Telltale's Getting the Gang Back Together for Poker Night 2

LOL!

@deusoma: Ah... no, how games are made absolutely changes that.

Again, you are assuming that the time and money would go to working on anything else. That's not true, it would just disappear. Investment and workforce are built up for a game. No game, no workforce, no financing. Unfortunately you have plenty of examples of this out there recently, from LucasArts to High Moon.

High Moon particularly. If you thought "Man, I wish High Moon would stop working on that weird Deadpool game and make Transformers 3 instead" there are now a bunch of unemployed developers and an unrealized Transformers sequel out there to show exactly why that kind of thinking doesn't really work.

@noelveiga: I don't care one way or another about more Walking Dead, friend, but there's nothing fallacious about the fact that if they weren't working on Poker Night, they'd be working on literally anything else. Unless this game sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus, they're still investing time, effort, and money into this project, nothing about the process of how and when games get developed will change that. :P

I'm picking up the first one on steam now. Ryan and Brad do a Quick Look EX of the first Poker Night if anyone wants to see what this game will probably look like but with different characters.

I love it besides not having Bruce for Ash, that's like not having hot sauce for chicken wings....

I'll gladly (maybe) buy this for 1.25-2.50 on steam for some TF2 items, while skipping over the dialogue that starts to repeat itself after an hour of playing.

I'm disappointed as well, but there's a big differences between "If they couldn't get Campbell, why have Ash?" (which I understand, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt) and "WHY DIDN'T THEY GET BRUCE CAMPBELL TO PLAY ASH?!"

I'm pretty excited about this, I enjoyed the first one, the choice of characters are a little weird though. Why Brock and Ash? Not that I don't like the characters, but they seem out of place.

OMG OMG!!!

BROCK FUCKING SAMSON!

YEEEAAAHHH!!!

Don't even think about it that much dude. The internet really just likes to write words and phrases down to amuse itself. Even when they has no god damned idea what it's saying or why.

like... did they not consider that no-one wants that character if Bruce Campbell isn't playing him? anyway what do I care? it's just a poker game; why would I spend any form of currency for that?

To be fair, it's pretty disappointing. If you can't get Bruce Campbell, what's the point of having the Ash character at all? Seeing as how they're throwing any semblance of 'canon' or consistency, surely they could have found another random-ass character whose VA would have been available.

Also, Burn Notice video game should happen, even if it's a reskinned Alpha Protocol.

HILARIOUS how many people just assume you can hit a button and make Bruce Campbell appear. Dude might've been busy. Or too expensive (he DOES have a hit TV show these days). Or not interested. Can we not all just be THRILLED they got Patrick Warburton??

This is 100% confirmed.

I was all HELL YEA! Brock FUCKING SAMSON! Then I heard Bruce's voice.....Now Im just sad. Fucking take him out now!

EPIC! Also Evil Dead Telltale could be sweet. If they had his FUCKING VOICE THAT IS!!!

YO BROCK.

Welp, gotta buy this I guess.

Man, I'd really love to see a Venture Brothers Telltale game.

Let's get the license for Bruce Campbell's most beloved character and then fail to get Bruce Campbell to voice it because we trade in disappointment!

Eh, it could just be a temp voice - it certainly sounds like it.

Ah, now this is a very interesting point. I like it because you hear it a lot, but it's entirely fallacious.

See, this presumes that games are financed and developed in the same way that they are purchased. That is, I have sixty bucks to buy a game, so if I buy game A I can't buy game B for sixty each.

That's... not quite how it works. Games or movies or music (it's a bit different for TV) are made to get the most return for the investment, and the investment is planned ahead of time. If a studio needs more people or time to make a game they'll ramp up to have it. If a studio doesn't make a game, they'll whittle down to be only as big as they need to be.

So this notion of "if they didn't make Poker Night 2 they'd be making more Walking Dead" is entirely untrue. If they weren't making this a bunch of them would be out of a job, because Walking Dead makes exactly as much money as it makes. Walking Dead is never going to be any bigger or better because Telltale isn't doing other stuff, because the amount of money they know (or at least they expect) the game will make doesn't change, the optimal point where the game is as good as it needs to be in time for launch to make the most money back is basically fixed.

