What is the best game to play out of all the "REMASTERED" GAMES??

[mikebor27]

I have bought all of them and I am about 1/3 of the way through the Secret of MI. I like it a lot but have heard great things about Day of the Tentacle and Tales of MI as well.

Any thoughts? I was looking at the keyboard controls for Day of the Tentacle though and there are a lot of keys to remember for different things. Looks kind of annoying in my opinion but maybe I am overreacting.

[Cheeseness]

Originally posted by mikebor27:

Tales of MI

So far as I'm aware, there is no remastered/special edition version of Tales of Monkey Island. There is one of Monkey Island 2 though!

Originally posted by mikebor27:

Any thoughts? I was looking at the keyboard controls for Day of the Tentacle though and there are a lot of keys to remember for different things. Looks kind of annoying in my opinion but maybe I am overreacting.

DotT's keyboard shortcut list looks bigger than it is - it's doubled by Day of the Tentacle having Maniac Mansion in it even though most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same between both games.

The shortcuts all pretty much standard SCUMM shortcuts for verbs that you can select/interact with via the mouse (or gamepad if you're into that sort of thing), and are more or less the same shortcuts that The Secret of Monkey Island has.

IMO, the only keyboard shortcuts that are really useful in Day of the Tentacle are 1, 2 and 3, which allow you to switch between the three playable characters once they're unlocked.

Hope that's helpful!

[mikebor27]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Originally posted by mikebor27:

Tales of MI

So far as I'm aware, there is no remastered/special edition version of Tales of Monkey Island. There is one of Monkey Island 2 though!

Originally posted by mikebor27:

Any thoughts? I was looking at the keyboard controls for Day of the Tentacle though and there are a lot of keys to remember for different things. Looks kind of annoying in my opinion but maybe I am overreacting.

DotT's keyboard shortcut list looks bigger than it is - it's doubled by Day of the Tentacle having Maniac Mansion in it even though most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same between both games.

The shortcuts all pretty much standard SCUMM shortcuts for verbs that you can select/interact with via the mouse (or gamepad if you're into that sort of thing), and are more or less the same shortcuts that The Secret of Monkey Island has.

IMO, the only keyboard shortcuts that are really useful in Day of the Tentacle are 1, 2 and 3, which allow you to switch between the three playable characters once they're unlocked.

Hope that's helpful!

Yes ir was thanks!!! And yeah I meant Monkey Island 2.

[Ru.sh]

You're trying to choose the best one out of 3 of the best point-and-click adventure games ever created? I had a blast with all 3 of them when the originals came out and now I'm enjoying the remastered version of DotT, loving every minute of it. I also own the 2 remastered Monkey Island games but unfortunately they don't have a native Linux version so I don't play them anymore.

The truth is, all 3 of them are awesome and I'd recommend playing them to everyone who enjoys this genre of games. They each have great quirky humor, a good story and well thought out puzzles. That said, they have very little replay value because the puzzles are always the same, so once you've completed them you're done.

[Sir VJ]

Grim Fandango is the other remastered game you are refering to, not Tales of MI.
Secret of Monkey Island (1 and 2) for best overall experience
Grim Fandango for best story/characters/setting
Day of the Tentacle for best gameplay/puzzles

[Eekhoorn]

Let me make a little list:

#1 Grim Fandango: By far the best story I've ever played! The remake is ok, but feels more like a reanimation.

#2 Day of the tentacle: Great game! Great remake! Very obscure puzzles!

#3 MI: Solid game, good remake. (why did they have to mess up the interface)

#4 MI2: As solid as MI, slightly better remake, but for sake of the chronological order I placed it under MI.

The teltale game, Tales of MI is not a remake. It's not a really great game either. Way too simple and self explanatory. Also breaks the *I wanna be a pirate* concept and makes Guybrush a well known character throughout the Caribbean. But by far the worst story twist is the whole friendly Le Chuck act. I cringed... cringed some more... I gave up. Nice try, not a bad game... just not a true MI game is you ask me.

[Elaine Marley]

Originally posted by Mr. Calavera:

Let me make a little list:
The teltale game, Tales of MI is not a remake. It's not a really great game either. Way too simple and self explanatory. Also breaks the *I wanna be a pirate* concept and makes Guybrush a well known character throughout the Caribbean. But by far the worst story twist is the whole friendly Le Chuck act. I cringed... cringed some more... I gave up. Nice try, not a bad game... just not a true MI game is you ask me.

