What is up with Lucasarts lack of intiative?
Whether it's true or not, read this:
http://www.destructoid.com/lucasarts-not-planning-to-update-more-monkey-island-games-136552.phtml#comment
They just don't seem to give any real love to any of their franchises. You would think since George is getting so out of shape he could use the exercise to make more games.
http://www.destructoid.com/lucasarts-not-planning-to-update-more-monkey-island-games-136552.phtml#comment
They just don't seem to give any real love to any of their franchises. You would think since George is getting so out of shape he could use the exercise to make more games.
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And George never had anything to do with the games, you know. Other than signing off his approval for Indy and Star Wars stories.
TTG can be more pally with the community because it's such a relatively small enterprise. But Monkey Island is one of a very lucarative portfolio for LA; which means we all gotta buy SoMI:SE (which is exactly what they want us to do.. so maybe we shouldn't? >=] )
Normally I don't use much money on games, but this is Monkey island. The game that I've always called the best game ever.
But yes. If we really want to see adventures rise again we should be willing to support the genre any way we can.
Surely doing it at 480p widescreen on the Wii is a still a lot higher than the original though?
And they MUST be able to get it down to 40mb.. with quite highly compressed audio? There cant be that many graphics in the whole thing.
I agree with them, it would be madness to go ahead and start the second when the first hasn't even been released.
They've already catered to fans, and I respect that. If the game sells well, they will do a MI2:SE, and if that goes well who knows.
I personally think that that wasn't a negative article really, it does make sense.
Just buy all monkey island related goods and we'll be fine.
No lack of initiative there it seems... We just need to show them it's commercially viable.
I know I will!
Just imagine if they finally completed the Loom trilogy!
OK, maybe not..
Are you some sort of "silly person"? If the game does well, they'd like to do more... how is that bad?
Jeez! It's like saying: There are no plans to produce a sequel to James Cameron's new movie Avatar (which isn't released yet) -- so clearly the studio must hate Avatar! What kind of sense does that make?
Bit harsh.
I hate it when people can't think for themselves.
Here's a quote from LucasArts:
"If Monkey Island: Special Edition sells, there's no one at this company who doesn't want to do these games. It's a matter of showing that there's interest and this market is alive and get people as excited as possible about Monkey Island Special Edition to show that these things can make it."
I'll buy 10 copies if I have to! Can you imagine? The LOOM Trilogy? LOOM was my first game, ever! ...so many lovely memories!
Can your imagination go as far as MI2:LR SE? *drooooooling*
I just hope they make Guybrush look more like...Guybrush in this one. When they'll make it. After I'll buy. 10 copies.
Loom is just beautiful!
I just hope that if they do decide to make a MI2 SE, they get Purcell to work on it... I'm not sure if anyone else could do the game justice, graphics wise.
LA may not listen to fans after releasing previews, but i'm fairly sure they'll go for less of a 'surfer dude' style next time. I don't think it's just Guybrush's hair, they seem to have gotten it all wrong. The legs of a horse, the face of a man struck several times by an anvil, plus the hair of a surfer with concrete-based hair-gel.
Still, the background art looks so cool that I think it outweighs Freakbrush.
Aren't they some kind of loop? not played it for a while..
How much bigger is the Special Edition? We don't know, sure. But it seems odd to me that it couldn't be worked around.
I think they'll do a pretty decent job with Guybrush if they remake MI2. They posted up some concept art for Guybrush, and some of their best sketches were clearly MI2-era Guybrush.
Guybrush.
They have only made one so far, right?
And it sure was a good one. I think I played the FM towns version. A nice different way to make an adventure game.
As for converting MI:SE to Wii... its just a matter of resizing the graphics. Not like they have to paint it all from scratch again. Wether they can make it into 40 mb... hard to say. Seems like a small game if its going to be 480p with full voice for all characters and music.
I just got a 8gb memory card for my Wii. Sadly my projector just blew, so will be a week or so till I can try it out. But with the Wiis HD alone, there just isnt room for those. I think the Wii have something like 512mb built in. They really ought to make new Wiis come with at least 8gb built in. Oh well.
HUH? It's not out yet and no date has been set for release? How pray tell have you bought your copy?
Please don't tell me you're one of these fools who are getting Tales and SE mixed up, there are too many already
I guess i'll be buying both but is the Tales version considered part of the original arc or is it some alternate universe version?
It's Monkey Island 5. It's a continuation of the original story.
Sorry if my previous post sounds sarcastic/aggressive but it was late at night, I'd just been ploughing through the SoMI:SE facebook page for the Q+A session thread and there were far too many people who just seemed to be mixing them up or not having a clue about Tales.
Heck, someone even asked Mark Darin a question about it -
Q: Dear Mark Darin, have you noticed that so many people on this comments page are rather confused between The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and your project Tales of Monkey Island?
Do you think this consumer misconception (or lack of reading comprehension, or even downright retardation) is significant enough to affect sales of your product?
Has it occured to you that these people make a significant portion of the audience and if so will you be dumbing down the gameplay to accommodate their tiny minds?
A: I know that right now, some people get confused by which is which, but I think that just about everyone interested in Monkey Island is going to want to check out BOTH!
There is no need for us to dumb down gameplay, so don't worry, you be scratching you head as often as you'll be laughing it off.
I was under the impression it's set after an 'imaginary' monkey island 5? (Didn't particularly make sense to me, though).
It is Monkey Island 5, but they're pretty much just saying lotsa time and a few adventures have passed. That way they don't need to explain everything after MI4 so much, and it allows them to have a better backstory to the events in ToMI
Dave Grossman explains it thus:
It's just common sense - there won't be a MI2SE, don't kid yourselves. They didn't even do a red-book audio version of Monkey2 like they did for MI1. That really doesn't matter. My computer graphics are only 1680x1050 and I'll still buy it...