I think there will be a certain amount of "Have to get off this island!" for one reason or another, just like the other games.
True enough. When you think about all the games and their plot, you are essentially having to get off of one island to get to a different, more alluring island. Melee to Monkey Island, escaping Scabb Island, leaving Puerto Pollo, escaping Monkey Island, escaping Flotsam. Quite repetitive in theme, I should think.
Well, no, since LeChuck (or anyone for that matter) hadn't even heard of Guybrush before SMI, so he died before even meeting him.
I like this idea of uninished buiseness leading LeChuck to drop dead once and for all as soon as he finally gets married. Hell, i like it A LOT. I could even see it at being the actual secret of monkey island if done right.
But...
I higly doubt that's going to happen in tales. This would just end the storyline once and for all.. No more LeChuck = No more reason for guybrush to keep trying to kill again, right ?
I don't know if Telltale plans of doing other seasons or not, but it seems unlikeley they'd end the series so drastically.
Haha. I just thought it'd be a nice touch if they were to ever end the series for good. Glad y'all like my idea, though. I never thought it might be the actual Secret (i.e. Ron Gilbert's Secret) as I'm sure his one is much cleverer. It'd be a great way to kill off LeChuck one day. But I don't want Monkey Island to ever end so, in a way, I hope they never use my theory! The unfinished business does make a little sense if you think about it, though - remember what happened in the Goodsoup crypt?
And, yeah, 'drop dead' is a reference to Seepgood I only just remembered it after playing SMI:SE.
Well, on second thought i wouldn't say i could be THE secret, but part of it.
I dunno, too lazy to think about it, but as i said it would be quite a nice twist.
Has anyone noticed that if you look at Guybrush's left eye on Telltales home page (Guybrush being held at sword point). There looks like there is a reflection (at the top part of his of eye) of a big hat. I'm thinking Kate.
From the concept art we've been given and the hints laid on by the Voodoo Lady, I don't think we'll see much more of Elaine and LeChuck until a lot later.
I think LeChuck's plan is really quite simple. Now that he's human and no longer has his self-created evil manifested on him, he has a chance with Elaine. Think about it - he's basically Guybrush now (without the cuteness): inept and lovestruck. So he'll try wooing Elaine (which is all he really wanted) and let others dispose of Guybrush as revenge for unleashing the pox on them.
As for the mystery voice, my first thought was Kate Capsize (she sounds as I'd expect and he did frame her in MI2). A freelance voiceover actress by the name of Nicki Rapp is cited in the credits for the role. Unfortunately, this doesn't help in guessing the character, as it doesn't mention the character on any article she's mentioned in on the internet (just says she starred as a voiceover in Tales of Monkey Island). I've emailed her personally in the hope she is willing to spill the beans.
I think this game is going to continue its parallel with MI2&3. To do this, we have a little sea bit then the whole map of islands to explore for a particular quest. Again from the concept art, I think we'll be heading to colonies of the merpeople. Is Stan currently based in the Jailbait Islands? He's only been on the adventure's first island once (see SMI).
How we shake off Morgan/Kate (if it is her), I don't know. Maybe she'll decide long-drawn-out revenge via trial is more sweet-tasting and fitting. If it's a mermaid, the cliffhanger wasn't worth it but it makes partial sense (but why would she hold him at swordpoint and claim to have known/known of him for a long time?).
From the concept art we've been given and the hints laid on by the Voodoo Lady, I don't think we'll see much more of Elaine and LeChuck until a lot later.
I think LeChuck's plan is really quite simple. Now that he's human and no longer has his self-created evil manifested on him, he has a chance with Elaine. Think about it - he's basically Guybrush now (without the cuteness): inept and lovestruck. So he'll try wooing Elaine (which is all he really wanted) and let others dispose of Guybrush as revenge for unleashing the pox on them.
As for the mystery voice, my first thought was Kate Capsize (she sounds as I'd expect and he did frame her in MI2). A freelance voiceover actress by the name of Nicki Rapp is cited in the credits for the role. Unfortunately, this doesn't help in guessing the character, as it doesn't mention the character on any article she's mentioned in on the internet (just says she starred as a voiceover in Tales of Monkey Island). I've emailed her personally in the hope she is willing to spill the beans.
I think this game is going to continue its parallel with MI2&3. To do this, we have a little sea bit then the whole map of islands to explore for a particular quest. Again from the concept art, I think we'll be heading to colonies of the merpeople. Is Stan currently based in the Jailbait Islands? He's only been on the adventure's first island once (see SMI).
How we shake off Morgan/Kate (if it is her), I don't know. Maybe she'll decide long-drawn-out revenge via trial is more sweet-tasting and fitting. If it's a mermaid, the cliffhanger wasn't worth it but it makes partial sense (but why would she hold him at swordpoint and claim to have known/known of him for a long time?).
