Niemandswasser
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2 hours ago, Vainamoinen said:
Unceremoniously and not as a goodbye present, though it might still serve as that.
It's Time, Guybrush
acrylic on paper
Wait, where are you going?!
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1 hour ago, BaronGrackle said:
EDIT: LeChuck's co-existing simultaneous mouth(s) is actually a sublime illustration of my hype over this game.
Just curious--how so?
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I believe that was the Monkey Island Madness collection, which was the first appearance of the MI1 VGA CD version.
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Oh, and Slappy Cromwell also, when he's being used as a prop onstage.
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1 hour ago, demone said:
I would love an interaction between LeChuck and Murray. It's actually wild, but I just realized Murray had only interacted with Guybrush and Decava's crew and Morgan if the player selected the option.
And poor old Mort, the gravedigger
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23 minutes ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:
I don't think at any point did Iain McCaig stop and think to himself, "well damn, that looks too much like a gauche painting... time to start over!"
I agree, it would be absolutely bonkers to think that happened, and if you could point out a person who so much as implied that it *did*, I'd like to tell them to their face!
In all seriousness, though, that McCaig quote you provided about visual blending and Impressionist technique is pretty much direct confirmation that his work on the closeups was inspired in some part by oil painting. I'm more convinced now than I was when I brought it up.
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11 minutes ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:
I think that's overstating it...
Apologies for being obtuse, but I don't see how the quote you've shared relates to my impression (heh) that the look is oil-painting inspired. All it says to me is that it's really impressive what he pulled off with pretty rudimentary equipment.
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13 minutes ago, Odious Remi said:
In what galaxy is THIS a church? >:
For a relatively small community like Melee Town there's actually not really anything that screams "not a church" to me. The front's all stained glass, but the sides don't need it, especially if what we're looking at is actually the part of the building given to the rectory, where the priest lives.
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3 hours ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:
It's true for the others, too. It's just if you're going to pick one as an example, you may as well put the most egregious one.
One of these images looks more photo realistic than the other. And like say, it doesn't matter WHY (limitations of a 16 color palette, etc), or even the intention of the artist, it's just a statement of fact: One of these looks more photorealistic than the other!
Neither of these has ever struck me as aiming for photorealism. The first is an attempt to depict a young man within the limitations of a 16-color palette; the second seems like it's meant to mimic an oil painting. That said, they both seem to have the same goal in mind: to give you as clear a picture as possible of what he looks like, given the abilities and limits of the current medium. The style in both is as "realistic" as it's allowed to be, in that Guybrush's proportions and features aren't exaggerated beyond what's necessary to make them visible. I think the crux of the argument is that if the first one had had more colors available to it, the goal would have been something more like the second one than not.
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Can I just say how much I love this site and Marius specifically
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6 hours ago, Vainamoinen said:
Maybe it's burn marks, maybe he's bleeding from spinning that globe too much, maybe he did what I do all the time these days, resting my arms on the table while painting and accidentally soiling everything with the paint.
Speaking as a citizen of the gingery persuasion myself, I think there *may* be a simpler explanation for red patches on the arms of a man with Wally's hair color...
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I remember EMI was rated T in the US for alcohol, tobacco use and "suggestive themes," which as far as I can tell consisted entirely of Guybrush's "It's the door to our bedroom...ohhh yeahhhh" response.
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I think it's that the flag is still visible over the ship even after Guybrush has taken it down to use in the recipe.
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Something interesting to note that might be of no consequence whatsoever--it looks like LeChuck has ghost, zombie and demon crewmembers, if I'm reading that red on-fire guy right. In other words, henchpeople corresponding to each of his major forms. Maybe significant, maybe not at all!
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2 hours ago, Lechuck said:
Didn't some blah blahs also happen with one of the LeChuck's fortress exteriors?
