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The title of Season Two...

presidentmaxpresidentmax
edited March 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
Everybody keeps calling it Tales of Monkey Island season 2, am i the only one who thinks this is stupid?

I really hope they don't just go for that as the name and go for a whole new name.

What do you all think?

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  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited March 2010
    presidentmax wrote: »
    am i the only one who thinks this is stupid.

    [spelling_nazi]First, that's not a question. It's not punctuated properly.[/spelling_nazi] Second, no, you're not the only one, though I'm fine with it if they directly follow the Tales storyline.

    umm... lemme take a sec to find a previous thread on names. I had good ideas there.


    edit: okay... so I found the other thread: http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14627

    here are my ideas [the ones above the ellipsis (...) are serious ideas.]
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    The Legend of Monkey Island

    The Quest for Monkey Island

    The Magic of Monkey Island

    The Fate of Monkey Island

    The Destiny of Monkey Island

    The Return to Monkey Island

    The Plague of Monkey Island

    The Masters of Monkey Island

    The Voodoo of Monkey Island

    The Path to Monkey Island

    The Threat from Monkey Island

    The Caverns of Monkey Island

    The Pirates of Monkey Island

    The Power of Monkey Island

    The Danger from Monkey Island


    ...

    Tales of Monkey Island 2: Return of the REAL Monkey Head

    The Comfy Sofa of Monkey Island

    Chicken Soup for the Monkey Island

    The Grog Machine of Monkey Island

    The Pharmacy of Monkey Island

    The Hairy Chest of Monkey Island

    The Missing Beard of Monkey Island

    The Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis of Monkey Island
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    I still stand by these (seriously.)

    Also you could call it:
    Monkey Island 6: The Might of LeChuck's Big Evil Hat.
  • SpadgeSpadge
    edited March 2010
    I think we only call it TMI Season 2, because we don't have a better name. It's simple and practical. You know, you hear TMI2 and you know exactly what people are refering to. Is it going to be the official name? I really, really doubt it. So relax.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited March 2010
    I'm just going to consider any potential sequel as Monkey Island 6 until any official to the contrary is announced.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited March 2010
    Also, Tales is a vague enough wording that it would work fine as a wider title, with a subtitle for each season.
  • shovellshovell
    edited March 2010
    I don't mind what they call it as long as they make it :)
  • MrFerderMrFerder
    edited March 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Also, Tales is a vague enough wording that it would work fine as a wider title, with a subtitle for each season.
    True true, season one was only one "tale."
  • apenpaapapenpaap
    edited March 2010
    IMO "Tales of Monkey Island Season 2" is a really silly (and not in a good and/or funny way) of calling it. It's Monkey Island 6.
  • RemolayRemolay
    edited March 2010
    I'd be fine with the subtitle thing
    Like Maybe:
    Tales of Monkey Island: The Pox of LeChuck for the first one
    and
    Tales of Monkey Island: (insert Subtitle here, maybe The Secret Revealed)
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited March 2010
    Remolay wrote: »
    Tales of Monkey Island: (insert Subtitle here, maybe The Secret Revealed)
    Tales of Monkey Island Season 2: The Alternate Version of the Monkey Island Storyline if Curse of Monkey Island never happened and Ron Gilbert made Monkey Island 3, Now finally a reality after 20 years.

    Longest name award received! :p
  • HaydenHayden
    edited March 2010
    Oh, I think I can beat you.

    Tales of Monkey Island II: The Dangerous Journey to Mysterious Worlds Beyond the Edge of the Horizon - The Adventures of Morgan LeFlay, Reginald Van Winslow and Guybrush Threepwood aboard the Screaming Narwhal.
  • ShaleShale
    edited March 2010
    If they go with Tales of Monkey Island: Subtitle Here, then my best idea is Tales of Monkey Island: Bad Mojo.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited March 2010
    Hassat Hunter wrote: »
    Tales of Monkey Island Season 2: The Alternate Version of the Monkey Island Storyline if Curse of Monkey Island never happened and Ron Gilbert made Monkey Island 3, Now finally a reality after 20 years.

    Longest name award received! :p

    Tales of Monkey Island 2: The Sixth Installment in the Canonical Monkey Island Storyline Which Does Not Follow Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island 3 Because The Curse of Monkey Island is the Only Monkey Island 3 and Even Ron Gilbert is Uninterested in Creating "His" Monkey Island 3 But Certain Monkey Island Fans Won't Just Let it Go

    I win.
  • Griswald GoodsoupGriswald Goodsoup
    edited March 2010
    presidentmax wrote: »
    Everybody keeps calling it Tales of Monkey Island season 2, am i the only one who thinks this is stupid?

    If we are to go with subtitles for each Season does that not make the Chapter/episode titles redundant? E.g. Tales of Monkey Island [name other than 'Season 2'] rise of the Pirate God.

    I think seasonal names would be overly superfluous, it'd be like naming every season of your favourite t.v. show then having really quirky, apt names for each episode. I think eventually TTG would run out of impressive/captivating names.

