, but i like this, and that is cool... yet i cant even give an honest opinion because i didnt even bother playing half of the game... kill me"

so if all this is "old" and you are tired of seeing things *again* why dont you tell me what happens in the next 2 episodes... because im diying to know

[ShaggE]

Didn't do more than skim his post at first, I rescind my earlier defense since he was resorting to insults.

What I don't understand is, wasn't Taumel a productive member back during Season 1? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Either way, I'm disappointed to see this. His "review" is not much more than a thinly-veiled verbal attack on TT. You don't have to like Sam & Max, (it's not everybody's cup of tea), but don't treat TT like they are out to screw you over.

[taumel]

I thought after 202 it would be interesting to note what you feel more in detail whilst playing the game and as i had to swap to the walkthrough anyway it wasn't hard typing in a few lines in the editor after the taskswitch. And please note these are thoughts, this is not a nicely cleaned up review.

It might sound harsh to fanboys but well that's not what i am as the ideal adventure game i would have in mind would look different (i guess i'm more the "road movie"-adventurer instead of the "do things at your base, go out and return to your base"-adventurer). In my opinion there are ups and downs in the game and the downs are often due to the same reasons. As i've payed for the game and am not working for the marketing department of ttg i guess it's quite fair writing down your impressions of the game. It's kind of amusing how some can't cope with critics again. They have no problems with serving you the same stuff over and over again but they get thin skinned when you criticise that. Beside of that it seems that as soon as you criticise certain things people get blind for the positive things you've mentioned too.

[Hero1]

I don't like reused locations at all, but you can be constructive with your criticism, plus you lost me when you just skipped straight to a walkthrough. Don't people remember how to play adventure games anymore? We didn't have walkthroughs or the internet back in the day..and hey telltale has implemented a hint system.. When I was trying to figure things out in 203 I did explore all the locations and dialogue so I feel I got the full experience in the game.

[taumel]

As i've written before we already had this "choose the right phrase" idea several times before and as on top it wasn't an interesting one, a new idea or even funny i rushed through this and the first tv part with the walkthrough. The rest has been solved without looking into the walkthrough. I've got better things to do in my freetime than forcing me to solve boring stuff. And yes i remember solving adventure games without walkthroughs and so did i till 203 but i also want to be entertained in the time i'm doing so.

[Hero1]

Originally Posted by taumel

I've got better things to do in my freetime than forcing me to solve boring stuff.

I don't think anyone has a gun to your head forcing you to play the new Sam & Max episodes