monkeyisland | (no subject) (Reply)

Interview with Dominic Armato, October 26, 2000, that I ran across while digging through Wayback captures of old MI websites. Some interesting quotes:

I'd give my right arm, or at least some other substantial appendage, to be able to do the voice for the first two games in the series. I was a huge MI fan long before CMI was even being considered, and I'd love to hear them voiced... especially if I'm doing the voices :-) Unfortunately, I think that's a really unlikely scenario. Studio time and VO actors don't come cheap, and voicing an adventure is INCREDIBLY time consuming, so they'd have to be able to sell an awful lot of CD-ROMs to make it cost effective, which is tough enough to do with a brand new adventure game, much less a ten-year-old one.

Ha... has anyone checked how many arms Dom has? ;)

I know that in the classic gaming sense many feel that Sierra was the comapny that really pioneered the adventure game, and that may be true, but as far as I'm concerned, if Sierra created the adventure game, LEC gave it a soul, and it was the fantastic characters and quirky humor that played the largest part in that.

The humour is a well known thing in LEC adventure games. Is the humour a big and important part of EMI, which you and LEC clearly use time and effort on?

Is the humor an important part of EMI? Gads, I HOPE so... if not, we're DOOMED!!! :-) [...] From a scripting standpoint, EMI contains the funniest scene in the series as far as I'm concerned... and no, I'm not telling :-)

I wonder what scene he's referring to here. Personally I'm fond of Escape and a lot of its humor is all right with me (though I realize it's the weakest entry in the series and its sense of humor is somewhat different even from Curse, not to mention Secret or Revenge), but even so, nothing is jumping out to my mind as "aha, I bet he meant this scene".