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Schizophrenic behavior.
If you're not catching the reference to the globohomosexual art style Google uses on its home page and commercials, I can't help you.
>He hasn't realized he's just schizophrenic yet
>It will be funny that I'm stupid if I keep it up long enough
It's called corporate memphis, or Alegria.
>or Alegria
holy shit even the name sounds like a prescription drug
Its globohomo, the two you mentioned are only used so you dont sound homophobic
Globohomo, which means globalist homogenization. Funny how gays defend it like Renfield does Dracula.
>defend
More line the art in Return doesn't apply to the term at all in the first place.
the absolute state of things
>I looked it up and its real
What the frick went wrong with art?
Cultural marxism.
Jews
companies copies whatever is popular until it gets so inbred it collapses unto itself. Then a new style pops up and that gets killed.
Just look at western cartoons, you can identify how each era has its style, be it actual drawings or kinds of shows.
Tell me you have never played a Monkey Island game without telling me you have never played a Monkey Island game.
Thanks bot. I've been playing them since 1990.
>hey, watch your language! our artists worked really hard to appeal to both new and old fans with a unique art stye that captures the attention of everyone and conveys every bit of information with picasso-esque form, don't be mean!
>It's another RtMI schizo thread
dude, how hard are you gonna push this
RETUUUUUURN THE SLAAAAAAB
I want to fricking kill the gay that made that song and the corporate artstyle
call me when you, I'll help you hide the body
Ew this artstyle is repulsive.
So was Psychonaughts, but people didn't complain at the time.
>So was Psychonaughts
????????????????????
Another game by the creator of Monkey Island, Tim Schafer. With a very ugly art style. Basically, if people don't check him, he loves to use these "avant garde" art styles.
It's the other Monkey Island creator on Return, Ron Gilbert, but they're of a type.
>be Ron Gilbert
>complain about corporations ruining video gaming on your blog for decades
>makes new Monkey Island game
>make it look like a Google Doodles: The Game
It somehow manages to look uglier and more soulless than Broken Age.
Broken Age looked great. Every different scene was a carefully painted artwork. Ganker just adopted the opposite stance because of culture war reasons at the time.
I'll concede that Broken Age isn't bad. "Corporate Memphis" art style really wasn't a think until 2017. Apparently when you go to art school now and you want to make an independent-style game, that means corporate Big Tech art style.
I admit I don't like the artstyle, but at least it doesn't look objectively awful. RtMI looks like it was made ugly on purpose, and not in a Tim Burton kind of way
I think it’s also because it was delayed so long for a game that got 3.3 million dollars
It's doesn't look incredibly bad but it doesn't look good neither. That screenshot is absolute visual pus, an unreadable, unpleasant and blurry mess.
please tell me what shitty game this was the name escapes me
Game was pretty fun if incoherent.
The snake puzzle got me good.
Backgrounds in Broken Age were really well done. Characters not so much. Everything looked way better than Return though. Unlike Gilbert, Schaffer at least hired someone who could draw.
THREE POINT THREE
Backgrounds are fine. Not my preferred style but at least have some effort put into them. The characters however are almost as bad as RTMI. At least in Broken Age they still looked like humans. But they already had that shitty puppet style animation.
Psychonauts is famously gorgeous wtf are you talking about.
Psychonauts didn't have an ugly art style.
It was unique, but not in a lazy, unpleasant way that this game is.
Its distinctfulness gave it more personality.
You’re thinking of Broken Age
>"avant garde"
This isn't avant garde. This is just literally the same artstyle used for EVERYTHING these days.
psychonaughts is one of the most beautiful games ive ever played wtf? name something even close in art direction when it comes to a surrealist tim burton esque game. you cant. all those games are shit.
Because it was still quality in spite of its art style. This game's art is both low quality AND went with an intentionally ugly art style. Their artist is clearly is not talented enough to make this art style look good.
Plus, the main character has a weird dick nose. Come on, man. Stop pretending there's any universe where this doesn't look like embarrassing trash.
Frick off moron.
People are rightfully complaining that game's art style is deviating too much from what's already established before.
Nobody isn't complaining about Psychonauts' artstyle because it's always been like that from first place and fits in with game's outlandish and offbeat setting to emphasise the weirdness of their characters.
People would complain if Psychonauts 2 looked like a shitty Fortnite game.
Agreed. Despite what people like to claim, Monkey Island HAD a visual consistency, but it started after the first 2 games. Ever since Curse, every new release has been inspired by it. Even the fricking remakes of 1 and 2 had the Curse cloud style. Escape was literally just the Curse art style in 3D. Tales of was a mix of Curse, Monkey Island 2 and TellTale's own style.
it doesn't warrant the fact that you have to go out of your way to harass and bully the Devs, if you don't like it, just criticize it and move on, or do nothing, don't say shit like
> "hey you fricking suck, you ruined my vidya, go kys"
The devs hang out in Ganker?
Devs just outright lie when they say shit like this, theyre just incapable of receiving criticism so they have to b***h to the ledditor army for protection and comfort
Yeah man, don't want all those videogame developers browsing Ganker to feel bad.
In fact, people did complain about the designs in Psychonauts 2 being more bright and less grotesque.
Psychonauts has gorgeous art though? Peter Chan environments and Scott C's art go together well. Psychonauts 2 does have a bunch of ugly-ass tumblr-muppets as side NPCs but that's about it.
I have never played that game because it was so disgusting.
Hi OP, I was waiting for you to make this thread again. You should check under your kitchen sink really quick. It'll be funny, I promise
>only one person in the world would ever think this art style is shitty
Please, go back to jerking off to Rule #34 Google homepage art.