I think LeChuck's role will be a lot more complicated than that, especially since the game mentions an insidious plot and it doesn't seem related to the doctor or the pirate hunter. Also, listen to the discussion between LeChuck and Guybrush in the prologue, there seems to be a lot of hints.
People are probably actually doing this right now!
Is there an easier way of doing this in Windows than loading SndRec, pressing 'record', resuming a saved game from
"Mr Van Winslow, set a course for...'The Rock of Gelato'!"
watching the cutscene to the end, hotswitching back to Sndrec, pressing 'Stop', reversing it and pressing 'Play'?
EDIT: Oops, Vista's Sound Recorder has been stripped of its editting capabilities and I have onboard sound that doesn't support recording from DirectSound or "What U Can Hear" (I've just recorded silence, like a muppet). So unless somebody can tell me what it says or send me the reversed clip, I'm screwed.
Haha. I just thought it'd be a nice touch if they were to ever end the series for good. Glad y'all like my idea, though. I never thought it might be the actual Secret (i.e. Ron Gilbert's Secret) as I'm sure his one is much cleverer. It'd be a great way to kill off LeChuck one day. But I don't want Monkey Island to ever end so, in a way, I hope they never use my theory! The unfinished business does make a little sense if you think about it, though - remember what happened in the Goodsoup crypt?
And, yeah, 'drop dead' is a reference to Seepgood I only just remembered it after playing SMI:SE.
I thought that line was from the one-eyed pirate rather than Seepgood. Seepgood just tells you to talk to the other guy because "he takes it very seriously."
Here's my predictions for Ch2 from what I've seen, not to be taken seriously really:
I think in the interview he was referring to just the chapter when he was talking about island hopping and some stuff with Winslow on the ship.
I don't really have a good guess as to who attacks Guybrush in the end of ch1, Kate Capsize sounds logical. I suppose for argument's sake if it had to be someone else, maybe Kenny's mom from Kenny's Lemonade/cannon store... Maybe he took all the treasure he earned and ran off to set sail for swashbuckling adventures. His mother, fearing the worst, seeks out Guybrush for revenge when she is unable to track down her lost son... I dunno.... Or a random new character.
Anyways after Guybrush gets rid of his attacker somehow, he attempts to save Elaine from LeChuck's attempts to pitch woo.
I can't really see how Elaine could just ditch Guybrush for LeChuck, or at least see LeChuck as anything other than foul. Even if he is human again. Elaine didnt like him before he died anyways, right? There's got to be some sort of voodoo spell or something going on there... Just bceause LeChuck is rid of his pox for now doesn't mean he can't use other means of voodoo, or some type of love potion? Would be interesting to have to free Elaine from a false love of LeChuck.
After LeChuck thwarts Guybrush's attempts, he runs off with Elaine.
Or Maybe LeChuck escapes while Guybrush is fighting off his mysterious opponent.
Well eventually Guybrush is left with no other option but to continue investigating how to rid himself and the local island area of this Lechuck Pox, which continues to get worse not only for himself but others around him, so he and Winslow [and what if the attacker joined the crew? that would be surprising heheh] end up on the Jerkbait islands [ thus the island hopping ] and track down Voodoo Lady's lover to get more info on La Esponge Grande.
Maybe Stan will show up, or Wally, or Murray...? Would love to see any of them but can't think of what they would be doing there at the moment... Well Stan would just be trying to make a buck, of course.
Exposition about how the mer-people [or manatee-people] were the ones who first inhabited and built on Flotsam Island, maybe more info about the purpose of the winds... General info on mer-people although I wouldn't be surprised if we don't actually see the mer-folk in ch2. Jerkbait Islands could be an abondoned mer-civiliation like Flotsam is [I'm assuming]
...Or maybe locals just built in the image of the mer-people... I dunno heheh.
Who can really say what happens by the end of the chapter... Well, unless you work for TT of course.
I'll just make a guess and say you find out the mer-people hold the secret to whereabouts of La Esponge Grande, and there's another cliff hanger ending.
Oh and there's a siege, of Spinner Cay.
As for beyond Ch2 I would like to see LeChuck return to a non-human form by at least the beginning of Ch5 but I have feeling he might stay human until the big showdown at the end..
Can't wait to see Murray!
Well those are my predictions although they are mostly based on stuff that is already known and kinda open ended anyways , now I'll have to wait and see how far off or how close I was.
Denny Delk has reportedly been in for recording sessions but there's no guarantee at all he'll be playing Murray. The man is a talented actor, comparable to Tom Kane (René Rottingham/Flying Welshman/Pegnose Pete). Amongst other roles, he's played the narrator in SMI: SE and a character in Full Throttle (a motorbike adventure from LA in the Dig/Tentacle era) and neither sounded anything like Murray. But yes, I'd love to see Murray back as well.
