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First Monkey Island and Favorite Monkey Island

GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
edited February 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
Well, someone was curious about this and I'm just the sort of idiot who would take the amount of time necessary to make such a long poll, so here goes. Which Monkey Island game introduced you to the series, and which game do you consider your favorite?

Other than Curse being my first, I played the rest of the series in order. I had a hard time choosing between Curse and Tales, but Curse won. Sentimental favoritism is hard to overcome, I guess, but that's the whole point of this thread, isn't it?

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  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    tCoMI for both.
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited January 2010
    LeChucks Revenge - Curse of Monkey Island.

    For the exact chronology:
    LeChucks Revenge, Curse of Monkey Island, Escape from Monkey Island, Secret of Monkey Island, Tales of Monkey Island.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited January 2010
    My chronology is: Curse, Escape, Secret, Revenge, Tales Episodes 1,2 & 3, SoMI: Special Edition, Tales Episodes 4 & 5.
  • VisstixVisstix
    edited January 2010
    My chronology is: secret, revenge, curse, escape, tales ^^ Revenge is my favorite.
    haven't played the SE. maybe i'll try it if the remake of Revenge comes out.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited January 2010
    I played them all as they came out, and my favourite is LeChuck's Revenge (which happened to be one of my first ever legally bought games - hey, I was constantly broke and could barely afford empty disks for my Amiga once a week).
  • kenbrushkenbrush
    edited January 2010
    I played them all in order of release. I either haunted the computer store as release date approached, or pre-ordered when announced.

    CMI was my favorite. How can you not love a game that has both Murray and El Pollo Diablo?

    Ken
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited January 2010
    Hmm.... OK, for me it has to be the demo of "Curse of Monkey Island", released on a best-of-various-different-genres computer game disc on the cover of a magazine several years after the full game was released..... then SOMI many years later, if you dont count demos.... but dammit if neither's an option!

    I can't decide which game I like the best, though. Can I opt for "Sam and Max Hit the Road" instead? :D
  • LowMoralFiberLowMoralFiber
    edited January 2010
    I actually started with Escape, since it was the most recent game at the time and therfore the easiest to obtain. Then I played Secret, Revenge, Curse and Tales.
  • TomPravetzTomPravetz
    edited January 2010
    LowMoralFiber wrote: »
    I actually started with Escape, since it was the most recent game at the time and therfore the easiest to obtain. Then I played Secret, Revenge, Curse and Tales.

    Wait. You played EfMI and thought, "Hey, I should get the other ones!"? Lucky you.
  • Jen KollicJen Kollic
    edited January 2010
    I think I first played Secret way back in 1992 when I was a little wee girl. (well, 11) And I'd also have to say that Secret remains my favourite, if only because I played it on my Amiga 600 during my summer holidays from school for about six years running, so I have a huge amount of nostalgic fondness for it.

    Now, if I absolutely had to rank up the rest of the games, (I'd really rather not as I love them all... except Escape, which I would rather just be friends with) here's how I'd do it:

    Secret
    Curse
    Tales
    Revenge (controversial placing I know)
    (this space reserved)
    (this space reserved)
    (this space reserved)
    (this space reserved)
    Escape

    Please note that this is not intended as a slight on Revenge at all, it's a fantastic game even when you're playing it on an Amiga 600 with TWELVE DISKS. (laying the foundation for repetetive strain injuries later in life) I just happen to like Curse and Tales better, and I think a large part of that I would credit to Dominic Armato's voice acting, because for me he really brings Guybrush to life.