I played a game from the series when I was a kid and I swear there was a section where you had to pour cooking grease on a guy on the beach and then peel off a map he had tattooed. Am I making this shit up?
Yeah that's the Blood Island map in Curse (MI3)
I remember it being a pretty funny game. There was an old bit in LucasArts games where you could find some bunny ears as an Easter egg. As I recall there was one in Shadows of the Empire in the speeder level. In the Monkey Island game I played (Curse, apparently, thanks for that) I want to say it was in a section where you're controlling stage lighting.
You got it. The bunny ears are a reference to Max from Sam and Max. Curse is full of tiny little details and easter eggs that it's one of the few adventure games that can be replayed again and again, always finding something new.
Just going to mention it here because nothing in the game suggests to do it: try to walk into the bay of Blood Island fifteen times in a row.
Dark Forces II also had the hyperactive rabbit thing Max as an easter egg and he can help you clean a portion of the level he is found in, and what's perhaps even more hillarious is that he is semi-canon to the old legends Star Wars material.
frick the grog mugs and the safe in the original
>The art is bad in a game I never heard of
Why exactly should I care? Just don't buy it.
>go to supermarket
>someone is unloading a massive LOG in the frozen chicken
>what the frick
>you: JUST IGNORE IT!!!
kek passive b***h i bet you ignore people cutting in line too
Because this is Ganker. We've involved in the anti-establishment right-wing movement whether you like it or not. Sure, we talk about video games, but from a certain angle. We live and breathe conservative politics. That's the essence of Ganker.
So when "they" taint our video games with their trash globohomosexual art, you know we're gonna say something. And you know what? We're not gonna take it. This is Ganker. We stand for traditional family values. None of this globalist art shit that's used to please SJWs.
Liberals, this is your last warning. Leave our video games alone.
I genuinely hope this post is bait
The spacing really tips it into the bait territory
Shut up b***h
Frick off, you cringey c**t.
looks like shit
Now look at them yo-yos
why do burgers draw like this
why do poors obsess over burgers like this
because it makes you seethe
Soi
I'm terrified of enjoyment in case I look like this
Why? Just like what you like and don't worry about the opinions of some irrelevant autist from Ganker.
>I clapped when i heard the music
There's no hope.
You know they're buying bots now.
I bet he is going to schedule his vacations to match the release date like those nutjobs did with cyberpunk.
i despise the art style and will pirate the game but i too am feeling the urge to play 1-4 again just from hearing discussion about the series again. it's just an excuse to play them again
They really hate black women, huh? Man chested, ugly face and musclebound.
Go back to your discord.
This is some serious cope.
It is more than obvious that the new Monkey Island will.
nice try buddy. have fun with your corpo clicker
How is that even a coherent insult?
your initial argument was essentially "because discord groups exist, this is a concerted effort to shit on a game" so i don't have to explain shit to you
>people organize with other social inept morons to shitpost in this god forsake hellhole
>instead of you know... just shitposting
What drives these rejects?
Why the frick am I even on here anymore, it’s just organised shitposting pretending to be epic psyops all the way down
I just enter to get a few funny images and a posts, and frick off. This is a cesspool full of schizos.
what possible reason would they have to plan out shittalking a videogame?
Meybe they like to think they're up against powerful forces that mean them harm. Similar to what the troons think of the evil neckbeard gamers.
What amazes me is how deeply offended people get when you criticize Corporate Flat.
That's still the narrative you're driving?
the funniest thing about this whole thing is that a bunch of autistic millennials manchildren ruined the game for geriatric genXers that were so hyped about this game hahahahahaha
gen Xers aren't bothered by the art style though?
What are these threads even about? It's as if someone is starved for having the 3.3 million lumberjack threads back again.
2 minute hate I guess. Doesn't seem to be much further point.
Legit would have a beer with.
I refuse to believe a troon took that pfp and actually thought that he looked feminine in that picture. He literally looks like he's on his way to the local metal concert.
>I refuse to believe this mentally insane person isn't thinking clearly
you fricking wot m8?
That homie looks like ProJared lmfaoaaoaoaoa
How can you not pity these lunatics?
apathy's man best friend
they're going after kids
george of the jungle?
>I look like Aerith
Bro you look as if you were Aerith's boomer dad LMAO
>Equestria Girlsgay is a troony
Imagine my shock.
Is this the Visual Artist for the game? When you become a troony do you have to start making shitty art from there on out?
Can you read?
I see a twitter troony that does game design. This was the artist? God it makes so much sense now. Make a bunch of vaguely humanoid shapes where you can project your gender dysphoria onto it without having to confront any realistic aesthetics of male and female features.
Do you know the difference between artist and game designer?
DaVinci was a painter and an inventor, so I assume a troony could be a shitty game designer and a shitty artist as well
>DaVinci was a painter and an inventor
Right, so if you see that someone is an inventor, is it reasonable to assume they're also a painter?
No one here knows that anon. People still think Inafune invented mega man and Igarashi made castlevania.
nah, this is
also did art for Knights and bikes
>be ron gilbert
>wants to make new monkey island game
>needs artist
>don't ask for the old artists to return
>don't ask any of the millions of talented artists out there whom would kill to make a monkey island game
>hire some tweeking AIDS junky so trannies won't be offended
Uh...I see.
He hired him because he loved fanart the guy did back in 2008/09
Ron has been salivating over this globohomosexual trash art-style for years.
globohomosexual artstyle before globohomosexual artstyle?
this is from 2009
Back then it was still called tumblr-nose I believe.
