LucasArts/Telltale - When dreams come true

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

If Telltale bought from LEC the rights to make a sequel, which one would you like most?
Maniac Mansion 3? Monkey Island 5? THE REAL Monkey Island 3? Indiana Jones and whoknowswhat (but a GRAPHIC ADVENTURE)?
This thread isn't obviously dedicated to any Telltale member, I'm not asking anything 'cause I know I won't get an answer
All of the other ones start daydreaming!!!

[Udvarnoky]

You must really hate yourself to start a thread like this.

My choice would be Maniac Mansion 3/Day of the Tentacle 2. It's easily the most open-ended series, and Dave Grossman is Telltale's Senior Designer to boot.

Something involving Maniac Mansion. I would like something involving the characters from Day of the Tentacle.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

You must really hate yourself to start a thread like this.

My choice would be Maniac Mansion 3/Day of the Tentacle 2. It's easily the most open-ended series, and Dave Grossman is Telltale's Senior Designer to boot.

Well, the imminent release of S&M has woke up my masochist side
I'd choose MM3/DOTT2 too, also if the one I wish most is Monkey Island 3 made by Ron Gilbert... I don't even consider EMI and CMI as official sequels, even if they're made by LEC.
Anyway, DOTT is probably the one that's already got a small trace to be continued: Purple was sent to Syberia and swore for revenge.
The other games (MI4 aside) don't seem to have a potential sequel, or at least not as clear as a Maniac Mansion 3.

you don't consider CMI a sequal? i like cmi the best out of all MI games... i don't consider EMI a sequal as it's a poor attempt at making a 3D cartoon game... whitch is preety hard... or atleast it was hard when EMI came out...

Matt

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

I'm not saying CMI wasn't good (my favourite is MI2, anyway), just saying it's clear that it's not a proper sequel for 2 brilliant games made by Ron Gilbert. Take CMI alone, it was wonderful. Take it as a sequel of LeChuck's Revenge and see lots of stuff never explained, just ignored to go on with the story. Monkey Island 1 and 2 were dedicated to a certain public, CMI was more commercial, more cartoonish,
more... childlike, I'd say.
Ron Gilbert knows how MI3 should be, he always told MI was planned to be a trilogy (so YES, EMI shouldn't even exist). He also told there were some big mistakes in CMI.
However, it would take another thread to speak about this, so never mind
I just hope to see the real Monkey3 once.

[jp-30]

Ahh, the official glimmer of hope from July 2006;

(Source);

GI: A lot of those LucasArts franchises are still very popular – you spoke about Day of the Tentacle. Is there a chance you’ll be able to wrangle a few more of those away for more episodes? Are you working on that at all?

Connors: It’s definitely on our minds and it’s definitely something we think about. Maybe I can give you more information a while from now. It’s definitely something that makes good sense to everybody. For them it’s the same thing. For them it’s "What’s the business model? What’s the retail model?" It’s not their type of game – it’s not Star Wars, it’s not with the movie, with the lightsaber – an action game. When trying to do the two things at the same time it makes it challenging. They’ve been trying to figure out the right solution, and hopefully Telltale is part of it.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

FINGERS CROSSED!!!
As the guys from mixnmojo said, it would be definitely weird to see something like DOTT2/a, DOTT2/b, DOTT2/z being released, but who cares, after all? Doc and Bernard have been dead for too long!

Good thread! though you forgot some other good games, like Grim Fandango, for example.

Anyway, if i'd had to choose i'd definetly go for the secuel to Day of the Tentacle. That one and Sam and Max remain as my favourite graphic adventure games ever.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

Well, I didn't mention GF because I think it's REALLY over. As Bill Tiller said, it would be like doing a sequel for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane )
Speaking of other games, it would be possible (Full Throttle, The Dig(?!?!?), even Zak McKracken) but I'm sure DOTT is the best one to focus on in the case of a deal!
And it looks like lots of people here think the same...
Hope you're reading this, Telltale boys!

DOTT is perfect the way it is. It's a game that wouldn't really do well with a sequel.
Full Throttle on the other hand would be awesome

[Udvarnoky]

Look at the similarities between Maniac Mansion and DOTT (Hint: There aren't any). The MM series has the most potential to continue because it really doesn't have to adhere to any rules. I think Full Throttle on the other hand is best left alone. The story was told, no point risking a game that doesn't live up to the characters. (I'd make the same argument for Grim, only it's infinitely more the case with Grim.)

