New Return to Monkey Island screenshots shown in an interview.
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Liam Thompson
Thoughts on the new artstyle?
Isaiah Cooper
>You announced that Dominic Armato is signed on as Guybrush. How about Earl Boen as LeChuck?
>Ron: Earl is an interesting one. We really would have loved to have him, but he’s retired. We did approach him, we did talk to him, and we did tell him all about the project. He very unfortunately said he had to decline, just because he’s retired and he’s getting older. But he did give us [his] blessing to recast the role. He said, “Recast the role, you have my full blessing to do that.” So that is one of the things we’ll be doing.
Josiah Turner
I don't like how "flat" it all looks
Jace Lopez
Kinda looks like shit but ill wait until I see the game in motion to really judge it
Alexander Richardson
soulless
Aiden White
Hate it. Looks like soulless flat style
Luke Bennett
Ayden Mitchell
It looks like shit. Please tell me this is a joke.
Sebastian Thompson
Is this for real? This looks like one of the worst art styles I've seen in my life.
What the fuck
Jeremiah Taylor
looks like soulless corporate art
Owen Hughes
How far we've come eh?
Jackson Cruz
What's the budget for this game? 10k? What a fucking crap.
Julian Jackson
I don't think it's a budget issue
Adam Rivera
And so, the monkey paw did what it does best.
Michael Brooks
bad
Xavier Rodriguez
Look guys. I'm not too big on this Picasso Island either. But I'll wait to see it in movement with Guybrush and I know the dialog will be fun.
Isaiah Morales
>getting your hopes up
Kek video games aren't allowed to be good anymore. What did you seriously expect? Pic related is by the art director btw.
Colton Phillips
Nah man this is just lazy. I hope it won't sell.
Lincoln Williams
I have faith but I'm skeptical.
Brandon Murphy
so the art director was personally chosen by Ron Gilbert because he loves the art style. He had emailed Ron a fan art of Guybrush in that art style in 2007, and Ron, not knowing who he was, loved it so much that he made the picture his computer background.
He remembered the art so he researched and found out he was a professional art director, and asked him to do it for Return
Daniel Watson
did you read the interview in OP? the budget of the game is more than they've ever had.
Ron wanted full creative control and that's the art style he wanted and doesn't care what others thin kabout it in the end
Josiah Baker
What was the picture?
Juan Mitchell
...
Wyatt Baker
You've gotta be kidding me.
Alexander White
And I believe the world is coming to an end.
Nathaniel Robinson
lmao ron is a hack who didn't even work on curse yet it's the best one
Luke Ortiz
Not far removed from the corporate globohomo style. Yup, it's soulless.
Ryder Williams
>that's the art style he wanted and doesn't care what others thin kabout it in the end
Based Ron. Gotta respect that.
Christian Russell
>"Oh guybrush the love of my life!"
>"Ooh I love you too Elaine!"
They turned it into a generic family-friendly Mario and Peach situation. Elaine doesn't even play a part in 3 either which sucks.
Jose Phillips
Holy shit that looks fucking atrocious.
Jeremiah Morris
Literally the corporate art
hahahaha what the fuck
Austin Butler
why is he made of cardboard with a censored penis taped to his face?
Asher Perry
guacamelee 3? nice
Colton Ortiz
Do ye have a reservation?
Juan Edwards
>yet it's the best one
Curse has a lot of SOUL, but it is nowhere near as good as Monkey Island 1&2.
It's too bad they're not doing pixel-art for MI3a. Thimbleweed Park looked great.
Lucas Murphy
It's hard not to feel really disappointed looking at the soulless art, but it still looks better than the remasters.
Elijah Garcia
Wow.
This is really, REALLY bad.
Luke Walker
Yep, that's what I expected. People were saying "Ron must have been forced to use this art style against his will", but they clearly don't remember The Cave. That's just the kind of art Ron likes. I will miss the nice pixel art from Thimbleweed though.
Ethan Sanchez
>Escape was ugly as fuck
>Tales was ugly as fuck and episodic
>Monkey Island SE was atrocious
>Monkey Island 2 SE was only slightly less atrocious, and Guybrush still looked terrible
So the fact that this is kind of ugly isn't a dealbreaker for me knowing that at least we're going to have Ron-Gilbert-led puzzle design.
Adam Watson
>Dave: They’ll know the composers.
>Ron: Yeah, Michael [Land] and Peter [McConnell] and Clint [Bajakian].
Based.
It's too bad they couldn't get Peter Chan to contribute to the art, but I assume he was way too busy on Psychonauts 2 when they started development on this.
Christian Reed
>It's too bad they couldn't get Peter Chan to contribute to the art
but Ron said in the interview he specifically sought out the Tearaway guy because he loved his art
Carter Cruz
AAAAA Not this horrible blocky style!!!
FUCK YOU MONKEY PAW!!!
Nathaniel Moore
sauce on this one?
Dominic Morgan
>Do you have anything else you want to make sure our readers know about this game?
>Ron: I really hope people like it. There’s been a little bit of backlash because it’s not pixel art, and at some level that makes me sad, because we’ve spent two years with an incredible team making an incredible game that looks incredible, and it is a little bit sad to hear that. But I don’t think we’re going to let people down.
Dammit Ron, don't guilt me for not liking the art! It looks like shit! I bet Guybrush will still look better than he does in the remasters though.
And the game will probably still be great. I'm still glad they're making it.
David Smith
The composition on this fucking socks.
There's no focal point.
No, the monkey is not the focal point, it has less contrast than every other element in the scene.
Nathaniel Hall
>the original composers
The Secret of Monkey Island remains one of my absolute favorite games to this day, and half of it is the music.
I'm stoked as hell.
Owen Phillips
Jace Phillips
>15 years after Monkey Island 3
>Higher budget than ever before
>Game somehow looks worse than the first one released in 1990
I hope this is not going to be another Molyneux situation where removing all constraints turns everything to shit.
Carter Turner
Feel bad Ron is sad cause you know they're working really hard on this and putting their all into it. Its gonna be a excellent game. As long as the writing quality is there (jokes, character, dialogue, story) aswell as the iconic Monkey Island music and great puzzle design, then it'll be fantastic.
I don't even dislike the art style, I can live with it and like things about it if that those elements listed above are there.
Lucas White
Here I was thinking the closest we'd get to more Monkey Island music from Peter McConnell was the ship-in-a-bottle level of Psychonauts 2.
Kevin Watson
Curse is so fucking comfy god damn
Wyatt Murphy
Yeah, I think that if they're doing what they think is going to be a good Monkey Island game, then it's going to be good. Currently there's only one thing that's gonna make or break it for me to buy it.
Truly a blessing.
Joseph Bailey
A PIRATE I WAS MEANT TO BE
Eli Morris
I honestly would have prefered if Ron and his team went with the pixel art look, I don't really dig this new style. Also it feels a bit cramped.
Joseph Lewis
>Also it feels a bit cramped
Can't unsee this now
Liam Lee
soulless
Zachary Taylor
Scottish pirate was my favoirite
Cameron Flores
Looks like Tranny corporate art, complete with the absolute obession with indians for SOME FUCKING REASON
Daniel Richardson
kill me pete