Monkey Island returns for bad or good...

[The Mighty Gerbil]

The BAD: I call the first three Monkey Island games my favorite game of all time (it's like a Star Wars trilogy so I can't decide between them). The fourth game was forgettable but tolerable and now this... atrocity has been released blarg (cussy people in comments on that site). It's so depressing -_- I don't even want to acknowledge it exists. The first three Monkey Island games were fun because you had just as much fun doing the wrong thing as you did doing the right thing because the results were funny either way. I played Taletale's Sam and Max season one, a scant couple things were cute but I don't think I laughed at all and was eye rollingly revolted once. Whether you like the humor in it or not is not the main thing though. It's the fact it was filled with a lot of nothing. Looking around at objects in the game you expect some humorous descriptions not plain descriptions which remain unchanged for most of the episodes. It could not have been that much work to at least write a few new text descriptions per episode. If Monkey Island is anything vaguely like Taletale's Sam and Max I think I will vomit (which probably would be an ingenious joke to the Sam and Max writers). I guess it had to happen every other vaguely popular franchise gets looted for a cash in so I guess Monkey Island was next . This site says they have some of the original Monkey Island people but it sounds like they got Lucasarts B team as the main one they have was involved in Sam and Max season one XD (I think it was Grossman or Purcell I heard only "oversaw" Sam and Max season one too). I ponder why Lucasarts doesn't just make a new Monkey Island game themselves...

The GOOD: On the plus side Lucasarts is going to release a (supposedly pure) remake of the original Monkey Island . I haven't been able to play mine since it's on floppy and I don't have a floppy drive that will work with my computer. It supposed to let you play it with the old graphics (yay!) but I hope it lets you play it with the old midi music too. I think it's mainly the nostalgia but I'd actually like to hear the old midi music again. It was good for midi which is normally a horrible format.

Also note I'm not just seeing the original games through rosy glasses either. I played Curse of Monkey Island (the third game) again a couple years ago and it was still good.

 

[Pelagrin]

I'll probably give it a go. I love the MI games.

My dream is to have Monkey Island on my iPhone. I'd love it if they brought back some point & click adventures for it. (I have Myst at least. the MI games would be great and I'd also love to see 7th Guest again)

 

[blackgravity]

I'll probably give it a go. I love the MI games.

My dream is to have Monkey Island on my iPhone. I'd love it if they brought back some point & click adventures for it. (I have Myst at least. the MI games would be great and I'd also love to see 7th Guest again)

IRONY!

I have 7th Guest, my in-laws had it in their basement and asked me if I wanted it.


Any good?

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

Now I am wondering if Tek ever played the Monkey island series. It's a must for any CGA president!

Ooooh Lucasarts has added several of their old games to steam by the way http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/LucasArts/. Of course holding back on the original Monkey Island series becuase they know they can make more money by releasing suped up special editions <rolls eyes>.

Never played Loom or the Dig but I was kind of interested back when they came out (to a much lesser degree than Monkey Island though).

Ooooooh and for those who have not played it Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was actually a pretty good game (not MI level though). I still have the original outside.

 

[Tek7]

Now I am wondering if Tek ever played the Monkey island series. It's a must for any CGA president!

I haven't.

I've missed out on a few classics, but I'm not opposed to going back and playing the oldies but goodies. I just need to finish Okami first. Then Ocarina of Time. Then Rogue Galaxy. And Grim Fandango. And The Longest Journey. And Dawn of War. And Henry Hatsworth. And BioShock. And whatever games I've left half-finished that I've forgotten about.

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

I haven't.

I've missed out on a few classics, but I'm not opposed to going back and playing the oldies but goodies. I just need to finish Okami first. Then Ocarina of Time. Then Rogue Galaxy. And Grim Fandango. And The Longest Journey. And Dawn of War. And Henry Hatsworth. And BioShock. And whatever games I've left half-finished that I've forgotten about.

You haven't finished Ocarina of Time!?!?! , , O.O arguably the best game on the N64 (not that there are many). Yeesh what does it take to hold Tek's interest (Ocarina is pretty short too).

I've finished all my games except Final Fantasy 12 and Half Life: Episode 2 (becuase steam had an embolism and did not save my grub squishing achievement progress so I am having to redo half of it XD). FF 12 is still in the wrapper becuase I can't bring myself to face the androgynous males and humanistic tones XD.

 

[Tek7]

You haven't finished Ocarina of Time!?!?!

Not yet. I made it to...

Spoiler

...the time skip, where you go from playing Really Young Link to playing Not Quite As Young Link.

Yeesh what does it take to hold Tek's interest

That is a question that deserves its own thread. If my gaming ADD was powerful enough to shield me from getting addicted to World of Warcraft, then there's not much that will hold my attention. That alone is a testament to Team Fortress 2's staying power.

FF 12 is still in the wrapper becuase I can't bring myself to face the androgynous males and humanistic tones XD.

I played about 10 hours of FFXII, then just didn't care any more. I didn't dislike the characters, but I didn't care about them, either.

As I've said in other posts, Square-Enix is dead to me. They've recycled the same character design and themes too often; the torch for RPG innovation has been passed to Atlus.

Now for a somewhat relevant sentence: Grim Fandango was awesome.

 

[Pelagrin]

woot! Rumors are suggesting that MI will be ported to the iPhone after all!!!