Aww, you didn't play to the end? There were more twists to come, good ones! I remember it getting better as it went along, and really loving ep 5 especially. Overall the puzzles weren't hard but not immediate either. If Grim Fandango and Monkey Island 2 are a 10 on the difficulty scale, I'd grade Monkey Island 1 a 7 and Tales of Monkey Island a 6 (Broken Age and Day of the Tentacle an 8, since we're at it!)

To the OP, Grim Fandango is my favourite for the world-building, story-telling and characters: detailed, imaginative, moving and funny. Monkey Island 1 and 2 are the ones I played as a child and caused my lifelong love of adventure games, they're very fun games with great characters and great gags. Day of the Tentacle is the one with the most satisfying and clever puzzles and is really fun, but I like the others more overall.

[Ru.sh]

Originally posted by Mr. Calavera:

#1 Grim Fandango: By far the best story I've ever played! The remake is ok, but feels more like a reanimation.

The main issue with the Grim Fandango remaster was that the original artwork for the backgrounds was lost. All the models have been redone, but there's only so much you can do to make low resolution images look good on modern high resolution screens, which is why the foreground looks so much better than the backgrounds in that game.

[Cheeseness]

Originally posted by Ru.sh:

All the models have been redone

The remastered edition actually uses the original release's models. It's amazing what re-created/remastered textures, a proper lighting system and higher res rendering can do.

Originally posted by Mr. Calavera:

#1 Grim Fandango: By far the best story I've ever played! The remake is ok, but feels more like a reanimation.

The remastered edition of Grim Fandango was always advertised as a re-release of a touched up version of the original game, not a remake. FWIW, the animations in the remastered version are the original animations.

[Ru.sh]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Originally posted by Ru.sh:

All the models have been redone

The remastered edition actually uses the original release's models. It's amazing what re-created/remastered textures, a proper lighting system and higher res rendering can do.

I didn't know that, thanks. Indeed they look a lot better now, but my point was more that they unfortunately weren't able to make the backgrounds look as good so the models stand out quite a bit.

[Cheeseness]

Originally posted by Ru.sh:

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

The remastered edition actually uses the original release's models. It's amazing what re-created/remastered textures, a proper lighting system and higher res rendering can do.

I didn't know that, thanks. Indeed they look a lot better now, but my point was more that they unfortunately weren't able to make the backgrounds look as good so the models stand out quite a bit.

They do, but IMO it's not quite as bad as a lot of people make out. The lighting helps them fit into the backgrounds better than they otherwise would.

It's the old dual plane fire/water effects that really stand out (I'm looking at you, fire extinguisher!).

[Demodulated]

Day of the Tentacle is definitely the best game and the best remaster of the bunch so far. Grim Fandango is an excellent remaster and a beautiful, smart, intelligent story, but IMHO it was never a good game. I think the Monkey Island 1 and 2 remasters are hideous.

[Sir VJ]

Originally posted by Demodulated:

Day of the Tentacle is definitely the best game and the best remaster of the bunch so far. Grim Fandango is an excellent remaster and a beautiful, smart, intelligent story, but IMHO it was never a good game. I think the Monkey Island 1 and 2 remasters are hideous.

Wtf is wrong with you?

[|$m0k!n|-Mr. 4HyDe-]

I've played them all before and thus my opinion wouldn't be suitable to a newcomer.

Grim Fandango is probably the least remastered one. Grim Fandango was already looking awesome in its own time with support for 3Dfx. The new one.. The Widescreen is just a horizontal stretch.. Graphically, I would say it's less impressive than it used to be, but the bugs that kept me from finishing the old one are all gone and that's the best thing it adds for me.

Day of the Tentacle is just bloody hilarious, animations, voice and graphics both, and playing it again was awesome dude.

Monkey Island is.. By far the worst and both versions are really hard on the eyes in different ways. I find the new graphics to be even worse than the original. Too cutesy and yuck.

I guess DoTT would be the winner, but GF in itself is just so full of culture and charm and it was really nice to finally be able to get past that conveyer belt (CPU bug), that it's just too hard to let it down. I am afraid it's a tie. (killed the 'M')

[Demodulated]

Originally posted by Default Stats Bob Burnquist:

Wtf is wrong with you?

I'm cursed with impeccable taste.

[frostigmeister]

MI2 is my favourite remaster. Its also my second favourite lucasarts clickandpoint after fate of atlantis so iam hoping for that to be the next remaster =)