what the frick is this shit?! what have they done to my guybrush ? this is ugly as frick, fuuuuuck you Ron Gilbert this shit should have ended with LeChuck's Revenge frick youuuu
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Over before it even began I guess.
WTF this is being made by Ron Gilbert's studio. Thimbleweed Park wasn't great and it constantly screaming REMEMBER OLD LUCASARTS GAMES at yout got old quick but it wasn't this sad looking.
Thimbleweed Park was excellent, and you can turn off the reference jokes if you want.
What? Was that there at launch? I'd rather the writing be better than just erasing the worst parts of it.
The writing in Thimbleweed Park is excellent, and you can literally remove the parts you don't personally like. Your complaints are ill-founded.
>The writing in Thimbleweed Park is excellent
Respectfully I disagree and apparently they did add that option in an update. At the risk of sounding like I'm looking to be a contrarian I don't think it would make the game markedly better so I'd respect them more if they said "frick you listen to our references and you'll like them".
>and it constantly screaming REMEMBER OLD LUCASARTS GAMES at you
Tales of Monkey Island did that too. It's among the many reasons Tales of Monkey Island was shit.
This shit legit ruin my day, i was looking forward to play this game, MI is my favorite game series. frick man, this year fricking sucks im legit mad
I postponed my suicide for THIS?
>You WILL eat plant-based versions of your favorite foods
>You WILL cheer for LGBTQ characters taking the place of your favorite protagonists
>You WILL play the corporate artstyle reboot of your favorite games.
But what if your favorite food already is "plant-based"?
>You WILL replace the ingredients of your favorite vegetarian meals with government subsidized corn and onions substitutions
How is he LGBT? He's even more adult and masculine in this.
I think that post is talking more about modern media in general
It may be the worst art style I've ever seen. Worse than even Big Mouth. It's just awful.
The proportions and anatomy of the characters is just outright bad. Cal-arts noodle arms would genuinely look better than the bizarre hourglass arms. Top it off with the soulless dot eyes and overly zany backgrounds and you have a visual mess that only a tasteless autist like Ron Gilbert would find appealing.
>soulless dot eyes
?
Pixel art using the technology of the time vs hires art made today. Even the EGA version of Secret of Monkey island cutscenes had eyes that weren't just black dots.
i'll check it out since i'm a fan since i was a little kid but the new artstyle is absolutely hideous and makes me angry
you guys do know the only reason they couldn't get Steve Purcell back is because he's too busy working at Pixar right?
Who cares?
I get if they couldn't get the usual guy, but why on earth did they do this?
The artstyle is one thing, but holy hell the animation is so bad.
The animation is terrible because the artstyle doesn't work when animated. (not that it works well when it's just a still image either)
The limbs are made smaller then the fricking torso, which is just terrible because that's not how humans are built, meaning the animations can't feel natural, and the torso is also one of the least expressive parts of the body, the limbs are the moving and expressive part.
So to make the limbs smaller than the torso just gimps the whole fricking animation process.
The eyes being just dots is also ungodly terrible, because that means that the eyes, one of the most expressive parts of the human body, can't show emotion.
The faces are also built all wrong. The expressive parts of the mouth, eyes, and eyebrows, are diminished in size while the nose and the static parts of the face are made way larger.
this is like the most anti-animation artstyle I've ever seen. It feels almost like it was on purpose. It goes against every principle of cartoony animation.
You are 100% correct, although I think not every character design shown so far has the same limb problem. It's fricking atrocious on Guybrush though lmao
So this is how Guybrush die huh, this shitty game will sell 100 copies top. RIP monkey island, thanks for the memories
Americans really can't draw anymore. Sad.
>Series already has 5 completely distinct art styles
>"wtf? Why did they change the artstyle?"
It’s not “Why did they change the artstyle?", it’s “Why is the new artstyle so fricking bad?”
>BRAAAAAP
This shit makes Broken Age look good.
Broken Age always looked good. Each setting is a carefully painted work of art.
Everything about this looks bad. It's entirely unreadable. Like someone with schizophrenia painted it.
Why does “her” face look like a flat paper mask.
Because the "artist" in question never learned any of the basic art skills required for something like this and proceeds to agressively try to wing it, adding more and more shading and clutter to something that was foundationally already not working.
lel look how tiny the left leg is to the right.
Oh great, another stronk black female that I'm sure will never lose a fight against Guy and their last one will end in a draw because she is too strong.
Monkey Island 1 already had Carla and the Voodoo Lady.
You are not welcome here until you take your meds, moron.
>Oh great, another stronk black female
The Swordmaster of Mêlée Island was in the very first game from 1990. The game is set in the Caribbean, what do you expect?
meds and sex now
literally monkey island 1
Guybrush loses against everybody; that's been a staple of gameplay since the first Monkey Island game.
It was a bit too grindy for me, to go through repeated sword insult encounters in MI1 and 3, but you can't say there aren't black characters who are "stronk" and unbeatable.
