LucasArts Could Revive Graphic Adventures

On the Wii and DS, it would be great if they did it and added special interactivity. (Wii with some kind of motion stuff to interact. DS with using the "close the screen" movement and use of the microphone.) But it would be really cool if they made some more Graphic Adventures.

Noooo, not the evil DS microphone!

I meant where it's so minimal that you don't even remember/notice (like you blow into it once or something like that, and never again.)

Not enough space on DS cartridges to put LucasArts' old PC games on there? Hmm, so how is Syberia being brought across, how has Runaway 2 been ported complete with ALL 7GB of cut-scences, and so? Compression rates are great on DS thanks to new codecs from Nintendo, so there shouldn't be a major problem...

Epic awesomeness for someone mentioning Grim Fandango that wasn't me.



Buh? There is a homebrew version of the SCUMM engine for DS. It supports all Lucas Arts adventure games up to Sam and Max: Hit the Road.

Doesn't really matter anyway since most of the talent left LucasArts years ago and it would probably be a Star Wars game anyway.

The worst part is people would eat that shit up instead of going out and fucking playing Grim Fandango.

EDIT: I forgot how small DS carts are, I was thinking from a SD card point of view. It would indeed be tough to port some of the games.

( Edited 02.06.2008 15:56 by Kangaroo_Kid )

"A lot of people will say they feel like the adventure game genre is dead."

It certainly was dead, but in the last 2 years...wow.
Theres been hundreds of them. Not just Sam and Max's return, but the likes of Tunguska, and fantastic evolutions of the genre like Zack & Wiki.

"The cart size of the DS makes it impossible to put out ports of any of our old graphic adventure."

err..bullshit, frankly.
Unless your talking Monkey Island 4 or Grimfandango.
The only thing that makes the games remotely big is any voice files.
And even then, its 200MB tops.

Stuff like the Curse of Monkey Island would need its FMV's replaced, of course.
But for the vaste majority of their libary it would fit.
Heck, in many case's you could fit a few in 128MB.
(Pretty sure 256MB carts are possible now anyway).

Seriously, the "ANY" in that sentance is utterly wrong.
I have seen working GBA ports of Scumm games.
GBA!
Not to mention many of their games came out on floopy disc too.

Sounds intriguing. Point and click those 'roids.

Sorry if you could squeeze 7gb that small, metal gear solid 4 would be on a cd and not a blu ray disc man.

*lol* You may better squeeze videos and speech down for a small screen from 7 GB to... say 256 MB of a DS card then for high-res-videos only fitting on a blue-ray. You may do so, but then you don't recognise anything on your big fanzy shiny HD screen.


Seriously: Lucasarts should team up with ScummVM, size down the speech with ogg and vorbis (for Videos, too, but there are seldom any except on MI3) and throw them on DS cards. I think that's possible. It does work with ScummVM on DS and SD cards. With more then one Adventure on one card...

Monkey Island Wii. Do it.