Tim Schafer is making a new Adventure Game

seriously can i play grim fandango on my imac somehow? is it on steam as some flashback classic for $5? anybody know?

  On 2/10/2012 at 6:43 PM, KY said:

seriously can i play grim fandango on my imac somehow? is it on steam as some flashback classic for $5? anybody know?

http://zeade.livejournal.com/29926.html

your best bet appears to be playing it in windows 98 in Parallels, not sure if your mac can handle that

it's not on steam and it's notoriously hard to get to work on modern systems (i have windows XP and had to mess around with compatibility/emulation settings loads).

  On 2/10/2012 at 6:43 PM, KY said:

seriously can i play grim fandango on my imac somehow? is it on steam as some flashback classic for $5? anybody know?

It was never released for Mac. LucasArts stopped supporting Mac around the time The Curse of Monkey Island came out and I was so fucking devastated that I couldn't play it. Less than 6 months later I got a PC and CMI. Pure bliss. Anyway, there is a thing called Grim X for Mac that should let you play the PC version of Grim Fandango on a Mac, but I have no idea how it works or rather if it works.

Oh wait... this looks interesting

i have no idea how to work a mac but i was just curious and found this:

Great idea, glad they got some money. Will probably buy the game, loved monkey island.

Promo youtube vid is great!

Tim Schafer is the man, I'm gonna put some cash towards this.

thx squee/eugene, getting intrigued.

Pledge $30,000 or more:

Picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.

Pledge $35,000 or more:

Undoctored picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.

lol

  On 2/10/2012 at 6:54 PM, Squee said:

Oh wait... this looks interesting

  On 2/10/2012 at 6:55 PM, eugene said:

i have no idea how to work a mac but i was just curious and found this:

have ResidualVM up and running here, fresh off svn. works fine! I think they'll include all that stuff into ScummVM at a certain point.. Myst 3 and Journeyman Project 2 are also supported, only they are not fully playable yet.

damn now I need to wait for my paycheck so i can throw money at schafer. lifetime memories from his games. stokkked

I heard the Residual port is missing some shit towards the end and can crash frequently in the middle of the game. I've been watching youtube gameplay recently, to be honest because I never picked up the game back then, although I regret that. I too am waiting for a stable port for Grim Fandango on Mac.

  On 2/13/2012 at 7:03 AM, abracadabra said:

I too am waiting for a stable port for Grim Fandango on Mac.

I have one, it's a cider port ;)

  On 2/13/2012 at 7:56 AM, roasty said:

  On 2/13/2012 at 7:03 AM, abracadabra said:

I too am waiting for a stable port for Grim Fandango on Mac.

 

I have one, it's a cider port ;)

Hand it over, pal. Your avatar goes great with your gloating.

I enjoy watching those two chat. Man, I want to work for Double Fine.

It's funny with all the limbo love. I think it's one of the best games I've played in years.

Very nice debate

I wish someone there had mentioned Portal. Especially at the point where dude said "Adventure games weren't really about adventure, they were about...solving puzzles." So if he thinks Limbo is not an adventure game, how about Portal? All the objectives are about solving puzzles. It has great dialogue and characterization. Would be interesting to hear them debate it.

I guess he means the action element is lacking in point and click adventure games... you could never die, or kill the game by making bad decisions in LucasArts adventures.

  On 2/26/2012 at 6:42 PM, missingsense said:

you could never die, or kill the game by making bad decisions in LucasArts adventures.

that's why we had sierra games.

  On 2/26/2012 at 7:16 PM, data said:

  On 2/26/2012 at 6:42 PM, missingsense said:

you could never die, or kill the game by making bad decisions in LucasArts adventures.

 

that's why we had sierra games.

which weren't very good (except for the Space Quest games)

tim did an AMA on reddit yesterday: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qhk98/i_am_a_tim_schafer_ask_me_about_loom_or_anything/?limit=500

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flol

Double Fine need to make another Costume Quest game fo' sheezy