This is the thread for LucasArts alumni/DoubleFine/Telltale games: Psychonauts, Costume Quest, Brutal Legend, Deathspank, Sam and Max, etc.

Need to try the sequel

i loved the first one... and that was the last double fine game i was into
in seeing this thread I remembered a dream i had a few nights ago where i was part of a military caravan going up a road surrounded by a vinery - some sort of mix of the vegetable garden hill climb from the film "Letter to Momo" and the storming of Normandy - and no one knew where we were going when it occurred to me that I had to explain to everyone we were going to DOUBLE FINE HEADQUARTERS
don't remember how that played out

heavy hints that GOG are going to announce LucasArts PC games in a couple of days time

whoo!

whoo x2
lol forks

As expected GOG are going to have LucasArts games - 30 of them apparently! 6 tomorrow, rest to come later.

the first six

Star Wars X-Wing Special Edition
Star Wars TIE Fighter Special Edition
Sam & Max Hit the Road
The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

hi dere my high school life

Much more excited than I expected to be about X Wing and Tie Fighter.

MAKE THOSE GAMES COME ON MY XBOX YE MIGHTY

Hopefully they DOSBox the '93/'94 versions for Mac - that had the better iMuse soundtrack anyway

tie fighter is prob in my top 3 all time

Gog lets you choose versions of XW and TF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8W42FXze8

That has really got the feel of Psychonauts. The music definitely helps.

yeah, Peter McConnell always gonna have a place in my heart from the LucasArts days

Broken Age has finally been released. Remember that kickstarter? that seemed to have huge backer money, before Exploding Uno came along? The documentary is probably more notable than the game. It shows how Schafer never makes budget or time concessions, hoping that the game will be a perrennial seller that revolutionizes gaming business.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd7F6pU2ByRRb0igiI-WKk3D

Didn't realize the Maniac Mansion thread was in ILM. I guess this is next most appropriate thread:

So the remastered Day Of The Tentacle is out for PC, PS4 and Vita now. Which is supposed to be great but which I've never played, so I'm mostly just excited about playing the embedded Maniac Mansion for the first time in ages.

― I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Friday, April 1, 2016 11:44 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haven't played the remaster but the original DOTT was basically my favourite adventure game, probably my favourite game. I replayed it again recentlyish and I admit the whole point+click adventure thing is a little more frustratingly hunt-the-pixel/trial-and-"I don't wanna" than I'm used to these days but it still stands up pretty well once you get over that, I think. Have fun!

(I may have said this about some other Lucasarts adventure in my ILXing time because Grim Fandango and Monkey Island are up there too)

Any other Thimbleweed Park backers on here?

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, April 1, 2016 1:39 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DOTT is a wonderful game.

I like to root for Psychonauts as a cult classic in the making, even though I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I wanted to. I also read so many people who say, "I know this is a classic, I'll play it someday" - and then they don't.
― save the robot (save the robot), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:21 (9 years ago)

Hmm, this is me! I loved Lucasarts, loved the sound of this game, kept saying I would play it - and I still haven't. I even got it cheap in some bundle a while ago and it still sits unplayed in my Steam queue.

Also, re DotT, still after all these years it will strike me from time to time that I am walking in a slightly Laverne-like manner, or making a Laverne-like face, and I'll crack up. <3 Laverne

...OK, Psychonauts downloaded, I'm going in!

i should play it too. i actually have it installed and i still haven't touched it. i'll try to remedy that.

In the same boat re: Psychonauts. We should all play together!

psychonauts advice: don't watch the intro movie right away. it's like half an hour long and not that good. play past the warzone area at least, then start a new game to watch the intro.

some of the early levels are kinda nbd, but the mid to late levels are so awesome

it's really a rare example where it really IS worth slogging through the mediocre 5-hour tutorial to get to the wackadoo stuff in the second half of the game

I'm having fun but I don't think I've ever had the 3d-jumping-puzzle skills required for this game

the design and characterisation is lovely tho and yes I missed the voice of Invader Zim too

This is such a wonderful game in its writing and art direction and level design (even with pretty mediocre platforming mechanics), but the meat circus has to be one of the most frustrating final levels I can think of.

they fixed that one annoying jump in computer versions.

Yeah, I played it with those pc revisions, but I still found that level pretty thoroughly irritating. I'm not that invested in 3d platformers, though, and was mostly posting through this for the writing and level design, so that probably informed my frustration.

*playing through this, I mean

still in Basic Braining. hating the rotating log tunnel. resorted to watching a youtube in case there was one crazy trick, guy playing just breezed on through like it ain't no thing :(

tbf I am mainly playing (at least this level) with just the arrow keys as I'm on a laptop and touchpadding is too slow, but I'm also p. uncoordinated at all two-handed games so it's prob not going to go much better even if I hook a mouse/controller up

psychonauts is 100% a pad game, definitely get one. besides the analog control you'll later use more buttons for the different powers you get

I still haven't beaten the goddamned Meat Circus :( On the PS2, it was That Jump; on subsequent playthroughs I either trailed off before getting that far (the asylum tower is pretty tiresome) or, latest attempt, got stuck on the horrible Little Oly/save-the-bunny section of the Meat Circus.

I never got past the save the bunny thing either. Still think it might be my favorite game.

about to get started on thimbleweed park!

please let us know what you think, very curious about this game

I'm about two hours in and really enjoying it. I'm not a big gamer anymore, and was a huge Lucasarts fan as a kid, so I'm probably not best placed to critique this. But so far it's a lot of fun. Certainly way more enjoyable than Broken Age.

i spent most of the weekend playing thru it, just finished. it was pretty good but not nearly as good as it could have been with more focused writing imo, it kind of just abandons the twin peaks/x-files premise after the first act and becomes pretty slapdash by the end.

Psychonauts is free today on Humble Store:

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/psychonauts

As mentioned elsewhere, Grim Fandango(my personal fave Lucasarts game) is free today at GOG:

Is that a...
❄️G❄️I❄️V❄️E❄️A❄️W❄️A❄️Y❄️?!

The legendary and ridiculously delightful GRIM FANDANGO is FREE
Still pretty much the best adventure game you'll play in 2017

Just hit "Get It Free" on the front page, you can keep it where your heart used to be... 💀 pic.twitter.com/3SxSmfagY7

— ❄️GOG.com❄️ (@GOGcom) December 13, 2017

Double Fine bought by Microsoft.

Glad they have stability that they probably need. A little sad that the indie dream has died

being bought or funded by one of the big pubs IS the indie dream in 2019

all too true