1. People who try to force there opinions on someone/ insult people.
2. People who disagree with that persons opinion, call them stupid, then try to force their opinion on people.
3. People who complain about people who try to force there opinions on other people
4. People who wish everyone would shut up
Guess which one i am MWAHAHAHAHAHA;):D:p
And then there are those who intellectualize the various kinds of forum dwellers in an attempt to separate themselves from their peers so they can put themselves up on a pedestal (Also, I am aware of the irony that I'm doing the exact same thing )
5. People who add on to the end of lists in an attempt to stand out as silly and/or clever, but just end up making themselves look dumber than everyone else
I currently go 2 - 3 - 1, although I really really enjoyed every single one of them.
3 felt shorter to me though, but the new characters were really awesome and well done.
But seriously, it's hard to analyse em individually, I'm gonna have to go back and play all these again, hopefully after I invent some sort of memory wiping device so I forget playing TOMI, that way I can solve the puzzles again.
5. People who add on to the end of lists in an attempt to stand out as silly and/or clever, but just end up making themselves look dumber than everyone else
Dunno there were lights and shadows in Episode 3 like in Episode 2.
What i really liked was the puzzle intensity in Episode 3, from this point it felt like an old skool adventure, although it was plain too easy and missing a sexy one. Can we have different difficulty settings back please?! Turning hints on/off with this complexity just doesn't do the job for me. I found it a lot more easier than the episodes before.
I really enjoyed the face off competition, investigating and talking to the the crew and i guess it was the best appearance of Murray i've seen so far. I wasn't such a big fan of Murray (i'm more into LeChuck and others) but he does a great job in here. The first time i enjoyed watching the credits and didn't have to kill the task because of *boooring*. Now, i finally know who you are. Dealing with Morgan (cute haircut) also was more interesting than with Elaine *yawning*.
The price for the best texture in a game this month goes to Moose's axillary hair! :O)
Some gfx like the lights at the bar looked too much rushed, the walking restriction in the first scene felt unrealistic, some textures in the mantee were quite aweful and i found the beginning of the adventure not this interesting. Some of the riddles, although i solved them, like the proper options when talking to the female mantee didn't made this much sense to me, they also could be interpreted logically in a different way, overall this wasn't this well designed and boring.
Have i ever mentioned that i love shooting with the cannon on the ship?! Here goes another one... *kaboom*
And so on...don't have too much time right now.
What i would wish for the future would be following the more puzzle intensive path, offering a more difficult option as well or raising the complexity for a few ones plus at least one ingenious designed puzzle, trying to design a story which is not only partly interesting. Make it more saucy were it does make sense, sometimes TTG games feel too much after some Disney shows. Keeping an eye on some of the textures. Oh and please let us play LeChuck as well. As always: Fix the steering options.
I have to agree here, though chapter 3 is great in its own way. But i was really into the atmosphere of spinner cay, liked the merfolk (well, at least Anemumbelie) and loved the much dirtier humour. I guess it really depends on your kind of humour, and if you're into the characters. Winslow was great in ep2 and had a much smaller role this time, and I just don't get the appeal of Morgan. The area were ep3 really outshines ep2 are the puzzles though (vouchers? jungle barbecues?). Especially the flirty ending
I just finished playing Chapter 3, which was totally awesome........
hoooooooowever, I liked Chapter 2 way more.
Chapter 2, in my opinion, had way more funny gags in it, and still stands out as the best Chapter so far, and perhaps even the best part of all MI games so far.
Ofcourse it was so much fun to see Murray back, and it made me laugh a bit, but not enough.
I missed the sarcastic, snapping, reference to older games, remarks from Chapter 2.
The biggest problem with this Chapter, for me personally, was that Guybrush was way to smart all of a sudden. I like him more when he is goofy, doing dumb stuff, and making funny remarks when other people are talking.
He shouldn't have to explain himself to Morgan that much, he seemed like a mentor at some point, which just didn't feel right.
The jokes this time around were "fun", but more like Disneyfun, then really fun.
The best joke for all 3 chapters is still the "cookie" one for me.
The new characters were "ok", but not very memorable. The problem is that each episode introduces us to 3 or 4 new characters who don't appear in later ones. That's a bit sad since I would have loved to see some of the previous ones pop up.
