The adventure begins... at E3!

[Arodin]

Originally Posted by Abel

Don't know if anybody posted it but >here< you can see a 14 min interview and gameplayvideo, but if you don't want to see anything of the game before playing you should not watch it

Nice, I hadn't seen this. I like the graphic for the inventory UI they show at around the 8:30 mark.

[Lena_P]

Originally Posted by Joe Newberry

After someone else suggested it, all I keep seeing in this picture is Dave Grossman performing some kind of feat of strength like this:

Thanks. Now I can't stop imagining Tim Schafer all oiled up and lumpy in an Andre the Giant costume. (Not that he's as lumpy as Andre the Giant was. Um, I love you Tim! Really!)
Hey, does the Marquis de Singe remind anyone else of Dave Grossman? I don't know, seeing him in that Gamespot video with Mike Stemmle, Grossman is like, this close to the Marquis. Marquis d' Horloge perhaps?

[Dave Grossman]

Originally Posted by Tjibbbe

Wow, is Tim really, really tall or is Dave really, really short? For some reason, I always thought it would be the other way around...

EDIT: Now that I look at it again, it looks like Dave is lifting Tim with his right arm. Amazing!

Tim is a fairly ordinary size, though I think in that picture he might be wearing some kind of towering Gene Simmons rock-and-roll uberboots. They make you do some weird stuff at E3 to promote your game (I don't even want to talk about Day of the Tentacle).

I, on the other hand, am indeed fairly small - less than five and a half feet from stem to stern. But I'm much larger on the inside. I'm like the Tardis of game design.

[corruptbiggins]

Originally Posted by Dave Grossman

(I don't even want to talk about Day of the Tentacle)

You can't say stuff like that and not explain it!

[Dave Grossman]

Originally Posted by fire2box

They don't say if Murray the talking skull is in the game, yet they say LeChuck turns into a human. WTH?

Really, which is the bigger spoiler?

I generally don't mind spoiling something that happens in the first five minutes of the series. Where it goes from there is what's interesting.

[Dave Grossman]

Originally Posted by corruptbiggins

You can't say stuff like that and not explain it!

Well, there was this bucket of "tentacle slime," made out of who knows what, and we had to... no, I'm sorry, it's too painful, my therapist wouldn't want me to go on.

[esteban]

Originally Posted by Wicked Mouse

Just reading through the inside jokes page of MI3 and had to chuckle at the Grim Fandango one, as it is a button saying "Ask me about Grim Fandango", like the buttons of the Telltale crew say "Ask me about Monkey Island"

http://www.worldofmi.com/features/tr...p?game=MI3&s=1

It was completely misunderstood in the french version with a "Demandez-moi tout sur le fandango" (Ask me everything about the fandango"... When Grim Fandango was available, I had never done the link...

[Pantagruel's Friend]

Originally Posted by Dave Grossman

They make you do some weird stuff at E3 to promote your game (I don't even want to talk about Day of the Tentacle).

Oh my. Some people here have quite vivid imaginations, you know

Honestly, though. I'm reading this in the morning, and it was a well needed hearty laugh

[Lena_P]

Originally Posted by Dave Grossman

Well, there was this bucket of "tentacle slime," made out of who knows what, and we had to... no, I'm sorry, it's too painful, my therapist wouldn't want me to go on.

Did they have to order that specially from Japan? (Kids, if you're looking at Sailor Moon fanart, and some if it is labeled "NSFW" just back away slowly. Trust me.)
Therapy, it does a psyche good.

[Lena_P]

Originally Posted by Dave Grossman

I, on the other hand, am indeed fairly small - less than five and a half feet from stem to stern. But I'm much larger on the inside. I'm like the Tardis of game design.

See, I don't think of less than five and half feet tall as "fairly small", seeing how I'm just an inch and half over five feet, you giant. Besides, the best things come in small packages; diamonds, cell phones, Max, dynamite, etc.

[Joe Newberry]

Originally Posted by Dave Grossman

I'm like the Tardis of game design.

Is that why you haven't seemed to age in all these years? Is your Chameleon Circuit broken?

[Tjibbbe]

Originally Posted by Dave Grossman

But I'm much larger on the inside. I'm like the Tardis of game design.

You're not sneakily hinting at this little thing, are you?

http://mixnmojo.com/php/news/showfil...egory=telltale

[Chevluh]

Originally Posted by esteban

It was completely misunderstood in the french version with a "Demandez-moi tout sur le fandango" (Ask me everything about the fandango"... When Grim Fandango was available, I had never done the link...

Actually, it was "le fandango noir", the black fandango, but black can also have the grim sense, so it could have been a potential french title for the game, even though it wasn't.

[Dave Grossman]

Originally Posted by Joe Newberry

Is that why you haven't seemed to age in all these years? Is your Chameleon Circuit broken?

Dick Clark painted a portrait of me, which is aging in my place. It's not pretty.

I was out with Emily and Lindsay one night during E3, and we all got carded. Once upon a time that was annoying, now it's a compliment.

[Azure]

Don't know if anybody posted it but >here< you can see a 14 min interview and gameplayvideo, but if you don't want to see anything of the game before playing you should not watch it

Wow those are extraordinarily long questions. Though I am happy to see inventory combining back, there are a few moments in Strongbad in particular where I was getting extraordinarily confused as I wanted to use things I had on other things.

[Ignatius]

Lets not forget about those buttons....

[GuyMontague]

Originally Posted by Tjibbbe

You're not sneakily hinting at this little thing, are you?

http://mixnmojo.com/php/news/showfil...egory=telltale

I would very play that.

Edit: Now that I think about it, they've already given a big nod to The Doctor with "Chariots of the Dogs" haven't they?

[Laserkid]

A Telltale Doctor Who game? Sign me up!

Hope theres more fact then rumor to that.

[Joe Newberry]

Originally Posted by Laserkid

A Telltale Doctor Who game? Sign me up!

Hope theres more fact then rumor to that.

Seconded! That'd be awesome, especially if it was point and click only. Get in touch with the BBC and make this happen. Any living Doctor is fine with me, but it might be nice to give the 6th Doctor a chance to redeem himself some more the way the Big Finish audioplays have.

Doctor Who just screams episodic adventure...I'm not sure why.

[Emily]

Originally Posted by Silverwolfpet

How did the people react when you announced ToMI? Were they excited?

People were very excited! Everyone I met with at E3 was twitching to some extent. (And not just because we were at a video game show.)

Okay, there was one guy who, when I asked if he'd ever played Monkey Island, replied, "I think my brother played part of one of them, and I might have watched him, once."

But everyone else was super stoked.