Secret of Monkey Island Coming to Xbox Live

[Dalisclock]

I doubt lucasarts has changed it's ways. I mean, it doesn't take much effort on it's part to rerelease a game from the early 1990's, and they've been noticably shitting on their adventure game fans(and employees) the last few years, both with the development, then sudden cancellation of Sam and Max and Full Throttle 2.

At which point, their adventure game programmers from the old days got pissed off and quit so they could go and form companies like TellTale and Doublefine, which would then proceed to make Awesome games like lucasarts used to make but without the retarded chimp "Star Wars=$$$$$" executives to contend with.

 

[XPelargos]

There's a thriving indie adventure game scene. If you want to point & click, play those. Lining the pockets of modern-day Lucas Arts for the sake of nostalgia is not something I can endorse.

QFT. At this point, I actually endorse pirating the classics and playing them through ScummVM.

 

[LordBag]

Freakin' sweet! I will certainly have some nostalgic fun with this.

QFT. At this point, I actually endorse pirating the classics and playing them through ScummVM.

Can you even buy them from anywhere though now? Or ScummVM-DS and play on your NDS ;_;

 

[XPelargos]

Freakin' sweet! I will certainly have some nostalgic fun with this.

QFT. At this point, I actually endorse pirating the classics and playing them through ScummVM.

Can you even buy them from anywhere though now? Or ScummVM-DS and play on your NDS ;_;

Exactly my point. I've seen boxed editions of classic adventure games for exhorbitant sums on e-bay.

This brings up an issue with copyright and the internet. The term "abandonware" refers to software that is no longer supported or available from the publisher. At this point, it becomes nearly impossible to procure, and the publisher is certainly not losing money from pirating old old software. I'm rather proud of myself for tracking down the FM-Towns versions of Zak McKracken and Loom. Props to anyone who can find legitimate copies of those.

 

[S.H.A.R.P.]

For you XBOX owners out there waiting to give this a try.. Please be patient. These games aren't renowned because they were easy. Still, it's cool you're given the chance to play this gem, hopefully for you the other games will come out too!

 

[EnglishMuffin]

I bet all the xbox kiddies are going to hate it because, well its actually a good game that was well put together. No shiny graphics here. Those kids love mediocrity. Still, I would love a monkey island anthology set, sort of what interplay did for fallout.

 

[LordBag]

I went through a bit of a retro adventure game phase about a year ago and managed to buy all the Broken Sword series, Curse of Monkey Island & Escape from Monkey Island - I couldn't for the life of me find Secret of Monkey Island or Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge though. Luckily a friend already had them so got it working on the NDS.

It was great to play through them again, the dialogue is brilliant and I have to say Dominic Armato did a fantastic job of Guybrush. I just hope they can get him back for another ;_;

 

[Aardvark Soup]

Every 360-owner who hasn't got this game yet: take your chance now! The dialogue is very funny and well put togheter and the puzzles are great. One of my favourite games of all time.

 

[flubagalub]

They'd better update the graphics and include voice acting, otherwise there would be absolutely no point in buying it, since it's been free to download (legally) on Fileplanet for years. But if it does actually update the game, then I'm all for it.

 

[LordBag]

This thread actually makes me happy and sad. I'm happy that more people will get the chance to play such a great game, but it makes me sad that the genre is pretty much dead.

 

[Svenparty]

I bent over backwards to buy the first two online, Cannot find the third one though.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I have only two extra things I'd like to see.

1. if its gonna be in HD, a PC version for me please!
2. All the other adventure games you have locked up in that Indiana Jones style vault.

I was thinking this exact same thing - how awesome would it be if they followed up with XBL releases of all their classic adventure games - Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango. I'm giddy at the thought!

Somehow I doubt they'd release FullThrottle, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango on the 360, considering how Microsoft crippled Psychonauts.

To be fair to Microsoft, they saw that they were wrong. Pyschonauts is now available as an Xbox Original, and has been for some time.

 

[WingedFortress]

Wow, Ive been looking for this game for a while now. Finally!

 

[Wandrecanada]

I can only see two things happening with the reintroduction of this game into the current masses.

#1 It will introduce Monkey Island's fantastic script and story to a whole new generation of gamers where gaming is more widely accepted and possibly generate enough interest for a 5th in the series.

#2 The new gens who have never played the game will all poo poo it for ripping off Pirates of the Caribbean.

I'm still massively excited to see this game released again.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I have only two extra things I'd like to see.

1. if its gonna be in HD, a PC version for me please!
2. All the other adventure games you have locked up in that Indiana Jones style vault.

I was thinking this exact same thing - how awesome would it be if they followed up with XBL releases of all their classic adventure games - Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango. I'm giddy at the thought!

Somehow I doubt they'd release FullThrottle, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango on the 360, considering how Microsoft crippled Psychonauts.

To be fair to Microsoft, they saw that they were wrong. Pyschonauts is now available as an Xbox Original, and has been for some time.

Doesn't change the fact that the world doesn't have Psychonauts 2, where the gameplay could have been fixed

It's not Microsoft's fault that no one bought it.

 

[zoozilla]

This is great news.

Secret of Monkey Island might just be my favorite game ever.

I'm looking forward to some fierce insult sword-fighting.

 

[LordBag]

We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange...

;_;

 

[oecumenix]

While I loved Monkey Island (well.. the first two at least), I'm not sure the 360 is the best platform for an adventure game. If they update it, why not release it on PC?

As it is, the SCUMM VM runs on my phone so it's all good. What's that you say? Piracy? Wha-look over there, a two-headed monkey!

@ima420r: DOTT rocked because the puzzles were clever and the script was funny. Most adventure games (including Indy and the later Monkey Islands IMO) only achieved one of these. Plus, DOTT has Maniac Mansion built into it. How can you top that?