Monkey Island 5, will it ever happen after all the LucasArts firings?

What will happen to the Monkey Island series now that in early June 2008 LucasArts fired 100 out of its 350 employees? These people included key developers responsible for classics such as Star Wars: X-Wing (1993), Full Throttle (1995), and Grim Fandango (1998). VGB takes a look at Monkey Island 5 from past to present.

[Harry190]

Mr Guybrush.

[Andronix]

Monkey Island is always gonna be very, very special to me. Nostalgia and gaming nivarna. 1 & 2 are perfect, and even 3 is mostly brilliant (until the end.)

Sega outsourced Rez HD to the original creator. Ron Gilbert created Monkey Island, and has promised to reveal the 'true' secret if he ever made another game.

Why dont LucasArts give Ron Gilbert the rights to make a Monkey Island sequel? He knows the characters and the world better than anybody else, and the fans would love him to do it more than anybody else.

[kazuma]

unless they do it 2d again, don't want it

[Lumbo]

100% ack

loved 1 and 2 , from there on it went downhill.

[kazuma]

ahah good taste ^^
but i also think that 3 was pretty cool too (still 2d just bigger and prettier), but the fourth one sucked balls

[Polluted]

The last one was kind of lame after they abandoned the scumm system. Maybe if they made an old school Monkey Island style game for Live and PSN. That would be awesome.

[funzotothemax]

damn i love these games. i wish they would make more of these, plus king's quest/space quest/ and all the like. but that's never going to happen. oh well

[MK_Red]

Just sad.

[Zhuk]

Monkey Island should undoubtedly be continually made into the future as a high quality XBLA title, taking full advantage of the brilliant SCUMM technology that Lucasarts pioneered so many years ago. With a small team working on such brilliant titles, there is no doubt that these games would be easily successful.

[The Wood]

is almost complete.

i found this site a while back. i dont want adventure games like MI to be a memory only

http://www.adventuregamers....

[mepsipax]

When in um I can't remember which monkey island but you were in town and there were pirates sitting on a bunch of barrels, and you ask them what's in the barrels, holy crap I laughed for a solid minute when they answered. great games.

[Lumbo]

sounds like the 3 pirates in MI1 with the rat, left from the treasure map dealer ..
The ones that returned in 2 next to the washing pirate on the first island on the left in the "town"

[Polluted]

@Lumbo: And they get pissed at you if you mess with their pet rat. Those guys were funny.

[mepsipax]

I still have those games on my computer somewhere I don't think they work, I have scummvm though an emulator and I love playing them now and again, like indiana jones, those were great. If there is never a monkey island 5 than I will be sad but I still have scummvm on my wii so I can play all the classics again and again.

[Polluted]

Thought I should post this here since there will be some adventure fans looking at the post. For anyone that doesn't know "Beneath a Steel Sky" was released as freeware a few years ago. It's an awesome game that used the scumm system. It can be downloaded legally along with scummvm (sort if an emulator for old scumm dos games) here:

http://www.scummvm.org/down...

Enjoy.