Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club. In Poker Night at the Inventory, you'll deal with Penny Arcade's clever, cunning Tycho, Team Fortress 2's hulking Heavy, Homestar Runner's self-proclaimed "awesome icon" Strong Bad and the hyperkinetic "rabbity-thing" from Sam & Max. These characters come together in ways some never thought possible, in a setting few would have predicted. Unlock new TF2 items by beating The Heavy, Max, Tycho, or Strong Bad at high stakes games of poker.
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So I've finally played it, the Texas Hold 'Em poker game by telltale games. I never really played Texas Hold 'Em poker before, so this was a first try by actually giving it a chance. The big reason as for why, is because of the video essay's on it by meikkon. What a free thinker that I am, anyway let's get on it.
I did learn the game a bit, to actually win a few Tournaments on Normal difficulty, I got all the tf2 items in-game by knocking the opponents when they bet their items (that don't mean anything because I played this by the offline version), surprising there are more custom items you can unlock by winning the tournaments like card skins (there's a Sam and Max, a tf2 witch is my favorite, a strong bad set and more), a table theme (my favorite is the automata theme that changes the whole scene to black and white). I always love extra things like this. It's what makes want to go back to play a game that I can customize the experience.
The dialogue gets repetitive quick, but you can shut the character. In my experience, The winning quotes by Strong Bad got annoying. The cast is perfect, I think I got a crush on Tycho because of the voice actor cocky delivery on the lines that makes "I'm a gamer that chooses to live many lives" super tame. I kinda get the hate for Tycho, and the giraffe line makes Tycho seems borderline insane. But I wouldn't have it any other way, The banter in this game is fun listening a couple of times.
The animations have some of the typical telltale engine problems that you can find in any telltale game of the time, sometimes I can never see Tycho eyes in his smirk face. But the charm makes for it, like Heavy animations are spectacular.
I haven't unlocked everything in the game, but I think this games deserves a chance if you like the concept. It is a shame that you can't can buy this game anymore, and the concept of poker night's dream matches between characters of different franchises isn't being expanded. At least make it with telltale franchises or indie titles.
I did learn the game a bit, to actually win a few Tournaments on Normal difficulty, I got all the tf2 items in-game by knocking the opponents when they bet their items (that don't mean anything because I played this by the offline version), surprising there are more custom items you can unlock by winning the tournaments like card skins (there's a Sam and Max, a tf2 witch is my favorite, a strong bad set and more), a table theme (my favorite is the automata theme that changes the whole scene to black and white). I always love extra things like this. It's what makes want to go back to play a game that I can customize the experience.
The dialogue gets repetitive quick, but you can shut the character. In my experience, The winning quotes by Strong Bad got annoying. The cast is perfect, I think I got a crush on Tycho because of the voice actor cocky delivery on the lines that makes "I'm a gamer that chooses to live many lives" super tame. I kinda get the hate for Tycho, and the giraffe line makes Tycho seems borderline insane. But I wouldn't have it any other way, The banter in this game is fun listening a couple of times.
The animations have some of the typical telltale engine problems that you can find in any telltale game of the time, sometimes I can never see Tycho eyes in his smirk face. But the charm makes for it, like Heavy animations are spectacular.
I haven't unlocked everything in the game, but I think this games deserves a chance if you like the concept. It is a shame that you can't can buy this game anymore, and the concept of poker night's dream matches between characters of different franchises isn't being expanded. At least make it with telltale franchises or indie titles.
the poker night duology is an interesting one, because in retrospect, after having playing both, I think 1 holds up better than 2 does for two specific reasons.
1: the items in tf2 are so much better than 2's it's insane
2: you can make the characters shut the fuck up as well as skip their dialog, which unless I'm stupid is straight up missing from the sequel. why? idk.
my first reason is pretty subjective, but the second one is so important for long term play. 2 feels so much clunkier once the charm wears off and you start hearing the same 10 conversations over and over. either way, poker night 1 is just poker with video game characters. most people only care about this nowadays for the tf2 stuff, and its really damn good. a totally ok poker sim, nothing I'll dedicate much time to
1: the items in tf2 are so much better than 2's it's insane
2: you can make the characters shut the fuck up as well as skip their dialog, which unless I'm stupid is straight up missing from the sequel. why? idk.
my first reason is pretty subjective, but the second one is so important for long term play. 2 feels so much clunkier once the charm wears off and you start hearing the same 10 conversations over and over. either way, poker night 1 is just poker with video game characters. most people only care about this nowadays for the tf2 stuff, and its really damn good. a totally ok poker sim, nothing I'll dedicate much time to
I love Max he's a little rabbit freak and he doesn't know how to play poker (just like me)
Fun to see interactions between Strong Bad and TF2 Heavy but it lost its luster after a few rounds.
I learned how to play poker, thank you Heavy.