Yes, but I believe those were meant to read as the "narrator" complaining about having to repeat that description each time
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1 hour ago, dwa said:
What I miss the most in the CD version is the verb interface becoming red when you're in the Monkey Island catacombs. Both the EGA and VGA floppy releases had it. I really liked that dramatic effect the first time I reached that part of the game, but they've dropped it with the new verb interface of the CD release.
I completely forgot about this! So many little touches that added up in that game. I sometimes wonder if I'd have wound up as enamored of the series if I hadn't played the floppy version first. (And thank heaven that's how I first played LOOM!)
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3 hours ago, BaronGrackle said:
I still think Guybrush is eavesdropping. If I remember correctly, Ron also gave us "blah blah blah" in MI2 during the Booty Mansion party, as Guybrush listened to guests long enough.Of course, MI2 wasn't voiced when Ron made it. The special edition followed the pattern we see in other games: quiet grumblings, ellipses, and the occasional phrase. That's in a LOT of Lucasarts games when the main character is doing stuff while a background conversation happens. This version substitutes "blah blah" instead of quiet grumblings.
Fate of Atlantis subs in "blah blah" for Sophia's dialogue with Trottier while you sneak around during the seance even in the voiced version as I recall. So there's some precedent.
Edit: Who needs conjunctions
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Is that Bob hanging from the spar??
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LeChuck is pretty much a glorified henchman in EMI--does he count?
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40 minutes ago, BaronGrackle said:
Besides, she's been lying to Guybrush ever since MI2, when she "reminded" him that she made the root beer for him, and something made Guybrush "remember" that yes she did. Even though it never happened.
Twist: she was the head cannibal the whole time!
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2 hours ago, Wally B. said:
It's possible that it was always Ron's intention to make the Voodoo Lady an ambiguous character. After all, she did say to Guybrush to go find Big Woop in Monkey2 and we all know how THAT turned out!
I really like the Tales twist and it does explain some small incongruences in the other games regarding her character (like the fact that in Curse she said that Big Woop was evil and that Guybrush was an idiot for looking for it, after saying in Revenge that it was his only hope).
I am actually more curious to find out what they do with Herman though. I mean, Ron confirmed he went back to be a regular cook, so what happened since Escape? Did he just got hit in the head again? Was he never Horatio Torquemada to beginning with? Did he just get into philosophy again???
The HT Marley thing has always felt like a pretty easy thing to undo if they wanted. "But you told us you were Grandpa Marley!" "I'm a crazy old man with no pants, I tell people all sorts of things! The real question is why you listened to me in the first place."
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1 minute ago, BaronGrackle said:
I think the silence was maintained on the CD version, with the exception of Stan's?As I recall there's added ambient noise--crickets, birds, waves lapping, etc--in the spots without music. Which are fine in their own right, but I've always felt the effect of suddenly emerging into total silence was more interesting.
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1 hour ago, Thrik said:
Yeah it’s weird. Melee Island in general had this very creepy quietness to it when I played it as a child, with no ambient sound effects like in the CD version, and slightly less music too.
It was jarring to hear the music, although it is appropriate, as it was always an eerily still, lonely dock for me. Especially when you explore minus Stan.
I've always thought the moments of sudden silence were the biggest loss between the floppy and CD versions. They added a subtle menace to the island that I think was a large part of why the game made such an immediate impression on me as a kid. It felt fun, no doubt, but also dangerous.
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1 hour ago, Thrik said:
Oh yeah, I somehow misread about half of this thread. 😅 Right. I haven’t seen any evidence of names for the leaders.
You can figure out from the extracted resource files who is who, or the SE credits if you have a good ear for the actors.
Phineas/Fin is the guy in the barrel.
I’ll be gravely disappointed to not see those guys return.
One of my very first thoughts after the announcement was that so far a Gilbert-helmed MI has meant the Men of Low Moral Fiber showing up somewhere, so it would only be appropriate for them to be in ReMI!
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Return to Monkey Island
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