XBLA - The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition - 800pts

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http://www.gamerbytes.com/2009/05/the_secret_of_monkey_island_co.php

Yes, it's been an awfully long time, but it appears that The Secret Of Monkey Island is coming back, and to the Xbox 360.
The German USK rating board has revealed that The Secret Of Monkey Island - Special Edition is on its way. This was the very original Monkey Island game, from all the way back in 1990. As for what makes it a Special Edition is currently unknown -- could they be re-doing the graphics? Could the game possibly have a voice cast?
The rating suggests that Activision might have some involvement in the project, but most likely this is simply Activision Europe rating the title for LucasArts, as they are the European publishing arm that LucasArts use. We can only assume this is an Xbox Live Arcade title, but there is a slim chance that this is a retail retelling of the original too.
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Information:
Releases: 7/15 (Out Now!)
Cost: 800 points
Size: 525mb

Achievements (12 for 200g)
The Three Trials (25g)
The Journey (25g)
Under Monkey Island (25g)
Guybrush Kicks Butt (45g)
Sharp Tongue (15g)
Ten Minutes Later... (10g)
Escape Artist (10g)
RecordKeeper (10g)
Human Cannonball (10g)
Old School (5g)
Determined (10g)
Marooned Everyone (10g)

Premium Theme Video
Cost: 240 points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QRViIZx00o
 
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This news is going to be shortly followed by news that a substance ten thousand times harder than steel was just discovered in my pants.
 
I wouldn't get my hopes up. This is LucasArts were talking about here. The post 2005-era LucasArts. They exist to fuck up everything they touch.
 
I have always wanted to play this game but just never got around to it. Look very interesting. I'll definitely think about picking this up when it rolls around.
 
Pretty much as everyone else has said, DO WANT.

With luck, a widespread distribution like through XBLA could be enough to revive adventure gaming to some degree. If nothing else, it'd hopefully spur XBLA (or other) remakes of other classics. Personally, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are the 2x I'd want to see revived most of all.
 
This would be a day one purchase for me. I wouldn't even bother with the demo; I'd just buy the full game sight unseen.
[quote name='DaedalusIkari'] With luck, a widespread distribution like through XBLA could be enough to revive adventure gaming to some degree. If nothing else, it'd hopefully spur XBLA (or other) remakes of other classics. Personally, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are the 2x I'd want to see revived most of all.[/QUOTE]

I'd love to see Day of the Tentacle and the original Sam & Max. Man, just reading this thread is making me want to reinstall Grim Fandango and play through it all again.
 
[quote name='DaedalusIkari']
With luck, a widespread distribution like through XBLA could be enough to revive adventure gaming to some degree. If nothing else, it'd hopefully spur XBLA (or other) remakes of other classics. Personally, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are the 2x I'd want to see revived most of all.[/QUOTE]

I'd like to think so too, I'm just not sure kids these days have the patience for the genre. Darn kids!

For my part I still play games like King's Quest every so often when I'm feeling nostalgic.
 
This would be nice. Maybe new people could experience the fun of this game (and the others like it). I do wish they'd actually re-release their adventure collection on the PC, first. All those great games would be perfect for a service like GOG or Steam.

Gee, I hate the current LucasArts.

I really want to get The Dig and Sam & Max, since my old copies have disappeared.
 
[quote name='DaedalusIkari']With luck, a widespread distribution like through XBLA could be enough to revive adventure gaming to some degree.[/QUOTE]

Uh, not to be a downer or anything, but that's kind of doubtful. Monkey Island is great, but I kind of doubt that LucasArts simply re-distributing one of their old adventure games on XBLA, that anyone who cares about the genre has already played, will somehow do more to "revive" the genre than all of the efforts of Telltale Games and Revolution Software. If Telltale putting fantastic games like Sam & Max and Wallace & Gromit on XBLA, and StrongBad on WiiWare isn't doing enough to get the genre a "widespread" "revival," then I just don't see how much an old re-release will do, even if it is a "Special Edition."

Maybe... maybe if this does well, they will make another Monkey Island.
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Jesus god NO.

