What kind of MI fan are you?
After a long research...well not much of a research, but lets say after reading a lot of stuff coming from MI fans on this 9 years without news, i was able to divide the fan community in just three simple categories.
Wich defines you best?
1)THE KEEPERS OF THE TRUTH:
There are only 2 Monkey Island games. "Secret..." is the One true game and "Le Chucks Revenge..." its it prophet. If theres ever gonna be another MI game should it be designed by Ron gilbert, written by Ron Gilbert, produced by Ron Gilbert, developed by Ron Gilbert, and programed on computers that Ron Gilbert made and assemble with his own hands. Maybe Tim and Dave can help him build the computers, only that. All other MI games apart from the truly ones are crap, lies. Death to the infidels!:mad:
2)THE PRAGMATIC:
First and second part were brilliant. But admmit it: CMI was also an awesome game. Great. Wonderfull. Yes, maybe when they tried to explain the end of MI2 with LeChuck as a spokeperson, that was a little weird, but its only one little flaw, the game is beatiful, definitively a good part of MI. About 4...well...kind of childish.. and with big continuity problems...i dunno...i guess its like those family members who with you dont get along, you cant stand them, but its part of the fammily and you got to be tolerant and all that crap. Anyway, someone please tell EMI to pass me the salad. Im still not talking with it. :rolleyes:
3)THE "IM A REALLY HAPPY PERSON":
I luuuuuuv Monkey Island!!! Its gr8! LOL! I dont know what is all the fuzz about with the fourth, it was great, there was a giant robot! and those monkeys! sooo cute firing those balls of blue-insult-magic! And.. wha-?...........Herman Thootrot?.......what about him?......Really?....Was he on the first game?..You sure? I dont remember, and it doesnt matter! stop being so grumpy about it! Its alll gr8! As long as there are monkeys in the front i will buy it an luv it.
Well..im more or less in number 2. I tried to be really objective with the others. Yes, i failed misserably.
Wich defines you best?
1)THE KEEPERS OF THE TRUTH:
There are only 2 Monkey Island games. "Secret..." is the One true game and "Le Chucks Revenge..." its it prophet. If theres ever gonna be another MI game should it be designed by Ron gilbert, written by Ron Gilbert, produced by Ron Gilbert, developed by Ron Gilbert, and programed on computers that Ron Gilbert made and assemble with his own hands. Maybe Tim and Dave can help him build the computers, only that. All other MI games apart from the truly ones are crap, lies. Death to the infidels!:mad:
2)THE PRAGMATIC:
First and second part were brilliant. But admmit it: CMI was also an awesome game. Great. Wonderfull. Yes, maybe when they tried to explain the end of MI2 with LeChuck as a spokeperson, that was a little weird, but its only one little flaw, the game is beatiful, definitively a good part of MI. About 4...well...kind of childish.. and with big continuity problems...i dunno...i guess its like those family members who with you dont get along, you cant stand them, but its part of the fammily and you got to be tolerant and all that crap. Anyway, someone please tell EMI to pass me the salad. Im still not talking with it. :rolleyes:
3)THE "IM A REALLY HAPPY PERSON":
I luuuuuuv Monkey Island!!! Its gr8! LOL! I dont know what is all the fuzz about with the fourth, it was great, there was a giant robot! and those monkeys! sooo cute firing those balls of blue-insult-magic! And.. wha-?...........Herman Thootrot?.......what about him?......Really?....Was he on the first game?..You sure? I dont remember, and it doesnt matter! stop being so grumpy about it! Its alll gr8! As long as there are monkeys in the front i will buy it an luv it.
Well..im more or less in number 2. I tried to be really objective with the others. Yes, i failed misserably.
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However, I do understand where "The Keepers of the Truth" are coming from, and would like to see a MI3 by, from, for, and with Ron Gilbert.
though i liked 4 more than how pragmatics do
So I'm somewhere in between Pragmatic and Happy Person....closer to Pragmatic, though. I also see where the Keepers of the Truth are coming from, though. I'd gladly accept a "true" MI3 from Ron himself any day to find out what exactly the Secret of Monkey Island is. I'd even replace it as the true MI3 and the current COMI would be something from an alternate reality.
....Hey, I wonder if it'd be possible to actually visit the alternate reality where Ron DID create an MI3? I wonder what that'd be like...
Fan fom the first to the last (even if the 4th has a bad gameplay).
Long life to Telltales !!!
I've pre-ordered TMI and I'll stomach the keyboard controls if it means getting to push Guybrush around again.
