The International House of Mojo

I echo everyone's sentiments about the character models needing a bit more variety but to be fair I don't really care. I'm too excited that we're gearing up for Chapter 3 already. I'm such a sad act, I've booked Wednesday off work just for it. Could've spent the day with an actual female and yet I've snubbed it in favour of playing TMI.

I thought de Cava looked like the Guybrush model

i know... just today i was noticing it while playing, i was all like "hey, Lucy West is exactly the same as Sentinel Lyons... and Moira looks just like amata and..."
...wait a sec, that was fallout 3, nm.

Come to think of it, isn't Morgan an Elaine model?

I'm pretty sure Guybrush is LeChuck too. (Elaine and Morgan are their own models.)

Fortunately I take so much LSD every day that all the characters in every game, film and television show look completely identical anyway.

So I think it's a bold statement from Telltale: Everything is one.

Ho ho!

Am I me?

Who knows? Post a picture of your 3D model.

Good to know that our maniacal friend is back. Oops, spoiler warning.

Ugh. It looks like De Cava also re-uses the skinny model.

I won't discuss it too much, because impressions should still be under embargo, but I'm playing the review code right now.
I must say that the infamouse recycling is still there, but they did a much better job to disguise the usual base-models this time around.

I guess this issue is tightly related to Tales being the first "continuous" Telltale series. Half of each episode of Sam & Max, Strong Bad and Wallace & Gromit featured recurring rooms and characters. Tales always offers new environments and characters, and I guess the Telltale production model is suffering from this take.

Ditto. Just that.

Oh for... he's a major character introduced in the first episode, and they didn't have time to make a unique model for him?! This is starting to tick me off.

That was clearly planned from the beginning. He looked just like that in all the pictures we saw of him so I really don't know how they could have given him a different model.

Not that I really support this recycling. maybe it's necessary but to me it's the one "big" problem with this series.

I somehow don't mind the character recycling almost at all. The only time it was getting irritating was on Flotsam.

Yeah, the models are much better disguised in the second episode but it kind of hurts the immersion to always notice these things.

I can confirm that while those skinny and thin pirate models do return in Episode 3, they are even better disguised - you have to be looking out for them to notice them.

It's as if all my dreams have come true...
I wish Telltale could go back to episode 1 and tweak those models a little bit more and all would be fine. A special edition dvd would be awesome but I'm not holding my breath.

Actually, I apologise Telltale. Now I've actually looked properly De Cava only very, very generally appears to be the skinny pirate. He does appear to be a proper new model.

Its weird that they only have to charcter models though. One fat and short model and a skinny and tall model

There are three models. The third is rather tall, but doesn't have a much more round face than the skinny, tall type.

should be "does" and not "doesn't"

Actually... I didn't even look at those screenshots before I commented for the fear of spoilers. I was certain from the beginning that De Cava was going to be based on the skinny model... but now I actually had to check that picture and yeah... it's definately a new model.