What about a movie mode ?
Hi everybody,
I was playing Sam and Max a few days ago, and after having some episode finished, and realizing all the time I spent on it (clicking on quite every single dialog possibility to get all the mad the game can be full of), I thought i twould be nice to review it, like a movie, without playing, just seeing the entire action and dialogs (not ALL of them, but the funniest of course). This wouldn't be possible until you've just finished the game, as to protect the player from viewing all the game and get the solution so easily (why not, even through debug mode).
I think this is possible, I read some posts about the famous T3 Tool, and I'm sure this would be an interesting way of getting more Sam&Max out of the box with lots of pleasure. And it would make whole films real-timed generated
What about this ? Does it have been already discussed somewhere I didn't find ? Or maybe already made ? Or in progress ? What do you think of this ?
I was playing Sam and Max a few days ago, and after having some episode finished, and realizing all the time I spent on it (clicking on quite every single dialog possibility to get all the mad the game can be full of), I thought i twould be nice to review it, like a movie, without playing, just seeing the entire action and dialogs (not ALL of them, but the funniest of course). This wouldn't be possible until you've just finished the game, as to protect the player from viewing all the game and get the solution so easily (why not, even through debug mode).
I think this is possible, I read some posts about the famous T3 Tool, and I'm sure this would be an interesting way of getting more Sam&Max out of the box with lots of pleasure. And it would make whole films real-timed generated
What about this ? Does it have been already discussed somewhere I didn't find ? Or maybe already made ? Or in progress ? What do you think of this ?
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Until your pre-scripted click happens to, for instance, accidentally click on Max who was walking by of his own free will, or fails to click on Bosco because he has paced over to the left side of the counter, and then suddenly it's all off and the rest of your awesome pre-recorded clicks fail to hit their targets and you're screwed. That's just one example! It sounds easier than it is. We've thought about it before
That's about as close as you get, though it's not 100% of Ice Station Santa (some stuff left out and some stuff changed)... also just to give you an idea that took a really long time to put together/edit/tweak. Nick and Justin and Jake (and anyone else who worked on it who I forgot) were at work for like a month straight putting it together.
I thought you would just have to say "Click on Max" for instance, not "Click over there", telling actions more than just clickpoints. With that, you would not care about the item's position, cameras, and in-game display (inventory, mouse pointer...). Seems that the tool is not designed for that kind of "shortcuts", but I just thought it by playing the game.
I thought it too, but I was curious that nobody was talking about it.
OK then
Yes that's the idea, but not turned into a plain video (letting the poor little video cards doing their 3D-jobs). And keeping subtitles too
Yeah, people around here are afraid of me. I'm a mean scary man.
I will vouch for that.
You wouldn't have to make the video yourself, but let the user's hardware do it for you. It's not for releasing the videos on DVD for a DVD player, but a real EXE that runs on a computer and plays the movie real-time, jsut like the game does. (Or i misunderstood what you said
Really, though, doing it in-game is not amazingly difficult, but it's not a walk in the park. Doing it as video content is much easier and achieves a similar effect. This conversation is getting very cyclical. You keep telling us that something we have already thought about doing and then dismissed because it wasn't easy, is easy, and we keep saying that it's not going to explode the earth, but isn't just scripting something up in an afternoon. I don't think this is going to go anywhere.
I thought that was how our forums worked?
sorry i had just to say something which had nothing to do with the topic i dont know why but now back to topic:
i think that the idea is nice. but is a complicated thing to do - as already confirmed by Jake and others. another point that some people want to play the game over and over again because it is more fun that way. games are a more interactive media than movies. so i dont really think that there is point to make a movie out of a game. okay except for the occasional movie to the game.
thats an idea: a sam and max animated movie
* I didn't mean to come off as a jerk before! Sorry if I did.
That's OK, I'm surely not used enough to this kind of "jerky" messages, as I could perhaps misunderstand some of the english expressions or stuff. But as I read, I took some posts not very "welcoming", even if they were actually. I'm sorry for that.
Well, let's not start a war here please
And he would nuke us all !
Of course, having the episodes fully played would add up to about 2 or 3 hours each, so that probably wouldn't be possible (unless you make S2 a 2-disc set
IMO, a game should be played, not watched
Is hard implement a mode that register in a movie file all what the user see in the S&M window excluding the mouse pointer and the answer choices?
I was discussing technically, and it appeared that the idea was already pointed out but, too much work for not that much interest.
And the idea was to see the movie after playing the game, just to see all the action again and remember all the story without clicking again.
That's so going into my signature when I feel less lazy!
You can find on Youtube movies of the game being played through, you might want to find out what those people use, but don't harass them about it because I'm sure that's annoying.
What's this Internet people keep talking about?
Anyone ever bother watching them? No, me neither.