    Besides I don't mind "season 2" providing it's styilised differently to the standard MI logo. In the way that Lechuck's Revenge placed the "2".
    At least the Tales season-by-season games add an interesting dimension to the Monkey Island franchise, adding an epic Tale between younger guybrush from EfMI and that of a prophetic Monkey Island 6.

    I'm no LucasArts evangelist that prays that MI6 will come one day, but I would like to see a new direction after Tales for Guybrush. Perhaps LeChuck will
    be finally defeated (even though I love LeChuck to bits - no pun intended) and that leads Guybrush onto new adventures/bad guys. I'd be happy with TTG making an MI6...
    But I think I've offered to many tangeants for this thread. So whether to subtitle each Season individually in my opinion would clash with the Monkey Island praenomen and the episodic cognomen.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited March 2010
    "More Tales of Monkey Island" seems too perfect to not use, in my opinion
  • priznaprizna
    edited March 2010
    No its going to be "Tales of Monkey Island 2: Voodoo Vengeance"
  • TinkerwrksTinkerwrks
    edited March 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    No its going to be "Tales of Monkey Island 2: Voodoo Vengeance"

    Shouldn't that be Tales of Monkey Island: Electric Voodooloo?
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited March 2010
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    Tales of Monkey Island 2: The Sixth Installment in the Canonical Monkey Island Storyline Which Does Not Follow Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island 3 Because The Curse of Monkey Island is the Only Monkey Island 3 and Even Ron Gilbert is Uninterested in Creating "His" Monkey Island 3 But Certain Monkey Island Fans Won't Just Let it Go

    I win.
    Tales of Monkey Island Season 2: The Sequel to the first Tales of Monkey Island which continues on the story of Voodoo Pirate Huntress Morgan LeFay and indeed does not continue upon the storyline outlined for Monkey Island 3, not to confuse with the Curse of Monkey Island, by Ron Gilbert in the Special Edition for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge even if many fans cried out in agony to Telltale Games to do so.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited March 2010
    Hassat Hunter wrote: »
    Tales of Monkey Island Season 2: The Sequel to the first Tales of Monkey Island which continues on the story of Voodoo Pirate Huntress Morgan LeFay and indeed does not continue upon the storyline outlined for Monkey Island 3, not to confuse with the Curse of Monkey Island, by Ron Gilbert in the Special Edition for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge even if many fans cried out in agony to Telltale Games to do so.

    Tales of Monkey Island 2: That's Stupid and You're Stupid and Yes I Have Stooped to Childish Insults
  • meandermeander
    edited March 2010
    I also do not mind what they call it, but I think that calling it season 2 may be confusing for new MI players, especially with the re-release of MI2 happening soon. However, I'm sure some bright spark at TTG will figure it out somehow.. after "season 2" is different from "monkey island 2".

    If they make season 2, that is.

    I hope they do :)
  • DideroDidero
    edited March 2010
    Tales of Monkey Island 2: We Named The Entire Season This Just For One Simple Joke On Our Forum. Sorry.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited March 2010
    Griswald Goodsoup wrote: »
    If we are to go with subtitles for each Season does that not make the Chapter/episode titles redundant? E.g. Tales of Monkey Island [name other than 'Season 2'] rise of the Pirate God.

    No, because chapters in Monkey Island have always had their own titles. So it would be like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - Part II - The Four Map Pieces.

    Heck it happens all the time in not just gaming, but in movies and books too. Books often hav named chapters, even if the main title has a subtitle. Another game that does this is Metal Gear Solid 4. There's a plethora of examples out there.

    Heck the latest TellTale game does this: Sam and Max Season 3: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 1: The Penal Zone.

    So, it would be perfectly natural, and certainly not the exception, that the same would be done for Tales of Monkey Island 2.
  • SpadgeSpadge
    edited March 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    Heck the latest TellTale game does this: Sam and Max Season 3: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 1: The Penal Zone.

    I'm pretty sure it's just "Sam&Max:The Devil's Playhouse". No Season 3 in the title. It may be the third season, but it's not anywhere in the title.

    Furthermore, Tales of MI isn't as episodic as previous Telltale titles. It is alot more like a single game than a group of single episodes, ergo the term "Season" isn't exactly acurate.
  • priznaprizna
    edited March 2010
    Anyone else think that if the next tales (if there is one) was called Tales of Monkey Island: (subtitle) that The current Tales should have a subtitle aswell?
  • HaydenHayden
    edited March 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    Anyone else think that if the next tales (if there is one) was called Tales of Monkey Island: (subtitle) that The current Tales should have a subtitle aswell?


    Tales of Monkey Island: The Pox of LeChuck
  • priznaprizna
    edited March 2010
    Yea, Thats sounds good, Telltale should officially give it the subtitle
  • HaydenHayden
    edited March 2010
    Bit late now, the box and everything is already completed.
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited March 2010
    I personally think that if Telltale make another Monkey Island season/game then it will be called something other than Tales of Monkey Island 2: yaddah, yaddah because the way I see it, Tales is called that because it reinforces the idea of episodic gaming. Ok so there's one overall arcing story but it's made up of 5 tales. So I would think any potential Telltale sequel will have a similar type of name like Adventures in/of/on Monkey Island or Mysteries of Monkey Island. Something like that anyway.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited March 2010
    corruptbiggins wrote: »
    I personally think that if Telltale make another Monkey Island season/game then it will be called something other than Tales of Monkey Island 2: yaddah, yaddah because the way I see it, Tales is called that because it reinforces the idea of episodic gaming. Ok so there's one overall arcing story but it's made up of 5 tales.

