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Sam and Max Revival?
Though we've mentioned the possibility before, the rumour is again circulating that Sam and Max may ride again. Adventure Gamers has the story in the form of an interview with the owner of the studio supposedly angling for the franchise. From the article: Q: Rumor has it that Bad Brain is attempting to acquire the rights to Sam & Max: Freelance Police. What can you say about that? A: No comment (I signed an NDA). All I can say is: yes, we are talking to LucasArts about a game that might involve animals, but that's all folks!"
Is it just me or has Lucas stopped making cool stuff some time ago? Why don't they make games like DOTT anymore? and I don't mean sequels.
So long as they do a good job with the game I'm all for it. It was one of my most loved games, but it wouldn't be worth it if they ruin it.
Unless they can get the original voice actors from the game, I'll pass. I didn't like the cartoon due to the voice changes, I doubts I'll be coming back to the franchise (how can it be a franchise really with only 1 game.... ok ok they made a cartoon but seriously...) wiht new voice actors.
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I hope they don't turn it into a 3d pseudo-adventure piece of cow-flop that is riddled with repetitive mini-games.
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Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
A game "that might involve animals" ?
It'll star George Lucas then! *drum beat* Thank you, thank you. And for my next trick of Lucas-bashing...
maybe he was hinting at a looney tunes game of some sort? altho he didnt actually deny the sam and max one...
There was this "game" with snails for kids called Mortimer, I think Steven Spielberg was somehow involved in it.
Snails are no animals?
Well then there's only Sam 'n Max left, isn't it..
Sam and Max's delay may prove to be a boon. Adventure games have been declared officially "dead," with the poor sales of Grim Fandango, but I can't help but believe that its essence will return in some form. The first Sam and Max adventure was one of my all-time favorites, but I think that a sequel whose play is true to the original will do poorly. While production values are higher these days, and aesthetics have improved, adventure gameplay has not evolved as much as gamers demand.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that action gameplay has evolved much further; the gameplay differences between Wolfenstien 3D and Half Life 2 are greater than those between Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.
Sam and Max deserve something that's different, and I'm willing to wait.
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I bought "Grim Fandango," and while I have enjoyed the game, I have hated the control scheme with a level of hatred I normally reserve for Jehovah's Witness evangelical door-to-door vacuum cleaner/insurance salesmen.
LucasArts' choice of controls for "Grim Fandango" were the killing choice. Abandoning the point/click interface for what was essentially a keyboard version of the "Resident Evil" control scheme was atrocious.
Any time a person has to spend 10-15 minutes rotating their character, slightly moving forward and back, etc. in a futile effort to get into position to hit a button...well,
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I'm totally psyched about the potential of another Sam N Max (again..) It's only a matter of time before graphic adventures become retro enough to be cool again. You can only play so many FPS, RTS and MMORPGS. In the meantime I'll go play a little Peasant's Quest
THANK YOU, thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! This is news i've been expecting forever now.
PS, if you don't know what the fuss is all about, download SCUMMVM and get a copy of "Sam & Max: Hit the road" (they're cheap). You can thank me later.
This might be interesting to people that enjoyed the original Maniac Mansion. I love Adventure games, and there is a new version of the original Maniac Mansion - might be more accessible to gamers who prefer updated graphics, and such.
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The link is http://people.freenet.de/lucasfangames/maniac/gam
Adventure isn't dead!
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
If there's some adventure fans that are psyched about the possibility of a Sam & Max release, there are some fun freeware adventure games out there that I've really enjoyed and feel others may too? Just trying to spread some of the good news in the genre:
The games '5 Days a Stranger' and '7 Days a Skeptic' are a lot of fun and are free for download, it's neat to see what game developers are up to in order to deal with the paucity of new adventure games. 5 Days a Stranger, http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/ is the first in a series, followed by the Sci-Fi themed 7 Days a Skeptic http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/. They're both by this designed named 'Ben Crenshaw', and looks like they have won a few awards - it's great that this designer of free software is getting recognized.
Hope this helps some people deal with the lack of adventure games, and let's hope that this Sam & Max game comes out!
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
The Sam & Max games have had such a ruff history that it's hard to believe Adventure Gamers aren't just barking up the wrong tree. They could really end up in the doghouse with fans, especially on the tail end of their previous difficulties. This game keeps getting wagged in front of our faces, I swear they're like a dog with a bone... ...what?
there is a new version of the original Maniac Mansion
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Ahhh! That was the Return button.
(sorry)
What I wanted to ask: is this a Win-only version or is the file just a self-extracting
I mean, does it run under my SCUMM-emulator on my Zaurus or under Mac OS X (sorry, no Windows here).
I don't need a signature.
I remember the giddy feeling i'm sure all of us got when playing those origional LucasArts games of Monkey Island, Sam & Max, etc. Really, All I ask of them is great story. While graphics and sound updates would be nice, I really can't see doing the game in 3D or anything. I think one of the monkey islands had a joke about a 3rd dimension? Anyone else think that the games should be left in 2D? or are there some merits for 3D?
There's always been a certain appeal for 2D adventure games.. and I hope a Sam and Max revival scoffs at that 3rd dimension and delivers us a retro-tastic title. Grim Fandango is the only graphic adventure to pull off 3D, but that's attributed more to the story than the graphics.
What would jesus do.. with open source software?
So the game is going to be about Porky Pig?
You cannot sell a bunch of million of copies with those, but most of them made their money and for many of the original ones (Tony Tough, Runaway , etc...) sequels are in the works. I think you can currently sell between 50.000 and 300.000 copies of those games worldwide (With around 300.000 being The Longest Journey). But they also often are much cheaper to produce than other genres, given that the current tool situation is very good, to excellent. Hence no bigger studio produces those games anymore (except the anual Myst sequel) but many smaller shops and even single developers do that stuff. The situation is that smaller studios can make a living out of that stuff, and hence prolly more adventure games were released last year than RPGs.