Apparently according to brutal mooses review Humongous lost alot of great people So the actors were swapped And being honest I don't mind But the animation..
There is an actual reason for that and why the game looks and plays more cheaply, and it can be summed up in two words: budget cuts. To give the summed up version: Atari, Inc. didn't want to make anymore of the adventure games, but they eventually allowed the team to make more, on the condition that they keep the costs down, resulting in much of the art and animation being outsourced to other companies, on top of literally learning how to use a new game engine while they were making the game. Also, as a result of the lower budget, they couldn't afford to hire back Pamala Adlon to reprise Sam.
It's interesting to see all the comments talking about how this is the worst one and how the voice is terrible whereas I'm thinking "oh man, this is great" this game came out around the same time my family got our first desktop and my mom bought me this game. It was basically a big part of my childhood and it's very nostalgic for me.. reminds me of simple times lol Thank you uploading my dude!
Pajama Sam 1,2,and 3, were alot of fun but I had no idea there was a 4th. Im kinda glad i didn't know about it cause it seems way worse than they used to be.
@@sammusgraves6138 LMAO no *you* are the crazy one, this game is wack and the voice acting is terrible! The original Pajama Sam game (No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside) will always be THE BEST!
Little fun fact for anyone who played "Pajama Sam, No need to hide when it's dark outside": if you look at the room where Sam finds his comic book, it's the same room layout as the one where you get the oars in "Pajama Sam, No need to hide when it's dark outside" even with the trap door at the top.
94supersonic i agree i miss the old voice actor the new one sounds like a woman and you can tell shes trying way too hard to sound like the original pajama sam voice actor
Why are the lips so out of sync? They completely fixed that in the games prior to this one. It's as if they did it on purpose. If this game didn't have those flaws it would've been the best one! The world and plot line are fantastic! Dangit Atari!! Or whoever bought Humongous Entertainment! I don't remember...
Atari then-owns Humongous before Tommo resurrected the Humongous we know and love in the end of 2013 and early 2014. And to answer your question about the lip-sync, it's because of budget cuts, thus making the dialog sync like an up-and-down teeter-totter. Let's watch the lip-sink, okay? (That was a Freakazoid quote, which sums up the lip-sync in the game perfectly.)
I got a little story, regarding this game. First thing: I played this for like an hour or so when I was in preschool at a birthday party while my mom was talking to other people. Second thing: I did not own the game, it was opened up on someone's computer and I just decided "Hey, wonder what this does." Third thing: this game and my few memories of what I played of the game have HAUNTED me for years and I could never figure out if this game was real or not since I didn't remember the game's name. Honestly, others may say what they want about the game, but all I know is that this game has both haunted my memories and probably served as the catalyst that brought me to where I am today.
This game was my entire childhood. I could never figure out that you needed to rub ice on the gum, so never finished it. Then I suddenly decided to play it and finished it in two hours (would have finished it sooner, but I read all the trading cards and forgot about the sequencing, so it took me a while to remember what to do to be able to do everything)
I loved this series. Humongous entertainment was allways one of my favorites. i played the pajama Sam series, the PuttPutt series, the Freddi Fish series, and one of the Spyfox games. Pajama sam was allways my favorite. i loved these games soo much. humongous entertainment is a really awesome company
This is like the only game I played as a kid... I'm so glad I found it, I don't care if it's bad, I really like it cause it brings back good memories... Back when I was 5 or so...
honestly for how laughably bad i think the game is, i can admit that the trading cards you can collect in this are really cool edit: ok i admit the song at 4:50 is pretty good too imo
Pajamas Sam reminds me of these books I am writing which are about these kids getting kidnap by entities made out of Blankets from another dimension called Blanket World. I wish they made an episode where Sam got kidnaped by entities made out of Blankets.
