Tales of monkey Island 2 looks unlikely.
According to a recent article posted on Kotaku, LA is making a series of cuts, including stopping outsourcing games.
We've also been told that another sweeping change made by Meegan is that the majority of "external" development of Lucasarts properties is coming to an end, with BioWare's Old Republic MMO to be the last game not developed internally at Lucasarts. That would presumably mean, for example, no more LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Indiana Jones titles after the upcoming LEGO: Clone Wars, as those have all been handled by Traveller's Tales.
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That just means they aren't making games with other companies. They could still make a deal with Telltale to do Tales 2 and have nothing to do with it.
It says "majority of", not "all of". It may not include MI. Also, there might be a chance that LA might give up all the rights of MI to Telltale, like Sam & Max.
Please baby please baby please baby please baby please...
Sam & Max is owned by Steve Purcell, not Lucasarts.
Too true. Imagine if, as well as season 2, Telltale could also produce Curse:SE and Escape:SE
Anyone know if any of the guys who did the Monkey Island special editions have been laid off?
And all unending endings.
Hmmm... I think I'd rather LucasArts do those. They'd have a much larger budget.
Yeah, from the sounds of it give TTG all the rights to everything and throw in the towel. Please, baby please...
Telltale owns the rights to characters they created for the game. So if they wanted to make a pirate-themed adventure game in the style of Tales, using Morgan and other original characters, they could do that, they just wouldn't be able to call it Monkey Island.
I think LucasArts has made a very positive experience with "Tales". Hence, I'd consider the chances for a Telltale ToMI 2 exceptionally high. 2012, maybe?
Hmm... how about a company motto - "LucasArts. We don't want your money."
But yeah, it would probably mean no ToMI2, or Day of the Tentacle serie(s) if this is indeed true.
No, not really. Morgan is still part of the Monkey Island universe. Telltale couldn't make a game about Morgan any more than LucasArts could make a game about Bruno the bigfoot. This also means that if LucasArts does make a new Monkey Island, they can't use Morgan or Winslow without licensing them from Telltale.
Darrell Rodriguez left LucasArts a while ago. Jerry Bowerman is filling in for him until they find a replacement.
ok ok Il step in for monkey island
Personally I think it's doubtfull TTG got the "rights" for these characters, so if intern LA made a new MI (woe befoe us) they could use Morgan, Winslow and everone else...
Exactly, which is what I was wondering.
I should read the credits for the episodes to see if there is a hint of characters' property there.
They appointed a new president back in June - Paul Meegan.
You have a point. It's a fine line, but still a distinct difference.
Edit: I should also mention that the article notes at least one project avoided the axe. The project is not named, and we don't know why it survived.
I'm just going to keep on hoping that there'll be a teaser for more ToMI at the end of Devil's Playhouse like there was for Devil's Playhouse at the end of ToMI. Okay, that might be a completely vain hope, but still.
I'd rather ToMI season 2 than a new game of MI from LA as Telltale have done great work to resurrect MI. Personally I like ToMI is better than other LA made MI games, especially the story and charcters designs.
I would also have thought that LA could make a game about Bruno if they wanted, assuming that the character was created during the development of Hit the Road at LA, and was not part of the property they licensed from Steve Purcell.
I thought that was a given.
What I've been led to believe is that LucasArts owns the IP, Telltale owns the character, but the character is bound to the IP, so that Telltale can't use the character without having the IP from LucasArts and LucasArts can't use the character without permission from Telltale. Otherwise Morgan would basically be a character from her own IP and Tales would be one enormous crossover, in which case you could say that Sybil, the Stinkies, Sal, Skunkape, Papierwaite, the Soda Poppers, and every other character that didn't appear in Sam & Max prior to the Telltale games aren't part of the Sam & Max IP.
I think we all need to take some advice from a certain other sci-fi and not panic about this. Who needs a towel?
I wish that would happen, but as Polychrome said, it would be highly unlikely the LucasArts would ever sell the franchise to Telltale; they'd either want to leech off of it somehow, or bury it completely. They'd never allow some other company to make money off of it without them getting a piece of it because they're selfish bastards focused on money and about nothing else.