Look Behind You A Three-Headed Monkey!

[Mahnsikir]

As if the folks at LucasArts had been reading myself & Ralft3r's conversation the other day and remembered how awesome monkey island was, they've announced a remake of the original with redone graphics and voice acting. Also announced is a new mini series (like the new sam & max) that will be 5 episodes long.

Not to bothered about the miniseries as I doubt itll be as good as MI 1&2, though who knows and I do hope it is well made, but I am much more looking forward to the remake as it'll bring back one of my favorite games ever and give me a proper chance to replay it (and hopefuly appreciate it more than when I was a kid) and I wont have to dig out my Amiga to listen to the great music (PC version sucked for this) and not have to deal with the constant please insert disc x messages. Hopfully the voice acting is up to scratch.

Official Website Linky

And more info, videos, press release here

EDIT: Just read a bit more of the press release

and an in-depth hint system has been added to help players through the game’s side-splitting puzzles.

*Sigh*
Figuring out the puzzle was half the fun and while yes sometimes it was bloody tricky/hard/stupid to figure out what to do, this just encourages people not to think for more than two seconds, also dont they know what the internets for? (apart from cat pictures of course)

 

[Jaek]

I sure miss the old games, Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Police Quest, Carmen Sandiego... Some day in the future they'll have the technology to make great story games with 4-bit graphics like they used to.

 

[[-project.TwentY3-]]

In one the videos they showed the interace for the remake.....all game pad ready. But, with one click you can actually change the grafx to the original ones! the new grafx isnt to fancy either.

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Hopefully telltale doesn't recycle too much in the episodes, like it did with Sam and Max (which was still good, btw)

COncerning the remake: sounds great, to bad I still have my original copy + scummVM on my cellphone ^^ yeah, tSoMI to go. Will start it up once I finish Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

 

[Reddog]

I always thought an adventure game like MI 1 or 2 using a badass graphics engine to draw a massive island (like crytek etc) would be really killer.

 

[ash2life]

the game that is my original namegiver. must get the remake for sure.

 

[Shadrach]

Guess thats why Lucasarts have been such a**es about their IP... probably they plan to release all their old games in time, full price, raking in the $$$ from the diehards (like myself )

Gfx aren't that impressive though, for instance compared to the Amiga version that I played. And the Guybrush in the Telltale version has a goatee! *urgh*

But, will probably get both games like the fanboy I am

 

[Ralfst3r]

Oh hell yea! Nostalgia-o-meter is in the red Captain! Bring it

 

[Murphy]

I like the hint system myself, as long as it's optional and it doesn't hit you over the head with the solution. It was pretty good in Sam and Max and if it had helped a little more after you had to probe a little more it wouldn't have killed the game either, imo.

I hope those games are successful and inspire other devs and publishers to try their hand at a good adventure game. The genre is pretty cool, but it sort of died down and flash-games took over. It would be good if "real" games would take over the market again.