Telltale Games, the studio currently in charge of the Sam n' Max titles, has recently put out a calling for a Wii programmer. Among the very long list of necessary technical experience, the final line includes a requisite love of adventure games. Seriously.So, is SnM coming to the Wii? Rather contrary to their namesake, the company remains tight-lipped. An official forum post by the developer reads: "We haven't made any announcements about why we're hiring a Wii developer and we really really haven't said that we're working on a Sam & Max game for the Wii. If we do such a thing, you guys will be the first to hear about it, surrounded by 800 gigantic trumpets and probably some cherubs or something. But as of right now, you're talking crazy talk."
Crazy-talk is the only kind we deal with, people. Our guess? Sardonic canines and whack-job lagomorphs are coming to a Wii near you.
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1-29-2007 @ 7:05PM
Rubang B said...
This sounds like Telltale wants to have Sam and Max one of the first games available when the Wii launches their new (non-classic) content channel.
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1-29-2007 @ 7:58PM
Mr Khan said...
Yeah, right
Good luck fitting that on Wii Internal Memory
You would have to boot the game right from the Internet, which MIGHT work, if Telltale charged a monthly fee to purchase the bandwidth, otherwise loadtimes would be long as hell
(although WiiConnect24 might be good for that system, since WC24 could download the game piecemeal and sandbox style, and all you would have to go through would be occasional bad load times)
This isn't the first i've heard of this, either, right after, i believe, Liepzig Games Convention, Telltale voiced this desire
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1-29-2007 @ 8:38PM
Jake said...
Given that the Sam & Max games are only a 70mb download each, and the Wii has far more than that much memory sitting around (512 mb?), it wouldn't be that big of a reach.
Also, the picture used in this article isn't from Telltale's Sam & Max game, it's from the cancelled LucasArts one from 3 years ago.
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1-29-2007 @ 9:28PM
Mr Khan said...
really, that small?
amazing compression technology we've got today...
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1-30-2007 @ 11:01AM
Aden Nak said...
I can't help but think, as I read Telltale's official statement, that that's exactly what a character in Sam & Max would say if he was purposefully denying something that both the character and the player knew damn well was true.
"Gee, I don't know what you're talking about, or where you got such a strange and fanciful idea! Why, you're talkin' crazy talk, you are!" *wink*
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1-30-2007 @ 2:57PM
WhatIsThatThing said...
Yes, yes, hell yes. Bring on the dogs and bunnies. I'd snap that up faster than a heartbeat. Also: I'm on my Wii right now. Coincidence? More like conspiracy!
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1-31-2007 @ 8:12AM
andyr said...
Taking that thought and running off to the hills with it, wouldn't it be great if they had some sort of point and click adventure channel.
It could include all those great Lucasarts point and click adventures that fared so well in the 90's. I, for one, would happily shell out a few pounds to experience Monkey Island or Full Throttle again.
One route to provide this would be to provide Amiga emulation to the Virtual Console. Although I'm guessing this seems odd to those outside Europe, for us this was one of the stronghold platforms that introduced a generation to computer games. It took us a while longer for the SNES to really take off.
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