Denny Delk has reportedly been in for recording sessions but there's no guarantee at all he'll be playing Murray. The man is a talented actor, comparable to Tom Kane (René Rottingham/Flying Welshman/Pegnose Pete). Amongst other roles, he's played the narrator in SMI: SE and a character in Full Throttle (a motorbike adventure from LA in the Dig/Tentacle era) and neither sounded anything like Murray. But yes, I'd love to see Murray back as well.
Mr Delk
did, however, confirm that he is reprising his role as Murray.
did, however, confirm that he is reprising his role as Murray.
However, given the dates he was recording were about a month after Ch. 2 was recorded, we probably won't hear any of his work until Chapter 3 (unless he was inserted in later than everyone else)
Guybrush's adventures continue on the high seas as pox-plagued pirates lay siege to the innocent Mer-People. In between defending the Mer-People and dodging the persistent pirate hunter hot on his trail, Guybrush manages to catch up to his beloved wife and despised arch-nemesis -- but their reunion is short-lived. Now Guybrush must focus on eradicating the Pox of LeChuck before more harm can be done. And as the Mighty Pirate draws closer to a cure, the waters will only grow murkier in this thrilling chapter of the epic saga.
I think LeChuck's plan is really quite simple. Now that he's human and no longer has his self-created evil manifested on him, he has a chance with Elaine. Think about it - he's basically Guybrush now (without the cuteness): inept and lovestruck. So he'll try wooing Elaine (which is all he really wanted) and let others dispose of Guybrush as revenge for unleashing the pox on them.
So, with Guybrush turning all poxy, and LeChuck turning all un-poxy...
What are the chances we will play an episode as LeChuck??
I'd love to see this play out... more and more of Guybrush being taken over by LeChuck's evil. Personally I'd like to see him become mostly LeChuck-ish (maybe just Guybrush's cunning hair staying ) when he gets executed. Then he'd somehow be able to come back to life as has been previously mentioned. Then I'd like to see a switch to the mostly Guybrush (but maybe just the completely digusting hair of LeChuck staying) Lechuck with Elaine. Elaine has at that point fallen in love with LeChuck and in the middle of a romantic scene LeChuck switches voice roles (and minds) with Guybrush, therefore showing that almost all of Guybrush has entered LeChuck's body. Guybrush in the body of LeChuck sees that he doesn't have much time to get the sponge because he doesn't want to be trapped in LeChuck's body. Move back to the body of Guybrush and see that he is mostly LeChuck now, including his voice and mind that has now changed. LeChuck realizes he doesn't want to be stuck in Guybrush's wimpy body and decides to also search for the sponge. A funny scene to lift the mood a bit could be them realizing they could read each other's thoughts. It would show their reactions, etc. A challenging puzzle would allow you to switch back and forth playing as both people trying to find the sponge until they meet up with each other and team up to find it. It would be really cool in my opinion to see two enemies work together. Eventually they find the sponge in the nick of time before the transformation is complete, etc.
Well that wasn't confusing at all, was it? xD That's how I'd like episode 5 to go.
I thought that line was from the one-eyed pirate rather than Seepgood. Seepgood just tells you to talk to the other guy because "he takes it very seriously."
I see alot of people stating that LeChuck will probably be more succesfull in wooing Elaine... if this happens, than I'm burning ALL my MI games, since they would be redundant then.
It is all stated in the first MI...
The whole reason LeChuck is who he is, is because Elaine never wanted him in the first place.
LeChuck's the pirate that came over for dinner and never wanted to leave, Elaine told him to drop dead... So he did. He sailed his ship but came into a horrible storm, sinking his ship and leaving no survivors. Rendering him and his crew ghostpirates.
As the story goes, LeChuck was allready a fearsome pirate in his human form, so even the current version of LeChuck in TOMI isn't correct... He isn't the human he was in the first place...
Estevan (the one eyed pirate) tells you this in the Scumm Bar in SOMI.
I see alot of people stating that LeChuck will probably be more succesfull in wooing Elaine... if this happens, than I'm burning ALL my MI games, since they would be redundant then.
It is all stated in the first MI...
The whole reason LeChuck is who he is, is because Elaine never wanted him in the first place.
LeChuck's the pirate that came over for dinner and never wanted to leave, Elaine told him to drop dead... So he did. He sailed his ship but came into a horrible storm, sinking his ship and leaving no survivors. Rendering him and his crew ghostpirates.
As the story goes, LeChuck was allready a fearsome pirate in his human form, so even the current version of LeChuck in TOMI isn't correct... He isn't the human he was in the first place...
