But if someone dug him out of his grave and fitted his body with servos and pistons so that his horrifying reanimated corpse could shudder into my front room and offer to bounce me on its knee I would feel about as repulsed as I am by what Telltale are doing to Monkey Island.

Judging from the amateur excuse for a trailer alone, this game does not look good. It reminds me of Escape from Monkey Island, where Monkey Island pretty much jumped the shark. Please tell me how wrong I am, how this game is awesome, how you played all those Sam & Max remakes and genuinely thought they were better than the original.

I know this is a bit negative, so let me state that the remake of The Secret of Monkey Island looks fantastic. To dig out the grandfather analogy again, this game is like someone took the old VHS tapes of me and my grandad's great times together and remastered them into an exquisite high fidelity Blu-Ray disc wrapped in shiny paper with a lovely ribbon on top and a card telling me I'm awesome.

That metaphor made me miss my grandfather...   :(   You're a bad person.

I have faith in the product.
Telltale so far has not let me down in making quality adventure games, there's a good portion of the staff that are ex-LucasArts guys, they know what they're doing. If they're is one company that's out their to revive this franchise: It's them, seeing how LucasArts has been just sitting on the rights and doing nothing with it forever. The design director of the game is Dave Grossman, one of the original developers for the first two games in the series. The game also has the blessing of Ron Gilbert which means...nothing...really, asside from assuring me that the original creator of the series likes what they are doing.

It also sports GuyBrush in Monkey Island 2 getup, complete with beard. This is significant for countless reasons. Trust me.

Game looks terrible, why they went 3d is way beyond my comprehension, stupid stupid move. They could have made a real nice stylized 2d game, but no, they had to take a huge shit on Monkey Island, i wont buy this.

I liked their E3 stage demo, Guybrush's expressions made me laugh and the dialogue seems like an improvement.

While I love TellTale and have a blind faith that they'll deliver with Tales of Monkey Island, I do have to agree the trailer looks horrible. Collor are too bland, it looks like those earlier ps1 games. But the think that's really icky is Guybrush's face. It looks like he has a birth deffect or something. It looks too weird and it doesn't move the way it should when he's emphasizing something. The drawn art of Curse of Monkey Island, that's what they should've gone for.

While the trailer wasn't great, the gameplay footage looks cool, and I have faith in telltale.