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  1. 2 hours ago, KestrelPi said:

    Ron's decided to close the comments again

     

    Some people need to do whatever the Monkey Island fandom equivalent of touch grass is.

     

    We're getting a new Monkey Island game!

     

    That we never thought we'd get!!

     

    By Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman!!!

     

    This year!!!!

     

    And every little thing we hear about it sounds really cool!!!!

     

    But sure. Focus your energy on saying rude things about 4 screenshots.

    To me the great pity of it is that it might put him off wanting to do something like this again.

     

    This year has been pretty terrible for me. I was feeling the lowest i've ever felt, i couldn't enjoy anything in my life like i used to and i just felt no hope. However, the news of a new Monkey Island really helped me get excited about something again. I'm so grateful to Ron, Dave and their team for that. 

     

    But  god... it upsets me seeing people crap all over it.

     

    Its like if Santa claus who has brought us so much wonderful joy in the past, surprised us with that dream present we always wanted, but we turn on him because it wasn't right coat of paint we wanted. Its still the toy car we always wanted but all we care about is the damn colour...  

     

    It's a new Monkey Island! In 2022!!!

     

    Its a frigging miracle that Monkey Island was allowed out of the Disney vault. But people obsess only on what they dislike, they can't just enjoy things...

     

    This is why we can't have nice things...

     

     

    I kinda want to see a Monkey Island themed version of this meme.

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    Edit: come to think of it... Murray is in the background 😂💀

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  2. 58 minutes ago, Lagomorph01 said:

    Whoa! I just listened to some clips, and that's a great suggestion! He definitely has the same vocal range and qualities as Earl Boen has! They'd at least have to have him audition!

     

    You can check out some clips here! The "Devil King" clip comes closest to LeChuck I think, with the added bonus of almost 20 years since that performance that might've given some more natural deepness to his voice.

    Oh wow! he's born in my hometown 😂

     

    Yeah that Devil King one really sold me 😁

  3. I agree with both of you. It would be jarring if they went with a totally different voice for one game but at the same time, a sound alike would be super jarring. I found the tales of monkey island episode 1 voice distracting especially their laugh. I couldn't stop thinking about how Boen would have delivered the line.

     

    Whatever the new voice sounds like, i just hope we can get a more scary LeChuck. 

     

    I felt that LeChuck became less scary in the later games. More goofy. I hope they go back to the terror of the mi2 LeChuck.

     

    I remember being terrified of zombie LeChuck. Whenever he appeared in the tunnels i would jump and be full of dread. 

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  4. 10 minutes ago, fentongames said:

    August is a solid guess. I think July could also be possible too dependent on how much more there is to do. I'm gonna predict we'll have a release date, the full cast, and a main trailer this time next month.

     

    While there's been so much speculation, appreciation and apprehension about the visuals from all corners of the MI community, I'm just sat here hoping LeChuck's new voice doesn't suck.

    Do you think they will go with a different take for lechuck's voice?

     

    Or get someone to a solid impression of the previous voice?

     

    I can't wait for June! May has been such a drag.

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    Now whenever i look at this, all i see is Nigel wearing a giant thumbs up hat on his head. 😅😂

     

     

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    Sorry for this dumb post 😅

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  6. 8 minutes ago, KestrelPi said:

    Well it's only up to the shoulder, so it's difficult to see how big the head is in relation to the rest of the body. But as I said above, I'm less convinced now I've seen the box carrying animations.

    That's true.

     

    To be honest, putting Guybrush randomly in the background sounds like a cheeky Ron move 😁😆 so who knows.

     

     

  7. 24 minutes ago, Thrik said:

    Nice piece of fan art imagining ReMI Guybrush. 🙂

     

     

    I really like this.

     

    I've been really nervous after seeing Rex's original Guybrush drawing. I hear it wont be like that design at least.

     

    I would love it to be similar to this. Like a hd version of a sprite.

     

    Going by the other character designs i bet Guybrush will have a more angle-ish face and a long neck 

  8. 1 hour ago, Udvarnoky said:

    It's grimly relieving that this game was announced well after all the primary creative decisions were under glass. It seems unlikely that a team of professional game developers would ever depart from their own tastes and instincts in response to men's room graffiti, but between Ron feeling the need to put his blog in timeout and Dom directly engaging with Reddit comments to address the feedback, it's unfortunately clear that there is some personal impact here, so knowing that the shrillest voices were denied the ability to have even a subconscious influence on the game's development is satisfying.

    Definitley, the last thing i want is the team changing their vision to fit what fans think they want.

     

    I want Ron and Dave's vision.

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  9. 3 hours ago, fentongames said:

    If the trailer is any indication, the full effect of the art cannot be perfectly represented in the screenshots. There will be camera motion, flowing animations, atmospheric effects, parallax scrolling, etc. Similar in many ways to the Telltale tool.

     

    I'll bet that shot of Melee town, for example, will have the foreground rooftops on a different plane to the backdrop art, possibly with some additional fog/camera effects, giving the piece a greater layer of depth and atmosphere than what might be coming across in the art.

    Definitley agree. I think the animation in the trailer really brings it together. 

     

    The screenshots really don't give us the full picture.