Estevan (the one eyed pirate) tells you this in the Scumm Bar in SOMI.
How about not only something of Guybrushs humanity went over to Le Chuck but also some of his kindness?!
Lechuck could have played the kindness card way back with any number of his disguises. Not only that what could he possibly achieve by faking it?
Other than winning Elaine's heart I mean...but it'd seem a little out of character for him to suddenly twig that the subtle approach is better than an all out 'lock up your daughters' kidnapping.
I see alot of people stating that LeChuck will probably be more succesfull in wooing Elaine... if this happens, than I'm burning ALL my MI games, since they would be redundant then.
It is all stated in the first MI...
The whole reason LeChuck is who he is, is because Elaine never wanted him in the first place.
LeChuck's the pirate that came over for dinner and never wanted to leave, Elaine told him to drop dead... So he did. He sailed his ship but came into a horrible storm, sinking his ship and leaving no survivors. Rendering him and his crew ghostpirates.
As the story goes, LeChuck was allready a fearsome pirate in his human form, so even the current version of LeChuck in TOMI isn't correct... He isn't the human he was in the first place...
Estevan (the one eyed pirate) tells you this in the Scumm Bar in SOMI.
That was could have been just rumour / legend / myth that was going round Melee at the time.
I've just had a random idea. In CMI, the Voodoo Lady states that true evil can never be destroyed completely. Now in ToMI, we've had this Cutlass of Kaflu that was supposed to finish LeChuck for good. That's a big contradiction.
My idea was that the Voodoo Lady might have predicted some of the ToMI events and Cutlass outcome beforehand. If we assume that LeChuck was a kind of "pollution" (thieving abomination of voodoo, as she described him) and she knew that they can't get rid of him completely... well, "solution to pollution is dilution".
MAYBE.. the cutlass was supposed to dissipate LeChuck energies, only that LeChuck's body/shell/whatever was supposed to be destroyed, not turned human? What if the Voodoo Lady underestimated the quantity of released voodoo mojo? Maybe she thought it would be less of an impact on Caribbean?
I think the Cutlass should have absorbed the evilness of LeChuck, then the Voodoo Lady was going to purge it from the blade and thus fix it. However, Guybrush didn't use the Rootbeer.
So, if LeChuck's evil essence would have been sucked into the cutlass because of the root beer, can we assume that LeChuck's essence is an alcoholic who can't resist a good drink (and why the grog-lite didn't work)?
The evil Guybrush thing could really work, especially as Guybrush normally often does some nasty stuff anyway even when he's 'good'. Don't forget that in the opening chapter of MI2 (which I played just recently) he deliberately gets a cook fired from his job just so that he can get a week's wages in advance and then straight away walks off without even attempting to do his new job, and steals Wally's monocle, not to mention that (from my memory of later parts) he nails Stan in a coffin and leaves him there, frames Kate and gets her put in jail, and attempts to manipulate Elaine into giving him the map piece (even though he might have had some genuine feelings for her, he is clearly being motivated primarily for the map piece). The 'lovable, adorable' Guybrush seems to me to be a misconception, especially in MI2 (later Monkey games went back to the naive SoMI version of Guybrush).
As to the Elaine and LeChuck thing, people can change their opinions of people, and if LeChuck hadn't of died while searching for Monkey Island she may have ended up falling for him for all we know.
EDIT: Okay, I was looking through Steve Purcell's work through a link on another thread, and I saw this picture of something that he's working on but can't show yet:
Looking at it, I thought "a monkey holding weapons and smoking a pipe?" and that's when realisation struck me: the real secret of Monkey Island all along! LeChuck is not the true enemy, the true enemy has all along really been the Monkeys, for they are the true Secret Masters of the World! They are the Shadow Government that run human societies from behind the scenes, the conspiracy that framed Otis to get him put in jail, the Voodoo masters who raised LeChuck back from the grave and the real reason why he was full of an evil pox that was released when Guybrush struck him with the Cutlass!
I mean, didn't anyone think how it was strange that the monkey that LeChuck was casting a spell on didn't seem concerned one bit? Because it was part of the Monkey Plot! Why did the Cannibals worship the Giant Monkey Head? Because they knew the truth over who ruled the world! How were the monkeys who sailed Toothrot's old ship back to Melee Island able to outsmart Stan at a deal? Because they are the true Masters of the World and their intelligence is beyond any human's!
Damn, I should really get back to work instead of getting high off ten cups of tea...
That doesn't explain the talking monkey in EMI. I think the next season would be about a voodoo hex or some powerfull artifact that can turn people into monkeys! Yes, MONKEYS! Muahahahahahah!
