Full Throttle Remastered Rides onto Linux

I bought this, day of the tentacle and grim fandango on steam as I didn't buy them before. Any recommendation for which order I play them in?

The order doesn't really matter in my opinion. They're all very good, and very different.

I bought this, day of the tentacle and grim fandango on steam as I didn't buy them before. Any recommendation for which order I play them in?

They're all separate games, no link between any of them so you can play them in any order.

PS if they're taking suggestions for their next remaster, I'd like to offer my vote for Zombies Ate My neighbours.

I can't justify giving Tim Schafer money. He, or at least his company, can't seem to know how to manage large sums of money and their recent projects (other than Linux ports) come out to be pretty horrendous.

That seems like a strange reason to take a principled ( "justify" ) stand against giving someone money. I mean, mismanaging money isn't an ethical failure, and the fact that someone makes products X, Y and Z which are lousy seems irrelevant to whether you should give them money for product A which is good. In a world where we all hand out money for products whose company CEOs and major shareholders are actively evil, this just seems a weirdly pointless cavil.


Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 29 July 2017 at 4:38 pm UTC

Got it from the Humble Store. Never played it in the old days - really looking forward to do so now.

Very tempting to get it via Humble store - You get the Steam key and the DRM-free version too.

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And got it on Humble for myself.


Last edited by g000h on 31 July 2017 at 9:04 am UTC

As far as I remember back in the old days(around 1995) with my very old PC I had to pay around 200$ to add 4MB RAM in order to play Full Throttle!
It needed 8MB RAM :'( ( NO REGRETS!!!)

You can get Full Throttle for 5 euro from Steam, if you own all Double Fine Games you get like 67% Discount


Last edited by wolfyrion on 29 July 2017 at 8:16 pm UTC

You rock! One day when I was mowing the lawn, I had the interview you did with Boiling Steam playing on my phone (headphones of course) and bought the Linux version of Day of the Tentacle soon after.

It was my first time playing the game and you did an amazing job.

I hope you eventually assist in bringing over more games like the Secret of Monkey Island remasters.

Heh. I didn't realize I already have it on GOG :) When did I even buy it? Or may be it's one of the sales bonuses?

And, can Double Fine make some deal with Disney to release classic Full Throttle as a free bonus for those who buy the remastered game? It will allow playing it in ScummVM wherever it runs :)


Last edited by Shmerl on 30 July 2017 at 3:28 am UTC

Got it from the Humble Store. Never played it in the old days - really looking forward to do so now.

Very tempting to get it via Humble store - You get the Steam key and the DRM-free version too.

I bought it off of Humble Bundle today as well since it was the cheapest store and I had some Humble Bundle wallet credit. Having a Steam key and a direct link to a DRM free tar.gz file helps too.

Thanks for the kind comments, people! I'm glad to hear that the game is being positively received.

I've been waiting to share this screenshot for over a month and a half :D

Great! I'll buy on GOG. Did Double Fine consider open sourcing their remastered engines?

I don't believe Double Fine owns the remastered engines enough to open source them. They're based on the LucasArts developed wrapper around the original SCUMM engine that was developed for the Monkey Island special editions, so Disney owns that stuff (and with them being a driving force behind extending copyright and are so reluctant to sell IP that they own, it feels really unlikely that they'd consider it).

And, can Double Fine make some deal with Disney to release classic Full Throttle as a free bonus for those who buy the remastered game? It will allow playing it in ScummVM wherever it runs :)

That's not something I can really comment on or influence. Wouldn't hurt to let Double Fine know that that sort of thing is desired, though!

This was the first adventure game I ever played, and it ruined the genre for me, because everything else I played after just felt inferior.

However, I would say that Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis and Gemini Rue get pretty darn close. :)

All are really great games, but to me, The Dig sits marginally above them.

Great stuff Cheeseness. You keep yourself very busy. Goodluck with whatever you do next.

Thanks! I think I'll be trying to focus on shipping Winter's Wake and the Icicle engine. That said, I'm sure I'll get roped into other things here and there along the way :D

Also, it's got my vote because the Windows trolls[1] in the steam forum "Linux support?" thread are banned haha :-D. Seems DoubleFine have a developer there by the name of "Cheesiness" who seems quite friendly towards Linux and that's always a good thing to see!

Just to be clear, I'm an external contractor when I'm doing ports for them and a volunteer community coordinator/forum moderator when I'm not.

