Feathers McGraw
Feathers McGraw is probably one of my favourite fictional villains, the chillingly homicidal, gun-toting penguin from The Wrong Trousers (with references hidden in a Close Shave and Curse of the Were-Rabbit). Will this little fellow be returning in W&G's Grand Adventures?
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To that I have to ask: If all we did was rehash previous content, what would be the point? How many times has Feathers shown up outside The Wrong Trousers? And how many more times can he show up and still be compelling and fresh?
I don't know what the stories of the episodes actually will be, how much will be an homage to old stuff versus new, etc, etc (despite working at Telltale, I'm not very involved in W&G, beyond being excited about it and helping a little with the UI) so I am actually just rambling here, but I think they're valid questions to ask yourself about what you'd want to see.
It wouldn't be rehashing previous content, you've proved that you can do something fresh, new and awesome with your existing IPs. And Feathers hasn't really shown up outside of the Wrong Trousers, his appareances were limited to a split-second hiding spot in the climax of the Were-Rabbit and his name scrawled on Gromit's cell wall in A Close Shave. I think there's plenty of potential for him and other characters from the series (even if they're just cameos or sly references).
This would be good. Or he could be a Bosco-like character and show up in disguise with his rubber glove on and then something ridiculous like an oversized moustache and glasses.
Much as I enjoyed both seasons of Sam & Max, I can't help but feel a twinge of irony when reading a Telltale Games employee say that...
As far as I can tell, Wallace and Gromit themselves are the only recurring characters in each short and film.
That said, Shaun appeared in one of the Cracking Contraptions episodes, and Wendolene and Preston appeared in one of the comics, but I don't know if those appearances count or not, seeing as they're not proper films like the others.
Your point is valid, but I hope you realize this is coming from a game developer in which the villain of the second season is a common character from the first season?
(not that I had any problem with it.)
I think maintaining a continuity in a serialized series is different than importing a character from some other incarnation into your series. Again, I don't really think it would be a problem if that guy showed up, in some capacity, but only if its appropriate -- we're not making a "sequel" to any particular Wallace & Gromit story or something. With Sam & Max we didn't, for instance, make Lee Harvey and Conroy Bumpus show up out of nowhere or something like that.
That said, would I complain if Mack Salmon showed up suddenly in a Sam & Max episode? Nope, I'd be pretty happy, to be honest. So, maybe I should just shut up and go home!
"make new friends but keep the old"
wrong series, knucklehead.
knowing Ardman they'll do it, i've seen wanted posters of Feather's all over the place, i've also seen refrences in the Newspaper
Anyway, no.
nope no way, nuh uh, sorry man, nope
Also, Shaun the Sheep rocks.
While I would normally agree that having them show up would be dumb in 99% of possible scenarios, they would fit in perfectly if you had a sequence where you met up with all the previous villains that Sam & Max had killed in the past, in Hell or something. Too bad there was nothing like that in the last episode... Oh wait
Seriously though, there's a difference between meaningless rehashing and clever continuity, so if you can get the penguin to fit into the latter method, I'm all for it. I'd also be in favor of making one of your original characters a penguin, because man, penguins look awesome in this style.