You didn't play those games, did you?
Across multiple games in the series, you always come back to Voodoo Lady or Carla the Sword Master for advice and to further your path.
You don't know what you're talking about.
It sounds like you also don't really know. Carla only features in 1 and 4, and doesn't really give advice in either, and is only at all relevant in 1.
I've only played the games, clearly, but I don't know?
Voodoo Lady is in all of those too, you know. She's kinda of a linchpin to the whole thing.
>backpedaling
You said Voodoo Lady "or Carla the Sword Master"
Yeah. Voodoo Lady or Carla. What's your problem exactly? Let's try to sort this out.
You were wrong. You do not do this with Carla.
I get you, but I wasn't being exclusive to one or two games.
>Across multiple games in the series
Nothing to argue about here, I'm pretty sure we're on the same page, Anon. It's all good!
A single game isn't "multiple games"
I wasn't talking about just one game, though
Maybe we got our wires crossed somewhere
Which game other than MI1 were you talking about then?
Across at least four games (the ones I've played), you speak to Voodoo Lady, who often is a linchpin to your progress, and in 1 and 4 you talk to Carla too, who progresses your way too.
I'm fairly sure I made this quite clear, but maybe not. My bad.
MY NAME IS GUYBRUSH DICKNOSE AND I WANT TO BE A PIRATE
>monkey island keeps getting remakes
>space quest still forgotten
Because space quest was shit. The only people who remember Sierra games fondly are the people for whom those games were the only option available to them.
The only Sierra game still worth playing today is Gabriel Knight. That's it.
Eat shit, Quest for Glory is awesome.
The only Sierra adventure game series which has been getting any attention has been Leisure Suit Larry, since a bunch of Germans bought the IP.
King's Quest and Space Quest are languishing because Activision owns them and just doesn't give a frick about them
Wasn't there a King's Quest game that came out like five or six years ago? Was it any good?
no it's a telltale clone
It was a tell tale inspired game like game out around 7 years ago which got middling reviews. With scores fluxuating from as high as a flat 80 and as low as 67 (both out of 100)
Activision gave up on doing anything with their Sierra IPs afterwards.
i think the artstyle looks pretty good.
we could have gotten generic noodle arm calarts shit but we didnt.
honest question though, if you hate the art style, what kind of art style did you want to see instead? even after the first teaser, i never saw anyone properly answer that.
and im talking about other answers besides "it should look like the originals" or "look like curse of monkey island".
Something like a hand drawn story book illustration. Best example I can think of right now is Creaks, but more in the style of Peter Chan's backgrounds from Monkey Island 2.
And here's a hires example of one of Peter Chan's backgrounds from Monkey 2.
LeChuck's Revenge is still the best, in my humble opinion. It's certainly the best to play, and possibly the strongest when it comes to the atmospheric mix of scene art and music.
If this is IV,
what is 0.148?
something like deponia would have been perfect
>German detected
Deponia is shit.
ok moron
Everything made with Visionaire looks this exact same way. It's an incredibly cheap, mass-produced adventure game style. The only way you could possibly like it is if Deponia is somehow the only modern adventure game you know, or you are German and feel the need to promote it out of misplaced national pride. So which is it?
no one, i'm american. I like to draw, and my style is very similar to this. I'ts just appeling to me. I find it pretty. I like it. You don't? that's fine, you don't have to. Just don't pretend to be some kind of 3000IQ taste police. i'm sure you're going to say that im an idiot for like something you don't. whatever. just another day in the internet
>I like the mass-produced shit which is done the same way in every single Daedalic game regardless of the genre or mood
Fine, but some of us like things which are good instead.
good for you anon! im glad you have things that you enjoy! i'm sure you don't give a frick about what others think about them and enjoy them anyway! so yeah, we have that in common. good for you!
>I'm sure you don't give a frick about what others think about them and enjoy them anyway!
What the frick? I never said that. Humans are social creatures. We experience things as a group. You can't just eat shit for every meal and claim to have "different tastes" from everyone else - that's called being mentally ill.
yeah because eat shit it's the same that enjoy a videogame most people don't like. whatever, im out. was fun
>Enjoying "food" people don't like.
>Enjoying "video game" people don't like.
Correct. They are the same.
This is basically what The Secret of Monkey Island looks like
No it isn't.
>i think the artstyle looks pretty good.
do the world a favour and genuinely have a nice day.
>you're not allowed to say the correct answers!
>I must win at all times!
>we could have gotten generic noodle arm calarts
the fricking irony flies right above your lobotomised brain, you utter subhuman shit eater.
>we could have gotten generic noodle arm calarts shit but we didnt.
Yeah we got a slightly uglier version of it that looks like someone didnt even have the skills to properly pull off the calarts style and winged it.
just improve what it's already been done. it's not rocket science
>honest question though, if you hate the art style, what kind of art style did you want to see instead?
