I am big fan of each of the represented franchises(except Borderlands which I never played), but I never realized how boring some of my favorite characters could be out of context. Especially Ash Williams. In the movies he just said catch phrases and shot stuff. For a game where the dialog is supposed to be entertaining he kind of makes it drag. They had to put Max in just to make Sam interesting. They are like two machine parts that only work together. Apart they just seem out of place. Brock Sampson is of course one of the coolest characters to grace cable television, but even he can't make dialog sparkle. Ash just doesn't seem to belong here. Brock is the most dangerous fictional man to ever exist. I don't think anyone moderately deadly belongs at the same table.

The nice thing about the original Poker Night was the diversity of the characters. There doesn't seem to be the same wide spread here. It was fun to see characters that would never otherwise meet hang out for a game of poker. Also I was excited and to hear how they decided to voice Tycho from Penny Arcade. When it was first advertised I was kind of expecting a Day of the Tentacle style multi-character adventure game staring the characters, but maybe Telltale is saving that for later.

Anyway despite my disappointment in the dialog, I enjoy playing poker. One of the improvements is that you are less likely to win by betting a lot every hand. Overall the game seems to be more realistic and characters are much less predictable. I often find my self playing while listening to music.