Hence the low price. The consensus 20 years ago was that, while it was good game, it was nowhere close to the trifecta of LucasArts' pinnacles of adventure games made around that time: Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacles, and Sam & Max. So maybe a short length is all for the best. Tim Schafer has said that a short length is okay because games like Limbo and Inside are also very short. A very lame comparison indeed. Limbo and Inside are groundbreaking on a historical scale. Full Throttle is nowhere nearly that significant.

But I'm going to buy the remastered version anyway mainly for the great way Double Fine has done these remasters: the superb drawings, the ability to switch between the old and the new, and all the other improvements. Not to mention, the nostalgia they offer. But those who will play this for the first time will probably be disappointed by the game itself.

I recently played Grim Fandango and Secret of Monkey Island for the first time, and for the most part I was happy with them. Is Full Throttle anywhere as good as those?

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Those two are among some of the best games LucasArts had made. Full Throttle is nowhere nearly as good, and is among the middling products by LucasArts, such as The Dig, Afterlife, and some others.

I remember having to upgrade my PC to 8 Megabytes of RAM to get this game going... ahh the good old days.

While it is criminally short, I would have easily placed it on the same level of quality as Grim and Monkey Island. I doubt anyone will be disappointed as long as they don't expect a marathon gaming event.

In Russia, "Full Throttle" was the most well-known LucasArts game. Mostly because of top quality (and with highly professional voice actors, and with just the right voices) pirate game localization by "Akella" company (which was very rare in the world of English-to-Russian pirate game localizations). I even think that this pirate localization was better than many current-day official localizations of modern AAA game titles.

I wonder if Double Fine can make an agreement to include this localization in their remastered edition. There already were cases where pirate localizations were made a part of an official game for some titles at GOG.com, so they probably could make it in this case too.

Well, it is short but it's way better then The Dig, and I wouldn't categorize it as middling... It is quality and style over substance, but oh! what style!

P.S. when Monkey Island remastered was released few years back, I was suprised how short that game was, you can complete it in under 3 hours if you don't get stuck on puzzles... Same with Grim Fandango.

For me the dig and full throttle where the best of the bunch from lucas arts but is probably mostly because I liked the style and puzzles better.

Yes it is short. Criminally short. But the style, story and characters are awesome to make it all the worth while. The music some of the best out of all the point and click lucasarts games. The Soundtrack by Peter McConnell and the Gone Jackals is epic. Some awesome and entertaining cutscenes. My favourite scene is the one involving a trio of blind bikers and a certain fertilizer truck driver. And there are some secret backstory elements that would make your head spin. Like a huge revelation and theory about one of the characters that Ben encounters on the mine road that I came up with years ago the more I replayed it.

Nope, Grim Fandango was more popular. And Monkey Island. Nobody even played FT.

Beavis and Butthead:Virtual Stupidity is another P and C adventure game that is really short. It is really well done..and captures the humor of the show perfectly. (probably because Mike Judge was heavily involved in making the game and wrote a good deal of the dialogue) and actually holds it own in terms of gameplay (rare for a game meant to cash in on a tv show) but you can probably get through it in five or six hours.
It is supported by Scummv, BTW.

I don't know about people actually playing it, but my understanding from having read a recent interview (which I'll try to dig up later) is that Full Throttle actually sold very well back in the day, breaking at least a million copies shortly after launch - not too shabby for an adventure game at the time, or at any time really. That would explain why they attempted to develop a sequel not once but twice.

We're talking about Russia in particular here.

Realistically speaking all adventure games are super short when you know where to go and what to do. Leisure suit Larry, Broken Sword and hell even DotT is actually quite short if you know the game. They all can be beaten in just a few hours. Hell Myst is probably one of the worst offenders of this as if you have the password for the lighthouse or whatever, you can end the game in 5 minutes.

I beat this game in less than 6 hours. Usually LA games takes a lot longer for me to beat.

I totally disagree here and I grew up with these games. I think Full Throttle is just as good as The Dig, Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max even though it is a shorter game. It's just a different kind of adventure game. The Dig is an epic sci-fi adventure story which was even going to be potentially turned into a movie. Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max are full of clever puzzles and typical, zany Lucasarts humor.

I would say Full Throttle is in the middle and it was a cool adventure game. It has a great story though shorter, some humor mostly related to the main character Ben and a great soundtrack. It wasn't over the top like Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max nor was it really serious like the Dig. It fell in the middle which I thought I was perfect.