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S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« on: 04 Sep 2010, 16:06 »
http://www.telltalegames.com/store/samandmax-thedevilsplayhouse

The finale just came out and the entire season is $20 until September 8th.
I think telltale finally reached the point where the game looks like something a mainstream publisher would make. It really is what Sam & Max 2: Freelance Police should've been if it wasn't canceled.
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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #1 on: 07 Sep 2010, 17:54 »
Also for $20 from Telltale The Great Adventure Bundle

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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #2 on: 07 Sep 2010, 18:32 »
Ah, an excellent offer. Thanks for the tip, Ali! I picked up both the bundle and the S&M season, and although my order seems to have got messed up, I'm sure Telltale will sort it out soon.

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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #3 on: 07 Sep 2010, 18:53 »
If you email them about a messed up order, they fix it pretty quickly. And they're really pretty nice about it, too.
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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #4 on: 10 Sep 2010, 08:01 »
  The latest season is the only non-AGS game I've really played since Fallout 3.

 
My favorite part was a brief section where Sam became a noir-style detective, and by far the most boring was the lengthy train episode where you just keep mindlessly going back and forth from car-to-car on unfunny mini-quests.  This season they are starting to use more varied locations, but they do keep recycling characters.  Its not comedy gold throughout, but lots of intermittent chuckles with the occasional big laugh and occasional "go through the motions" puzzles.

  I'd play "Sam and Max Stare at a Wall" since I'm a fan, but even without my bias its worth twenty bucks.

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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #5 on: 11 Sep 2010, 17:33 »
I really liked the sequence you don't like, bunch of clever puzzles there, in my opinion, not the best part obviously. Your fave part was very surprising and fun.
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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #6 on: 11 Sep 2010, 19:09 »
I really appreciated the move away from inventory based puzzles, and how much more realistic a game can become (giant talking dog aside) when you don't need that specific hairdrier or only that bucket of fish. The variety in each episode was really something.

Though I was disappointed when the Discworld Noir-esque gameplay at the start of They Stole Max's Brain didn't last for the whole game.
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$5 for Tales of Monkey Island - last day
« Reply #7 on: 19 Sep 2010, 14:17 »
I'm not sure if this constitutes spam but if I hadn't bought the game ages ago (like a chump) I'd want to know.

Tales of Monkey island is $4.95, ending Monday 20th Sept in honour of talk like a pirate day.

Re: $5 for Tales of Monkey Island - last day
« Reply #8 on: 19 Sep 2010, 16:39 »
I'm not sure if this constitutes spam but if I hadn't bought the game ages ago (like a chump) I'd want to know.

Tales of Monkey island is $4.95, ending Monday 20th Sept in honour of talk like a pirate day.
Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore.

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Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #9 on: 19 Sep 2010, 17:21 »
Buy them now before the exchange rate changes!

Re: S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!
« Reply #10 on: 19 Sep 2010, 18:39 »
Buy them now before the exchange rate changes!
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