A new main character?
I was thinking, just like Fallout 2 where you play another character from Fallout 1: what about some new Monkey Island stories with another hero?
For example: the stories of Threepwood and his Wife are happened, and they are fearsome might pirates, the new main character is a new guy that tries to follow his footsteps.
For example: the stories of Threepwood and his Wife are happened, and they are fearsome might pirates, the new main character is a new guy that tries to follow his footsteps.
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edit:aww it just doesnt have the same efect with out caps
The sad thing is, since you have lower-case letters in your edit, you could make the original post in all caps, but then the edit would make no sense.
....We could totally do a MGS4 style of it with Guybrush being old (and yes, I'm totally aware of the fanart that is lurking about on the forums with MGS4 Guybrush)
Use...denture cream...with...dentures...
Use...dentures...with...mouth...
Use...corn on the cob... "I can't use that!"
Long live Guybrush!
Relegating Guybrush to a background character: not now, not ever, never!
Promoting (temporarily) a character as the main character or as the user ego: depends on why and who is promoted to the role.
That sounds like a bad idea for a Monkey Island game, but a good idea for a fanfiction. You should try writing one.
That's why I called it a spin-off!
A pirate-themed game loosely resembling the Sims - except that now it sucks...
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I'm sorry, but people love Guybrush far too much to want to play as anyone else. Multiple protagonists worked for King's Quest, but like people said earlier, Monkey Island= Guybrush Threepwood, Guybrush Threepwood= Monkey Island.
There are a lot of tv series that ended by replacing the main character. It just doesnt work. If they had a new main character it wouldnt be the same game anymore.
The only reason they have a new main character on TV series is because the actor/actress doesnt want to do it anymore but the creator of the show wants to keep the series running, In a game the character cant "leave", the worst is that Dominic Armato may not want to do the voice again but I dought that will happen and even if it did happen they would just get a new voice artist to play as Guybrush.
mummy threepwood
skeleton threepwood
ghost threepwood
baby threepwood
grandpa threepwood - with walking stick for advanced puzzle solving
imagine that, a different threepwood to solve different puzzles!
Otherwise, new character or different main character would be fine by me. It would just need a subtitle, and to be a spinoff rather than the same series. I think that would work better that way.
Yeah, a large bunch of really narrowminded whiners completely overreacting like there was no tomorrow - all because of a new character being the lead in a fantastic game. Seriously, that's just stupid. MGS2 was great, Raiden was great, and the initial disappointments wears off, once you get to see Snake from a new side. I suspect something like that could happen to Monkey Island too, and people will judge the game solely on the new character instead of the actual quality of it. This is why developers are afraid of taking chances.
I also wouldn't mind a rare occurrence of another character who's close to Guybrush saying "Hmm, I'm not sure what to do here... What would Guybrush do?", giving you temporary control over them for a single goal. Perhaps using the old "It looks like we'll have to split up and each open the chests at the same time" sort of thing, or Guybrush is knocked out and the goal is to wake him up, or something like that. But Guybrush still needs to be the main protagonist of the story.
Now I have this mental image of an FFX-2 style game where for no reason whatsoever Elaine, Morgan (who is inexplicably alive again) and Carla form a pop group. You know, to fight evil with their music or whatever the hell reason they gave for it in FFX-2. Elaine would be Yuna, Morgan would be Rikku and Carla would be Paine, and it would be absolutely cracktacular and probably terrible.
...but I would SO play that.
I play the Phoenix Wright games, and after the third game they switched the player character entirely. I haven't played 'em yet, but it sounds like the fans are pretty divided on whether or not they're good. A lot of the controversy is just based on the fact that you no longer play as Phoenix...
Guybrush is such a central character, it seems like it would be hard to create a game with "Monkey Island" in the title where you didn't play as him. Perhaps giving a different title, separating the new player character from the "main" MI series, would be the way to go if something like that was ever created.
The Ace Attorney games are a good example. Because they did two things.
A) Apollo Justice, that is like Phoenix Wright with a different main character. Even if you put aside the fact that the writers went apeshit on this one (the basis of every crime is that not only the murderer, but all people involved are stupid, crazy or both), it's really not that... different. They didn't give Apollo enough of an edge or anything for it to justify switching the main character and having a huge time gap.
They were trying to reset the series and although the game was enjoyable, in my opinion they mostly failed.
It's not about trials, it's about investigating. And while you did plenty of that in the original Ace Attorney game, it's different enough that it's new. What's more, the character is known and already had a huge fanbase, which justifies a game with him as the main character easily.
It's fresh, it's new, it's different. It's still Ace Attorney without being Phoenix Wright. it works.
The first example is what, in my opinion, didn't work well. They tried to "reset" but at the same time didn't: Phoenix is there in the game, you even play as him for part of the game. However, all the lovable characters from the earlier series are gone. They brought back a character they had introduced in the extra case the added for the DS port of the first game, but she had changed a lot and was mostly unhelpful... It was trying to be half-assed, I would say. And although a lot of things were good, a lot were bad, too.
So there is definitely a good and a bad way to do it, in my opinion.
EDIT:
There is a third thing they did, I can't believe I almost forgot.
In the third game, where Phoenix is still the main character, well, you play part of the game as Edgeworth and part of the game as Mia. So they were already switching things around a bit, and it worked.
(I disliked the third game for other reasons, but the character switches were definitely something I liked a lot.)
Okay, so the first and third cases have been applied to Monkey Island, and it seems the general consensus is that the first would be awful and the third might be interesting (though I admit, I've paid little attention to this thread, so that could be selective reading by me). But what about the second case? How might that be applied to Monkey Island?
If we stick with the "play as the established opposition with a large fan base" think, we get a few options. Play as LeChuck, play as Largo, or maybe (big maybe) play as Dinghy Dog or DeSinge. I'd say maybe Ozzie Mandrill or Pegnose Pete, but I think those two would cause riots. But while taking another look at a series from the point of view of the villain is always interesting, I don't think it would really work here. Besides, LeChuck himself admits to not being very good at adventure game type tasks.
So now we expand from Guybrush's rivals to the rest of the series. And that pretty much leaves us with the options of playing as Elaine or Morgan. Again, this one's been discussed to death, and I personally don't see a game starring either of them living up to the standards of the Monkey Island series. We'd have another Escape on our hands.
On-topic: No, no new main and no spin-off
At least, that's how I understand it. I just started playing the first game after my friend let me borrow it on Saturday. I'm finished with the first four cases, so I only have one left.
That's how it was justified in the game, yes. But when you have played all the games, you know it's nothing compared to what he's done before, which makes the idea completely ridiculous.
And the fact that they make the story start later, with Phoenix having a girl, etc, basically means he's still the star of the game (everybody's going to want to know who's the mother, why he was suspended, etc) but you're not playing him.
The main character as a result is just completely overshadowed by Phoenix, which seems silly since the point was apparently to make a new series with a new main character.
I'm not sure if they're planning more games with Apollo but if so, I'm hoping they're going to be about him and not Phoenix. They game him a complicated enough backstory that they have plenty to work with.