Instead I get the feeling we will not see them again.
I understand Telltale has to do this, since it's episodic and all, but still.
Another problem with this Chapter for me, were the locations and some of the items you so randomly got.
If you count them up, there were only 5 locations:
- 2 inside the manatee
- The ship
- The bottom of the ocean
- Voodoo Lady shack
Chapter 2 had twice as many which came with a lot more variety.
Then, where the hell did that seahorse head came from?? "Someone" left it on your bed? Well that's nice and random.
The totally awesome and funny parrot "dissapeared".
I also would have liked to see more of LeChuck and Elaine.
And the so called "cliffhanger" really wasn't one since there is no indication where the next chapter is going to progress too. But this is not a bad thing I guess.
But all of this doesn't really matter, since we are halfway through now, and it's normal that the middle part doesn't really stand out from the start and the climax.
Overal I have to admit I think this was still a totally great chapter; and way better then all the other adventure games out there these days, but it just didn't have the same feeling as Chapter 1 and certainly the awesome Chapter 2 had.
Now we can only pray chapter 4 comes a bit sooner then the 31st of October.
Still: Good job Telltale!
same for me, also on the location, and I tought I was crazy prefering the second! But can you tell me about this cookie jokes? I'm italian, and maybe this is a joke that made sense only in english language and I don't get it, don't know. Can you eplain me, please?
^ I don't think translation into Italian would be much of a problem. It's just Guybrush asking for a cookie again and again. Some people find this hillarious, some don't. It's just one thing where lots of people think it's brilliant and nobody really knows why.
^ I don't think translation into Italian would be much of a problem. It's just Guybrush asking for a cookie again and again. Some people find this hillarious, some don't. It's just one thing where lots of people think it's brilliant and nobody really knows why.
oh yeah, so I don't really knows why. Another question, sorry: but whan guybrush asks for for these biscuits? I can't remember. And this joke in the 3 is when you pick up the seahorse head, right?
^ I don't think translation into Italian would be much of a problem. It's just Guybrush asking for a cookie again and again. Some people find this hillarious, some don't. It's just one thing where lots of people think it's brilliant and nobody really knows why.
I loved that one - the merfolk leader offers him anything he likes, and the only things he can think of are the secret of monkey island and cookies
Now that I look back at the previous posts, it looks a bit like I made that post to try to take a jab at you, which wasn't my intent. Was just trying to lighten the mood a bit. My bad. :[
oh yeah, so I don't really knows why. Another question, sorry: but whan guybrush asks for for these biscuits? I can't remember. And this joke in the 3 is when you pick up the seahorse head, right?
It's the BEST JOKE ever!
I loved it...probably the most refined pun in the series.
Well, i guess you realized, that the Seahorse head was a joke on "The Godfather" where they decapitated a racehorse to bully a movie producer.
And the joke of the biscuit is, that in 2003 there was a movie "Seabiscuit" nominated for 7 Oscars, starring Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) about a jokey and his racing horse and the name of that horse was "Seabiscuit"
It's the BEST JOKE ever!
I loved it...probably the most refined pun in the series.
Well, i guess you realized, that the Seahorse head was a joke on "The Godfather" where they decapitated a racehorse to bully a movie producer.
And the joke of the biscuit is, that in 2003 there was a movie "Seabiscuit" nominated for 7 Oscars, starring Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) about a jokey and his racing horse and the name of that horse was "Seabiscuit"
And when you're already laughing because you thought that was so funny, Guybrush picks up a random biscuit lying there and says "I love these!" (so he wasn't referring to the seahorse at all).
2>1>3 imo. chapter 3 wasnt bad by any means, but I felt relied too much on dialogue puzzles. I miss trying out outrageous item combinations for hours, everything was too obvious and the dialogue puzzles (decava's questions about morgan, morgans date, the manatee mating) made the game feel shorter and easier
And when you're already laughing because you thought that was so funny, Guybrush picks up a random biscuit lying there and says "I love these!" (so he wasn't referring to the seahorse at all).
Nope. Re-run it again.
He says: Seabiscuit, I love these!
That is what's funny, not the horse head. The Corleone's decapitated horse joke already grew a 12 feet beard by the last couple of decades.
