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He's a kid in a carnival and it's all fake...

doodo!doodo!
edited June 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
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I honestly think that Ron Gilbert's big secret was already given to us. He lead us to believe that the ending of Monkey Island 2 was just a dream or that Guy brush is a kid in a carnival. I really, really, don't like that idea.

I've always enjoyed the Monkey Island games as historical pieces and I've never appreciated or liked the ending of the second game....

I think Ron should keep his secret to himself.

Part of the comical wit and irony of Monkey Island is that the silly island has a big secret, that's part of what made MI 2 so funny is that there was a big secret...then the ending killed it viciously and it wasn't remotely funny and left everyone confused and pissed off...

Part of what makes Monkey Island 1 and 2 work is that there is a big secret of some sort, it's funny. A wannabe pirate on a mysterious quest, after some big secret. No one really wants to know what it is. This isn't finding Atlantis! That's not the point of the secret of Monkey Island, in my opinion.

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Comments

  • The HighwayThe Highway
    edited June 2010
    I like how curse continues as though that ending part that says it was all a dream was itself a dream and he's
    floating on a bumper car
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    The Highway wrote: »
    I like how curse continues as though that ending part that says it was all a dream was itself a dream and he's
    floating on a bumper car

    Yeah, they tried redirecting it in some sort of coherent and possible direction to save the franchise. That part is confusing too...

    Is it really a dream?
    Do bumper cars even float?
  • priznaprizna
    edited June 2010
    I still say that Chukies eyes at the end aswell as Elaine at the end say it was a curse.
  • zhebricazhebrica
    edited June 2010
    doodo! wrote: »
    Do bumper cars even float?

    Whenever you see something like that, voodoo did it.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited June 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    I still say that Chukie's eyes at the end as well as Elaine at the end say it was a curse.

    So do I, more out of hope than anything.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    wrote:
    "The Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg.
    It probably took Titanic about 15 minutes to sink to her final resting place on the ocean floor. That means that Titanic sank at a rate of 10 miles per hour (or 16 km per hour)."

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  • SpadgeSpadge
    edited June 2010
    Movie night?

    You know what? I didn't hate that ending. In fact, the ending itself is just a joke, no need to make a big fuzz about it. To be honest CMI tries to explain it and I'm having a bigger problem with that than with the MI2 one. Just say he bumped his head and dreamed the ending of MI2. It was that simple. Instead CMI tried to explain an ACTUAL carnival in the middle of the Carribean. I like CMI, but that really was an overkill.
  • apenpaapapenpaap
    edited June 2010
    Am I going nuts, or does voting in that poll take you to a weird thread from 2005?
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited June 2010
    it did that here too.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited June 2010
    apenpaap wrote: »
    Am I going nuts, or does voting in that poll take you to a weird thread from 2005?

    It happened to me as well. I think it took me about 20 seconds or so to figure out what the hell happened. Wasn't the topic something to do with Al Lowe?
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
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  • MonkeyManiaMonkeyMania
    edited June 2010
    How hard is it figure out the Guybrush had escaped the carnival by riding the bumper cars? I think there is a whole missing chapter between MI2 and CMI.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    MonkeyMania wrote: »
    How hard is it figure out the Guybrush had escaped the carnival by riding the bumper cars? I think there is a whole missing chapter between MI2 and CMI.

    Well, it's totally stupid to have bumper cars to begin with, so it's pretty damn hard for me, esp since he's a kid and he's like in the 90s at that point...

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  • MonkeyManiaMonkeyMania
    edited June 2010
    doodo! wrote: »
    Well, it's totally stupid to have bumper cars to begin with, so it's pretty damn hard for me, esp since he's a kid and he's like in the 90s at that point...

