How is there no thread talking about this yet? It's one of the great games ever made and I'm probably more excited about this than Grim Fandango. So can we also expect a Full Throttle remaster announcement soon too?
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Jun 25, 1993
A point-and-click adventure game that follows Bernard Bernoulli, Laverne, and Hoagie as they try to prevent Purple Tentacle from taking over the world.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered - This Is Amazing
One of my favourite games ever, but it's certainly not something that needs 'remastering' - It just needs to be rereleased on Gog and/or Steam, that's all.
Considering I have never played it I am so damn excited to play this. I beat Grim Fandango last year, but really want to give it another whirl as well.
Did Maniac Mansion ever get a reboot? I would love to see that and then play Day of the Tentacle, as someone who has currently played neither of them.
I really doubt that this game will be remastered because of a few reasons. I don't know if they have the original source code, I don't think they'll have the budget to redo all that animation, and I don't think they'll actually add anything to it.
Grim Fandango, while old now, is a much more modern game so getting the source code was probably easier, adding in more modern light effects is possible, fixing animations and models is possible, and making it look nicer is possible (I wonder if they did to the FMVs too, that'd be cool but I know that's a much more difficult thing to do).
I wouldn't be surprised if they just make sure the game runs on modern machines and release it. I would be way more surprised if they actually "remastered" like... for real. As that would probably be way more complicated than some people realize.
It'd be cool if they did, though.
While they're at it they could get on releasing all the other Lucas Arts games that aren't on sale digitally. I still have a lot of them, but it'd be nice to be able to buy them digitally. I'd buy all of them again- just saying.
@regularassmilk: Fun fact: Maniac Mansion was in the original Day of the tentacle- the full game is in the game. If they retain that then you will be able to play Maniac Mansion as well.
Can't wait to play it on PC, but I'm especially curious to see how they bring it to consoles. Grim Fandango would seem to transition easily with its movement, but DotT was a straight-up SCUMM game. Short of just using the d-pad as a mouse control like in the Maniac Mansion NES port, I'm not really sure how else they'll pull it off.
Question: do you need to play Maniac Mansion to get the most out of Day of the Tentacle or are they unrelated enough that it doesn't matter?
@counterclockwork87: They're unrelated enough it doesn't matter.
@counterclockwork87 yeah there is probably little to be gained from playing Maniac Mansion. As CornBred mentioned the original game is included in Day of the Tentacle so there is always that.
And to answer my own question, someone posted a screenshot of the remaster:
Kind of looks like they are using their Broken Age 2D/3D engine for it which kind of excites me.
Can't wait to play it on PC, but I'm especially curious to see how they bring it to consoles. Grim Fandango would seem to transition easily with its movement, but DotT was a straight-up SCUMM game. Short of just using the d-pad as a mouse control like in the Maniac Mansion NES port, I'm not really sure how else they'll pull it off.
Both remastered Monkey Island games got released on consoles, which worked well enough. I'm curious if they'll try anything different though.
@cornbredx: If it's coming out on Playstation consoles there's no way they could just port it as is.
Can't wait to play it on PC, but I'm especially curious to see how they bring it to consoles. Grim Fandango would seem to transition easily with its movement, but DotT was a straight-up SCUMM game. Short of just using the d-pad as a mouse control like in the Maniac Mansion NES port, I'm not really sure how else they'll pull it off.
Oh, don't worry, the remake will be a platformer (see: King's Quest).
Yikes. Everyone has their own taste, so I'm glad if someone digs this, but I hope this is just a fan mock-up. It honestly looks pretty horrible to me.
Besides the hilarious writing, and sometimes clever puzzles, the brilliantly emotive sprite animation was a huge draw of DotT. Replacing that just does a huge disservice to what made the game so great and memorable to this day.
Damn.
@joshwent: There's a good chance it will be like the Monkey Island games and let you toggle between old and new graphics if you really prefer the old ones.
Although that pic does look suspiciously similar to this:
http://bvigec.deviantart.com/art/Day-of-the-Tentacle-HD-Repaint-Full-429178959
@cornbredx: The Scumm games source code is pretty much open as the ScummVM project has pretty much figured out their format. In fact they could be using ScummVM for the remaster.
@mosdl: That's not a remaster; that'd be an emulation.
The monkey island remasters used emulation as well - that is how they can offer switching between the old and new look.
Great writing and wonderful art but those old adventure games had some completely convuted puzzle design. McGuyverish in their nature, you'd be combining the least likely of objects to get the simplest of tasks accomplished.
The Tentacles were a real treat though.
"...to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
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