How appropriate, you fight like a cow

YaYa

so there's a sequel to some series coming out in a couple days

maybe you've heard of it



it's starring this guy



if he doesn't look familiar then maybe you knew him through the years




unfortunately this guy won't be featured in it but you can talk about him too



so dudes

new Monkey Island/general Lucasarts adventure game thread

freakish light

Run, you pigeons, it's Robert Frost!

KingMole

My scythe, I keep it next to where my heart used to be.

JoeUser

I have fond memories of playing The Secret of Monkey Island on a CGA monitor using 12 5.25" disks. I was very impressed when I saw it in full color.

KingMole

I would like to know when the Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition comes out.

Vixx

I'm Bobbin Threadbare. Are you my mother?

Mysst

since I missed out on this when i was a wee lad, I am excited about playing it for the first time

YaYa

oh man

Mysst

you are in for a treat

although Curse is the best one and if you say otherwise you're a communist

YaYa

also

this is the best thing ever

Butler

The second one was really fucking hard.

freakish light

inappropriate apostrophes HO

Trexy

ask me about LOOM

KingMole

Trexy wrote: »

ask me about LOOM

The best part is that they're keeping that joke in the Special Edition, even though no one who played it originally will get it.

YaYa

Butler wrote: »

The second one was really fucking hard.

all of them are pretty hard

except for Escape, the only thing hard about that was that utter bullshit Monkey Kombat thing

e: KingMole: I read somewhere that they were thinking about changing it to The Force Unleashed

I'm happy they didn't

#pipe

YaYa

god bless you pipe

is Sam and Max Season 2 worth playing?

Butler

When I was playing Escape and the Monkey Kombat part started my computer decided to start running the game at 1/10th speed.

Do you have any idea how excruciating that was? I don't think you do.

marty_0001

I have never played Grim Fandango, and I have a feeling that if I got it that it wouldn't work with Vista

YaYa

also this is probably one of my top 5 favourite jokes in just about anything

ES EL POLLO DIABLO!

FortyTwo

#pipe wrote: »

All I want is a decent point + click Sam and Max again. In the old cartoon graphics.

also this:

Christmas, Bloody Christmas

Vixx

I miss good point + click adventure games

I recently played Broken Sword on the DS and while it was a nice little game, the puzzles after the first bit of the game weren't particularly hard or engaging

90% of the puzzles are "distract this person so that you can go over to the thing that they were guarding and do stuff to it"

KingMole

"Each year I wish it would get better, but it never does."

Buying the DVD set from Telltale was a decision I did not regret.

Radius

YaYa wrote: »

also

this is the best thing ever

Is one of those whale-watching pirates supposed to be Scrooge McDuck? "Sunlight sparkling off the bay" guy.

KingMole

Haggis was voiced by the same guy who voiced Scrooge... so yes?

J3p

I remember playing through Grim Fandango recently with my older sister. By the time we got to the second half we were just alt-tabbing between the game and a gameFAQs guide because we are terrible at puzzle/adventure games.

Vixx

you know what puzzle in curse took me damn near forever

when you're stuck in the snake

MAN that one took me a while

Radius

I've never gotten to play Monkey Island, so I was wondering.

All my other Lucasarts discs worked just fine in the 8 pack I got when I was a kid, but not Monkey Island.

Vixx

J3p wrote: »

I remember playing through Grim Fandango recently with my older sister. By the time we got to the second half we were just alt-tabbing between the game and a gameFAQs guide because we are terrible at puzzle/adventure games.

Grim Fandango had plenty of throw-things-at-my-computer-a-la-Myst moments

you'd be chugging along at a good pace and then you'll get stonewalled by a puzzle that you just can't figure out and then you swear a lot and click on everything and go through your inventory a million times and talk to everyone at least five times and then cry for a while

then you come back to it and magically YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

That Dave Fella

I recently played through Curse and I remembered nearly all the puzzles but some of them still stumped me because I had no manual I couldn't figure out how to use some of the items so eat them or something.

