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LEC classics validate Top 10 lists 23 Jun, 2011 / 8 comments

The authors of two "Top 10" lists to appear on the internet recently have betrayed a certain degree of education by including various LucasArts adventure games. Comic Book Resources has pegged Sam & Max Hit the Road as one of the "Ten Best Comic Book Video Games Ever Made." Hit the Road also appeared in the "Ten PC Games Games That Had Great Voice Acting", where it is joined by Grim Fandango and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.


Hell, even [the intern who logs into] the LucasArts Twitter page could not help but do some fist-pumping in response to the distinction earned by their old graphic adventures. To be fair, the company really does support their back catalog so long as you don't count making it available as an expression of support. They've got to draw the line somewhere.

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    Jason on 24 Jun, 2011, 22:03…

    Rum Rogers

    Alex IDV

    I never understood why everyone hates the narrator so much. I mean, I don't love him, but what's so terrible about him?



    What he said.



    Hate was your word. I've got nothing against the voice or performance of the narrator - I'm just baffled by why there is one in the first place. I just have this feeling that even in an alternate reality where the first two games were originally produced with voice acting, the text that sets up each cutscene would not have been recorded. Title cards and context-setting subtitles aren't generally spoken in games or movies... When DOTT has the "Meanwhile" title card, when CMI throws to "Meanwhile, off the coast of Plunder Island," or when EMI displays "Several minutes later," it was not the inability to do otherwise that made those declarations silent.

    I'm kind of sad that I typed that out.
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    Ascovel on 24 Jun, 2011, 19:27…

    Kroms

    I fail to see how SMI:SE could make a list like that, but whatever.



    Ditto. Makes the whole list somewhat suspicious.
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    Rum Rogers on 24 Jun, 2011, 19:22…

    Alex IDV

    I never understood why everyone hates the narrator so much. I mean, I don't love him, but what's so terrible about him?



    What he said.
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    Alex IDV on 24 Jun, 2011, 15:47…
    I never understood why everyone hates the narrator so much. I mean, I don't love him, but what's so terrible about him?
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    Remi on 24 Jun, 2011, 14:58…
    Surprised they went with MI1:SE over MI2:SE.
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    clone2727 on 24 Jun, 2011, 13:06…

    Jason

    (Minus the voiced narrator. I mean, really?)

    Still not as bad as the GK1 narrator *cough*
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    Jason on 24 Jun, 2011, 00:37…

    Kroms

    I fail to see how SMI:SE could make a list like that, but whatever.



    I'd probably rank a few other LEC games ahead of it, but I thought the voicework in MI:SE was excellent. To be sure there is a degree that retroactively voicing a game that was originally meant to be read is a fool's errand, but I think they did the absolute best job possible.

    (Minus the voiced narrator. I mean, really?)
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    Kroms on 24 Jun, 2011, 00:20…
    I fail to see how SMI:SE could make a list like that, but whatever.

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