When I was growing up, I played and loved pretty much all of LucasArts’ point-and-click adventures – with Day of The Tentacle being one of the ones that weaselled its way in to my heart. It’s coming back, remastered with new artwork (that looks just like the old artwork), and will be hitting your PlayStation 4 and Vita in March next year.
At the PlayStation experience, Double Fine’s Tim Schafer and co showed off some footage.
It looks just as my nostalgia-addled brain remembers it – with my younger mind ridding the screen of the blocky pixels anyway. At the same Time, Double Fine announced that it was going to remaster another of my favourite LucasArts adventures: Full Throttle.
Like Day of the Tentacle, it’ll feature all new, hand-drawn, high resolution artwork that will probably also look just like the original artwork. That’ll be joined with remastered audio, music, and sound effects. Players will also be able to switch back and forth between classic and remastered modes, playing mix and match with the graphics, audio and user interface. It’s coming in 2017, to PC and PlayStation platforms.
“Full Throttle Remastered will feature all new artwork,” Double Fine says in a blog post “with high resolution backgrounds and animation, with each frame being repainted by hand. We’ll be aiming to restore the sound and music to a higher quality, and we’ll also fill the game with special features like concept artwork, commentary tracks and as many other things as we can think of!”
It’ll ship along with a commentary track, featuring the ruminations of the game’s original creators Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell, and Clint Bajakian. It was one of my favourite things about the Grim Fandango remaster, so I’m rather looking forward to it.
And while I do love all this nostalgia, I really do wish that Double Fine would focus a little more on making new things. They’re an undeniably talented bunch, but their modern output is as filled with hits as it is misses. For every Broken Age and Brutal Legend, we have stuff like Spacebase DF-9 and Massive Chalice.
Last Updated: December 7, 2015
Admiral Chief - CHAAARGE!
December 7, 2015 at 09:08
Only a matter of time now before my beloved Blackthorne will get a remaster!
Hammersteyn
December 7, 2015 at 09:10
Hopefully the remasters leads to new titles from them. Would be awesome.
Jonah Cash
December 7, 2015 at 09:23
Full Throttle for the win! In my top 5 games of all time for sure.
Wouldn’t mind a second Full Throttle game, just please not the one that was planned as that looked stupid.
Captain JJ 4x
December 7, 2015 at 09:31
Man I played a lot of LucasArts games when I was growing up. I think many a time, if not always, I picked those games simply because I knew LucasArts games were all great fun.
Day of Tentacle is one of my old favourites.
Milesh Bhana
December 7, 2015 at 09:43
DoTT is probably my favourite from that 90’s Adventure Game Era. I generally don’t bother getting remakes, too much new stuff to play to care about ruining beloved childhood memories :D. I’ll make an exception for DoTT though.
Darren Peach
December 7, 2015 at 09:44
Another remaster ?
Captain JJ 4x
December 7, 2015 at 09:54
I’m okay with a 90s remaster, but this crap about remastering a 2-5 year-old game is bullshit.
Darren Peach
December 7, 2015 at 09:58
Remastered games were cool when they were a novelty, Now that it has become a business model, It aint cool no more.
WitWolfy
December 7, 2015 at 10:47
I blame Crystal Dynamics. They started this trend.
WitWolfy
December 7, 2015 at 10:47
IKR?!?! *looks at GOW3*
WitWolfy
December 7, 2015 at 10:46
More like a remake IMO… the Scumm engine didnt age well at all.. Well the first few versions didnt.
Original Heretic
December 7, 2015 at 10:19
HA! I loved DOTT back in the day. It was one of the few games I could get running on my old 286 PC!