YEESSSS!!!!!!!! - Tales of Monkey Island

[Jan]

New Monkey Island games! How awesome!
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-458

Guybrush Threepwood is my idol

[Leon]

Great news!

And they're remaking The Secret Of Monkey Island!

http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/

edit: oh that's in your article as well, never mind

[King of Snake]

i'm so gonna buy that.

[Dunwho]

Oh my god! simply the best game ever made! i had a whole lifetime of insults engrained in my head from playing that game! Loved it - yea im gona buy that!

[Dunwho]

I think im more interested in the updated original to be honest.. hope they havnt butchered it... i dont like when games that really worked in their basic 2d or semi 3d format are turned into full on 3d games...hope it isnt butchered!

[Wubwubwubwub]

It's butchered.

[stimpee]

Theres a video floating about of the old and new side-by-side...

[Wubwubwubwub]

They had what they were billing as a "pretty final" version at E3. It had very shitty new artwork (the portrait screens are butchered beyond belief) and the dub, re-recorded soundtrack, and refined interface is ONLY available if you play with the new shitty graphics.

You can, of course, play it in pure old school mode. Which isn't well designed for the gamepad, and is badly fitted to the screen so it's ugly and distorted. Basically, a considerably worse experience than the original. There is no ability to mix and match which new features you want. This makes the whole release a waste in my eyes, because I don't want to play it in either mode. I'll just go play it in SCUMMVM.

[stimpee]

I think i'll play it ScummVM on my iphone... seems perfectly suited.

[Wubwubwubwub]

Yeah, the iPhone version of SCUMMVM is quite awesome. The Wii version is also quite good.