Escape From Monkey Island
I know that this isn't available on Telltale, but it's a good adventure game which is similar to Ankh. Like Ankh, the world is very big, the main character walks slow, and its a bit silly. If you liked Ankh you should get Escape From Monkey Island. You can download the demo here (The demo is in the middle of the page) Its also available in different languages.
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It's pretty damn infamous. For good or bad, most adventure gamers already got through it and made up their minds what they think about it. I happen to be a fan, but I'm a rare breed.
I like the game too. Some of the controlling is annoying, but it's a good game.
The first three games were, and still are, all great. CMI certainly does profit from voiceovers, because lets face it, theyre done brilliantly. Singing pirate barbers - I say no more. But thats not to say voiceovers are necessary. Theyre really, really not. For adventure games its all about great story and characters. Books manage this without audio, so can games.
I played through the whole game again solely just to get a save game before that song starts.
I take it you're not old enough to have been around in the 16 bit era, when barely anything was 3D and the most voice acting you heard in a game, for the most part, was the bootup screeching "SEEEEGAAAAA".
When games were good based on how good the game was, and not how many pores you could count on each characters face?
Some games do work better in 3D and with voice acting. Some don't.
Give me Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (the one with midi music, no voice acting, and 2D) over any new Sonic game (poor camera and controls because of the move to 3D, kiddy rock music, and 4Kids voice actors smeared all over the disc).
EDIT: "Without graphics adventure games don't seem real"? Have you played Monkey Island 1, 2, or any other 'retro' adventure game for that matter, for any reasonable amount of time. Or at all?
graphics may seem old but they are not all that important in an adventure game the story is however and these games have fantastic stories
Woof. Do you also not watch black and white movies?
I will watch a movie or TV show thats in black and white if the story line is good. Its the same with old adventure games, I will only play them if the story line is good.
No, if its bad I will stop playing it even if it has good graphics. But an old game with bad graphics would need to be really good for me to keep playing it, while with new games with good graphics, it just needs to be good for me to keep playing it. But I will not play a bad game no mater what the graphics are like. (By bad, I mean the story line.)
what about films that aren't in english such as crouching tiger, Akira or one of the thousands of others
do you not like these because they are subtitled for english (ok dubbing are available but are awful)
This I couldnt disagree with more.
Some genres do pretty much rely on graphics, I agree with that. FPS games being the main example. Theres two parts to an FPS game - the graphics and the action. The action tends to be the same from game to game, which is to say you shoot and then you walk, or if you prefer, you do both at the same time (Perhaps Im being a little harsh with them, but they bore me
The main component of an adventure game though, as you sort of suggested yourself, are the plot and the characters, which together make up the story of the game. You dont need fancy graphics anywhere for that, and the quality of the graphics isnt going to do that much to help or hinder the game. If you can see what youre doing, all is good. A little bit of artistic style is indeed nice (CMI is absolutely gorgeous), but I dont see it as a make-or-break deal; simply a nice added extra.
If its a really good story line I will watch the movie. But if its just good and not great, I will not watch it. Basicaly a movie or game with sibtitles would need to have a really good syory line for me to watch it. But it they talked in voices, it would just need to be good for me to play it.
I admit, the graphics don't need to be great, but with the old DOS games, the graphics are so bad that the game doesn't seem real at all.
You just seem a bit closed-minded about graphics and realism. It's only your own loss in the end though.
Eh, that made no sense at all. Never mind.
Boy, no offense or anything, but that's the most superficial comment I've ever heard.
Hope you'll notice that 1 & 2, during the years of their release, had even better quality than 3 & 4, if you consider the big gap of years and the graphical level of 1990, 1991, 1997 and 2000.
Expecially Monkey 4 wasn't anything special graphically, (ok, it's great 'cause it's Monkey Island) when it was released, while 1 & 2 looked awesome back in '90 e '91.
Don't just think of the graphics or the voices dude, I laughed a lot more reading 1 & 2's subtitles than listening to 3 & 4's voices.
I repeat, no offense, but I HAD to say that.
I don't get it. What does that mean?
The main problem lies in actually trying to run these games on today's PCs without using ScummVM. With this program you can alter the graphics slightly to make them look more presentable. I'm pretty sure there's also a way to run the emulator on a Sony PSP with old firmware. The smaller it is, the better it'll look.
Anyway if you can look past the graphics and into the humour displayed within the text you'll find a great game hidden within. If you're a graphics whore then I guess there's no use in trying to change your mind but as the saying goes "Never judge a book by its cover"
As for me, I prefer MI3, you can't go past zombie pirates! Also it gave way to a hilarious easter egg with the introduction of Grim Fandango which at the time was in the process of being developed
Just yesterday I finished MI3 - The Curse of monkey Island, and it was just awesome.
I love the two first too - but the fourth!!!
I have to say, the keyboard controlling is just NOT my cup of tea.
Especially not in these games.
I installed it(MI4) a week ago, and couldn't get myself to go on playing more than half an hour
Too bad really, since I love the MI series. But lets see.. maybe when christmas comes around, I'll gather up some energi to keep trying... :P
(Maybe I should note, that I've actually already played it, when it first came out - way back then. Had just forgotten about the controls)
Edit: We can all avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.
You dont seem to have played either of those because of the graphics, story wize they are great (for not saying they are the best), yet you say they are bad because of the story? (lol) quite contradictory i must say.
Play them from begining to end and then tell us they sucked.
This is ridiculous. Escape from Monkey Island was the worst of the series.
I think that Escape from Monkey Island was the best of the series, and not just because of the graphics, the story line was really good too. You found out the secret of monkey island, which is that
I was born in the early 90s and I still think M1 and 2 rock. I managed to get The Monkey Island Bounty Pack off my friend for ridiculously cheap price (20 pounds and on Amazon it is 200 pounds!) and I am having great fun playing them . Only thing that bothers me is getting the music in MI 1 working because it is the CD version. I really enjoyed CMI also but I cannot play through EMI. I found it really boring (probably one of the first adventure games I have ever found boring), not nearly as funny as the first 3, annoying controls (PC version) and I twice encountered bugs in the game which meant I couldn't continue (the inventory items stay on the screen and will not dissappear and for some reason I still have the pistol which crashes the game ever time I try to look at my inventory).