Announcing Return to Monkey Island, the long-awaited follow-up to the legendary Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge by Ron Gilbert’s Terrible Toybox in collaboration with Devolver Digital and Lucasfilm Games, coming 2022.
Dave Grossman also being involved.
I thought it was an April Fool’s joke. Cool!
Squee!
Great.
Incidentally, what’s the best way to play MI3 these days? I’ve been meaning to replay it for a while now as it’s the only one other than Escape I haven’t played since release.
If you still own the original, SCUMM VM seems to be the way. Otherwise, GOG perhaps.
Oh fuck! Amazing. I always wanted to know what Ron Gilbert had in mind for the story/series.
This is finally the good timeline again
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
I own it, but Christ knows where it is.
That’s awesome. Playing the long game there.
Can confirm the GOG version works. I played MI3 four years ago, according to GOG Galaxy.
MI3 is one of my all-time favorite adventure titles, right up there with Grim Fandango.
He actually said he would announce a sequel on April Fools like 10 years ago. I am so excited for this. Really put a smile on my face when I saw this was announced.
Oh boy.
Nine years ago I wrote a blog post titled “If I made another Monkey Island” and it feels like there are some things I need to say.
I can’t remember the exact incident, but the day I wrote that I was feeling down about never being able to make another Monkey Island. I wrote it in a single afternoon, and it was not much more than a stream of thoughts. In the movie version, tears would have been pouring down my cheeks, but it wasn’t the movie version so I was probably sipping coffee and eating a chocolate chip cookie.
My point is these were not commandments handed down and etched in stone on a giant tablet. They were just random thoughts about a (then very unlikely) new Monkey Island game.
None of these are promises or anything I owe anybody.
Sounds ok to me. A guy like Ron Gilbert has certainly earned my trust to make a great game on his own terms.
Yeah same.
I have made one pixel art game in my entire career and that was Thimbleweed Park. Monkey Island 1 and 2 weren’t pixel art games. They were games using state-of-the-art tech and art. Monkey Island 1 was 16 color EGA and we jumped at the chance to upgrade it to 256 colors. Monkey Island 2 featured the magical wizardry of scanned art by Peter Chan and Steve Purcell and we lusted to keep pushing everything forward.
I love this. And who wouldn’t lust after pushing Chan and Purcell’s art forward?
As much as I love pixel art, I also love expressive, unique, illustrative visuals (like Curse of) so I’m glad they’re continuing that with Return to Monkey Island.
All I have to say about this is:
DAY ONE PURCHASE!!!11111111111
Also, here’s a cool Monkey Island retrospective :)
Thimbleweed Park was a day one purchase for me, and it was a major disappointment. So I’m not trusting Ron with anything anymore.
Fresh trailer.
Yeah, some folks will absolutely hate the art direction, but I’m down for it.