Should Telltale Make a Morgan LeFlay Game?

I've seen a few people asking and wishing for a Morgan LeFlay spin-off game and I was all for the idea! If Telltale were to release a Morgan LeFlay, I think it should be a little like this:

- An adventure/action game. 85% point-and-click adventure game; 15% action (mainly swordfighting).

- A five episode season, each episode is a new mission where Morgan must track down a different pirate each time.

- Morgan should re-visit old Monkey Island locations and Islands such as Booty or Scabb Island and run into SOME old characters.

- The last episode should be of Morgan hunting down Guybrush and should end in exactly the same spot as Launch of the Screaming Narwhal with Morgan putting her blade to Guybrush's throat!

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  • edited September 2009
    Hey,

    that is a nice Idea and Sounds great! *ggg* :D
  • edited September 2009
    Good idea? Bad idea? Who can say? All I know is that if it says "Telltale" on it, I'll buy it.
  • edited September 2009
    Love LeFlay so far! One of the best post-Gilbert characters added to the canon!

    Not sure she needs her own game though :)

    Edit: Oh man, I just had an awesome idea... Episode 3 opens up with Guybrush besting LeFlay, who's also completely in love with him and completely overwhelmed by his "charms" -- except this exciting little opening puzzle is all just a dream and he's rudely awoken by a grumpy LeFlay!
  • edited September 2009
    I think it could stand to be more action/adventure, to distinguish itself from the "main series." It's a fun idea, but let's see how she evolves over the season first
  • edited September 2009
    I'm sorry but I don't see how Morgan LeFlay's character can be expanded enough to lead a game.
  • edited May 2010
    I'm really sorry to revive such an old thread, especially my own, but I wanted to see what people's opinions are now that the season is long finished.
  • edited May 2010
    it could have more about her past in it which was touched apon in Chapter 3
  • edited May 2010
    no.
  • edited May 2010
    it could have more about her past in it which was touched apon in Chapter 3

    I agree with this post. It should start with the beginnings of Morgan LeFlay and then continue on the adventures of Morgan LeFlay. What amkes this game so appealing is that it would be TTG 1st female protagonist in a game. I also like the action/adventure game addition. I believe they oughta mix up action with adventures and puzzles, which is something in that i believe that Zelda games have made succesfully. Morgan LeFlay games could be expanded onto other platforms also.
  • edited May 2010
    Nah, if they made a game about her I'd just be annoyed we got that instead of a real Monkey Island game.
    Just leave her be I say.
  • edited May 2010
    Guybrush X Morgan 4EVA
  • edited May 2010
    A Morgan game would be great, but not until Tales comes to a finale where there are no future questions.
  • edited May 2010
    splash1 wrote: »
    A Morgan game would be great, but not until Tales comes to a finale where there are no future questions.

    I would like a Monkey Island game with Morgan in it, replacing Elaine as Guybrush's lover. I think Guybrush always has to be the main character, but I certainly think Morgan could play a more prominent role in the series.

    I'm not 100% sure whether i prefer her over elaine because elaine was so unlikeable in Tales, or because Morgan is awesome and I like her voice actor.

    Anyway, it looks like Morgan will be a villain (or at least a bit ambigious in her motives) in season 2 anyway, as she is returning as a ghost.
  • edited May 2010
    Fury wrote: »
    because elaine was so unlikeable in Tales

    I liked her
  • edited May 2010
    Pale Man wrote: »
    Good idea? Bad idea? Who can say? All I know is that if it says "Telltale" on it, I'll buy it.

    This.
  • edited May 2010
    I think it'd be a little bit of a wasted opportunity for Telltale if they don't make a Morgan LeFlay game. She's such a great character, so why not capitalize on that and expand the character. And if not a game, then maybe even a Morgan LeFlay comic, I think that could work, it'd be really cool (depending on the artist of course, maybe they could kidnap Paco Vink and have him do one).

    Maybe even a 2D platformer, even that would be really good! Maybe if it were in the same sort of vein as the old Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure or Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project or something. Because we saw in ToMI that Morgan both skilled in combat and acrobatics, so a platformer game would suit her great!

    I dunno, I just really want to see her character expanded because I think there is potential there. She is one of the all-time greatest MI characters of all time, and I'm not just saying that because of the cleavage.
  • edited May 2010
    Fury wrote: »
    I would like a Monkey Island game with Morgan in it, replacing Elaine as Guybrush's lover. I think Guybrush always has to be the main character, but I certainly think Morgan could play a more prominent role in the series.

    I'm not 100% sure whether i prefer her over elaine because elaine was so unlikeable in Tales, or because Morgan is awesome and I like her voice actor.

    Anyway, it looks like Morgan will be a villain (or at least a bit ambigious in her motives) in season 2 anyway, as she is returning as a ghost.

    Maybe a certain romance could be developed between Morgan and Guybrush if one of the future episodes/seasons dealt with a parallel universe, perhaps?

    For backdrop storyline I'm thinking LeChuck figures away of wreaking havoc on the Caribbean by "introverting causality" (using perhaps an Ancient Voodoo artifact). As a result the Caribbean is effected by a massive Voodoo tarot effect, where fates and lives are switched alternatively to a different reality.

