Thanks to Telltale Games for ToMI! And now we want also... Grim Fandango 2 !!!
Great surprise for Tales of Moneky Island! We love Telltales! Our dear Guybrush is returning!! Great work of TellTale's boys !!! (we want altough Guy speaking Italian, we pray you!!! ). And after this, now we want also sequel of Grim Fandango! Come on Telltales, make new adventures of Manny Calavera!!!
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Loom is a game that needs sequels, though... the storyline was never finished.
And for the storyline: is not necessary to have a sequel, also a prequel may be awesome!!
Agreed!
Originally, Loom was planned as a trilogy, with the second game being The Forge, and the third The Fold. They starred Rusty and the shepherd girl.
They'd probably suit the chapter style aswell, with added benefits from playing through from the beginning by finding extra drafts, that unlock secrets in later episodes, but allowing people to just step in at any chapter should they wish.
It's a fantastic story that has its beginning and end and I don't think there's any need to revisit the characters or world. Even a straight remake of it I'd be uncertain about because it doesn't really need that either.
More people should play it though. Any creative methods to drive an audience back to it, I'd be all for.
Like Armakuni and Serweet, I would like to see the end of the trilogy of Loom. It was a very great game : I remember disliked it when it was released because it's wasn't a funny game like the others SCUMM and without the "verbs system" and now it's one of my favourite ! A game using the music of Tchaikovsky, the Swan Lake (one of the most beautiful music in the world) and it's totally worked...
If TT does get another LA license, l believe a sequel to the maniac mansion and Day of the Tentacle games would be great. Unlike a lot of the other LA games, the MM series doesn't seem like a one time series like the Digg and instead, appears to be one of those franchise that can have as many sequel as needed.
I think the Maniac Mansion series would make a better license to revive from the old Lucas Arts catalog.
Leave Grim Fandango alone, there are plenty of other franchises much better suited to sequels.
For instance, TT can pretty much put their own interptations on the maniac mansion characters without ppl groaning and moaning
I am sure there are fans who would complained if Bernard have gotten a redesign but l doubt they would care if Razor or anybody else who have not appeared in DOTT have gotten a makeover.
It would be cool to see TT aging the characters seeing how the first two were based in realtime.
I think it would be cool to see Wendy as a famous novelist who is seeking some inspiration for her next book or Razor as a celebrity popstar sellout.
It's been years since I played it, so I could be wrong, but I remember Manny starting out as a down-trodden nobody who regrets not doing anything with his life. If you create a great story of his life where he triumphs over evil, it won't gel well with the Grim Fandango character.
It could be done, but it would be hard to work around the story of the original game. There are great games out there that are open to a new series without such restrictions, so a new Grim Fandango story is, in my opinion, a bad idea.
You may create a new game in the same world, but Manny's story was perfectly tied up.
l agree, hence me suggesting that they should use Razor and always stating for a new MM game in my previous comment.
I also think that makin a new one with characters who aren't in DOTT, would allow Telltale to make the game their own. To clarify, it would mean that TT can do whatever they want with the game w/o being forced to playin to protray the characters a certain way. l prefer a loose sequel to MM rather than a continuation of DOTT
As said before, those who have played DOTT may complain about character design or behaviour if TT uses Hoagie, Vern, and Bernard whereas if they used someone in MM, no one would really complain since they weren't flesh out in the original game. Having characters not from DOTT would, imo, make the game better
I love the protagonists from DOTT, but l believe that the game should have new chars to make it more unique.
A year or two ago it wouldn't have worked because Telltale was a small little known company that could, but know I think its time because.
1. Telltale is known enough.
2. Telltale has already shown the world it has consistency in quality and it delivers on time.
3. ToMI, Wallace and Gromit, Strong Bad and Sam & Max show an ample breath of Adventure gaming and style, clearly this show that Telltale is not a one trick pony.
4. The announce about ToMI at E3 clearly gave Telltale worldwide exposure.
5. They have great minds on board, I'm certain that they can cook something that will became a classic.
well, first I'd like a version of grim fandango playable on vista!!!
the last year(I think) one sure doesn't...
From what ppl are sayin, the digg and grimm would take a lot of creative thinkin to do another. l also think that Roy Conrad biker game would be hard to do a sequel despite Lucasarts tried to attempted to come up with one twice.
The only way I think is for someone to make a sequel to the Digg or a Grim game is to make it as an unrelated party game.
I don't like grim fandango either. I played it all the way to the end, and it only got somewhat good from year 3 onwards (even tho there were some Myst-like puzzle which i loath) , but year 2 was so F-ing long and boring, that when i think about replaying the game, I just remember that chapter, and I immediately give up on that idea. Grim fandango is a good game. I enjoyed the music, I enjoyed the characters, I enjoyed the plot. I did NOT enjoy the game. that's all I can say about that.
Ever played it? The story description itself deserves a reward. Then there's the art direction, which, even to this day, still stuns me. Voice acting's genius, humor's in the right place, writing's elegant and poetic. Puzzles, however, can get increasingly frustrating, but that's what the internet is for, right? Other LucasArts games strive in humor and wit, while Grim Fandango strives in beauty, both visual and writing, yet still keeps the humor high.
Hell, I've played through it at least 5 times already.
Now, about se/prequels, I don't think it could be about Manny. Of course, there's always potential sequels that focus on other characters from the same universe. In my opinion, however, they should work on Full Throttle. And I don't mean Telltale (no offense), I'm thinking Double Fine, with Tim Schafer and all.
I also agree about LOOM and Full Throttle. Both deserve sequels.
Grim Fandango works fine on Vista. At least for me it does. Just download the patch.
Then again.. he's already dead.
Where do you find these things?
Touching it again would ruin it. But they could remake it with HD graphics and point and click control!
Does anyone else would like a new Zak game? It has potential to be a very fun new game.
I guess these are the games that should have a follow up:
Loom, Day of the Tentacle and Zak McKraken. Maybe, just maybe Full Throttle.
Like the CSI games for Ubisoft, LucasArts would sell it on disc (or maybe offer 3 episodes for individual download - Year 1, Year 2, Years 3&4). All the dialogue is already recorded too, so they'd be off to a flying start.
And yes, should Telltale acquire more LucasArts licenses, I think the Maniac Mansion/ DOTT universe would be the obvious next candidate.
GF2 would rock but we went over this.. it would kill the 1st one .. like most sequels of movies do lol..
Anyway, that doesn't have much to do with this. If any of Tim Schafer's games are continued (or in GF's case, a remake would be enough), it should be by Schafer. I wouldn't mind seeing Telltale do something else, though. Nothing comes to mind as strongly as Monkey Island for me, but I haven't played a lot of the other games.
Besides, I think the backgrounds in Grim are beautiful as they are... I'm not sure I'd think 3D versions were equally pretty.
I don't mind 3D adventure games, but if you 'convert' an existing 2D game to 3D... it would be very noticable if areas ended up looking uglier.