You're an actual fricking idiot.
it didn't have the name before but it existed
don't think it became a corporate style until a few years later but i remember a lot of people were pretty interested in this style as digital art became more accessible
bro liberalism was invented in 2012
yes in reaction to occupy wall street
read one book
he's talking about the art style
it was invented in 1517. thanks martin luther
Jesus christ that's bad. It's like the American equivalent of the art style you'd see in those japanese waifu visual novels - it looks just as atrocious but in a different kind of way
trying too hard
whats next calling anime japanimation?
??? you high, boomer-kun?
So this lit the fuse, they go to the troony that pumped this out, probably gave it an offer to make assets to tween with and called it a day.
And it's not even good from an artsy fartsy level, this looks like the gaygiest eastern island head I've ever seen.
do not compare this garbage to the awesome moais.
Pale imitation, Stone heads have necks for one, and dignified noses.
MMMMMOAII
its weird because I honestly liked tearaway's visual style, but here its just atrocious. it doesn't look weird and creative it just looks like generic shit
Knights and bicycles is very cute too.
Maybe Returns will be the game where he realizes he went a bit too abstract.
Oh, that's Day9s friend
>transgender woman
>non binary
>bisexual
> actually a mentally ill man who is a mediocre artist at best
Could be viewed as slightly hypocritical not to go pansexual tbh
>pansexual
I'm more of a potsexual myself
kettlesexual here.
>pansexual
all of this shit is unnecessary but i find this one particularly grating.
>spent money on a masters degree in game design
>looks like dude with long hair
THATS A MAN BABY
I suspected as much.
RED FLAG
Nice, another one for the collection.
Don't compare this to bored apes, those actually look good
>Yesterday's trash is today's treasure
I'll be damned
found the bagholder
Damn you convinced me, guess I'll buy your bags
>discord schizos trying to force a shitstorm out of nothing again
Ganker needs to remember the whole "not your personal army" part of its culture because jesus fricking christ are you people easy to manipulate
Being unstupid isn't funny apparently.
yeah stop talking about these fricking video games on my eceleb board
you're not talking about videogames, you're taking people slightly bothered by a boomer game dev's bad taste in aesthetics and using it to kick up a moronic shitstorm for a game you weren't going to buy anyway
>you're not talking about video games, you're talking about *video game*
If the conclusions made a little bit of sense and were just really racist or whatever that'd be one thing, but they don't. The line of thought is that he's using an ugly artstyle that reminds of corporate ones ergo he's a leftist.
Ron Gilbert wasn't strongarmed into using a lame artstyle by globalism this is just what he thinks looks good. If you've looked at his work beyond monkey island you might go "yeah that makes sense" but ten to one you've literally never played a monkey island game and don't really have interest in them either but you're copping whatever opportunity you can find to have a political outrage
Okay?
I thought nfts are dead already
>If I force it, it will be funny eventually
Go away Ron
You did exactly what you aimed to do
And you will get exactly what you asked for
so is this company actually sending morons into these threads to derail them with posts calling Ganker schizo's? Or are there really morons that think this art is good.
One of the previous threads convinced me there's dedicated damage control team that is going around and very politely (which is an obvious fricking sing) tries to convince people that its not a terrible game
And i don't belive them
Good game will market itself
And who knows, maybe the actual storyline, dialogue, and gameplay are good -- all I ask is that it's better than Escape from Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island. When the first thing I look at however is some kind of soijack art like what you'd see in a preschool book about Maya Angelou, I begin to wonder if they really want to tell an entertaining comedy adventure with pirates. Shit, I pulled that comparison out of my ass and then went and did a google search for "maya angelou preschool book" and there it is. You can't make this shit up.
The thing is if they just wanted to tell a good story they could write a fricking book. Video games are a visual interactive medium. So the presentation, the gameplay and the writing all have to be good.
The story can be be an A but if the other two are Ds it’s still an overall C game
There are unironically a bunch of old Ganker trannies who are incensed that board culture didn't go their way like the rest of the internet did and they get fussy and snide every time corporation/government gets criticized because they think it's a bunch of Trump supporters that escaped /misc/ are behind it
Has their Discord leaked yet? They're so obvious, I'd be surprised if it hasn't.
NPCs like it.
Usually not because they actually think it is great, but because they are told to think it is great.
>smart dev creates shitty cash grab with the specific intent to rub GaMeRs the wrong way
>dev virtue signals and spins it as an attack by alt right gamergate nazi spawn
>normies and leftoids buy the shitty game
>$$$
sad, many such cases
Half of the detractors say it's going to make money by offending gamers on peurpose, the other half says it will flop because of it.
I'm excited to see which it will be.
How well did Battletoads do?
There was a new battletoads?
[insert laughter]
>adventure game
>in current year
I think the adventure genre is a major untapped market but you can't just keep going back to point and click and think it's going to make a profit.
Well, Neil Cuckman literally killed The Last of Us franchise with woke themes and trashy post modern story telling.
Last Of Us sucked from the very beginning. In fact Naughty Dog hasn't made a great game since the Jak & Daxter series.
Series was pandering hard to daddy journos from the very first game. I'm not saying it was a bad game as sich, but it was always a lame story and setting with trite characters and plot development.
It's bad art, but I don't see why Ganker is so obsessed with it
>it's not anime, therefore it's shit
I don't know why I expected anything else from you troons
Like there's no fricking middle ground between anime titty and google doodle clip art
I see shit - i will say its shit
>I see shit - i will say its shit
Don't look in a mirror
LMAO
Dont judge other people by yourself anon
I don't even own a mirror, homosexual
At least you are learning
No one was expecting anime designs. But if they had made something like pic related I think it would have been better received. Cartoony, but less simple and much more expressive.
The problem is that takes actual effort.
v loves cuphead tho
Ganker loves souls and that's not even close to anime
Souls is as anime as you can get. See pic related.
