By Kieron Gillen on August 28th, 2010 at 3:46 pm.
Lauri was the first to mail us with news that Telltale are teasing us furiously via the medium of Gametrailers. A short footage stating “Bet you never thought these guys would get together”, followed by silhouettes of Him from Penny Arcade, Him from Sam ‘n’ Max, Him from Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People and – unless our eyes deceive us – him from Team Fortress 2. Holding – er – cards? They seem to be cards. What could it be? A videogame, that’s what. It’s not going to be a fridge decoration. We’ll know on September 2nd and the teaser trailer follows…
We’re going to look more stupid than normal if it’s a fridge decoration now, aren’t we?
Any guesses? Mine would be that the “get together” is meant in the carnal way, and it’s a four-way orgy featuring hot, steamy brand-on-brand action.
I believe that Telltale did a poker game before, so it could be a poker game featuring these characters. And I would be pretty disappointed.
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I too will be disappointed if it’s just another Texas Hold’em game.
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“And now they’re back, in their craaaziest adventure yet!”
I do hope it’s a better use of all those characters. I’d prefer fridge decorations.
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Magic Hold’em.
That’s my bet.
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Congratulations :(
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I don’t think it is him from TF2. Body build isn’t right.
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I dunno. It looks pretty close to me.
KG
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Yeah, it’s totally the Heavy. He just looks a bit different because he’s not slouched due to carrying a gun the size of a man.
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I disagree.
I’m prepared to be wrong, but I don’t think it is.
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Well that’s exactly why it can’t be a Heavy – where’s Sasha? Clearly, it must be a Spy whose puny frame couldn’t handle Sasha’s glorious love.
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@Dropkick
Actually, if he wasn’t so huge compared to the other characters I’d say it could be the demoman, based on the sillhouette.
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Is so.
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It is definitely the heavy, look closely and you can see the boots are the same, the trousers are the same, and he has a satchel on the left hand pocket in both pictures
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of course its the heavy, look at the size of his hands.
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Come on, ofcourse it’s the Heavy.. which other videogame character has that silhouette?
I can’t think of any that would be as famous or recognisable as the other three.
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Max / Tycho / Heavy / Strong Bad adventure game would be amazing. That rabbity thing is a spy!
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Looks a lot like the heavy.
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Yeah… I’m going to go with some sort of Poker, or other card based game (do kids these days play Whist? Or Bridge?), simulator. They’ve made a card game before, and it looks like Tycho, Sam and the Heavy are holding cards in the video. Of course, the cards could just be a red herring.
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They are just showing the characters with unique silhouettes. There is also Velma from Scooby Doo, an Innkeeper from M&B and a Radio Shack.
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Yeah, but which innkeeper? This is important.
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I really hope it’s an Adventure game set in the Wild West where you attempt to win back your deceased Uncle’s fortune after it was stolen from you due to a forged Will. You’ve hired these four heroes to help you derail trains, shoot up saloons, woo prostitutes, and rob banks until you find out who the notorious conman is who stole your rightful fortune. After revealing said man, a competitive Faro game starts where you have to win $250,000 from him, with your own personal financials at around $15,000.
..Or maybe it’s just a Poker game.
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Heavy is spy!
I rather place my guess that is indeed the heavy based on the silhouet of the head, it looks right to me.
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It is likelly to be a poker game, hopefully it will include awesome facial animations and the actual voice actor from TF2 for the Heavy.
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Bad & Max: Penny Fortress?
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A poker game would be silly – how would Strongbad possible hold the cards with those glove on? But yeah, it looks like a poker game. Silly.
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How could Strong Bad type with boxing gloves on?
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He’s not wearing boxing gloves.
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We did have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8NvCsHZ3zM
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Almost bound to be poker isn’t it? What with Jurrassic Park and Back to the Future games in the pipeline it’s hard to imagine them taking on anything much more taxing.
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I’d buy a poker game featuring the heavy, just tell me where to put my wallet :)
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The Heavy would be pretty poor at poker:
*looks at cards* OHH DIS IS BAAAD!
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“FOOL HOUSE! I BET THIS MANY SANDVICHES”
*everyone else folds*
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Presumably he’d place wagers in firing durations.
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WHY ARE LITTLE MEN ON CARDS?
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Gametrailers, you have failed me for the last time! Good thing someone already put it on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCgjfO1fO4&feature=player_embedded
If this really ends up to be only a poker game (esp with THESE characters) I’ll be very disappointed.
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…and sure as hell the video loaded when I posted and the page refreshed, no matter I refreshed it 5 times before that to no effect.
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Poker or a CCG type game could be the combat, but I definitely expect something a lot more complicated overall. If it’s JUST poker it would be an incredible waste of all these licenses.
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Wasting licenses on bad and undeveloped games is Telltale’s core competency.
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After Kingdom Hearts, I’m largely immune to character crossover surprise.
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Well, I wonder why there isn’t any mention of ToMI characters (OK, it might be a legal thing), but maybe the cards are the voodoo cards from the priestess?! ;)
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Strip Poker.
It has to be.
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Never mind that at least one of the characters has the game-breaking advantage of starting with no clothes.
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Comic-strip poker.
That or Valve are buying Tell Tale and Hothead.
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No, you mean he loses instantly by having no clothes on. The point of strip poker isn’t to end up naked, it’s to make everyone else naked,
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Do us all a favor RPS and don’t reprint announcements of announcements.
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Just a reminder, Texas hold ‘em has 4 characters.
DUN DUN DUUUN!
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It has what?
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No I think it has 12 characters
TEXAS(space don’t count)HOLD’EM
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It has four suits, other than that…
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Oh, please be Snap. Just so I get to hear “SNAP! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!” in the dulcet tones of a Russian who’s larger than the average family car.
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Average? In what country??
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Well, I’m British, and attempting to learn to drive in a Nissan Micra from about 1985, so I’m going to say old UK family cars.
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So. PA, TF2, Sam & Max, Strongbad.
and…
Poker.
Yaaaaawn.
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Strip poker and no Pyro?!
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Perhaps you’d recognize the Heavy if he was wearing a stylish hat.
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Doh, reply bug…the previous entry was meant to be in response to Drug Crazed Dropkick up above.
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Seeing the cards worries me that it’ll just be a Texas Hold Em game. Though the fact that they made a teaser video makes me hope otherwise, I mean why would they tease a card game, not many people would be excited about that.
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Maybe a poker game… but not Texas Hold’em. Heavy is holding 3 cards in his hands, same for Tycho (although it’s hard to see exactly). Maybe another kind of game with cards… or no card games at all, what would be some good news (or not).
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Come on… Strong Bad is not that short…
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“hot brand-on-brand action”.
Best line I’ve read this week.
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When I first looked at the image, I thought the dude from TF2 was clearly holding a CAKE!!! And I thought awesome!!!
But you are right, it’s cards, so it’s going to be a boring cards game. I doubt that the best cast ever will save a card game.
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Actually that Poker game was pretty good fun to play in my humble opinion. Still needs more comments from the AI players, but it features some good humor.
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My thoughts were more along the lines of a collectible card game with game characters, illustrated by the Penny Arcade guys. Not that I care either way, but… poker, really? That would be quite underwhelming. (Still, they’re bringing a friggin’ DeLorean to PAX, so here’s hoping there will at least be a teaser trailer for the BttF games, if not actual in-game footage)
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PA already has a cardgame, based off dontremember system.
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A TF2 themed Telltale adventure game would be a great idea.
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