It took me ages to get the cabana membership card cause of that. I knew where it was I just couldn't get the goddamn maggots!

Abracadaniel

I'm looking forward to the remake because I've never had a chance to play many of the old Lucasarts games.

freakish light

Vivixenne wrote: »

J3p wrote: »

I remember playing through Grim Fandango recently with my older sister. By the time we got to the second half we were just alt-tabbing between the game and a gameFAQs guide because we are terrible at puzzle/adventure games.

Grim Fandango had plenty of throw-things-at-my-computer-a-la-Myst moments

you'd be chugging along at a good pace and then you'll get stonewalled by a puzzle that you just can't figure out and then you swear a lot and click on everything and go through your inventory a million times and talk to everyone at least five times and then cry for a while

then you come back to it and magically YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

the signpost in the forest

Vixx

freakish light wrote: »

Vivixenne wrote: »

J3p wrote: »

I remember playing through Grim Fandango recently with my older sister. By the time we got to the second half we were just alt-tabbing between the game and a gameFAQs guide because we are terrible at puzzle/adventure games.

Grim Fandango had plenty of throw-things-at-my-computer-a-la-Myst moments

you'd be chugging along at a good pace and then you'll get stonewalled by a puzzle that you just can't figure out and then you swear a lot and click on everything and go through your inventory a million times and talk to everyone at least five times and then cry for a while

then you come back to it and magically YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

the signpost in the forest

DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR ME TO NOTICE IT WAS POINTING TO SOMETHING SPECIFIC

I would pick it up and put it down right away in the same general spot and its direction wouldn't change so I was all O_o that's not it

URRRRRRRRRRRGH

KingMole

freakish light wrote: »

Vivixenne wrote: »

J3p wrote: »

I remember playing through Grim Fandango recently with my older sister. By the time we got to the second half we were just alt-tabbing between the game and a gameFAQs guide because we are terrible at puzzle/adventure games.

Grim Fandango had plenty of throw-things-at-my-computer-a-la-Myst moments

you'd be chugging along at a good pace and then you'll get stonewalled by a puzzle that you just can't figure out and then you swear a lot and click on everything and go through your inventory a million times and talk to everyone at least five times and then cry for a while

then you come back to it and magically YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

the signpost in the forest

I lucked out by placing it in the exact spot needed in that clearing the first time.

YaYa

I'm pretty sure even Tim Schafer admitted that Grim Fandango's puzzles were needlessly obtuse

KingMole

I've been fruitlessly trying to find the Grim Fandango design document for the past 5 minutes.

The last puzzle in the game is copied over twice and is impossible to read, because Tim Schaefer hadn't figured out what to do yet, but wanted to submit it on time.

freakish light

I found it in literally one second

by typing "grim fandango design document" into the firefox address bar

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/11/06/original-grim-fandango-design-document-released/1

ed: odd, when you follow the link it goes to... nothing.

Thanks for nothing, tim schafer

Meiz

I'm still pretty keen on adventure games. They taught me a lot such as never underestimate the power of wax lips in a fight.

KingMole

freakish light wrote: »

I found it in literally one second

by typing "grim fandango design document" into the firefox address bar

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/11/06/original-grim-fandango-design-document-released/1

ed: odd, when you follow the link it goes to... nothing.

Thanks for nothing, tim schafer

Finally found the mirror

Schafer also reveals Grim Fandango team's design doc subterfuge, writing "We didn’t have the last puzzle designed when I wrote that document, so I wrote two nonsense paragraphs and then overlapped them in the file so it would look like the final puzzle description was in there, but obscured by a print formatting error. That way I could turn the document in by the deadline."

YaYa

oh

the Secret of MI remake will be out on the 15th

so that's cool

Butters

So when's the Leisure Suit Larry redux?

KingMole

Butters wrote: »

So when's the Leisure Suit Larry redux?

Never