The availability of the games on Amazon will help expose them to a wider audience, and will also serve to offer a low-risk trial to potential adventure game fans who will almost immediately wish they'd just purchased the whole season.
Tales of Monkey Island available at Amazon in one-tale increments
by JC Fletcher 
on Aug 24th 2009 11:00PM
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The availability of the games on Amazon will help expose them to a wider audience, and will also serve to offer a low-risk trial to potential adventure game fans who will almost immediately wish they'd just purchased the whole season.
Reader Comments (16)
Posted: Aug 24th 2009 11:13PM (Unverified) said
Yes. It's an adventure game. Though it has nothing on Snatcher or Maniac Mansion.
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Posted: Aug 24th 2009 11:45PM ArchiGamer said
If by excrements you mean your comment, then, yes.
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Posted: Aug 24th 2009 11:55PM (Unverified) said
I always thought forcing you to buy the whole season kind of defeated the purpose of it being an episodic game.
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Posted: Aug 25th 2009 7:40AM SheppyReturns said
THANK YOU! I find it pretty ridiculous that we're days away from the second episode and only NOW does the option of a single episode purchase present itself. I know everyone thinks you're supposed to take it on faith that Monkey Island is good, but what if you didn't like the originals or the new Sam & Max episodes? Your instinct is to try this, but not at a $35 buy in.
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Posted: Aug 25th 2009 12:31AM panzerjedi said
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy from D2D, Steam, or directly from Telltale?
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Posted: Aug 25th 2009 1:37AM panzerjedi said
$8.95 x 5 = $44.75 @ Amazon.com
$34.95 everywhere else holmes.
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$34.95 everywhere else holmes.
Posted: Aug 25th 2009 2:43AM (Unverified) said
it's cheaper if you buy the full season, which is the incentive to just buy the full season right away.
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Posted: Aug 25th 2009 12:21PM (Unverified) said
I thought you could get each one individually on Telltale as well.
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Posted: Sep 2nd 2009 12:53PM (Unverified) said
The real point to episodic releases is for the game company to get returns on their work sooner, this is a big help to small companies who don't have the starting capital to wait until a game is completely finished before they can start making money.
Buying the full season helps ensure the game actually gets finished, while the taking a small risk whether the content you've paid for will still be given to you in the future or not.
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Buying the full season helps ensure the game actually gets finished, while the taking a small risk whether the content you've paid for will still be given to you in the future or not.
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