That means that Telltale doesn't look at the number of people, money and time they have and think "what can we do with all this stuff?". It's the other way around. If anything, the money they make on Poker Night is going to the same bucket from which financing for Walking Dead is coming, so the more successful their other projects are, the more risks they are able to take (because they have deeper pockets in case they fail and need to live with the loss) and the more likely it is that they will engage in making the games you do like, as opposed to sending people home and calling it a day.

Do you see where I'm coming from? That's why I find it so annoying when people say these things. That's just not how it works at all.

@noelveiga: Oh, that's easy, friend. I wish this didn't exist not out of malice for the concept or for the people who do like it, but because if it didn't exist, then Telltale could be putting resources towards other projects, perhaps projects I would like a lot better.

Same reason I disliked the existence of StarCraft: Ghost right up until it finally got cancelled. All that time Blizzard spent on a Splinter Cell-style stealth game was time not being spent on StarCraft II. That's why it took until 2010 for that game to come out. :P

They don't have Bruce Campbell, but they do have Patrick Warburton...

So any chance of Dr Orpheus DLC?

I approve. Way better cast than the original and glad they are releasing on PSN.

WARBURTON!!

Nice, the first one was quite funny.

really makes me want more venture bros episodes :(

All the times I've watched the Evil Dead films, and I never knew Ash's surname is Williams... It's a real shame they couldn't get Bruce Campbell involved.

I wish I liked poker, is all I can say!

As somebody who loved Poker Night at the Inventory, I am super excited.

Looking forward to some kind of "hey ash whatcha playin" joke.

That is not Bruce Campbell... no sale

Also...Where's lee Everett?

Fuck Claptrap.

sad to say but: No Bruce Campbell = No sale.

Obviously bruce is too big time now with his cameos for this game, but i'm on board if this isn't a Fool's joke honestly.

This reminded me that the new Venture Bros season is coming out soon. This is all good news.

Don't think I can't see that P. You faker.

First game was really good, actually a pretty good laugh and a solid poker title. If this comes with the same sort of TF2 rewards, then I'm probably in on it.

How about the characters featured in the Poker Night games pull off Ocean's Eleven-style heists instead?

I approve this.

@ll_exile_ll: plus theres already revealed promo items for tf2, its no april foolin' its for realz!

@wewantsthering said:

Then they have to make all of the old characters talk to all of the new ones.

How is this any crazier than all of those videos Valve makes for TF2? That one guy got Ellen McLain for his Portal proposal. Remember this?

It is super weird to include Ash in this just to use a sound-alike. I'm more inclined to think that maybe somebody out there's making a new Evil Dead game that hasn't been announced yet.

@meatsim said:

Yeah, the first Poker Night at least made sense, if you knew enough about TellTale and what licenses they have access to (though the inclusion of Tycho was random).

But this lineup is bizarre, given that the premise of the game is "where do video game characters hang out when they get off work". So sure, Sam, Claptrap and GlaDOS make sense. But has there ever been a good Evil Dead game? And has there even been a Venture Bros. game?

@beeryayghost: Yer gosh darn right it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMGCUH-lLY

Brock. Samson. Sign me the fuck up!

Tbf, does Bruce even sound much like Ash anymore?

You know, I'm also not sure if this is serious or not.

Part of me wants this to be serious, but in a DLC sort-of-way to the original Poker Night. But, what do I know? If this is real, then maybe it's easier to convince character licensing when you're including them in a brand new game instead of tacking them onto the old one.

That Brock model though... that's too good. Even if this whole video was just an April Fool's hoax, I want to believe that it's hinting at a possible future venture for Telltale. HAHAAAAA... get it??

If you don't care about it, why are you sad that it exists? Surely if you don't intend to play it this doesn't affect you in any way, right?

I mean, you're not the worst offender on this, but the Internet kind of pisses me off when it generally takes the attitude of "if I don't like it, it shouldn't exist".

The thing that actually saddens me? No Bruce Campbell as the voice actor for Ash.

Sweet cast of characters. Yay for Brock Sampson.

@abendlaender: The character's full name is Ashley "Ash" Williams.

Same.

Go team Venture!