Countdown to Ep 4 - "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls"

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  • edited July 2010
    That's a very good question. It's answered after the first act.

    Mike "Have You Considered an Army of Pastry Golems?" Stemmle

    I get the feeling that like in the last episode, the screenshots are all from the first act spent in stinky's diner and the remaining acts will be completely different.
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    GinnyN wrote: »
    I need a high res version of that. Seriously.

    I'd like this too :cool:
  • edited July 2010
    I'm hoping we'll see some screenshots posted in the blog along with an announcement of release date within the week. Feels like that kind of time.
  • edited July 2010
    I thought it the first way at first, but then I realised it was probably more lines for when Sam picks things up
  • edited July 2010
    Remolay wrote: »
    I thought it the first way at first, but then I realised it was probably more lines for when Sam picks things up

    Clever.

    Will this episode have any brand new characters to the series.
  • edited July 2010
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Clever.

    Will this episode have any brand new characters to the series?

    Dr Norrington and Yog-Soggoth (right at the end)
  • ttg_Stemmlettg_Stemmle Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2010
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Clever.

    Will this episode have any brand new characters to the series.

    Adding entirely new characters in the fourth act of a five act story would be dirty pool, imho.

    That being said, there's a couple of new faces kicking around in this episode, you betcha. Or, more like a face-and-a-half, or a face-and-a-quarter, depending on how you're counting.

    Mike "It's Complicated" Stemmle

    PS I'll drop another piece of concept art during lunch.
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    Great to hear about the concept art during lunch :)

    What time is it there? xD
  • edited July 2010
    PS I'll drop another piece of concept art during lunch.

    Woop woop! :)
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    TT are in PDT, correct?
  • edited July 2010
    MRN wrote: »
    TT are in PDT, correct?

    Yes, so I'm thinking sometime within 2000-2200 BST is when we'll see a preview shot or two from Mike "Mr Fan Service" Stemmle.
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224

    This is they're time, so yeah, probably 8 PM to 10 PM GMT.
  • edited July 2010
    The title card is beautiful, kinda art deco -- in terms of movie genres, it makes me think of 30's screwball comedy (but that would apply to any S&M game :p ), a far cry from zombie movies. Unless that's blood staining the top right corner?
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    We're almost running out of time!
  • edited July 2010
    Mr Stemmle is a busy man, by the sounds of it. But I think he will deliver either today or tomorrow.
  • edited July 2010
    Face and a half/quarter? Why does my mind go to Papierwaite and Skun'ka'pe?
  • ttg_Stemmlettg_Stemmle Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2010
    Okay, so it appears that we eat our lunches at 3:30 in the afternoon around here...

    Thanks for your patience. Here's a tiny tease of a major location in 304. The full version of this (and other concepts) will show up on the vip site as we get closer to ship...

    Mike "Internets, How Do They Work?" Stemmle
  • edited July 2010
    Wow awesome colors. Can't wait!
  • edited July 2010
    Wow. Looks like a secret control room neighbouring the planetarium.
  • edited July 2010
    The machine in the table in the middle... is it a coffee maker?
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    Wow, momma Bosco's lab much? That is awesome.
  • ttg_Stemmlettg_Stemmle Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2010
    Oh, by-the-way, when I said "pickup lines," I was referring to the more hum-drum, less salacious definition of the term.

    Sadly, Sam will not be getting his groove on in 305. He'll have much bigger problems then his life of unchosen chastity.

    Mike "At Least, I Assume It's Unchosen" Stemmle
  • edited July 2010
    Oh, by-the-way, when I said "pickup lines," I was referring to the more hum-drum, less salacious definition of the term.

    Sadly, Sam will not be getting his groove on in 305. He'll have much bigger problems then his life of unchosen chastity.

    Mike "At Least, I Assume It's Unchosen" Stemmle

    And today I learned the salacious definition of the term.

    THANK YOU.

