Do you want ToMI to end with a cliffhanger?
If we look at past games, the only MI game that had a real cliffhanger is MI2, which is still one of the most talked about topics in the MI history.
So.. Do you want ToMI to end with some sort of a cliffhanger?
So.. Do you want ToMI to end with some sort of a cliffhanger?
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Maybe an ending setting up a new status quo, but no cliffhanger please.
Absolutely agree ! Ok with a new status quo, but please, let the story end !!!
/signed!
wouldn't survive a cliffhanger ... i hate cliffhangers horrible, horrible stuff ...-.-
Also, I would be absolutely dumbfounded if this was the last we saw of Monkey Island. I really doubt the end is nigh!
ToMI was, is and is going to be a sucess and the good thing about successful stuff is that you can continue doing it!
And Winslow is going to be there too! He just has to... I mean it's WINSLOW!!!
It definetely will keep the discussions and this brilliant community more alive over time.
And if they just end it with something in the lines of SoMI's and CMI's "..and they lived happily ever after"- endings, it will probably feel a little anticlimatic!
Fans need to be assured that MI is a never-ending story.
Even if they won't make another game, we need a sense that Guybrush still sails the seas going on new swashbuckling adventures deep in the Carribean!
The monkeys are not what they seem..
Though MI2 was my favorite MI game (that is, before ToMI came on the scene), the open for interpretations wacky cliffhanger ending made more bad than good. Of course, if Gilbert would still be on the scene, it wouldn't have, but let's face it: CoMI opened the world of story inconsestincies and kinda stupid things (ahem, Carnival of the Damned) for Monkey Island series, continued in EfMI. Albeit with one noble purpose: explaining the MI2 ending (and not only) and trying to make things more interesting.
Yes, I know, if TellTales will make a sequel to ToMI, it's not like the developer team will change, and stuff... But it's better not to take the risk. Especially when we don't know for how long the Monkey Island franchise will be on stall again.
I can imagine Stemmle and/or Darin going "Monkeywax!! We got some re-writing to do!!!" upon spotting this thread.. ;P
As I understand it, the Monkey Island franchise has been left open for a Monkey Island V, so its impossible to give an entirely satisfactory ending to something which hasn't happened.
Plus aren't there a few inconsistencies throughout Monkey Island, such as with Herman Toothrot?
Plus, the continued debate regarding the end of Monkey Island II
Agreed.
Or maybe something like they finish off LeChuck "properly" and then sail off, then the camera pans back around to see an ominous voodoo glow coming from LeChucks clothes/hat/boots/sword/something. A kind of "to be continued" but in a way that doesn't REQUIRE a direct sequel. (Think about the ring at the end of Flash Gordon.. that kind of ending)
Or more like - "hehh... just wait for what we have in store!"
I am sorry, it has been a very very long time since I played the first games so honestly wouldn't know anymore. Anyway, what I meant was that I would like some open ending. Something like that we know LeChuck is still out there planning his revenge after we saved the day.
Well... you know... like, in SoMI, LeChuck wants to marry Elaine, we kill him... in LR LeChuck wants Revenge on Guybrush, we kill him (kinda... if not in MI2, then in the beginning of CMI), in CMI he wants to marry Elaine AND revenge on Guybrush, we kill him, in EfMI he kinda wants the same thing (and we KILL him)
EfMI, for example, would be great without LeChuck and still be a MI. Ozzie was a great villian, really (could be even better, though). And LeChuck was there just for the sake of being there because somewhy they decided to make him come back. And that made it worse.
Don't get me wrong, I like LeChuck. But the more he appears, the more we beat him, the less value he has as a villian. He already was not a very good villian in CoMI (and a really bad villian in EfMI). ToMI greatly spruced the things up, but if LeChuck will continue to appear, then it's CoMI and eventually EfMI destiny for him, again. And there's no guarantee there will be a chance to greatly spruce things up again.
But an odd (closed?) ending MI2-style could be fun.
I hope not Mermaid. The end of Monkey Island doesn't bear thinking about!
It can always be revived. Over and over again, just like LeChuck.
The cliffhanger, if any, could be a sort of joke-cliffhanger, like the first "Back to the future" movie. The beggining of a whole new story... that may or may not be told to us.
Just the same way as the game starts with the end of another whole story that hasn't been told to us.
Well, if it's just about finishing TOMI without a cliffhanger but a nice & clean ending with all ends tied up, that's fine. But it should leave room for a sequel. Ah, what are we worried about...the guys at TTG have succeeded in reanimating a series that I believed was dead for sure after that absurd ending of EMI. They also successfully introduced new complex characters that have the potential to accompany Guybrush in a couple of future episodes. The only problem is that LeChuck recycling thingie...