Unless they somehow magically contracted Hothead Games (Ron Gilbert's new studio), Telltale Games (were Dave Grossman now works), and Double Fine Productions (Tim Schafer's current home) to all collaborate on it, without any input from the current LucasArts, then I'd rather they just leave it the fuck alone. A re-release/remake, fine; it'd be pretty hard to fuck that up. But I don't want to see what the hacks that work there now would do to it, if left to make an all-new game in the series. I'd rather the series not end on a lower note than Escape (which I didn't think was a bad game; it was surely a step down from Curse, though).
 
[quote name='Danimal']This would be a day one purchase for me. I wouldn't even bother with the demo; I'd just buy the full game sight unseen.[/QUOTE]
Funny, I forgot I'd posted this, and I just came on now to post that I'm currently downloading the full game and to say that this is the first XBLA title I've ever bought without trying the demo first.

Man, I need to get a new modem. This is going to be downloading forever, and I'm dying to play it.
 
Point of interest: Apparently, this is actually still built on the actual original SCUMM engine (with minimal updates for HD graphics and graphics modes switching, etc).

I'm impressed. Even in it's original 10-year-run from Maniac Mansion to Curse of Monkey Island, it had just about the longest lifespan of any videogame engine. Now it's 22 years old. A game engine that's been in use for nearly a quarter-century (heavily modified throughout the years, granted). That's pretty incredible.
 
I bought the full game without trying it and I regret it. You have two choices - play with voices and kinda-good graphics, or play in silent mode in classic mode. I was hoping for a best of both worlds approach and allowing voices with the classic graphics (it worked back in the day, thats why they are called "talkie" versions). Sorry, it's 2009 and I'm not going to sit and read the game in silence. Voices for me. At least it was only 800... at 1200 I would have flipped.
 
I completed the 3 Trials (not on Part 2 yet) and I've discovered 3 Achievements so far, 2 of which I've gotten. 1 I guessed it, but my lack of Monkey Island knowledge led me to missing it. Although to my credit, I got a much harder achievement.

The thing that's throwing me off right now is the voice acting. It's just a little bit off. The art style's okay. Reminds me of a hand drawn Clone Wars (that show on CN).
 
[quote name='nnthomas']I bought the full game without trying it and I regret it. You have two choices - play with voices and kinda-good graphics, or play in silent mode in classic mode. I was hoping for a best of both worlds approach and allowing voices with the classic graphics (it worked back in the day, thats why they are called "talkie" versions). Sorry, it's 2009 and I'm not going to sit and read the game in silence. Voices for me. At least it was only 800... at 1200 I would have flipped.[/QUOTE]


They never made a talkie version of this game
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I completed the 3 Trials (not on Part 2 yet) and I've discovered 3 Achievements so far, 2 of which I've gotten. 1 I guessed it, but my lack of Monkey Island knowledge led me to missing it. Although to my credit, I got a much harder achievement.

The thing that's throwing me off right now is the voice acting. It's just a little bit off. The art style's okay. Reminds me of a hand drawn Clone Wars (that show on CN).[/QUOTE]

The achievements have been revealed already

* Beat Part 1
*Beat Part 2
* Beat Part 3
* Beat the game
* Beat game in under 3 hours
* Learn all insults
* Hold breath more than 10 minutes
* Escape cannibal hut 5 times
* Don't use hint system
* Collect all memos between Herman / LeChuck / Cannibals
* Use old school once
* Get both endings
 
I beat it. The voice acting isn't smooth the entire way, so I'm guessing it was a design choice. Not a good one, either. I'm going to play through it once more to get the final 3 achievements.

Also, something of a spoiler here because it's post credits:
"Guybrush Threepwood will return"
 
@ fizzwix : I knew you'd be all over this man.
@ Broly : I saw you playing this morning. I played the original a while back but I guess I don't remember it being so short! Oh well I'll most likely get it when I get some free time. I think it's a good choice to be able to switch from oldschool to new school graphics. I also heard that hte animations weren't smooth in order to keep with the old game.
 
Yeah, the trademark symbols were in the original game.

Welp, got all the achievements, and as of 5 hours ago, I was ranked 8th on the leaderboards.
 
Awesome remake. Played as much as I could before I went to work.

