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Are there any Monkey Island fans here? I played the very first one in 1990 when it was released (I think), and i've played all the others too. My favourite was 1 and 2 because of its style and it's 2D look. It didn't quite feel the same when they made it more 3D like. I'll also never forget Stan when he was always waving his hands in the air!

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47349725]I fucking love Monkey Island. Some of the best comedic writing in gaming history and it's also one of the granddaddies. Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but personally, I played it non-stop growing up.[/QUOTE] Yeah me too, I was playing it all the time. I played the Xbox 360 version about a year ago, and in that version you have the ability to change the style back to the original 2D version, so I played it all the way through like that to keep it as original as possible. I makes me remember how cool games were back then.

I got one of these badges not too long ago, reference to my favourite game in one of my other favourites. [IMG_thumb]http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0250/6646/products/Maya_Pixelskaya_Ask_Me_About_Loom_Button_Badge_01_8091e737-de79-4b9c-b78f-b0d85cfce21b.jpg[/IMG_thumb]

Hear of it all the time, but I've never played it. Heck, I don't even think I've seen any gameplay! Since I hear a lot of good things about it though, I do plan on checking it out eventually. I think they're for PC so I should be able to play it with ease.

[QUOTE=Linkuya;47392743]Hear of it all the time, but I've never played it. Heck, I don't even think I've seen any gameplay! Since I hear a lot of good things about it though, I do plan on checking it out eventually. I think they're for PC so I should be able to play it with ease.[/QUOTE] They're old as fuck though. I don't really know, because I haven't tried myself yet, but that could easily mean that they're a bit of a pain to get working on modern computers. Might need DOSBox.

[QUOTE=Linkuya;47392743]Hear of it all the time, but I've never played it. Heck, I don't even think I've seen any gameplay! Since I hear a lot of good things about it though, I do plan on checking it out eventually. I think they're for PC so I should be able to play it with ease.[/QUOTE] You can get the first 2 on GoG. They are "Special edition" or something with upgraded graphics and voice-acting, but you can use the old-school graphics in the options I can't wait for 3 and 4 to be on GoG too. These games along with Grim Fandango are my childhood

Fun fact, since Disney owns the IP now, one of the developers at Avalanche Software is really pushing for Guybrush to be included in Disney Infinity.

Monkey Island is definitely one of my favourite series. I really want a new one. The cliffhanger that Tales left has been hanging for nearly 6 years now.

[video=youtube;2Vp8JYzT6Gs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vp8JYzT6Gs[/video] I really did enjoy playing through the special edition

[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;47393584]Monkey Island is definitely one of my favourite series. I really want a new one. The cliffhanger that Tales left has been hanging for nearly 6 years now.[/QUOTE] I've been wondering, are you THE Scarfhuluh? If yes, well, hey. Nice to "meet" you.

[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;47393677]I've been wondering, are you THE Scarfhuluh? If yes, well, hey. Nice to "meet" you.[/QUOTE] Yep. That's me.

[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;47393949]Yep. That's me.[/QUOTE] I fangasmed a bit.

I grew up watching and playing the 3rd and 4th games, so i love the series its just so great

[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;47393584]Monkey Island is definitely one of my favourite series. I really want a new one. The cliffhanger that Tales left has been hanging for nearly 6 years now.[/QUOTE] Yeah it has been a long time now. I would love to have a new game come out.

The Monkey Island series is up there with Grim Fandango for one of my favourite games/series. Pretty much all old Lucasarts stuff was great. A friend of mine likes to taunt me by saying that Disney are going to put guybrush in Disney infinity or square will put him in KH. The latter being too strange an idea.

Did somebody say Monkey Island?

I just wish Monkey Island 3 was natively playable on my pc, I would pay so much money for a remaster of that game.

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[QUOTE=WhatANiceName;47402205]I just wish Monkey Island 3 was natively playable on my pc, I would pay so much money for a remaster of that game.[/QUOTE] You should be able to run it through ScummVM and it'll work without problems.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47414022]I just bought "Tales of Monkey Island" on the PS3 for super, super cheap. Like, less than a dollar level of cheap for all 5 episodes. Anybody in this thread play these before? How did they hold up?[/QUOTE] I've started the first episode, it was pretty good from what I had played. I have so many games to finish I sorta dropped it. I should finish it one of these days.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47414022]I just bought "Tales of Monkey Island" on the PS3 for super, super cheap. Like, less than a dollar level of cheap for all 5 episodes. Anybody in this thread play these before? How did they hold up?[/QUOTE] Well, here's a rundown of the series: -The Secret of Monkey Island: one of the all time adventure classics, definitely worth a playthrough even if some of the puzzles are pretty absurd -Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: arguably even better than the first. Stands up on its own and has a very different feel to the first game. -The Curse of Monkey Island: An attempt by LucasArts to replicate Monkey Island after Ron Gilbert left. There's a lot to like about this game but it's still pretty much a retread. -Escape from Monkey Island: Stay the fuck away from this game. Just don't ever play it. The transition to 3D doesn't really work. It runs in the Grim Fandango engine but Grim Fandango's sharp cornered character designs worked well with the low-poly style. It doesn't work at all for Escape, everything just looks weird. The plot is stupid and it really drags late-game. Not only that, but it retcons the fuck out of the first two games and introduces a shitload of plot-holes. I wish this game just hadn't been made. And then Tales: -Close to the quality of the first two games, but not quite there. It did a lot of original things for the series, but some puzzles are almost pulled directly from the other games. It's definitely a game made for fans of the series in that sense, so I'd recommend at least playing the first two before you try it, but I didn't and I still enjoyed the game quite a lot. Really comes into its own in the third episode and it stays very good from that point forward. One of Telltale's first games with an emotional story, and it didn't feel out of place at all despite the previously light-hearted nature of the series.

