Comments on: Full Throttle Remembered

By: PrettyMonkeyStudio

PrettyMonkeyStudio — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:23:17 +0000

We even made a fan video for it, featuring Australian retro band Wolfmother Full video at Youtube

By: PrettyMonkeyStudio

PrettyMonkeyStudio — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:22:32 +0000

We even made a fan video for it, featuring Australian retro band Wolfmother

By: mashakos

mashakos — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:19:59 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with the past, when graphics were based on artistic skill, not pixel shader complexity

WHAT? Go say that to the designers at polycount and ca.org, you will be warmly received.

Designers HATED working on the tools available at the time where 3D modelling was concerned. Now they have a lot more freedom and are simply loving the shaders :D

By: Marar

Marar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:43:35 +0000

I really don’t get the “new sam and max” bashing, i mean sure, the first season was rather dull, but you can feel the episodes getting better as the team get’s confortable, and i found the second season’s last two episodes hillarios, sure they’re not as ~~funny~~ witty as the golden lucas art’s games, but then again, what is these days?

By: Munken

Munken — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:50:55 +0000

I was always a bit terrible at adventure games, so never really played Full Throttle. My first proper exposure to it came from this song by 65daysofstatic http://www.musicuploader.org/MUSIC/4607781220247677.mp3 utterly fantastic band by the way.

I now want to get a copy.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:04:30 +0000

By the way RPS any chance of a LucasArts retrospective with interviews and such? It would be a must read article.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:59:01 +0000

Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, The Dig, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango – a golden era of gaming – and all so good that they should NEVER have sequels.

New Sam and Max is evidence of this.

By: MRC

MRC — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:11:18 +0000

its weird that this article is up now. I just started playing Full Throttle for the first time ever a couple of day ago, i tried playing it a while back but i couldn’t get it to run on my pc, i recently got summVM and it was the first game i tried on it. so much fun! day of the tentacle is next.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:25:40 +0000

“Rather fiendishly, Grim Fandango original cd an all wont run on me xp build”

Yeah, I can’t get the second CD to work in Vista either, even in compatibility mode.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:21:05 +0000

The Gone Jackals certainly did the intro song anyway.

By: zanbowser

zanbowser — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:17:53 +0000

@KruddMan: The band *was* the Gone Jackals, from all I can find online. I plan on emailing the band with the question, since I can’t find a definitive answer from the big G.

I like to imagine (given that these are all smart, but nonetheless super-roady biker fellows) that the credits were intentionally listed as Chitlins, Whiskey, and Skirt; being as they were likely the only motivation for writing music (particularly this song) in the first place. ^_~

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:57 +0000

The Dig was truly awful Spielburg dreck, sorry. The characters were all completely insufferable, and it couldn't have been cheesier if it were trying to do so on purpose. But it wasn't a parody—it was po-facedly serious, like a thirteen-year-old blogging about how Google will take over the world by 2015. And the lead dev who finished it hated FT, which clearly shows that they are a bad person:

Some team members experimented with a Full Throttle-style control method, using a sheer glass pentagon with the five icons arrayed around it. But Sean rejected the idea, due to his disdain for that game.

monkeymonster: Sorry, Grim wasn't SCUMM-based, so ScummVM doesn't handle it. They're working on it; last change five days ago.