That's not Souls, this is Souls and also anime
>Souls is as anime as you can get
no it isn't
japanese =! anime
Demon Souls and Dark Souls are LITERALLY Berserk the video game. It's anime.
also berserk
I think it's a character design issue
the initial trailer looked fine the skeleton girl was cute but the human characters are completely fricked
lechuck's the only one in OP pic that actually looks decent
it's too good, stop it you guys i'm going to cum
So deponia is the last good point and click huh?
If that's the standard for good, the genre's been on life support for ages now.
The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo looks fun
Point and click adventure games have been dead almost 25 years
Monkey Island was a big part of my childhood. I hate to see the art look like this. It comes across as overstylized and lazy. They won't be getting a sale from me.
That's how I felt about 4 and Tales.
This looks slightly more my jive in terms of design, but then the animation is just a disheatening shitshow.
Sorry bro. At least they can't take the originals away from us.
I will still play it. I oddly enjoyed the gutwrenching depression-humor in Thimbleweed park, so I have a bit of confidence left in Ron's writing.
If Monkey Island was a big part of your childhood, you would know MI hasn't had good art since 2
This, the silver lining to all this is seeing CurseBlack folk cry
I'm not even interested in pirating it. There's just no joy for me in playing a game that looks like this.
That how I've felt about every single western AAA game for the past fifteen years without exception, so I understand the sentiment completely.
Yeah ever since the 360/PS3 era, devs have been trying to adjust their games for the masses, taking out all the complexity and making them more moron friendly, then they added all that whole woke shit on top with the release of PS4/XONE.
yo wtf the other monkey island thread just 404'd
A guy on reddit called IamRegg literally fixed the artwork. Try saying it looks better than RTMI and watch yourself get downvoted into oblivion.
Try producing it on the budget they had available.
The lower "fixed" version looks lowbudget af, what the frick are you talking about?
it costs significantly more when you have to draw multiple sprites instead of rotating a block like in their current artstyle
Those are legit traditional volume-reliant 2D designs. They'd be rather expensive to animate, as all frames would need to be handdrawn by a fairly competent animator.
don't pay american animators and the budget works better. kire french, korean or japanese.
america is full of israelites.
It's a quick drawing a guy made in 4 hours in his spare time. That said, the result is fricking amazing. Imagine what he could to if he had more time AND people paid him for it.
>The lower "fixed" version looks lowbudget af
It's called "The Curse of Monkey Island"
If they're really on a budget, pixel art should have been their first choice
Expressive and unique pixel designs often take MORE effort AND take longer to animate.
guy literally said he made that drawing in 4 hours all by himself on an ipad.
What does that have to do with anything?
imagine 8 hours per background and multiply that for every bg in the game. pretty sure that cost isn't near of what they actually paid for this shit.
I'm talking about the character animations. Also, his bg painting skills are kind of ass.
I see what you're doing there, Ron.
>if you don't like what I like, you must be that thing I don't like
It's nothing personal, I just don't like your product.
It counldn't possibly be personal.
It means it doesn't take a lot of budget at all to produce a full game that looks at LEAST that good. Considering this was made in 4 hours, I'd consider this nothing but a concept art. And for that it already looks pretty fricking fantastic.
No anon. That's not how production works. And there isn't only the background to that image.
Drawing the background is literally the bulk of the work. You do the rest in-engine, like setting up transparency zones, parallax layers, post processing effects, etc.
You are so wrong that it's funny.
"drawing the background" is very far from being "the bulk of the work" in producing art for an adventure game.
We're just talking about backgrounds here. If you're referring to animation, that's a whole different department.
"drawing the backgrounds" is not even the main bulk of work in "drawing the backgrounds" though. Environment design and layout planning take much longer.
4 hours for that painting is NOT a good track record.
Even considering that, I still think it could be done in that style with a more talented artist for a fraction of the cost. I seriously lack of talent is the main problem here. That's just the backgrounds, for proper animations they would have to assign more budget than they have currently, so in the end they would probably end up with the same total budget but a much more attractive result.
The backgrounds COULD be done in that style on budget. But they didn't want to. And personally I wouldn't want them to either. I think it looks rather incoherent and messy.
The characters in the shot are what would topple the budget. So if we aren't talkkng about those, we're hust back to a general disagreement about what's interesting to look at.
4 hours on a piece is incredibly short for any professional project
its clear the style was chosen because it was cheap more than actually liking it
a franchise like monkey island deserves more than being cheap
You literally do not know what you are talking about, which makes it funnier that you sound so sure of yourself.
curse had a walking cycle for guy from different angles, and that was the main work. Maybe add in the animated cutscenes. NPCs had a very simple loop of 5-6 frames max. If vivziepop can hire 30 online animators to make a fully animated show, Double Fine could afford a Curse-style game. But these sort of production are done by a tight circle, and the animation work is gonna be given to whoever has a good reputation with the devs/companies rather than raw talent. Talent people are not always reliable, so I can't really blame them
Anon, you think you know a lot about animation production but you do lot.
>lot instead of not
Alright, I'm a gay, that's the kind of dumb typo that ruins my already meek insult.
>hire that guy
>don't hire the no-talent hacks they hired before
>???????
>profit
Gilbert is on record saying this is the highest budget monkey island ever. You're still paying an artist for his time regardless. The difference is if the style is shit youre paying for shit.
>his
Yes.
Because as you know, Gilbert weren't in charge of anything past Lechuck's Revenge.
The budget for Curse was much higher.
top looks like what must be flashing through your brain when remembering your childhood as a mentally ill boomer
this could be used in a horror movie
way fricking better
This is unironically what it should have looked like instead
but nope we get garbage
I can't believe anyone with eyes likes this corporate, NFT-looking art style.