But you see the pun is severed seahorse head -> "The Godfather" movie -> Racehorse -> "Seabiscuit" movie
But you see the pun is severed seahorse head -> "The Godfather" movie -> Racehorse -> "Seabiscuit" movie
Yeah I get all that. And then he picks up an actual biscuit and eats it - so he wasn't being clever at all, which for some reason makes it even funnier.
severed seahorse head -> "The Godfather" movie -> Racehorse -> "Seabiscuit" movie -> Guybrush eats a biscuit and kind of negates all the connections you just made, which turns the pun around on itself.
Now that I look back at the previous posts, it looks a bit like I made that post to try to take a jab at you, which wasn't my intent. Was just trying to lighten the mood a bit. My bad. :[
Am I the only one that thinks 3>2>1 ?
The episodes have been gradually getting better.
Ep.1: too many locations that you can't see inside, annoying jungle mazes, but a really fantastic puzzle with the monkey in the lab.
Ep.2: very good. Human Lechuck puzzle. The puzzles were generally better. Travelling between (small) islands. Morgan duel fight in the beginning.
Ep.3: the best yet. Murray! Manatees! Great dialogue puzzles. Puzzles were of a great quality level, very logical. I never got stuck due to a bad designed, unfair puzzle, but maybe they're still too easy. Ending credits!
This topic is very interesting. It's beautiful seeing that every fan has his own opinion about this wonderful game...
Maybe for me too Chapter 2 was better than Chapter 3. And I say MAYBE, because every chapter has strenghts and weaknesses, and making a standing is not so easy.
So, for me : Episode 2 : The best sense of adventure, epic, and fantasy until now. Is wonderful exploring the oceans at sunset, and is wonderful making puzzles with LeChuck. Is great going through the siege, summoning legendary creatures, swordfighting with a fan of ours at the beginning, and being eaten by a giant manatee in the end. For me there is the best soundtrack in a TOMI episode, too... BUT
Too many bugs, too many recycled characters model, and not-so-well-defined secondary characters, graphically and psichologically. Mermaids, for example.
Episode 3 : The best and most funny puzzles until now, like the face-off, the tarot curse, and the manatee courtship.
There are also the best secondary characters seen in a TOMI episode now. The Coronado Crew has one thousand times the charisma of a McGillicutty. BUT
Not-so-big exploring area, the belly of the manatee is not so graphically-exciting, and the cliffhanger was not-so unexpected
All of this in MY opinion . But I want to say that the important thing is that this is one of the best Monkey Island game I've ever seen. No matter what episode is better or worse, because every episode is like a mosaic tile, with his own features.
And the best thing is that all of this is so far away from the so-so-bad-EMI, and so similar to my favourite Mi2 and Mi3...
I really disliked the puzzles in this episode. First, they announce "no insult combat", then this episode has three puzzles that are pretty much exactly the same thing: repeat until you get something right, and/or find the correct nonsensical answer to a nonsensical phrase. That, plus puzzle re-use (find shortcut, mast, ...) made for really weak puzzles in my opinion. The rest of the episode was fine, but I am so very, very sick of this type of puzzle. I hope that's the last I'll ever see of it.
anyone noticed that all episodes end with guybrush fighting enemies (his hand, mcgillicutty, de cava) all on the screaming narwhal? Not saying that its a bad thing, but it makes the endings predictable in a way.
anyone noticed that all episodes end with guybrush fighting enemies (his hand, mcgillicutty, de cava) all on the screaming narwhal? Not saying that its a bad thing, but it makes the endings predictable in a way.
It's the standard formula for every Telltale episode. It usually goes something like: into puzzle, three puzzles to be completed in whatever order, a coming together puzzle to be completed before getting into the next section, another lot of three puzzles to be completed in whatever order and finally an ending puzzle where the hero(s) overcomes the major antagonist(s). It's not always that specifically but it's usually in that ballpark.
It is funny that in ToMI the ending puzzles have all so far been on the Screaming Narwhal. It is the closet thing the game has to a central hub.
This topic is very interesting. It's beautiful seeing that every fan has his own opinion about this wonderful game...