Even knowing all the puzzles already, still a lot of fun to play through. I almost forgot how funny the game is, and the addition of voices makes it even more hilarious. The Fetuccini Brothers had me rolling. The new music is great, and on the fly graphic switching cool. I've done it every time a new backdrop or character comes up just to see the comparison. The new Elaine is much better than the old Elaine :p

The game is very faithful to the original.

Here's to hoping they do MI 1, Manian Mansion, Space Quest, and Grim Fandango some day!
 
I still hate the new art (Guybrush looks like a sad fucked-up drug-addled German teen), but I'm buying this on Steam just to support LucasArts doing something that isn't shitty Star Wars games.

[quote name='fizzywix']Here's to hoping they do MI 1, Manian Mansion, Space Quest, and Grim Fandango some day![/QUOTE]

Hah. We'd be relying on Activision for a Space Quest remake (they own the IP, following the Vivendi/Sierra merger), so there's no chance that'll ever happen. And if it did, they'd probably try to include some sort of ludicrous plastic peripheral and charge $120 for it.
 
Got this last night, never play it before. Really hoping they bring out Day of the Tentacle.
 
I picked this up as well last night, I've not played it before but pretty much everyone who comments on it seemed to love the original.
 
[quote name='M1C13']Got this last night, never play it before. Really hoping they bring out Day of the Tentacle.[/QUOTE]

That'd be cool, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for Full Throttle:

 
i missed on the $5 ebay, as i bought it through live the second i got home from work yesterday. that's ok though, because i dont think the developers get the sales from those ebay sellers (who may or may not be legit), and i'm happy to support this project.
 
I saw it on there last night but had other stuff to do and didn't want to be tempted. I'll be buying and playing it tonight after I get back from GS for the b2g1.

I've never played any of these games before, but I was a King's Quest fanatic when I was a kid. How similar are the mechanics/experience in this game to KQ?
 
[quote name='bvharris']I saw it on there last night but had other stuff to do and didn't want to be tempted. I'll be buying and playing it tonight after I get back from GS for the b2g1.

I've never played any of these games before, but I was a King's Quest fanatic when I was a kid. How similar are the mechanics/experience in this game to KQ?[/QUOTE]
pretty much the same
 
My brother just got this on PC and I love how you can swap the old and new graphics with a simple touch of the "back" button. Does it work the same way on the 360 version?
 
[quote name='BustaUppa']My brother just got this on PC and I love how you can swap the old and new graphics with a simple touch of the "back" button. Does it work the same way on the 360 version?[/QUOTE]

Yes, it does.


[quote name='bvharris']Thanks, I'm sold.[/QUOTE]

Even though you're sold, I want to confirm that it does. I, too, was a big KQ fan growing up. You will love the Monkey Island series.
 
It's something to do with Amazon as another stated in the thread. He doesn't list codes that aren't listed on Amazon. So either he's a) using a stolen credit card b) Getting Amazon gift cards ultra cheap to the point he can make a profit on those or c) Buying stolen card/points or d) using a amazon code generator. Take your pick.
 
[quote name='fizzywix']Awesome remake. Played as much as I could before I went to work.

Even knowing all the puzzles already, still a lot of fun to play through. I almost forgot how funny the game is, and the addition of voices makes it even more hilarious. The Fetuccini Brothers had me rolling. The new music is great, and on the fly graphic switching cool. I've done it every time a new backdrop or character comes up just to see the comparison. The new Elaine is much better than the old Elaine :p

The game is very faithful to the original.

Here's to hoping they do MI 1, Manian Mansion, Space Quest, and Grim Fandango some day![/QUOTE]
Space Quest wasn't Lucasarts, so I wouldn't count on that.

There is a fan remake of Maniac Mansion released as freeware floating around online. A sanctioned remake would be nice, but until that happens this is the next best thing.

[quote name='Tybee']The premium theme for Monkey Island looks pretty darn nice. I love the different islands for the friends, and the game, movie, etc. screens are well chosen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QRV...fdd7a4519&topic=333.0&feature=player_embedded

Think I'm actually going to get it, but I am a dyed-in-the-wool Monkey Island/LucasArts whore.

Incidentally, ThemeXbox.com is a great site that provides video previews of all the premium themes.[/QUOTE]

I don't have money, but if I did I'd get that. :shock:
 
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