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Whoa, Return to Monkey Island isn't even out yet but they already made Monkey Island 7!

 

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2 hours ago, Jake said:

We didn't ever really seriously talk about a Tales Season 2, but I would hope we would have called it something else. My honest guess is "Return to Monkey Island," because its the title I think everyone considered every time doing a new Monkey game ever comes up. (Except Tales, because we knew we weren't going to Monkey Island in Tales! It seems like "going back to a familiar place" would have been a goal for a second one if we'd done it, though.)

 

Thanks for answering that's always been a massive 'what if?' For me.

 

1 hour ago, tmetic said:

Schools and colleges will definitely close. Not sure if it'll be a Christmas-style shops-closed bank holiday or just a regular one where everything's open until 8pm. Either way, I get the day off work to play ReMI in my pyjamas... as a mark of respect.

Sweet, I work at a College so I've been holding my breath on whether I'd actually get the day off or not.

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Uk fans, Bank Holiday has been approved on the 19th of September.

 

Not sure if schools and colleges will close.

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1 hour ago, Jake said:

Oh my god the brief fan obsession with “Tales is Monkey Island 6 and there is a secret 5th game” during the lead up to Tales drove me absolutely insane. All we wanted to say was, the characters had some adventures between Escape and now, to give the world some time to reset and heal. 2, 3, and 4 seemed to have taken place back to back to back, and it was clearly more weight than the MI universe could really bear and everything was starting to get really creaky, so we wanted to give the universe a break. Oh well. People REALLY don’t like it when there are holes in canon, I guess. (I LOVE holes in canon, that’s where my imagination as a fan can have a home in the work, a bunch of weirdly shaped gaps and grooves to run my mind over, but I feel like I’m increasingly in the minority with that preference.)

 

If it helps, I can finally tell you as one of the designers on the game that Tales is Monkey Island 5.

Haha sorry for stirring the pot with that back then 😂 for some reason it drove me nuts.

 

Thank you for confirming Tales as the 5th game haha 

 

Hey Jake, quick question. If a season 2 of Tales was made was it planned or expected to be called Tales of Monkey Island season 2 or would you have given it a different name?

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3 hours ago, Vainamoinen said:

 

There was just a single dev quote, I don't even remember who said it exactly (neither does the Monkey Island wiki), to explain the very basic concept of the in medias res beginning of the Tales. And somehow that idea took fans' brains hostage. It was everywhere. People kept parrotting it on the forums. They talked about how that would affect canon. They wanted Telltale to "do Monkey Island 5 next" so that horrible gap would be closed.

 

The Telltale forums mod squad spent ridiculous amounts of time trying to get rid of that false info that Tales was "actually Monkey Island 6". And see where it led us. 🤣

 

Maybe planting the seed is easier than removing the tree, so I think I'll start talking about a "fictional Indiana Jones 1" in which he finds Shorty and the Nurhachi.

 

 

 

By the way!

 

I admit i definitley poured fuel on that fire back in the day 😅

 

Although my issue with it was slightly different. I took it as Lucasarts wanted to reserve the right make their own Monkey Island 5 later, and were saying that Tales didn't count as a numbered entry and was merely a mini series or spin off. This rubbed me the wrong way and i wanted them to confirm Tales as a 5th entry.

 

I get what the developers were trying to do, to build on the lore and feel like Guybrush never stopped adventuring during the hiatus. 

 

Its weird to me though like fictional Red Dwarf series ix or the missing Liesure Suit Larry.

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8 minutes ago, LowLevel said:

Are you telling me that Return to Monkey Island has been the subject of two April Fools' Days? 😐

Yup haha

 

I find it kinda awesome that the original april fools got our hopes up for a fake Return to Monkey Island, then many years later Ron gives us a real Return to Monkey Island through a April Fools.

 

It honestly couldn't be more perfect!

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8 hours ago, LowLevel said:

I don't think that the scrapbook would be comprehensive, though. The goal should be to quickly inform newcomers of events, places or characters that are needed to recreate the context in which RtMI exists. Overwhelming them with information not needed to understand the new game would backfire, in my opinion.

Aww drat, for a second I thought they might explain what happened inbetween Escape and Tales.

 

Find out about the lost Monkey Island 5 that Telltale developer's said happened inbetween.

 

Fictional Monkey Island 5

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Remi said:

I mentioned it on Twitter -- the big reveal is that "Guybrush" is an imposter as proven by him trying to perfect his signature.

 

(Also love that short little repetition sting at the end of the theme.)

 

Maybe that's why Guybrush looks so different in Curse of Monkey Island onwards. He got replaced by an imposter after Big Whoop.

 

The game's ending will be the real Guybrush meeting the non-Ron Gilbert Guybrush.  

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This might sound like a stupid question but is there a risk of the game being delayed due to the Queen's death and mourning period?

 

I heard rumours of the new Nintendo Direct being delayed because of the Queen's death.

 

I imagine things are locked in and too late to change.

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Is there a rough idea of when on the 19th September the game will go live?

 

I'm getting it on the switch so not sure when in the day i can play it.

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1 hour ago, KestrelPi said:

Yeah, but alas

 

I was very close to mentioning that the sofa feels a little empty.