Maybe for me too Chapter 2 was better than Chapter 3. And I say MAYBE, because every chapter has strenghts and weaknesses, and making a standing is not so easy.
So, for me : Episode 2 : The best sense of adventure, epic, and fantasy until now. Is wonderful exploring the oceans at sunset, and is wonderful making puzzles with LeChuck. Is great going through the siege, summoning legendary creatures, swordfighting with a fan of ours at the beginning, and being eaten by a giant manatee in the end. For me there is the best soundtrack in a TOMI episode, too... BUT
Too many bugs, too many recycled characters model, and not-so-well-defined secondary characters, graphically and psichologically. Mermaids, for example.
Episode 3 : The best and most funny puzzles until now, like the face-off, the tarot curse, and the manatee courtship.
There are also the best secondary characters seen in a TOMI episode now. The Coronado Crew has one thousand times the charisma of a McGillicutty. BUT
Not-so-big exploring area, the belly of the manatee is not so graphically-exciting, and the cliffhanger was not-so unexpected
All of this in MY opinion . But I want to say that the important thing is that this is one of the best Monkey Island game I've ever seen. No matter what episode is better or worse, because every episode is like a mosaic tile, with his own features.
And the best thing is that all of this is so far away from the so-so-bad-EMI, and so similar to my favourite Mi2 and Mi3...
I kind of agree with this but I'm stil a little bit bamboozled why people keep saying the jokes in chapter 3 were better...
Come on, they were all "slapstick"like. Pulling faces is quite fun yeah; but doesn't make you laugh out loud. Getting a Manatee to come out of her cave through witty dialogue is fun yeah, but not laughing out loud. Bringing Murray back is fun yeah, but not laughing out loud at a "muhahaha" more or less. Giving a nodge to the godfather and seabiscuit is fun yeah, but still not laughing out loud.
But I remember I was laughing my ass off all through chapter 2, especially at the best MI joke ever "can I have a cookie" "no" "oh, I'm sorry: may I have a cookie" "no" "cookie?" "no". This type of humor is so dry and sarcastic, it's perfect. It reminded me a LOT about Monkey Island 2 (still the most sarcastic and funniest in my opinion).
Also: chapter 2 had such a more epic feeling. I mean come on, that opening sequence was the best ever! Fighting on a ship at sunset, cinematic camera switches, witty dialogue,.....everything a pirate wants.
Where as in chapterr 3 you start by talking to De Cava, through a not so funny dialogue, and then playing a little question game which you have to admit wasn't really funny.
Sure; the rest of chapter 2 was at times buggy, but we got to sail to distant islands (doesn't matter how small they were), we had our beloved parrot, we had human LeChuck!, we had a few epic battles, the cookie joke, and at the end we were swallowed by a manatee!! Now that was an epic chapter, dear God yes it was.
As for chapter 3, we are inside a Manatee, talking to some guys who live 3 feet away from each other but one group doesn't want the other to know. No epic travels, a few dialogue puzzles, a silly fangirl (which I do like as a new character btw, just not the way Guybrush seems to be a mentor to her), a stonerhead (wtf, dont put surfdudes in MI damn it), a face expression puzzle, the horse joke and finally a cliffhanger which isn't one since it leaves us just where we were 2 chapters ago; only now with the sponge.
I missed the epic feeling, the typical MI dialogue en most of all I missed the old Guybrush.
But I however understand that we need a chapter like chapter 3, because it's the middle one, which are always fillers and they need to set up the story for the final 2, undoubtedly supersexyawesomehilariousepic chapters!
And I want another cookie joke, Telltale, gimme gimme gimme gimme!
I agree with the original post. Episode two was better.
Actually, episode three didn't even seem to have a Monkey Island feel to it. But maybe that's because Elaine and LeChuck were in the backseat the whole time. Not saying it was bad. In fact, it was a pretty fun in terms of adventure games, but like I said, it felt like it could've been any other game.
Find a shortcut so you can complete a task before you run out of time (get to the cast before your molten pyrite re-hardens, get to the bile pool before the guy stops uptempo playing)
And the rubber tree mast was used the same way in #2 and #3, too.