It is the antithesis of soul.
the characters suck but is not really corporate garbage. is just mexican papercraft.
It looks like a child tried to copy the 16 personalities caricatures.
no one does, it got clowned on so hard the dev disabled comments and is going to stop posting updates
Good, maybe its fake outrage like with the Sonic movies.
>if we push the NFT meme, it will eventually be funny.
t. assmad jpg owner
its hilarious
Who is ~~*we*~~?
NFT lookin ass
ITT: nobody played tearaway
the morons most upset about this only ever known the curse game
>comparing tearaway's pure soul with this empty soulless shit with flash-tier animation
You deserve fricking death.
Only people as blind and tasteless as the creator itself would elevate it to such a degree that they can even compare the two.
Same artist, bruv.
It will never not make me laugh
i dont understand that statement the dev released about how the old games really pushed boundaries and used every bit of tech they could get their hands on when the old games used it to look as real as possible and this just sucks
Nowadays we have to push other things like 0 budget and multiplatform multilanguage releases .. with big emphasis on mobile hardware
its like guacamelee but bad
This is so ugly I can not believe it. Why not using the art style of Monkey Island 3? This looks worse than the odd art style of the remake.
>why not
While it IS funny that you come in late and prove the people right who say that Curse fans are the ones most offended, I wilm give you a real answer.
Ron didn't really like Curse, and ecen if he had liked it, this production didn't AT ALL have the budget to pull off what they did with backgrounds and animation in Curse.
WTF. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??
it's always these 20+ year old studios that havent made a new IP since founding the studio and that are still working with penny budgets that make these kind of unthinkable decisions. looks like you do reap what you sow. its incredible that theyre able to keep the lights on somehow. publishers will fund anything made with guys that have a history of delivering anything that's not a complete flop.
devs: Terrible Toybox
nice fricking company name, idiots. how did devolver put their name on this?
It looks good to me and most normal people, which is why the artstyle got so popular as of late, you schizos unironically think there's a political agenda to everything.
>normal people
You mean consoomers who just consoom, defend the things they consoom, and never complain?
Tell us the last game you personally paid money for anon.
Literally don't remember cause I'm not a fricking consoomer. Might have been an old game on GOG.
See this is where I could ridicule you for paying the Polish for abandonware with DOSbox wrapped around it, but instead I will just say that I hope you had a good time playing whatever it was.
Nah you can't because as opposed to modern games, that shit wasn't made for brainless "consoomers". I haven't been interested in a modern game for a long time now.
remakes and hdstrash should be illegal unless they contain a playable version of the original game intact. no removed shit like music. etc.
what does this have to do with this thread? RtMI is a brand new game.
This is literally the Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull of the MI franchise.
A "way too late" mess of a sequel that pretends it can "return to the roots" but it's just the director sniffing his own farts.
This is what post-modernism is doing to the industry. With no objective authority on anything, people can create utter garbage and be proud of it and self declare that it's good - and everyone else has to smile, nod and go along with it.
I mean his face and features are a couple of rectangles for fricks sake.
rude. it's my style.
I'd much rather this than a generic 2d or anime-esque style a billion other "unique and stylized" games have.
It's original and charming, it sets the game apart.
>it sets the game apart
not in a good way
>yet another nontroversey to circle jerk over
I didn't like it at first, but the more Ganker b***hes about it day after day, the more it's grown on me
I might even actually buy it now
Is this reverse psychology? Are we in a marketing thread?
You're just outing yourself as a Neurologically Pliable Case-study
Same here, I'm starting to like the artstyle a lot, not sure what the big deal is tbh
>haggis is scrooge mcduck
how did I never notice this before
oh boy what thing should I be mad about now
Thanks for joining our thread, I appreciate you notifying us how above it all you are
You virgins seriously have nothing better to do with your lives than complain about petty things? If the arstyle looks bad to you then don't buy the game, most normal people don't care about it.
I never stated my position on the matter but thanks for outing yourself
this isnt a political debate, we're discussing our hobby. if we dont have opinions and preferences about it, we'd have to be brain fricking dead
Did you want us to become lobomites?
no problem, happy to help
you should be above caring about the artstyle to a video game.
Apathy is death.
Shut up hag.
Monkey Island is not a current thing, dumb zoomer.
I mean I think you're ugly just like this game but it doesn't make me angry that you're ugly
It's just a spectacle to see you act like the dev and turtle over criticism
Dude these ads were so fricking annoying
Hire me lucasarts
not enough dick nose also not enough forced homosexualry
Brave, different, familiar enough to recognize, sterile and derivative enough to make me want to die.
I unironically think the ironic mock-ups are art in the sense that there's a gross standard these people follow.
side Black person tangent-
>these freaks go out of their way to invent ways to fricking recreate themselves in a meta sense (all in the same way), all try to make something different from 'traditional cartoons', by encouraging shipping, shitty story boarders and spineless directors and they think they're reinventing the fricking wheel because their cal-art self insert clones both have veganas (not marketable on tv/streaming services yet) have their romance and shit on screen non stop.
>Then I remember it's a fricking cartoon for kids
I know, Gankeridya, but you have to understand how this shit transcends just one fricking medium. It's horrendous, it's like an assimilating hive mind.
Oh also 10/10 you nailed the pinkish wiener noses.
But Max, you don't even like girls!
How do you know that sam have you been around mama bosco?
Add a dick nose and you can start tomorrow.
You're hired.
Have you chopped off your dick yet? If not get on to it right now and you're hired.
Talent like this(and from a genuine troony no less!)is hard to come by.
