Polygon was able to prod Tim a bit about the recently announced Day of the Tentacle remake, which is still in its earliest phases but which he promises will remain 2D. Beyond assurances of faithfulness, we'll just have to wait to learn what this upgrade will really look or sound like (while wondering what the LEC Singapore sweat shop kids came up with first).
When asked about the business side of securing the license in the first place, Tim describes a situation that really makes me hopeful for the future.
"There were just some people at Disney, Sony and Lucasfilm that care about these games," he said. "They're old enough that some of these people who are executives played them when they were kids. I've been really impressed with the fact that these kind of deals have come together because there's so many reasons for this deal not to happen. There's so many parties involved and so many people who could've said no, that it really took a passionate drive by people in the right places to escort it through the process."
Perhaps Tim's dream of revisiting all the old adventures is a bit too good to be true, but still, it's hard to imagine the future of these games ever being more bright, or for a better group of custodians to be assigned their preservation than Schafer's studio. Hopefully those fans strategically positioned at Disney stick around long enough for Double Fine to keep going through the catalog.
Source: Polygon
Kolzig
The voices were superbly done in both special editions. I was really amazed that they could manage that at the end of Lucasarts lifeline since they put out pretty much just crap from year to year in the past 10 years.
Gotta give credit where it's due: LEC was always on-point when it came to the audio side of things. Getting Darragh O'Farrell back for the voice direction never hurts either.
The graphics don't need to be touched at all with the old Lucasarts games, they all look really fine even today. The Monkey 1 and 2 special editions really sucked on the lousy graphics remake department and especially the first Monkey Island special edition sucked since it didn't have commentary and also you had no option to use old graphics and the new voices together.
The voices were superbly done in both special editions. I was really amazed that they could manage that at the end of Lucasarts lifeline since they put out pretty much just crap from year to year in the past 10 years.