DotT and Maniac Mansion

[GaryCXJk]

Okay, call me crazy, but why do people always say "I want Telltale Games to do another Day of the Tentacle game"?

I mean, by now everybody should know the question should be "I want Telltale Games to do another Maniac Mansion game".

As a respected point & click adventure gamer you should by now know that Day of the Tentacle isn't a complete series in its own, it's part of the Maniac Mansion series. Now I can understand why people refer to that game as just Day of the Tentacle, but, in all seriousness, just a DotT series would not work. As far as I know it, the game had a conclusion.

Now sure, if you'd say "Maniac Mansion", I wouldn't be complaining here. It has always been Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Hell, even Wikipedia refers to it as "Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle".

And it's not as if it detracts from Day of the Tentacle. If Telltale were to create a new Maniac Mansion series, all characters from Day of the Tentacle, as far as it's possible, will be able to return. But please, stop referring to it as Day of the Tentacle. It's like referring to the (intended) trilogy which started with LOOM as the LOOM series, or referring to the Raiders of the Lost Ark series when you clearly mean the Raiders trilogy-I mean, Indiana Jones series.

And yes, that is the official title of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, just Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by GaryCXJk

And yes, that is the official title of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, just Raiders of the Lost Ark.

On one hand, yes. But on the other, I think the "Indiana Jones" title fits the "Movie Serial Feel" they were going for. And I think your example is weak anyway, why contradict yourself and go on a side tirade when you simply could have said that it's silly to ask for an Empire Strikes Back trilogy?

On the other hand, I agree with everything you say. Mostly because I hate Day of the Tentacle and love Maniac Mansion.

[Frogacuda]

The reason they say it is because the two games have very distinct styles and personalities, and saying "new Maniac Mansion" might conjure up different feelings than "new DotT."

Frankly I think trying to do either is silly. There's no need, and it doesn't make sense within TT's episodic format. There are more appropriate series.

[PariahKing]

There's a difference between wanting a Day of the Tentacle sequel and a sequel to the Maniac Mansion series - whether people are conscious of it or not. There many people who love DoTT and are straight up ignorant of Maniac Mansion or even hate it. Wanting another game like DoTT instead of Maniac Mansion is a legitimate opinion whether it's one everyone agrees with or not.

The LOOM thing is also weird considering there is no LOOM series. Just LOOM. So who cares what's it called if someone wants a sequel - the intended trilogy lacks the oft requested "more Bobbin Threadbare" when someone requests LOOM.

In a nutshell - I think you're overly picky about who calls what. It doesn't matter.

[LuigiHann]

I sort of agree. The calls for "another DoTT" make me just want to say, "why not just play DoTT again." What made DoTT impressive was the fact that it did things differently, and you can't impress again by doing things the same. I think the only way to do justice to the series would be to make the game as different from DoTT as DoTT was from MM, and keep the things that can be considered hallmarks of the series, and come up with an interesting new storyline, clever puzzles, and gameplay mechanics that make the sci-fi-spoof character-swapping series great, while continuing to move it forward.

Terminator 3 sucked because they just tried to make "Another Terminator 2" without moving the series forward the way that T2 did. It's not about the name, it's about the lack of innovation that comes with trying to follow-up a sequel without looking at why the sequel worked as a sequel.

[GaryCXJk]

Thing is, DotT may seem that different, in concept it wasn't that much different than it's predecessor. Originally, there were going to be multiple characters in the game, just like Maniac Mansion, but due to time constraints, this got canned. It still has that same feel though, by playing trough the game with three people instead of the most common one.

[smashing]

Even if there are "lovable" characters like Jar-jar Binks, Star Wars is still Star Wars, cos there's light-sabers in it.