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MONKEY FUCKING ISLAND BITCHES
Ozymandias:
Fun fact:
The remake of Monkey Island actually has the option to play the original game on the fly. Like, in the middle of the game, press a button, suddenly you're playing the original. Press it again: back to the remake!
So cool.
Darke:
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--- Quote from: Darke on 24 Jun 2009, 22:00 ---Personally, I was more excited by the news that they're remaking the original. That is what I'm seriously looking forward to. (Just so long as they don't mess with the music too much. The tune from the SCUMM Bar is one of my favourite things ever.)
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I don't get why they are doing this either.
The thing that was great about the first two Monkey Island games was....well, everything. Thus, if you change anything you will inevitably detract from the experience.
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The idea that the early Monkey Island games are perfect is a bit silly. I absolutely adore them, but I'm all for the addition of some modern-day polish, improved graphics and fully voiced dialogue.
Alex C:
Fully voiced dialogue is not always an upgrade. Hell, I've cited the Monkey Island games as a perfect example of how voice acting isn't well suited for every project in threads other than this one. The dialogue has always been verbose and gleefully goofy. You need to be extremely careful with dialogue like that and even a mediocre voice acting job can make the whole thing come across as painfully forced. Quite simply, there's no way you're going to convince me that the writing of Monkey Island 1 wouldn't have to go through a fair bit of adaptation make the thing enjoyable in other formats. And once you change the writing around I suddenly become a bit at a loss as to why the heck someone like me who has played the original should really be excited about a remake to begin with.
Ozymandias:
See, one of the things I love about the medium is that it's the only medium where remakes can, in general, be a good idea. I offer Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Mega Man: Powered Up, Metroid: Zero Mission, Ultimate Ghouls 'n' Ghosts, Street Fighter 2 HD, and probably several others. With the exception of SF2HD(which was just a lovingly hand-drawn HD graphical update to SF2) they all made the games deeper and more playable in addition to shinier graphics. They were good games, not just good remakes, helped along by the fact that the core, original games were good games also.
Alex C:
See, the thing here though is that I don't particularly like adventure games. Luckily, some of the Lucas Arts games managed to charm me but so far I've been consistently disappointed with Monkey Island's voice acting since it was introduced into the series. My worries lay completely in terms of presentation and most importantly writing.
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