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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Oh weird, you mean another game that is going with a new and vibrant art style that is at odds with the previous games in the series has incensed The Gamers? And what's that you say, it actually looks incredible and The Gamers are being big whiny pissbabies?

    Well, that doesn't sound like them at all!

    (New Monkey Island looks fantastic, and I just hope the writing and puzzles deliver)

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    I demand my grim dark Zelda Monkey Island!

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    Monkey Island. A series that has famously only had one art style.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Monkey Island. A series that has famously only had one art style.

    So, in fairness, I do generally associate Monkey Island with Steve Purcell, and I love Steve Purcell as much as anyone, I have multiple framed and signed art prints from him hanging around my apartment.

    But Return to Monkey Island looks great!

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited June 2022
    Glal wrote: »
    Glal wrote: »
    Glal wrote: »
    If I'm reading that correctly Matt was still sleeping under his desk when Bethesda were fixing up FO76... *checks watch*
    Until this year, if not still? Gotta hand it to him, that's dedication.

    I'm not sure where you got that from "Early in my career" This guy used to run Midway; he's been around for awhile.
    The guy said he slept under his desk ~when crunch still existed~, and now does not since it's been eliminated (to his knowledge). I was pointing out that there was an article literally this month about crunch at Bethesda, the very company he's whitewashing.

    He never says crunch doesn't exist anymore period, he's says it's not a thing at Microsoft, and that the crunch mentioned in that Kotaku article is a thing of the past from prior to the Bethesda aquistion.

    Obviously he could be full of shit, but I don't think anything he said was contradictory.
    I'm not sure why you're playing devil's advocate for an obvious shithead, over a joke no less, but you do you I guess.

    I've already said my interpretation of events was flawed; did you need something else?

    Also, I totally did not intimate anything in your post was a "joke" rather than a snarky comment surrounding a larger point, so that's why I responded to it as a serious comment.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Geneforge is quite good. Nice little spiderweb software rpg, if you've played any of their other ones.

    I'll definitely need to grab that. I remember finding the demo of that when I was home from college on spring break and downloading it over dialup on my parents computer.

    They also had a pretty fun puzzle game that I can't remember the name of and seems to be completely gone from their web page. It's all just RPGs now.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular


    Monkey Island. A series that has famously only had one art style.

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    Tales of Monkey Island

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    Escape from Monkey Island

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    Curse of Monkey Island

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    Monkey Island 2 special Edition

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    Monkey Island 2 original

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    Monkey Island 1 remaster

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    Monkey Island 1 original

    yeah at this point what are you pointing to when you scream "I want it to look like the OLD monkey island games!"

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Nobody wants Escape from Monkey Island

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited June 2022
    Ranking of Monkey Island Aesthetics

    2
    Curse
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    2 SE
    Tales
    1 SE
    Escape

    (I realize I said I associate the series with Steve Purcell and then put Curse very high, but Curse is honestly really good)

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Wind Waker....2!

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Catch me on the right day and Curse is my favorite Monkey Island

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    yeah I think I like Curse the most, followed by 1 and 2

    and really I feel like Return's style is somewhere between Curse and 2 SE, like it's nicely playing up some of the cartoony exaggeration with nice 2D art

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Curse straight up looks like (my memory of) a Saturday morning Cartoon, and as a child of the 80's and 90's, I can appreciate that.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Tales might rank higher if I was basing it just off Purcell's art for it, but it doesn't quite stand up to the transition to 3D and loses quite a bit in the process

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Tales might rank higher if I was basing it just off Purcell's art for it, but it doesn't quite stand up to the transition to 3D and loses quite a bit in the process

    yeah I feel like the modeling tech just wasn't there at the time, particularly for the budget/systems they were targeting

    if they were going back to making a full 3D monkey island now I feel like they could do a much better job, with way more tools to support them





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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular

    we're 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 working on it, but it's time for you to see what we've been up to. become a skate. insider and sign-up for playtesting at https://skate.game/insider 🛹

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Glal wrote: »
    I demand my grim dark Zelda Monkey Island!

    More like Celda Threepwood.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited June 2022
    ZBrush Threepwood was right there.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »

    we're 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 working on it, but it's time for you to see what we've been up to. become a skate. insider and sign-up for playtesting at https://skate.game/insider 🛹

    I'd totally play a game that looks like the grayboxing and with that level of fidelity to the animations.

