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LucasArts plans more retro remakes
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 14th September 2009
LucasArts has confirmed that it will be releasing more retro remakes in the coming months.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was a remake and re-release of one of LucasArts' most loved games, complete with new audio and graphical options. It was released across the PC, Xbox 360 and iPhone and seems to have done well enough that LucasArts is now ramping up production of other remakes.
"We plan to do much more of this, both on Steam and iPhone and other platforms in the future," Rodriguez told GameTrailers.tv.
Rodriguez also unveiled that next week will see the re-release of the Jedi Knight series over Steam, expanding on the selection of retro games that are currently available on Steam in their original form.
Rodriguez also commented that LucasArts had definitely considered making sequels to some of the under-represented games, such as Fate of Atlantis and Grim Fandango.
"One of the great opportunities working here is to be able to meet some of the legends--to meet Tim Schafer, to meet Larry Holland (X-Wing, TIE Fighter), to meet Dave Grossman or Ron Gilbert ," he teased. "Wouldn't it be great to work with them on new things?"
Most of those folks famously left LucasArts a while back though when it became clear that the company wasn't much interested in anything but Star Wars games. Gilbert is currently working on DeathSpank for Hothead Games, while Grossman continues the Sam and Max and Monkey Island games at TellTale Games and Schafer is about to release Brutal Legend from his own studio, Double Fine.
What remakes and re-releases would you like to see in the future? Personally, we loathe the idea of a Grim Fandango 2 (since the initial game wrapped up so well and finally) but would be very much interested in a Full Throttle 2 or a remake of any of the Indiana Jones games. Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Grim Fandango was a stand-alone story - I don't see how they could do a sequel, given the way the original ended. Perhaps just using the concept of the original with different characters, but certainly nothing with Manny in it.
It does work on Vista. Or, at least, it did so flawlessly when I played it last.
It depends heavily on your graphics card. For example, I'm running an ATI Radeon HD 2600 on a two-year-old Toshiba Satellite - hardly an obscure notebook GPU. KoToR works flawlessly on XP, but an attempt to launch the game on either Vista or 7 is met with a "stopped responding" message and nothing else. Doesn't matter what compatibility settings you apply before or after installation, doesn't matter if you use the original .exe, Securom's "altered" .exe, or a cracked .exe, and in KoToR II's case, it doesn't matter if you use the updated mss32.dll file. Trust me, I've tried it all.
Heck, they managed to alter the version included in their Best of PC pack to work on Vista. They just re-released it for Steam, apparently with full Vista support. But there's no patch to just make it work if you bought the original game?
One of my favourite moments in Full Throttle. :)
Bring on the updated versions!
I'd much rather see HD versions of Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken and Loom!
+1 on MM, ZM and Loom :) none had voice acting... worth updating
noone's mentioned yet Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge! needing an update (and i assume theyre already hot on working on it anyway...)
+lots for DOTT.
The other Monkey Island games would be good too - I've been playing it in 'old school' mode on the 360 just so I can wallow in nostalgia :-)
Also would love to see Mercanary - Escape from Targ, but I won't be holding my breath on that one!
As good as X3 is... there is too much 'faff' in between the 'shooting'. ;)
Right next to the Knives and Spoons.
yeah.. but when you look at how much money he's made and started industrial light and magic.. can't really blame him
Did someone say Loom with a Guitar Hero controller? OH SHHII--
I'm tempted to dig out Jedi Knight II, now!
This would be insanely awesome. Shotgun the Super Star Destroyer!
Other than that, +1 to DOTT and Full Throttle. Awesome games.
"Maybe they took him out back and roped him over with the 2 x 4..."
YES YES YES!!!!
hehe play vader and camp the shaft :D
oh I know hes worth 12.8 Billion so no I cant blame him but you think he would use some of that personal money to try something new for a change, to be honest I would like to see him redo his THX movie and update that with the current times, ya its a remake but its one that he hasnt touched and could be good. I know we are talking remakes of games but ya that would be a movie that would be nice to see redone. As for games I could take them or leave them. I think the only star wars game I enjoyed was KOTOR on xbox, pod racer was okay too.