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Sam and Max Revival?
Though we've mentioned the possibility before, the rumour is again circulating that Sam and Max may ride again. Adventure Gamers has the story in the form of an interview with the owner of the studio supposedly angling for the franchise. From the article: Q: Rumor has it that Bad Brain is attempting to acquire the rights to Sam & Max: Freelance Police. What can you say about that? A: No comment (I signed an NDA). All I can say is: yes, we are talking to LucasArts about a game that might involve animals, but that's all folks!"
Is it just me or has Lucas stopped making cool stuff some time ago? Why don't they make games like DOTT anymore? and I don't mean sequels.
So long as they do a good job with the game I'm all for it. It was one of my most loved games, but it wouldn't be worth it if they ruin it.
I hope they don't turn it into a 3d pseudo-adventure piece of cow-flop that is riddled with repetitive mini-games.
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Actually, Sam & Max started as a series of comics. I saw Sam & Max comics in the LucasArts newsletter/magazine/whatever-it-was many years after the game was released.
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Not just that, but you could consider it a franchise given that Max cameo'd _everywhere_ in LucasArts games. There's a map in one of the dark forces game shaped like Sam's head, and in BallBlazer Champions' practice mode, the in cockpit view had Sam's head dangling from your rearview mirror like fuzzy dice.
Hell, even a mech in one of the battletech books (forget which) was drawn with a Max head decal on the side.
And that's only the Max heads I've seen firsthand. I'm sure he's elsewhere.
Sam and Max's delay may prove to be a boon. Adventure games have been declared officially "dead," with the poor sales of Grim Fandango, but I can't help but believe that its essence will return in some form. The first Sam and Max adventure was one of my all-time favorites, but I think that a sequel whose play is true to the original will do poorly. While production values are higher these days, and aesthetics have improved, adventure gameplay has not evolved as much as gamers demand.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that action gameplay has evolved much further; the gameplay differences between Wolfenstien 3D and Half Life 2 are greater than those between Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.
Sam and Max deserve something that's different, and I'm willing to wait.
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I bought "Grim Fandango," and while I have enjoyed the game, I have hated the control scheme with a level of hatred I normally reserve for Jehovah's Witness evangelical door-to-door vacuum cleaner/insurance salesmen.
LucasArts' choice of controls for "Grim Fandango" were the killing choice. Abandoning the point/click interface for what was essentially a keyboard version of the "Resident Evil" control scheme was atrocious.
Any time a person has to spend 10-15 minutes rotating their character, slightly moving forward and back, etc. in a futile effort to get into position to hit a button...well,
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I'm totally psyched about the potential of another Sam N Max (again..) It's only a matter of time before graphic adventures become retro enough to be cool again. You can only play so many FPS, RTS and MMORPGS. In the meantime I'll go play a little Peasant's Quest
This might be interesting to people that enjoyed the original Maniac Mansion. I love Adventure games, and there is a new version of the original Maniac Mansion - might be more accessible to gamers who prefer updated graphics, and such.
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The link is http://people.freenet.de/lucasfangames/maniac/gam
Adventure isn't dead!
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
If there's some adventure fans that are psyched about the possibility of a Sam & Max release, there are some fun freeware adventure games out there that I've really enjoyed and feel others may too? Just trying to spread some of the good news in the genre:
The games '5 Days a Stranger' and '7 Days a Skeptic' are a lot of fun and are free for download, it's neat to see what game developers are up to in order to deal with the paucity of new adventure games. 5 Days a Stranger, http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/ is the first in a series, followed by the Sci-Fi themed 7 Days a Skeptic http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/. They're both by this designed named 'Ben Crenshaw', and looks like they have won a few awards - it's great that this designer of free software is getting recognized.
Hope this helps some people deal with the lack of adventure games, and let's hope that this Sam & Max game comes out!
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
The best Max cameo is in the original Jedi Knight. There's a house you can sneak into on one of the levels and find Max carrying a blaster. If you hit the spacebar on him, you can control him and run around. If he gets shot, he goes ballistic and starts blasting everything in sight with psychopathic bunny glee.
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The file that you download, mmd11setup.exe, is the install programme. I don't know if it runs on Mac OS X (not very familiar with it), but it won't run on your SCUMM-emulator. The programme is made using an freeware programme that lets you make adventure games.
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
I remember the giddy feeling i'm sure all of us got when playing those origional LucasArts games of Monkey Island, Sam & Max, etc. Really, All I ask of them is great story. While graphics and sound updates would be nice, I really can't see doing the game in 3D or anything. I think one of the monkey islands had a joke about a 3rd dimension? Anyone else think that the games should be left in 2D? or are there some merits for 3D?
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