Return to Monkey Island

Sinner's Sandwich said:
But I gave Gilbert a chance because Thimbleweed Park was a good, nice looking game.
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Your man there was Mark Ferarri. Mark is a fantastic artist. Thimbleweed Park's ending shits the bed, but the game looks fantastic throughout. If Mark was the artist for Monkey Island again(as he was for Secret) then this drama wouldn't even exist.
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BaconBoobs said:
It looks like shitty corprate art. Well thats yet another game on my "forget its a fucking thing" list. See you guys next time a big company ruins a beloved IP...so tomorrow then.
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Monkey Island has arguably been ruined since the PS2 was current.

What's worse is, he's now going to do Maniac Mansion out of spite.
 
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So yeah, that artstyle is pretty fucking bad, the first look we got I didn't hate and I was willing to trust Ron Gilbert because of Thimbleweed Park but yikes, now that we've seen some more that is some not good stuff, Guybrush's head looks completely fucked up.

The massive amounts of brainrot that has inflicted people these last 5 years ever since Dolorino Tupertino was elected has been frightening and disturbing to see, who looks at this ugly shit and thinks "yeah, that's good!"?

Marissa Moira said:
Monkey Island has arguably been ruined since the PS2 was current.

What's worse is, he's now going to do Maniac Mansion out of spite.
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Are you pulling that out of your ass? They better NOT do this to Maniac Mansion.
 
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The fact that Woke is now fucking with something as weirdly specific as Lucasarts adventure games is absurd, is there literally nothing this mind virus won't ruin?

And that's a big part of Woke that people don't talk often enough about, Woke's hatred of simple pleasing to the eye aesthetics, everything's got to have a fundamental ugliness to it.
 
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Haramburger said:
Your man there was Mark Ferarri. Mark is a fantastic artist. Thimbleweed Park's ending shits the bed, but the game looks fantastic throughout. If Mark was the artist for Monkey Island again(as he was for Secret) then this drama wouldn't even exist.
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Thimbleweed Park's ending was really lame. Like, really really lame.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
The fact that Woke is now fucking with something as weirdly specific as Lucasarts adventure games is absurd, is there literally nothing this mind virus won't ruin?

And that's a big part of Woke that people don't talk often enough about, Woke's hatred of simple pleasing to the eye aesthetics, everything's got to have a fundamental ugliness to it.
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Dom this isn't woke at all, this is a creator just ruining his own work just like Star Wars Episode 1:The Phantom Menace.
 
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Maurice Caine said:
Thimbleweed Park's ending was really lame. Like, really really lame.
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I kinda dug the ending because it was set up with Blazing Saddles being one of the VHS tapes you can rent.

It does kinda reek of "we didn't know where to go with this story" to be fair but it also kind of adds a nice "everything's gone full circle" bow to it all.

Marissa Moira said:
Dom this isn't woke at all, this is a creator just ruining his own work just like Star Wars Episode 1:The Phantom Menace.
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It is Woke though, these ugly visuals reek of Woke's modern aesthetic.

The one thing you can't say about The Phantom Menace is it wasn't an attractive movie from a pure design standpoint.

Media sucking is nothing new, a creator coming back and ruining their own work is nothing new, but sucking in a WOKE way is a modern phenomena.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
It is Woke though, these ugly visuals reek of Woke's modern aesthetic.

The one thing you can't say about The Phantom Menace is it wasn't an attractive movie from a pure design standpoint.

Media sucking is nothing new, a creator coming back and ruining their own work is nothing new, but sucking in a WOKE way is a modern phenomena.
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It's fucking cubism
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The style he chose just doesn't match the type of game they're going for. You had hand drawn backgrounds or stylized 3d from MI3 and onward. It's way too abstract especially for a series where you had to find shit laying in the background so you could interact with it.

Games can get away with similar styles, Cris-Tales pulled off the 2d simplistic geometric look. But they had things like shading and smooth surfaces as part of the style. The characters also had paper-doll style animation which went along with the overall simplistic style.
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Dom Cruise said:
Cubism I would still not describe as Woke.

Can we at least agree it's not a good fit for Monkey Island?
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It isn't a good fit, but the art style was done to try and pay homage to the first two games since Return is getting rid of the other ones canonically.

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Characters had beady little eyes for MI 1 and 2. But it just doesn't work for a newer game because at the time, Monkey Island's graphics were considered higher end. There were elements of realism in the two games that are absent from Return. While the remasters kept the original graphics, the new style for both MI 1 and 2 was a more stylized version of all the characters and environments. Returns bucked that trend and tried to make modern versions of the pixilated models, hence why everyone looks the way they do.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Are you pulling that out of your ass? They better NOT do this to Maniac Mansion.
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There are already 87 different versions of MM, I don't know why throwing a woke one on the pile even matters, other than giving me something to laugh at. But I could say the same for MI. AmaZOG Prime already has ye olde MM and MI free for soybscribers, so I don't even have to bother to pirate or emulate.

Maniac Mansion remake titled "Meteor Mess 3D" is supposed to be coming in October. Razor's not a Black WoC and seems to have her dress taped to her nipples so I guess we're safe for now.

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