Stolen Pixels #26: Awesome'd: Episode 5
The only thing better than Sam, Max, and Strong Bad? Why, pirates, of course.
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The only thing better than Sam, Max, and Strong Bad? Why, pirates, of course.
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Stolen Pixels #26: Awesome'd: Episode 5
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At least there was some point at the end of it, so the gratuitous cross over and self-indulgence is excusable.
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
Yep. Next Tuesday we'll be back to...Eagle Est1986 post=6.73117.784041 said:
Can anything we do around here really be considered normal? Whatever. We'll be back to doing what we were doing before we started doing something else.
Guybrush is a reference to the Monkey Island Series.
"Manny" is a reference to Grim Fandango.
Monolith Burgers is a reference to the Space Quest series.
April Ryan is, as dochmbi pointed out above, a reference to The Longest Journey.
"Manny" is a reference to Grim Fandango.
Monolith Burgers is a reference to the Space Quest series.
April Ryan is, as dochmbi pointed out above, a reference to The Longest Journey.
It amuses me that this Sam & Max series was held up as an example of great adventure gaming where most past stuff was rubbish because to me, the new Sam & Max was slow, boring and baffling. I got precisely the sense of 'trying to work out the designer's personal insanity' that older games were accused of.
So I guess ALL adventure games still have that issue, it's just some of our sanity aligns more closely to one or the other...
So I guess ALL adventure games still have that issue, it's just some of our sanity aligns more closely to one or the other...