I actually would have liked the series to go down the realism that Monkey Island 1 occasionally did.
I like the mix of this goofy story backed with serious visuals.
This is the right answer.
MI 1 and 2 worked because they did a naked gun type thing, where the mostly grounded pirate aesthetics played well with the contrast of the slapstick and meta humor.
MI3 already turned into a disney cartoon and this new thing is just fricking shit smeared on the screen.
But Thimbleweed park also wasnt funny but a dreary, bleak and cynical game. So maybe this will be the same. "Wacky" ugly cartoon style and unfunny bleak content.
Why does every character now look like the wooden tiki masks?
To get that look before, you'd have to carve a face in a block of tofu.
Wow, this looks awful. I'm sure it will sound great, because every Monkey Island sounds just right, but wow. Those graphics, that flat, awful art style?
I'll maybe get it on sale. No way I'm jumping on this, sorry.
garbage.
I bet my left testicle it was made by a schizo israelite.
Why does art design always fall into "exaggeration" instead of fitting the game?
>every "realistic" game has to be hyper-realistic looking, to the point where it's not realistic
>every funny game has to look like a drop-out's webcomic, until the characters don't look like them
And as for point & click adventures; all the best ones have already been made. To hell with this, man.
It looks like corporate clip art on a product. That's a hell of a wake-up call.
This is one of the ugliest games I've ever fricking seen.
Copypasting from the other thread:
A skilled, curious artist would join vidya back then because it was a new ground, an exciting place where you was building the future.
These days, what attractive does vidya offer to new talents? It's not an emergent medium anymore but a stagnated, sanitized meatgrind where your aspirations are to itinerate on what was already done. Derivative works, nothing original. Guess what kind of people are attracted to this kind of business.
It gave me some paper mario vibes for some reason.
Legit the ugliest game I've ever seen.
Looks better than Monkey Island 3, although I don't dig the artstyle.
Curse at least had textures to its graphics; Guybrush and the characters now look the same as the background scene.
It really does look awful. Someone should tell them that Flash is not around any more, and to put some proper effort in.
Make stones look like stones, and make characters look simply distinct. Everything is exaggerated angles and flat colors. This would have been laughed out of shop at any other time during point and click's heyday. It's insulting.
It's crazy how they managed to make this look ugly, cluttered and too simplistic all at the same time.
It's a highly stylized low detail style that is entirely unreadable visually because it's so busy.
How do you even manage to frick that up this bad?
Pixel hunting with that art style will be fricking hell.
There is not even a distinction between foreground and background, every line is crooked and the sense of perspective and scale is off too.
It's just a fricking cacophony of clashing shapes and colors all blending into one schizophrenic looking soup of visual noise.
This looks like a birthday card clip-art for kids who like pirates.
The frick is this? Where's the detail? The texture? The wondering about "what do I do in this scene?"
Looks like a half-assed cartoon that's being pulled from syndication.
i'm legit confused to why the frick they choose this. like.. wtf dude, for real. frick this make me mad
>i'm legit confused to why the frick they choose this.
I don't know pal, it's beyond my understanding.
It looks like SHIT.
>characters look the same as the background
>the stairs look the same as characters
>that obnoxious and lazy bookshelf; just take a look at it
This DOES NOT look like Monkey Island by any stretch of the imagination.
they released pics a while ago and most people's reactions were that it looks like trash, ron gilbert has gotten so butthurt about it that he's closed down his own blogs comment section and forum like 2-3 times already, he even went and made a long cope post about how the people complaining need to frick off, then made another post asking why people are fricking off.. dude is a legit gay. he also keeps acting like people are 'demanding' pixel graphics or for it to look like thimbleweed, when no one has asked for that and just said the art style is shit..
game will pozzed as frick base on the globohomosexual art style alone.. look at the thread for it on rpgcodex.net to see gilbert's various responses, I don't know the link to his blog nor would I link it if I did.
Looks like the sort of thing you'd get for free on itch. Like a fan remake that's twenty minutes long or something.
people will buy it anyway because nostalgia
frick this world
what did you expect, once a brand is established, morons will flock and buy your crap anyway
Normie consoomers make me fricking sick
The more I look at this art style the worse it looks. Why does every God thing I remember from early days of gaming that I grew up with just get turned into absolute shit now.
Hint of the universe for you to move on.
I really hate globohomosexual art.
Captain Dread
The one thing point and click adventure games SHOULD want is expressive animation to at least have a visual spectacle, but I can't imagine guybrush producing anything close to expressive acting with that sheltered-indie-artist-in-his-30s-with-no-ambition artstyle.
Why should they want that? None of the games in the golden era had that.
Exactly.
Dick-nosed Guybrush?
Is this some kind of fricking joke? This is easily the shittiest art style I have ever seen in a video game.
As bad as it looks, I still find it better than the remaster.