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I'm on a crappy laptop, so I'll have to wait until I'm done with my visiting my home town to play. Soon.
I pre-ordered Tales of Monkey Island as well + made a big contest for it over on Abandonia where I'm admin.
Personally, I'm sceptical about the whole Steam move. I already own all their games in original big boxes anyway, but I would still applaud them if I felt they did it for more than just to squeeze another drop of cash out of those games (and I predict €10 for those old games, which is quite a lot).
May I remind you all how badly LucasArts has treated adventure fans in the last decade? Sam & Max 2 got cancelled when it was practically finished (which made Steve Purcell start his own company in anger), they released a bunch of oldies as "Windows XP" versions but tons of people had trouble getting the games to run and LucasArts were too lazy to give any real support for those games which meant that lots of abandonware forums suffered the many "Sam & Max won't work!" posts
For a company that has been publishing shitty Star Wars games for the past 10 years and little else ... meh, I'll wait and see what the angle is.
Personally, I'm sceptical about the whole Steam move. I already own all their games in original big boxes anyway, but I would still applaud them if I felt they did it for more than just to squeeze another drop of cash out of those games (and I predict €10 for those old games, which is quite a lot).
May I remind you all how badly LucasArts has treated adventure fans in the last decade? Sam & Max 2 got cancelled when it was practically finished (which made Steve Purcell start his own company in anger), they released a bunch of oldies as "Windows XP" versions but tons of people had trouble getting the games to run and LucasArts were too lazy to give any real support for those games which meant that lots of abandonware forums suffered the many "Sam & Max won't work!" posts
For a company that has been publishing shitty Star Wars games for the past 10 years and little else ... meh, I'll wait and see what the angle is.
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Chummer
Been playing it. Pretty fun, though I think it's atad easy. Then again it's only the first episode.
I got stuck on ONE part so far due mainly to doing something out of order.
I got stuck on ONE part so far due mainly to doing something out of order.
figmentPez
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I'm enjoying it so far, but as yet it's not as good as CMI. LeChuck's voice just doesn't have the same rumble. The secondary character designs are pretty bland. And the control scheme is a little annoying. Other than that it's fantastic. The music is nostalgia inducing. Gubyrush, Elaine, LeChuck and another major charcter [spoiler:241saf2z]The VooDoo Lady[/spoiler:241saf2z] all look fantastic. The other voices are fantastic, especially Guybrush (who is just the same as ever) and Elaine. The island I've seen so far is beautiful, and the humor is great. Some of the little bits have had me actually laughing out loud.
Just remember, folks, this is still just the first episode. Give Telltale the benefit of the doubt until about the second or third episode or so. That seems to be when they tend to hit their stride with their series. That seemed to be the case with a lot of their other series, such as Sam & Max (which started getting really good by the third episode and the whole second season was awesome) and Strong Bad (first one was meh, the rest were great).
As a fan of Telltale's stuff, though, I'm incredibly happy to hear everyone enjoying Monkey Island.
As a fan of Telltale's stuff, though, I'm incredibly happy to hear everyone enjoying Monkey Island.
Well I got faith in Telltale - their goal is to make the games fun and enjoyable to complete without throwing incredibly hard puzzles our way - as long as the games are not TOO easy (like Dreamfall's) I'm fine with it.
The Good:
- great humour
- graphics are spot on (in fact, the new Guybrush is wonderfully animated - the SOMI remake makes Guybrush look terrible in comparison)
- interesting story
- good dialog
- great music as usual
- good voices
The Bad:
- another dreary console-friendly control scheme. I just want to click to move - was that so hard to implement for the PC version? Why force us to drag and hold and rotate to move? It's annoying if you got to move around a lot
- the camera views are a bit wonky at time
- why give dialog choices if you're going to ignore ALL of them? I know this was done in previous games but at least let the game actually use your answer *sometimes*.
- the puzzles are too obvious
Let's look at Secret Of Monkey Island:
- the puzzles required good timing and some proper thinking. They weren't obvious and usually very clever
So far in the first episode of TOMI:
- the game nearly spells out what you need to do. The solutions tend to be straightforward and there's very few secondary puzzles to complete.
It's a great game if you're in it for the story & atmosphere but for an adventure veteran like me, it's too easy.
- great humour
- graphics are spot on (in fact, the new Guybrush is wonderfully animated - the SOMI remake makes Guybrush look terrible in comparison)
- interesting story
- good dialog
- great music as usual
- good voices
The Bad:
- another dreary console-friendly control scheme. I just want to click to move - was that so hard to implement for the PC version? Why force us to drag and hold and rotate to move? It's annoying if you got to move around a lot
- the camera views are a bit wonky at time
- why give dialog choices if you're going to ignore ALL of them? I know this was done in previous games but at least let the game actually use your answer *sometimes*.
- the puzzles are too obvious
Let's look at Secret Of Monkey Island:
- the puzzles required good timing and some proper thinking. They weren't obvious and usually very clever
So far in the first episode of TOMI:
- the game nearly spells out what you need to do. The solutions tend to be straightforward and there's very few secondary puzzles to complete.
It's a great game if you're in it for the story & atmosphere but for an adventure veteran like me, it's too easy.
