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Sam and Max 2: Reloaded

Posted by Zonk on from the hit-the-road! dept.

CamelToes writes "Sam and Max 2 is not dead! According to a Gamespot article, the team that was working on bringing the new Sam n' Max adventure game 'has formed a new studio called Telltale Games. The San Rafael-based developer will concentrate on re-energizing the adventure game market.' Amazing what an on-line petition will do these days."

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  1. Re:WTF? by bob65 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Sam and Max 2? People are waiting for this? I remember playing Sam and Max on a 486 with 4MB of RAM. What's next? Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego 2?

    I remember playing Sam and Max on a 386 with 2MB of RAM too. I also enjoyed it very much. Which is why I am waiting for Sam and Max 2.

    I also enjoyed Carmen Sandiego very much as well. In fact I had (and still do) the deluxe edition which has high-res 256 color graphics - very enjoyeable.

  2. Re:WTF? by isorox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good for you, I played it on a 486 too. It (and day of the tentacle) still kicks ass compared with the majority of games arround. Trouble with the genre is theres limited, if any, replayability.

  3. Re:WTF? by nkh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I still play Sam & Max, DOTT, MI 1, 2, 3 & 4... For most Lucasarts games you can use the ScummVM to play on most platforms (Linux included of course).

    What I miss the most is a good cross-platform open-source adventure game engine I could script in the language I like the most (Ruby of course... but Python would be good too). I could try to write something but I'm too much of a n00b for such a project :(

  4. Sign me up by t1nman33 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just sent them an email...I bet that they could generate enough sales from Slashdot readers alone to justify the cost of making the game. Hopefully they will do some kind of pre-order thing.

    Man, LucasArts is going to be kicking themselves for this one.

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    --- Where's my car, and why are these grass stains on my pants?
  5. it isn't a Spanish word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's an American word, derived from a Spanish word. That's why it is pronounced differently. Basically, it got Americanized.

    Just like you don't say "bom bar die eh" when talking of those who control the release of bombs from planes. It's an American word, and we have our own pronounciation.

    It is important to remember language is a tool. It is used to communicate ideas. Thus, you want to use word forms that are most likely to be recognized by your listener. So using foreign pronounciations of Americanized words is detrimental to your goal. That is, unless your goal is to show off your worldliness or mastery of linguistics. Most effective is most right, regardless of whether it is true to someone else's idea of how a word should be spelled or pronounced.