9th November 2005, 4:32 PM
Oh, MI4 is a perfectly decent adventure game. I enjoyed it, mostly.
It's just not as good as Monkey Island 1, Monkey Island 2, Monkey Island 3, Maniac Mansion, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Loom, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, or Grim Fandango.
Lucasarts also made Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but I haven't played those two (I also haven't played Monkey Island 2, but know more than enough about it to know that it's great.)
Even if they wanted to they probably couldn't, because Lucasarts owns the original game and has nothing to do with this new title. Lucasarts, remember, decided in 2000 or so that adventure games weren't really worth making anymore... they did start on an inhouse Sam & Max 2, but they canned it because they didn't think that an adventure game would sell. Then, as the site says, the people who had been making that game (Sam & Max 2) quit Lucasarts, set up an independant studio, and began trying to get the Sam & Max liscence. In September this year they finally managed it and announced this news.
Lucasarts did until a year or two ago, but when they redid their store they dropped all the old titles. Now the only LA adventure games you can get from Lucasarts are Monkey Island 3, Monkey Island 4, and Grim Fandango.
To get something from the developer of this game, Telltale Studios, however, here's the demo version of their recent game, Bone: Out of Boneville.
http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc...=0&dlact=1
It's just not as good as Monkey Island 1, Monkey Island 2, Monkey Island 3, Maniac Mansion, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Loom, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, or Grim Fandango.
Lucasarts also made Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but I haven't played those two (I also haven't played Monkey Island 2, but know more than enough about it to know that it's great.)
Quote:I sure hope they toss in the original.
Even if they wanted to they probably couldn't, because Lucasarts owns the original game and has nothing to do with this new title. Lucasarts, remember, decided in 2000 or so that adventure games weren't really worth making anymore... they did start on an inhouse Sam & Max 2, but they canned it because they didn't think that an adventure game would sell. Then, as the site says, the people who had been making that game (Sam & Max 2) quit Lucasarts, set up an independant studio, and began trying to get the Sam & Max liscence. In September this year they finally managed it and announced this news.
Quote:Wait, do they still sell the original for the standard price of 10 buckazoids?
Lucasarts did until a year or two ago, but when they redid their store they dropped all the old titles. Now the only LA adventure games you can get from Lucasarts are Monkey Island 3, Monkey Island 4, and Grim Fandango.
To get something from the developer of this game, Telltale Studios, however, here's the demo version of their recent game, Bone: Out of Boneville.
http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc...=0&dlact=1
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