MI1: Wonderful
MI2: The best
MI3: good as a standalone game, awful as a sequel
MI4: shy attempt to leave the exaggeratedly deformed toon style of CMI, nice backgrounds, good as a standalone game
Although that may have to do with having started with 3, and 4 being the first one I've actually bought :P
I might be leaning more towards a 3 but I don't spell like that -at all-.
This + this
Goes for me as well.
But for me the best part of all the Monkeys are the dialogues and characters: they're always great, no matter how many dimensions or what design the game has.
(Still, that control system never stopped Grim Fandango becoming regarded as a game as close to art as possible and one of gaming's highest points).
Still, I'd like to think I'm as coherent as the first two descriptions, rather than the lolz of the third one.
I think that's an interesting way of looking at it. Games 1 and 2 felt the same. Whatever sorta mojo they had going for them came from the same Voodoo root. Curse and Escape feel like deviations from the original.
That said, I love the first three games, and I'm learning to love the fourth (I'm playing it right now for the second time ever. The first time I played it I hated it. This time, it's not as bad). I'm glad 3 and 4 were made and I'm excited about TMI, but my greatest hope is that we will one day be given a full blown Gilbert Monkey Island game that reveals the true Secret.
What does that make me? 1.5?
Though I must say, while EMI is my least favorite, I don't hate it that much. I mean, the ending did get kind of weird, and I mean "Aliens-Invade-Indiana-Jones" weird, but there are some pretty funny moments, and that's basically all I need from an adventure game.
Well, I guess I'm some sort of a freakish hybrid between two and three, a 'throo', I guess.
EMI dissapointed me in the same way the Star Wars prequels did - I was it's main target audience and they thought they knew that demograph so well that they just wrote willy-nilly. The controls weren't the part that ruined it, I actually liked Grim Fandango's controls believe it or not, but the writing and plot holes really let it down greatly. That's why I'm so stoked about Telltale doing this. It's because I know they have a killer writing team(s).
My thoughts exactly! I loved the first two games (2nd being the best :P ), and i couldnt wait for COMI to come out, loved guybrush in the cutscenes but ingame graphics put me off to be honest. Elaine killed monkey4 for me and monkey kombat whoever thought that up needs to be shot.
How can I explain this? Hm. Well, I suppose it comes from that I don't like LucasArts art direction of late.
For example, with the upcoming Secret of Monkey Island remake, I'm terribly excited about the thought of that game with speech, but at the same time I'm very glad that I can turn the graphics off. The lanky turban kid of CMI was always a huge turn-off for me, and I could never get used to that Guybrush, or the reimagining of the setting.
Now I'm really excited about Tales of Monkey Island, because they have the curly clouds, and they have a Guybrush that actually sort of looks like Guybrush and has the feel of the MI 2 Guybrush, and that's great.
I don't think Gilbert is really needed for a good Monkey Island game, and I believe in the competence of Telltale, the only thing I don't like to see is a game that moves too far away from what made the first two games great, it doesn't become a bad game by doing so, not at all, it just doesn't feel like Monkey Island.
Providing something at least captures the feeling of Monkey Island, I'm hppy, and Tales of Monkey Island looks like it has a really good chance of doing that.
As for MI1 and MI2, truth is I've never played them in their entirety. I know, how can I even call myself a big MI fan. Well truth is, I downloaded them a while back, and played a bit. But I felt bad since I didn't technically own the games. But from what I played, I love them too.
So, I'm definitely not 1, as it essentially erases my favorite of the series (CMI). Plus, I'm not a big fan of what the folks over at TV Tropes call "Dis Continuity." I'm not a 2, as I like EMI, and have never finished 1 and 2. I'm closer to 3, though I don't think I'm as simple minded as your description of 3 suggests I'd be.
So I'm looking forward to both the remake of 1 (though I will probably play with original graphics), and Tales. The fact that Tales is 3D and stylistically reminiscent of CMI and EMI doesn't bother me at all, since that's what I'm used to. And having Dominic and Earl, among others, record the dialogue for the MI1 remake makes me quite happy.
i'm actually replaying that game now, and it's pretty hilarious and actually the graphics aren't that bad for what it is. it's at least more rich and vast looking than the screens for TMI so far if a little more blurry. still nothing like hand drawn the way it should be.
anyway, i'm a little bit of every option, i thoroughly enjoy all of them, but at the core i'm more like a 1. the first two are still the standard. but i'm not a bitter hardliner.
The 3 first were great tho, and I love the quick-action-menu of CoMI=)