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »
    Monkey Island. A series that has famously only had one art style.
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    Monkey Island 1 original

    yeah at this point what are you pointing to when you scream "I want it to look like the OLD monkey island games!"

    *snort*

    That is clearly the later VGA version and not the earlier (by about three whole months) and prettier EGA version!

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  • H0b0manH0b0man Registered User regular
    edited June 2022
    God what I would do for a remastered version of Curse of Monkey Island with higher resolution art and uncompressed music.

    Everything else is already perfect.

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  • SproutSprout Registered User regular
    Both Curse of Monkey Island and King’s Quest 7 did a great job of pulling off the “play a cartoon” thing, or at least I remember it that way. It’s me, the guy who was really in to cel-shading.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Can't forget the CGA mode.
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    The game also supported the Hercules video card.
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    720×348 resolution and this picture is very obviously not aspect corrected for a 4:3 monitor

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    anybody going "curse of monkey island is great because it's like you're playing a cartoon" needs to play later alligator right now

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    God I need to get back to Later Alligator, it's so dang charming.

  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited June 2022
    Brolo wrote: »
    Nerf’s Gjallarhorn rocket launcher from Destiny is HUGE, and I love it. Preorders begin on July 7th for $185 https://t.co/SdS4F3jvss https://t.co/ehADczhAER

    As much as I love Destiny, and Bungie asa company (their cms have been dunking on people over Roe v Wade, especially the keep politics or of games idiots) they still get stuff wrong.

    This is not one of those times.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    A big part of the appeal of Curse is also really good voice acting

    Very glad they got Dominic Armato back again for Guybrush in Return

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    So not gonna link the tweets cause kinda not safe for work but apparently people are sending unsolicited dick pics and begging for the release date of God of War Ragnarok to a female dev on the team.

    ...Gamers were a mistake.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Fucking

    what?

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I’m glad someone made a mod that took the voice audio from the secret of Monkey Island remaster and put it into the scumm original version. I love the audio but I prefer the original graphics, something the remaster of 2 let you do but not in 1.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Like even putting myself in that warped frame of mind, what will this accomplish? Do they think that this dev will be so overcome with lust and gratitude that the only possible response would be to post the release date?

    Or am I looking too hard for rationality?

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Karoz wrote: »
    So not gonna link the tweets cause kinda not safe for work but apparently people are sending unsolicited dick pics and begging for the release date of God of War Ragnarok to a female dev on the team.

    ...Gamers were a mistake.

    wait the game series that gave us the "I didn't do it... But I wish I did" achievement attracts shitlords???

    say it ain't so

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Delduwath wrote: »
    Like even putting myself in that warped frame of mind, what will this accomplish? Do they think that this dev will be so overcome with lust and gratitude that the only possible response would be to post the release date?

    Or am I looking too hard for rationality?

    dik piks and rationality rarely if ever collide

  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Delduwath wrote: »
    Like even putting myself in that warped frame of mind, what will this accomplish? Do they think that this dev will be so overcome with lust and gratitude that the only possible response would be to post the release date?

    Or am I looking too hard for rationality?

    Let me tell you a tale of the Kink community, and the site within it known Fetlife.

    90% of guy's profiles is pictures of their dick. Most guys on the site also have pictures of their dick as their avatar. They think, somehow, some way, that on a site about fetish content and sexuality outside the standard hetronormative, somehow, a picture of their dick is the best, most representative thing they can do.

    And they're always shocked when they get blocked, dunked on, or otherwise mocked for how this somehow doesn't lead to instant panties being dropped for them.

    Men are idiots.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    True. Everyone knows that you can really only persuade a stranger on the internet by sending an unsolicited picture of your butthole.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    *sweating*

    *frantically changing various profile pics from dick to butthole*

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    True. Everyone knows that you can really only persuade a stranger on the internet by sending an unsolicited picture of your butthole.

    There's one guy who's profile is just dick pics... with googly eyes on them, which is actually pretty awesome.

    Anyway, uh, how about them their video games?

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Have you pic'd your butthole?

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular

    XIII Remake to Get Huge Update From New Developer With Reworked Art Style, Improved AI, and More https://t.co/49gl5ElZvy


    "We’re terribly sorry": The heavily criticised XIII remake is getting a remake

    https://t.co/zCqZL3tCJ2 https://t.co/2z9SKpXaLW

    was anyone here a big fan of the original XIII?

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I don't think I even played any of the first XII, to be honest.

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