Sure; the rest of chapter 2 was at times buggy, but we got to sail to distant islands (doesn't matter how small they were), we had our beloved parrot, we had human LeChuck!, we had a few epic battles, the cookie joke, and at the end we were swallowed by a manatee!! Now that was an epic chapter, dear God yes it was.
As for chapter 3, we are inside a Manatee, talking to some guys who live 3 feet away from each other but one group doesn't want the other to know. No epic travels, a few dialogue puzzles...I missed the epic feeling...
Well, I have to agree with this missing of epic feeling...
But for the rest, I continue feeling that puzzles in Chapter 3 were much more original...and as Bugeye says, "Originally counts".
The cookie joke is really funny, but it's a dialogue line, not a "puzzle".
Were in the Chapter 2 you had to go on the most of the time solving the classic "use this with this" puzzles, in Chapter 3 you had to go on with learning pirate faces, courting manatees, and using tarots to make voodoo curses...and this is sure much more original, and I appreciate this...
Also the cliffhanger in Chapter 3 was not the best, I agree with this, but...I don't want to say that Chapter 2 is UNIVERSALLY better than 3...and I don't want to do as someone else did here, opening "epic" and hunky threads like "YOU, WHO DON'T THINK LIKE ME THAT CHAPTER 3 IS BETTER, ARE ALL STUPID MISLEAD SHEEPS".
Simply every chapters has strenghts and weaknesses. And until now, I felt much more "Monkey Island spirit", epic, fantasy, and adventure in chapter 2 than in chapter 3. And now in the last two chapters, I want the best of all the previous chapters, I want them to be ABSOLUTELLY the best !!! With no compromises
I like both chapters,but chapter 2 has a slight advantage for me. More laughs, tougher puzzles, and overall a bit more excitement. But chapter 3 is really good as well. So far the first chapter is the least good for me.
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1. People who try to force their opinions on someone/ insult people.
2. People who disagree with that persons opinion, call them stupid, then try to force their opinion on people.
3. People who complain about people who try to force there opinions on other people
4. People who wish everyone would shut up
Guess which one i am MWAHAHAHAHAHA;):D:p
And then there are those who intellectualize the various kinds of forum dwellers in an attempt to separate themselves from their peers so they can put themselves up on a pedestal
Fixed.
5. People who add on to the end of lists in an attempt to stand out as silly and/or clever, but just end up making themselves look dumber than everyone else
3 felt shorter to me though, but the new characters were really awesome and well done.
But seriously, it's hard to analyse em individually, I'm gonna have to go back and play all these again, hopefully after I invent some sort of memory wiping device so I forget playing TOMI, that way I can solve the puzzles again.
Like what your doing.
That would be the point he was trying to make, yes.
What i really liked was the puzzle intensity in Episode 3, from this point it felt like an old skool adventure, although it was plain too easy and missing a sexy one. Can we have different difficulty settings back please?! Turning hints on/off with this complexity just doesn't do the job for me. I found it a lot more easier than the episodes before.
I really enjoyed the face off competition, investigating and talking to the the crew and i guess it was the best appearance of Murray i've seen so far. I wasn't such a big fan of Murray (i'm more into LeChuck and others) but he does a great job in here. The first time i enjoyed watching the credits and didn't have to kill the task because of *boooring*. Now, i finally know who you are. Dealing with Morgan (cute haircut) also was more interesting than with Elaine *yawning*.
The price for the best texture in a game this month goes to Moose's axillary hair! :O)
Some gfx like the lights at the bar looked too much rushed, the walking restriction in the first scene felt unrealistic, some textures in the mantee were quite aweful and i found the beginning of the adventure not this interesting. Some of the riddles, although i solved them, like the proper options when talking to the female mantee didn't made this much sense to me, they also could be interpreted logically in a different way, overall this wasn't this well designed and boring.
Have i ever mentioned that i love shooting with the cannon on the ship?! Here goes another one... *kaboom*
And so on...don't have too much time right now.
What i would wish for the future would be following the more puzzle intensive path, offering a more difficult option as well or raising the complexity for a few ones plus at least one ingenious designed puzzle, trying to design a story which is not only partly interesting. Make it more saucy were it does make sense, sometimes TTG games feel too much after some Disney shows. Keeping an eye on some of the textures. Oh and please let us play LeChuck as well. As always: Fix the steering options.
