An exciting bit of news for fans of the Monkey Island games -- so exciting, in fact, that I can hardly believe I managed to fit it all into the headline. I have just received word via carrier pigeon from our main man at GDC, Brad, that Monkey Island: Special Edition is hitting PlayStation Network and Mac.
Furthermore, The Secret of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition is a thing that's going to happen. It seems Brad could only fit so much on the little paper that was attached to the courageous bird, unfortunately.
Here's what we got to work with: direct control of Guybrush Threepwood, never-before-seen art, developer commentary, new hair for the leading man (presumably better-looking hair), and it's releasing on Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network, PC, Mac, and iPhone this summer. Hot!
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9:10 PM on 03.10.2010
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I really want to try the Monkey Island Games!
BTW, why is the comment link bringing me to a firmware spy check?!
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Is it me, or is Guybrush seriously lacking a beard in this new version?!
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No thanks.
They should remake Escape so that it doesn't suck.
That just means we can probably just use arrows/dpad in addition to a cursor to control Guybrush, like in the recent Tales of Monkey Island games. I more than welcome this.
I know it is totally unrelated but is there any news of the new Monkey Island games making their way to the 360 at any point?
"WE'RE SO CLOSE TO GETTING TO THE BEST GAME IN THE SERIES: THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND!!!!!!"
Curse of Monkey Island already has pretty good graphics and voice acting, I don't see that getting remade.
If it's an option then fine, but if I am playing an adventure game I want mouse only controls. The new MI episodes kind of screwed that up already, and the first SE had a sort of console-ish interface, so this worries me.
Also, using the subtitles spoiled the timing of the jokes and the new UI was so cumbersome you basically had to use the old UI for the timed puzzles.
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