Sam and Max: Hit the Road - REMAKE?
 

Now, we all remember that these past 2 years, Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revange, the 2 great Lucas Arts classics were remade in new and improved graphics, better music and voice acting.
Now that that's been settled, can we expect the same happening to the pride and joy of the world of our k9 cop and his rabitty-thing companion, that's is Hit the Road? quite honestly it's a pretty big candidate, especially considering that Devil's Playhouse is comming to an end and Telltale will have to think of something, until they decide to make the next Sam and Max season.

what do you guys think?

Well, Lucasarts doesn't own the rights to Sam and Max and Telltale doesn't own the rights to Hit the Road, it's unlikely they would collaborate. Besides, why do you want a remake? The game already has great voice acting and graphics. A re-release would be a better option in my opinion.

Yea, I agree. Thats like Lucasarts making Curse of Monkey Island Special Edition... It dosen't need it.

I'm skeptical, since Hit the Road was already technically superior to SoMI and MI2:LR, to the point it already had its own voice acting.

Also there is that fact that Monkey Island is going with an ongoing story and every title adds something to it, whereas all Sam and Max titles have different "cases" in each game without any big "turn of events". All Sam and Max titles are, in the end, closed boxes by theirselves. How this would affect the appeal or the sale of it is that, Telltale topped Hit the Road. Hit the Road is not really that fun and revolutionary compared to Telltale series. It would just reside in The Devil's Playhouse's shadow, and wouldn't be able to get much sales in my opinion.

it's just that, the graphics could be improved a bit and music, since it's still the SCUMM thing involved and I think the old game wouldn't run on PC systems these days, considering the game is 20 yrs old.

Say that to the guys at SCUMMVM. And to the thousands of people who can still play it. And the 200X CD Re-Release.

Would be benificial to both companies. Im not sure if they keep voice recordings, Because then you would assume they could use them at higher quality, Just like how they can suddenly make a Blueray version of BTTF.

But would be very cool. Its easy to see that LucasArts learned something from Monkey 1 remake, it was okay and it was nice, But Monkey 2 remake was far more true to the original, and was overall better, it just had a feel closer to the original, also liked the Guy Brush better. That dude in Monkey 1 remake was silly looking xD

Of course HTR have great graphics and voice acting, but the inventory system is quite awful. I stopped playing it because it was really impractical. :(

I don't care how good or bad it is. I'm too young to have played it and totally missed the boat on that one, and I'd love to have a remake just so I could join in and know what the big deal was.

I'm 17. I got mine on Amazon (or eBay, can't remember) for a few bucks. :p So you did not miss the boat.

Which is why I suggested a re-release, so people who haven't played it could play it.

I thought the inventory system was fine, the only problem I had was taking off the bigfoot costume.

I think all of the Lucas adventures could do with remakes, Hit the Road and Curse of Monkey Island included, and especially Grim Fandango. Hopefully The two Monkey Island games sold enough that we'll see this happen for the more popular titles. Yes the later games look a lot better than Secret of Monkey Island but the fact is they weren't designed to be played on widescreen monitors with the high resolutions that are commonplace today.

Wah, I have to play my game in pixels and in a window, wah. :P

I would rather if they didn't remake Grim fandango- seriously. They should leave that alone.

As for Hit the Road; It's charming how it is and doesn't need a remake. It hasn't aged badly at ALL, so there's just no reason to.

Sam and max series is going to rock again. As the series of this show is going to be every one's favorite. Therefore we all will enjoy.

i hope they make one so i can play it

I don't think LucasArts will bother remaking anything that already has voice acting. Maniac Mansion deserves a stylish update and a little edit to fix the whole 'dying' issue...perhaps just including intelligent autosave points might help.

if it is good i will play it

Here's a demo: http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/downl...-hit-the-road/

i will try the demo