    And another reason? Well... I was absolutely terrified of Zombie Pirate LeChuck, when the game first came out he gave me nightmares and I couldn't even watch the cutscenes he was in. (in my defence, I was 11) I only managed to complete Revenge twice when I was a kid, and that was only accomplished by playing the game with a friend and covering my eyes from the moment Guybrush falls into the tunnels under Dinky until LeChuck is zapped by the voodoo doll. I'd still play Revenge by myself, but I'd switch it off once Guybrush was dropped into the pit on Dinky. The worst part is that I'm 100% not making this up, I really was THAT scared of Zombie LeChuck. I'm over it these days of course, though I suppose that could always change if they release a special edition for Revenge...
  • snip3z4killssnip3z4kills
    edited January 2010
    LowMoralFiber wrote: »
    I actually started with Escape, since it was the most recent game at the time and therfore the easiest to obtain. Then I played Secret, Revenge, Curse and Tales.

    Me too, so Escape was my first game. And... Wait, I have a favorite now?!
  • Fabula virFabula vir
    edited January 2010
    Curse - Escape - Secret - Revenge - TOMI1 - Secret SE - TOMI 2,3,4,5
    And I'd go with TOMI with my favourite. :3
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited January 2010
    Started with Curse, then Secret, Revenge, Escape and finally Tales. I played SOMI: SE before Tales too. Curse remains my favourite though just because all the styles worked, the artwork, the point n click system and verb coin, the music, the cast, the story up to the last two parts, I even admire the brave attempt at trying to fix all continuity with the MI2 ending.
  • MatakuMataku
    edited January 2010
    Cmi - mi2
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited January 2010
    I played them all in order, curse is my fav.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited January 2010
    Sadly my first was a demo for Escape. For this reason, I'll always hold a small soft spot for it (which means I don't absolutely hate it all that much kind of). Curse is easily my favourite, though.
  • MatrixCreationsMatrixCreations
    edited January 2010
    I played SoMI when I was like, only four on Windows 95. Then at the same age sometime something or other happened to the computer and SoMI got wiped and MI2 somehow appeared. I had never even got the past the part with the bridge troll. Anyways, I got MI2 and liked it, but again I had no idea what was going on.

    It wasn't until I was eight that everything snapped together and I was able to finish Monkey Island 2. It is to this day, easily my favourite Monkey Island game!
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited January 2010
    I first saw SMI being played at my cousin's house when his family got a new computer, and that was a new game they got for it (the EGA version on diskette) when I was a little kid. My family had played King's Quest IV, and some time later I asked if I could borrow SMI from them. I do know that by the time I had played it, MI2 was already out.

    However, with MI2, I hadn't played that one until I saw "LucasArts Archives, vol. III" in the store, which had the Monkey Island Madness CD as part of it. Sure, it's a good game, but the truth is I hated the ending. Having Guybrush end up in a stupid carnival at the end, suggesting the whole MI world was just his overactive imagination at an amusement park, with an apparently demon-possessed brother, just felt so stupid to me. If Ron Gilbert ever says that THAT is what the real Secret is, I'm going to be upset.

    However, Curse was my favorite for ages after it came out, primarily because of the voice acting, Murray, and challenging mode of ship combat (among other things... there's nothing I don't like about CMI.)

    I remember seeing Escape in the store during a time when Adventure games were basically dead. I remember that it was like $25 or so, and was disconcerted by the price being so low compared to other new games. I wondered at the time if EMI was shovelware. The game was new, why was the price so low? Well it wasn't TERRIBLE, but I could see at the time why Adventure games were dying or dead... since Sierra On-Line was gone, and LucasArts' two newest adventure games had terrible control schemes in a lame effort to make it feel like a console game (not to mention EMI's ending is anti-climactic.)

