Do you actually hate escape, or...?
(Sorry for starting this thread twice; I made an error when adding the poll in the other one).
I know there's already been a lot of polls asking which is your favourite MI or which is your favourite out of a specific number of games... But I did notice from the replies to the poll that asked which was your preference out of all four titles many people said that while it wasn't their favourite they did enjoy the game.
So it doesn't have to be your favourite I just want to know if you liked it or not.
I know there's already been a lot of polls asking which is your favourite MI or which is your favourite out of a specific number of games... But I did notice from the replies to the poll that asked which was your preference out of all four titles many people said that while it wasn't their favourite they did enjoy the game.
So it doesn't have to be your favourite I just want to know if you liked it or not.
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(By the way, I like your avatar, Marduk.)
Thing is, it is just the weaklink of the MI franchise, it branched away from the normal trends of MI to appeal to more people, and it didn't quite pull off.
Great game though, just not the greatest.
The best of the Disney characters.
What about... "It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as the others"? Also, why did you put the word "hate" in your thread title when they isn't any option, either?
Although I disliked EMI, I'm also an adventure game fan and enjoyed playing the puzzles... So does that mean I "liked" it? Yeah, at times, definitely. Does that mean I liked it in terms of MI? No, I didn't really like those terms. So which is it?
As an adventure game: Not bad. As an MI game: Not good.
I was being being specific in my vagueness. I don't know. I didn't really think about it. I'm a little surprised anybody cares. I used it in the title (and made the thread's title first) because there is a lot of animosity from fans towards the game. I put "didn't enjoy it" as an option because I wanted a blanket term for everybody who didn't like it. The field was there because if I ran a poll with only one field then the results would tell me nothing. I wanted to know if people didn't like it, and if somebody hates it then I'm quite certain they're included in that. So you like it from one point of view but not from another. I actually considered letting people choose multiple answers but I didn't think anybody would really need to. It it possible you liked it more as an adventure game than you did as an MI game, or visa versa? If not then you can always vote indifference or refrain from voting.
I think that this is entirely a conflict on your end and this poll won't be able to help you. Sorry about that.
My issues with the game were keyboard controls, monkey kombat, LeChuck as Ozzie's servant, Jambalaya Island (I didn't like the commerical look) and part of the story which was in conflict with the earlier games. But otherwise it was enjoyable game with good puzzles. Those issues however aren't major ones, except the claim that Governor Marley disappeared 20 years ago.
MI4 and Grim Fandango are two games that I havent played more than one time, which is bad.
I play MI1,2&3 at least once or twice a year.
As for your avatar, Marduk, I wouldn't worry and I rather like it. There's a big number of us around here who have very odd things for our avatars. In my case, it's the eye from a bit of werewolf art I commissioned.
It's like if, in the latest movie, they revealed that Indiana Jones had never found the Ark of the Covenant... Everyone who had seen the original movie would be going "Yes he did! I saw him do it! wtf?" and everyone who hadn't seen the original would be going "Oh? What's that all about, then?". A fan moment... that ignored fans. It was a very odd decision by the makers of EFMI!
Plus, I believe there's even plot-holes within EFMI?
Some of the EFMI contradictions are:
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But in EFMI this much-beloved character has his history completely erased and re-written so make it a big "tie-in" for fans of the series. The problem with that is that people unfamiliar with the earlier games had no idea who he was, and the major fans of the series (who this big "reveal" was actually for) knew and loved Herman Toothrot. So why change him?
It would be just a hell of a lot easier if TellTale forgot that any of this actually happened, rather than trying to work it back in (does anyone like these changes?!). I can see a throwaway line now: "But Elaine, at two years old you were the youngest Governor ever appointed in the Caribbean!" *groan*
It's all just a dream!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvinAPPfyAQ
What he said. Exactly. With the addition that I didn't mind Monkey Kombat all that much (as long as I played with a second party who could note down the correct answers) because it felt so bloody great when I finally beat the game.
Knuttin' I liked, though. Especially the music change when you cross over past Admiral Casaba’s ship. I just wish there had been more to explore on it.
