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Monkey Island To Return
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.
Please don't ruin it.
Wow! This is the second best slashdot article I have ever seen!
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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.
Guybrush Threepwood: Well, if there's one thing I've learned, it's this: never pay more than 20 dollars for a computer game.
Elaine: What's that?
Guybrush Threepwood: Never mind. I don't know why I said that.
I'm doubly thrilled at this announcement; first because I love the first two Monkey Island games, and second because it's been so long since Telltale's Sam and Max Season 2 ended and I miss playing episodic adventure games with my wife. None of Telltale's series since Sam and Max interested us so Monkey Island is doubly appreciated for finally filling the void!
These Telltale adventures are the perfect activity to enjoy with a loved one. They're clever and funny and have great stories, plus the frustrating bits are that much easier when you put two heads together on a puzzle. My wife and I would always count the days until the next Sam and Max episode, so I did not hesitate to preorder the Monkey Island season the moment I learned heard this announcement last night (plus I got a free game of my choice from their site last night for doing so).
Telltale is a studio I put my full faith into, and in my 24 years of PC gaming that's been a very rare thing for me to say. Their games are well programmed, the art style is creative and attractive, and the writing is consistently outstanding. I also love that you can get a very attractive DVD of the season plus some extras for free (plus about $7 shipping) if you own the digtal download season.
Now please excuse me - I'm off to practise my insult swordfighting.
Every other story that has been run lately has been about games.
That happens around video gaming trade shows such as E3. Expect it to die off by the end of the week.
Many readers of TFA won't realise that 'Grumpy Gamer' is Ron Gilbert, one of the creative geniuses behind Monkey Island. His blog post is fascinating.
My inner nostalgia freak wants a HD remake of Day of the Tentacle. I'd enjoy replaying it, without the distraction of the creaky old graphics.
Plus I like the idea that a new generation could experience its joys.
they recruited Tim Shafer to help manage the project. He was there for MI 1 + 2. This guy had a talent for helping producing some of Lucas Art's more creative adventure games: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle ... skip the last one, they force him to do that. Since Lucas Arts killed their adventure games department and focused on rehashing Star Wars themes, its been hard for me to get excited about anything they announce lately, as it's probably motivated by money more than anything else. Oh well, at least Brutal Legends is coming out soon.
I highly recommend finishing it. It completely shatters the "third in the series is crap" myth.
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If you strike him down he will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!!!
"That pig shaped bush frightens and confuses me."
- Guybrush Threepwood, Escape from Monkey Island
"That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen."
- Guybrush Threepwood, Escape from Monkey Island
"Somehow I knew that in hell there would be mushrooms."
- Guybrush Threepwood, Monkey Island
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I agree. Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite in the series. Love the voice acting, (especially the songs) and the cartoon-style graphics seem much more appropriate to the game than the 3D in Escape. The jokes are well-written and made great use of comic timing.
I'm just finishing up season 1 of TellTale Games' Sam and Max, and I must say, it give me great hope for their Monkey Island revival.
Redundancy is good And also good.
But later I learned that both Monkey Island and the POTC film were referring to much earlier source material: the POTC ride at Disneyland.
The broad outlines of the pirate adventure were in place while the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean:
Captain Charles Johnson and The General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates [1724]
Doug Fairbanks made a memorable Black Pirate. [1926] Errol Flynn's Captain Blood [1935] and The Sea Hawk [1940] are as good as it gets.
Stevenson's Treasure Island was published in 1883.
It has never been out of print, never left the theatrical stage in all the years since. Film, radio, and TV adaptations are almost beyond counting.
Wallace Beery for MGM in 1934 and Robert Newton in 1950 became Long John Silver for two generations of kids.