OzzieMonkey

I might be remembering wrong, but didn't she cast the original MI voices in the first place with Curse? Or was that Darragh O'Farrell? EDIT: Nevermind, I checked her IMDB page and she was the dialog editor/senior voice editor.

I looked him up, and there's a great clip of him as Eggman in this video I think he could do it, there's definitely some Boen depth in his voice and if he turned the piratey-ness up to 11 I think he'd be great. They already got him for Thimbleweed Park, why not this?

Intresting. To me, it looks even more like a chef in that image. There's a clear seperation in tone between the top and bottom of the head that looks like a white hat on top.

If you squint and turn your head it looks like a bunny...or is that a chef?

Yep, as Ron said "It's not 3, it's not 6, it's Return to Monkey Island. It defies numbering" (which I'm still very boggles as to what that means but nontheless excited to find out).

I just read a comment on Ron's blog that is the biggest crock of shit I've ever seen. It's too long to post here, but I'll show you the opening paragraph so you get the gist of the bullshit that's coming from this person: "Sorry Ron, but you can't make whatever game you want to make! When you release first entry in series, it's not your game anymore, it also game of fans, not in terms of authorship, but in terms of belonging. Fans buy this game and sort of own it. 1st game sets standards and expectations. Then when sequels comes out they set even more standards and expectations and of they are not done by you but fans loved them, because sequels met their expectations, it is not your game anymore even more than before, it's collective game, which belongs to you, other authors which was accepted by fans, and to fans. Consider fans as your investors or producers, who pay you! You can't simply do whatever you want without majority of investor's or producer's approval!!! if majority of your investors or producers say they don't like art style, then you should abandon this idea and make something that would please your investors and producers or fans!!!" I can't believe someone thinks that creators owe fans anything just because they consume the content. That's not how this stuff works, it's so selfish and entitled. I just....grrrrr! I'm just mad now.

E3 is cancelled, but Summer Game Fest starts on the 9th of June. Devolver always have a big showcase there, so I think a peek at the game there is pretty much locked in. Having said that, we don't even know how close the game is to coming out. Maybe they'll drop a trailer tomorrow and it'll be out in 2 weeks, or it won't be finished til December. I'm inclined to think it's closer than we think though because they were doing voiceover and music recording when the announcement dropped, which is generally the last thing to be done, and Thimbleweed Park was released around 2-3 months after voices were added in. All I know is that I'm craving more.

Damn, so true. The only thing putting me off was that he was calling the other guy Stan.

That really works in favor of the whole "kid in a theme park" theory. He's dressing the part, not just of a pirate, but of an adult. It goes hand in hand with the questionable authenticity of his beard.

Surely you can't have a Monkey Island game without Stan or the Voodoo Lady right? Right?! Nah, it's gotta be the monkey, maybe referencing the fact that there won't be any monkey wrench puzzles.

That's reeeally stretching the definition of a Mojo-centric word. No wonder I didn't get it.

Wait, you can hook up the Quest to your PC? I just assumed you had to get it through its own online store which is why I got it that way initially instead of waiting for the Steam version. I wonder if this means I can play Rhombus of Ruin or any other Steam VR game for that matter...

I've Pre-Ordered Beyond Time and Space but I'm not sure yet if I'm gonna get This Time It's Virtual because I already own it on Occulus Quest and I don't want to have to get another (way more expensive) VR headset just to play this version. Having a box is cool though. We'll see...I've got 4 weeks to make up my mind, haha.

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I wouldn't be surprised if we got someone wearing an "ask me about Thimbleweed Park" button

Yep. It's very common for stories to open in the past where events in that time effect the overall narrative of the main story. Not once has Ron said that the entire game takes place after 2, just that he wanted the game to start there, probably because he wanted to give closure to fans on that ending but also to pick up where he left off. As far as the rest of the game goes, we now know that nothing was set in stone plot-wise, so anything could happen. I doubt that any story he wanted to tell necessitated taking place entirely before the games he didn't work on; it also means that placing the bulk of the story in the furthest point in the timeline means he's free to use any character he wants, his own or others (like Murray) without any contradictions.

I should point out that Ron has said a lot of things that he seems to have changed his mind on. On the Voodoo Lady..boy would I love to see more of that developed, it was my favourite part of the last 2 chapters. I think they could largely ignore how it was done in Tales because Guybrush pretty much went to trusting her by the end, so then we get to see Ron's take on the whole thing. Also, I never really saw the reveal as saying she was evil, just that she was meddling in the fates of Guybrush and LeChuck to keep balance in the universe by ensuring that there was always an evil pirate with a hero to conquer him. If anything, that cliffhanger could suggest that she had chosen Morgan to replace Guybrush as that hero in a spinoff. Then again...that laugh she does in the post credit scene is rather sinister, and who knows what she intended to use LeChuck's essence in a bottle for...or Guybrush's hand, for that matter.

With regards to Tim's lack of involvement, I think it's a combination of a couple of things, none of which need any kind of conspiratorial thinking around his current standjng with Ron; 1) As has been stated, he's a busy guy. He had a big, now Microsoft-owned company to run, while also making his own games at that company. Not a lot of wiggle room to work on another company's game. 2) Tim tends to prefer moving forward, and after Broken Age, the Lucasarts remasters and Psychonauts 2 I think he probably just wanted to distance himself from the familiar. 3) This is similar to 2, but I think Tim is probably just done with Monkey Island. Out of the three guys, he's got the most prolific resume and is probably tired of going back to that well. I believe I heard that the reason onaretrotip couldn't get an interview with him for his video was because his PR people came back and said he was just tired of talking about those games.

The GOG version recently patched in Earl Boen, but it came with a nasty bug that causes the music to not change correctly in different areas on Flotsam. I just use the DVD version and copy it over to my GOG copy. Works a treat.

If we're ripping off Planet of the Apes, why not Dawn of Monkey Island?

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So grumpygamer.com is back up but with comments removed...good idea. Ron has also written a new post titled "When I Made Another Monkey Island" which has basically confirmed that he really didn't have much of an idea of where the game was going to go until he made it. He also made it abundantly clear that when he made that post in 2013, it was not, as he put it, "commandments handed down and etched in stone on a giant tablet". I hope that now people can put their complaints to rest, wait for the game and just enjoy the ride. This is going to be something special and unpredictable, and that's exciting.

Rude! I clicked that link several times until I realised I'd been duped

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All we know so far is that Ron wanted to start the game at the carnival. How we get from there to Melee is a mystery at this point, but I think that most of what we do there will be exploring new things like the locksmith's, maybe we don't even go anywhere but the areas we've been shown in screenshots (and probably the mansion). We know that there's a new island in the game that appears to be snow-themed, which I love, and obviously Monkey Island with that catacombs screenshot. It's really hard to get a sense of the game's scope at this stage, in fact it's hard to get a sense of anything really, they're being quite cagey about things like gameplay and plot, all we've really got to go on is the art style. There's going to be just a waterfall of discussion in these forums once a story trailer drops and we see the main cast.