LOL the 2 new ones that are professionally being made. SE and TMI .
Are there other, non-professional, versions being made?
I'd love to see what would be the fan-fiction equivalent of video game making going on with the MI series. To me it seems a game using the original script engine from Lucasarts would be quite easy to put together. Obviously you'd need someone with a dash of artistic talent to make it look good etc.
Games like 7 Days A Skeptic from fullyramlomatic and other similar "indie"-games with limited graphics are awesome for the retro feel of them.
All 3 of these are being made with Adventure Game Studio, the same game engine that brought to the world such great games as 7 Days A Skeptic.
And for the record, I'm very happy to see MI back, and in such capable hands as well. As mentioned SMI:SE isn't being brought about by TT, but I think perhaps TT's request to license TMI may have lead to LA's decision to produce it...:rolleyes:
I believe this is from the new Sam and Max but: I fell so close to Telltale games right now.
I got tears in my eyes when I found out.
Not only do they bring back adventure games in big style (yes Sam and Max was great). They also bring back Monkey Island.
I played the old games so many times I know them by heart.
But I guess most other people fell the same way.
I liked TellTale when I heard about them because for all intents and purposes they were a two-finger-salute to Jim Ward. I liked them even more when I heard they were making Sam & Max games, though I never bought direct from them because my workload meant I didn't have time to play the series until a considerable time after release, and now that they're making ToMI I want to have their babies.
I may be male, but if Arnold Schwarzenegger can do it, so can I! :-)
The remake is not made by telltale.. lucasarts are making that.
Anyway I liked telltale before, when I heard about the sam and max games... now I love them. I have been waiting for another monkey island for ages.. eagarly awaiting news that lucasarts were making a 5th game. Tbh I was beginning to lose hope.. it is the best news ever that they are making episodic games... Thanks telltale!
In fact, LucasArts was making Special Edition before work started on Tales. "By a nose" according to the voice of Guybrush, but Special Edition was being made first all the same.
I also have to go in with the "I loved Telltale already" crowd. Rather, what these new things have done is give me a TON of respect for the new LucasArts President. It's plateauing my once ever-growing hatred I had for LucasArts as a company. Hell, I might even hate them less now!
Yeah I know what you mean with that. I was reading the transcript of that Q&A in Myspace (or Facebook or whatever, why do I even care?) and every time I read the answers where they didn't answer straight, I got an immediate feel of animosity and a mental image of Darth Vader with LucasArts stuff all around him before remembering LucasArts are good-guys now
In fact, LucasArts was making Special Edition before work started on Tales. "By a nose" according to the voice of Guybrush [...]
Well, that's not specifically true.
If you're talking about the Dominic Armato quote, he wasn't talking about which game started first at all, as I remember that Q&A from the private pirate's club, which probably shouldn't be mentioned here at all.
The question was: "Which contacted you first, LucasArts or Telltale?", and his reply that it was LucasArts who pipped in first, by a nose. This does not imply, however, that LucasArts actually started their project first, it simply signifies that LucasArts were the first to ask Armato for his voice talent.
Until we hear it out of the Horse's mouth, it could've been either way around.
Even if not, then Grossman had a post that said that at some point LucasArts or Telltale pinged the other about Monkey Island, and LucasArts had already ben working on the Special Edition so it seemed like it was best for everybody if Telltale were able to work on an episodic series. So again, Special Edition by a nose.
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But I guess it could be argued that there wouldn't be any new MI games if it wasn't for Telltale's success with the genre.
What two new Monkey Island games are you referring to?
LOL the 2 new ones that are professionally being made. SE and TMI .
I'd love to see what would be the fan-fiction equivalent of video game making going on with the MI series. To me it seems a game using the original script engine from Lucasarts would be quite easy to put together. Obviously you'd need someone with a dash of artistic talent to make it look good etc.
Games like 7 Days A Skeptic from fullyramlomatic and other similar "indie"-games with limited graphics are awesome for the retro feel of them.
Monkey Island - Carnaval Vudú
Picaroon - The Lost Years (no longer a MI-based project, but definitely made by some MI-fans!)
Monkey Island: Daementia
All 3 of these are being made with Adventure Game Studio, the same game engine that brought to the world such great games as 7 Days A Skeptic.
And for the record, I'm very happy to see MI back, and in such capable hands as well. As mentioned SMI:SE isn't being brought about by TT, but I think perhaps TT's request to license TMI may have lead to LA's decision to produce it...:rolleyes:
And there is nothing more to say about that.
I got tears in my eyes when I found out.
Not only do they bring back adventure games in big style (yes Sam and Max was great). They also bring back Monkey Island.
I played the old games so many times I know them by heart.
But I guess most other people fell the same way.
I may be male, but if Arnold Schwarzenegger can do it, so can I! :-)
Anyway I liked telltale before, when I heard about the sam and max games... now I love them. I have been waiting for another monkey island for ages.. eagarly awaiting news that lucasarts were making a 5th game. Tbh I was beginning to lose hope.. it is the best news ever that they are making episodic games... Thanks telltale!
I also have to go in with the "I loved Telltale already" crowd. Rather, what these new things have done is give me a TON of respect for the new LucasArts President. It's plateauing my once ever-growing hatred I had for LucasArts as a company. Hell, I might even hate them less now!
Well, that's not specifically true.
If you're talking about the Dominic Armato quote, he wasn't talking about which game started first at all, as I remember that Q&A from the private pirate's club, which probably shouldn't be mentioned here at all.
The question was: "Which contacted you first, LucasArts or Telltale?", and his reply that it was LucasArts who pipped in first, by a nose. This does not imply, however, that LucasArts actually started their project first, it simply signifies that LucasArts were the first to ask Armato for his voice talent.
Until we hear it out of the Horse's mouth, it could've been either way around.
(well at least its 25% true)