Wow, do you really hate Escape that much? Honestly, that was the one I played firstly and I loved it with all my heart. I tried the other two and found I loved them also but there was a special feel for Escape.

[QUOTE=Eeshton;47416490]Wow, do you really hate Escape that much? Honestly, that was the one I played firstly and I loved it with all my heart. I tried the other two and found I loved them also but there was a special feel for Escape.[/QUOTE] Yes, I absolutely do. It leant way way too hard on references to the previous games, particularly the first, even more than Curse. The shit about returning to Melee Island and seeing all those old characters you know and love and hearing them say those lines you remember is such a blatant fan-pandering measure. It felt like such an excuse to not do anything new or interesting and it really just showed that LucasArts was a shell of its former self, with Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer having left the company years before it released. The shit it tried to do with [sp]Captain Marley = Herman Toothrot[/sp] was fucking idiotic and didn't fit at all with what we already knew about those characters. Ozzie Mandrill wasn't an interesting villain and [sp]they ended up just going with Zelda/Ganon-esque "It was LeChuck pulling the strings the whole time!" shit that basically proved they didn't care about making him a good character.[/sp] The Monkey Kombat segment was boring and felt silly and unfitting. When making a sequel to a game, you never want it to be a retread. Monkey Island 2 and Day of the Tentacle are great examples of this. They took place in the same continuity as their predecessors and each game brought back several beloved characters, but that was where it ended. Neither game relied on the same set pieces and plot structure of the games that came before, and they have their own identity as a result. Thank god they eventually made Tales, because if that was how the series had ended, it'd be a travesty. Tales is certainly closer to the MI2/DotT mold, in that it introduced a lot of new characters and it had an entirely different plot structure to the previous games while still paying homage to the originals, and that's an example of what an adventure game sequel should be. I really don't understand how Escape could be anyone's favourite in the series. If you like it, then fair enough, but the common opinion is that it just doesn't even come close to the others, the first two especially.

First game i played was Curse and it is still my favourite. I played them all besides Escape which always kept bugging out for me and gave me the shits.

[QUOTE=RaptorBlackz;47417193]First game i played was Curse and it is still my favourite. I played them all besides Escape which always kept bugging out for me and gave me the shits.[/QUOTE] Curse is my favourite also, I could only imagine what it could have been if Ron Gilbert had worked on it though.

[QUOTE=Flyingman356;47403592]You should be able to run it through ScummVM and it'll work without problems.[/QUOTE] Nah when I tried that I had 1 big problem, for some reason I couldn't save. I had to beat the game in one run but that was fun though so in the end it really didn't matter.

Curse deffo has the best art style, imo.

Grew up on the originals back in the day, then played 3 and 4. To any fans of the originals, are the new episodic ones worth playing?

[QUOTE=cyanidem;47420229]Grew up on the originals back in the day, then played 3 and 4. To any fans of the originals, are the new episodic ones worth playing?[/QUOTE] the new ones are decent. they feel a bit strange in a couple ways. probably the first one is how they try to take a more "cinematic" approach to certain things. in all other titles the screen was largely static, with any action going on from the same angle at all times. just like all classic adventure games. in Tales, though, the camera will jump around when you interact with objects, focusing and shifting nearly constantly, focusing on characters faces, etc. it's not [I]bad[/I], but I personally don't like that component of it. cutscenes were present in MI4, however they were fewer and further between. however, the story is interesting. i like it, and the visual design (aside from the camera biz) is pretty great. it's fun, the puzzles are all pretty reasonable, the dialogue is good, and it's a fun time. humor is on point pretty well throughout, plenty of visual and dialogue gags that work well. puns a plenty. the one thing i hate. [I]hate.[/I] [B]HATE.[/B] is that they used the [I]same fucking character models[/I] and just changed the costumes / skins on minor characters. the same facial structure, same body type, everything. there's a couple different structures and they repeat usually each at least twice in the same episode. it's so glaringly obvious. that's a HUGE disappointment after playing the first four titles, which each featured heavily differentiated and distinct characters. the artwork for each character was distinct and gave so much personality to them. i should mention it was really only glaringly obvious in the first two episodes, it got better in subsequent ones. but oh dang does it still get me [editline]29th March 2015[/editline] the ending of MI5 is such a crazy ballbuster that I need the next installment though, omg [editline]29th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=RetaDepa;47400965]Did somebody say Monkey Island?[/QUOTE] we'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.