S&M The Devil's Playhouse $20!

[ALPHATT]

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.

[Ali]

Also for $20 from Telltale The Great Adventure Bundle.

The Whispered World, Jack Keane, Penny Arcade Adventures, Kings Quest Collection and Puzzle Agent. Plus, if enough people buy it a Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space too. The offer ends on the 9th of September.

I'd highly recommend Puzzle Agent as an ostensibly casual game which really manages to create an atmosphere and tell a story.

I've just bought the bundle even though I already have KQ and the Telltale games, because the Whispered World alone costs £19.99 on Steam. Also 25% of the proceeds got to charity. Awww.

[Snarky]

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.

[Mr Flibble]

If you email them about a messed up order, they fix it pretty quickly. And they're really pretty nice about it, too.

[kconan]

  The latest season is the only non-AGS game I've really played since Fallout 3.

 

Spoiler

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.

[close]

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

[ALPHATT]

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.

[Mr Flibble]

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.

Spoiler

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.

[close]

[Ali]

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.

[Sslaxx]

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.

Heh, nice! £3.26 for them.

[Ali]

Buy them now before the exchange rate changes!

[Sslaxx]

Buy them now before the exchange rate changes!

Have done. 62p a game? Even if for some reason I hate the lot of 'em, at that price I ain't complaining!