Now they've finished with this, how about Brutal Legend 2? Hint hint ;-)

I can't speak for Double Fine on that front, but I think it's pretty safe to say that there's zero chance of BL2 being on the table before Psychonauts 2 ships. With BL2 being such an expensive game (music licencing costs alone would be astronomical), it's possible that it'd never get made. That said, who knows what might happen in the future if the stars align right!

Yay! Thanks for being awesome once again Cheese! I will definitely pick it up at some point. The Dig next on the list? ;)

No plans for The Dig that I'm aware of! Would definitely love to have a hand in that one if the opportunity arose though. I think it's my favourite LucasArts adventure game.

I'll be eagerly waiting for your article on the port process. If your past articles are anything to go by, it ought to be a fascinating read.

At this stage, I'm not sure what form it will take - I need a bit more time to reflect on what's happened. Hopefully that won't be too long though :)

I was wondering why this was not available when Day of the Tentacle was.

If I remember right, full production on Full Throttle Remastered didn't start until long after I was done with Day of the Tentacle Remastered's Linux port. The Windows version of FT:R didn't come out until April this year.

You rock! One day when I was mowing the lawn, I had the interview you did with Boiling Steam playing on my phone (headphones of course) and bought the Linux version of Day of the Tentacle soon after.

It was my first time playing the game and you did an amazing job.

I hope you eventually assist in bringing over more games like the Secret of Monkey Island remasters.

Thanks! I'm glad to hear you had a positive experience with DotT and that there was something of interest in my Boiling Steam interview.

Regarding the Monkey Island special editions, I'd love to see them come to Linux. I'm not aware of any forward movement on that front, but it'd never hurt to ask Double Fine and let them know that there's an audience!

I can't speak for Double Fine on that front, but I think it's pretty safe to say that there's zero chance of BL2 being on the table before Psychonauts 2 ships. With BL2 being such an expensive game (music licencing costs alone would be astronomical), it's possible that it'd never get made. That said, who knows what might happen in the future if the stars align right!

I'm actually more interested in the sequel to Full Throttle :) It was originally planned in various forms, but never materialized.

I can't speak for Double Fine on that front, but I think it's pretty safe to say that there's zero chance of BL2 being on the table before Psychonauts 2 ships. With BL2 being such an expensive game (music licencing costs alone would be astronomical), it's possible that it'd never get made. That said, who knows what might happen in the future if the stars align right!

I'm actually more interested in the sequel to Full Throttle :) It was originally planned in various forms, but never materialized.

Right, there was preproduction work done on at least two iterations that I know of (this Bill Tiller interview touches on both of those), but neither of those had Tim's involvement - he heard about it via rumour in the office and that eventually played a role in him leaving LucasArts (touched on in this interview.

I think that Day of the Tentacle and The Curse of Monkey Island are examples of how a sequel without the involvement of its original team/creative lead can be interesting and compelling, but I think that both of those are also good examples of how such a project can depart significantly from its origins.

Right, there was preproduction work done on at least two iterations that I know of (this Bill Tiller interview touches on both of those), but neither of those had Tim's involvement - he heard about it via rumour in the office and that eventually played a role in him leaving LucasArts (touched on in this interview.

Yep, I remember that Bill Tiller interview, it's pretty good. Here is also a good article about what happened to the sequel (it also talks about the history of Full Throttle itself).


Last edited by Shmerl on 30 July 2017 at 6:20 am UTC

Right, there was preproduction work done on at least two iterations that I know of (this Bill Tiller interview touches on both of those), but neither of those had Tim's involvement - he heard about it via rumour in the office and that eventually played a role in him leaving LucasArts (touched on in this interview.

Yep, I remember that Bill Tiller interview, it's pretty good. Here is also a good article about what happened to the sequel (it also talks about the history of Full Throttle itself).

That's a great article - the Campo Santo Quarterly is always full of good stuff. When I read it, I didn't come away with the impression that it really touched on what happened to the sequel(s). It pretty much just says that they were cancelled. It is a good look at Full Throttle's origins and identity, though!

I mostly meant that it references that Tim didn't even know about the sequel first.

Bought and completed in one sitting. Such a great game.
Also I thanked no cats.

If anybody was keen to pick it up on itch, I sorted out what was going on with the discount there and got that extended by a day (it would've ended today).

Regarding the Monkey Island special editions, I'd love to see them come to Linux. I'm not aware of any forward movement on that front, but it'd never hurt to ask Double Fine and let them know that there's an audience!

+1 to the audience!

Aaand it's up on GOG now too \o/

Excellent port, as enjoyable as ever. Really like that you can change render modes to get the old experience. Almost makes me miss my old Mac.