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[Spoonman]

Originally Posted by Dogwolf

The original is one of my favourite all time adventure games!

except for monkey Island 1 & 2, I agree. The new episodes aren't bad at all, but it feels too limited in comparison to the first game. Limited in places to go, cartoon violence and wackiness. There still remains a lot of dialogue to enjoy and the music and graphics are great, for me the whole series-concept just seems to be a cheap way to earn money. I would have preferred just one, really big game with more diversity over these small, fun but repetitive chunks of joy.

[Burger Meister]

I got sam & max season 1... I'm on the end of episode 1 right now. It's really fun!

[gufu1992]

I tried the new games, with free episode 4... yeah, I am stuck even after interacting with all possible objects. The guy just won't let me in.

But the humor, is still there... just if wasn't been repeating. :/

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally Posted by Spoonman

except for monkey Island 1 & 2, I agree. The new episodes aren't bad at all, but it feels too limited in comparison to the first game. Limited in places to go, cartoon violence and wackiness. There still remains a lot of dialogue to enjoy and the music and graphics are great, for me the whole series-concept just seems to be a cheap way to earn money. I would have preferred just one, really big game with more diversity over these small, fun but repetitive chunks of joy.

To me it captures the spirit of Steve Purcell's original comics far better than LucasArts' ever did, not only that, but the puzzles make more sense. I still consider Sam & Max: Hit The Road to be a really shakey adventure game.

Quite frankly, you shouldn't be buying the episodes one by one, you can buy the entire first series in one pack, and I assume a new pack will be released for the second season as well. You can really only blame yourself for buying into it in the first place.

[Spoonman]

Well, actually it's not as much about the money you pay for it as about talking to the same characters and visiting the same (starting) places over again every episode.
But I do think anxious buyers\fans are being taken advantage of; it's like the advertising tells you "oh come on, buy it.. it's only 9 dollars! Uhm oh, I mean 6 times 9 dollars, unless you'd like to wait until every episode is on the market while all your friends are already halfway season 3". Any game distributor wanting to make money does something similair like that with its game ofcourse, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

[cardboard42]

They mix up the locations and characters more in the second season. I, too was starting to get a bit bored of the same old street by the end of season 1. However, some of the puzzles in season 2 seemed a bit less intuitive then before, especially in episode 4 (IIRC).