IMO, the best game in the series was #6 when he went to the La Costa Lotta vacation resort.

ckranger11

@geekay3: Yes, I loved the newer Sam & Max titles! I think I'll download the demo of this once it comes out.

Hoppasaurus

@Jazhuis: @PatMan33: Aaah. Thanks for the info. I've only ever read about/ seen screens of the series, so it's nice to hear more of a first-hand perspective. Who knows? This one may very well be worth checking out. Hopefully the writing will be as good as the voice cast.

Hoppasaurus

@weasl: And of course, this leads us to a PC 'directors cut' edition to come out three months later for additional sales

huginn (XBL - WendingoPSU)

@Hoppasaurus: Basically, they're old school adventure games that draw humor from sexual foibles of a loser. At the time considered incredibly risque (80s to mid 90s), in all honesty they're not that bad, relying more on clever righting than outright raunchiness like "The Guy Game." Basically, if you've found the recent Sam and Max games fun and clever, you should give Leisure Suit Larry a try...except for Magna Cum Laud, completely unrelated. And no, Al Lowe received nothing from Magna Cum Laud.

geekay3

Thankfully up on IGN they have a preview that reports that the developers are axing all nudity from the game.

That choice will save me some money.

It's obvious it's the right choice, i mean what better way to alienate your target audience then to remove one of it's selling points >.>

weasl

Somebody help me here... Does Al Lowe not receive *anything* from this game, or the last?

Killtacular

Let's see what happens. But honestly...would it be so hard to include Al Lowe? It would be an AMAZING PR move and all around the right thing to do. Oh well.

Spoony Bard

I'm not a fan of the series but, believe it or not, my MIDI Composition teacher was the music designer for the first few games. He stopped after 3 I believe due to some problems with the company.

Another guy I know, did the music from Spy Hunter (Xbox) and Freaky Flyers

Kyte

@Hoppasaurus: I suppose I should actually answer your question, but I was too impressed with my own CGA/EGA quip to do so.

The original LSL games were graphical adventure games (i.e. "LOOK GIRL", "TALK GIRL", "USE SPANISH FLY") with an over-aggrandized sense of sexual innuendo and an awesome sense of humor. Most of it centered about trying to get a gentleman who was more or less modeled after Larry on Three's Company into various women's pants. Most of the time, something goes wrong as he's about to seal the deal and hilarity ensues.

Jazhuis

National Lampoon needs to get the rights for this franchise and start cranking out games. Not that they'll be any good. But they'd do a good job in at least five out of ten catagories. (ie voice work, writing, timing...)

Tonx

I hope it isn't a mini-game crapfest like the last title and more akin to the old Larry games.

I also agree with Geekay3, they should really bring Larry Laffer back and just diss this lame nephew...

Lider

@Hoppasaurus: Which ones? The ones that came out in the past couple of years? Yeah, crap.

The ones that came out back when we didn't compare Shader Models on our graphics cards, but whether we had CGA or EGA? Yeah, those were completely awesome.

Jazhuis

@Hoppasaurus: They're actually pretty funny sometimes. Unfortunately for Larry he almost never gets laid due to some unfortunate turn of events.

PatMan33

@Hoppasaurus: you'll find no enlightenment on this blog post, i can assure you :)

homelessvagrant

Looks like another piece-of-shit minigame collection rather than an actual game.

JeffPaine

I'm almost tempted to want it.

Atsumi

Jeffrey Tambor, Patrick Warburton and Artie Lange? SOLD!

TitillatedOcelot (NinjaBall [psn] Callabrantus [xbl])

I'm actually counting up to four potential innuendos in that title, but since this is a family site I'll leave them as an exercise to the reader. :)

Throtex

Hopefully JT's licence will already have been yanked by the time this launches.

SithNinja

i cant wait to see THOSE achievements

kickass solo(my GT)

Are these "Larry" games actually any fun? They've always come across to me as a hypersexualized middle-teenage wankfestival. Am I wrong to be categorizing the Larry games right alongside The Guy Game and the Playboy Mansion game? Someone please enlighten me...

