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I loved the internet-petition gag.
Thought there were maybe a few too many US-centric sitcom & actor name based in-jokes, which could cause a lot of the jokes to fall a bit flat outside of the USA or potentially cause this episode to show its age a bit in time. Other than that though, top notch stuff again. |
01-07-2007, 09:15 PM | #23 |
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The reality is that it's hard to know how long an episode is going to be until people sit down and play a nearly done version. It's weird. Early on in production a lot of people thought episode 2 was might end up super short and feeling very empty, but it turned out to be only moderately shorter than 1 (or for some mysterious people, the same length or longer), and feel packed full of crazy things for Sam & Max to toy with.
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01-07-2007, 09:50 PM | #24 |
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I can't wait to play this, along with EP1, which I still haven't played!
Did most of you bought the whole season? Or individual episodes?
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01-08-2007, 02:49 AM | #27 |
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I just thought they were ficticious names?
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- english isn't my native language - some jokes mention names and people i have never heard off which made me wonder if either i'm dumb, either those people are only famous in America or these people doesn't exist at all (which would be rather pointless). This really is something Telltale should think about imo. Do they make a game for an American public or for the world to enjoy. I'm not familiar with the original cartoons so maybe they are actually staying true to the original but still. I generally found the jokes in Episode 1 far more enjoyable. |
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I wonder why gamespot hasn't reviewed episode 2?
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01-08-2007, 05:00 PM | #35 |
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just bought the season set, and downloaded/installed second episode.. Trying to find out if I'm going to start it tonight, or do the smarter thing; wait to tomorrow..
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They're going to. In general, I think the holidays delayed some of the reviews.
Regarding the US-centric celebrities... this is interesting feedback. One question that comes up a lot is whether these games will be localized. Humor can be very hard to translate, so localizing a game like this would require a lot of work to make sure the humor (and maybe even the references) carry over. Then again - I am American and a pop culture junkie, and even I didn't understand some of the jokes. My favorite reference in episode 2 is when Max says something about how he hasn't been so upset since they canceled My So-Called Life. This was a short-lived TV show about high school kids that happened to be on TV when I was in high school. I LOVED that show, and actually headed up letter-writing campaigns and petitions to try to prevent it from being canceled. (Didn't work.) The line about the robotic girl in the Cosby Show is good too. |
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I've had the "My So Called Life" theme song stuck in my head for two days now. DAMN YOU MAX!
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my so called life was great..but I cant imagine Max watching it..unless he's a claire danes fan.. it just didn't make sense for max to say that for me..
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