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    Return to Monkey Island

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Laserschwert said:

    I could imagine there being a narrative framing of Guybrush telling the story himself (like in MI2), which would justify any inconsistencies with the other games. I'd say that's certainly more likely than stuff like time-traveling or multiverses.

    "And then we go married!"

    "What?"

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    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    21 minutes ago, Laserschwert said:

    Ah, so it's CDs, not DVDs. Weird choice... and surprising that MI3 and MI4 still fit on a single disc. Are the GOG versions so small?

    Maybe the mac versions are on them too?

    Whatever the case, how annoying is it that the game, that the devs had to downsize for WiiWare, still doesn't fit on one disk?

     

    10 minutes ago, Rum Rogers said:


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    The box itself is incredibly amazing.

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    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    11 hours ago, Remi said:

     

    Yep, that Kixx box blurb I'm fairly certain is verbatim what the ads were saying. I assume some discarded marketing copy made its way into the wild.

    One more thing. Since the text is hinting at LeChucks brother being the villain, then the headline "He's big, he's bad, he's back" can't be referring to LeChuck, but to, uh, Guybrush, I guess.

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    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    7 hours ago, ATMcashpoint said:

    And, thanks to the original game backgrounds in the MI2 SE concept art gallery, we know that Peter Chan's painting of LeChuck's office in MI2 was labeled "El Carlo's office" on the original art:

    Wow, I never really wondered why it said "El Carlo's office". Very nice to have an answer to that now.

     

    6 hours ago, Remi said:

    Yep, that Kixx box blurb I'm fairly certain is verbatim what the ads were saying. I assume some discarded marketing copy made its way into the wild.

    Funny how these things happen, because if the text mentions LeChuck's brother then it would also talk about three difficulty settings. But here it correctly mentions only two.

     

    There is only one logical explanation to this! Kixx knew the game in and out and that "the brother" is Guybrush, and to them "LeChuck's Revenge" is all about fighting greed, and the real villain is ones ego, and...

     

    Hmm, or maybe it's what Remi said.

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    The Monkey Island box set from Limited Run Games

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    Posted · Edited by Marius

    My box arrived today! The book is really something, it's basically tons of oral history quotes from the developers, and here and there you can see notes from Ron's notebook. A new thing, at least to me, was a scan of the first story treatment of Monkey 2. I tagged one funny thing as a spoiler:

    Spoiler

    It seems like LeChuck originally wasn't the villain, but his brother El Carlo. Wild!

    I didn't get around to check what versions of the games are on the usb stick, since I'm on a mac.

    Also I don't have a floppy disk reader, and am very intrigued what they put on Disk 22.

    Vast amounts of unobtainable wealth (Found only in Hint Book!)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah, it's well written. The end of the Monkey 2 hint book is quite chilling.

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    With the doll in one hand and the syringe in the other, I waited for LeChuck. The very instant he appeared before me, I used the syringe with the doll. The effect was immensely gratifying.

     

    LeChuck was gone for good.

     

    My parents were very much alive.

     

    And life seemed as happy and carefree as a child's Sunday visit to an amusement park...

     

    ...at least for the moment.

     

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    Telltale's Sam & Max games getting remastered

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    15 hours ago, Rum Rogers said:

    On a side note and just to play the devil's advocate here, isn't preventing a person from doing a job based on their skin color (in this case white) the very definition of racism?

     

    Rum, years ago I wondered about the same, and believe I know where you are coming from. I really hope I don’t come off rude with my post, but have to ask:

     

    Are you really sure you want to dive back into this topic, and are you really, really sure you want to do it with that question?

     

    The thing is that this question has been (and still is) asked a million times, and there is no quick answer to this that will satisfy. I know I had the same thought in the past, and it took many years for me to understand it. I’m trying to educate myself with reading articles, listening to podcasts and talk to people who know more about this, and I still only scratch the surface.

     

    My quick answer would be that the case of the Bosco recasting is not racial discrimination, since reverse racism doesn't exist.

     

    And I am certain that this statement, standing on it's own, will ruffle a lot of feathers, but that’s because you have to know a ton of background infos and facts that support this claim. And I think asking a video game forum to deliver these is a lot to ask. Also, it has been explained a million times online, so I would ask you to do a bit of googlin’ to find out yourself. 

     

    Again, I am happy that you are curious about the topic and want to learn from it, but kindly ask you to do a bit more self education and research. Because you have to understand that, to many people, these questions are extremely exhausting. Too often it feels like having to explain and discuss the rules of soccer before every single match.

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    "The Secrets of Monkey Island" 30th anniversary livestream with Ron Gilbert

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    1 hour ago, Udvarnoky said:

    From an old interview Mojo conducted with Mark Ferrari:

     

     

    It immediately sprung to mind when this alternate angle was shared, but Ferrari seems to be describing yet a third background related to this location.

    That room sounds amazing! It fits to the vibe that I get from the town of Mêlée, which is this huge virtual place that is full of life. I can imagine how the team just went crazy with it and had tons of more rooms/screens planned/sketched.

    Telltale's Sam & Max games getting remastered

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Lagomorph01 said:

    All in all, I don't really mind this time around, because as I said, the voice acting wasn't really the strong suit of the game, and I'm glad they're tweaking it, but it's a dangerous slide to be on.

    It’s simply respectful to adjust to modern sensibilities. I don’t see what the dangerous slide here is. Do you mean that changes like these could “anger fans”? Well it might, but I think it’s far more important to create art that is more welcoming and respectful to races and cultures who are fed up with, for example, whitewashing.

     

     

    1 hour ago, Lagomorph01 said:

    Maybe I don't fully understand, because I'm also not from the U.S., and don't really understand their politics, but I'm sad that in some cases, they influence good products from the past. (Which stretches further than Sam and Max alone.)

    I know what you mean, but keep in mind that "not influencing products from the past" is also political. Everything is political.

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    "The Secrets of Monkey Island" 30th anniversary livestream with Ron Gilbert

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    5 hours ago, ATMachine said:

    Frank Cifaldi just posted THIS on Twitter.

     

    The source is apparently Game Player's PC Strategy Guide Vol. 3 No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1990), which is sadly unscanned on the Internet.

     

     

    I dig this screen a lot! Copy pasting my thoughts from Twitter.

     

    I love this alternate shot and am intrigued how it feels cutting to it after the title screen, as it’s a direct reverse shot instead of a „zoom in“. Plus the setting sun appears in the following room, the dock. The whole sense of space must‘ve felt very different. Also the gate framing the screen is really cool.

     

    Bummer that room isn't in the source files, I would've loved to plug that back into the game.

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