The "complain about Tales of MI" thread
Rather than have the forum filled with complaints, I thought it would be more constructive if everyone posted what they DON'T like about Tales of Monkey Island in this thread.
No new threads, just post what you don't like in here! (It would be better if mods then closed any new complaint threads, but I guess it's up to TT.)
No new threads, just post what you don't like in here! (It would be better if mods then closed any new complaint threads, but I guess it's up to TT.)
Sign in to comment in this discussion.
Comments
2. 3D, Alright i know 2D is more time consuming and expensive to make, BUT WE WANT IT! And We will PAY FOR IT!
Thats it.. its all im unhappy about! Rest is just Thumbs up!
Love you guys! Thanks for monkey island!
controls
those are my only complaints thus far.
Please! do not forget MURRAY The Talking Evil Demonic Skull from hell!!!!
And does anyone think that the cinematics look worse than the gameplay?
The "3D" from monkey Island 3 was surely the best looking and is one of my favorite looking games ever and it's over 10 years old now. But I can fully understand TellTale taking the easiest way out. Plus if they made it look old they wouldn't attract new players, such as Wii owners who never played Monkey Island.
I am just glad I don't have to rely on Zack and Wiki to give me my point n click priate adventure game anymore.
The people were vibrant 2D but the backgrounds seemed 3D to me since you could move froward and back in the foreground
You can go die in the fire's in the pit of Monkey Island.
But there was a 3D-modus in the options of MI3
Having played through W&G episode 2 now, I think that game could have had a pure point & click as an option... I looked carefully for any scenes that would be impossible to do in point & click, but found none.
So I'm thinking this might be the case for the MI episodes as well - obviously, it will be a bit harder to implement good mouse controls than it is to simply do direct control, but I have no doubt it would be possible.
In other words, I really hope they step up the graphics before release. According to the devs though, the turnaround is pretty quick so I've no doubt that could happen before release.
As for Curse of Monkey Island, it was most definitely 2D in its entirety without a smidgeon of 3D anywhere. It did have a 3D option in the options but I remember it mocking anyone who clicked it, which was hilarious. So yes, the game itself would tell the player that it didn't have even a single polygon present. Even in Monkey Island 1 Guybrush could go behind things and into doors, too, that's where the remake of that scene in CMI came from.
That's actually one thing I'm hoping TMI won't do, in CMI a lot of jokes and things were just recycled, instead of true growth being present. I'm hoping that TMI will actually grow instead of just recycling the same old jokes over and over. For that reason, I'm actually hoping Murray won't be present, as doing that would just turn it into another CMI.
After all, look at how MI 2 rather beautifully built upon the original MI, despite being a sequel it was new, and fresh, and Gilbert didn't feel the need to recycle old jokes to be funny. If Murray does return, I hope he has a completely different personality. Turn him into a bohemian, have him in a new role of undead music conductor or something. But the same old Murray would be depressing.
Okay, I'm done.
With that being said, TMI looks great in motion and reminds me of both CMI and MI2.
If they're using the Wallace & Gromit scheme again (which they seem to be), you only move with the keyboard, while talking to, picking up, shoving, stabbing and/or chewing objects and characters in the environment is still done by pointing and clicking. It's definitely a lot easier to get used to than it was in Grim Fandango and EMI when you had to walk up to something just to see if it was usable, never mind picking from multiple targets in range.
Yeah, that's true. Having poked the Wallace & Gromit demo, I remember that now. I'm still hoping they're going to go with the Sam & Max system, but the W&G one wasn't bad either, I'm just going to wait and see how it turns out.
As for seeing TMI in motion, we have the rather lovely trailer, which conveys a lot. At the very least it shows how much they've worked on the animations, which look absolutely fantastic.
I wish they would stick more to the old style, with the beautifull caribbean backgrounds and colors.
But probably, I'm just overreacting and of course I'm looking forward to the way this one turns out.
Other than that, the music, voice acting and the smaller characters are perfect. It's just the small niggling issue of the main character.
So far, the team did a great job of capturing the visual style of their sources. Strong Bad's ... looked almost exactly like the web cartoon. Wallace and Gromit had that claymation-like style to them. I'd love to see Monkey Island perfectly recreated - even if it means a delay.
2. That people are complaining about getting a new Monkey Island game. From Telltale. For me, this is wish-fulfilment. If you had asked me for the game I'd most want to see happen, I'd say this. Honest.
And I couldn't care less about 3D. I think it looks great.
If nintendo increases the hard disk space, I wouldn't mind wiiware :cool:
But I wonder why some people are complaining that this game is crap, when they haven't even played it or do they have crystal ball?