That doesn't explain the talking monkey in EMI. I think the next season would be about a voodoo hex or some powerfull artifact that can turn people into monkeys! Yes, MONKEYS! Muahahahahahah!
Playing a monkey Guybrush would be fun.
I understand that EMI had many plot holes from hearing the complaints of others here, but as I never got round to playing it I can't and will not say more until I can experience it for myself. Turning people into Monkeys though might be interesting, but it also sounds familiar somehow...
"Monkeys of Monkey Island"
The sixth game is the banana-enducing saga.
Plot synopsis:
Our lovable pirate Guybrush has just discovered the real secret of Monkey Island. The monkeys are the ones that have sabotaged his life with LeChuck's evil schemes! And to his horror, the monkeys have concocted a new potion, The Deadly Banana of Mantu. After Guybrush is forced to eat it, he realizes it is not deadly, but instead has transformed him into a monkey! Unlike Jojo Jr, however, he is unable to talk! He tries to tell Elaine, Otis, everyone he can think of, until he realizes that he must face this quest alone. That is until he meets Pablo the monkey. Pablo is an outcast, for he doesn't want to defeat the humans, but live in unison with them. Can they work together to defeat the other monkeys? Find out when you play "Monkeys of Monkey Island."
Possible I guess. I reckon all the evil has just been sucked out of Lechuck as the pox, rather than it being a kindness/evil trade off between them.
I don't buy it.
Lechuck could have played the kindness card way back with any number of his disguises. Not only that what could he possibly achieve by faking it?
Other than winning Elaine's heart I mean...but it'd seem a little out of character for him to suddenly twig that the subtle approach is better than an all out 'lock up your daughters' kidnapping.
Because Elaine wasn't attracted to any of his other disguises. This is his regular human form and she seems to find him attractive. So he decides to do the one thing he didn't do when he first met her, act nice. After all LeChuck has tried to do, acting nice is the least desperate. LeChuck would defiantly do so if if he could win Elaine. At the same time though, he's still evil and has other agendas in mind for Guybrush and the Caribbean. Guybrush said himself at the start that LeChuck's schemes are usually so well thought out and LeChuck states that his outer shell is meaningless.
I see alot of people stating that LeChuck will probably be more succesfull in wooing Elaine... if this happens, than I'm burning ALL my MI games, since they would be redundant then.
It is all stated in the first MI...
The whole reason LeChuck is who he is, is because Elaine never wanted him in the first place.
LeChuck's the pirate that came over for dinner and never wanted to leave, Elaine told him to drop dead... So he did. He sailed his ship but came into a horrible storm, sinking his ship and leaving no survivors. Rendering him and his crew ghostpirates.
As the story goes, LeChuck was allready a fearsome pirate in his human form, so even the current version of LeChuck in TOMI isn't correct... He isn't the human he was in the first place...
Estevan (the one eyed pirate) tells you this in the Scumm Bar in SOMI.
My thought is that when Guybrush used that sword thing in the beginning it started a transformation that's slowly turning Guybrush into LeChuck and also turning LeChuck into Guybrush. So it stands to reason that Elaine might warm up to LeChuck because he's got Guybrush's essence. That's my theory. And it works without crapping on the prequels.
i don't know this for sure but i think that telltale will start releasing tomi chapter 2 at midnight on august 19th cuz i don't think no one wants that forum issues stuff again.
i don't know this for sure but i think that telltale will start releasing tomi chapter 2 at midnight on august 19th cuz i don't think no one wants that forum issues stuff again.
At midnight on the 19th at which time zone? If somebody is living across the pond, their "midnight" is a lot earlier then "midnight" at TellTale.
"Midnight at TellTale" would be a good name for an album.
At midnight on the 19th at which time zone? If somebody is living across the pond, their "midnight" is a lot earlier then "midnight" at TellTale.
"Midnight at TellTale" would be a good name for an album.
I'm happy with midnight PT - that's 7am for me. By the time the US late-nighters/European early birds are finished, it'll be 9/10am BST and the server will have relatively few connections open (resulting in a speedier transfer). That, when I have nothing better to do, is the time I get up.
Possible I guess. I reckon all the evil has just been sucked out of Lechuck as the pox, rather than it being a kindness/evil trade off between them.
I don't buy it.
Lechuck could have played the kindness card way back with any number of his disguises. Not only that what could he possibly achieve by faking it?
Other than winning Elaine's heart I mean...but it'd seem a little out of character for him to suddenly twig that the subtle approach is better than an all out 'lock up your daughters' kidnapping.
mabey hes useing some of guybrushes kindness to fake it cos as he is normal he will allways be a jerk but hes still secretly in control or hes hiding in guybrush hand so he find La Esponje Grande absorb all the voodoo inside and become a pirate god or somthing to do with monkey entrails
"Monkeys of Monkey Island"
The sixth game is the banana-enducing saga.
