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Day of the Tentacle Remastered PC Release Date Confirmed

GoG promotion reveals release date and pre-order bonuses.

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The remastered version of Day of the Tentacle will be available on PC from March 22, according to a digital distributor. The announcement comes by way of online retailer GoG, which is promoting an exclusive pre-order campaign.

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As detailed in by Double Fine founder Tim Schafer, the version available on GoG will be 10 percent off for those who pre-order. It is also said to be DRM-free and will includes bonus wallpapers.

"Two young fellows made a point-and-click graphic adventure game called Day of the Tentacle, and I hear it was very good," Schafer says in the video. "But you don't have to just take my word for it, you can now play it.

"It has been remastered. The art looks incredible, but we also maintained the old art and you can play either way that you want, with the old or new art, and the old art with the new interface. You can listen to all the developer commentary we added, and you can look at the concept art, and we took away all the compression, and it's just great. It's crazy."

You can watch GoG's pre-order pitch video, which features Schafer, here.

Double Fine's remastered edition of Day of the Tentacle will also launch on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 in March 2016. A more specific release date for these platforms has not yet been announced.

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Love this game. Can't wait for new shiny one!

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As much as i love Day of the Tentacle i hope no one buys this...After siding against the entire gaming community by siding with the likes of Anita Sarkeesian i feel Tim Schafer has absolutely no right to stay in the video game business.

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PSN are running a digital only pre order discount. According to the blog.

Not seen any pricing as yet, but I believe its cross buy.

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Can. Not. Wait.

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I can't wait for this... its probably my favourite adventure game from the 90s. Its nice to see they didn't ruin the graphics, just cleaned it up and the audio is all from the original sources so will be superior to the original cd-rom version. Double fine did a nice job on the grim fandango remake also.

I think full throttle remaster is in the works also.

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Legendary game this is. Me 1 copy will buy one.

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"What's Maniac Mansion, Granpa?"

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I'M TOTALLY DOWN WITH THIS. GIVE-GIVE.

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I still think they should have re-mastered Maniac Mansion to go with it.

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The big purple guy in the picture looks like Patrick crossed with Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants.

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Cool, but it's only 1-2 hours long if you've finished it before, so I'm not convinced on the price.

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@johnlewis107: I don't know about you, but the last time I finished the game was in the mid-nineties...

I don't remember it in that much detail lol

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I'm really looking forward to this. I hope they were able to keep the original Maniac mansion easter egg so there's actually two games in one!

Edit: I checked on GOG. At the very bottom of the Day of the Tentacle page it says:

  • Game within a game: Includes full playable version of Maniac Mansion!

CONFIRMED!

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Never played this one but loved the two Monkey Islands in HD, III, and Grim Fandango.

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For me its one of the funniest.

Very enjoyable.

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Finally, a remaster where the graphics were actually redone from scratch. Yeah I'm looking at you Hard Rain and God of War III. I cringe every time a game is re-released on current gen with just a simple bump in resolution and fps and then labeled a "remaster". If you think about it, that would mean that almost all PC games that were also released on consoles as well are the remastered version, lol.

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@RadPro: Hard Rain is that movie with Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman.

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@RadPro: "Hard Rain" *Heavy Rain_ Couldn't resist

Also worth noting a remaster and a remake are two very different things. Remaster is a glossy way of calling it a "port".

Remasters/ports have a place in gaming even if you disagree. Low budget ports to satisfy either long time fans that no longer have access to the classic, or newer gamers that have never played_said game.

Without ports or remasters I'd have never played D00M, Grim Fandango, and many others.

Even if you only consider the P.C. platform I'd be up for Dungeon Keeper remasters. As War for the Overworld just isn't on par.

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@RSM-HQ: Lol, can't believe I wrote Hard Rain without noticing.

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Awesome!!

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I kinda wanna buy it on PS4, but the last 2 Double Fine games were both free on PS Plus within a couple of months after release. I'll wait this one out.

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I'll never give Tim Schafer another red cent.

He fucked gamers on Broken Age and then on Star Base not to mention his whole #notyoursheild mockery.

To recap: **** you, Tim.

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I have yet to really be disappointed by any Double Fine games, new, original, or remastered versions.
This should be no exception.

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Man, I've still got the original CD-ROM for this.

Also there's that cool easter egg, where you can play the original Maniac Mansion within DOTT.

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I'd buy that for a dollar!

...seriously, no more than that. I can't stand Tim Schafer, and don't want to support him any more than I have to.

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I want me my ps4 version

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@i-rock-socks: Apparently it too will be released on the 22nd.

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lol, i remember playing that game in my 486 sx pc years back

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