Never thought I'd see this happening. That Sam & Max money must be glorious.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1024

YESSS!!!!!!!! HURRAY!!!!! This is the end of boring games !!!!!
I love the Monkey Island series...

I think this is a matter of humour. I have to see a demo before I get this. Currently there are very good adventures on the market (Jack Keane, Ankh, Book of Unwritten Tales, ...).

Graphically it looks weak and much worse than competition:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/screenshot.php?id=10143

The hero has bad shading, too much specularity, simple textures. Environment is very simple. Lighting looks flat.
Probably this is because it is made for Wiiware and PC is only a port.

Here is how competition looks:


And this game is funny also and makes everything like an adventure should do and got excellent scores in magazines.

Yes - that's it (and of cause the story).

I only like the games 1 and 2.
The other games just dont feel like the original monkey island.
I really hate that cartoony and overexpressive 3d look.

I would have liked the games after MI 2 to have a more realistic look. As the original games did not try
to make a cartoon look, but where simply limited by the resolution
and technology at that time.
(Also: there is one bigger zoomed-in picture of Guybrush, I think in MI-1
where they tried to make him look very realistic)

But maybe Im too old for the current style of adventure games.

i also hate the cartoon look. i can't identify with such ugly cartoon characters. adventure games only worked for me when the resolution was 320x200 or less. then the graphics was abstract enough to leave room for your own imagination.

Theres also a Remake of the original coming, right? There 'ya go. The hair of guybrush is ridiculous, and I don't know if I like that.

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Apart from the somewhat weird lighting, I don't really mind that style. Plus, for me Monkey Island is more about the writing anyway, and Telltale just might be able to pull this off

Not so sure if the limitations are really due to the file-size-limitation of Wiiware (which is what you're getting at? Technically, the Wii should be able to allow other styles as well), since this is not too far off of the style they used in the latter games. And at least in the third game, I didn't mind it. The weird 3D-look in the fourth I could have done without, though.

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This is a quote by Ron Gilbert, where he comments on the original Monkey Island - a very interesting read, but full of spoilers, obviously.

It is not only the lighting. The main character probably has some strange polygon flow that causes these problems in the face.

By the way: I like the design of the characters from the Lucas Arts website that you linked in your post. The faces are not that exaggerated small and thin and skinny. But the hair of the hero is a bit like a tower indeed.

Original


"Cool, every kid must love this" New Style


Ok, the original picture might be a bit too realistic,
but its still better than some stange-porpotion
cartoon style.
Maybe such games only worked back then in the 320x200 low res times, as the fun was sometimes watchin a single pixel jump around.


Here, the REAL DeluxePaint Guy.brush

...don't know if i ever posted THIS?

http://www.majusarts.de/film/monkey/