Grim fandango

[blueplain]

ive seen your work oh great artist of telltale and I think you got what it takes to make a new Grim fan dango, no buts if no. You are going to make the next grim fandango and I want the story board on my desk by the end of next month!! lol

[kbogle24]

I would love to see another Girm Fandango or a new maniac mansion... TellTale has proven that they can make great games!

[mad4murry]

Yea. A new Grim Fandango would be awesome! Before Tales of MI came out my Dad and I used to fantisize about there being a Guybrush vs. Manny Game! Lol.
-Mad4murry

[Hayden]

Yeah! I really hope that Telltale do make a second Grim Fandango, I've been hangin' out for one for about 6 or 7 years now! It would also be great for them to pick up where Lucasarts left off on "Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels"! I really want to see a finished version of that game rather than just trailers and images (see below for some cool "Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels" stuff)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxFOW_IqXNU - images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqAN72DoyU - trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPzafW-sOg - alternate trailer

[Tyranin]

I hope they don't, I don't want to see manny being raped by tell tale. They'll chop him up into episodes, it'll be crap. Please make a real game for once.

[Hellerphant]

I've actually just dusted off my copy of Grim Fanango and started playing it again last week, after downloading a patch to make it work on Vista x64.

It really is one of the greatest adventures of all time, I just love the characters and the world that Manny is surrounded by.

I'd love to see another one and I really believe Telltale has the power to do the game Justice!

[jdpeck]

The only way I could see it being done well is if the season followed minor characters and had Manny as a supporting or cameo. How about following a member of the Lost Souls Alliance (get to team up with Eva and Sal, bring down the DOD) or some Rubacava characters during Manny's year building up his restaurant/casino? I think the world itself is rich enough that there are valid stories to tell that it wouldn't feel cheap or contrived (cause Manny's story is over, sequel is out of the question).

[zmally]

The only way I could see it being done well is if the season followed minor characters and had Manny as a supporting or cameo. How about following a member of the Lost Souls Alliance (get to team up with Eva and Sal, bring down the DOD) or some Rubacava characters during Manny's year building up his restaurant/casino? I think the world itself is rich enough that there are valid stories to tell that it wouldn't feel cheap or contrived (cause Manny's story is over, sequel is out of the question).

After reading all that, I think it's time for me to whip out my Grim Fandango discs again:)

[Hellerphant]

I agree jdpeck, the world that Grim is set contains enough interesting personalities and depth that the central story wouldn't need to follow Manny to work. I'm sure the writers could work something out if they did decide to make Manny the protaganist.

And yes zmally go and find those discs now :)

[Linque]

If you ask me, Grim Fandango only needs a remake, not a sequel. I'd rather get some other original, fantastic story similar to Grim Fandango. I'm sure that eventually Telltale will create their own IP, and it'll be fantastic.

[tredlow]

Manny's story had come to a beautiful end, I don't want to see him facing new problems after his happy ending.

I think the main character should be somebody new, yet the world is still the same.

[Kevin]

Thanks!

In case you didn't know, a lot of us here at Telltale worked on Grim! I was the systems engineer, Chuck wrote scripts, Pete was the Art Director, Bogan animated. I'm sure I'm missing some other, but it's been a long time! We all love that game!

[Hellerphant]

As do we Kevin! It's such a rich world full of amazing potential for new stories! Hopefully you are considering creating something new in the future :)

[blueplain]

Its been 3 years are you able to make grim fandango now :P There has been so many games that did not desserve a sequal and this does. This game has inspired a whole community which ive never seen as strong in any other game. My dreams and hopes rest on your shoulders Kevin get in that bored room and fight for this game. Dont leave untill the director of the company logs onto ebay and buys a grim fandango bed set. Waite is there such a thing i must check!.

[taumel]

Fantastic adventure! One of the best ever made. Especially the idea, the music, the voiceactors, the film noir feeling, something more grown up. just cool, dialogues, characters.

A few things i didn't like about Grim: The steering was awful and especially with the changing views it didn't work in a natural way. I wonder how many people were using a gamepad these days. The realtime shadows were ugly (too hard, intensive, rough). The inventory wasn't pleasing, like no overview, only sequential access. I always thought that Glottis could use just a few polys more on his arms. Whilst the german voice actors weren't bad, the english ones were just so much better (Grim, Eva, ...), except a few ones like the balloon man, he was great in german.

It's a shame you can't play it via ScummVM. I was in the mood to replay it a few months ago. But i don't even know if there exists a working way to get it running on OS X without some hassle. At least i can look at the package from time to time or watch a playthrough. I remember that it already felt special buying the game. :O)

Oh, and there were tons of great footsteps sounds in Grim Fandango.

[blueplain]

The fact that alot of the grim fandango team is already in telltale makes it even more viable and it will already be in good hands.

[taumel]

For some reason i can't remember the puzzles so well but i do remember that i got stuck several times. The concept art also was very good. And of course the writing.

[Macfly77]

It's a shame you can't play it via ScummVM. I was in the mood to replay it a few months ago. But i don't even know if there exists a working way to get it running on OS X without some hassle.
It's not perfect, but you can always try ResidualVM (http://www.residualvm.org/) (the ScummVM equivalent for Grim Fandango).

[taumel]

Wow, i wasn't aware that this one exists. Thank you very much! *being excited*

Btw. Kotku still offers a link (http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf.zip) for the design document.

[RAnthonyMahan]

Its been 3 years are you able to make grim fandango now :P There has been so many games that did not desserve a sequal and this does. This game has inspired a whole community which ive never seen as strong in any other game. My dreams and hopes rest on your shoulders Kevin get in that bored room and fight for this game. Dont leave untill the director of the company logs onto ebay and buys a grim fandango bed set. Waite is there such a thing i must check!.

Please don't necro several-year-old threads.

And unfortunately, LucasArts seems intent on sitting on all their adventure IPs (Grim Fandango included) forever. Don't count on Telltale (or anyone else) doing a sequel. If we're lucky, maybe it'll get a re-release on Steam.

[taumel]

Hey, i'm glad he did.

[blueplain]

Whats necroing a thread? I wrote this thread 3 years ago after completing grim fandango. I just looked up necro and i see its a way of reviving an old thread by bumping it. You know how I found this thread today. I was searching for grim fandango related stuff on google and I found this thread which I have no memory of writting and I was searching google because I just found my physical grim fandango game in the cuboard. wasnt bumping it for the fact that I want to revive the thread for selfish reasons I am just pationate about grim fandango and finding the game renewed my excitment and I did not see the reply by kevin or the otehrs when I posted this thread since I carnt remember it at all lol. So sorry if I upset anyone but it looks like the threads done some good. And if you read my "necro" reply its 3 years not seven I stated that clearly

[WarpSpeed]

It's his own thread, so I think he can be forgiven for necro-ing it. (Or "she", as the case may be.)

Unfortunately, it isn't likely to result in Grim Fandango 2.

[jp-30]

Please don't necro several-year-old threads.


I prefer it to starting a new thread on the same topic. I like reading the old posts on a topic, keeps the history of the forum alive.

What's so terrible about upping an old thread?