PS3 Exclusive Content?
I'm not going to preorder until this thorny issue is settled.
Sam and Max Season 3 (The Devil's Playhouse) was unfortunately marred for me by the exclusive content that PS3 owners got in 301 and 305, which was sadly never ported to PC, despite promises to the contrary by Telltale staff. (Surely that was a consequence of developing that season with PS3, not PC, as the primary platform in mind!)
The fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth, and soured me on preordering any future Telltale titles.
So, before I preorder BTTF (or indeed order it at all), let me ask Telltale this: Can you promise that this season won't have such exclusive content? I don't want to play any game with cool Nutrition Specs-style features that PS3 owners get to unlock, but which are denied to PC users.
Telltale, I loved your games in the past, but Sam and Max Season 3 shook my faith. I hope this issue won't come up again. But just to be safe, I won't be spending money on any game that, as a PC user, I judge to be an inferior port of a console title.
Sam and Max Season 3 (The Devil's Playhouse) was unfortunately marred for me by the exclusive content that PS3 owners got in 301 and 305, which was sadly never ported to PC, despite promises to the contrary by Telltale staff. (Surely that was a consequence of developing that season with PS3, not PC, as the primary platform in mind!)
The fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth, and soured me on preordering any future Telltale titles.
So, before I preorder BTTF (or indeed order it at all), let me ask Telltale this: Can you promise that this season won't have such exclusive content? I don't want to play any game with cool Nutrition Specs-style features that PS3 owners get to unlock, but which are denied to PC users.
Telltale, I loved your games in the past, but Sam and Max Season 3 shook my faith. I hope this issue won't come up again. But just to be safe, I won't be spending money on any game that, as a PC user, I judge to be an inferior port of a console title.
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What exclusive content are you referring to? Do tell please.
Side-note: Being a bit over dramatic, no? I suppose I will hold that thought until I get clarification on the "exclusive" content.
The PS3 release of 305 had an additional ending that featured
And no, I don't think I'm being over-dramatic. Most people on this forum give Telltale a free pass on this sort of issue, but I won't.
Well, I must say -- I own many of Telltale's games on PC, but once they went PS3, I haven't looked back. Playing in 1080p with surround sound on a large HD television far surpasses playing on my PC.
I understand the sadness of seeing a company expand and cater to various markets, but that is the nature of business. I think S&M: Devil's Playhouse and ToMI are the best things the company has yet to put out. If expanding to unique markets and providing a bit of "exclusive" content will keep the titles growing in quality like this -- well, I have no problem with that.
i play at 1920x1080 resolution, and play on a 24" screen with 2.1 sound system, exactly the same i use for my xbox 360 (and PS3 if i had one). if i cared enough about it i could buy a bigger screen and a surround system.
what i'm saying is, playing on PS3 or PC is exactly the same, it just depends on how you have things set up
When Sam and Max season 3 was announced, I pre-ordered for PC on opening day, at the same price as the PS3 pre-order offer. There was no warning then that the PS3 version would have exclusive content. Ultimately, I got less gaming value for my cash than the PS3 players did. I don't think that's good business.
Perhaps that's why they called the first episode The "Penal" Zone???
Okay, that was bad. I do feel your pain though.
Definitely no argument from me there. Other than StarCraft 2, I generally tend to play stuff from GOG on my PC. Otherwise, it's PS3.
Sorry to derail...
(Namely, probably never.)
Duke Nukem Forever is coming out next year.
Game, set, match. You lose.
The answer is that you're blowing things way out of proportion. It's not like there was an hour of game content cut from the PC version. It's 2 minor details that account for about 3 seconds of difference between the two versions, and has been officially stated as "in progress" for PC numerous times. Even if they never release it, you're missing out on essentially nothing, especially given that you can watch the 3 seconds of content on youtube easily.
Again, why exactly should I feel comfortable having paid the same price for less game, when I wasn't ever warned of this in advance? That's not just bad game design, that's bad business practice.
But forewarned is forearmed, as they say. So I don't want to buy BTTF until it becomes clear whether or not it'll have exclusive PS3 content. One way or another, I want to know exactly what I'm getting for my money this time.
That said, Telltale does not give any platform 'lower priority' than another, it's just design choices.
But think of all the extra content PC users get on the DVD that PS3 owners will never get and have to go to YouTube to see. Swings and roundabouts, the only real issue here 301. The 305 ending is barely different, and besides, PC Users got exclusive content, the cutscene in 304 with Sam and the Golden Shorts, that's not on the PS3 version!.
PC wins.
My PC can't handle games anymore - it's too creaky.
I played the game on PC and after 2 playthroughs, I saw both endings. Not exclusive content.
This.