Topic: Sam & Max: Episode Three RELEASED

[MysterD]

Sam & Max: Episode Three: The Mole, The Mob, And The Meatball (for Season One) is now out for demo and purchasing.

   
Sam & Max: Episode Three [February 08, 2007, 10:57 pm ET] - Viewing Comments
Telltale Games now offers The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball, the third installment in their Episodic Sam & Max series. The episode is available for standalone purchase, as part of the six-episode season one set, or as a free playable trial/demo version. The trial version is also available from Gamer's Hell and GameSpot. Word is:

    “The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball” takes Sam & Max deep into a subversive toy-racketeering operation to look for an undercover mole who has suddenly gone silent. Before they can crack the case, the anthropomorphic crime-fighting duo will need to prove their worth to Don Ted E. Bear by becoming members of the Toy Mafia. Episode 3 screenshots, trailers, and a “try before you buy” demo can be found at www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/meatball.

[Quemaqua]

The only people that seem to be doing episodic content correctly.  Still looking forward to a season release of these.

[idolminds]

Agreed with Que.

[Xessive]

Wow they're making Valve and Ritual (the fathers of episodic content) look bad

[MysterD]

Wow they're making Valve and Ritual (the fathers of episodic content) look bad

That's the damn truth.
They're just banking out new Sam & Max content episodic all of the time, which is great!

That's how episodic content should be done!

[Quemaqua]

Valve and Ritual did a perfectly fine job of embarrassing *themselves*, actually.  These guys just make them look even worse.

[MysterD]

Valve and Ritual did a perfectly fine job of embarrassing *themselves*, actually.  These guys just make them look even worse.

The problem w/ their episodic content is not the quality of the content -- since both HL2: Ep One and SiN Episodes: Emergence turned out good -- it's just that they take too long to make such a short episode. I mean, shit; it's not like these guys are making new episodic RPG content here!!! It's not like they are overhauling the graphics engine or game code too much probably, either!!!

By the time the next episode comes out, the gamers who bought Ep One might've lost interest by the the time Ep Two comes, by now....I was all pumped for HL2: Ep Two, but now a lot later and still waiting, I really don't even care too much now...

On the other hand, Telltale is pumping out new episodes every few months. Game will be fresh in your mind, if you pump out episodes that fast, since it's storyline dependant.

And for Oblivion, BethSoft seems to be churning out new DLC content here and there. What makes theirs work is all there content is not story-line dependent on each other. It all finishes, like its one quest. And, they got a real full expansion coming soon! Another company that seems to understand what episodic content is all about.