Thanks, and looking forward for chapter four.
Number one should be "their opinions" not "there opinions"
^ example of a number 5 type of person.
same for me, also on the location, and I tought I was crazy prefering the second! But can you tell me about this cookie jokes? I'm italian, and maybe this is a joke that made sense only in english language and I don't get it, don't know. Can you eplain me, please?
oh yeah, so I don't really knows why. Another question, sorry: but whan guybrush asks for for these biscuits? I can't remember. And this joke in the 3 is when you pick up the seahorse head, right?
I loved that one - the merfolk leader offers him anything he likes, and the only things he can think of are the secret of monkey island and cookies
Now that I look back at the previous posts, it looks a bit like I made that post to try to take a jab at you, which wasn't my intent. Was just trying to lighten the mood a bit. My bad. :[
Number 3.
It's the BEST JOKE ever!
I loved it...probably the most refined pun in the series.
Well, i guess you realized, that the Seahorse head was a joke on "The Godfather" where they decapitated a racehorse to bully a movie producer.
And the joke of the biscuit is, that in 2003 there was a movie "Seabiscuit" nominated for 7 Oscars, starring Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) about a jokey and his racing horse and the name of that horse was "Seabiscuit"
And when you're already laughing because you thought that was so funny, Guybrush picks up a random biscuit lying there and says "I love these!" (so he wasn't referring to the seahorse at all).
Nope. Re-run it again.
He says:
Seabiscuit, I love these!
That is what's funny, not the horse head. The Corleone's decapitated horse joke already grew a 12 feet beard by the last couple of decades.
But you see the pun is severed seahorse head -> "The Godfather" movie -> Racehorse -> "Seabiscuit" movie
Yeah I get all that. And then he picks up an actual biscuit and eats it - so he wasn't being clever at all, which for some reason makes it even funnier.
severed seahorse head -> "The Godfather" movie -> Racehorse -> "Seabiscuit" movie -> Guybrush eats a biscuit and kind of negates all the connections you just made, which turns the pun around on itself.
I hate debating jokes.
It's all good
.....That joke been done to death yet? If so, I apologize in advance.
It's not really in advance if you apologize afterward...
You lie!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVmQ-15K-RA
The episodes have been gradually getting better.
Ep.1: too many locations that you can't see inside, annoying jungle mazes, but a really fantastic puzzle with the monkey in the lab.
Ep.2: very good. Human Lechuck puzzle. The puzzles were generally better. Travelling between (small) islands. Morgan duel fight in the beginning.
Ep.3: the best yet. Murray! Manatees! Great dialogue puzzles. Puzzles were of a great quality level, very logical. I never got stuck due to a bad designed, unfair puzzle, but maybe they're still too easy. Ending credits!
Maybe for me too Chapter 2 was better than Chapter 3. And I say MAYBE, because every chapter has strenghts and weaknesses, and making a standing is not so easy.
So, for me :
Episode 2 : The best sense of adventure, epic, and fantasy until now. Is wonderful exploring the oceans at sunset, and is wonderful making puzzles with LeChuck. Is great going through the siege, summoning legendary creatures, swordfighting with a fan of ours at the beginning, and being eaten by a giant manatee in the end. For me there is the best soundtrack in a TOMI episode, too...
BUT
Too many bugs, too many recycled characters model, and not-so-well-defined secondary characters, graphically and psichologically. Mermaids, for example.
Episode 3 : The best and most funny puzzles until now, like the face-off, the tarot curse, and the manatee courtship.
There are also the best secondary characters seen in a TOMI episode now. The Coronado Crew has one thousand times the charisma of a McGillicutty.
BUT
Not-so-big exploring area, the belly of the manatee is not so graphically-exciting, and the cliffhanger was not-so unexpected
All of this in MY opinion
And the best thing is that all of this is so far away from the so-so-bad-EMI, and so similar to my favourite Mi2 and Mi3...
Fixed XD
It's the standard formula for every Telltale episode. It usually goes something like: into puzzle, three puzzles to be completed in whatever order, a coming together puzzle to be completed before getting into the next section, another lot of three puzzles to be completed in whatever order and finally an ending puzzle where the hero(s) overcomes the major antagonist(s). It's not always that specifically but it's usually in that ballpark.
