I didn't get around to getting the first Monkey Island's special edition because I do have the original version and the graphical overhaul doesn't look that great, but sadly I never have owned MI2: LeChuck's Revenge, oddly enough, so this one's pretty much a must-own...
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland2/
"Coming Summer 2010"
I can get behind this.
Hopefully they'll release a high-resolution version of Curse of Monkey Island, that would be awesome.
Curse of Monkey Island is already high resolution enough for me. It doesn't look pixelated, and that's good enough for me.
I hope this one fixes the few niggling issues I had with the previous one. It's certainly still a must get for me, and the price is sure to be ridiculously low.
The cutscenes in Curse of Monkey Island are heavily compressed and the characters are inconsistent compared to the backgrounds. Fix those two and we're golden.
Updated FMVs with lossless compression would be nice, but I usually don't notice it.
By inconsistant do you mean the art styles between characters and backgrounds seem to be different from each other? I'm kinda used to that at this point. King's Quest 7 had the same issue, as do, well, a lot of Looney Toons cartoons. Problem is, how would you fix it? Make the backgrounds look more like the characters, or the characters more like the backgrounds? Personally I'm happy with both art styles even if there is a bit of a clash. Being a comedy, that clash "works" in this case I think, and I'm not sure I'd want to lose that. Just my two cents there. Personally since I can run the second and third games just fine on modern machines, I'm perfectly satisfied with them making this remake and then putting up digital copies of 3 and 4 on Steam to complete the set.
What I mean is that the models in Curse have some alliasing issues, whereas the backgrounds don't. Look at the website for Monkey Island 2, there's much more consistency in technical quality between the characters and the background, that's what I'd want to see in an update of Curse.
High resolution backgrounds would be nice too.
COMI absolutely does not need an update. It already looks fantastic, any "update" Lucasarts could give it now would undoubtedly make it look worse. It's not an early '90s game like the first two, it runs at a much higher resolution...
I mean they might do it, but don't expect it to look better! COMI has the best art in the whole series as is.
I popped in COMI today. The cutscenes have a lot of compression artifacts and the backgrounds, while having amazing art, are definitely lacking due to low resolutions and maybe low colors too.
It doesn't need some huge overhaul like the first two games, but it could use some minor tweaks. I'd prefer an update anyway, since I already have COMI sitting a few feet away from me right now and I can boot it up anytime I like. If I'm going to buy it again, I'd like a little bit of incentive.
Well if they redrew all the artwork (which is exactly what they'd need to do to do that sort of update), you'd not be downloading an "update" so much as the ENTIRE GAME again. Oh sure the music and voices would probably still be maintained, but with such a significant update, they'd probably recode the executable itslelf, just to guarentee compatibility with all modern versions of Windows (they'd need to update that anyway to make it run on the 360).
Yeah, that would be fine.
They've updated with more screenshots at the site... not a bad graphical upgrade, really. :)
Oh nice, MI2 was great. Not as good as MI1 of course, but still good.