How much am I missing?
When I started playing this series, I had neither played nor known anything about the whole Monkey Island series beyond the fact that the main character is named Guybrush Threepwood. As I've been playing, I've been able to understand any jokes that are not referencing other Monkey Island games. I also made sure to look up characters i knew nothing about when they were introduced (Murray and Stan.) I also looked up and now understand the "insult sword fighting" and the whole "you fight like a cow" gag. But I gotta wonder: is there still a ton of hilarious jokes that i am missing because I have never played the other games? Or can I keep playing without worrying that I am missing out on most of the game because of it? Thanks in advance.
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Also, you're missing out on some really good, quality adventure games.
I agree with RD though, you are missing out on some quality games
Trust me, if I ever get the chance, I will get any Monkey Island game I can get my hands on.
Get the ScummVM emulator. It is just about the most stable and user-friendly emulator out there. You can get the Special Edition of the first game, which is built on top of and allows seamless switching to the original. I'm not sure if you can get Curse to run natively on XP/Vista/7.
MI2-4 you can get from amazon or ebay. Sometimes pretty cheap too.
Playing ToMI without knowledge of the old games is fine, but why would you want to skip the classics?
MI1 - Special Edition(with voice and high rez grfx) on sale on Steam. It's a must!
MI2 - ScummVM (googe it) will run it for you. Only skip it if you dislike the lack of voices.
MI3 - ScummVM will run it. A must!
MI4 - People don't like this one that much and it may be hard to get it running on a modern computer. Very skippable.
I definitely didn't even think of those when I wrote my first post, though I did get them when I saw them in the game.
Some other references include the entire recipe for the Cutlass of Kaflu, The Monkey in my Pocket song and really a lot of stuff that Stan said...
TTG had the potential to go all out with the in-jokes in Trial, but it's probably as good thing they didn't.
Also: I got Curse and Escape to run on XP without having to use ScummVM, and they worked just fine!
I don't think it's as skippable as a lot of people say(that is, I consider it as skippable as Curse, which I don't like nearly as much as a lot of people, while not hating Escape nearly as much as a lot of people).
Well, Since I was able to play the Sam and Max games without any knowledge of the comics or the old Sam and Max game, I just assumed the same would go for ToMI. Now I realize that was kind of a dumb thing to assume, though. And as I said before, I'm gonna try to play the older ones now. Ooh, if the first one is on steam that won't be hard to get. Thanks for the help.
If anyone needs it:
http://quick.mixnmojo.com/escape-from-monkey-island-setup
And you should play all 4. And if you want, play the original in original format, and later in the special edition version.
Two things about the special edition:
1. You can switch between the old and new versions at any time after the credits roll by pressing F10
2. One of the first things you should do is switch to the original game and press the + key a few times. It increases the speed at which new text comes up. The voices are linked to the original game's text speed, and if you don't speed it up the voices feel a bit "stilted".
Oh, great! Thanks for finding that, so I wouldn't have to!
It's here on Steam;
http://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/
And is available through a few other download channels if you're in North America.
You are missing out on a great series.
Not that I don't think they should release all four of them in a pack over Steam, using ScummVM if needed.
I dare to disagree with your opinion on those games. How can you suggest a new fan to skip LCR?!?
MI - as said above, a must. It's how it all started. Easy to get on Steam.
MI2 - the most twisted, mind-blowing part of the series. You'll learn origins of Guybrush's coat, the diving scene, melody that Guybrush whistles in Bait Shop and much more. For me - best in the series. Use of ScummVM highly recomended (but I mennaged to run CD version on XP without any additional programs).
MI3 - Nice, cartoony graphics, nice story (with little rushed ending) with many memorable characters. If you wonder where the song played by toy manatee comes from or what's the
MI4 - The most disliked in the series. It's quite nice 'till you get to Monkey Island. The good: story to the part on Monkey Island, some atmospheric locations (like Mysts'o'Tyme or Reeducation Center), revisiting old places. The bad: ugly graphics, bad controls, two irritating puzzles (
For me the models in EfMI felt like painted statues - without any expression. Older Grim Fandango models were more alive.
I do agree that the game itself is nice though.
Yes, MI2 is very cool. I'm just saying there are people around that would not want to play it just because there is no voice audio.
I did play it myself obviously, but I hate midi music of any kind. Basically I just muted everything and was listening to my own mp3's.
Except I watched a walkthrough of Curse of monkey island.
Nerrrr.
Wow... I can understand hating MIDI but you really missed something.
Even though it sounds pretty crappy technically speaking, MI2's soundtrack is one of the best ones i ever heard. Lame sounds, but great tunes.
Oh, wow, I missed that one. I'm going to have to listen better when I go through again.
Hopefully eventually Residual will be able to play MI4, I don't really remember that much about MI:4, I don't think I enjoyed it all that much.
Of course, thanks to Scummvm, MI:1, 2 and 3 can run on a PSP (and a pile of games consoles) and 1 and 2 can run on a nintendo DS.
(Worth noting that were really really a lot of references to past games in Chapter 4).
Basically all you do is copy all the files from the old game disc into a folder on your desktop and run Scummvm load from the folder you made and you are in business.
http://www.scummvm.org/
from the faq
http://www.scummvm.org/faq/#3_1
Well, first, Woodtick is the ESSENCE of the soundtrack in that game, so it's enough to be a deal breaker. And also, just 2 tunes? as far as i remember, you also don't get the voodoo lady music, and not the music when you're on captains dread's ship, and no music also at the alleys at phatt island, outside of the mansion, or at the waterfall. In other words - a lot more than 2.