episodic monkey island good idea?
i don't think they should have released monkey island episodic, because monkey island has always been visiting many islands including returning to previous islands (i think this is the case with curse of monkey island, can't remember escape.) anyway, episodic means that they will have to put in the island again if they want to return to a previous island. also, the item you currently hold, will they be lost? or will you be given the items you need automatically. anyway i'm just thinking, why not make it expansion style? wouldn't that be better? i don't know, telltale is really good, i just don't like the fact that sam and max season 1 is always starting in the office and wallace and gromit is always in wallabe street, i don't want monkey island to be limited like the games above, monkey island has always been huge.
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Plus a new 20hr MI game would ruin my life right now (trying to revise uni retakes) so it works for me!
No. They haven't said for sure that no islands would make a comeback. In fact, I think someone hinted that this was the last time we'd see Flotsam 'for a while'. They're just focusing on new locations. Besides:
In MI1 each chapter took place in seperate locations until part 4 which was a return to Melee.
In Mi2 each chapter was also mostly seperate locations, it's just that the massive 2nd chapter was 3 whole islands (including scabb from part 1).
In Curse of Monkey Island each chapter took place in a completely seperate location (not counting the cannon shop in the ship combat section)
I haven't played EMI lately but I think it followed a similar pattern to the above games.
So having each chapter take place in seperate locations is completely in keeping with the series.
one thing i hate is the fact that the text you choose isn't said word for word. it's really funny when there is a ridiculous line and he refuses to say it, now he refuses to say pretty much anything.
Don't you mean "Herman Toothrot (secret, revenge and escape)?"
He appeared in the first two games as well.
Also it's clear items from the last episode will carry over.
i started playing from curse, graphics had evolved too much for me so i couldn't find myself playing the first 2. since the 1st one is coming out i may give it a try. the reason being that the graphics are similar, it's nice the fact that they wanted to keep it original but i don't like the limit of change so i'm on 50/50.
i agree that MI is quite obviously, always been episodic style. i was just suggesting expansion, i know there is hardly any difference. i don't mind.
what i do mind is the amount of exe shortcuts i have on my desktop. why don't they make 1 exe which when you launch, has links to the episodes. the ones you have are highlighted and the ones you don't are non existent or dull. don't you think that's a better idea? for example nero startsmart (a burning application) has links to several main applications.
I don't see why a fancier set of visuals makes the previous ones unplayable if they were playable before.
Financially for developers -yes.
Boom problem solved, move on.
Surrender to this.
I strongly disagree. I am a fan, and I think most people who enjoyed the game are too.
I find it hard playing old games, but I think the first 2 Monkey Islands (especially 2) stand up pretty well even today.
it may be good, maybe not, i don't know. i may play the remakes i don't know. i like monkey island but it's all them pixels, it would seem like playing space invaders in a graphical sense.
Besides, the courthouse in chapter one makes it pretty clear that we return to flotsam island at least once.
Also: MI 1 and 2 hold up to the test of time pretty well, I played both long after MI 3 came out and could still enjoy them. Of course I did grow up on the old Sierra adventures, so you could say I was used to worse both graphically and design wise.
I just dont like the fact I'll have to download each Chapter, so eventually I'll end up with 5 Desktop icons leading to each Chapter!
Hopefully they'll allow a big joint .exe when they're all released, so if you wanna play through again- you're not gonna have to re-boot (basically) the game for every chapter.
Create a shortcut to the Tales of Monkey Island folder, that's what I did with the Sam & Max episodes.
Telltale is only a small company, the game probably wouldn't have happened at at all if it wasn't episodic, they may not have the budget to create a full-length Monkey Island without splitting it up. They're self-publishing it - they paid LucasArts for the license, as opposed to the normal developer/publisher relationship where the publisher pays them to make the game.
(does anybody know where the sign out button is on this forum? :-P)
Telltale are not part of LucasArts. They have many former LucasArts employees, but Monkey Island was licensed from LucasArts just like Wallace and Gromit was from Aardman and Strong Bad from The Brothers Chaps, etc.
So actually Telltale did already 'buy monkey island rights', that is to say they paid LucasArts money in order to use the Monkey Island license to make this episodic series.
Stop whining
Plus, of all the old adventure game series to revive, this one was the perfect candidate to adapt to the new episodic format because its old games were already structured that way. When all 5 episodes are done, it should feel just like we played one big MI game instead of 5 independent small games.
The only other Telltale series I've played is Sam & Max season 1. Each episode had no relation to the others, so it just felt like I was doing the same things over and over in each chapter with no bigger picture. So I had a hard time staying interested. Monkey island shouldn't have that problem, because it seems each chapter will have a cliffhanger that makes you want to play the next one.
yes but now you'll have to wait a month every time you accomplish the main objective :-P
Exactly!
I think the bagpipe would have had a different tone if all the whiners knew that they had to wait 6-12 months before they could once again be a pirate and rule the sea
I certainly wouldnt have had the nerves to wait 6 months until i could buy the whole game like some people here have mentioned they will. Just reading through forums and reading reviews is enough to make me crazy for the next chapter
i know what you mean. long wait+painful wait
As a mostly console player, I've never even heard of a game being released like this. I gotta say that I think I like it. It's gonna be fun playing an episode and then getting on the forum and chatting about it. Of coarse just waiting for the next episode builds your excitement and adds to the fun. I really think i'ts neat.
your lucky to even have a console!
True, but how is that not better than waiting for something that will most likely never happen?
I think we will see again flotsam island (because of the courthouse), in Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood.
But it really seems like Telltale have thought it through quite well, with the story progression through each chapter etc, and I have to admit despite my initial misgivings to actually liking this format for a few reasons:
- being able to play it as soon as each bit is released. For MI3 and MI4, I had to wait six to eight weeks for my copy to ship from the United States, which was painful.
- the anticipation with the cliffhangers etc - I really like being able to try and guess and come up with theories as to what will happen and discussing them on this forum is really fun.
- the opportunity to provide input back to telltale about the game - a good example of this is the voodoo lady library as influenced by the private pirates forum.. how often do you get to influence one of your favourite game series? plus, the opportunity to provide feedback on the puzzles, graphics etc are going to make the next ones even better.
- the fact that the chapters are released a month apart is also good, since it means playing time is more spread out.. so no need to disappear off the face of the earth for a week while playing a new game.
But regardless, Monkey Island is Monkey Island, and I'd probably buy it in any format it was released in
Exactly how I feel.
Now I play the chapters 1-4 in monthly bites and to the release of the fifth chapter, I will probably play all the 5 chapters in one session.