Hoppasaurus

Whenever a game announcement press release highlights the cast more than the gameplay....

Slam Vanderhuge

waggle demands a Leisure Suit Larry. i can envision the perverted mini-games now

teh_joe

exciting!

Viet

No Poke-tot version coming to the DS?

Tonx

What? No grandma-friendly Wii release?

Tonx

First, they need to get Al Lowe in on this heet. Second, they need to drop "Larry Lovage" or whatever that joke of a character was from the last "game" and go back to the original Larry: Larry Laffer. Other than that, we'll just have to see how things go.

geekay3

It's my dick in a box!

huginn

yayyy

kefka666

YAY! Awsome news, lets hope it doesn't sux like the last one, which I did not bother to try, I played all other Larry and loved them all, love for sail was the best :) However, the sequel never came :(

@JeffPaine: Larry 7 had complete nude end movie if you found all dildos I think it was :)

Irenicus-the one and only

@7ucky: There is no such thing as a shitty Adam Sandler movie. There are subpar movies (Longest Yard, Chuck & Larry), but "shit" is nowhere to be found.

adamonfire

@beeporama: I got something we can try, all right? It's a little risky.

adamonfire

@ crescentfresh: yeah space quest. oh how do i miss the quest era. space quest was the best. i wis they did a remake point and click style. i could die after that.

Souldier

@Jesse Mrozowski: There was nudity in LSL2 that I can remember but it's so tiny and pixellated it doesn't really count.

And LSL7 had nude cheats I believe

JeffPaine

@Skunky: Shhhhhhhhh, don't mention his name or he might get ideas about directing a Larry-based movie

zoesch

Happy Madison Productions? So this game is going to be like all of the shitty Adam Sandler movies?

Grreeeaaat.....

7ucky

@weasl: I honestly don't remember there being any nudity in any of the other games. Implied nudity perhaps but I don't think they ever actually showed anything. I could be wrong, I only played the first few and then 7.

Jesse Mrozowski

I think they ought to change the name slightly. "Leisure Suit Uwe: Box Office Bust."

Skunky

@adamonfire: NO TOUCHING!

beeporama

Pop-pop gets a Grisham?

adamonfire

They need to forget about these new Larry games and BRING BACK SPACE QUEST!!!

crescentfresh

Umm... Those consoles don't allow AO games...

dowingba

@Spoony Bard: Al Lowe no longer has a working relationship with Sierra; Vivendi/Universal basically showed him the door not long after they took over the ship. They've also refused to release the franchise rights to him (apparently he didn't even know Magna Cum Laude was in development until previews hit), much like with their some of the other *Quest franchises (Police Quest never had a single point of designer, just Jim Ball and Darryl Gates as advisors; The Two Guys From Andromeda+Josh Mandel left Sierra on extremely bad terms; The Coles took their ball and went home when Quest For Glory V started shaping up like shit; that just leaves The Williams, and they're not going to steal their own stuff).

Lowe had nothing to do with the utterly dismal version of Love For Sail on mobile phones recently, either. He's mentioned he'd love to be back on a Larry project, but he's pretty much not in the running anymore.

Remember kids, Sierra knows you don't really want adventure games!

Linnard

@ckranger11: Absolutely... LSL6: Shape up or Ship Out and LSL7: Love for Sail are by far the best games in the series... LSL3: Passionate Patti and the Pulsating Pectorals was also very good.

Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod

Without Al Lowe on the project... I will be avoiding this.

Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod

@Killtacular: That's right. Sierra owns the rights to the character. So while Lowe does get royalties for the old games (when they're repackaged and resold), he doesn't receive anything from sales of the new games. In fact, they apparently didn't even ask him to help on Magna Cum Laude (according to allowe.com), and I doubt he will have anything to do with this game (which looks to be the same sort of lamefest that MCL was).

sxp151

i love the lsl games bring it on

demonwolf

@adamonfire: Punch Drunk Love?