Plot synopsis:
Our lovable pirate Guybrush has just discovered the real secret of Monkey Island. The monkeys are the ones that have sabotaged his life with LeChuck's evil schemes! And to his horror, the monkeys have concocted a new potion, The Deadly Banana of Mantu. After Guybrush is forced to eat it, he realizes it is not deadly, but instead has transformed him into a monkey! Unlike Jojo Jr, however, he is unable to talk! He tries to tell Elaine, Otis, everyone he can think of, until he realizes that he must face this quest alone. That is until he meets Pablo the monkey. Pablo is an outcast, for he doesn't want to defeat the humans, but live in unison with them. Can they work together to defeat the other monkeys? Find out when you play "Monkeys of Monkey Island."
After thinking about this a bit I think a fangame would rock for this. *looks at Wolfy*
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True enough. When you think about all the games and their plot, you are essentially having to get off of one island to get to a different, more alluring island. Melee to Monkey Island, escaping Scabb Island, leaving Puerto Pollo, escaping Monkey Island, escaping Flotsam. Quite repetitive in theme, I should think.
Haha. I just thought it'd be a nice touch if they were to ever end the series for good. Glad y'all like my idea, though. I never thought it might be the actual Secret (i.e. Ron Gilbert's Secret) as I'm sure his one is much cleverer. It'd be a great way to kill off LeChuck one day. But I don't want Monkey Island to ever end so, in a way, I hope they never use my theory! The unfinished business does make a little sense if you think about it, though - remember what happened in the Goodsoup crypt?
And, yeah, 'drop dead' is a reference to Seepgood
I dunno, too lazy to think about it, but as i said it would be quite a nice twist.
I think LeChuck's plan is really quite simple. Now that he's human and no longer has his self-created evil manifested on him, he has a chance with Elaine. Think about it - he's basically Guybrush now (without the cuteness): inept and lovestruck. So he'll try wooing Elaine (which is all he really wanted) and let others dispose of Guybrush as revenge for unleashing the pox on them.
As for the mystery voice, my first thought was Kate Capsize (she sounds as I'd expect and he did frame her in MI2). A freelance voiceover actress by the name of Nicki Rapp is cited in the credits for the role. Unfortunately, this doesn't help in guessing the character, as it doesn't mention the character on any article she's mentioned in on the internet (just says she starred as a voiceover in Tales of Monkey Island). I've emailed her personally in the hope she is willing to spill the beans.
I think this game is going to continue its parallel with MI2&3. To do this, we have a little sea bit then the whole map of islands to explore for a particular quest. Again from the concept art, I think we'll be heading to colonies of the merpeople. Is Stan currently based in the Jailbait Islands? He's only been on the adventure's first island once (see SMI).
How we shake off Morgan/Kate (if it is her), I don't know. Maybe she'll decide long-drawn-out revenge via trial is more sweet-tasting and fitting. If it's a mermaid, the cliffhanger wasn't worth it but it makes partial sense (but why would she hold him at swordpoint and claim to have known/known of him for a long time?).
I think LeChuck's role will be a lot more complicated than that, especially since the game mentions an insidious plot and it doesn't seem related to the doctor or the pirate hunter. Also, listen to the discussion between LeChuck and Guybrush in the prologue, there seems to be a lot of hints.
People are probably actually doing this right now!
Is there an easier way of doing this in Windows than loading SndRec, pressing 'record', resuming a saved game from
EDIT: Oops, Vista's Sound Recorder has been stripped of its editting capabilities and I have onboard sound that doesn't support recording from DirectSound or "What U Can Hear" (I've just recorded silence, like a muppet). So unless somebody can tell me what it says or send me the reversed clip, I'm screwed.
I tried it but all I could hear was a bunch of gibberish.
I thought that line was from the one-eyed pirate rather than Seepgood. Seepgood just tells you to talk to the other guy because "he takes it very seriously."
I think in the interview he was referring to just the chapter when he was talking about island hopping and some stuff with Winslow on the ship.
I don't really have a good guess as to who attacks Guybrush in the end of ch1, Kate Capsize sounds logical. I suppose for argument's sake if it had to be someone else, maybe Kenny's mom from Kenny's Lemonade/cannon store... Maybe he took all the treasure he earned and ran off to set sail for swashbuckling adventures. His mother, fearing the worst, seeks out Guybrush for revenge when she is unable to track down her lost son... I dunno....
Anyways after Guybrush gets rid of his attacker somehow, he attempts to save Elaine from LeChuck's attempts to pitch woo.