    No, really.
  • edited July 2010
    Aw man Mike. You had to go and ruin my triumphant moment.

    But that mention of 'bigger problems' and 'what's so important about Sam' has got me excited, so it makes up for it.
  • MRNMRN
    edited July 2010
    I have a dictonary right next to me, but I can't be bothered to search the word!

    That's human beings for you, jesus christ. Tsk, tsk.
  • edited July 2010
    Cheri wrote: »
    that mention of 'bigger problems' and 'what's so important about Sam' has got me excited

    That'd be giant Max on the rampage!
  • edited July 2010
    tbm1986 wrote: »
    That'd be giant Max on the rampage!

    Um, then the freelance police would have no more problems (assuming it's the same Max)
  • edited July 2010
    BoneFreak wrote: »
    Um, then the freelance police would have no more problems (assuming it's the same Max)

    I think it is the same Max but maybe posessed or Power gone to his head. You know what he's like. I bet he dreams about being that tall anyway and crushing everything in sight.
  • edited July 2010
    That new location really feels in the flavor of the earlier incarnations of Sam & Max, particularly Hit the Road and the cartoon series. My excited meter has just gone up from 'Quite Hyped' to 'Countdown Cultist'.
  • edited July 2010
    The Sub-Basement of Solitude?
  • edited July 2010
    It's the "Sam Clones" Cloning Facility, IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND DANGEROUS! And creepy.
  • edited July 2010
    It's the "Sam Clones" Cloning Facility, IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND DANGEROUS! And creepy.

    I today I was thinking the Telltale people has never name them "Clones", just "Sams".
  • edited July 2010
    I prefer to call them 'Sam Harem'.


    What's with the looks?
  • edited July 2010
    I have a feeling that Dr Norrington is Yog-Soggoth.
    You got to be something powerful to appear as nothing and still be able to communicate.
    He was also guiding paperwait...

    If Yog-Soggoth in this ep though then Telltale have something BIGGER planed for the finale...
  • edited July 2010
    By the look of this new location I have a feeling we will finally get to go through the mole hole in Mama Bosco's lab.
  • edited July 2010
    I just had a bit of an epiphany.

    It's been hinted at we ain't far off the mark assuming these Sam Clones aren't clones.
    Bob's Toys!s with the "Future is Coming" banner has been about for ages.
    The Episode is Beyond the Alley of the Dolls.

    Me thinks the Toy store we never got inside will have some part to play this episode, but at the very least I definitely thinking these are Sam Dolls, not clones.
  • edited July 2010
    Emo Hoe wrote: »
    Bob's Toys!s with the "Future is Coming" banner has been about for ages.
    Because it was related to the 301 LARP(?) involving the Nutricious specs we never got.
    Not some hint for 304, although with the toys collecting "clones" I wouldn't exclude seeing that location again.
  • edited July 2010
    Dave247 wrote: »
    If Yog-Soggoth in this ep though then Telltale have something BIGGER planed for the finale...

    I really hope they go fully lovecraft in the last episode... or as fully lovecraft as a setting with a laconig, violence-prone dog and a hypercinetic, violence-prone lagomorph can get. "The city that dares not sleep" seems like a R'lyeh-reference, and the general underlying weirdness was non-euclidian enough so far, so I really do hope we can dispose of an Old One with a Luger in the finale. After insulting it and setting it on fire.

    Max Fhtagn!
  • edited July 2010
    Because it was related to the 301 LARP(?) involving the Nutricious specs we never got.
    Not some hint for 304, although with the toys collecting "clones" I wouldn't exclude seeing that location again.

    They never confirmed it was 301 to my knowledge.
    They simply said it was a live thingy tht went a bit wrong tht would reveal hint of later episodes?
  • edited July 2010
    Emo Hoe wrote: »
    Me thinks the Toy store we never got inside will have some part to play this episode, but at the very least I definitely thinking these are Sam Dolls, not clones.

    Maybe a Sam Doll is one of the Toys of Power.
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