darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
Monkey Island were remakes (new graphics).
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Day of the Tentacle: SE will be shown at Indiecade tomorrow
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Monkey Island were remakes (new graphics).
Nah.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Can't wait to see what they have done.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
You don't *need* to play MM, but it's a fantastic game and it's probably going to be a while till DOTT:SE comes out.
Just be aware if you play it that - as it is a pre-SOMI game - it's possible to do things that make the game impossible to complete.
So do consult a guide if you find yourself stuck as you may have unwittingly snookered yourself.
petethepanda
Member
Can't wait. I expect the reaction to be more or less the same as it was to Grim, though, it's just not going to be a friendly game for people who didn't play stuff like this Back In The Day. (It'd be nice if they added in a subtle hint system for newcomers but I suppose thst isn't likely.)
John Kowalski
Banned
yay!
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I dunno, I think people will find it easier then GRIM. While DOTT has more locations to act on simultaneously, as well as more puzzles (and more elaborate ones), they're (generally) pretty logical, and you don't have to worry about position like you do in GRIM sometimes (beavers etc). It's a harder game in theory but in practice I think it'd take less time to clear
Now I wonder what the cancelled remake looked like
This is definitely much more work than Grim Fandango then.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Now I wonder what the cancelled remake looked like
Last I heard DF weren't legally allowed to say, but it was being done by the MI:SE team, so.... :/
Hopefully DF get clearance to put some of it on the disc in the features or something
BlackLagoon
Member
Was there really much of a danger of that happening? I guess it can seem that way until you discover the way out of the dungeon, but the only way I can recall to possibly make the game uncompleteable is
to drown two characters in the pool
If you are lucky maybe the game still have the original maniac mansion in one of of the computers haha.
you should. It was the one that started it all.
Btw if the remaster will be faithful to the original (as stated before) we will get the original MM emulated in the game.
Extra Sauce
Member
My main concern with this project is the method of animation. The original was all hand-drawn but I suspect the "remaster" will be digitally animated, which provides stiffer, less fluid movement IMO.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
from memory
-let Ed collect his package (depending on who you chose this will deadend you)
-open the undelevoped film (will deadend micheal's route)
-wasting the paint remover (deadends everyone I think, that was the route to the door code)
-wasting your money (making you unable to use the telescope)
-calling the police multiple times without having the door open makes them ignore you (deadends bernard route)
-open the undelevoped film (will deadend micheal's route)
-wasting the paint remover (deadends everyone I think, that was the route to the door code)
-wasting your money (making you unable to use the telescope)
-calling the police multiple times without having the door open makes them ignore you (deadends bernard route)
There are defo lots more too, but those are the ones I remember. There are also other ways to kill kids (try
giving ed his dead hamster lol
I wish Gilbert had kept more deaths in his later games though, those were always entertaining and you could easily roll back (or have the game put you back).
Yeah, they really deserved better. They outsourced most of the art to a cheap studio in South-Korea, and you could tell. Luckily Double Fine has plenty of talented artists/animators inhouse.
Manny Calavera
Member
Really loving that screenshot, now if only they get the animation right this will be as good as it gets.
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RedAssedApe
Banned
have we heard any news on controls (i.e. is it just going to be straight up point and click with the same scumm interface taking up screen real estate)?
MulderYuffie
Member
Awww yeah!
First (off-screen) screenshot:
Looks pretty much perfect as far as you can tell from that shot. As close to the original as you can get. Full screen play screen as well.
I hope we'll get a trailer or a gameplay video - really curious to see how the animation turned out.
That looks just like my childhood!
infinityBCRT
Member
Wow, looks better than expected. Thought this was just going to be a straight port. I wonder if they got assets from the cancelled SE version by LucasArts.
Manny Calavera
Member
I really wonder when the release date for this is. I'd love to play this around Christmas time, but I assume it's not gonna happen. Probably sometime around next spring.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
First (off-screen) screenshot:
Looks pretty much perfect as far as you can tell from that shot. As close to the original as you can get. Full screen play screen as well.
I hope we'll get a trailer or a gameplay video - really curious to see how the animation turned out.
Looks great, but as said we need to see it in motion.
From that screenshot it sadly doesn't seem like we'll have the scumm verb interface - you can see the word "field" on its own. If it was using the verb interface, you'd see "walk to field". Unless it pulls up from the bottom on button press or on mouse movement to the bottom edge.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
That's the second best time travel game I've ever seen!
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Are the graphics literally vectorized?
Is anyone here going to Indiecade? My wife and I are making our annual visit tomorrow (we live in LA so it's not much of a trip).
Last year's show was the first time Grim Fandango was playable to the public, and it came out only a few months later. So I hope that's the kind of schedule we're looking at for DotT.
Last year's show was the first time Grim Fandango was playable to the public, and it came out only a few months later. So I hope that's the kind of schedule we're looking at for DotT.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Awesome to hear.
CecilRousso
Member
Looks great. Added to OP.
internetwolf
Banned
that art is so vintage
YES
YES
CecilRousso
Member
I think it'll be similar to how it was handled in the Monkey Special editions, with the verb bar being there in classic mode, and the new mode having a verb 'coin' (think Monkey 3, or Full Throttle) with all the actions with unique responses when holding the mouse button.
I honestly prefer it that way. Easy to use and it just looks a lot better when the entire screen is filled with pretty art. I think the verb bar was phased out of those games for a reason really. Not that much easier to use.
An option to turn it on would please everyone of course.
They haven't (thankfully, those original voices are what the characters should sound like). They have found the original sound files which means they'll be of a higher quality now though.
They also rerecorded (parts of) the soundtrack with actual instruments, and hopefully they used the Sydney orchestra again for the main theme and some other big pieces, just like with Grim.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Don't blame you, it was announced and then disappeared for like a year.
And no, don't bother with MM, just dive in with DOTT. As point and clicks go it hardly gets more primitive and it's not needed to enjoy DOTT. There's a couple of character references, but it won't matter one bit.
Also Maniac Mansion is playable from a pc you can find in DOTT. It's possible Double Fine wasn't allowed to keep that in for rights reasons or something, but I doubt it.
I don't think they actually remade the entirety of Maniac Mansion though - that would be like remaking two entire games. Also not necessary I think.