It's been years that I haven't done a review of this game, but here goes...revisited! Okay, so Pajama Sam 4 is Atari's evil bastardized version of Sam. I don't want to diss on the game, but because of its poor effort put into it, the game in a whole is broken, bland, and felt slow and boring, especially the slow conversations that drags on and on. The animation in this game is shoddy. While most of the characters are well-drawn, the animation can be sometimes nauseating and painful to sit through (the screen shake at the intro is a perfect example.). More on that later, it was marred with bland visuals and poor lip synching that ruins the overall tone of the game. The graphics are kinda nice to look at, because they were made with Atari's much more advanced YAGA engine, while still keeping the same Humongous Entertainment feel. Now...the lip synching. Oh my god, is it *awful* even for a game made in _200-motherf**king-3!_ The lip synching is awful, it doesn't sync up with the voices heard! In fact, the only saving grace of this aspect is that it _was only synched in with the song!_ Seriously! Atari blew up their budget by synching the characters' mouths over the whole damn song (more on that later), and that's it! Where's the effort put into it?! The voice acting is very, very, VERY poor and unfitting. I never said that, but the majority of the game was finished at Atari, while the minority was done by Humongous, and yet, *these* are the voice actors that they have to cast. Pajama Sam is the most notable one, because it is very clear that he has been into a voice box. In fact, none of the voices sounds fitting for a game with the "Pajama Sam" name. Why does Sam sounds like a girl? Why does the sponge sounds like his throat has been sore? Why is every single voice on this game so damn bad? I mean, the only voice that I can consider mediocre was the Sock's singing voice. I mean, he sings perfectly, but it is just unfitting for "Pajama Sam". The music is...well...pretty good. However, the music is poorly placed and does not fit in with the game, especially that sock musical. Again, while it sings perfectly, the voice for the sock in this song is plain mediocre. Oh and like I said, Atari just blew their lip sync budget away by syncing with the mouths on THIS one song, and that's it! No effort, no care, just botched up insane! And lastly, the conversations in this game seems to drag on, and on, and on! Marred by the very poor lip synching, these conversations are just plain filler. It will make you sleep until it ends! Overall, the game is pretty painfully long, boring, atrocious and bland. The animation is shoddy, the lip synching is poor and obnoxious (for a game in 2003), the music is out-of-place, the voice acting is poor and there is tons of filler on this game. I recommend playing the original Pajama Sam games, or if you're in for some unintentional comedy with the poor lip sync and poor voice acting, this game is for you! (3.5/10) Like this comment if you agree.
@@retroflashbackdude // I heard about it and yeah! There are no different, alternate paths in the game due to the time crunch Humongous had on it's development! But interestingly, according to MediaNutso, there were going to be adding alternate pathways which could've added to the game's replayability status; one is where the peanuts will sometimes be in the Dust Bunny Corral, and another is an alternate pathway where Sam needs to help Grandma Sweater find her contact lens. Dialouge was recorded, but went unused.
I recall this game is quite bad that even I do not want to keep this in my archive collection. Not just the obvious voice actor change, but also the game is buggy to run.
It's a little weird to see others hating the game so much when I loved it, though I suppose that's partially because I never had the first three. Nothing to compare this to.
It's sad to see them ruin pajama Sam like this seriously the story is nice, but the characters aren't as memorable, Sam's voice actor isn't as good as the original, and the animation is terrible thanks a lot Atari
SweetMissCheshire I agree and say that the pajama Sam was the best little kids game series also the fact that some of the adult's actually liked the series. I sorry but I have to give this 4th PJ Sam game a thumbs down. I wish the old voice actor was there. I feel like the old voice actor is what made the game so exciting. just to see the play through of the 1st 2nd and 3rd play through made me want to see it again and again. in my opinion this game sounds fan made.
2:15 Pajama Sam: Ooooh nooooah! My miiiiint condishon exsrhaa collectabll PaJAMA Man issu numba onn is gooone! Tommy Wiseau: I dinnot hit herr izz not tru is bowlshit I dinnot hit her, I did Naaaht... oh hai Sam
I played this when I was around 5. I can only remember a few parts of this but it's extremely nostalgic even though the game is pretty terrible when I look back on it.
