Escape From Monkey Island Remake?
Would you like to see an EMI remake with changes such as Alexandra Boyd as Elaine, better graphics, and an updated inventory system?
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I see no point in making a remake of "fairly new" games such as EMI.
Actually the remakes of SMI and LCR were unnecessary too, but I understand them, as they are much older and a good way to introduce people to the series or delight some old fans.
EMI is good as it is. No need for a remake
haha my thoughts exactly!
I'm also against Curse remake. I like Bill Tiller's original artwork and voice acting of CMI, so new voices and art wouldn't bring anything good to that game. I wouldn't like to see Tales remake either, because Tales is fine the way it is. But if they make remake they could combine the episodes into a single game.
In fact LCR is only game which could benefit from remake (I kind of liked the SMI: SE, although it wasn't perfect.) I hope that second SE is better, because it's going to be remake of one of the best adventure games ever.
I don't also like idea of SMI: Special Special Edition.
I do remember the control system annoying the hell out of me, probably because I was used to the previous system. But with telltales new system I can't see that being such a problem
thats not ugly thats smexy!
True, shame the game looks more like this
But yeah, i think it deserves a remake. Or a re-release. I've lost my copy (PS2) and i've heard it doesn't work too well on modern PC's. Specifically the rock throwing game on monkey. Plus, the character models could use some work.
Yeah, the two places that the game is pretty much guaranteed to fail on me are the Mysts-o-Tyme and the rock throwing puzzle. In the former, Guybrush tries to disembark at Pegnose Pete's and completely glitches out. When I play Escape, I have to bypass it by using a save from one time when I got lucky and he actually disembarked. And in the latter, the system that manages how fast the boulders run was poorly designed, because on any computer that's too powerful, the timing won't match up with the branches. To get past that one, I used a stopwatch the first two times and I've used a save file to bypass it every time since then.
So yeah, I want a damn remake, if only to fix those two game-breakers.
yeah you will be able to play with the orignal graphics with voices, but hope there is an option to turn it off aswell,cause id want to play it how it orignal was, but it mention it on lucasarts website
it said you can have voices in orignal implying its optinal you could allways turn voice sounds down on sound menu like most games if it has that option
I still occasionally play old adventures from the 80's, so I don't see any reason why 10 year old game would need graphic update. It's playable as it is. All it needs is a direct download version which runs with modern systems (although I wouldn't buy even that because I have CD version and game works in my computer without issues).
In case of games made in the early 90's, I can see how the game benefits from voice acting, but why pay just for graphic update? I would rather see new adventures from LucasArts than endless series of Special Editions, most of their games are classics as it is and don't need SE.
QFW. :cool:
I'm going to say what I've been saying all along. The LucasArts of today is not the same LucasArts that produced the amazing adventure games we know and love. Hell, Telltale currently employs more of the people responsible for those games than LucasArts does. This isn't to say that they couldn't produce a decent adventure game, it's just that they don't have the awesome track record everyone assumes they have. Today's LucasArts hasn't proven itself either way as far as adventure games are concerned. In my opinion, they're doing the best thing they could be doing: improving games that are already great and releasing their licenses for making the new games to companies that have proven themselves, like Telltale.
Basically, Lucasarts is currently equally likely to put out a bad adventure game as it is to put out a good one.
so i guess he's a lateral step compared to the last president.
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However, that doesn't mean we got blind faith that it'll be good if they decide to make one. Well, most of us have.
That said, I always thought it was a shame how that high-polygon model of Guybrush posted above, turns into the low-poloygon model for the rest of the game. Elaine should have looked like this
Who knows, maybe they'll do new adventure games some day. At least there are people who are gaining experience about adventures when they work with remakes. Now all they have to do is to learn how to write a decent story and puzzles (it make take some time and first attempts may not be as polished as old classics).
I'm definitely not graphic hungry. I love 2d games and simple 3d games. Note that people don't complain like this about, say, CMI. The problem is that the graphics in EMI, particularly the character models, were just BAD.
For pretty much all of the late 90s there was a blind belief among game companies that ALL GAMES MUST BE 3D, or they will not sell, the companies will atrophy and die and be laughed at. Unfortunately, this was despite the fact that 3d graphics and accelerators were pretty immature, GOOD 3d artists were hard to find (and the game 3d production process was pretty new) and games looked much, much worse than they would have if they'd just stuck with more traditional methods for the time.
There were a number of games from this era that went 3d and were successful (and were actually a big reason why all the game companies started insisting on 3d for everything). Mario 64, for example, has pretty primitive 3d graphics by today's standards. But they're really well-done and appropriate, and I don't see any reason why that game should be remade.
Of course, I think I'm a little jaded because my graphics card when EMI came out was underpowered (I think I still had still had a Voodoo 2) and so the graphics were especially bad for me. Looking on it now they're probably not QUITE as bad as I remember. But still pretty bad. And combined with the horribleness of the rest of the game, it adds up to FAIL for a lot of us (not everyone!).