Oh dear, I do believe I'm getting the vapors!
During the keynote of something called the "Playstation Experience", Double Fine announced a few minor things. One is that Grim Fandango Remastered will come out on January 27th (previously known as "early 2015"). The second is that the complete Broken Age is headed to PS4 and Vita once Act II makes it to Steam.
Oh, they also threw in that they're making a special edition of Day of the Tentacle. No big deal.
While we wait for details on that, here's a new look at Grim Remastered.
Source: Shacknews
AlfredJ
Mia Nguyen, formerly of Telltale Games (best known as a suspect in a CSI murder case) apparently left Telltale some time ago to start a company designing clothes for dead mice. I'm not making this up. Telltale drives people insane confirmed: http://www.leheartdesign.com/
AlfredJ
I don't really care about upgraded art (although I expect Double Fine would do it better than the Monkey special editions), the original art is so ingrained in my mind that nothing can really touch it. Same with the voices.
I'd just want the jaggies removed, so the lines & edges are nice and smooth.... and that's it - no fancy shading or pseudo 3D models. Widescreen would be nice, so long as it didn't interfere with puzzles or mean art was cropped top & bottom. Oh, and more frames of in-between animation, ideally.
Scoop #1: Here's Tim playing part of the new version of Grim. You can really tell how good the new version actually looks in this. Also some info on the commentary tracks: http://www.twitch.tv/playstation/v/3591234 (the Grim part starts at 01:55:42).
Scoop #2: Mia Nguyen, formerly of Telltale Games (best known as a suspect in a CSI murder case) apparently left Telltale some time ago to start a company designing clothes for dead mice. I'm not making this up. Telltale drives people insane confirmed: http://www.leheartdesign.com/
Don't ask me how I found this one out.
glenfx
I really hope DOTT special edition is more than just an engine tweak and a couple of filters applied to it and is more like what Lucas Arts did with Monkey Island 1&2 SE, but i won't hold my breath.
So far I'm quite disappointed about Grim Fandango since they didn't improve the models one bit and just added effects, and from what i can see in the video it seems the backgrounds are the same as well, not to mention the widescreen support is just about black bars at the sides of the screen, so i don't get the whole "remaster" thing, it feels more like an engine update.
DOTT Special Edition is not DOTT Remastered, so this shouldn't be the case.
And a sequel, remake is cool, but line up a sequel at the same time. This game has needed a sequel since it was new. I own the Floppy, and cd-rom versions, plus this version when it comes out. Now make a DOTT 2 / Maniac Mansion 3, so I can die happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghlIhHOf4M
So far I'm quite disappointed about Grim Fandango since they didn't improve the models one bit and just added effects, and from what i can see in the video it seems the backgrounds are the same as well, not to mention the widescreen support is just about black bars at the sides of the screen, so i don't get the whole "remaster" thing, it feels more like an engine update.