AgainstOne

they had me at Dave Attell

AgainstOne

@Linnard: Thanks for that history! I always wondered what the heck happened at Sierra, and now I know. So wait, Roberta Williams is still around? I'll hold out hope for another Phantasmagoria game. We seriously need an actually scary video game again ... it's been far too long.

Throtex

... Wow, Team 17 takes an absolute low

HikariOblivion

Shouldn't the header say "on," not "to?"

boopadoo

too bad it's no AO rofl

zerokoolpsx

This game is going to suck soo bad, look at a couple of quote from the IGN interview that turned me off to the game:

John Melchior:

"There is no Nudity in this version of Larry.."

"..As far as the boobies, I think that term is too offensive so let's refer to them from now on as snoobs..."

"..We gauge everything in this game on how far we can push the humor without going overboard into offending anyone..."
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Sounds like it is going to be a PG game to me.

Azriel77

Here's hoping the develops die in a fire.

d1sco_d3ath

Some time I need to play these games to figure out what the deal is. Really to me it looked like a Japanese dating sim minus the porn.

explodingmanmk2

You mean "RESCUE ME"'s Artie Lange?!?!?

I'm absolutely there!

topaz420

Oh God please not another crappy Larry game full of mini games.. :(
I loved old Larry games.. but that last one made me die a little inside..

CockroachMan

One more of those crappy Larry games full of mini games? Oh God no! I loved the Larry series with Al Lowe.. that last game made me die a little inside :(

CockroachMan

Al Lowe or no go, yo.

fuchikoma

Punch Drunk Love was shit...

RaiDei

@Azriel77: you're right...

R.I.P Larry

Irenicus-the one and only

Awww, it's starring his nephew again? Shucks, call me when they resurrect Space Quest and somehow manage to butcher that beloved series...

Pezdispenser

No nudity, no buy.

mindinrewind

Ok. I'm down with Dave Attell if he voices Larry.

Karoshi

Everything that comes out of Happy Madison these days is garbage.

Doomstink

@explodingmanmk2: Apparently they're actually well written, not being so painfully obviously written by folks who have never seen a real naked woman in their lives, for folks in the same situation. By that I mean they're funny.

Sabre_Justice

@Hoppasaurus: Much of what makes them so fun is the way they're constantly about the frustration of a "wankfestival." Much of what's so endearing and loathsome about Larry is how much he's a sleaze. But he's such the caricature of a sleaze that it's funny. He becomes the lounge lizard that lurks inside the soul of every man, much as the women he seeks to seduce are equally as pathetically vapid.

So, in short, it's more about the humor of looking for sex, rather than the actual sex.

Slatz_Grobnik

Furthermore. Vivendi needs to get their asses in gear and bring back Al Lowe. I'd love to see a Space Quest revival too...

DogManStar

Happy Madison????!!!!!!!!!! God no.

Their idea of humor is Adam Sandler punching people in the junk and acting like a tough guy (with a soft spot for women). If people thought the last LSL was an abomination wait until they see this script.

My hopes for this game (and franchise) have now been crushed.

DogManStar

@Azriel77:
Yep this sux.
Leisure Suit Larry game without sex themes & boobies? They could have as well named this game something else then...I guess they're just trying to make some extra bucks on the the name alone.

neojam

The Writer is Allen Covert wrote:

Writer:
The Benchwarmers (2006) (written by)
Grandma's Boy (2006) (written by)
Eight Crazy Nights (2002) (written by)

The Benchwarmers is probably the worst movie I've seen in the last 10 years. It's tries so hard to but funny, when it is everything but.

DogManStar

@Souldier: you mean this one? [www.youtube.com]
just do a search.. seems it's abandonware
liked the original one better,though. replaying it right now,actually :D

loopholezero

@DogManStar: Oddly enough, Benchwarmers is the funniest movie of those three.

mindinrewind