New trailer for the new game came out. Not really a fan of the style.
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New trailer for the new game came out. Not really a fan of the style.
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Man, it looks ugly, i hate those dot eyes. But they recognized Morgan on that scrapbook at the beginning
numale threepwood.
Lol it’s hideous and Ron Gilbert or whoever that main dev guy is had a meltdown on his blog about the fact that people think so.
Honestly, he seems to believe that people either want pixel art or nothing.
Idiot doesn’t realise that just a nice painterly style with some fricking effort would be ideal. Funnily enough, Monkey island was graphically cutting edge when it released. This is just typical modern garbage. Looks worse than a bunch of early 00s flash games.
Link to blog?
https://grumpygamer.com/
Anon delivers. Thanks!
>I wanted the art in Return to Monkey Island to be provocative, shocking, and not what everyone was expecting.
They sure subverted everyone's expectations.
All that talk about how he disowns Curse and yet he's trying to ape the big style shift it did... except because he has no art chops he blundered and picked an imbecile to be his artist!
Literally all the fanart I find on DeviantArt is superior to Return's crap.
I would accept this CalArts brand Monkey Island over the current mess, at least it has an appealing design
Jesus fricking christ.
It could barely have been redeemed if it didn't use that cheap-ass "rotate their limbs like a paper puppet" animation style. But it really just looks like shit.
>that art style
Why does it always have to be like this? Fricking Monkey Paw™.
I have a feeling it's not even going to be a real point'n'click. It's going to be one of those indie experiences where you just click things to continue, but without inventory etc.
>Effemine Corporate Memphis style Monkey Island
I hate it, thanks.
I don't like guybrush but the other characters are on point, elaine looks nice
I can't stand the marionette animation
what is this corporate souless artstyle?
Cheap to make
Guacamelee island
More screenshots on the website
https://returntomonkeyisland.com/
dont bother
it's trash by default
it's an insult to everyone unfortunate enough to look at it
LeChuck actually kind of looks nice because he has proper eyes and shit
damage control has entered the thread
shills detected
i just dont think the visuals are bad.
they're very striking and clearly a lot of talent and effort went into it.
i think the only bad thing are the characters.
The animation looks terrible, it's all tweened puppet shit.
An entire dev team looked at this and said yep this will sell our game.
>that Guybrush
One thing you would think they can't frick up even if they tried.
Looks like mid-90's Microsoft clip art.
I guess they're planning to catch some boomers with it.
Yep, there he is.
I could stand the artstyle if the animation was at least good, but it fricking isn't. It just makes the whole thing look cheap as frick
im not exactly a fan, but it's clear a lot of effort went into making this artstyle, and it is unique looking. i think you guys are just b***hing for no real reason
>looks worse than Weebls Stuff from twenty years ago
Who the frick's decision was that?! What a fricking shame.
Why can't we have nice things
>Who the frick's decision was that?!
Ron Gilbert unironically handpicked the artist and is pissy about people saying the game looks shitty. He even turned off comments on his blog for a while because of it.
Im sure he will also whine and complain when nobody will buy it
Good lord. Looks like I'll be avoiding this, then. That's a massive red flag.
It's better than nothing, but yes, the art style looks really bad. I have to wonder what everything else with it is like.
>twitter cartoon network-wannabe crap
the soulless angular style is not even the worst part, it's the shitty-ass toonboom puppet animation
I miss this little homie like you wouldn't believe
I want to go back
Out culture is getting more and more incapable of soul by the day. Stick a fork in it.
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
Lmfao
exactly what i was thinking
Monkey Soisland
It looks like if a Tumblr artist made Olive the Other Reindeer
OH NO NO NO NO
You can't deny that this shit looks absolutely atrocious. Sorry, Ron. I'm still gonna pirate it (Arr!), but it sucks that it looks like this. I don't need or even want pixel art, but this ain't it.
Remember Monkey Island 3?
Ho yes I remember.
Well, I'm out.
>When the porn game make puppet animation better
I'm far less concerned about the artstyle than I am about the writing.
I defended the art style but the cheap animation kind of sours it too much.
This is a major bummer because I was really looking forward to a new Ron Gilbert MI game.
Same, I was waiting until wee see more and was cautiously optimistic, but this just looks lifeless and cheap. Still gonna play it, but it's a big bummer.
I'll still give it a chance; but it's gonna take some grade-A writing to win me over.
I guess the music is still cool
Now that ain't workin.
that's the way you do it
A really big fan of the style. Finally it has a look that sets it apart and you just know its MI. Looking forward to this very much.
Good morning sirs
Still no release date. Why, Ron?
Imagine going from Curse to this.
There were games in-between that looked awful, but this is clearly the fricking worst the series has ever looked.