I can't really see how Elaine could just ditch Guybrush for LeChuck, or at least see LeChuck as anything other than foul. Even if he is human again. Elaine didnt like him before he died anyways, right? There's got to be some sort of voodoo spell or something going on there... Just bceause LeChuck is rid of his pox for now doesn't mean he can't use other means of voodoo, or some type of love potion? Would be interesting to have to free Elaine from a false love of LeChuck.
After LeChuck thwarts Guybrush's attempts, he runs off with Elaine.
Or Maybe LeChuck escapes while Guybrush is fighting off his mysterious opponent.
Well eventually Guybrush is left with no other option but to continue investigating how to rid himself and the local island area of this Lechuck Pox, which continues to get worse not only for himself but others around him, so he and Winslow [and what if the attacker joined the crew? that would be surprising heheh] end up on the Jerkbait islands [ thus the island hopping ] and track down Voodoo Lady's lover to get more info on La Esponge Grande.
Maybe Stan will show up, or Wally, or Murray...? Would love to see any of them but can't think of what they would be doing there at the moment... Well Stan would just be trying to make a buck, of course.
Exposition about how the mer-people [or manatee-people] were the ones who first inhabited and built on Flotsam Island, maybe more info about the purpose of the winds... General info on mer-people although I wouldn't be surprised if we don't actually see the mer-folk in ch2. Jerkbait Islands could be an abondoned mer-civiliation like Flotsam is [I'm assuming]
...Or maybe locals just built in the image of the mer-people... I dunno heheh.
Who can really say what happens by the end of the chapter... Well, unless you work for TT of course.
I'll just make a guess and say you find out the mer-people hold the secret to whereabouts of La Esponge Grande, and there's another cliff hanger ending.
Oh and there's a siege, of Spinner Cay.
As for beyond Ch2 I would like to see LeChuck return to a non-human form by at least the beginning of Ch5 but I have feeling he might stay human until the big showdown at the end..
Can't wait to see Murray!
Well those are my predictions although they are mostly based on stuff that is already known and kinda open ended anyways
Mr Delk
However, given the dates he was recording were about a month after Ch. 2 was recorded, we probably won't hear any of his work until Chapter 3 (unless he was inserted in later than everyone else)
!SPOILER!
Guybrush's adventures continue on the high seas as pox-plagued pirates lay siege to the innocent Mer-People. In between defending the Mer-People and dodging the persistent pirate hunter hot on his trail, Guybrush manages to catch up to his beloved wife and despised arch-nemesis -- but their reunion is short-lived. Now Guybrush must focus on eradicating the Pox of LeChuck before more harm can be done. And as the Mighty Pirate draws closer to a cure, the waters will only grow murkier in this thrilling chapter of the epic saga.
!SPOILER ENDING!
So...
So, with Guybrush turning all poxy, and LeChuck turning all un-poxy...
What are the chances we will play an episode as LeChuck??
Well, Poxy Guybrush would be too fun to play, so somehow I doubt we'd get in LeChuck's smelly shoes.
Yep - you are right!
I was just testing you...
Well done, you passed!
It is all stated in the first MI...
The whole reason LeChuck is who he is, is because Elaine never wanted him in the first place.
LeChuck's the pirate that came over for dinner and never wanted to leave, Elaine told him to drop dead... So he did. He sailed his ship but came into a horrible storm, sinking his ship and leaving no survivors. Rendering him and his crew ghostpirates.
As the story goes, LeChuck was allready a fearsome pirate in his human form, so even the current version of LeChuck in TOMI isn't correct... He isn't the human he was in the first place...
Estevan (the one eyed pirate) tells you this in the Scumm Bar in SOMI.
How about not only something of Guybrushs humanity went over to Le Chuck but also some of his kindness?!
How about he's just faking it?
Possible I guess. I reckon all the evil has just been sucked out of Lechuck as the pox, rather than it being a kindness/evil trade off between them.
I don't buy it.
Lechuck could have played the kindness card way back with any number of his disguises. Not only that what could he possibly achieve by faking it?
Other than winning Elaine's heart I mean...but it'd seem a little out of character for him to suddenly twig that the subtle approach is better than an all out 'lock up your daughters' kidnapping.
That was could have been just rumour / legend / myth that was going round Melee at the time.
My idea was that the Voodoo Lady might have predicted some of the ToMI events and Cutlass outcome beforehand. If we assume that LeChuck was a kind of "pollution" (thieving abomination of voodoo, as she described him) and she knew that they can't get rid of him completely... well, "solution to pollution is dilution".
MAYBE.. the cutlass was supposed to dissipate LeChuck energies, only that LeChuck's body/shell/whatever was supposed to be destroyed, not turned human? What if the Voodoo Lady underestimated the quantity of released voodoo mojo? Maybe she thought it would be less of an impact on Caribbean?