>people are defending this
Gamers have the self respect of a battered wife
>curse was great once you got used to the shift and could appreciate all the work that want into the animation
>escape looked atrocious but had good key/concept art and a cover that at least let your imagination fill in the blanks
>tale was an abomination that didn't even try, all the terrible cg of escape without any of the nice art to back it up
And now return looks like dogshit. I wouldn't mind the bad artstyle if it at least had great animation like curse but it looks like shitty paper dolls flailing around
yeah that is what really kills it for me too. Curse was a new art style but was a highly detailed hand drawn art style and the animations were like out of a 2d movie of that time. Return Art style could work if the characters didnt animate like paper cut outs. For the record I hate the art style but the lack of animation just shows how little they really cared about the game. Cared more about how many woke talking points they could cram into the story and couldn't bother to animate anything.
>Call it Return to Monkey Island
>we're not returning to anything and in fact running as fast as possible in the opposite direction from all of the things that made MI1/2 appealing
>we're not returning to anything and in fact running as fast as possible in the opposite direction from all of the things that made MI1/2 appealing
so... the art? That's it? That's all that made MI1/2 appealing to you? Not the writing or the characters or the jokes or the music or the puzzles?
Yeah those are totally going to be intact when the director clearly has no idea what he's doing
Play Thimbleweed Park if you think Ron Gilbert doesn't have his chops anymore.
play anything else by ron gilbert to see that hes a talentless fraud
>play the game with notoriously bad writing and mechanics to have a better viewpoint!
shit even people that like the game won't shy from pointing out it's horrendous designs
>awful writing with the same garbage twist ending he tried to push in MI2
yeah no, you're a Black person
You mean when it turned into an Age Regression fantasy?
thimbleweed park was solid, maybe the new mi would be solid too but im not giving it a chance if ron is like "hurr what if everyone looked like a penis"
Thimbleweed park was a cynical and bleak deconstruction of a butthurt creator who cant get over his biggest call to fame still being a bunch of games he made with a lot of other creative people 30+ years ago.
The game looked the part and to some extend played the part, but the writing was really full of contempt.
Especially that 4th wall breaking "wow it was all just a game, you're an idiot for getting emotionally invested in this shit" ending.
he does strike me as the contemptuous type in light of the recent fiasco
He threw a temper tantrum when people criticized the art style. He was giving regular blog updates then stopped doing that, which basically punished his remaining fans.
This is the funniest part to me.
>this looks ugly, I will not buy your game
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAH I WILL NOW PUNISH ALL THE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN MY GAME TO MAKE A POINT
Like shouldn't he rather share MORE of the art and the process behind it if hes excited about it if theres people that appreciate the stylistic direction hes going in?
More than half of the comments on his blog WERE positive after all. Did he see they were all coming from the same ip, unlike the criticism or what made him go that route?
I can't imagine his publisher/investors are too happy he's going to stop all marketing of his game before release because of a tantrum.
>goes as far as preventing people from leaving negative reviews, cataloguing them as "personal attacks"
>stops providing updates on the game
Yup. That's a red flag from me.
Shit's doomed from the drawing board.
Stuff isn't doomed just because you disapprove of it anon.
>the joy of sharing has been driven from me
the game was free?
oh wait you mean you just don't want people talking about how shit your product was
the audacity of ron gilbert
Are you paid to misunderstand qoutes out of context? You do it like a professional. A politician even.
no but I'm doin your mom
>The writing was really full of contempt.
Contempt, spite, and depression. Good source material really. And it managed to be funny as well.
have you guys ever thought that pandering to brainless consumerist yes man is monetary more rewarding than fullfilling the high standards of an elitist group
yeah no shit that's why garbage is able to coast on name recognition
doesn't stop it from being garbage lol
point and click puzzle games appeal to the masses? a good gameplay loop appeals to the masses AND the elitists, these devs are just incompetent, thats why this franchise is older than i am yet has never evolved
How the frick does being dissatisfied with this abomination of an art style mean we're an "elitist group" with "high standards"?
It's not even that bad. I could imagine how Monkey Island could do better but it's whatever. The last Ron Gilbert game I played was an incredibly boring puzzle platformer so I'm more concerned with the game and puzzling part of the game than the storybook/corpo animation look it has.
This whole thing just reads like another one of the incredible fake outrages that Ganker seems to subsist on lately. It's funny that they always seem to be attached to niche projects that probably weren't going to get that much discussion otherwise in the first place.
I'm not even a person who cares that much about graphics. But if a game is such a break from everything that came before it visually, the rest just becomes irrelevant to me because will just put me off from playing entirely.
Imagine getting mogged by a DS game
>DGR, AA, and every other gay-slop from PC Game Show-whole direct won't kill this off
>inb4 tortanic when the majority of MI fans are boomers, who'll most likely hate a drastic art change and shittier animations in a fricking point and click adventure
if you like point and click adventures there are probably little known gems that you havent played yet, the good thing about them is that they can't look more disappointing than this shit, even if it's a cga game from 1989
We are all different, equally!
Oh God. It depresses me to think what this game could have been.
2077: moisturize me
Shit looks more like a kid's book if you ask me.
Kids book have better art
A shame we never got a good Narnia vidya
Not the ones that are used to push the current year agenda.
>fat tumblr fujos can't draw
more at 11
Man even gay fujoshit looks more appealing than this
graphic designers aren't taught to draw
Before this thread dies, how would you guys feel if RtMI had Guacamelee's art style instead?
those games looked good
It would be fine the black troony would look more ridiculous
>its bad because the site its from is bad
who cares. this is the least important thing and you save it on your computer
The only thing that looks halfway decent in this cover is LeChuck, and he would look 10 times better if it wasn't for that horrendous artstyle
That man's nose is a penis.
