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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45814

As promised yesterday, LucasArts has made
the big announcement revealing plans to re-release some of
their classic adventure games via digital distribution on
Steam.  The complete list of games to be released on July 8
via Steam includes: Armed and Dangeroust, Indiana Jones and
the Fate of Atlant

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Renton · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:16 am Post subject:

Motherfuckers!!! What about Full Throttle, assholes!!! FULL THROTTLE WAS THE BEST GRPHIC ADVENTURE OF LUCAS ARTS!!!

psolord · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:

Chill out dude. As they said, this is only the beginning.

The problem is, that if i understand correctly, these are not remakes but just plain rereleases. So we are talking about standard 320*200 8bit VGA resolution here?

If that is the case, it is no biggy. Most users that lived in that era, now have scummvm to accomodate their beloved games.

What Lucasarts needs to do, is try remaking some of their games at good prices. Don't forget we have already paid for these games Mr Lucas! Wink

Sabot · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

Yeah just remakes -graphicaly. You can press, whatever the button is on an XBox controller, and switch between the *standard* VGA dinner plate pixels or a remade cartoon version on the fly. No big deal in my book as i still have Full Throttle,Monkey island#,Day of the Tentacle, Beneath a steel Sky, Grim Fandango etc,etc on an old legacy machine along with many,many others from the early 90's.
Pity that they just cash in today and don't redo PROPER sequels.
Who here would pay for a Dungeon Keeper 3? Remember the trailer at the end of 2 showing a glimpse of 3? These games are mega classics and i too have a soft spot for Ben and Full Throttle Wink

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

There are no remakes of older games with newer graphics?

A recent example would be Chronicles of Riddick. I thought people complain that this happens far too often.

I think the major point of releasing these older games in original form is so that more people can experience them, as they can now be very difficult to obtain in physical form or however.

I have fond memories of Star Wars Starfighter. I might grab that again.

Sabot · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject:

Monkey Island Special edition is a remake with 1080i graphics or plain old VGA -as i said previously- by pressing a button on the xbox controller.

read the 'about' tab here
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/monkeyisland/