Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood on the Tales Box?
The memoirs are a tradition in the Monkey Island games! In the TMI box there will be new "excerpts from the book" ?
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http://www.worldofmi.com/thegames/monkey1/index.php#Excerpt%20from%20Memoirs
http://www.worldofmi.com/thegames/monkey2/index.php#Excerpt%20from%20Memoirs
http://www.worldofmi.com/thegames/monkey3/index.php#Excerpt%20from%20Memoirs
http://www.worldofmi.com/thegames/monkey4/index.php#Excerpt%20from%20Memoirs
Were included on the original release packaging of each of their respective game titles, taken from a fictional book titled, "The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The Monkey Island Years".
It is supposable that in the beginning(s) of both CMI and EFMI this would be (or would be taken from) the book(s) in which Guybrush is writing, though that's not strictly official.
For those who haven't read them before:
However, if LA hasn't copyrighted it, how hard is it honestly to write a brief paragraph of fluff text like this? I'm sure that (at least if there's enough interested sparked by the idea) TT wouldn't mind assigning somebody to scribble a little spot for the back of the case.
Why would LA specifically take out a copyright on something that would be covered by the fact that they own the rights to the character the title is referring to?
People are forgetting that putting the LA logo in the beginning of this game was no homage, they are still involved in TMI. They still own MI. They are just letting someone else make it FOR them and are earing through licensing payments rather than sales as they found that to be a better financial decisions for their company.
on Monkey Island!
I honestly wouldn't put it past them. In fact I wouldn't put it past them to hold a copyright on the Memoirs title and not hold a current copyright on Guybrush's name...I'm not saying I think that this is the case, though it wouldn't come as a huge surprise to me if it were.
Or Dinky Island/Atoll.
Cause he's a Big Whoop, ya know.
Ba-dum-tish!
My personal opinion is that the park wasn't reality but it wasn't just a spell to trick Guybrush either. Somewhere in-between. For the record I'm a firm believer that Guybrush and LeChuck really are blood-related brethren.
meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Umm of course!
and I am that pirate fool
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I too, would definitely buy it.
So, for example, there main title screen would have an open book of, say, six entries (all clickable), and you decide to click on one that maybe says:
"I woke up to find my self in shackles, in the ship's quarters of yet another brand new enemy. There was no doubt that he was eventually going to punish or kill me for my attempt to steal his most valuable possession. I didn't like the idea of walking from the plank into a pool of vicious sharks, being impaled by several rusty blades, or being keelhauled until my lungs were half filled with seawater and my skin half blue. I had to find some way of escaping the clutches of the malicious captain before he could deliver me to my deathbed at the bottom of the ocean, but how was I to do so with heavy chains hanging from my every limb and nothing at my disposal except for a cap from my last bottle of GrogXD..."
...and this could be where the level begins, with Guybrush bound in chains inside a ship, his inventory consisting of a bottle cap, and the objective to escape the ship. Does anyone think this idea is okay, or is it complete rubbish that could never work?
You know what I think? That's bloody brilliant! Telltale could do that, you know. Maybe call it Memoirs of Monkey Island, or Monkey Island 6: Memoirs of Guybrush.
Why thankyou! I'm glad you think so. I think that it could really work well with the episodic format.
TOMI DVD still isn't released to the public. The original shipment from the manufacturer was delayed shitloads because of the oilspill, it had to sail around it and it's still on it's way.
That's enough from you Ken.
Oh yeah, I read about that. I didn't realize it was the TOMI shipment though.
Didn't the crew attach giant skis to the bottom of the ship, and skidded through?
No, they tied all of their bedsheets and clothes together to make a big absorbent sponge to soak up the oil as they sailed through it.