Monkey Island To Return

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Posted by Soulskill on Monday June 1, 2009 @10:52PM from the chuckle-with-lechuck dept.

Briareos was one of several readers to write with news that TellTale Games, along with LucasArts, will be bringing new Monkey Island games later this year. Tales of Monkey Island will be a series of episodic games released for PC and WiiWare in the coming months, and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition will be a remake of the original 1990 game, available on the PC and Xbox Live. A trailer is available for the former, and this is what the press release says about the latter: "The development team at LucasArts is bringing the game into the modern era with all-new HD graphics, a re-mastered musical score, full voiceover, and an in-depth hint system has been added to help players through the game's side-splitting puzzles. Purists will also delight in the ability to seamlessly switch between the updated HD graphics and the original's classic look." Grumpy Gamer has a nostalgic look back at the franchise.

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Second best by D-Cypell · 2009-06-01 22:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow! This is the second best slashdot article I have ever seen!
Bring it on! by ardor · 2009-06-01 23:02 · Score: 5, Funny

You fight like a dairy farmer!

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1. Re:Bring it on! by Pseudopositive · 2009-06-01 23:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
2. Re:Bring it on! by Per+Wigren · 2009-06-01 23:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I once owned a dog that was smarter than you.
  
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3. Re:Bring it on! by Pseudopositive · 2009-06-01 23:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He must have taught you everything you know!
4. Re:Bring it on! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-01 23:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  First you'd better stop waving it around like a feather duster.
5. Re:Bring it on! by imashination · 2009-06-01 23:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I am rubber, you are glue!
6. Re:Bring it on! by SIR_Taco · 2009-06-02 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Oh yea?!
  
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7. Re:Bring it on! by Marauder2 · 2009-06-02 06:52 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I have no idea what you just said, but somehow I feel strangely insulted...
Through the gates of hell... by Daemonax · 2009-06-01 23:06 · Score: 3, Funny

If they mess this up there will be many people who will want to roll through the gates of hell carrying the developers heads on a spike... While they use their arm to pat kittens of course.
Re:Um, slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-01 23:49 · Score: 1, Funny

E3 is on, basement dweller.
Re:A Classic ... by Petrushka · 2009-06-02 00:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Guybrush: Ha! Those guys wouldn't know a good story if they paid fifty bucks for it.
Re:Please by hal2814 · 2009-06-02 00:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Just you wait. In this new version, Guybrush insults first.
Re:A Classic ... by Late+Adopter · 2009-06-02 01:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Guybrush: I can't help but feel I've been ripped off.
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Guybrush: I'm sure you're feeling something similar.
Re:Please by kalirion · 2009-06-02 02:02 · Score: 5, Funny

They're also going to animate the epic Gopher Battle in LotR style.
Re:Oh no! by spyrochaete · 2009-06-02 02:04 · Score: 3, Funny

If you strike him down he will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!!!