Controls for Escape?
I recently installed a friends copy of Escape from Monkey Island after discovering he'd been holding out on me this entire time, but I cant figure out the direct control? Currently its not as bad as people say, but I can't
get out of the chains at the start
. Can someone tell me the controls? Sign in to comment in this discussion.
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Thanks for the fast response: I seriously installed it like 5 minutes ago and spent ages trying zxcvbnm,./asdfghjkl;'qwertyuiop[]\`1234567890-= to no avail. Nice use of sopiler tags aswell :rolleyes: i kinda wanted to figure that out for myself, but no biggie.
I THINK you can set all buttons except for the directionals, and even use a gamepad.
Yeah, I was thinking that too!
Escape is much better with a joypad, I'd seriously considering investing in one if you don't currently own one.
Well, not FIVE minutes and ages, but it FELT like a long time! Anyway now I can't figure out how to save.
EDIT: While we're here, can someone tell me most of the controls for Curse?
Point and click. Long click to bring up the action coin.
And that's it!
That's something new... even after 8 years.
Sounds silly to me.
but... then, if it works, it works.
The Secret of Monkey Island™ was originally released for not only PC, but also Macintosh and Atari. Yes, that's right, since its origin Monkey Island has been a console game. It was also later released for Mega-CD. So..in short..get your story straight.
It was also only one of several adventure games to be released on consoles at the time..Further, you do realize that Escape is a console game as well, right?
Oh, and obscenely large avatar is obscenely large.
Up - T
Down - F
Left - B
Right - Q
Use - comma
On a QWERTY keyboard.
I use the left stick for movement, 4 for examine, 1 for default action, and 2 for pick up. To me, it's a similar concept to the controls in Assassin's Creed. The upper button is the eyes, the center is the hands, and the bottom is below the hands (feet in AC, things to be picked up in this case). I forget what I put on the 3 button, but I use 9 and 10 (the silver and black buttons on the face) for skipping dialogue or cutscenes, the shoulder buttons for inventory and the quick exit, and the D-pad for pausing.
That may make no sense to anyone else, but it makes sense to me, and that's why it works.
I'm appalled that you, self-proclaimed knower of it all, forgot to mention the Amiga version, which was considered the best, as the case always was with Amiga versions. But you also forgot that the PC was the lead platform for which it was developed, and all the others are basically just ports. Hence, it's not wrong to say the series originated on the PC. Though to say EMI has anything to do with consoles is wrong, since it's engine is based on Grim Fandango, which was only ever released on PC if I remember correctly.
I never called myself "knower of it all" so calling me a "self-proclaimed knower of it all" is ridiculous.
I was just citing some information from Wikipedia. You are correct in that I forgot in my revisions of my post to include the Amiga version. However, the fact of the matter is that EFMI was released on a console which by definition makes it a console game. Just because PC is the primary platform doesn't change that fact.
Besides, all a console is internally is just a specialized computer designed with the purpose of gaming. Which is why ultimately PCs have more potential for power since things like the CPU, RAM, and even the motherboard can be switched out at will.
The "knower-of-it-all" part was just a joke, since you felt so inclined to correct The Highway. I merely said it to point out the irony that you were correcting someone else, while being equally inaccurate.
Just because a game is released on console, doesn't make it a console game. The game had controls that fit well for a console, but that's just the result of the direction they took with Grim Fandango. It's a PC game that's ported to other platforms. And I was referring to the original game. It's fair to say that Monkey Island is a a series series of PC games that have been ported to several platforms. Also, the discussion was wether Monkey Island was considered a PC game or not, not just EMI in specific.
Metal Gear Solid 2 also exists on PC. Does that make it a PC game? I'd call that primarly a console game.
SoMI and EFMI were released simultaneously as PC and console games and are such. I'm not contesting that it is primarily a PC-oriented series, I was just pointing out the fact that the statement about treating the MI series as having anything to do with consoles was completely off.
Oh, and based on the way I'm reading Wikipedia, MGS2 was originally released exclusively on PS2. So I would consider that as having been ported to PC and not actually a "PC game" (unlike SoMI and EFMI which were originally released on consoles as well as PC which make them both PC and console games).
IMO anyway.
EMI came later on the PS2, and not at the same time. Otherwise, I would've played that. Thus it's a port.
SoMI SE came on PC and consoles simultanously, but not the original SOMI. I'm pretty sure SMI (the original) came out on PC first, and later ported to different platforms. And I bet the console versions came last (Amiga or Atari ST isn't a console). Nevertheless, the original SMI are basically ports from the PC version, and the PS2 version of EMI is a port of the PC version.
But seriously, this is just nitpicking. If we don't agree, we don't agree.