This is the thread for LucasArts alumni/DoubleFine/Telltale games: Psychonauts, Costume Quest, Brutal Legend, Deathspank, Sam and Max, etc.

it's a great game to space out, too, since each episode is a little longer than roughly movie-length

I wish I had spaced it out sort of... ended up beating all 5 eps this past weekend.

tbf, i think i would've gone mad if i had to wait 2-3 whole months between episodes as opposed to a week. but that's a testament to how strongly they pulled off the episodic nature of it

I was thinking the same thing as I steamrolled through them. The "Previously on the Walking Dead" wrapups between games are a nice touch though.

I was getting kind of bored with Ep2 but just hit the big reveal (unscrewing latch), pretty sure I guessed the situation correctly now.

Ep2 had the most roadblocks for me. Everything after that was pretty smooth sailing and I gotta say, I think 3-5 are really the best eps.

downloaded middle manager of justice last night and its kind of boring.. anyone dabbled?

It's okay for a while

that's about where I'm at.

i found it pretty boring too

Oh, damn.
SPOILERS

Carley getting capped in Ep3 is brutal. I guess you can save her, but apparently the one you save dies anyway later on?

ILG would do well to have a spoilers tag that makes the text almost the same color as the bg

i mean i already saw that but yeah it is hard not to read those things.

and re: oh damn, YEAH that was an OH DAMN moment for sure. completely didn't see it coming, so without pomp or "meaning", just horrible

you know what? new thread because ALL THIS GAME IS is spoilers

Yeah that's an especially shitty one because people had moved on from talking about TWD and were talking about middle manager of justice, which I didn't care about reading spoilers for...but no, you were spoiling a game I'm currently in the middle of playing.

yeah... damn. goddamnit. sigh.

if it makes you feel better:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/spoilers-dont-spoil-anything/

as spoilers go at least that wasn't a BRUTAL one.

btw if you don't want spoilers DONT GOOGLE ANYTHING, i read like 2 spoilers in autofill while trying to find names of fucking VOICE ACTORS

Just go to imdb for the voice actors. Every game nowadays lists on there.

i was on my phone & not thinknig -- just typed "walking dead telltale (character name)" hoping to type "voice actor" after and it autocorrected with "...(character name) (FATE)" GUHHH STUPID

the cave comes out next week

anybody wanna rep for the cave? looks maybe good?
http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/3ntmd6/the-cave-review

reviews have been pretty tepid, unfortunately

i want the cave to be good, but i want to play a demo first. after the non-longevity of stacking i need some proof of concept

good review here: http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/01/24/the-cave-review/

i started playing this (with my gf) last night! really enjoyable so far, but i haven't gotten too deep, so to speak (just entered the cave proper after the introductory puzzle).

doing the time traveler + the twins + scientist.

this was charming and fun, if easy and short (the latter isn't a bad thing in my book though). fun enough to play through one more time with a different set of characters.

Enjoying Brutal Legend, but damn if it doesn't have a coupla bugs on Steam.

I guess Tim Schafer and Brad Muir are going on Giant Bomb's TNT tomorrow night.

http://www.giantbomb.com/chat/

On now

The Doublefine Kicktstarter game is finally revealed:

http://www.brokenagegame.com/

Disney closes LucasArts
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/03/disney-closes-game-publisher-lucasarts.aspx

oof
"The last game published by LucasArts as a company is the sub-par Kinect Star Wars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xJqkzngBI

RIP totally me-formative games company that I haven't bought anything by in years

if that sounds glib then this sucks and also I read this news 5 minutes before I got to the Iain Banks thread, it's been a bad 5 minutes

RIP LucasArts, for real

yeah i know their best days were behind them but man those were the best days

it seems to me like this might be good news? they weren't doing anything w/ most of their adventure IPs, or making any great adventure games - so why not license some of that stuff out? maybe telltale will get to develop more properties? or do i misunderstand how this works?

That could be something good to come out of this, if Disney allows third-party licensing of their non-Star Wars properties. I think it's more symbolic, though. I don't think Sierra On-Line really got a proper burial, even as it continued to live on.

RIP best games ever but yeah the last amazing game was over 15 years ago.

curse of monkey island was so good that it may have killed the computer adventure game genre -- one reason warcraft adventures was canceled was because it didn't compare.

kind of interesting that Steve Purcell started at Lucasfilm Games and ended up at Pixar, and now they're both owned by Disney.

I like that Steve Purcell is still out there, still posting amusing drawings to his Facebook.

Also, Raven Software released the sourcecode to Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.

kind of interesting that Steve Purcell started at Lucasfilm Games and ended up at Pixar, and now they're both owned by Disney.

started at Fishwrap iirc, Moncuse popped up w/ new FP in Dark Horse Presents last month

Pay what you want DoubleFine humble bundle on now. So tempted to shell out the $35 and get the new adventure, but I'm far too skint. I might be really fuckin' cheap and pay a ha'penny for Costume Quest and Stacking instead. http://www.humblebundle.com/

Pay a buck just so you can get the Steam keys

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/08/20/fables-preview/

high hopes for that one; i own the first ten books of Fables. Should translate well.

he's not as bad as Orson Scott Card but...