yeah i didnt know like half these characters so it was a harder sell compared to game 1.
sam and glados are cool though, i don't watch venture bros so that guys no good, don't care about evil dead either so that guys also off the table, and claptrap is annoying. at least the poker gameplay is the same. The TF2 items were still okay though. Overall much less charming to me personally but if you know and like all the IPs it's probably as good as the first? I wish they made this a series but telltale is more like told tale because they have been dead for the longest time.

It's largely the same as the first one quality-wise with some minor issues that bring it down a bit. For starters, the first game had an option that let you adjust how frequently the characters would engage in their bants. This game doesn't have that option, and so you hear a lot of the same conversations and skits over and over again, and it gets really grating. Especially if they involve Claptrap, who I feel like is this game's Tycho. He's not as much of a douche, but he's just as unfunny and annoying to listen to.

Also this might come off as a little bit petty, but something I really liked about Poker Night 1 was that it picked characters who became famous through online-published works and it was a genuine blend of internet and video game culture. Now that Telltale was really making a name for themselves at this point, they were able to gain access to properties that would be more likely to garner attention and money. I don't blame them, and their IP choices were actually really fantastic (seriously, Evil Dead and The Venture Bros. are AMAZING picks), but it's an element of the first game that I definitely miss.

The characters are still animated rather awkwardly, in fact at times it looks even more awkward than in the first game. Aside from that though, it's just as competent a poker simulation game as the first.