     

    I kinda wish instead of screenshots they posted 30 second clips that showed off how the game will look and feel when not static.

     

    I really hope there is a proper reveal soon. Maybe next month.

     

    They need to show gameplay of Guybrush in action, i think that would calm alot of peoples concerns.

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  10. On 4/29/2022 at 1:00 AM, ThunderPeel2001 said:

     

    Yes, Tim has said that that's exactly what happened. When the budget exploded, they updated their plans. Tim's original idea (as seen in the Kickstarter pitch video, IIRC) was to even help program the thing like a Scummlette. He used the example of tweaking the timing on the scrolling on the Fettuccini Brothers circus tent scene in MI1, which he said he took ages to get "just right". He wanted more of that low level experience again. But when they had the money to do something more polished and modern, he took the opportunity instead to do that.

     

    Edit: Scrolled down and Ben beat me to it.

    There's a part of me that would have loved to seen this. I think a more intimate smaller team with a less ambitious scope might have led to have a better game. I think this was one of the reasons i felt Thimbleweed park worked better.

     

    But then if Double Fine Adventure wasn't a huge success we might not have got Thimbleweed park and other games.

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  11. I was looking through Peter Chan's concept art on MI2 and thought it be fun to combine Chan's character art and background art.

     

    Imagine if Double Fine got to do the remakes. They were always very visually faithful with the remakes  with the DOTT they used Chan's original concept art as a basis. so maybe they would have used Chan's concept art as influence on a mi2 remake.

     

    Although i guess they may have got Ron involved and maybe the remakes would look more like Return. Who knows?

     

     

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  12. I know Ron says he isn't a fan of the Day of the Tentacle art style but when i compare these two images I definitley see a Day of the Tentacle influence.

     

    Maybe Rex Crove or whoever did the background art was inspired by DOTT.

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  13. This is super not important but a tradition i loved in the old lucasarts games were the little winks and easter eggs to other games. 

     

    Do you think Ron will still include some retro easter eggs and references.

     

    I know Ron said he wants to move the series forward but i still love a few references. 

     

    Maybe a maniac mansion easter egg? 

     

    Hell... maybe a thimbleweed park easter egg? 😁

     

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  14. 9 minutes ago, KestrelPi said:

    I think this line of thought is going to be easier to follow once we understand exactly what ReMI is. So far we know:
     

    • It begins where MI2 left off
    • But the sequels are still 'canon' and Murray is in it
    • It's been hinted that while it's at its core a pirate adventure, they'll be going some weird places with it just like they did in MI2.

    This could mean a whole lot of things:

    • It could mean that everything in ReMI takes place before CMI and they just kinda backfill an explanation for why Murray is there. (I doubt this idea, but mainly because it doesn't 'feel' right to me)
    • It could mean that it starts at the end of MI2 but then there's a lengthy time skip to after all the other games, and we largely ignore them and tell a new story with a slightly older guybrush (this is my favourite pet theory at the moment)
    • It could mean that the game itself is going to, by the end, play with the idea of what's real and not real in the world of Monkey Island, and our current ideas of what happens in what order become fuzzier as a result
    • It could mean that the game just has time travel in it now
    • It could mean there's some sort of multiverse theory of Monkey Island
    • It could mean something completely different that nobody has thought of

     

    But until we know what it means, I think it's very hard to speculate how the story of Tales fits into the overall puzzle.

     

    If there is a time skip will it ignore the cliffhanger of Tales and do its own thing or will we see an evil voodoo lady in this one.

     

    Ron has said before he'd rather avoid the baggage of continuing someone elses story... unless the plot twist of the evil voodoo lady was an idea of Ron's that he gave them when he gave his input on Tales.

     

    More likely if there is a timeskip it will go way past Tales timeline.

     

    My theory: If this game had time-travel... maybe the icey island is from the future?

  15. 1 hour ago, Laserschwert said:

    I'm talking about the movie.

    But now that you mention it, yeah, the game does too.

    Back to the future is a weird one. The original was intended as a standalone and they never planned to do sequel that followed up the cliffhanger. It was more of a joke ending.

     

    When the sequel happened they were wrote into a corner and had to undo the cliffhanger.

     

    Tales is different it was clearly meant to set up a sequel that never happened.

  16. I really like Tales of Monkey Island.

     

    My big issue with it though was the cliffhanger ending with the voodoo lady.

     

    It just cheapens Tales and makes it feel unfinished.

     

    Don't do a cliffhanger unless you have a confirmed sequel on the way. 

     

    Maybe they were trying to create a cliffhanger like mi2 or maybe it was attempt to force lucasarts to let them do a sequel.

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  17. Man... i really do hope they release a non vr version of the game.

     

    I'm a huge Sam and Max fan but i cant afford to spend £300 on a vr set for a 3 hour game.

     

    Especially with my first child on the way. Money is going to be tight.

  18. So far though Monkey Island has titles similar to Stars Wars.

     

    We've had revenge and Return.

     

    How about...

     

    Monkey island: a new three-headed monkey

    monkey island: Scurvy strikes back

    Monkey island: the Phantom Lechuck

    Attack of Monkey Island

    Rise of Monkey Island

    Monkey Island awakens

    The last Banana on Monkey Island

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