Full Throttle could be the coolest adventure game there is. It would be awesome to have a TellTale™ 'sequel' for it. The athmosphere in that game is something any game could learn something from.

[Alucard]

I'd like to see another DOTT game.
Full throttle wouldn't be bad but it can't have Ben in it. That character died with Roy Conrad.
Just like how Troy McClure died with Phil Hartman

[Jake]

Look at the similarities between Maniac Mansion and DOTT (Hint: There aren't any).

Except for the actual structure of the games! In both games you play as 3 teenagers from different classic-teenager walks of life (though in DOTT they're of course more exaggerated), the puzzle solving is split between those three characters, and the game is solved by all of those puzzles interweaving to effectively become one giant epic puzzle. DOTT does it all with a lot more grace, humor, polished visual design, and tighter puzzles, but they're both pretty similar structurally.

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

DOTT is perfect the way it is. It's a game that wouldn't really do well with a sequel.
Full Throttle on the other hand would be awesome

I don't think so, remember the DOTT final and answer yourself.
It's obvious that LEC left that door open, isn't it? Sure, they smashed every door before us and every good graphic adventure, now.
Full Throttle 2? Possible to do but unlikely to choose.
Unless you choose to keep one or two characters and let a brand new story begin (a poor excuse as "Ripburger's alive because he fell down on a river" would makes us all laugh), in some other State and totally separated from the first game. Men, it would be cool!!
If we think about it well, the same thing's happening with Sam & Max (MORE OR LESS).
Since they're cops (and due to the dementially-creative nature of Sam & Max), it just takes some imagination to invent something new, fresh and never seen before, lots of other quests and stories can be told!

Except for the actual structure of the games! In both games you play as 3 teenagers from different classic-teenager walks of life (though in DOTT they're of course more exaggerated), the puzzle solving is split between those three characters, and the game is solved by all of those puzzles interweaving to effectively become one giant epic puzzle. DOTT does it all with a lot more grace, humor, polished visual design, and tighter puzzles, but they're both pretty similar structurally.

Your enthusiasm is encouraging, Jake!

[Udvarnoky]

Except for the actual structure of the games! In both games you play as 3 teenagers from different classic-teenager walks of life (though in DOTT they're of course more exaggerated), the puzzle solving is split between those three characters, and the game is solved by all of those puzzles interweaving to effectively become one giant epic puzzle. DOTT does it all with a lot more grace, humor, polished visual design, and tighter puzzles, but they're both pretty similar structurally.

You couldn't be more right, Jake, but besides exaggerating I wasn't talking structurally (which I should have clarified). What I was getting at was that unlike say, Full Throttle or Grim Fandango, which would be a bit more difficult to continue for obvious reasons, DOTT proved that the Maniac Mansion series just doesn't have that kind of baggage. While some characters from the original made a return, the two games are night and day. DOTT doesn't even seem to exist in the same universe as MM. It has a different brand of humor and vastly different inspirations (saturday morning cartoons as opposed to horror/scifi b-movies). Yet it was relentlessly successful and somehow still distinctly a Maniac Mansion game. Like Sam & Max, but for different reasons, it just seems to me that there's a lot more freedom than other licenses...the series somehow dodges the need to be faithful to its predecessors' style (not that I would mind seeing a "Day of the Tentacle 2").

I totally agree with everything you said about the game's core formula. You gotta have a team of characters who work together to solve effectively one giant puzzle in a confined but complex setting. But as far as what the excuse is to put those characters in that setting, where that setting is, and the general direction the game takes, there's no boundary.

[Jake]

Ah I see what you're saying. Yes.

dott originally was going to have 6 characters..maniac mansion 3 could focus on the other 3 characters.. I think it would be kool if they went even further into the future..with a new mansion.. of course I dont see there being any chance of lucasarts giving telltale the rights..i mean they cancelled freelance police!! maybe if season 1 is enormously successful they may be persuaded..but I aint gettin my hopes up

[Guybrush_Threepwood]

A Maniac Mansion game without Bernard? Please, no! (