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I really gotta buy these remasters, never played the originals but I enjoy point and click games. I wonder if they could also remaster that Wallace & Gromit game from Telltale eventually too, I also didn't play it but I bet it'd look great remastered to look more claymation.
I think Devil's Playhouse was the best of the Sam & Max trilogy so seeing it looking this good is pretty great.
I should try the remasters of season 1 & 2 but I remember not enjoying them anywhere near as much as season 3.
It felt like the peak of the Telltale engine for me!
It felt like the peak of the Telltale engine for me!
Studios was seemingly created for the sam and max remasters, but dear God, i never even thought of that possibility. I hope that also happens, that would be amazing.
Need that last LRG collector's edition to complete my trilogy. Hopefully we get news on that soon.
S1/2 were excellent remasters. Looks like S3 will continue the trend. Day 1 and can now begin hoping for Tales from Monkey Island.
Oh GOD yes please!
Absolutely loved the other remasters of the S&M games.
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amazing remasters of very good games. I still need to finish season 2.
looking forward to playing Devil's Playhouse for the first time!
like Slaythe said, I hope they do Tales of Monkey Island eventually. played through that series on PS3 and loved it, one of the best things Telltale ever did and low-key the best modern Monkey Island. hell, at this point I would like Skunkape to remaster the whole catalogue since they are doing such a fantastic job.
looking forward to playing Devil's Playhouse for the first time!
like Slaythe said, I hope they do Tales of Monkey Island eventually. played through that series on PS3 and loved it, one of the best things Telltale ever did and low-key the best modern Monkey Island. hell, at this point I would like Skunkape to remaster the whole catalogue since they are doing such a fantastic job.
this is why we need every person who cares about old-school point-and-click adventure games to buy all three seasons
season 4 is the endgame, but only if sales warrant it
I haven't even played through most of the last two seasons I re-bought, but I'm buying this day one to show my appreciation.
Just use a crt or dot matrix filter, and it genuinely looks perfect as is. (you have them natively in scummVM now)
Genuinely not meme-ing with nostalgia. It's phenomenal.
Oh, I didn't know this either. I have the originals, but being able to merge all of the episodes into a single thing per season should be nice since the original releases are all listed as separate episodes in the Steam library.
It really depends on the game but generally it's pretty good because Deck lets you quickly set up joystick or trackpad as mouse, plus there's a touchscreen.
The Sam & Max remasters are built with mouse and gamepad input running simultaneously, so playing on Deck or Switch lets you swap between gamepad and touchscreen (or trackpad) whenever you want.
I played Curse of Monkey Island on Deck and set myself up a quick radial menu in using Steam Input that replicated the verb coin but put it on the left stick so I could quickly pick one of the verbs by moving that stick around almost like selecting dialog in Mass Effect, and it'd hit the hotkey to switch to that verb. So you could always just move the stick up to change your left cursor to "pick up" or down for "talk" etc. Worked surprisingly well. This was a while ago when the deck first shipped so the presentation probably doesnt line up to current SteamOS, but the fundamentals of Steam Input on deck are pretty similar now.
In kind of the other direction, The Devil's Playhouse remaster is also introducing full proper point and click controls to the game. The original release only had a sort of "click and drag" virtual stick input method on mouse, and clicking the ground did nothing. Now you can still click and drag if you want, but also you can drive the game with just a mouse like the previous two seasons, SCUMM games, etc.
Yeah this is Telltale's best game imo. Loved it when I played it, would glady buy this one on physical.
That's a hell of an improvement, they've done great work with these games.
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Not all scenes got that level of overhaul, but the city streets that were basically cubes and windows in the original (which were pervasive across the season) got a lot of love, concepting, and rebuilding. So did the tomb in episode 2, which was the biggest scene in telltales history at the time the game shipped, but the engine version that shipped Walking Dead 4 (which is what these remasters started with in 2019) can easily handle it, so there was space to add a bunch of geometric detail, reinstate the flooded water pools from the original concept art, etc. Places that were already high detail and consistent resolution in the original, like the museum in the third episode, and the lounge interiors in the final episode were a lot closer to "generally upres and add new lighting."
Yeah, looking up the screenshots that were published a while back, those look a lot more in line with what I expect out of these remasters at this point—still very nice improvements, but not this degree of enormous jump.
But if anything deserves the glow up, it's the streets. I distinctly remember praising the artistry of the season's ending sequence all the way back on the Telltale boards at the time, that long, slow pan down the road as the world just keeps on going on around you despite everything. It's a lovely moment and felt so alive in the way that Purcell's art does and in a way that Telltale's usual set dressing couldn't normally muster, and that's all still true, but looking at it again... yeah, those buildings feel pretty rough now.
Cool hearing this background detail! This season definitely felt more ambitious cinematically than 1 & 2.
ngl I saw this video and it made me buy save the world
View: https://youtu.be/m7YC8AH34hM?si=pk_x8d3qQejLU9yH
View: https://youtu.be/m7YC8AH34hM?si=pk_x8d3qQejLU9yH