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Day of the Tentacle: SE will be shown at Indiecade tomorrow
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The notice in the middle on the wall. Nothing's written on it, those are just upscaled pixels.
What should that text say when it was never meant to be legible? It was illegible scribble back then, and it's illegible scribble now.
RAIDEN1
Member
With full throttle you would always have that nagging feeling of what might have been if a sequel ever got released that was a lot better when it came to longevity .....not saying fans wouldn't welcome it but it'd be so awesome if there was a game created now with that sort of art-style, humour and charm...and was a sequel of some sort...or even a prequel!
Shadow Hog
Member
Day of the Tentacle SE |OT| That's why I'll have to do it... YESTERDAY!
But it doesn't look like illegible scribble, it looks like weird lines that make no sense now that it's in HD.
I can nitpick the shit out of this, but the truth is I'd rather have something too faithful to the original than something that's been altered too much. This is good enough for me to get excited about.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
It didn't look like real writing back then either...
I suggest you send Schafer a picture of how you would like it to be rectified before he embarasses himself and his family with this shameful adaptation. And tell him straighten the walls too.
Come on, now. Save it for when someone's actually vehemently upset about this.
Well, he did use the word shameful. I can't really tell anymore on the internet.
I'm a bit disappointed with how it looks but I'll buy the game regardless. Love the original.
Still, take a look at the Full Throttle mockup that has been posted in this thread. It keeps the art style but makes use of the higher resolution to add detail. The picture in the background becomes an actual picture as opposed to a collection of random pixels.
In fact, the outhouse screen from DOTT HD appears to do the same. Perhaps it's just this particular room that could have been upscaled with more care.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
Banned
I would prefer MI 1-2 upported to PS4 and ported to PSV, as well as MI3 and 4. However, I will take any LA adventure game! Wasn't there a rumor about The Dig getting a remake as well? What happened there?
This might be a good a thread as any to ask this question, I saw that Grim Fandango is $5.99 on the playstation store, I don't have a PS4 yet, will probably get one eventually. I do have a psv, so if I buy Grim Fandango for PSV now, will I be able to unlock the PS4 version later (in a year or two)?
Shadow Hog
Member
Yeah, the upres job doesn't quite look perfect, including those signs that look like a quick upscale job while other parts look like they got the appropriate level of attention (the characters, primarily), but I'm just happy to see the game again - that's overriding my desire to nitpick things right now.
Well, they'd kind of have to vertically stretch the scenes - 320x200 is 16:10, but games actually using it were designed for 4:3 monitors, so there's an inherent 1.2x vertical stretch in displaying it on an actual CRT monitor that the comparison screenshot doesn't account for.
Weird, because it basically looks exactly the same art-wise to me.
Eh, that already got a re-release on Steam. IMO it's 99% likely it's going to be Full Throttle. Which would be the correct choice.
Madrugador
Member
Hell yes, looks amazing.
Really hope we get a remake of Curse of Monkey Island now!
Really hope we get a remake of Curse of Monkey Island now!
The Full Throttle fan art is done in a way that's similar to the Monkey Island 2 Special Edition.
It seems for Day of the Tentacle they're going for as close as possible to the original as they can get while still having an HD resolution. This could be to save money, or it could be a response to the somewhat mixed reception of the new art for the Monkey Island Special Editions.
Or maybe it's a little of both.
The art's not the worst thing in the world, but some of the assets in these screenshots look suspiciously like they were put through an automated vectorization process to me. The "Keep Out" sign in this one looks especially suspect to me:
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Last December at PSX.
Extra Sauce
Member
Dog Problems
Banned
Love the updated visuals, but like the remastered version of Grim Fandango, I'm most excited for the commentary.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Any release window for this yet?
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
Doesn't look all that great, but whatever, I never finished this game, now I get another opportunity.
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
It definitely is an auto-conversion with a little bit of manual finish. Nothing was redrawn (which is understandable, the amount of art would cost 10 million nowadays), but after Grim Fandango they know what sales to expect and that they can't afford a high budget. Instead it's the other way around, lowest possible budget. Sadly a lot of detail is lost in the process, it now has the flair of a flash game. Characters are especially bad, they look out of place.
I think it's pretty clear it has been redrawn with the intention of maintaing the original aesthetic as much as possible. It's not an upscale at all. As far as I'm concerned it's the best possible result.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
I think it's pretty clear it has been redrawn with the intention of maintaing the original aesthetic as much as possible. It's not an upscale at all. As far as I'm concerned it's the best possible result.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. No need alter it in any unnecessary way, risk messing something up.
I feel like Fate of Atlantis would need that kind of treatment, though. That game would probably be a real struggle.
Exactly. No need alter it in any unnecessary way, risk messing something up.
I feel like Fate of Atlantis would need that kind of treatment, though. That game would probably be a real struggle.
The distinctive artstyle in DOTT helps a lot with a process of this sort. It really loooks pretty friggin' avantgarde for its time.The OG game still looks pretty fantastic, low-res and all.
Fate of Atlantis not really.
Looking good, my Vita is ready!
Day of the Tentacle was the first Lucasarts adventure not released on the Amiga, so I had to break down and get a PC to keep playing their games.
Does anybody still have their Lucasarts Adventurers? I miss the old days when we got manuals and stuff like this with our games.
The cover seems appropriate for the frenzy we're going through now.
Day of the Tentacle was the first Lucasarts adventure not released on the Amiga, so I had to break down and get a PC to keep playing their games.
Does anybody still have their Lucasarts Adventurers? I miss the old days when we got manuals and stuff like this with our games.
The cover seems appropriate for the frenzy we're going through now.
Hazelhurst
Member
This is one of my all time favorite games. The last time I played and completed this game was on a hacked DS Lite using SCUMM. Soo good.
CecilRousso
Member
They're talking about adding some stuff, but it wont be new puzzles.
That's what improper outsourcing will do to ya
going back and looking at it, it just makes me angry how bad it is
Fushichou187
Member
GAF never fails to amaze me to the degree at which they'll nitpick something.
This adaptation of DotT looks great to me. My nephew would never be able to get around the old PC version (I tried playing through MI with him and he couldn't get past the pixelation) but this is perfect. I look forward to playing through this again and introducing some new people to the game for whom PC gaming in general ≠ fun.
This adaptation of DotT looks great to me. My nephew would never be able to get around the old PC version (I tried playing through MI with him and he couldn't get past the pixelation) but this is perfect. I look forward to playing through this again and introducing some new people to the game for whom PC gaming in general ≠ fun.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
What detail has been lost in the process?
If anything, another poster's gripe with this remake was that it's too much identical to the original and that they should have added extra details (such as the text on the note above the washing machine).
It's fake.
That's what a redrawn game looks like imo, DOTT looks straight from an upscaling filter.
Why?