![]() ![]() You can't raise the other players off a weak hand, or intimidate them. It becomes a lottery, and you may as well play any two cards yourself. So much of poker is based on playing the heads of the other players, rather than the cards in your hand, that there being someone who's willing to hold onto a bottom pair of 2s on a board covered in paint cards (royals), seems so improbable you can't take it into account. Because, as strange as it seems, it makes the game so much harder to play, and equally to enjoy. If you're a reasonably experienced player, you'll know the horror of a first-timer joining your game. Which makes it an awful lot like playing absolute beginners at poker. They'll bet absolutely any two cards, and will commit all their chips with any pair, no matter how weak. I just won a hand against the Heavy when he raised my all-in (um) with second-from-bottom pair, on a board covered in high cards. When you've heard Max screech about chequer boards made of human bones for the fifth time, and listened to the Heavy and Strong Bad discuss boxing yet again, what you're left with is the card game. Ultimately, as intriguing as it certainly is to have such iconic gaming characters all around one baize cloth, this is a poker game. Each has so few that you hear them endlessly, quickly growing to loathe them. It seems beyond insane that they didn't have every actor record something like a hundred different ways for saying "fold", "check", "call" or "raise". You can turn down the amount of banter, but since it's really the only thing the game's got going for it, it seems self-defeating. ![]() ![]() I am perhaps a little fed up of hearing Strong Bad and the Heavy discussing killing the King Of Town. Often because there's absolutely nothing in the game to tell it not to play the same conversation twice in a row. (Although I've not heard any reference to the failure of the Penny Arcade games, which is a tad elephantine.) But, of course, all this only counts for the first time you hear them. The conversations between the characters can be surprising and funny, sometimes poking fun at the games they're from, or the developers behind them. (When he says "fuck this shit" it's hard not to nod in agreement.)īut there are some good moments. His character is an attempt at being sardonic, but mostly he seems to be appropriately criticising how un-fun the game is to play. And Tycho is just swearing in place of having anything witty to say. Max is sadly poorly written for most of it, squawking rather than saying anything inventive, or making extremely laboured references to the Sam & Max episodes. Strong Bad and The Heavy frequently made me laugh the first time I heard their gags. About twenty minutes.Ī lot of the lines are funny. So for those who don't know their hole cards from their double-gutshot straight draws, be assured that the fun of playing cards against Sam & Max's Max, Homestar Runner's Strong Bad, Team Fortress 2's Red Heavy, and Penny Arcade's Tycho, in a secret underground card game, lasts about as long as it takes for the dialogue to start repeating. But helpfully, Poker Night At The Inventory is also weak for anyone who doesn't care much about hold 'em. To communicate quite how weak Poker Night At The Inventory is, I'm afraid I'm going to have to occasionally use wanky poker language, which will annoy anyone who doesn't care much about hold 'em. But is it also a fun game? I've been through an awful lot of its tournaments, and am ready to throw in my chips and tell you Wot I Think. Starring characters from a range of games, and including all their original voice actors, it's a really fun idea. Telltale have released their all-star super-cheap poker game, Poker Night At The Inventory. ![]()
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