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Who is playing the Monkey Island series for first time

shaarkshaark
edited April 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
Anything you want to comment on? Your thoughts on the Monkey Island series from the point of view of a newbie?

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  • guybrush_Lukewoodguybrush_Lukewood
    edited July 2009
    pretty sure they are few and far between i have been playing monkey island for nearly 20 years and im only 25
  • NovotnusNovotnus
    edited July 2009
    Guess most of us are veterans. Old. Bitter. Pig-smellin'.
    :)
    Seriously - my first time was with LCR, long time ago in totally different world. Couldn't understand most of it (hey, I was in my prime school, with one lesson of English a week), used walkthrough, didn't understand most of the jokes, but still loved it.
  • smashingsmashing
    edited July 2009
    Think new players to MI might get intimidated by your singling out to post. I'm sure there are lurkers around who are playing MI for the first time.
  • NovotnusNovotnus
    edited July 2009
    Intimidating? Me? But I'm your friend! My name's... :)
    Didn't mean to intimidate anyone. I guess MI community is one of the friendliest and almost everybody's welcome...
  • Hyperactive German GuybrushHyperactive German Guybrush
    edited July 2009
    ...I'm a newbie. A friend said I should buy this, and he's good with choosing good games, so I did.
    Monkey Island is great and funny. I'm sure there's references I'm missing, but it doesn't change the fact the game is awesome.
  • hplikelikehplikelike
    edited July 2009
    Me! And loving it. However, I also watched a complete playthrough of CoMI and the 5 minute cartoon for SoMI in order to get alot of the in-jokes.
  • hplikelikehplikelike
    edited July 2009
    Novotnus wrote: »
    Intimidating? Me? But I'm your friend! My name's... :)
    Didn't mean to intimidate anyone. I guess MI community is one of the friendliest and almost everybody's welcome...

    Just stay away from the insult swordfighters.
  • Mad MaryMad Mary
    edited July 2009
    hplikelike wrote: »
    Just stay away from the insult swordfighters.
    Well, I am one of those, but I don't bite. In fact, I am glad when I can help with something... if I can, that is. Just don't insult me. ;)
  • smashingsmashing
    edited July 2009
    Mad Mary wrote: »
    Well, I am one of those, but I don't bite. In fact, I am glad when I can help with something... if I can, that is. Just don't insult me. ;)

    You fight like a diary farmer.
  • NimeniNimeni
    edited July 2009
    I actually had never heard of MI until TT came out with ToMI. (Hmm, I wonder if I can put any other acronyms in that sentence?) The funny thing is, I considered myself an adventure gamer, because I grew up on all the old Sierra games and try to keep up with good up n' coming adventure games. Somehow I managed to miss the very presence of LucasArts, though, and so missed out on being a veteran MI player.

    Once they announced, though, I got a hold of the games and started playing. I finished MI 1 and 2 before caving and playing ToMI, and have since finished MI3. (I'll get to MI4 as soon as I figure out how to make it run on my computer. I hate Vista 64).

    I really liked ToMI, its very humorous, beautifully rendered, and has an engaging plot. I was well aware of when I was missing a reference, though, and it kind of bothered me, but its more the perfectionist in me than anything. I think it would stand alone, well, but is much more enhanced by knowledge of the previous games. I guess one advantage is I have no ideals to shatter about what a character should be like or anything like that. Having played them so close together, unlike veterans, its easy for me to accept a character, i.e. Elaine, in ToMI as it is to accept her style of character in the earlier games. They all just sort of . . . blend together.
  • colecole
    edited July 2009
    I never heard of Monkey Island until a few weeks ago. I'm not really a young dude, I'm 36, I just never played alot of games as a kid. My kids got me into games.
    Monkey Island is awesome. I just kept reading, and hearing about it. A guy at work really sold me. I owe that dude lunch, if nothing else. I played the first episode of TOMI first, and I'm about 4 hours into the Secrets special edition which I'm really loving. I should have played it first. This series is just plain fun. I've never had a better time playing games.
  • Ahoy De FancypantsAhoy De Fancypants
    edited July 2009
    I'd watched my older brother play the first two back on our Amiga years ago [whereas I was playing the likes of Magic Pocket], but Tales of Monkey Island is the first MI game I've played myself. I loved it! :D

    The humour, the art flair and all-round fun was a breath of fresh air [for someone, like me, who's well into his platformers, puzzlers and RPGs]. I know I can't wait till Chapter 2, but then I guess TSOMI: SE on my 360 will keep me busy for awhile longer. :p:cool:
  • LeakLeak
    edited July 2009
    smashing wrote: »
    You fight like a diary farmer.
    How appropriate - you fight like a journal bovine. :D

    np: Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Patterns 1 (Vertical Ascent)
  • NovotnusNovotnus
    edited July 2009
    hplikelike wrote: »
    Just stay away from the insult swordfighters.

    Aw, maybe we like to insult each other. And we enjoy torturing a french scientist in a sadistic device. And cutting man's legs off. And stealing monocles. But, who doesn't like it?
  • QuestForGloryFanQuestForGloryFan
    edited April 2010
    I'm actually introducing my fiance to the series starting with Tales and working backwards. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
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