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    Monkey Island Frantic – EXCLUSIVE First Look

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    I’m so mad about this because I knew what it was straight away but didn’t have the exact words. Ironically that’s how the text parser worked in Sierra games (yeah, shots fired, I went there). 
     

    I figured out Monkey Island Frantic #7 in 86 seconds after 2 tries. 💖
    https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Frantic/

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    Telltale's Sam & Max games getting remastered

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    On the topic of what Skunkape does next, Tales is an obvious choice, but also, who says they have to be limited by games that use the Telltale engine? Assuming they get the thumbs up from Disney, why not let them remaster Hit the Road and maybe even the rest of the Lucasarts catalogue? It seems pretty clear that Double Fine have no plans to tackle them now that they’ve done Tim’s games. Of course It’d also be awesome to see them do a brand new Sam & Max adventure seeing how well the remasters appear to be doing and the renewed demand to see these characters again. A Tales season 2 wouldn’t go astray either but maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. As of right now though, they’ve done a fantastic job of all three seasons, TDP was perfect.

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    [SPOILERS] Which was the original intent for Monkey Island 2's finale?

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    The thing about the "original intent" is...there wasn't one, and couldn't be. Ron Gilbert never started working on how that ending would be resolved until Return was a reality and development started on that game. He made the ending, and didn't think about how to "resolve" it, that could be a fun problem for him to solve later when he made the third one...or as happened in reality, for the Curse team to solve. I think that over the years, Ron has built excitement for a hypothetical third game by making bold claims about having the story in his head for years, possibly also thinking that it was such a pipe dream he could say whatever he wanted. It's only once Disney gave him the green light that he realised he would have to actually come up with something, and imo it's nothing short of a miracle that he was able to come up with something so clever and in spirit with everything that came before, but that's another discussion. He's alluded to this in interviews, but I don't think we realise how much Ron kinda forgot about Monkey Island on some level in the years since he left LucasArts because we're fans and we're almost more close to it than he is in some respects. He didn't spend his nights over the last 30 years pondering what he would do with that ending, that's just not the sort of person he is, at least with what we can glean from his limited public persona. That's just my take anyhow, I'm also not someone who buys into the all knowing auteur idea. Most creative works are people winging it, and that is not intended to minimise the art that is created, if anything it shows how incredible it is that any art is any good at all. 

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    Indiana Jones 5

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    I think there might be something wrong with me, because I just didn't like it. I felt like a large stretch of it was kinda just going through the motions, certain characters were wasted and the third act was one of the most monumentally stupid things I've ever seen. Maybe at the end of the day it just felt like it was too late to do another one of these, idk. I'm glad there seem to be a decent amount of audiences liking to loving it, but for whatever reason it's just not clicking with me. Time will see if my opinion changes someday.

    The Legend of Monkey Island (Sea of Thieves)

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    So we know the cast is returning and that sadly Ron wasn't involved, but is ANYONE from the old guard involved in writing/design? That's probably the one thing that slightly worries me, though it's not like this is a full blown new adventure game with no familiar names attached, so I'm probably more lenient on it in that area.

    The Legend of Monkey Island (Sea of Thieves)

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    Wow, I didn't think we'd get new MI content this soon...is this the fastest turnaround since Secret to LeChuck's Revenge? Very cool that all the voice cast is back, and I've read that there WILL be point and click puzzles. This will bring a lot of new eyes to the series that hadn't even heard of it before, which can only mean more good things for the series going forward. Your move, Skunkape ;) I just hope that I'll actually be able to play it because I tried to play the standard Sea of Thieves and couldn't get off the first island without getting shot 😂

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