Err...am I seeing things...?
or has someone ROYALLY ripped off pretty much every MI game, like, ever?!
http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/monkeywhatnow
http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/8192/robinson-crusoe-and-the-cursed-pirates/index.html
Yes - I'm a pirate game junkie but I've had this one (Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates) downloaded for a wee while and just now (whilst there's a lull in the football) decided to play it....has someone already posted this?
I swear to god even the music is so similar I've been humming the MI theme.
I know there's the age old question of which came first - the ride or the game but jeeze!!
Please someone else play this and tell me I'm not wrong! Mods even - take a look! :eek:
http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/zz193/monkeywhatnow
http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/8192/robinson-crusoe-and-the-cursed-pirates/index.html
Yes - I'm a pirate game junkie but I've had this one (Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates) downloaded for a wee while and just now (whilst there's a lull in the football) decided to play it....has someone already posted this?
I swear to god even the music is so similar I've been humming the MI theme.
I know there's the age old question of which came first - the ride or the game but jeeze!!
Please someone else play this and tell me I'm not wrong! Mods even - take a look! :eek:
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Inspired by? That island picture practically IS Monkey Island. Plus, the little X cursor looks like it might be exactly the same as the one from CMI.
Granted, I don't really care, but there is no mistaking that island shape.
And I think I saw the navigators heads eyebulb-necklace (try saying that three times fast) at the end of the video.
Anyway, that screenshot with the island is obviously 'inspired' by an overhead map picture of Monkey Island. The cursor is exactly the same, and "Men of Low Morals"... hilarious. Apart fromt hat screenshot though, I don't particularly see anything obviously ripped from MI.
This one strke a deja vu on me.
Yeah - I'm just waiting for the bolt of lightning to highlight some spotty underwear!
Yes - 1967, 1973 then I was there when they opened the one at Disneyland Paris in '92 - I was looking for Guybrush but all I got was this stupid t-shirt. In French.
I guess you didn't play the demo then - I thought I'd seen pretty much every 'inspired by MI' game over the years but this one got eerily close, especially on the music as I already said, although it did sound like the MI1 original sound.
Call it a tribute.
heh heh - a tribute with REALLY annoying similarities. MI-Lite
- Cap'n Guywood (looks spookily like Robert Deniro in Stardust, with the same fetish)
- Men of Low Morals sitting around a fireplace telling a story
- A female Swordmaster with a training dummy that's a machine operated by monkeys
- A voodoo curse object that's a necklace of eyes
- A difficult to navigate system of underground caverns which lead to a voodoo curse ship and it's undead Captain
- Having to locate pieces of a map to locate the undead Captain's hideout
- A minigame where to speak to one of the pirates you must raise him from the dead
- A pirate barber
- A Cartographer who you have to help by finding his magnifying glasses who is located in a village made of abandoned ships
- Three pirates and a parrot who are also located in the ship village who are scared of demons (men of low moral fibre and the rat in MI2)
- A mad pirate chef also located in the village
- One of the transmutations of Flint's parrot (in monkey form - please just play the game so I don't have to explain that) is a little cannibal with a lemon for a head
- A cannibal who you need to locate fruits and vegetables for so he doesn't eat another pirate
.......these are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head...
oh and one last thing - to defeat the undead pirate captain you must get him to drink a special voodoo brew, but to get near his cabin (behind a big blue glowing door) you have to collect certain items which lead to a screenshot of Guybrush - sorry, Robinson - dressed in black trousers, white shirt and chest belt with a raggedy ponytail hairdo and a necklace of eyeballs - seriously the developer/writer HAS to be an MI fan.....
This is not a rip off of Monkey Island, just pirate stories in general. Monkey Island is the same thing, many things in the games are from pirate lore. That's not a bad thing, its actually a great thing, but people need to also remember that games like Monkey Island take many pirate cliches. So when other pirate games come along and use that same lore, of course you are going to think it is a rip off. It’s not a rip-off of Monkey Island, just pirate lore, and that is the only definite similarity I see between this game and Monkey Island. They are both rip-offs of pirate stories. Again, I don’t mean that as a bad thing, but a compliment because that is a great idea.
There is a difference between inspired and blatent copying....
And it's not.
That's not inspiration...
Chuck Jordan Rulz.
There is a law regarding stealing other people's work. If your work is 70% similar to theirs, you can get sued easily. This is much more than 70%.
Remember this post of so many things so blatantly ripped off of MI
Is the game actually interesting beyond the plagiarized stuff?
Ah, now I see. Sorry, didn't see that post. I thought everyone was simply referring to the pictures. Never mind then, definitely a rip off now.
Because it's not Monkey Island - it's Scab Island from MI2
I actually found myself playing 'spot the MI reference' to be honest - like I said in my list those were just the ones I could remember without writing them down.... Last night I remembered a bit where you end up climbing down the well in the graveyard and it's almost exactly a screenshot of Guybrush and Elaine hanging around in the service shaft on Dinky at the beginning of MI2 except that there aren't 2 people hanging around...
Check out (if you get it for interest purposes) the bit in the graveyard with a 'pirate princess' who is digging in one of the graves - red head scarf, sulky face, brown eyes, brown curly hair and a brusque manner - remember the old close up screenshot of Elaine in the Manor in MI1. - the one that didn't match the purple headscarf she's wearing everywhere else...?! I lost count after a while but I'm also sure there was a dreadlocked navigator somewhere, a used coffin dealer called Steve (located in a little hut in the graveyard) and a couple more familiar female pirates....at one point the cursor turns into a very familiar blinking white crosshair style.
I guess those that are querying why it's so much of a rip off have possibly played the later games more than the very first 2 - I would say it's ripping them off more than COMI, EMI and TOMI.
I can just see the developers now "right right right lads, lads lads headsh togever- y'shee we neesh a new game for the...int...tint...downl...thingy and the deadlinesh....now...*hic*"
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAI5zfdHS4
And GAMEPLAY!!!!!
So has telltale/lucasarts done anything about the true rip off of monkey island(hey that should be this games name the ripoff of monkey island)
The only hidden object games I can tolerate at this point are games like Drawn, Return to Ravenhearst, and Dire Grove, since they actually have minimal amounts of inventory based puzzles and are sort of like hidden object/adventure hybrids.
I somehow doubt Lucas Arts will sue for plagiarizing their games.
You must be pretty blind if you can't see how much of a rip off it is. The wheel and the inventory box are damn near identical. Even the guy who's video it is has noticed it, try watching the whole video before you just judge it on the graphical style and the fact it's an adventure game.
Plus the designers clearly know about Monkey Island as there are references to a Guybrush in it.