A movie I worked on for an entire year, and was the most stressful film job I ever had, has been shelved for two and a half years after completion. In a web search using principle names involved, there is no evidence of its existence because we were quite secretive about it during production. Due to bad publicity for one of the major players in the film (that occurred well after we started the project) it may never be released.
Goddamn it and to think, we were this close to getting ‘Ghost Dad 2: Resurrected & Radical’!
I have to admit… My daughter loved it as well. She didn’t say much besides: “This is my favorite Monkey Island. I want to play it now. Can we play it now?”
She’s only three, though.
I finished Secret and MI2 with her. We tried to do Curse, but she wasn’t into it for some reason. I guess we’ll try again some other day.
The thought occurred to me… but they are not pixel art… I mean, it’s like I wanted her to listen to Beethoven, and you told me to show her a version that’s sung completely in burps.
But seriously, I think the problem is the amount of text. She likes textless adventure games pretty much (Katie in meowmeowland, Chuchel).
Having being apprehended and kidnapped by the Dread Pillock Retro Fascists, Ron Gilbert finds himself locked within one of their gang member’s basements (well, his Mother’s basement, to be exact) and he has to make use of nothing more than the items around him to escape.
Within the dank and musky pit of despair, Ron can see a Stranger Thing’s Funko Pop; an Amiga 500 with its keyboard coated with Cheeto dust; a Tamagotchi (dead and surrounded by piles o’ poop) and a poster of Miami Vice adorning the wall. Ron thinks fast and scuttles around the room, scooping up the items, one by one, before shoving them down his sizeable pants.
However, when Ron takes the Miami Vice poster down off the wall, he finds that it had been secured in place by four lumps of adhesive putty. The gears whir within Ron’s mind, as he desperately thinks of his training as an adventure game designer and how that may help him to escape from his current predicament. He suddenly has an idea; he uses the adhesive putty to stick all of the items together and in doing so, he gazes upon the newly created combined inventory items now nestling betwixt his inner thighs. Ron has created… a sticky mass of nerdy junk and memorabilia. This won’t help him at all.
[GAME OVER]
Surely the Ultimate Talkie Edition would be a good compromise (original VGA pixel art with voice acting)?
(double posting I meant to post here in the first place)
I don’t want to talk about the art since so much is said about it but after having seen the trailer I wonder still about if Guybrush is a kid or not. Why there’s scrapbook with his name on it? So that all the games are his imagination and pages on the scrap book?
I’ve seen these comments but it must be one insane person or two… I don’t think it’s a problem looking at the trailer. Unless the game really has those tropes, which could bring some nasty people into the conversation but nothing shown so far reveals that.
I don’t know enough the cultures that exist in gaming to understand why some people may associate some features to a specific side of the political spectrum.
Was it because Stan was in jail for something related to “non fungible” items? I don’t know. Was it because in Thimbleweed Park there was a jab at a politician? Who knows.
Whatever the reasons are, I’ve observed more than a few mentions of certain terms, in multiple forums, by different users. I have no way to quantify the size of the phenomenon: my guess is that if you exclude 4chan it’s not very big. But it exists.
All of this is just a personal impression likely fueled by pessimism and by fears of bad sales and lower satisfaction for the developers.
Another interesting observation can be done if you compare that video to the April teaser video.
Oh wow, I don’t like the art but I would never dislike MI on YT.
Also, I’m looking at FB comments on some gaming sites like Kotaku, and people outside of the adventure genre community are not impressed with art. Some like it, but not many. They are not as vocal or passionate about it of course, but the same kind of things are pointed out (by users, not journalists, who are positive). Maybe that’s just my impression and I’m biased. Does anyone have other experiences with sites or blogs that are not focused on adventure games?
People tell me Rex Crowley games won art awards in the past, so it surprises me to hear that. I’ve sort of been speculating that if Ron and Rex were to collaborate on a brand new franchise (without the decades of baggage Monkey Island has), they’d blow people away.
I actually think it looks pretty good, a lot better than I thought to be honest.
At this point, I thought there would as much hate as love. It seems to me that the trailers have been divisive but are still getting a lot of love.
And again, this doesn’t translate to sales.
We’ll see when the game is out.
Yes, I should have been more precise in my answer. I replied and referred to Pauls post. Here we are talking about graphics and art, not the type of things happened you mentioned.
Regarding Monkey Island there are many (or some?) people saying that the graphics are crap. So a lot of other people could be curious if this is true.
(btw: Kevin Spacey wan’t guilty, AFAIR? Or do I remember wrong? )
I replied and referred to Pauls post. Here we are talking about graphics and art, not the type of things happened you mentioned.
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