Tumblr and its consequences have been a disaster for the artistic race
What the frick did they do to Elaine? Can they get her to look the same for just two fricking consecutive games?
Hey Ganker
How do we solve the retro fascism problem that is hindering progress?
I'm getting sick of you retro-fascists shitting on this amazing game.
This will be a fertile game for those west vs Japan character design macros.
Here is the ultimate guybrush threepwood art style
Is God mocking us?
I still think people actually defending this shitty artstyle are only defending it because they hate the "gamers" and think the people shitting on this are chuds or something
Imagine eating shit and paying for it just to annoy someone else ngmi
You're right, they see "gamers do x, game dev = victim" and they will proclaim their desire to halocaust all gamers young and old.
>anything bad ever happens
>"it's white supremicist nazis"
I think everyone no matter where they're from or what they are is getting tired of it unless they're an exempt few that are too far down the propaganda hole
Weird how this suddenly became a right-wing vs left-wing online politics battle. I've only ever seen Ganker hate on this disgusting soulless art style and lord knows they're full of every flavor of /misc/'s favorite boogeymen, but now it belongs to the chuds, so it's good or something?
My god, what have they done to the boy.
don't like it, don't buy it
>play the original
>like it
>play the sequel
>like it
>play post sequel
>ah ok
>see this
>don't like it
>it wasnt made for you
Im pretty sure it was supposed to be made for me
this game in going to flop pretty hard
Unlikely.
I'll probably pick it up on a steam sale a couple of years from now, probably. Hype got killed fast when they made the game look like everything that's soulless and evil with the world.
It'll do fine on launch even if you wait for a while.
The west no longer has any aesthetic sensibilities. We just have this easily-produced garbage "art" style, which literally anybody can shit out. You can outsource this artstyle to pajeets because it requires no artisan skill to produce. It's the same sort of shit as Brutalism.
>extrapolating that an entire region of the world "no longer has any aesthetic sensibilities"
time to touch some grass, son
So what version of the first two monkey island games are best. Should I really go emulate the original Amiga releases?
Remastered with the ultimate talkie patch
Otherwise the CD version with scummVM is good enough if you don't care about voices
Also original VGA if you like adlib music
Nah. Amiga was restricted to 64 colors at a time. Stick with the DOS versions. Monkey 1 has a VGA version, which is 256 colors (original release was EGA). Monkey 2 was always VGA under DOS, so you're fine.
The special editions both allow for playing with the original graphics, thank God.
I'm willing to give this game the benefit of doubt and assume it will still be good despite the art style. Hell, I enjoy playing RuneScape (which by the way, drew a ton of inspiration from Monkey Island for its funny point & click quests) and RS has terrible graphics.
Yes, I'm basically coping.
it could be worse. This is what most PaC/Adventure games look like these days.
I thought most were pixel art?
You know what you posted isn't pixel art, right anon?
?
Teenage Manny Ninja Skele
Teenage Manny Ninja Skele
why do people get so mad about video games? Especially over stupid shit
Because we are not nihilistic pieces of shit like you. We want to live surrounded by beauty.
We want art.
holy cringe
>holy
You don't know the meaning of that word.
>cringe
accepting mediocrity in your daily life isnt cringe though?
How many fricking RtMI schizo threads are we going to get? It doesn't look good, so don't buy it, play something else. Not that difficult.
>be discord troony
>hates own body
>thinks he is a woman
>wants to hack off parts of the body
>wants everyone else to share in delusion
>sees criticism of google doodle art in beloved video games
>organizes a discord raid to call people schizo who don't worship corporate flat shit art
>dilates open wound it tells itself is a vegana
>will never be a woman
>Whole Kotaku article about people saying mean things about new Monkey Island
>Inclusive and brave comment section is full of tolerant individuals telling people to kill themselves
Your comment betrays the fact that this isn't really about an art style, but is once again some bullshit culture war nonsense.
I don't know who you think I am in that exchange, but I personally just think the art looks like shit.
Next monkey island game gonna look like this
So, I have 30 hours of drawing experience and I prefer my own doodles I draw for my twine game over this paid professional work from someone with experience and a real degree
Patreon?
I don't have one. It's early stages, plus I doubt anyone would pay for shit english and lack of art outside of subpar portraits.
>plus I doubt anyone would pay for shit english and lack of art outside of subpar portraits
That sounds good enough for a 0.0001a release on f95 anon. Just seed ideas how you think you will include some niche fetishes down the road and are open to suggestions and feedback.
I plan to at least double this, before even thinking of public release.
God speed anon, hopefully it you can get yourself some beer money when you do.
Thanks. If it will got 100$ a month, I will be happy
For a second I thought that was art from the Ganguro Girl flash game.
more like return to bored ape island
Artstyle aside, do you think the game has any chance of being fun?
No idea so far.
I'm a fan and went from "picking it up day one" to "waiting for a sale".
Ill just pirate it
I have no faith that person this thin-skinned can be funny
There's no way this crybaby can make a funny game. One of the writers is an agp troon too so we're lucky if they don't include a minigame where you murder TERFs.
i expect jokes to be at the same level of Thumbleweed Park.
I expect that he's already rewritting some of the script to make fun of people who are making fun of him, you know to show how much he doesn't care.
He never said he didn't care. He specifically wrote that he cared.
He cares as far as how it insults his feelings, he doesn't care enough to want to understand why people hate it which is why he shut down the comments. I expect at least one joke that tries to paint the old games as being ancient while the new one should be seen as the future.
He doesn't actually have to care for why people hate it. And to everyone else it is also much more fun to ridicule the haters.
And yet he turned off the comments so it is getting to him that his supposed return to fame is instead met with Dicknose Threepwood.
Yes. It's bothering him. I didn't argue otherwise.
