Comments on: Monkey Island 2′s Unofficial 3D Treatment

By: Jani Azim

Jani Azim — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:11:25 +0000

Can be blogengine better than hubpages in some manner? Should be as it’s increasingly popluar as of late.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:53:33 +0000

Wow that is just impressive. Growing up with video games as part of my childhood Monkey Island is definitely a huge part of it. I know there is a solid rumor Monkey Island 2 Special Edition is coming out but this cryengine looks spectacular. I’d like to shake the hand of the guy who created this. Excellent work, you make the Monkey Island fan base proud.

By: lio

lio — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:43:13 +0000

incredible! beautiful… but unfortunately very probably doomed :(

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:04:55 +0000

I’ve sought to have a game built on the Crysis engine that will let me LIVE in and explore the world since I first touched the game. I spent as much time punching boats into the ocean to take a voyage into shark infested waters as I did shooting koreans in the face.

By: SanguineAngel

SanguineAngel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:57:11 +0000

I think what makes this a Big Whoop for me is that it is using modern graphical technomajiggery (IE Using a modern graphics engine) but RETAINING the feel, style and atmosphere, art-wise, of the original game. When you look at the new Tales of MI, that IS something worth commenting on.

By: nutterguy

nutterguy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:20:32 +0000

Anonymous Coward said:
none of this is some sort of a Big Whoop.

Really, I think that if this game came out tomorrow and it was as perfect as it looked in those videos then it would sell like some very hot cakes!
Of course it won't and that makes me sad.
Still he did release the map so we can all pretend! Yea!

By: tmp

tmp — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:25:39 +0000

You don’t seem to understand what a game engine is. Just because it’s the Cryengine, doesn’t mean it has to be first-person or realtime or anything.

No, you don’t seem to understand my comment. I was talking of this specific implementation, as presented in the video. You can do more than one thing with the engine great, but in this context largely irrelevant.

It’s just proof that you can render scenes that look almost hand-drawn in realtime in the engine, which is a very good thing.

And in other news, Queen Victoria is dead…

Games been “proving” this for quite a few years now (blatantly hand-painted textures were utilized to different degree in TF2, Final Fantasy 12, GTA 4 and the most recent Prince of Persia just to name a few big titles) Planar projection for texturing is an even older trick. Seriously, it does look lovely and even more so because fond memories of Monkey Island colour my impressions, but none of this is some sort of a –pardon a bad pun– Big Whoop.

By: nutterguy

nutterguy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:26:18 +0000

no-one is going to make AAA games on a PC engine alone – Crush

Wait… what?
I believe you are mistaken!

By: nutterguy

nutterguy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:10:46 +0000

What have I done…
*cries*

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:55:24 +0000

Amazing stuff. I hope Lucasarts give me a job. They’ll probably sue him though :)

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:52:48 +0000

Great work. Shows giganteous ammounts of love for a single game. It have all my sympathy.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:03:19 +0000

Oh, wow. The premise is actually pretty simple, but the second video shows the amount of effort this guy’s put in. Nicely done.