Remake of Grim Fandango
I was at the Governors mansion at Phatt Island, and saw this: (Look at the picture over the stairs)
Do you think LucasArts is hinting to something?
Do you think LucasArts is hinting to something?
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Any chance TT could do a Grim Fandango sequel? It is my favorite adventure game.
Especially Full Throttle. That was supposed to have a sequel, but never got made.
I concur. I think TOMI has to be successful first.
l mean if this game doesn't do well, LA might not want to revive another property
What, should Green Tentacle drink that toxic water or something? Honestly, the first one was fine by itself. However, more games with Bernard and insane situations could be fun.
*ahem* Contrary to popular belief, Day of the Tentacle is actually the sequel to another successful Point and Click game named "Maniac Mansion"! Who would have known?
+1 vote for telltale to take a stab at them
I don't expect another one but surely you can't blame us for dreaming? we all have favs, mine being day of the tentacle.
This time it's more relevent though, lucasarts didn't created sam and max so they simply lost the rights after a while. But monkey island is owned by lucasarts, so seeing these two companys working together does bring new possibilities to the table that fans simply can't ignore.
True, I only was able to play the demo...but still!...Hmm...*runs online in search of demo*
I agree. Delighted to see that MI is being remade because I love the series but Grim Fandango was a perfect story with perfect everything else. No to sequel
Seeing LucasArts may be sprucing up more of their their old games for rerelease, I think Telltale making a Special Edition of Grim Fandango in their Telltale engine with their lovely camera sweeps and angles and lighting effects would be amazing.
Like the CSI games for Ubisoft, LucasArts would sell it on disc (or maybe offer 3 episodes for individual download - Year 1, Year 2, Years 3&4). All the dialogue is already recorded too, so they'd be off to a flying start.
Should Telltale acquire more LucasArts licenses, I think the Maniac Mansion / DOTT universe would be the obvious next candidate.
Agreed. I think Maniac Mansion, Sam & Max and Monkey Island were always the three LEC licenses with the most potential for further sequels. Beyond those, I don't think I'd particularly want sequels to the others, which just by their nature worked better as one-off stories and continuations, however well intentioned, would probably be a bad idea. To me the thought of "Grim Fandango 2" is almost as horrifying as "Casablanca 2"... not sure why someone would be very keen on that, especially with the improbability of Schafer's involvement. I guess a Full Throttle sequel could work, but, I think I'd prefer that to be left alone as well.
Would I play any sequel to an LEC adventure game? Of course I would, but we might be getting kind of spoiled here. Sequels to Sam & Max and Monkey Island alone would be a big deal even in an alternate reality where LEC never abandoned them in the first place. Our dreams shockingly came true for those licenses, but I don't think we want to get to the point where old franchises are resurrected for the mere sake of it. I think you could make Sam & Max and MI games until things becomes stale, but beyond those for the most part I think the old LEC licenses would be better served in the form of re-releases/remakes like we're seeing with MI1.
I kind of hope we'd wait awhile to get another LucasArts franchise if they could get one. Having Telltale become LucasArts' Adventure Game division doesn't sit well with me for some reason.
It was hard to write continuation to Monkey2 (IMO Curse's worst plot twists are because of LeChuck's Revenge's ending) and in similar manner Grim Fandango 2's story would suffer because of the ending of the first game.
And I don't want a sequel. Pretty much nobody here wants a sequel. Better controls would be a 1-Up
Doesn't make sense money wise. I haven't played the game, so it's not a knock in that sense.
I have always wondered why it didn't sell. Besides horrible controls, it was a good game with interesting story and characters. There's some worse LucasArts adventures than Grim Fandango which sold better.
Besides Monkey4 used the same horrible controls, but it sold relatively well.
That leaves a prequel. And that would mean leading Manny through an epic adventure that would leave him in a dead end job where his boss and colleague constantly cheat him out of success.
Grim Fandango is a really great game, and the story was awesome. I can see a special edition working, such as visiting more locations in the space of each year.
But honestly, even though Telltale would do a great job with the atmosphere and the feel of the game, the saga was pretty much finished. It had great symbolism and a happy ending.
Manny Calavera's journey is over, but a spin off series could work. But I'd rather see monkey island, or full throttle and day of the tentacle first.
In other News, Tim Curry is voicing a character in Brutal Legend! And I don't know about Deathspank!
I finished replaying Grim Fandango just few days ago. I don't see reason for remake, because it is still decent adventure game and I don't think that even graphics are that badly outdated. Spin-off could be possible, for example I could imagine episodic adventure which takes place in Rubacava* between the first and second years of the original game. Or adventure with completely new protagonist which happens in familiar places.
*I suggest Rubacava because it was my favourite place in the game and Manny seemed to know everyone from there. Expanding Film Noir town like that wouldn't be difficult and game hinted that a lot happened to Manny during that year.
It was pretty bothersome moving him around, since if you faced north and wanted to start running south, he had to stand in one place and slowly rotate until he faced south, then start running. And using the character relative movement mode was just plain odd while using the control stick.
Anyway, I don't think Grim Fandango is the right game to give a sequel to. Some stories are better left as they are.
Someone's forgetting Loom which IMO needs a sequel more then any of their games and to a lesser extent Zak McKracken. Why everyone always short-changes these games I will never know.
Zak had a very final ending but I've always believed there were many possibilities for that character and that universe. It would be perfect to do episodic adventures.
I mean I love Maniac and DOTT but how many adventures can you have in the same house? At least Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Indy, Loom, Full Throttle and Zak have possibilities.
Also Grim Fandango does not need a sequel that would be like making The Dig 2. So unnecessary and not needed. Both are great games with wonderful stories and both have a definitive ending and should be left alone.
At least one more.
But a remake of Grim Fandango could work, if not only to get the game the recognition it deserves. Sure, it always ends up close to the top in most "Best PC Games Ever" lists, but I was still blown away when I heard that this was the first game that LucasArts lost money on! Maybe that's why they stopped making games like this... Oh well, that something for a different thread.
Hm... Well, most other games end that way as well, and some still manage to crank out a decent sequel or two.
However, with Grim Fandango's themes of death and eternal rest, I guess it might ruin the perfect circle of Manny's journey if he has to face more problems.
Still, I'd play a new Grim Fandango game with new characters. I mean, the end of Manny's journey isn't the end of others, right? There's so much of that universe we haven't explored yet. Maybe if Telltale's making it, they can make an anthology series, with a different main character and setting in each episode.