Lucasarts - Monkey Island 5 for reals?
So, apparently, Lucasarts are due to announce a brand new game title, which goes "back to their roots". With new president Daryll Rodriguez, who is said to be a huge adventure game fan, i'm putting my money on a brand new original Monkey Island title. The reason for this? Simples, both Lucasarts and telltale have created Monkey Island mania recently. LA have released the Mi:SE and telltale are weening us back on guybrush's teet with Tales. We are hooked and i think it's a no-brainer that LA will make a bundle on this as they've started the renaissance of adventure gaming and MI is hot property at the moment.
All the old titles have been made available via Steam downloads and we are all feeling the point and click nostalgia. We've got the fever, and they can finally make a profit on this once dying genre. Not only that but these games we love so much are finding new homes on an increasing amount of platforms. The Wii's wand system supports point and click interface and we've already seen games like Broken Sword and Zack and Wiki, which not only appeal to existing fans but are drawing in a new audience. Combine that with telltales contribution of their titles to WiiWare and we can see it an obvious choice to cater for an all new title from LA. MI:SE has been released on XBOX LIVE so, again, console gamers are getting sucked into the world of pointing and clicking, it can only be a good thing!
There's no better way to kick off the resurgence of adventure games than an all new MI title, it's the logical choice. We get what we've dreamed off for the last 10 years since the release of the last "true" Monkey Island, and Lucasarts make a bundle by cashing in on Guybrush fever. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to cash in on this, i'm just saying that now it's profitable, it will happen sooner or later.
Even if this big announcement that's got me so excited isn't Monkey Island 5, it's going to be awesome either way as we could be getting an all new adventure game altogether, or maybe Grim Fandango 2?
Your thoughts?
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-222-gametrailers-tv/55677
All the old titles have been made available via Steam downloads and we are all feeling the point and click nostalgia. We've got the fever, and they can finally make a profit on this once dying genre. Not only that but these games we love so much are finding new homes on an increasing amount of platforms. The Wii's wand system supports point and click interface and we've already seen games like Broken Sword and Zack and Wiki, which not only appeal to existing fans but are drawing in a new audience. Combine that with telltales contribution of their titles to WiiWare and we can see it an obvious choice to cater for an all new title from LA. MI:SE has been released on XBOX LIVE so, again, console gamers are getting sucked into the world of pointing and clicking, it can only be a good thing!
There's no better way to kick off the resurgence of adventure games than an all new MI title, it's the logical choice. We get what we've dreamed off for the last 10 years since the release of the last "true" Monkey Island, and Lucasarts make a bundle by cashing in on Guybrush fever. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to cash in on this, i'm just saying that now it's profitable, it will happen sooner or later.
Even if this big announcement that's got me so excited isn't Monkey Island 5, it's going to be awesome either way as we could be getting an all new adventure game altogether, or maybe Grim Fandango 2?
Your thoughts?
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-222-gametrailers-tv/55677
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My (easy) bet is on Lucidity.
That, and I found SoMI:SE quite dreadful and couldn't bring myself to finish it. No problem replaying the original over and over again though.
If it's a Star Wars game, i'll be thoroughly gutted.
I do hope the "yet-to-be-announced" game will be something completely new (Lucidity?).
To be frank, I'd rather see Telltale deal with their past golden licences (Day of the Tentacle, etc.), as they have already proved they can handle them the best way possible.. while LA.. let's just say, I hope they still possess enough talent and will to return to their old glory..
I think they are, and i do beleive everyone who was on the original will be helping out, I only say this because while I was at pax, one of the LA team was out smoking, and he said that SMI sold very well, and that they had a suprise in hold for us...so I guess that means MI5 or they're re-releasing Le chucks revenge and Curse in a bundle.
Maybe.
I'd love to see telltale do something with titles like DOTT but, rather than the episodic format, i'd prefer a full game we can play from start to finish, something i can really get my teeth into. I can't help be feel slightly put off by the current format, they tend to be far to easy to complete, just as you start to get into it you've finished it and then your left waiting for the next chapter. Even with an untouched full season at hand, it still seems a little disjointed, and that magic that made the older titles so appealing has been lost.
I fired up scummvm last night and started on DOTT, which i haven't touched in years, and i was hooked straight away. Not having played this in a long while i'd forgotten the narrative of the game and alot of the puzzles, i just fell straight back into it. It seems hard to keep the flow with episodes as opposed to a full game.
Tales is a massive improvement on Sam & Max, but there's still something about it that's missing and i can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe i'm just growing out of games but, saying that, i can sit and play the old point and click titles until the cows come home.
i think that their real roots are represented by titles like zak, loom or maniac and not monkey!
If they actually went back to their roots, and brought gilbert back to make HIS game
Then it might be worth getting excited about, but it aint going to happen
but then again, i wont be happy unless they go back to the scumm engine
I'd like to see them try their hands at creating brand new adventure game series.
RT @geoffkeighley: LucasArts will announce a brand-new original game on this week's GTTV - with first footage. More details soon. (watch it)
Brand new original game
so it wont be MI i guess
Lucas Arts doesn't care that much about its nostalgic fans right now, it wants to suck in the masses and make a profit.
A fifth title with today's technology would be costly, and while they are encouraging diversity by re-leasing the first game that is most likely because Tales is releasing a new current title and are one of the lead, if not the lead contributor of recent adventure games for old and new audiences.
I concur!
The gamestrailer video shows lots of adventure game snippets, none of which have things like "damage". It sounds like a platform game to me too, could this be classed as LA "roots"?
So if the game had both genre elements it wouldn't be a historical oddity.
It's discouraging that there's evidence of different genres but it's encouraging that Lucas Arts has done it before.
However perhaps by saying "back to their roots" they are suggesting that it's going to be something based on a classic. So I just don't know.
I know that Maniac Mansion was the beginning of SCUMM, but wasn't Labyrinth their first proper "adventure" type game? I could be wrong of course. But maybe it'll be something to do with that.
EDIT : okay, don't bother answering, i did a search and the info wasn't hard to get...
Seems likely that's what coming indeed.
For some reason i'm not all excited by the few i've reard about it, maybe when more stuff is revealed...
All i hope for them is to get back, not necessilly to any of their old franchise, but to this "hey, what if we did some stuff NOT related to star wars and actually tried to make great games no matter what they're about" attitude they seemed to have years ago.
Anyway, they said that the game would be a new IP, so even if it isn't Lucidity (which it is)...it won't be a sequel to anything we've seen before.
And frankly, I'm okay with that. I don't have a lot of confidence that the current LucasArts could pull off something like that, especially after all the founding talent has moved on.
No... it would be Monkey Island 5... not 6.... Tales of MI is NOT MI5... TellTale games stated this multiple times.
to be more precise... Tales of Monkey Island plays some time AFTER Money Island 5
Isn't there already a thread on this?
I'm too lazy to look it up.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ep...ilers-tv/55677
It seems like it is monkey island, see the images...look at the new designed pirates behind them...
My guess would be monkey 5...
But it sounds like maybe a new maniac mansion...that would be a return to the roots, and if you think of it a new version of the original one, could have so many new options inside the house...would be a good way of starting over...
The images you see in the background and that are blurred are all MI:SE concepts.
But lucidity doesnt look that classic or back to their roots...
I would like it to be maniac mansion a new version, or maniac 3...my guess would be the first...
I heard "Tuesday" in the video but without any date... Would that be next tuesday then ?
Incidentally people are being almost embarrassingly literal minded with this whole 'Tales isn't really MI5' thing.
No, it said Thursday at 12:30, but no date. So it's probably next Thursday.
13 hours and 21 minutes to go.