One problem: One of the highlights of Poker Night is when three or four of the characters get into a funny conversation about something. If you added new characters and allowed them to be used with the old characters, you would have to not only records voice-overs for the new characters, but you also have to have the voice actors of the existing characters come in to record new conversations with every possible combination of characters that could show up on the table. Not to mention checking for any possible bugs such as when a character could start up a conversation that involves a character who isn't participating in the current game. Repeat this for every time a new set of characters are added to the game.
The only way additional characters would work is if you package them in sets of four and you can only play Poker with each four character set at a time, no mixing and matching of characters. The issues I point out above would make the amount of effort needed to implement mix-and-match characters too high to be worth it. It's not as simple as "model new characters, record lines, throw it into a patch".
edited 5th Dec '10 10:28:49 PM by NeoChaos
The issue with having Duke as a character in such a game is the possibility of him losing. That would be outright Character Derailment!
Nick, Sam, Homestar and Gabe would be the most logical choice since it'd just be using different characters from the same series (or developers in Nick's case).
I'd like to see Yahtzee play poker, though.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but there is no "big lie", there is no "system". The universe is indifferent.![]()
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In other words, you're saying I overlooked the Combinatorial Explosion. Thanks for pointing that out.
A character from Schlock Mercenary would fit in very nicely for personality and style, if not the "video game connection" bit. Either Schlock, Tagon, Kevyn or Elf I think.
I'd have to go with Homestar Runner (Max's playstyle), Guybrush Threepwood (Strongbad's playstyle), Cranky Kong (Heavy's playstyle), and RED Spy (Tycho's playstyle). And whenever Cranky wagers his cane, you'd get to hear it described as being made "back in my day when games were sold with everything that was going to be in them. We didn't have your newfangled downloadable whatsits and we didn't play a second game to get something special to use in the first game back then, and dagnabbit, we liked it that way!"
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.Team Fortress 2 Night at the Inventory?
...Nah.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
Respect the Red Right Hand
Gabe for sure, going "So Tycho said THAT about my poker? Big words coming from the man who lost the Watch! It's time for you to be schooled in Professor Gabriel's Poker 201." Show everyone that Gabe just had bad cards when Tycho saw him play. Now if he had GOOD or GREAT cards...then Jonathan Gabriel could "bet the line" as he "painted everyone else broke"—heh.
The Engineer. He's a nice, casual guy who's a distinct contrast from the other characters. He's good natured, good with people, etc. Of course, that only lasts until he starts killing... Also, he could use a miniature dispenser for beer, which would be awesome.
And if anyone from Homestuck gets in, it should be Dave. Just imagine listening to metaphor after metaphor after metaphor...
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Keep in mind, everyone in the game has to have a Telltale Games connection (Tycho was the exception, but they were unveiling the game at PAX).
Holy crap... how about DOC BROWN?!
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I second Duke Nukem. Think of all the jokes they could make about his (post) Vaporware status?