>that fricking art style
zoomers really have to ruin everything
It really does look like something shat out by doublefine. Were they involved?
It's Devolver, but don't Doublefine self-publish? The indie scene's as incestuous as Hollywood so it wouldn't surprise me if they had their hand down its pants.
No, nothing. Not even Tim
>those comments
so bots on youtube are very real
Its different and I can get used the art style as long as the story is good. I remember when people complained about Curse.
Elaine and LeChuck are somehow an improvement over the Tell Tale trash - but what the frick have they done to Guybrush?
yeah the character art looks just absolutely irredeemably dogshit
At least Thimbleweed Park was great.
>apologize-a-reno
OK.
>city-slick-a-reno
Dialect is incorrect. It should be
>city-slick-a-roo
What a hack.
the sheriff is a bad actor
Thimbleweed Park was entertaining, but the writing can't even be described as "funny as a funeral" because even a funeral starts with f-u-n.
Who the frick thought that this artstyle was a good idea? They should be fired and exiled from the gaming industry.
God fricking damn, that artstyle is fricking disgusting. Can't believe how they could frick it up so bad.
APOLOGIZE
At least whoever did those knew how to draw or at the very least read Loomis.
Wow this looks fricking awful. The people that did this do not know about style and design.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
I already did, they pretty much fixed the remake artstyle in LeChuck remake. I fact I'd consider remakte 2 a perfect style for a new Monkey Island game.
>they pretty much fixed the remake artstyle in LeChuck remake
no they didn't. unless by "fixed" you mean they gave the option to play with the old graphics with the voice acting, which is the only sane way to play.
I hope some artist mods it to look like MI&2
I tried playing the first one but I got bored at the boat salesman shit, felt like it dragged on for too long which I guess is the joke but is it even a joke if it's still in practice the same thing as listening to a salesman droning on?
>Humorous media need wacky, over the top art style or premise other wise people won't understand it's a comedy or something.
I really don't understand this at all considering all of the great comedies usually have more serious look to them.
Beady eyes, expressionless faces and robotic tweened movement is the opposite of wacky. This is just bad.
Is "spreadsheet art" a thing? I don't mean clip-art.
You know what greebling is?
This looks like a greebled spreadsheet to me.
His nose looks like a wiener.
Monkey island was never good
At least it looks better than MI4
Damn, we got monkeypawed
I've just played the first two monkey island games.
The first one was really great, better than I thought it would be, but second one was weaker, not as memorable music, less humor and some really moronic puzzles. I've still enjoyed it, but it could've been better.
Is the rest of the series any good?
Yes, 3 is really good. Good art, humor, puzzles, voice acting.
>stan is in jail for selling NFTs
https://returntomonkeyisland.com/
This game will make people appreciate Escape from Monkey Island.
Nah, Escape is indefensible shit
Nah. That game was awful.
Great music, as always, but that's what you'd expect from any Monkey Island game.
why can't they ever just go back to the original art style with anything? they couldn't even do it for the remaster of the first one.
What could have been....
Too expensive
>Too expensive
According to gilbert this is the monkey island game with the highest budget so far.
This isnt a monetary isssue but an issue of his taste.
Lucas Arts had some real artists working for them, and real artists get kind of expensive.
More like Monkey's Paw.
neat
agreed that art style is ugly though. nothing looks like it has any life in it.
that feel when Steve Purcell is at Pixar making soulless corporate films
It looks bad and Gilbert is moronic for picking this way of graphics
>HURRR THIS IS MY STLYE AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE GET BENT
>I NEVER LIKED HOW DAY OF THE TENCALE LOOKED ANYWAY
You fricking moronic boomer. Check your damn eyes and realize this "look" is shit
GLOBO homosexual ARTSTYLE
>Ganker shitting their pants over the artstyle while everyone else calls it good
Contrarian time I guess...
This is an abysmal dislike ratio, Ron. What the frick were you thinking with this style?
>Over 1k likes
>barely 300 dislikes
Meh
I gotta say I dislike the art more than I thought I would, like other than the returning characters everyone looks so generic and forgettable.
i'm glad i pirated all monkey islands
I am actually really feeling the art style. It feels dynamic and interesting.
this style is downright demonic and utterly uncanny
they're like people trapped inside wooden dolls who are trying to cling to a semblance of humanity but losing the fight
Oh shit anon, that's going to be the plot twist.
The whole game is just some kid playing Monkey Island with wooden dolls.
The art is fricking trash.
It's the thing I care less about the game but holy frick why.
Literally every fricking top pixel artist in the world would have killed their mother to work on this game and even if no pixel art a lot of artists could have done great things.
>monkey island?