Overall I liked the game, but...it's just my least favorite of the series.
But you hated Monkey Kombat, the robotic monkey and everything that happened on Monkey Island which you didn't actually experience first hand, right?
The Dallas thing could be pretty great as a horror thing. Woman wakes up, hears shower running, and there's some weirdo showering in it. He makes no moves, he simply stands there, smiling stupidly.
"Good morning" he says.
fade to credits before a gruesome tale unfolds.
weeeiiird
I know, but IMO Ozzie doesn't have as much charisma as LeChuck. I'm glad that we will see another Monkey Island game, because IMO it would have been bad ending for Monkey Island series that one of the best villains in the history of adventure games was reduced to servitude of another villain.
Everyone has their own preferences, I liked more the gloomy atmosphere of Knuttin Atoll, which was IMO best part of that Act. For some reason I have always loved the gloomier places more in the Monkey series, for example in CMI Blood Island was my favourite place and I least liked the Carnival of the Damned, which had twisted but brighter atmosphere.
ThunderPeel2001 explained those plot holes in detail, I would have loved EfMI more if they would have got their story straight without conflict with the first game. But then again it's relatively common in other media too. Hopefully Tales doesn't create similar conflicts to the story.
Its graphics were old sinced the release, the MI spirit was ruined with "consumistic" atmospheres (lucre island SUCKS), there were LOTS of conitnuity and story errors (how the hell did Hermann come to Monkey Island? With his vessel, as said in MI2, or in a ship race, like said in MI4?), Herman is Elaine's father (like said in old MIs) AND her grandfather (like said in MI4)! Plus it lost all of the dark atmospheres we saw in old MIs (hell, cemeteries, blood island...). Guybrush is a complete idiot, LeChuck is no more the great nemesis, being Ozzie Mandrill's (Silvio Berlusconi in MI ?) little doggie until the very end of the game. Monkey Kombat was slow, frustrating and absolutely fun...NOT. And last but not least the ending: COME ON THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND IS A GIANT ROBOT MONKEY?!?! WHAT THE HELL?!?!
The only bit of the game at the same level as MI1,2 and 3 was Stan's enigma.
Or at least I saw MI4 like this.
And yes, I am an hardcore fan.
But that simply open up more problems since
(I assumed the system of government was something of a fantasy unique to the monkey island series as the office of governor couldn't be inherited nor could somebody be elected to it in that point of Caribbean history. Governors, or the equivalent in the various languages of the area, were appointed by the kings and queens of those countries who claimed the island(s) as their territory).
If this was the case then she would have been Governor in title only until she became of age, until that point somebody else would have acted as a some kind of reagent (I don't know what the proper term is for somebody who acts in that capacity when we're not talking about royal titles).
guess they overdid it a bit with that.
that's not something that cannot be corrected. for example, you know, that in first part
nah! its secret is, that
For me, I think the original was probably the secret, and the second was a joke secret, and then Ron left the game and so the joke secret was carried on further in CMI, and then it got a bit ridiculous for EfMI (though if I remember correctly, someone said that they were considering
I think they just got a little carried away with EfMI in general tbh. And that background art was lackluster. But i've already commented about all that.
Enjoyable yes, but nothing remarkable and certainly a dissapointment compaired to other games in the franchise.
I think my husband put it best, "It's like ordering a steak and getting a hamburger. No matter how good the hamburger is, you're always gonna be dissapointed and crave that steak"
A good adventure game.
A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, Monkey Island game.
Basically, if it's the first MI game you play, you'll have a brilliant time.
I've played through MI4 once. I started playing through it a second time a few years back, got to just before Monkey Kombat begins and the game crashed. I though about it and realized that I hadn't actually enjoyed almost any parts of the game on my second run through. So I said screw this and deleted it and will never go back to it again.
For the references to MI1 and MI2 and a few jokes in fact I liked it far more than Curse... I especially enjoy the brief return of the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle
Sadly, I found a few location and plot elements to be rather out of context (monkey combat