Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered Announced For 2023

HOLY BEER BATTERED PRINCES OF MAINE AND KINGS OF NEW ENGLAND IN A GLASS-BOTTOM BOAT WITH A TRIP-HOP DJ AND THE SECOND RUNNER UP IN THE MISS TEEN OKLAHOMA PAGEANT

(one whooping it up session later)

it'll be four years in a row that an adventure game is my game of the year

I would be interested in this if they didn't do the unforgivable and censored jokes in the previous remaster while lying through their teeth saying they wouldn't do that. I can't really support that.

@ottoecamn Pretty sure they fixed that in the Season 2 remaster.

@ottoecamn yeah, let me stop you there.

They only cut out 10 throwaway lines in the FIRST SEASON(which is about .01% of the overall dialogue). In season 2 NONE of the dialogue was cut or altered in any form or fashion. And if you're going to bring Bosco's voice change, that shouldn't matter here because he wasn't IN season 3.

These games are pretty nostalgic, I used to watch my cousin play them a lot when I was up in Toronto as a kid (I know I sound like a broken record but for those who don’t know, I now live in Utah, USA for schooling and healthcare reasons). I’m actually hyped for this.

YESSSZ LET'S GOOOOO!!

You know what should be done next? I'm thinking a sequel to a certain game made for attractive people

One of those games, where at my age I'm trying to remember if I played this one? Definitely played a lot of SCUMM games, especially Sam and Max, DotT

Will Samuel and Maxwell season 4 have a kissing scene? I hope not my mommy will take away my 3ds 🥺😭

@N00BiSH well, it's good to know nothing was cut from season 2.
regardless. I'm not in favor of censorship, specially when the ones behind it try to hide it. They made a lot of Bosco's jokes objectively less funny. So what I said still applies at least to season 1. (But hey, if they stopped doing that, it's definetly a good thing).

@ArchRex I wasn't aware of that. I stopped following after I heard of season 1. If nothing is changed in 2 and in this coming one, I might give it a chance.

@ottoecamn feel like jokes can't really be objectively less funny by nature

@somebread : That's like arguing that the quality drop-off of The Simpsons in its double-digit seasons is merely a subjective statement.

Preference is subjective. Quality, not so much.

Hooray! Glad to see these games getting another go of things, Sam & Max is one of my favourite series out there. Got to be Strong Bad coming next surely?

Love these games. Need to get the 2nd one on Switch still. Keep meaning to. I had it on the WII, but it was such a poor port. The stuttering glacier slowdown when just moving and audio clipping made me give up early on. A shame as the first one on Wii was well done. Never experienced any of the 3rd.

I only remember playing Season 1 briefly, back then… what are they like, compared to the Lucasfilm classics? Really good?

@N00BiSH
Doesn't matter what they cut. They cut dialogue. And its worse than that as they decided instead of uncensoring the game (because they are objectively wrong), they just said "Play the old version".

Why would I spend money on a censored product? Why would I spend money on a censored product where the devs tell me to "just play the old games"?

And if you think this is fine, I don't want to hear complaints when Nintendo censors their games of any LGBT stuff for China and the Middle East. There is no middle ground.

@nessisonett I might have to stop you there. SBCG4AP is already on Steam. But a Switch Port might be likely, not a full-blown remaster. I don't even THINK we need Matt Chapman to have some vocal fixing to repeat the bulk of the lines as Strong Bad, let alone Bubs or even Senor Cardgage. And another thing will they replace The Paper with New Paper with the "Clonk-a-donk." or go the extra mile and use 3D The Paper, with "CG-eeow?"

Sam was right about one thing, back in "Culture Shock," Patience is a sharp razor to swallow.

@BloodyMurder You do you. At this point, when most others are over it, and the when the devs corrected their decision in the second remaster, I still don't see why that's worth getting this worked up over.

@N00BiSH
They have corrected NOTHING. The first game is still censored and you are moving a goalpost. And they will hear about it until the end of time.

Shame to see the Conservative Christians in the 90's won in the end. This is exactly what they wanted.

@BloodyMurder You can choose to live with that and move on, or you can wring your hands and pretend you're just concerned about the non-existent damage being done to the poor Freelance Police

@BloodyMurder I feel like you’re kind of making a mountain out of a molehill here, pal. Everything is censored or changed in one way or another, from news to movies to video games, it’s just kinda how it works…

When I purchased the first Sam & Max for Nintendo Switch (via Limited Run), was sold an empty cardboard box, with space for three games, and on the side of that box were written the names of the 3 games: Save the World, Beyond Time, and this The Devil's Playhouse.

Did they continue censuring jokes like in the first remaster?

@fenlix

@N00BiSH That's some aggresive nod, I didn't know they had messed it up again.

@fenlix Look. If you don't like the changes, I can't make you like them. But stop pretending like you represent some silent, long-suffering majority.

There are a few groups of games/developers for whom I carry a soft spot:

Telltale (including Sam & Max)
Maxis (PC and SNES)
Sid Meier (anything really)
Lucas Arts (Monkey Island, 90s/early 2000s era Star Wars PC games)

Sam & Max fall into a grouping of games that just take me back to a very specific time and mood. Not the best days of my life, but a unique one. Bring ‘em on!

@N00BiSH To be honest, while I don't mind the changes, the do come off a bit flat compared to the stuff they were replacing. Not bad, but it was clear that they didn't have time to refine the jokes.

For example, here's how I would rewrite one of the jokes of episode 1: "This will clear a room faster than the aftermath of Stinky's 47 Bean Burrito Bonanza!"

@N00BiSH

Realizing I'm late to the party here, but I have to say I have always been against censorship, not as some kind of conspiracy-laden party line but just frankly prefer to see the artist's original vision. I will pay extra to buy uncut versions of movies or demos from recording artists. I didn't buy the original remaster of Sam and Max because of this, but your GIF here seriously has changed my views on this. It is not nor should be such a big friggin' deal. Bravo sir.