    But you know CMI had been my favorite for, I guess 12 years now... and playing Tales just gives me that resounding feeling of exactly what it was like to play SMI for myself the first time and crack-up laughing at the insult swordfighting, or for the first time ever to hear Murray say "Alright then, ROLL! ROLL through the gates of Hell... must you take the fun out of everything?"... Playing Tales just warms my heart, so I voted for TMI as my favorite.
  • BaggeBagge
    edited January 2010
    I played them in order, although MI2 was already out by the time I bought SMI. MI2 is still the high point of the series.
  • unicornfoalunicornfoal
    edited January 2010
    SMI was the first I played, but then we skipped MI2 and went straight to CMI, playing the others more-or-less in order (MI2, EMI, TMI, SMI:SE). Choosing a favourite was incredibly difficult, but I went with CMI because I have the most fond memories of playing it as a kid. :)
  • UzrnameUzrname
    edited January 2010
    I first played MI2 when I was 8 years old or something like that, but at the time I didn't speak English as good as I do now (it's not my mother tongue), therefore I skipped a handful of decent jokes. Plus, I was scared of the final sequence, which made me shiver every time LeChuck came in and the music changed. Plus I raged on little time delays to act there lol

    But my fav was definitely CMI. I first played it on a friend's PC and was like "This isn't Monkey Island, it looks nothing like those sprite-y games". But then I sort of got washed away by it and played it several times in the same year, over and over again, until I juiced it of every joke and got bored.

    I still play CMI maybe like every once 3-4 years, though I have little time to play games now. I finished Tales about a week ago and have to say it was close to beating CMI near the end (Rise of the Pirate God is simply awesome), but it never did. Dunno if they would make a game decent enough to beat CMI, plus at the time I was a kid and it meant a lot to me (not like now when I'm almost a father myself lol).
  • DrongoDrongo
    edited January 2010
    I played SoMI way back on my Atari ST and I played all the games in order from then on, MI2 was the first game I bought when I got my first PC (MI2 was one of the reasons for getting the PC) and it's still my favourite in the series.
  • TomPravetzTomPravetz
    edited February 2010
    Secret-Curse

    I don't know, I think the better graphic/sound pushed it over the top. ('Sept Tales. I thought it was better than Tales... Maybe just 'cause it was first-er?)
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited February 2010
    My chronologicle order of the series ive played is
    Tales
    Secret
    escape
    curse
    chapter 5 of tales.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited February 2010
    My first Monkey Island was Escape From Monkey Island for PS2. I was about nine then and I thought that the point and click interface was a ton of fun. I loved being able to kick the fireball onto the cannon and I played that part over and over.

    My favorite now is LeChuck's Revenge. I can play it over and over and not get tired of it. It's the perfect game. It has no flaws, no pacing issues, and all of the characters and situations and areas are memorable and beautiful. It's also one of the first games that truly scared me, so there's that as well.
  • ThorbieThorbie
    edited February 2010
    This was a hard decision. I was torn between Curse and Tales for favorite. While I think Curse is just the best all around Monkey Island games combining 2D animation at it's peak, perfect humor and clever, but challenging puzzles, Tales was probably the first Monkey Island game that truly felt like a journey. The other Monkey Island games seem to me more like a fun escape from reality. Finishing Tales felt much more rewarding than any previous game. Being episodic was the only thing keeping it from being my favorite. The pace and feel of each episode is a bit different than playing any part of a previous Monkey Island game. Still, Tales stands as probably the most creative, original and satisfying sequel to a hibernating series that I can think of.
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold
    edited February 2010
    My first was Curse (and actually, it was also my first adventure game!).
    My favourite is MI2, although Tales took its place for a while.
  • petethepandapetethepanda
    edited February 2010
    First MI: Secret of Monkey Island at 5 years old, first video game.
    Favorite MI: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. It retains much of the first game's innocent charm but adds in a delightful dose of darkness. Scared the hell out of me a couple times as a kid.

    (Second favorite - SoMI, Third favorite - CoMI, Fourth favorite: ToMI, Hate - EfMI)
  • flying sheepflying sheep
    edited February 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    My chronology is: Curse, Escape, Secret, Revenge, Tales Episodes 1,2 & 3, SoMI: Special Edition, Tales Episodes 4 & 5.
    i have not played escape yet, but apart from that, my chronology is identical. quite a coincidence!

    oh, and my fav is tales. not sure which episode, though, have to replay them in order.
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