Starting things off...

[Metallus]

Time to do this right. Vote here, and post your opinions below.

[MtBlanc]

You never saw the Mona Lisa get a sequel. But Syncronicity did. Now what does that tell you?

[Metallus]

Although I'd want a sequel just because it's GF, I fear that a sequel made without the original creators behind it would result in massive upheaval from the fan community. I'd like to have a movie though. (LucasFilms, if you're listening...)

[Tall Guy]

i REALLY want a sequal, and althoughi remain hopeful of one i dont think Lucas Arts should use the original characters. The originality of the first is what made it great and to suceed again LucasArts need to develop a brand new story and set of characters.

 

I think there was a fan sequal planned but LucasArts stopped it much like they did to another fan sequal to MonkeyIsland b4 there release of the 4th one.

[Metallus]

Ah yes, you're referring to the Indigo Island project. That was a sad ending to a promising project.

[Hel-ter]

A sequel would not only be another very good game it would also be new stuff for us to be busy with

 

i voted for not in eigth underworld because I feel everything there is kinda finished: I mean, another trip to Rubacava could be fun but I'm afraid for the déja-vu feeling it might evoke

 

 

 

 

and if it's not a good game I won't buy it. end of story

[Hel-ter]

It would be kinda hard making an interesting game just about Manny Meche Glottis and all of the other GF1 characters: it would resemble the first one. Therefore new characters will have to be introduced.

(Also: the characters with a wide possibility of using in an interesting plotline -Dom Sal and Hec- are ...well they're dead, ofcorz they are, but i mean they are no longer usable in the game... sprouted or shredded or whatever...)

 

I think it would be very difficult to make a game with a main-character different from Calavera that would have the same feeling as GF1. I think I wouldn't identify myself with him/her the way I did with Manny. Therefore the best thing to do would be to control

-either Manny himself again

-or somebody who is linked with Manny: perhaps his son or daughter (although I don't think they will use a female main-character) or a good friend of his (not Glottis though) so that in a way Manny is still involved in the plotline

[Metallus]

I'm very curious to know what people look like in the ninth underworld, but I voted for a movie, because we'd get to see the first story told in a whole new medium, reimagined and with new aspects and plot twists.

[MeddlingMonk]

I don't know. Trying to show 'heaven' sounds like trouble to me.

[Hel-ter]

well, you should read the book 'The Discovery Of Heaven' by Harry Mulisch and then you should see the film of the book. You'll get an alternative on heaven that way

[Tall Guy]

A lot of people are saying that a sequal would be a bad idea, but think about it...this is LucasArts...they'll always find a way to make a sequal a hit. They're the best in the business at this kind of thing, so i think if they DID do a sequal, they would find a way to make it work

[Metallus]

No, I'm going to have to disagree with you there. A lot of people had problems with the last Monkey Island game that came out, and besides, a lot of the people who made GF aren't even working at LucasArts anymore, so it would be hard for them to emulate the style of the first game.

[Fender]

If they made a Grim Fandango 2, I don't think I would buy it unless it was a truly spectacular game. Grim is a great game in which it manages to tie up every loose thread at the end. That's why I voted for the "NO! Keep it as a one gamer thingy" Vote.

[Hel-ter]

Originally posted by Tall Guy

A lot of people are saying that a sequal would be a bad idea, but think about it...this is LucasArts...they'll always find a way to make a sequal a hit. They're the best in the business at this kind of thing, so i think if they DID do a sequal, they would find a way to make it work

 

then why don't they do a GF2?

 

 

LISTEN: YOU CAN BE PRO OR CONTRA A GF2. THE ONLY WAY WE'LL KNOW IF IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE A SEQUEL WOULD BE WHEN WE PLAY THE SEQUEL. IF THEY RELEASE A SEQUEL AND YOU DON'T LIKE THEN PRETEND THEY DIDN'T RELEASE AND DROP THE WHOLE THING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if you didn't notice before, I like capitals, it doesn't mean I'm pissed when I'm using them

[Metallus]

It sure SEEMS like everything was wrapped up at the end. I'd still like to think that the ending was sort of ambiguous, because you never actually saw LeMans' body, and that in the cutscene before, he'd survived falling off a building. I'm inclined to think that he doesn't go down as easy as we're led to believe. I'm sure that mausoleum of a greenhouse probably had an escape route that he could have fled through, and been able to prevent himself from being sprouted.

 

I'm probably reading into it too far, but I'd still say that there are loose ends. I mean, when the game ends, they are going into a whole new world to explore. Perhaps something will force the gates to be reversed and our heroes will have to face LeMans again.

[Hel-ter]

the new world is ok but not Hector

 

what a weak doctorsnovellish plot would that be! It reminds me of a spystory I had to write for my teacher Dutch... people dying but not really so I could use them again in a futur story

[xGrimx]

Well maybe not a Grim Fandango 2, but why not another game with the Land of the Dead in it? I love the world in GF. Could be a different game with similer concepts.

[Hel-ter]

I'm still waiting for somebody to v,ote for crappy game

[Fender]

not bloody likely mate.

[Hel-ter]

when you least expect it expect the unexpected

[Metallus]

I actually know a couple people who don't like the game. This is either because they're anti-3d adventure in general, or that they didn't like how you didn't use the mouse in the game. I think there was only one person I could think of who didn't like the game because of plot or because they found the game boring.

[Hel-ter]

over smaak valt niet te twisten

[Hel-ter]

I heared people saying

 

 

a. no violence in Gf

b. no sex either

[Fender]

Originally posted by Metallus

I actually know a couple people who don't like the game. This is either because they're anti-3d adventure in general, or that they didn't like how you didn't use the mouse in the game. I think there was only one person I could think of who didn't like the game because of plot or because they found the game boring.

 

It was thanks to Grim Fandango and Broken Sword 1 that I managed to get my mate on adventure games.

[Wraith 8]

Originally posted by Hel-ter

over smaak valt niet te twisten

 

[Dutch]euh.. ik denk niet dat ze nederlands verstaan. :D[/Dutch]

 

Welll i loved the game... i played it like 18 times or so... great game. i think there should be a sequel. like: the escape from the land of the dead or something like that :D J/K

 

But i think there should be a sequel