I tend to agree that continuing these stories are good, but when I played Sam & Max Season 1, I felt like the entire thing was a little dumbed down. It was simple. MAKE ME THINK!
figmentPez
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For those that don't know, you can use WASD for movement (which I found much preferrable) as well as click-drag on the mouse. You can also use Shift to run. Still, I would have liked to just have a click to move like in Sam & Max or Strongbad.
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rvdleun
Just finished it myself. Although it's definately not too challenging, adventure-wise(although you may want to turn off the hint-dialogue in the options menu), there is a Monkey Island feeling there that felt very good. Had a blast with the first episode, and looking forward where the storyline is going.
figmentPez
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Aww, it's over. :waah:
MUST HAVE MORE!!! When does the next one come out?
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August? *sigh*
Well, I guess that's better that coming out in the middle of my next trip.
MUST HAVE MORE!!! When does the next one come out?
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August? *sigh*
Well, I guess that's better that coming out in the middle of my next trip.
C
Chummer
Loved it over all. Much more faun than MI4.
Too bad I have to wait a whole month for the next part!
Too bad I have to wait a whole month for the next part!
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Dunny
Downloaded it yesterday, just beat it, can't wait for August, and am replaying all the old Monkey Island games (except Escape) to hold me over.
Oh, and for LucasArts to truly recapture the classic adventure game, they have to release something in the vein of Maniac Mansion or the greatest adventure game ever made...
Oh, and for LucasArts to truly recapture the classic adventure game, they have to release something in the vein of Maniac Mansion or the greatest adventure game ever made...
figmentPez
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Are you playing the classic Secret of Monkey Island or the new Special Edition?
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Dunny
Classic. Thank God for ScummVMfigmentPez said:
Oh my God this drag to move control scheme is terrible. Otherwise I'm enjoying it though.
Just use the WSAD keyboard controls. It works a lot better.
figmentPez
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Is anyone else doing the treasure hunt thing? It's kinda boring so far, and really simple. I hope they either make the puzzles more interesting, or just give us the, rather underwhelming, bonus stuff (so far it's been one wallpaper I couldn't download because of a website error, and some avatars I probably won't use).
Also, the Lucas Arts twitter feed says that Monkey Island is on the iPhone now. Their link was to the iTunes store, so I have no idea about details, because stupid Apple thinks I need to have iTunes installed just to see what they have available. Good grief, like I'm really enticed to install iTunes without even knowing what they have. Screw you Apple.
Also, the Lucas Arts twitter feed says that Monkey Island is on the iPhone now. Their link was to the iTunes store, so I have no idea about details, because stupid Apple thinks I need to have iTunes installed just to see what they have available. Good grief, like I'm really enticed to install iTunes without even knowing what they have. Screw you Apple.
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rvdleun
Just came across this little youtube vid, and have to share it...
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, here we come?
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, here we come?
figmentPez
Staff member
TMI: The Siege of Spinner Cay comes out August 20th!
To tide you over, here's a hilarious flash animation of what might happen* in the game.
* yeah, right
To tide you over, here's a hilarious flash animation of what might happen* in the game.
* yeah, right
figmentPez
Staff member
:aaahhh: It's here! It's here! It's HERE! :aaahhh:figmentPez said:
Ghaaaa! Do I skip eating breakfast to play?.... No, that might reduce my overall playtime today... GRARGH!
figmentPez
Staff member
Part III of I wonder what happens in Monkey Island.... *WARNING* Spoilers for parts 1 & 2 of TMI, and non-spoilers for part 3.
ROFL that was so funny! "I told you, it's meaty and dangerous out there!"
Oh, yeah. TMI The Lair of the Leviathan comes out Sept 29th
ROFL that was so funny! "I told you, it's meaty and dangerous out there!"
Oh, yeah. TMI The Lair of the Leviathan comes out Sept 29th
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JONJONAUG
SWEET!
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JONJONAUG
Well holy shit, that looks amazing. It's a teaser video of something that'll never happen, but Monkey Island 2 with that sort of 3D quality would be outstanding.
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JONJONAUG
Tales 3 came out a few days ago. If you still haven't picked it up, do so. Right now the series standing IMO is Curse>Tales>Secret>Revenge.
I haven't played Escape yet.
I haven't played Escape yet.
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rvdleun
Secret>Tales>Revenge>Curse for me. Finished the third chapter a few days back. They're pretty simple(only got stuck on one puzzle), but I like the pacing and the situations. It all feels very Monkey Island-ish. Very happy that Telltale got the license for this. 
figmentPez
Staff member
The Curse of Monkey Island is lowest on your list???Secret>Tales>Revenge>Curse for me. Finished the third chapter a few days back. They're pretty simple(only got stuck on one puzzle), but I like the pacing and the situations. It all feels very Monkey Island-ish. Very happy that Telltale got the license for this.
That had better be simply because you rate them all very highly.
figmentPez
Staff member
Bwahahahahaha! The ending credits to Lair of the Leviathan! Hilarious!
figmentPez
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The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood comes out Friday!
To tide you over, the totally non-spoilerific: Trial and Execution: I Be Wonderin' What 'Appens...
To tide you over, the totally non-spoilerific: Trial and Execution: I Be Wonderin' What 'Appens...
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