I don’t really follow gaming news anymore, as I have tons of other people who do that quite diligently and give me an update if I ask. But something huge caught my attention (I know this is way old news to some of you) just the other day when dropping by Ron Gilbert’s site: Lucasarts is remaking the original Monkey Island and TellTale is continuing Monkey Island in episodic installments.
I’m a huge fan of Graphic Adventure games (hence the Broken Blueprint game on the Free Games page) and Ron Gilbert and Al Lowe (and Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, etc. long list…) are some of my biggest heroes. I’m glad to see work like this being appreciated again and I hope it continues.
As long as Lucasarts doesnt completely mess it up (they haven’t developed a non-Star Wars branded title in like 10 years, and even then they’ve mostly published), it should be awesome.
TellTale’s episodic installments should be great, as they did an excellent job on the Sam & Max series.
If you haven’t played these games before, do yourself a favor and download the old ones (and ScummVM) and play them now; or play through these games after they are re-released. If you enjoy the humor the Arvale games, you can see where a lot of the inspiration came from. Guybrush’s character from MI 1 and 2 in particular had lots of influence on how I wanted to portray Duncan.
With that said, I need an onion bagel.
What kind of games do you want?
Interview with Legendary Leisure Suit Larry Designer, Al Lowe
MMORPGs Suck, And Are The Future of Gaming, Part 2
New Graphic Adventure Game, Broken Blueprint Released!
