Well, I gotta say, that MI2 was my favorite MI game. But right now (with four chapters, most of the game and all that) it's safe enough to say that it became my second favorite, and ToMI - first.
Even though the later games have the advantage of better graphics and sound enhancements, SMI just has a special place in my heart. It was the first adventure game that I truly enjoyed (Sierra games were just too annoyingly hard to beat!) and I still play it on the SCUMMVM emulator once in a while. I still maintain that it had the best jokes and wittiest comebacks.
Curse and Tales are tied at second. CMI, simply because it was the game that introduced us to Dominic Armato and the rest of the incredible voice cast...and MURRAY! CMI was funny too, and I love the timelessness of the artwork. Tales, because Telltale did an incredible job with it, staying faithful to the series and respecting the fans. I find some of the changes odd, but they are negligible for the most part.
I think the problem I had with LCR is that I played it 2 years after I played CMI, so it was a bit weird for me to go back to the pixellated graphics, and control a much older-looking Guybrush. Also, the bizarre ending left me entirely confused. I still really enjoyed it, though! The puzzles were very challenging! It took me over a week to beat this game.
Not to say that I didn't enjoy EMI, but compared to the rest, this was the one I liked the least for 3 reasons:
1) They destroyed the giant monkey head and put a robot inside it. Everyone knows the monkey head is the entrance to LeChuck's hellish lair! The techie environment really doesn't feel very Monkey Island-ish to me.
2) Monkey Kombat. I would have preferred an internal game that had the usual "fill-in-the-punchline" theme. And the insult arm-wrestling didn't really cut it, either.
3) Making Herman Toothrot Grandpa Marley. Herman was so much funnier as some random crazy hermit.
What redeemed it was the diving challenge and the funny lawyers on Lucre Island.
All in all, I adore the whole MI series! More, more!
I got extremely lucky with that one. I cosplay, and one of the best ways to do those costumes is to browse thrift stores to find things that can be modified. I was out doing that and came across a copy of MI2. I think it had everything in it, including the LucasArts Adventurer newspaper, except the Mix-n-Mojo copy protection wheel. Luckily, ScummVM handles that part for me, but it would've been nice to have. I'd even settle for a scan of the two parts so I can make my own.
I have a CD version that skips the old school copyright protection, but I wanted to see it still and did a search and found an app that simulated that wheel.. turned and everything.
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2. CMI
2. TMI
4. LCR
5. EMI
Even though the later games have the advantage of better graphics and sound enhancements, SMI just has a special place in my heart. It was the first adventure game that I truly enjoyed (Sierra games were just too annoyingly hard to beat!) and I still play it on the SCUMMVM emulator once in a while. I still maintain that it had the best jokes and wittiest comebacks.
Curse and Tales are tied at second. CMI, simply because it was the game that introduced us to Dominic Armato and the rest of the incredible voice cast...and MURRAY!
I think the problem I had with LCR is that I played it 2 years after I played CMI, so it was a bit weird for me to go back to the pixellated graphics, and control a much older-looking Guybrush. Also, the bizarre ending left me entirely confused. I still really enjoyed it, though! The puzzles were very challenging! It took me over a week to beat this game.
Not to say that I didn't enjoy EMI, but compared to the rest, this was the one I liked the least for 3 reasons:
1) They destroyed the giant monkey head and put a robot inside it. Everyone knows the monkey head is the entrance to LeChuck's hellish lair! The techie environment really doesn't feel very Monkey Island-ish to me.
2) Monkey Kombat. I would have preferred an internal game that had the usual "fill-in-the-punchline" theme. And the insult arm-wrestling didn't really cut it, either.
3) Making Herman Toothrot Grandpa Marley. Herman was so much funnier as some random crazy hermit.
What redeemed it was the diving challenge and the funny lawyers on Lucre Island.
All in all, I adore the whole MI series! More, more!
It was the funniest BY FAR, the story is fantastic, ending is epic and the controls look like Grim Fandango's, which is my favorite game.
I never played MI2 so for me it's
Escape > Secret Remake > Curse > Tales
Tales being the worst.
Seriously, go and play MI2...
Oh my.
I believe you brain is flipped. They can fix that you know?
(aside)Dr. deSinge?
My heart breaks for you.... its kind of like watching those infomercials about helping needy kids for pennies a day to get them shoes and water....
My heart breaks for your misfortune you should hunt down a copy of MI2 as soon as you can.