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[Kon Tiki]

http://www.n-ds.de/index.php?seite=news_complete.php&thema=98

The latest edition of NGC Magazines UK will hold an interview with LucasArts. The company is supposed to confirm that they're currently experimenting with porting Monkey Island 3 to the Nintendo DS. N-DS adds that LucasArts wasn't capable to state whether or not their games will appear on the DS and, if so, which games.

Any UKers subscribe?

 

[Jotaro]

But the game shipped on two cds and was full of voice acting and animation.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Opps. Might not be retail.

 

[Lord Error]

There's an interpreter that lets you play MI3 on PDAs, but the game requires a huge-ass (1GB at least) memory card if you want to play it with the music and voieovers and without any file swapping. Without music and voices, the whole thing is around 100MB thugh, and that's with VGA 640x480 resolution graphics.

 

[solarplexus]

The site says it's only a rumor and speculation. They don't have the magazine.

None of the subscribers on other boards confirmed the MI3 story.

 

[SomeDude]

I'll just stick with te PC version.

 

[solarplexus]

Fake :lol

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/

Tuesday 15th February 2005 MONKEY ISLAND 3 SWINGING ONTO DS?

So we gave Tom East, the editor of NGC, a holler. When we asked him if the magazine was indeed running an interview with LucasArts in which this information was revealed East said, "Not that I'm aware of."

Then we tried Nintendo Official Magazine, just in case N-DS had magazine names mixed up. "It's certainly not us," said NOM editor Tim Street when asked if the new issue of NOM carried these comments.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Ah thanks for the closure.

 

[jett]

Hah, what an obvious fake. MI3 would look like either absolute shit or totally unrecognizable on the DS.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

They could pull off the earlier games no problem. A Lucasarts archive for DS would be pretty neat.

 

[Kseutron]

monkey island 3, age of empire, command and conquer...

 

[Meier]

If all these companies port these awesome strategy and point and click games to the DS, I'll totally buy one.

 

[Blackace]

Hah, what an obvious fake. MI3 would look like either absolute shit or totally unrecognizable on the DS.

I think 3 could be done.... 4 there isn't a chance in hell

 

[Particle Physicist]

i would love to see an original monkey island game on the DS..

the system is begging to become the point & click adventurers haven.

i hope Another Code helps to respark this genre.

 

[SomeDude]

I've only played the first 3 games, but most Monkey Island fans say the fourth game sucked really bad.


I don't think the DS could do part 3 any justice at all. Maybe the first two games.

 

[Blackbird]

With all respect, but before the DS was launched, Kenichi Sugino said in some interview that "as an experiment" they were trying to port parts of Zelda: OoT to the DS platform. Gamers should not get their hopes up, cause it was not meant as a commercial project but to investigate the possibilities of the DS.

Now why would it be odd to see LucasArts try to get MI3 on the DS for the same reason? See whether it works as good as many gaming-forums claim it would be, then decide whether or not to put some games on the market again.
Of course, the 'screens' shown at N-DS.de are simple mock-ups by the germans, no doubt about that.