LucasArts Reveals Monkey Island Return.

[DutchMarco]

As long as I can turn off the voices to avoid Dominic Armato's incredibly annoying nasalspeak I'll give these a try.  I'd rather play them with just the text, anyway.

Of course you can - there has been an incredible invention callde the power toggle - on your speakers (if you have those small active ones) (or, as in my case, on the old stereoset beside my PC which I use for sound), if that won't work, you could always pull the plug out from your PC's sound card. Of course, this won't guarantee you will be able to follow the dialog at all, since maybe they don't have those "old-fashioned" lines of dialog floating above the heads of the characters.

I hope this post was of any help - I myself found it quite funny to write, anyway.

[Babar]

But then the question is:
Dominic Armato's nasalspeak, or Michael Land's musicspeak?

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Yeah, your 'funny' post wasn't terribly useful, but you sure wrote an awful lot anyway!  I don't think it's reasonable to sacrifice a decent sound track and sound effects because a company can't install a tiny setting to switch between bad voices and good text.

[tredlow]

Yeah, your 'funny' post wasn't terribly useful, but you sure wrote an awful lot anyway!  I don't think it's reasonable to sacrifice a decent sound track and sound effects because a company can't install a tiny setting to switch between bad voices and good text.

The voice volume setting and music volume setting are separate. You can set 'voice' all the way to zero, and 'music' all the way to ten. This high-tech volume system is in the game, so you don't have to mess around with that pesky speaker volume. Also, turn on subtitles so that you can follow the game.

I hope this helps.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Hooray!  Hopefully this works its way into the Tales of MI series since I don't really care about the 'remake'.

[DazJ]

I'm excited, sure, but can't help but think that that wonderful magic will be gone now

[Nickydude]

Is this now for sale? If so could someone possibly point me in the right direction? Thanks.

[Scummbuddy]

Approximately within the month the Special Edition will be up for sale.

[Nickydude]

Thanks.

[blueskirt]

It seems like it's not over yet:
http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/4679/LucasArts_Teasing_Big_Announcement_Monday_via_Twitter.html

It could be something, it could also be nothing. My only wish is if it is adventure game related, that it's being made by one of the various team of former LucasArts employees. These games were great because they were made by the of Ron, Dave, Tim and co., Tales Of Monkey Island made by Telltale, I'm fine with that, but a sequel to FT, DOTT or MI made by a bunch of clueless noobs working at LucasArts, this I'm certainly not fine with.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

If they use the same people they are for the monkey island visual remake they've already lost me as a potential customer because whoever they're using for the update is absolutely atrocious.

[Ghost]

Now let's just imagine a DOTT remake that has Laverne, taking the sheer height of Guybrush's hairdo in the makeover as a loose rule of thumb... Oh man. Ringu. But with LAVERNE.

[Krazy]

Day of the Tentacle's visuals are already perfect as they are, and they have a very specific style that is not up to the, uh, interpretation of the special edition team. Just imagine how stiff they could make all those wonderfully cartoony pieces of animation look! And they could give everyone weird angular faces.

[Ghost]

Day of the Tentacle's visuals are already perfect as they are, and they have a very specific style that is not up to the, uh, interpretation of the special edition team.

Yup. Same with MI1.

[DazJ]

Atleast it appears LucasArts may be 'trying' to claim back some of their golden days since the reintroduction of the point 'n' click genre. I just wished they'd release full games rather than these silly little flash-style episode games. It kind of takes away the fun.

[Stupot]

Your wish is their command DazJ,
http://www.lucasarts.com/company/vip/catalog/lec_backcatalog_2009.pdf

• Armed and Dangerousâ,,¢
• Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
• LEGO® Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure
• LOOMâ,,¢
• Star Wars Battlefront® II
• Star Wars Republic Commando®
• Star Wars Starfighterâ,,¢
• The Dig®
• Thrillville®: Off the Railsâ,,¢

(not exactly new titles, but still...)

[Azure]

The Dig ( !) been wanting to play that, as well as LOOM.

[Greg Squire]

Day of the Tentacle's visuals are already perfect as they are, and they have a very specific style that is not up to the, uh, interpretation of the special edition team. Just imagine how stiff they could make all those wonderfully cartoony pieces of animation look! And they could give everyone weird angular faces.

Yep, that's the biggest thing I hate with the newer 3D adventure games; the characters are always so stiff.  I love the TellTale Sam and Max series, but all the characters seem a bit robotic.  I realize there are some advantages to 3D (such ability to pan in, out, and across a scene; more varied (and dramatic) camera angles, etc.), but it's so much harder to pull off believable characters.  It takes a lot more work and computer horsepower to make believable characters.  Maybe someday we'll Pixar quality characters in games, but not today.  I still love 2D adventure games better for this reason.

[Eggie]

Played the game, I am now at peace with the world.
I have a FEW problems with some of the design decisions but evidently nothing so big as to stop me playing through the first part of the game again this very afternoon just to wave my arms and giggle in excitement at it's existence.

Monkey Island is back, everything is going to be all right.

[Necro]

Yes I had a few annoyances I wish for them to fix, but so minor compared to everything Monkey Island has returned and is great!!!  I completed the first episode today already, it's really great I can;t wait fro more monkeys on the 15th.

As for the steam games from lucas i bet thier going to be sold , and gifted all over and you'll see steam sales data proving that they sell even today!