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Wouldn’t be the SCUMM Bar without closeups.

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I went to PAX! I got to meet David Fox!* It was great. * (And Ron and Dave and Dom, but I have met them all before.)

I think if you divorce them, the game would need to address it in some way, then suddenly a portion of the game text has to be about the creators feelings about the characters relationship, and maybe that is more annoying than just not spending time litigating it. At some point it’s easier to say, fine the status quo can just exist and we’ll move on.

Guybrush also exists in that void!

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At least on Steam developers can set the time, but also they can choose to launch manually. I don’t think Switch games all launch at a set time of day either.

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We’re ostensibly just counting unique living monkey heads visible on screen though! If the count was “the number referenced in the story,” then Escape probably would have it. And Secret’s count would go way up because of the ship crewed with monkeys.

The first “everyone piles on and tries to destroy it before it shipped” that I remember in gaming was The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, for GameCube. People were INCENSED that they weren’t getting a “realistic” Link, and instead got what they perceived as a cartoon for kids. It’s fun seeing that era come up in discussion now, twenty years later, in places like Reddit comment threads. So many embarrassed now-adults who were teens or kids at the time, saying “well I was extremely wrong and behaved so badly, it turns out that game was a stone cold classic.” Honestly it gives me a tiny bit of hope for all of us, that the “looks more like Celda, not Zelda!” brigade actually grew up and had some hindsight.

My badge doesn’t seem to have ever shown up, which isn’t exciting.

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I love this thread.

Censored by mojole!

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I think it might be worth making an actual spoiler sub forum that goes live when the game does, for people to post about hints and whatever else. For now a spoiler free thread makes sense to me at least 🤷‍♂️

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Alan Dean Foster absolutely bodied by that webpage. Holy shit.

Same! I remember really liking the first one at least. I think I read three but my memory of the later two is nonexistent. Which brings us to an important point: Where are the Monkey Island expanded universe novels?

Yeah, I think it is a one hit wonder, in that it really did grab a lot of people when it came out and gave them something fresh, beyond the novelty of “this shows off my CD-ROM,” but then they had their fill and moved on. It was the right game for its moment. (Riven is great, though!)

MI1 was definitely Ron, Tim, and Dave’s game all along because they wrote and programmed it! MI2’s writing and programming team broadened out even wider than the three of them, expanding to include Tami Borowick and Bret Barrett, who both left with Gilbert to make kids games at Humongous after MI2 shipped. (Tami made Freddi Fish and Bret made Spy Fox. Grossman would later join them and work on Pajama Sam.) Really every Monkey Island has had a different set of people involved (not just the people involved but the time passed means everyone’s always changing, as are the relationships they have with each other) and this is no different in that regard. Another go with the full original trio of guys would have been really cool but this is still exciting and, imo, unprecedented.

I don’t even really like Myst and I was sad to hear Curse bag on it. Felt unnecessarily sore, given Monkey Island is already the crown jewel of its own genre.