It is funny that in ToMI the ending puzzles have all so far been on the Screaming Narwhal. It is the closet thing the game has to a central hub.
I kind of agree with this but I'm stil a little bit bamboozled why people keep saying the jokes in chapter 3 were better...
Come on, they were all "slapstick"like. Pulling faces is quite fun yeah; but doesn't make you laugh out loud. Getting a Manatee to come out of her cave through witty dialogue is fun yeah, but not laughing out loud. Bringing Murray back is fun yeah, but not laughing out loud at a "muhahaha" more or less. Giving a nodge to the godfather and seabiscuit is fun yeah, but still not laughing out loud.
But I remember I was laughing my ass off all through chapter 2, especially at the best MI joke ever "can I have a cookie" "no" "oh, I'm sorry: may I have a cookie" "no" "cookie?" "no". This type of humor is so dry and sarcastic, it's perfect. It reminded me a LOT about Monkey Island 2 (still the most sarcastic and funniest in my opinion).
Also: chapter 2 had such a more epic feeling. I mean come on, that opening sequence was the best ever! Fighting on a ship at sunset, cinematic camera switches, witty dialogue,.....everything a pirate wants.
Where as in chapterr 3 you start by talking to De Cava, through a not so funny dialogue, and then playing a little question game which you have to admit wasn't really funny.
Sure; the rest of chapter 2 was at times buggy, but we got to sail to distant islands (doesn't matter how small they were), we had our beloved parrot, we had human LeChuck!, we had a few epic battles, the cookie joke, and at the end we were swallowed by a manatee!! Now that was an epic chapter, dear God yes it was.
As for chapter 3, we are inside a Manatee, talking to some guys who live 3 feet away from each other but one group doesn't want the other to know. No epic travels, a few dialogue puzzles, a silly fangirl (which I do like as a new character btw, just not the way Guybrush seems to be a mentor to her), a stonerhead (wtf, dont put surfdudes in MI damn it), a face expression puzzle, the horse joke and finally a cliffhanger which isn't one since it leaves us just where we were 2 chapters ago; only now with the sponge.
I missed the epic feeling, the typical MI dialogue en most of all I missed the old Guybrush.
But I however understand that we need a chapter like chapter 3, because it's the middle one, which are always fillers and they need to set up the story for the final 2, undoubtedly supersexyawesomehilariousepic chapters!
And I want another cookie joke, Telltale, gimme gimme gimme gimme!
Actually, episode three didn't even seem to have a Monkey Island feel to it. But maybe that's because Elaine and LeChuck were in the backseat the whole time. Not saying it was bad. In fact, it was a pretty fun in terms of adventure games, but like I said, it felt like it could've been any other game.
My order would be: 2>3>1.
Two things.
Find a shortcut so you can complete a task before you run out of time (get to the cast before your molten pyrite re-hardens, get to the bile pool before the guy stops uptempo playing)
And the rubber tree mast was used the same way in #2 and #3, too.
Well, I have to agree with this missing of epic feeling...
But for the rest, I continue feeling that puzzles in Chapter 3 were much more original...and as Bugeye says, "Originally counts".
The cookie joke is really funny, but it's a dialogue line, not a "puzzle".
Were in the Chapter 2 you had to go on the most of the time solving the classic "use this with this" puzzles, in Chapter 3 you had to go on with learning pirate faces, courting manatees, and using tarots to make voodoo curses...and this is sure much more original, and I appreciate this...
Also the cliffhanger in Chapter 3 was not the best, I agree with this, but...I don't want to say that Chapter 2 is UNIVERSALLY better than 3...and I don't want to do as someone else did here, opening "epic" and hunky threads like "YOU, WHO DON'T THINK LIKE ME THAT CHAPTER 3 IS BETTER, ARE ALL STUPID MISLEAD SHEEPS".
Simply every chapters has strenghts and weaknesses. And until now, I felt much more "Monkey Island spirit", epic, fantasy, and adventure in chapter 2 than in chapter 3. And now in the last two chapters, I want the best of all the previous chapters, I want them to be ABSOLUTELLY the best !!! With no compromises