Just my thoughts, I hope they make sense
The evil Guybrush thing could really work, especially as Guybrush normally often does some nasty stuff anyway even when he's 'good'. Don't forget that in the opening chapter of MI2 (which I played just recently) he deliberately gets a cook fired from his job just so that he can get a week's wages in advance and then straight away walks off without even attempting to do his new job, and steals Wally's monocle, not to mention that (from my memory of later parts) he nails Stan in a coffin and leaves him there, frames Kate and gets her put in jail, and attempts to manipulate Elaine into giving him the map piece (even though he might have had some genuine feelings for her, he is clearly being motivated primarily for the map piece). The 'lovable, adorable' Guybrush seems to me to be a misconception, especially in MI2 (later Monkey games went back to the naive SoMI version of Guybrush).
As to the Elaine and LeChuck thing, people can change their opinions of people, and if LeChuck hadn't of died while searching for Monkey Island she may have ended up falling for him for all we know.
EDIT: Okay, I was looking through Steve Purcell's work through a link on another thread, and I saw this picture of something that he's working on but can't show yet:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FbFu1YBZ-Hw/SoNcNLD23DI/AAAAAAAAAaw/-88Y0ElOaUE/s1600-h/22010275.jpg
Looking at it, I thought "a monkey holding weapons and smoking a pipe?" and that's when realisation struck me: the real secret of Monkey Island all along! LeChuck is not the true enemy, the true enemy has all along really been the Monkeys, for they are the true Secret Masters of the World! They are the Shadow Government that run human societies from behind the scenes, the conspiracy that framed Otis to get him put in jail, the Voodoo masters who raised LeChuck back from the grave and the real reason why he was full of an evil pox that was released when Guybrush struck him with the Cutlass!
I mean, didn't anyone think how it was strange that the monkey that LeChuck was casting a spell on didn't seem concerned one bit? Because it was part of the Monkey Plot! Why did the Cannibals worship the Giant Monkey Head? Because they knew the truth over who ruled the world! How were the monkeys who sailed Toothrot's old ship back to Melee Island able to outsmart Stan at a deal? Because they are the true Masters of the World and their intelligence is beyond any human's!
Damn, I should really get back to work instead of getting high off ten cups of tea...
Playing a monkey Guybrush would be fun.
I understand that EMI had many plot holes from hearing the complaints of others here, but as I never got round to playing it I can't and will not say more until I can experience it for myself. Turning people into Monkeys though might be interesting, but it also sounds familiar somehow...
The sixth game is the banana-enducing saga.
Plot synopsis:
Our lovable pirate Guybrush has just discovered the real secret of Monkey Island. The monkeys are the ones that have sabotaged his life with LeChuck's evil schemes! And to his horror, the monkeys have concocted a new potion, The Deadly Banana of Mantu. After Guybrush is forced to eat it, he realizes it is not deadly, but instead has transformed him into a monkey! Unlike Jojo Jr, however, he is unable to talk! He tries to tell Elaine, Otis, everyone he can think of, until he realizes that he must face this quest alone. That is until he meets Pablo the monkey. Pablo is an outcast, for he doesn't want to defeat the humans, but live in unison with them. Can they work together to defeat the other monkeys? Find out when you play "Monkeys of Monkey Island."
Because Elaine wasn't attracted to any of his other disguises. This is his regular human form and she seems to find him attractive. So he decides to do the one thing he didn't do when he first met her, act nice. After all LeChuck has tried to do, acting nice is the least desperate. LeChuck would defiantly do so if if he could win Elaine. At the same time though, he's still evil and has other agendas in mind for Guybrush and the Caribbean. Guybrush said himself at the start that LeChuck's schemes are usually so well thought out and LeChuck states that his outer shell is meaningless.
My thought is that when Guybrush used that sword thing in the beginning it started a transformation that's slowly turning Guybrush into LeChuck and also turning LeChuck into Guybrush. So it stands to reason that Elaine might warm up to LeChuck because he's got Guybrush's essence. That's my theory. And it works without crapping on the prequels.
At midnight on the 19th at which time zone? If somebody is living across the pond, their "midnight" is a lot earlier then "midnight" at TellTale.
"Midnight at TellTale" would be a good name for an album.
I'm happy with midnight PT - that's 7am for me. By the time the US late-nighters/European early birds are finished, it'll be 9/10am BST and the server will have relatively few connections open (resulting in a speedier transfer). That, when I have nothing better to do, is the time I get up.
mabey hes useing some of guybrushes kindness to fake it cos as he is normal he will allways be a jerk but hes still secretly in control or hes hiding in guybrush hand so he find La Esponje Grande absorb all the voodoo inside and become a pirate god or somthing to do with monkey entrails
After thinking about this a bit I think a fangame would rock for this. *looks at Wolfy*