Telltale: Tales of Monkey Island might come to XBLA 'later on'

I just bought Sam & Max Save the World, so I'm doing my part. C'mon Monkey Island and Strong Bad!

My girlfriend already stated that she was buying Secret of Monkey Island not only for herself and her 360, but my own as well so that I may enjoy it at the same time.

I'm not buying this or any game online because it gives Microsoft and Sony more incentive to move toward digital distribution and make disc games obsolete. If that happens then us gamers get shafted because we wouldn't be able to trade games or resell them on ebay. Don't know about you guys but when I buy something I don't want Microsoft or Sony limiting my options on a property I own.

Adventure games from the early 90s mostly, good fun but everyone makes a bigger deal out of them than need be for some reason.

Well, people make a big deal out of them because it feels like a return to memories of when good writing still existed in games. Also, the return of big(ger) budget adventure games. I still love those things, but hardly anybody makes them. Thanks Telltale!

I have to disagree with you there, Shagg; 1990s adventure games are a massive deal because in an age where video games' stories were whatever the manual writers could come up with at the last minute, point and click adventure games were offering us character development and writing on a level far better than even most modern examples.

Well, I just heard of it not that long ago. How oldi is it?

Not trying to argue here really...

To me those adventure games were the culmination of 10 or so years of perpetually the same design over and over. I had been playing text games for years before those graphic adventure games came out.

When finally we started to see First person shooters it sorta made Graphic adventure games look like those old text only based games.

I agree that these were great adventure games, but as far as game design went they were the same old tired stuff i'd been playing since '81. RTS, Platformers, FPS, strategy games all offered something far more interesting than another adventure game. I think ultimately thats why they died off, reguardless of what anyone might tell you.

Now its purely a nostalgia thing, which i get, I collect and own most of these games already. I just don't think anyone whos not doing it for nostalgia purposes will be very interested in playing much of these with just resolution upgrades. They need gameplay upgrades to truely hit the bigger market.

Just my opinion, not trying to dissagree with you guys in a fight kinda way...

Not really. Sam and Max was a PC-only release, the only other "platform" of release was Gametap. They then later ported it to the Wii(point and click is easier to port over there) and THEN ported to XBLA.

They weren't including other platforms until SBCG4AP, which they put on Wiiware because they were still doing point-and-click. Then XBLA with Wallace and Gromit, then back to Wiiware for Tales it seems.

Their general policy is "We want it on everything, but our monthly episodic release schedule and resources don't allow that."

I think what you are referring to is the pub fund.
I'm pretty sure they only split development costs if the game is PSN exclusive, so these games wouldn't apply.

Oh, I see, well never mind then. I guess that would be much help

*Wouldn't I mean, of course

That's the Voodoo lady from Monkey Island. She has the Xbox logo because the game may be coming to XBLA. This is not a hard image to decipher, and neither was a fanboy hate comment really warranted or wanted.

They've basically given a "If it sells well, we'll port it to other platforms and give it a retail box release" line.