Tales of Monkey Island: Episode One Review

Originally Posted by Xir
Now I don't doubt MI will be a succes...but didn't we think the same of HL2? :|

Maybe YOU did. :p

Originally Posted by Xir
...so I pay 35$ for five episodes...but receive only one?

Just a question, SIN, Sam-and-Max and Half-Life2---how many episodes yet?
Has there been ANY episodic content that made it past 2 episodes?

Now I don't doubt MI will be a succes...but didn't we think the same of HL2? :|

Telltale have a proven record with episodic games. They have a number of episodic series' - Sam and Max, Strong Bad, Wallace and Gromit and now Monkey Island. As far as I know they do them monthly and haven't missed a deadline yet. Strong Bad finished a season of several episodes, Sam and Max is now into a second season and Wallace and Gromit is going strong.

In other words; it's a safe bet and it's unlikely they'll dick around with it, unlike Valve. As for Ritual and SiN, it's hardly their fault - the company was bought out and made to work on different things.

Of course, if you don't believe it'll work then just wait until the Season is done before you buy.

Ooops. sorry, haden't heared of any Sam and Max game after the second episode...my mistake.

And yes, I also think Monkey Island will be a success
(unless deliberately sabotaged like Valve...whatever is riding them)

Is "Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness" still continued after episode 2?

i think "episodic content" is an excuse to stop making a story when you feel like it.
and i feel really uninterested in getting season 2 if i've missed season 1. so i guess i really dont like episodic content.

i miss the old monkey island feel, from games 1 and 2. on 3 they made it so cartooney :\
s2 pixel imagination! :(

So you're willing to write off a whole series of games just because you don't like episodic content?

Your loss.

Seriously, Telltale have a lot of experience of delivering epidosic content on time and completing full seasons like they promise. They haven't yet, to my knowledge, stopped anything mid-series because "they felt like it".

The way Telltale work is not the same as, say, Valve work with episodic content. Where each new Half Life episode is really just a stand-alone expansion, with Telltale each episode is part of the whole where the full story has been worked out in advance.