Q&A With the Team

[Hakkesshu]

I'm so happy! Jake, you and Telltale are completely effing awesome. Monkey Island is one of my all-time favorite franchises, and I was afraid we'd never see a new chapter. I couldn't have asked for a better team to handle it.

This is so WIZARD

I'm just curious as to what kind of voice acting talent you're looking for. I'm exceedingly glad you got Dominic Armato back, but what about the rest of the cast? Considering we've only had two voice-acted MI games (minus the remake), I'm not exactly clamoring for a return of everyone who worked on Curse/Escape, but the overall quality of the voicework in those games were absolutely stupendous. I don't suppose you could reveal some more of the cast?

[heavybassX]

I can't believe you kept quiet on this... the 5th game of a franchise long thought dead

[heavybassX]

will Stan, Murray and Herman return?

[hyperslug]

Im an atheist, but this announcement makes me wonder wether i'm really dead and in heaven.

a question: Do you consider the two previous Monkey Island games canon?
antoher one: If you should compare the atmosphere of the game to the previous four, which game is more similar?

[vh6666]

I've just pre-bought them and that is all you need to know. Well, except I too hope you don't screw it up. And thank you, assuming you don't, for doing this.

[turingmachine604]

Originally Posted by adg1034

And Guybrush with a beard? Really?.

Hey, Guybrush has a beard in MI2, he even referenced it in 3 saying he "lost" it somewhere.

[turingmachine604]

Is this being designed as one last final Monkey Island game, or are you hoping to possible have future "seasons" after this.

[fydo]

I'm so excited! Yay! Here are my questions:

1) What's up with the no support for Vista 64? Just curious. Is 64-bit XP supported?

2) Any chance we'll be able to play in full, glorious 1080p?

[jsimantov]

I've never been so excited to hand over $35 of my hard-earned dollars. Thank you, Telltale.

[Koshchei]

Hooray! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouth ankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthan kyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthanky outhankyou

[Ashtar]

Fingers crossed this will be as epic as the old MI games!

[Joe Newberry]

My question is, why did it take so long for the e-mail announcement to get to my inbox? I could have pre-ordered hours ago. In 27 years of gaming, this is the first time I've ever pre-ordered something. I'm a wait and see kind of guy, always looking out for a good deal. But screw my frugality when it comes to MI. Less than 24 hours ago I posted a comment on another forum stating that LucasArts should give the rights to Monkey Island to Telltale so they could bring it to a younger generation. I really need to start posting things like that more often because apparently I'm magic.

LucasArts should give Telltale the rights to Maniac Mansion...*looks around, fingers crossed*

Is this going to be set far after the original games, parallel to them, in between them, etc.?

Why will no one answer the question about the interface? That seems like a pretty critical part of the game. Did you decide not to go mouse-only and you're concerned we're all going to lash out? Probably wise of you not to mention it if that's the case.

Will there be combinable inventory?

What of Gary Coleman?

[Shauntron]

Originally Posted by Erwin

The only thing I'm wondering at the moment is how on earth you managed to keep this quiet for so long.

We had to learn free-running to transport sensitive data away from prying eyes... I am EXHAUSTED at the end of the day.

But seriously, it's easier for smaller companies to keep secrets, and we only had to keep it for a little over half a year. We also had plenty of other projects to talk about in the meantime. If a sole secret company project has been in development for 3 years, your friends and family start to wonder what exactly it is you do, and that's when people let things slip.

[ehird]

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Uh, ?. That's a question. Totally.

[Chaka]

One week ago, I was thinking about that. "It would be so great to have new Guybrush's adventures created by Telltale games. They did 2 (3 soon) Sam and Max season, they're great and successful, so They HAVE to do Monkey Island return!"

And you did. Telltale games, I love you.

I've got some questions:

1-How much episodes are done for now? Is everything near complete and you just have to fix little issues, or for instance, the 5th episode is not finished at all?

2- Do you think you're going to go on with Monkey Island, like you did with Sam and Max?

3- How much Ron Gilbert helped you on this project?

Thanks again Telltale and I've a idea for your next project: Night of the tentacle

[jsimantov]

Originally Posted by Joe Newberry

LucasArts should give Telltale the rights to Maniac Mansion...*looks around, fingers crossed*

OMG... I think if they made an episodic Day of the Tentacle followup, I'd ... hmm, I don't know what I'd do exactly.

[Paine]

My only question:

Why is it that Telltale's website and e-mail communiques are overflowing with personality and humor when every other game company and online merchant thinks they have to be completely businesslike?

Seriously, I crack up every time I get the order confirmation e-mail: "We love you. Why? You bought some stuff!"

[guppy]

Telltale is the one company in the world I would trust to do this right. Thanks for bein' you.

[Adamgamer]

Since its been confirmed that this series will be more serialized compared to Sam and Max and Strong Bad, will we be seeing more unique locations in each episode rather than having the same places to explore with only a few new locations added.

[Dedlok]

Whoo! Can't wait. I thought something was up when I saw tweets saying some of you guys had to come if over the weekend to work on and unannounced project, Now I know! WHOO!

How did you guys convince them to let you do it?