LucasArts Day of the Tentacle Remastered

[J_C]

 

[ghostdog]

If they change even one bit of the story, gameplay or art style, I'm gonna send Lithuanian Hitmen on their fat asses.

 

[taxalot]

Wasn't the studio who made the MI remakes terminated with a "80% complete / just four more bugs" version of Day of the Tentacle in the works ?

 

[Darth Slaughter]

This above is already remastered.

The next is in full pixelataed glory:

 

[markec]

But I like pixelated graphics

 

[Havoc]

But I like pixelated graphics

Think of it this way, the NEW AND BETTER VERSIONY will have MORE PIXELS, hence it will be MORE PIXALALIATEDED.

 

[Cyberarmy]

But I like pixelated graphics

It looks too clean...

 

[TheGreatOne]

This fucking guy.

Will it ever stop? Some one please photoshop a "Has Tim Schafer gone too far?" pic

Think of it this way, the NEW AND BETTER VERSIONY will have MORE PIXELS, hence it will be MORE PIXALALIATEDED.

That would be a quite funny twist on the modern trend of imitating pixel art poorly. Remaking an old game with a graphical downgrade.

 

[Baron Dupek]

You forgot mess with Heroes of Might & Magic III remastering where they used more pixelated units than original?

 

[AngryKobold]

Same as MI1 and MI2. Graphics and music changed to new versions. Both so good it's can't be worse. Character design changed to handicapped moomin style, apparently that's the only thing the hacks are now able to draw. Added commentary full of mammalian yapping I couldn't stand even being drunk.

There's only one good thing about their special editions. The possibility to switch to "old version" and keep it like that.

Can't wait to see how it's possible to screw up character design that already WAS in unshapely cartoon style. They will do it. There's no evidence they won't.


I see no purpose in remake for any game with VGA graphics. At this point it's complete. Any further improvements require to change the visual assets completely. Uniqueness of pixel graphics makes such change a replacement, not "upgrade" of any kind.
And the replacement is flash cartoon drawn by fag watching pony! Great job morons, can't wait for the sun flare to wipe out this crap.

What REALLY COULD use a remake: Maniac Mansion, Zack McCracken, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

But nooooo! Who would waste time on remaking old games nobody heard about. Some clueless moron with no head for business. Everyone knows MI, after all LucasArts released something called like that not so long ago. DOTT is also widely known, as everyone owns a pirated copy...

 

[Pyke]

I wish it was a sequel. I don't dislike 'Special Editions (or Remastering...whatever its called)'...I just think that so much effort goes into them that you may as well do a new game.

To be honest, a DOTT game with the Broken Age engine would be pretty cool. The engine does the 'exaggerated cartoon animation' thing pretty well. It wouldn't take a lot to update the interface to include verbs, and the engine obviously supports multiple playable characters and inventories.

That said, Ill buy it. I love AG's, and I LOVE DOTT. It just feels like a wasted opportunity.

Side note - Feng Zhu did a pretty cool take on a DOTT remake:

http://fengzhudesign.blogspot.com/2012/10/dott-remake.html

 

[AngryKobold]

Good you wrote what game it's supposed to be. Would swear it's a crude concept art for some Dark Seed. DOTT location put somewhere as an easter egg. The note at windshield informs about time travel to prevent the appearance of Great Old Ones. The original look of tentacles is certainly replaced with Giger's artwork.


And I love that style! Thousands of useless details, so it's even harder to distinguish active objects from background. Dim colors. Image looking as if the author put extra energy to make brush strokes evident. It's so bad I'd be amazed if he's not making assets for any indie production.

 

[Pyke]

To be fair Feng is a speed painter and it was an exercise done in his style (much like my isometric interpretations of games). :D

 

[CyberWhale]

I just think that so much effort goes into them that you may as well do a new game.

>may as well do a new game
>remembers playing Broken Age

Oh Lord, please don't.

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-10-23-day-of-the-tentacle-remastered-debuts-screenshots

Day of the Tentacle Remastered debuts in-game screenshots

Double Fine has revealed the first in-game screenshots of Day of the Tentacle Remastered.

This will be the second time Double Fine has restored an old classic adventure from the studio's founder, Tim Schafer, back when he was still at Lucasarts. Earlier this year Double Fine offered the same treatment to Schafer's Mexican noir classic Grim Fandango.

Day of the Tentacle originally launched in 1993 as the sequel to Maniac Mansion. It starred three awkward teenagers who traveled through time around a mad scientist's mansion and players could toggle between the past, present and future timelines at will. What you'd do with one character in the past would have on effect on future timelines.

This restoration will feature all new hand-drawn, high-res artwork along with remastered audio, music and sound effects.

There will also be a commentary track by the game's original creators: Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.

As was the case with the Special Editions of Monkey Island 1 & 2, Day of the Tentacle Remastered will allow you to toggle between the new and old artwork at the touch of a button. It will also feature an optional new UI should you want to play with a verb dial rather than a grid of commands at the bottom of the screen.

Just like the original Day of the Tentacle, this restoration will contain the entirety of Maniac Mansion as an in-game bonus.

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is due in "early 2016" on PS4, Vita, PC and Mac. The PlayStation versions will offer Cross-Buy support.

 

[Outlander]

Eh, at least they didn't fuck it up Monkey Island style.

 

[garren]

So this is why some old lucasarts adventures are not digitally available yet. They plan to remaster them all.

 

[bertram_tung]

Actually it looks pretty respectful towards the source. The casual nostalgia-gamer will look at this and notice nothing different whatsoever. That could hurt sales. I'm glad they are including a commentary track. That was a lot of fun in the grim fandango remaster.

I don't have too much of a problem with it.. I wont lie, I was expecting a bit more.. but it looks like a loyal recreation. It could be a lot worse. I'll buy it. Wish they would have announced a fucking release date.

I am glad they included Maniac Mansion as well, like the original game. I was a little worried they would leave it out due to some kind of licensing bullshit. What would really be cool is if they took the trouble to remaster that as well. But I doubt they did that since Tim Schafer is a fat nazi-jew sjw fag.

 

[Taluntain]

The picture above the phone's missing.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Looks alright to me.

 

[Astral Rag]

I removed my post Taluntain, I think that monstrosity was fanmade or an early WIP

For reference: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/man...-tentacle-remastered-this-is-amazing-1501507/

 

[taxalot]

Nice use of 4X ScummVM filters.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-10-23-day-of-the-tentacle-remastered-debuts-screenshots

That's actually not bad. But it's still a pointless exercise in 'enhancing' something that doesn't need any enhancing, and which has it's own pixellated charm. Why waste time doing that instead of doing something new and original? What? Because that takes original thinking and creativity, whereas a remake is just a mechanical exercise, like turning a handle and seeing money flow in. Oh, well...

 

[Astral Rag]

I do think this "remaster" looks pretty bad. It's almost like they turned up all ScummVM Scalers to eleven and called it a day. It's not exactly difficult to play the original game comfortably on a modern OS either, just switch on ScummVM's 3X Scaler and Aspect Correction and you're good to go.

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I also wonder what they're doing to the UI.

I don't understand this game's target audience, I mean faux retro games are very popular but at the same time these people cannot into playing actual 90s point-and-click adventures unless they're first re-released with more generic-looking HD graphix, controller support in-game hints and achievements

 

[buzz]

They don't have to play it. Buying it and sharing that event on Twitter with their hip friends is enough, for Double Fine and for themselves as well.