SoMI: SE - First Impressions

[OCKi]

Who have ordered it? Who's playing it? Who's enjoying it??

I just completed the three trials and I must say that Lucasarts really nailed it on this one. The atmosphere is still present with new and EXCELLENT voice-overs, new spiffy 2d graphics built directly over the good old SCUMM engine, new orchestrated FANTASTIC music which really is the best homage to Michael Land's original score ever made.

Ahhh..

10/10 so far.

I'm going to bed, and looking forward to play furthermore tomorrow!

[adamji]

I have been playing it for a few hours, and it sure brings back memories! But unfortunately I have a few moans.

-I find viewing using the items in the inventory very annoying & messy. Maybe after time I will get the hang of it.

-Second, its buggy here and there, most annoyingly when selecting Guybrush’s dialogue by mouse doesn't work sometimes and some of the graphics in the forest doesn't look right.

-Third, I don’t think Guybrush animation looks right! This is a minor issue guess.

Guess I'm disappointed as it isn’t as well polished as I expected like the really well 1st part of Tales of MI. Apart from those minor points, I'll give it a 7/10!

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by adamji

-Third, I don’t think Guybrush animation looks right! This is a minor issue guess.

Are you commenting on the jerkiness of the animation? That's because it was built on top of the old engine, so all they could do was update the frames. The animaiton is exactly the same as before, just in HD.

[PariahKing]

10/10 as well for me. Negative things include that I initially disliked Stan's voice with the speedy Stan, one or two speech bugs, things were occasionally too small to click like on Monkey Island and when I was working on getting to Meathook's. I played it on the 360 and the inventory interface while not seamless was very usable.

There's no fair reason down rate it.

[Bagge]

I played through it on my 360 today. It was a lot better than what I feared, even though the controls were a mess (why not just hold the A-button to bring up the verbs?). Still, I am overall very pleased with the remake, and I'll probably play the SE the next time I want to play through MI1 again, which is a major compliment from an old-school MI fan like myself.

[PariahKing]

Honestly I wasn't expecting it to be the kind of thing where they would ruin MI1. It'd be hard to ruin it really considering it's such a direct remake.

MI2? Well...that could be screwed up pretty badly.

[leon101]

I'm hating it.

Why? Because it won't even load up. I bought and downloaded it from Steam, and all I get is an error. I have installed it twice now... no luck. Bull****.

[Marill]

^^Same

When you get the error and look up the details, does it look like this?
http://i31.tinypic.com/23t5qv4.jp

[leon101]

Originally Posted by Marill

^^Same

When you get the error and look up the details, does it look like this?
http://i31.tinypic.com/23t5qv4.jp

Exactly the same. All I can figure out is it has something to do with the exe file it would seem. I don't know what though.

[OCKi]

Originally Posted by leon101

Exactly the same. All I can figure out is it has something to do with the exe file it would seem. I don't know what though.

Report it in, and theyll definetely throw in a bugfix sooner or later.
Meanwhile.. have you tried updating your graphic card and installed the latest version of DirectX?

[Marill]

It does seem that way.

See if this works, it's the only help I've got from other users so far. I can't do a thing as I'm at work.

First thing I would try,right click on game,select properties,click verify game files.You may want to restart Steam and your computer too.

If that doesnt work,go into the System folder and delete client registry blob.Restart Steam

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Originally Posted by OCKi

Report it in, and theyll definetely throw in a bugfix sooner or later.
Meanwhile.. have you tried updating your graphic card and installed the latest version of DirectX?

Please point me in the direction to do so.. a lot of people are having this problem. Its probably right in front of my eyes, :P

My DirectX is up to date, graphics card too.

edit:
This page has quite a lot of suggestions
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...7169-TIAV-5361
I might try some of these if all else fails.

[leon101]

Originally Posted by Marill

It does seem that way.

See if this works, it's the only help I've got from other users so far. I can't do a thing as I'm at work.


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Please point me in the direction to do so.. a lot of people are having this problem. Its probably right in front of my eyes, :P

My DirectX is up to date, graphics card too.

edit:
This page has quite a lot of suggestions
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...7169-TIAV-5361
I might try some of these if all else fails.

I have the latest updates for all my stuff too. So, I know that's not the problem.

[OCKi]

Found this on the Steam forums:

Problem solved

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I tried to launch the game directly by going to
steam\steamapps\common\the secret of monkey island special edition
and clicking mise.exe.

That didn't work, but I got an error messages "X3Daudio1_6.dll missing".

A quick search in google turned out that this file belongs to directx.

I tried to launch the directx update contained in the directory with the same name and at the end of the install I got a error.
Looking at the logs files (c:\windows\directx.log and c:\windows\DXError.log it turned out one file was corrupt.

So the problems seems to come from a corrupt directx update.

I went to www.microsoft.com searched "directx" and downloaded the webupdate.

The webupdate downloaded a small 5 mg file.

After that update, install Framework 3.5 SP1
I hope this may help someone with the same problem.

[Marill]

Nah I tried that. I got the same error when I did that, nothing about a dll file being missing. I did reinstall DirectX 9 from another game I had, same.

Thanks though

[OCKi]

Did you try to install The Framework 3.5 SP1 as well?

NP

[adamji]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Are you commenting on the jerkiness of the animation? That's because it was built on top of the old engine, so all they could do was update the frames. The animaiton is exactly the same as before, just in HD.

Na not the jerkiness, just the way he looks, like I said a VERY minor issue. No the animation isn't the same as before, its been re drawn from scratch.

[prizna]

Just wondering, when my game starts it opens in a window but a full window, the first time it opened it was full screen, but the second time i opened it, it was in a full window by full window i mean it is not full screen but the window takes up the screen, i can still see the x in the top right corner, but cant get it in full screen. any sugestions?

[Psychotron7x2]

Great game. Love playing this classic over again with sleek new graphics and voice overs. Favorite parts: Great delivery by the actor who plays Stan, breaking the 4th wall "He'll be back" and "Sucker". Also, the storekeeper opens the safe, dramatic music plays, and closes the door, music gets cutoff. Great stuff.

Although, I absolutely LOATH this new interface system they have. I found it very awkward scrolling through all the verbs using the mouse wheel taking forever to find the one I want, eventually started using the hotkeys to pick each verb. Even that was a bit awkward since you have 3 verbs that start with P: Pick up, Push and Pull, so a random key used for the other 2. Also, for the life of me, I could NOT figure out how to combine things in your inventory. I would open the inventory, and the default action is to Look, so I would select Use and select the first object but then the inventory screen would close. I would open it again and have to reselect the first object and try again. Why they couldn't just have the verb/inventory interface at the bottom of the screen like the first game, I will NEVER know. I actually had to use the classic game to get through the puzzle with the mugs of grog.

[Scrawffler]

Seen the LucasArts video, read a bunch of reviews, and am looking forward to finally get round to playing it myself someday soon! Yeah, the fact that inventory and verbs are on a different screen looks a little complicated though I get the impression you'll adapt to it. Eh, I'll have to find out for myself!

Originally Posted by adamji

No the animation isn't the same as before, its been re drawn from scratch.

They've been redrawn, yes, but the animation side of it (as in the amount of frames, and what the characters are doing in each frame) remains the same amount. Saves on re-programming I guess.

[Shepard]

I love the game. The voices are great and the new art is awesome, i like especially the new scumm bar design, with all those ships behind it... i don´t get tired of watching it.