    It's also stupid that LucasArts logos are everywhere, so what's your point?
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited June 2010
    I'm glad that you put the major endgame spoiler in the thread title, just so that it's completely unavoidable for anyone who hasn't played it
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRId_1pzp_w

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  • S@breS@bre
    edited June 2010
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    I'm glad that you put the major endgame spoiler in the thread title, just so that it's completely unavoidable for anyone who hasn't played it

    Its been 19 years. I think we can dispense with the need for spoiler warnings.
  • EduardoEduardo
    edited June 2010
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    I'm glad that you put the major endgame spoiler in the thread title, just so that it's completely unavoidable for anyone who hasn't played it

    Well, to be sincere, if anyone is browsing the forums for the fifth game of a series trying to avoid spoilers for the second part of the same series, released almost twenty years ago...

    Where was I?
  • CrrashCrrash
    edited June 2010
    Eduardo wrote: »
    Well, to be sincere, if anyone is browsing the forums for the fifth game of a series trying to avoid spoilers for the second part of the same series, released almost twenty years ago...

    Where was I?

    or we played curse back when we had no clue what monkey island was, played escape for a bit but thought "naaaah" and stopped, then played secret of monkey island special edition, thought it was awesome, decided to order tales of monkey island deluxe edition and is currently in this forum waiting for it to arrive, and is still planning on buying monkey island 2 special edition, but now got the ending to that game spoiled.
  • EduardoEduardo
    edited June 2010
    So you are waiting in the TOMI forum, which is full of spoilers everywhere, for Tales to arrive? That could be counterproductive.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
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  • splash1splash1
    edited June 2010
    Without this thread going too off topic... I have to say that I don't agree to the idea of MI being all a dream of a small boy in a carnival somewhere in the middle of the ocean. When I saw that ending I thought it meant that Ron was trying to end the series even though I knew there was a sequel to it, I concluded that someone thought that Revenge was the end.

    But I think if there is a real big secret, it should be revealed.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited June 2010
    Crrash wrote: »
    or we played curse back when we had no clue what monkey island was, played escape for a bit but thought "naaaah" and stopped, then played secret of monkey island special edition, thought it was awesome, decided to order tales of monkey island deluxe edition and is currently in this forum waiting for it to arrive, and is still planning on buying monkey island 2 special edition, but now got the ending to that game spoiled.

    The ending of MI2 is spoiled in Curse anyways.

    But I agree putting the ending of something as a title isn't very smart.
  • MonkeyManiaMonkeyMania
    edited June 2010
    I think doodo is trying to start a meme. It's not working too well.
  • SpadgeSpadge
    edited June 2010
    MonkeyMania wrote: »
    I think doodo is trying to start a meme. It's not working too well.

    He is? Wow, I can't believe I didn't realise that.

    Please, doodo, stop this crap, no one cares and your just spamming your own thread. It's sad.
  • CrrashCrrash
    edited June 2010
    Eduardo wrote: »
    So you are waiting in the TOMI forum, which is full of spoilers everywhere, for Tales to arrive? That could be counterproductive.

    i don't know if you noticed, but there are threads on MI2:SE and about the DVD.
    also curse didn't spoil the ending for me, since i had no idea i had anything to do with the end of MI2 and i played it a long time ago anyway.

    whatever, i'm nott actually angry, just stating why it's a bit annoying that major spoilers to a really old game many might not have played and is just now being rereleased is not nice.
  • EduardoEduardo
    edited June 2010
    Oh, I do understand your problem (I created one of the informative MI 2 thread here), it is just that I think it would have been very difficult to avoid spoilers in this forum really, sooner or later some info would have found your way to spoil you.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
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    The Secret of Monkey Island...

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  • doodo!doodo!
    edited June 2010
    Just the other day i saw about 6 to 7 untagged MI2 spoilers on this forum. From the other 4 games there's about 100 to 200 alone on the first page, or maybe even in the first thread...

    If you don't want to risk spoilers to a monkey island game, if you're that worried in a place that's open for discussion for the entire saga then don't post on the forum until you've played the game...

    Just the other day I read the same spoiler I posted, untagged and in the open.

    What's priceless is that it was probably one of you, or that I could find several instances where you spoil something from the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth game...or about whatever else you're talking about openly without spoiler tags.
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