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

about fuckin' time

http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/projects

hmmmmmmm

what could it mean? repromotion? a port to wii?

Double Fine President, CEO and Creative Freak Tim Schafer tells 1UP this is all a big misunderstanding. "It's crazy, isn't it? We just put that in there as a placeholder for the Psychonauts page we're eventually going to have. But we made it dark and people freaked out," he told us. "While I'm sorry people got their hopes up, I'm happy that people got excited about it. Who knows? Maybe some clever publisher will see how much excitement that dark little banner generated, and send us a few million dollars to make a new Psychonauts game! :)"

Whatever the next thing they have, they really need to work out a promo deal with Hot Topic. I mean, shit, if they had a stand-up of the chick w/ her fingerless gloves, you'd get a shitloada business.

http://bonusweb.idnes.cz/obrazek/psychonauts_lili.jpg

in other news:

A psychonaut (from the Greek ψυχοναύτης, meaning literally a sailor of the soul)

Dark Forces was my first FPS game

I got that Game Informer! Game looks fun, tho like any newest-gen game I know I will not be playing it for 5+ years.

http://www.playboy.com/magazine/features/video-game-blowout/video-game-blowout7.html

nice interview with Tim. Also in this series is an interview with the Gods of War guy, for those of you who favor the more bro-centric games, where the dude openly talks about their aim to design games with all flash, and just enough substance.

new Sam & Max game is out on Gametap now. It has some nice new features: Sam can RUN now by doubleclicking (outside only), you can steer the DeSoto with the arrow keys, adjustable hint levels, and it supports any resolution your monitor does.

Well, at least, I don't remember these features.

I can't find Maniac Mansion for OS 9> anywhere. *le sigh*

for download

Can you find Day of the Tentacle? It had MM built in.

Reading those Schafer and Jaffe interviews back to back was a trip.

From a neogaf thread I see there's an adventure game called A Vampyre Story made by some ex-Lucasarts employees I've never heard of.

Some of the other games look fantastic, many clearly inspired by Curse of Monkey Island (perhaps the game with my favorite graphics ever):

http://www.adrianwerner.x.pl/2008/Skull_Rock_1.jpg
http://www.adventuretipps.de/news/soblonde_05.jpg
http://img.hrej.cz/5a/c31be09259ed608690d9df8366133d.jpeg

The new Sam & Max game is also up on Gametap. I haven't played much of it but it looks like it's a parody of/tribute to a certain well-received 2007 game... :)

mister pokey looooooooope

I put ScummVM on my DS but I've never played any of these games and am not really sure where to start. Any tips?

Day of the Tentacle, all of the Monkey Island series(tho the last one is a bit of a drop off), Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Sam & Max, etc

Seriously, all the Lucasarts/Lucasfilm Games adventure output from Monkey Island I up thru Grim Fandango is great. I've never tried it on a DS so i don't know how well it will work out.

I put Day of the Tentacle and Beneath a Steel Sky on there and they both run really well. The touch-screen is a really good fit for point and click too. Impressive.

Trying to figure out if I can run Grim Fandango on it. I doubt it.

Grim Fandango isn't SCUMM.

http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/07/return-to-quest-quiz-tim-schafer/

Anyone been playing those Sam & Max titles? I really want to get into them, but I want to play the DOS one first, but I don't know where to get it! :(

http://www.vetusware.com/download/Sam%20&%20Max%20Hit%20the%20Road/?id=161

okay. lungfish. i have followed him underwater in the bathysphere. i did the thing where he chases me and i have to run in the air bubble, twice. i did the thing where i whack the boxes of pins and nails so they fly at him like missiles, twice. now he's in the airbubble with me, whacking me with a fiery talon, and i don't know what to do. shotting him does nae good. thumping him doesn't seem to do it. i have yet to try pyrotechnicising him or anything. i am a bit stumped; HELPS.

i don't remember this but a walkthough says to use the clams

Yeah, you have to hit the clams so they open up and get them to snap down on the lungfish's dangly lure thingy (iirc, it's been a while).

haha! that makes sense! thanks...

this game is AWESOME, btw. am so enchanted by the figments, the mental baggage, etc...

you're gonna like the "milkman" :)

and I LOVE the section you're doing right now after the lungfish chase

Yeah, the game didn't really grab me until after I beat the Lungfish, and then I was like "oh, this is the best".

lungfishopolis is just so so so much fun.

oh man just reading and remembering all this stuff makes me think i should go dig out my original copy of this and play through it again

i'm sort of bummed that i got it on xbla, because i totally want to lend it to my younger brother once i'm done...

i think i might reget this on xbla

So much news!

Monkey Island XBLA!
New Monkey Island from TellTale!
aaaaaand:

"The lawsuit claims Activision paid Double Fine about $15 million to develop "Brutal Legend," but the studio missed a key deadline last year. The suit claims Double Fine then said it would need another nine months and $7 million to complete the game.

"Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it," Double Fine President Tim Schafer said. "Oh great, now Beyonce is going to sue me too."

Monkey Island remake = why not, I gess?

New Telltale Monkey Island looks surprisingly bad from the trailer, like as ugly as the last Monkey Island in 3D, but somehow worse.

The Activision lawsuit is totally ridiculous, they dropped the ball by ditching the game to begin with. Obviously this is BS, because if they really had it locked up legally, Double Fine never would have been able to shop it to EA after Activation bailed.

Activision - helping law firms get through these tough economic times.

isn't this like the whole brouhaha that surrounded the watchmen movie?

which should i play first?

psychonauts?

or beyond good and evil?

love both these games so much.
psychonauts is more platformy and has optional collectathons like a rare n64 game.
bg&e switches up its gameplay a lot, one section might be a stealth game, the next you're playing a time trial racing game etc etc.
if you're buying from steam be warned that both of these have some issues running.

i've got the PS2 versions

Psychonauts all the way. You may not be impressed with the gameplay at first (though the writing is aces from the opning cutscene on) but once you reach the asylum it gets really great, really fast.

I'd actually do BG&E first. They're both good, but I found BG&E's gameplay (especially the photo snapping) to be generally more fun than Psychonaut's mediocre platforming, though the latter has superior writing (to almost all games), so it's better to follow up with that one. Also the end of Psychonauts is so annoying (jumping-wise) it might kill your desire to play another game of the same type so quickly.

surprised the new monkey island game hasn't been mentioned on here http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland
has anyone played it yet? i'm looking forward to it but half expecting to be disappointed. it has had some decent reviews, mind

(brief mention on ILE)

I kinda want to? Afraid it's going to be a disappointment.

I'm really looking forward. Will probably play it early next week.

Trailer was pretty underwhelming. Also, it basically looked to be the same graphical level as Escape from a decade ago! I'm not expecting ultra-realism from an indie developer, but damn...

But it's Monkey Island!

Okay, is anybody playing Lucidity? Should I get it?
And how about Sam and Max for XBLA?

well the demo sure made me want nothing to do with it