    This leaves much for the imagination I think...
    Eg:
    - Morgan is a mighty pirate, pitched against LeChuck
    - Guybrush, dreams of being a mighty pirate but is too clumsy.
    He's also married to Morgan.
    - Elaine is a Pirate-huntress
    - Governor LeChuck lords over the Caribbean, having never been defeated by some unknown wet-behind-the-ears called Guybrush Threepwood. (Also meaning he'd be human - he never would have killed himself for Elaine.
    - MURRAY! Could be the nefarious right-hand man of LeChuck, with huge aspirations of terrorizing the seven seas.
    - Herman Toothrot, the poor unfortunate sod would be left on Monkey Island in all realities, ha ha.
    Etc, etc.
  • edited May 2010
    ^
    This could be okay for one or two episodes, but I wouldn't want it to be permanent though. I like the un-introverted Monkey Island world far too much.

    As for the 'Morgan and Guybrush should be lovers' idea that so many fans seem to have, I am not for it one bit. I think that Guybrush and Elaine are good together and I don't think this should be changed. The only relationship between Guybrush and Morgan is a crewmember - captain relationship and nothing more. It wouldn't be in the spirit of Monkey Island for Guybrush to run off with Morgan and betray Elaine.
  • edited May 2010
    I don't see how they could make an adventure game based on Morgan, I mean she obviously had no idea how to solve puzzles of any kind.
    When they had to get the cochlea her idea of solving the puzzle was to kill them all for it, the easy way for it but not a way to solve a puzzle.

    She was an important character to the plot in ToMI and maybe she will be again in season 2 if it comes out, but I don't think she has enough on her to be in her own adventure game really.
  • edited June 2010
    It should start at the beginning of her career and carry on through the events of Tales of Monkey Island and reveal some new information about her connection with the Voodoo Lady.
  • edited June 2010
    Giant Tope wrote: »
    no.

    Have this bolded and I agree.
  • edited June 2010
    If Lucas Arts becomes jerks and fails to extend the Monkey Island lisence to Telltale for another season, could Telltale technically make a Morgan LaFlay game if it only refrences Monkey Island(tm) without mentioning it explicitly? Then again, knowing bone, Telltale would probably just move on, but hypathetically could that happen?
  • edited June 2010
    I have actually pondered this idea myself. Because Morgan is purely Telltale's creation, so I don't see why not. But LucasArts could always decide to be mega-jerks and find some tiny, intricate thing wrong with the concept, and cease and desist the project (that is if they were to take the rights to the Monkey Island series off Telltale in the first place, which I doubt they would).
  • edited June 2010
    If it was done right, i'd definitely buy it. But it would have to distinguish itself from MI, even though it was part of the same "universe".

    Morgan kicking butt would be fun, but there would have to be some new (and deep - learn your lesson Telltale!) supporting characters. I could envisage it as a relatively small-scale three-parter or something, make some quick sales from MI fans without too much work. Then again, I don't know anything whatsoever about how they make games so it might be totally infeasible for all I know!
  • edited June 2010
    Hayden wrote: »
    I have actually pondered this idea myself. Because Morgan is purely Telltale's creation, so I don't see why not. But LucasArts could always decide to be mega-jerks and find some tiny, intricate thing wrong with the concept, and cease and desist the project (that is if they were to take the rights to the Monkey Island series off Telltale in the first place, which I doubt they would).

    I am as far as you can possibly get from an expert on law, but from what I've seen of rights situations relating to classic games and the like, it's very probable that even though many things in ToMI were created entirely by Telltale, Lucasarts still owns all the rights and would need to give permission for even a spin-off.

    That said, even though Morgan is a good character for the most part, I'd rather Telltale concentrate on continuing the series or creating something new than going back and doing a spin-off. Just my opinion though.
  • edited June 2010
    They already have Morgan Leflay specific games out there. It's called fan art...Like any adventure game it takes only one hand.
  • edited June 2010
    Maybe a certain romance could be developed between Morgan and Guybrush if one of the future episodes/seasons dealt with a parallel universe, perhaps?

    For backdrop storyline I'm thinking LeChuck figures away of wreaking havoc on the Caribbean by "introverting causality" (using perhaps an Ancient Voodoo artifact). As a result the Caribbean is effected by a massive Voodoo tarot effect, where fates and lives are switched alternatively to a different reality.

    This leaves much for the imagination I think...
    Eg:
    - Morgan is a mighty pirate, pitched against LeChuck
    - Guybrush, dreams of being a mighty pirate but is too clumsy.
    He's also married to Morgan.
    - Elaine is a Pirate-huntress
    - Governor LeChuck lords over the Caribbean, having never been defeated by some unknown wet-behind-the-ears called Guybrush Threepwood. (Also meaning he'd be human - he never would have killed himself for Elaine.
    - MURRAY! Could be the nefarious right-hand man of LeChuck, with huge aspirations of terrorizing the seven seas.
    - Herman Toothrot, the poor unfortunate sod would be left on Monkey Island in all realities, ha ha.
    Etc, etc.

    this
  • edited June 2010
    not interested tbh.
  • edited June 2010
    should they? Probably not.... but if they did I would buy it obviously.
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