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I picked up the remastered version of Monkey Island.  Julie is not impressed with what they've done to Elaine:

becomes


Now, admittedly they're both skinnier, with longer necks, but I have to say that the original is a lot sexier than the new one.

Date: 2009-07-26 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
Ditto. The later games have a decent consistent goofy look, but to me the originals will always look the way they looked: that Elaine has gravitas and it still funny, rather than everything being solely ridiculous.

Date: 2009-07-26 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lebeautemps.livejournal.com
They looked like their spent their supermarket budget on hairspray and eyebrow threading.

Date: 2009-07-26 11:48 am (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
The first picture looks rather as if it's in slightly the wrong aspect ratio: they both look somewhat vertically squashed. This seems more plausible to me:

(Hopefully everyone else's browser will scale the image the same way Firefox did in response to that HTML.)

Date: 2009-07-26 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com
*nods* I was thinking that.

Date: 2009-07-26 12:50 pm (UTC)
ext_116401: (Magic)
From: [identity profile] avatar.livejournal.com
there was always something not quite right about this picture that I couldn't get. AND THAT'S IT.

Date: 2009-07-26 01:49 pm (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
Yes, I noticed that. Presumably, therefore, the poor choice of aspect ratio was made during the image's construction, at some point before the people were superimposed over the fireworks.

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