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| 6 NOV 2002 at 1:41am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | What?! Screenshots? Trailer?
Is that official??
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 3:10am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Google....
http://www.bonusweb.cz/download/trailery/fullthrottle2tra020524.html
g
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 3:26am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Thanks G, although I regret seeing that. Just looking at good ol' Ben turned into a 3D model depressed me a lot. This sequel shouldn't be made...
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 4:26am |
TeoSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | hmz..I hadn`t seen this either.
depressed me too..
now I`m just waiting to see the 3D models of Sam & Max..*shiver* right..... :'(
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 5:54am |
dabomb765Space Cadet
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Status : Online | Sam and Max should be cel shaded. It would fit the style more than 3d.
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 6:55am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Sorry guys 'n' gals, didn't mean to depress anyone. I don't have the emotional attachment some veteran adventurers have to Ben, so I'm looking forward to the sequel; also looking forward to Sam 'n' Max 2
gita
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 9:46am |
dimidimidimiSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I said it before and I say it again. Lucasarts have abandoned adventure games once and for all. I don't expect any good real adventure from them in the future.
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 10:56am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | dimi, you maybe absolutely right, but I choose to remain more optimistic than that. I think they know what the original games mean to veteran adventurers everywhere. Whether or not that will influence their game design, I don't know, but I'll reserve judgment for when the games are actually released.
gita
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 2:30pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | G, I think Full Throttle 2 is more action oriented than adventure. Besides, I liked so much the first one and it ended so well to me that I really think a sequel its not necessary.
But I have a little more faith in Sam & Max 2. They said it will be 100% adventure. I dunno... I'm a bit pesimistic about Lucasarts. I really think they should stick to the Star Wars franchise.
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 2:47pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Good morning, Rael! Well, everyone's got his/her own opinion, of course; like I said to dimi, you may be absolutely right. However, one of the greatest advantages of being a new adventurer - besides, of course, that I've got TONS of games to play - is that it's just about impossible for me to be pessimistic about any new contribution to the genre. Aaaah, happy times... I cherish these days
gita
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 2:58pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Hi, G! Its early in there but right now I'm at work (ouch!).
I envy you... but you're right: theres always hope!
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 7:26pm |
dabomb765Space Cadet
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Status : Online | Rael, How do you know thatfull throttle 2 will be more action oreinted than adventure. Was their a preview I missed.
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| 6 NOV 2002 at 7:32pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Check out Full Throttle 2 press release in Lucasarts official page.
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| 7 NOV 2002 at 6:49am |
lamboIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I'm going to miss the original voice of Ben done by the late Roy Conrad but I have no doubt Lucasarts will find some other fine actor to bring the new Ben to life. They always seem to employ some of the best voices around in their games and it's one of the reasons I love their adventure games so much. I can't wait for FULL THROTTLE 2.
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| 7 NOV 2002 at 7:06am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | To quote the great Orson Wells... "I want a copy of Full Throttle 2!! I want it, want it want it want it NOW!!!"
Okay, maybe it wasn't Orson Wells..
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| 7 NOV 2002 at 6:34pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | To quote the great Orson Wells... "I want a copy of Full Throttle 2!! I want it, want it want it want it NOW!!!"
A hollow voice says "Fool".
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| 7 NOV 2002 at 7:36pm |
BTillerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I was the lead artist on Full Throttle 2 for about a year. There was a shake up in the direction of the game near the end of my tenure at Lucas Arts.
Director Sean Clark then took up the project. He has a good reputation for taking existing licenses or projects and turning them around and making them succeed (The Dig, Sam n Max, Escape From Monkey Island). Unfortunately he and I had a bit of a falling out, so I decided it was best to move on. So now basically, the Escape from Monkey Island crew is doing Full Throttle 2, with the edition of level designers from other Lucas action games.
I don't know anything about the game design, but if I were to speculate, I would expect to see lots of simple puzzles intermixed with lots of action. A pure puzzle game I very much doubt this will be. I bet it will truly be and action/ adventure game. And I think that is the way it should be. A great tough guy character like Ben should not be using cat hair on a piece of tape forming a mustache so he can rent a moped. He should reach over the counter, grab the rental guy by his nose ring and punch his lights out, then take the gas from all the mopeds to fuel up his hog, then ride over all the mopeds on his way out to kick more ass!
And I think that is exactly what you will get from Full Throttle2. I look forward to it.
I have a few nitpicks with some of the screen shots. According to Tim Schaffer Ben isn’t supposed to smile. I know he does once in FT1 when he gets the booster, even then that was more of a smirk. Ben is based on Sanjuro Tsubaki, the ronin from the movie Sanjuro. And that guy has a foul temper and never smiles. In a lot of the FT2 screen shots Ben is always smiling. It makes him seem less stern and grim, more cocky and silly. Clint Eastwood never smiled during fights in all those spaghetti westerns. I don’t think Ben ought to either.
Also, and again this IS nit picking, why did his boots go from black to brown? They look better black. His pants are tan and they blend in with the boots. High contrast on the legs helps people read them as boots, and that is especially important in an action game. You need to see where his feet are in order to tell where he is standing in perspective, even in 3d real time games. As we all know, so called 3D games are not in real 3D because they all ends up on a 2D screen.
The villain looks a bit too pompous and grandiloquent. I think a tough guy needs to take on either a not so tough genius villain, like Ripburger, or huge hulking warrior bent on dominace, not a clown. That guy with the pompadour just looks too silly to be a challenge for Ben. But, and I hope, he may not be the real villain. Maybe he is just the comedy relief.
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| 7 NOV 2002 at 11:20pm |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | So now basically, the Escape from Monkey Island crew is doing Full Throttle 2
I hope their plotting skills have improved.
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