ThunderPeel2001

The person behind this is so talented. The graphics are spot on. I wish I could play it!

I've heard there were lots of niggles with the PS2 version as well. I also picked it up and didn't notice anything hugely terrible. I don't know if they're more subtle (controls not being responsive, etc) or if they fixed things for the PS4 version. I'd also like to know the major differences.

I bought and read On Stranger Tides... Not bad, but I was surprised how little there was that was recognisable. I think it was basically the world that inspired Ron (pirates + voodoo). Still worth a read though.

Lovely job. A vast improvement! But it's still my least favourite LucasArts (or TellTale) soundtrack. I could just never get behind this one.

Personally it's give me pixels or nothing. I don't like any filters on retro games. I think your eyes adjust to pixels after a while. That said I do like the AI upscales of CMI's backgrounds. I'd love to see them added one day.

This is super exciting! Thanks for doing this!

Unobtainable wealth, the worst kind of wealth. It also implies that Big Whoop was actually treasure... it's just Guybrush slightly missed the mark. Probably just a joke for the hint book though.

Looking at that image is the first time I noticed that Bosco is actually in a cage... Doh. That explains the dialogue then.

I have to say Skunkape did a great job with that Steam patch update. Hopefully being so calm and transparent will diffuse the situation for most people, plus it was interesting to read. And making it clear that people will get the originals as free DLC should also make some happy, too. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1440440/view/2913231583179436796

I had never heard of this until now. Thanks for the explanation Jason. Edit: I just scrolled up and saw the first post. Somehow I had previously missed this entirely. Interesting!

If that were true, you wouldn't have made that statement in the first place. Any serious article on "white privilege" would have addressed your claim immediately. So either you're not as familiar with the arguments as you claim, or you are, and you made a deliberately provocative statement, knowing exactly what the response would be. It can't really be both.

I agree with the majority of what you said, but not this sentence. Those two things are unrelated. Even if someone was contending that it's impossible for a white person to be meaningfully discriminated against in western culture, it's not the same as "forgetting" that disenfranchised white people, with little power, exist, which was the original argument. Although there are plenty of white people have little power, they are still generally better placed than a person of colour with little power.

Her LinkedIn lists her primarily as a casting and performance director (also for TellTale, which I didn't realise) and you can see her directing the voice cast in the Broken Age documentary. I think she started as a sound editor, though.

I also hated the voice acting in the SOMI SE. There were some obvious exceptions (the storekeeper, for example), but for the most part everyone seemed to be doing their best to do a "funny" voice. I literally had to stop playing because it drove me up the wall it was so bad. I don't know exactly what happened, or who was to blame. Also I thought Khris Brown was the person responsible for the LucasArts voice-acting from Hit the Road onwards? Or maybe it was just Grim Fandango onwards (ie. Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Broken Age -- Schafer's titles). There was certainly a marked improvement from the abysmally voiced Fate of Atlantis, whoever it was. The first SE felt like a huge step backwards to me.

It was a serious question. Your argument that the people who study and teach these things have never considered something as obvious as the fact that there are disenfranchised white people implies that you've not really taken time to understand the other side. (Of course such a thing exists, and of course it hasn't been forgotten.) Someone else here talked about how they were surrounded by people who didn't understand what the wider issue is and I wondered if you were the same. What country are you from? How old are you? You talk about your culture, but it's very hard to put your comments into context. I posted a video that touched upon the issue of "white privilege" and puts it in some context. You seem to have ignored it? That's a shame because it does a better job of explaining parts of it than I can. Resorting to insults isn't going to get much of a rise out of me, I'm afraid.

Are you making any effort to understand the arguments, or are you just living in a bubble of people who think like you?

I think I'm in the tiny minority who preferred EMI Elaine...

I understand the $60 fee includes customs charges? Or so I saw someone say.

Dang

Children will be children. I wonder if I would have been one of the inappropriately outraged if I was still a teenager. I’d like to think not, but who knows, we all hold weird notions when we’re young.

Yeuch. Some of the bile has started to seep into the FB groups I frequent. Thankfully the conversation is slightly balanced -- there are few people smart enough to point out the lack of logic in the complaints -- but the fact that they exist is annoying in the first place. A self-entitled vocal minority that I hope are rightfully ignored in all future decisions. It's interesting that you say it's age related, Jennifer. Sometimes I feel online conversations would make a lot more sense if we could see each other. I'm 42!

Ron did just that. He shared a tweaked version of the tools he used to create Thimbleweed Park. It's a language/interpreter called "Dinky". I started a thread about it a while ago: Ron's Dinky

Wow. If it's that involved I'm guessing they'll release the book separately?

Hmm. It does make me wonder what could be in the behind the scenes book.

Anyone know how close a replica the code wheels will be? They look fake in the mock-up. I still have my MI2 one I remember asking Jake an (in hindsight) embarrassingly basic Photoshop question (how do you stop things from sticking to guides). He was very nice in his response, especially considering how basic it must have been to him.