(0:40) How exactly is someone dressed as Pajama Man making an appearance at the mall an "important news flash?" Was it a slow day at Totally True News or something?
I know. It’s kinda like saying “we interrupt this program to bring you a very important news story: a beautiful bird just flew down the park and is chirping to a crowd of people.”
I never even knew about this when it came out! I'm not mad that the voice actor is different.. but couldn't they at least have gone with an actor who sounded SOMEWHAT like the old one? Like Spy Fox 1-3 had two different voice actors and it wasn't even that obvious. I just think they could've done better.
I had no idea they made a fourth one, but I'm glad I only found out about it now. The voice acting is terrible and the entire game feels like a fever dream or a fan made project
The 90’s gave us these classics. But the early 2000’s gave us, depending on how you look at it, a nose dive in more of the same. I guess all this is due to Humongous having its effect from Atari acquiring them, all before they closed in 2006.
The ending is pretty weak we don't even get to see Sam confront dr.grime. All we got was, Hey I found my comic but I'm dirty for some reason now, better clean myself with a sprinkler and flood the whole mall. THE END
There was always something so off about this game compared to all the others before it. It's too calm, too slow, the music is strangely loud while all the dialogue is so faint. Sam's new actress is...bad. She's just way too calm with little expression. Sam sounds so dead. :( I remember that this was the first Pajama Sam game I ever played and thought that all the games I played afterwards were sequels purely because of how much better they were than this one. Not to mention that this game is the only one with just 1 single game path. That last factor contributed to why I thought they had "improved" the next Pajama Sam games.
Ляя обожаю эту часть, в особенности я любила собирать карточки с изображениями злодеев и героев, а некоторые злодеи так вообще, как и раньше так и сейчас всё ещё устрашающе выглядят.
I have this game, and I got it somewhere around the time it came out. However, I never played the full game because it was never compatible with my Windows 98 PC. I think it'll work on my Windows 8 PC now :)
I have a little theory (Sam is darkness theory) you know that darkness’s room looks very similar to Sam’s and if you look closely you can see that darkness has the same tuft of hair As Sam does
I’ll be 27 next month so I remember when these came out unlike those old-school computers like the one at my grandmothers house idk what u call it the start for the bottom half of it the “body” not the screen the other thing… ya I can s still smell that hazy dusty smell from the fan whacking stuff like this
My brother used to hog my computer playing this game. He'd take days getting through it because he never knew what to do. I bet he's forgotten about it now
I'm just waiting for my copy to arrive. I also bought it at a friendly price (though not as cheap as in your case), but here only foreign sources are possible because this game was never officially marketed in Poland. The trading cards are lots of fun and the landscape is just gorgeous - maybe even the best of all Pajama Sam games. The game may lack the cohesion of its predecessors, still I don't know why are the games made after Atari takeover so disliked among Humongous Entertainment fans.
I really dislike this new voice, it just doesn't fit. According to Humongous Entertainment wiki, Pajama Sam is six years old, and that does not sound like a six year old but more like he aged past puberty. Pamela Adlon's voice was much better for this character, because it really fit his high-spirited personality, plus this voice actress can't act for the love of squat.
I don't remember this voice at all! This was the Pajama sam I played the most next to No need to hide when it's dark outside but this looks and sounds way shittier than I remember...
This was at the point when Infogrames completely destroyed what made Humongous so great to make really crappy games like this one. It's a shame as PJ Sam is easily one of HE's best series of games.
How disappointing. I finally found the name of the game of my childhood Pajama Sam. I was watching RU-vid gameplays of 1-3 and they seemed like great games but they weren't the one I remember. Then I get to 4 and realize this was the game I played and how badly voiced and changed it was compared to the prequels. At least I got to redeem myself and watch 1-3 to witness the true Pajama Sam in its old glory.