    Yeah, I guess it would sound a little stupid. Tales of Monkey Island 2: Subtitle, Episode 1: Something-something. Just a little bit of a mouthful.
    corruptbiggins wrote: »
    So I would think any potential Telltale sequel will have a similar type of name like Adventures in/of/on Monkey Island or Mysteries of Monkey Island. Something like that anyway.

    I think I like this one the best.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited March 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    Yeah, I guess it would sound a little stupid. Tales of Monkey Island 2: Subtitle, Episode 1: Something-something. Just a little bit of a mouthful.

    You realise it's that way for the other games, right?

    Like Sam and Max Season Two: Beyond Time and Space: Episode One: Ice Station Santa.

    I hear one of the Strong Bad Episode is much much worse, and this one only had one season.

    Anyway, I don't think each episode is a tale. They clearly called them chapters. As far as I'm concerned it's just one tale. I'd be perfectly fine with the next season being called something completely different, but it would make sense to me that it would be called Tales of Monkey island again. And yes, the first season would need a subtitle.
    But the first two seasons of Sam and Max didn't have a title at first either. That came later. So it might still happen.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited March 2010
    Actually, I think the five episodes is not properly standalone enough for it to be called Tales of Monkey Island. If that was the case, nearly every game in the series could have had that name. It just doesn't fit, if it's changed to something else than Tales of Monkey Island now. Tales consists of one long tale, not many short ones with an overall arcing story. It really isn't made up of five tales at all. Every game in the series had a somewhat "cliffhanger" ending after each chapter/part. They're no different from Tales.

    I think Tales is a very fitting name for a series of seasons. Tales of Monkey Island doesn't really say ANYTHING with its title. All the other games do. There's a Secret in SoMI, LeChuck is after revenge in MI2, there's the Curse in CMI and in EMI you end up having to escape. Tales however doesn't reveal anything at all about the plot.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited March 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    You realise it's that way for the other games, right?

    Like Sam and Max Season Two: Beyond Time and Space: Episode One: Ice Station Santa.

    I hear one of the Strong Bad Episode is much much worse, and this one only had one season.

    Anyway, I don't think each episode is a tale. They clearly called them chapters. As far as I'm concerned it's just one tale. I'd be perfectly fine with the next season being called something completely different, but it would make sense to me that it would be called Tales of Monkey island again. And yes, the first season would need a subtitle.
    But the first two seasons of Sam and Max didn't have a title at first either. That came later. So it might still happen.

    Yeah, I guess it isn't that bad now that I think about it. And plus, all of the other MI games' chapters had titles (and some really long ones too), so yeah, why not have a title and a sub-title for the season?
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited March 2010
    shovell wrote: »
    I don't mind what they call it as long as they make it :)

    Indeed. I would really worry if LucasArts were going to make it, considering the mess-ups with SMI:SE (unfinished background art, GB's hair, wrong inflection in voice acting, terrible narrator voice, out of place music style...)


    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    Tales of Monkey Island 2: The Sixth Installment in the Canonical Monkey Island Storyline Which Does Not Follow Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island 3 Because The Curse of Monkey Island is the Only Monkey Island 3 and Even Ron Gilbert is Uninterested in Creating "His" Monkey Island 3 But Certain Monkey Island Fans Won't Just Let it Go

    For the win, sir.
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited March 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    Bit late now, the box and everything is already completed.
    The Sam & Max Season 1 & 2 DVDs that don't have "Save the World" or "Beyond Time and Space" on them disagree with you.

    Which makes me wonder how Telltale plans to make the Season 3 DVD cover match the other two seasons and incorporate the extra title.
  • LeakLeak
    edited March 2010
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    "More Tales of Monkey Island" seems too perfect to not use, in my opinion
    Nah, make that "Further Tales of Monkey Island" - "More" has been used too much and is now on a cooldown timer that goes for another year or two... ;)

    np: OK Go - While You Were Asleep (Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky)
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited March 2010
    Actually, just calling the first "season" Tales of Monkey Island is sufficient in my opinion. It would be like the Secret of Monkey Island and the Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, with only the sequel having the subtitle.

    So, by having Tales of Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island 2: <Title>, it wouldn't be all that bad.
  • priznaprizna
    edited March 2010
    LeChuck's Revenge wasnt called "Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge" it was just "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge"
  • MrFerderMrFerder
    edited March 2010
    StarEye wrote: »

    I think Tales is a very fitting name for a series of seasons. Tales of Monkey Island doesn't really say ANYTHING with its title. All the other games do. There's a Secret in SoMI, LeChuck is after revenge in MI2, there's the Curse in CMI and in EMI you end up having to escape. Tales however doesn't reveal anything at all about the plot.
    Exactly, it's not as though the Tales games were actually ABOUT some stories that Guybrush heard about Monkey Island. The game itself is a "tale."
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