You sound happy that he's having his first MI reveal in thirty years ruined by internet haters.
>having any kind of opinion that isn't blind praise or empty hype words like "can't wait" or "LETS GOOOOOOOOO" is hate
Sure, Ron. Whatever makes you sleep better.
What do you gain from pretending that's how it went?
I'd ask you the same. Most comments on the forum were speaking their mind. You want to pretend like they should be dismissed because the comments weren't phrased perfectly professional like you'd get from a business partner? Or because you got a handful of kys or "I hate you Ron for this". Should be expected when you want to subvert expectations, and actively go against what people are asking of you.
Haha, so now you and the commenters are the real victims?
If that's what you got from my post you really can't be helped, Ron.
You're not helping anyone anon.
Helping you understand the difference between criticism and "internet haters" is a form of help. One is an explanation for why people are hating you, the other is deflecting anything negative people say into some nebulous abstract group of people who hate because you're so daring and handsome and confident and intelligent and any other positives you see in yourself. Just go ask Druckmann, he knows all about having an ironclad ego.
Thank you anon.
Someone PLEASE just post some monke torture in these threads.
been starvin' marvin since the kind transfolx moderators over on /gif/ decided to ban them.
The past 48 hours of people kvetching over corporate art Guybrush IS monke torture, you knob.
Im still baffled how can anyone look at this and say it looks good
I just can't understand the thought process
Is ron really reading these and molding?
Probably not.
If he shuts down the snark arriving on his doorstep, I doubt he'd go looking for more of it.
>the alcoholic says after pouring his drinks down the sink right before leaving to find the closest bar
Social media is addicting. Like someone closing their reddit or twitter account only to end up here.
True story. Around here we're all pretty much addicted to anger and negativity.
you know you'd think the same with the troonys from discord but they keep raiding regardless because they wanna own the gamergators
if actual real critique hurts him like this I can only imagine he also feeds off it as well in a spiteful arrogant way
That sounds like something you're making up because you don't like other anons disagreeing with you though.
shut up Aerith
Why don't you shut it for me, stallion?
I would but your mouth is too far away from the computer screen to smack like a cartoon
I'm actually on my phone <3
ah as usual using the phone to avoid bans
The only think I'd get banned for is destroying your virginity.
No but the troony Aerith creep and his discord trannies are I bet.
Those people are no fun though.
Man its just not the same without a penis nose
BOLD!
PROVOCATIVE!
>penis noses
>money for nothing music video artwork
>moronic color scheme
amazing
Boomber dev goes full Phil Fish.
Nah. The game is still coming out.
And so far noone has been told to suck Ron's dick, much less choke on it.
It's only coming out because it was funded by Disney money, Ron would probably want to cancel it than release it and have it flop harder than Curse (a game he disowned).
Fricking diva devs.
You're kind of inventing your own whole narrative there.
I'm sure by now many people have been told that.
Did you do it then?
Monkey Island was never a good series. 2 was the only truly good game. 3 was okay, 1 was boring shit, 4 was crap, Tales was garbage. it had more bad games than good games, officially making it a bad series.
I know people hating on the graphics but am i the only one that thinks the music in the trailer was kinda meh? it's like the most generic version of the theme we've heard thus far. Is Michael Land even a part of this?
Let's hope that part checks out. There's a lot to live up to outside of just the main theme arrangement.
I dunno, maybe he lost his touch. He also composed for ToMI and i honestly don't remember a single noteworthy music from that game.
Might have to do with the short dev time on individual episodes, making overall timing and presentation feel rushed often. So much of what makes music work is making sure it gets time to shine in the right context.
"GrumpyGamer" is upset that other gamers are grumpy because his new game has a cheap and souless art style.
They weren't really just acting grumpy though. They were flooding his comments with long meandering sob stories full of weird analogies and vague insults. The manboy pathos was palpable.
Not saying none of it was justified, but it wasn't particularly elegant.
Out of all the negative feeback the comments were 60% genuine and 40% trolls exaggerating and calling him a boomer.
There was no real "abuse", he's just salty it got a mixed reception (almost 50/50 likes/dislikes on youtube)
It's not like they flooded his blog with "FRICK YOU Black person" spam.
I don't disagree with you.
But it's still a lot of pathetic complaining.
>there was no real abuse
How do you get to be the judge of that?
There's no such thing as a judge outside of law and court
take your meds
Sounds like rampant retrofascism to me
>lady pirate
>apefrican pirate
DROPPED
THE FRICK
OUT
Still better than the first remake tbh
being contrarian isn't cool
>approved by Apple for the Ipad!
funny you say that
Return to monkey island is natively for mac and the windows version is a port.
stop sucking gilbert's dick for doing nothing
must be why its ugly
Doesn't change that MI1 remake looks worse than Return.
get a pair of glasses your eyes are going bad
maybe some lasik
>You lived to see the day anon would hold the MI1 remaster over anything at all
>he thinks ugly corporate art with dick noses that you can barely tell if a character is a monkey or human looks better than a piece of art that didn't have enough work put into
meds
Defends the stance with buzzwords and irrelevant excuses
Alright alright then. I thought you were serious for a minute.
When being contrarian is being right then it doesn't have to be cool.
*ooof*
Sulless artstyle for soulless hardware.
So what version do I get if I want to play the first Monkey Island game?
The remasters are fine unless you are a schizo who wants to pretend that the only way to play the game is on a c64
hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
frick off Ron
Ron had nothing to do with the remasters moron
Honestly what.
I wouldn't have thought Ron to be associated with the remasters at all.
EGA
California has ruined western art forever.
>le calarts meme
Sure, let's lower the average IQ in here a couple more octaves.