 

I kinda hope we get some more comments of support from Tim Schafer. Maybe at least a shoutout for the game on release day on twitter.

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Came across this photo in one of the articles I was reading. 🥲

 

It still makes me so happy seeing Ron and Dave work together again.

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Nintendo Life did an interview with Ron and Dave:

 

Click here

[POLL: What are your expectations for ReMI? (Last poll for a while, promise!)]

1 hour ago, LowLevel said:

I would be fine with those 10 minutes matching what Noah said and the rest of the game being meh. 😛

Might have missed this. What did Noah say?

 

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I have a lot of faith in Ron and Dave.

 

However...

 

Its better to expect less and get more than to expect more and get less.

 

I want MI1+2 level greatness

 

But I'm expecting a game better than Escape... hopefully on par or even better than Curse

 

 

But i must say that Thimbleweed Park is one of my favourite modern point and click games. For me it captures alot of the magic of mi1 and 2.

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41 minutes ago, ThunderPeel2001 said:

 

Oh wow. I actually just realised I want to avoid them... If they're great, I'll be expecting too much. If they're average I'll be heartbroken. 

 

Damn... do scores count as spoilers? I guess not 😬 [Starts making plans for a bunker]

 

 

Ha i get you.

 

What i tend to do is check the score and see if Mix n Mojo and Ag like it. Then i play the game and then i read the review properly after finishing the game. 😁

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Is it weird i'm really excited for reviews of Return to Monkey Island.

 

I always got excited back in the day when mix n mojo and Adventure Gamers reviewed Tales of Monkey Island and Sam and Max seasons.

 

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48 minutes ago, KestrelPi said:

 

It's true that I haven't seen a lot of the 'here's 4 jokes, pick one' style of dialogue in evidence yet. I adore MI1 + 2's dialogue trees. I think the only game that has matched them is Grim Fandango. They're a perfect blend of well-written, silly, subversive and I'm really hoping we see a bit of that here. I think we will. We've only been shown a little.

I'm hoping so too. Fingers crossed that style of dialogue will make a return. 

 

41 minutes ago, Remi said:

We’ve seen, what, two dialogue trees? I’m sure there is plenty of silliness in the game — see the burp teaser — but looking at the dialogue with the pirate leaders specifically, it seems like a natural progression from MI2. There wasn’t a lot of “I want to be a fireman” in that game, either. Nor should there have been — Guybrush had shed a bit of his naïveté at that point.

Some good points, I do agree its too early to say what the dialogue trees will be like.

 

Sorry didn't mean to be a downer. I guess maybe I'm trying to manage my expectations as this might be the most hyped i've ever been for a game ever 🤣 

 

36 minutes ago, Kroms said:

Gonna make a wild guess and say someone is overthinking something about the new #MonkeyIslandMonday video. Someone else has a nitpick. Vague, hypothetical reassurances from someone else?

 

I'm avoiding these videos now, but thought it worth commemorating that next week's is probably the last.

Sorry 😅

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Am i the only one a little nervous about the humour in the new game.

 

One of my favourite things about Monkey Island was picking the silly dialogue choice but going by the recent clip the dialogue options all seem very tame with no wacky answers.

 

For example when they ask Guybrush who he is, that's a perfect moment to have a choice of silly dialogue. 'I'm... etc etc'

 

Compare this to when the pirate leaders ask 'what do you be wanting, my boy?' In Secret of Monkey Island.

 

Just a concern of mine.

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Dave Grossman : "Return to Monkey Island" is a game about Guybrush wanting to close something in his past that has been left unfinished. It's the same with us: we're going back to something we did a long time ago. I don't think we could have done Return to Monkey Island 10 or 15 years ago. The game as it is was only possible in the here and now.

 

This got me even more excited for the game 😁 I love how personal this game is.

 

I'm also still amazed that they aren't shying away from addressing the 'secret'. If i was making the game i'd be scared to address the 'secret'

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1 hour ago, Vainamoinen said:

 

And here it is, probably the first Dave Grossman foto since E3 2010.

 

I'm just so glad he's involved.

 

Me too. Dave being involved was as exciting, maybe even more exciting than Ron coming back for me.

 

I generally thought after Telltale that Dave was done with point and click games and we wouldn't hear from him again. I heard he worked for an audio company or something.

 

I always felt Dave Grossman was the most underrated of the original trio.

 

I still wish we got to see him lead a game project on his own.

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Escape has a giant robo monkey, does that give it bonus points? 😆

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17 minutes ago, Remi said:

To continue some admittedly pointless speculation, I notice the "inner monologue" of the interface has been replaced with a more traditional verb interface (as mentioned above):

 

 

Presumably that is a setting that can be toggled?

I wonder if it will be different on the switch? Hoping not too different as I really like this.

 

The puzzle menu on the side of the screen kinda reminds me of the Tales puzzle menu.

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21 minutes ago, Remi said:

 

 

Purple tentacle?

Tentacle chow? 

 

Was going to take a break from the forums until the game comes out but i missed it too much. 

 

 

 

 

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I'm probably going to take a breather from all things Monkey Island and avoid future Monkey Island Mondays, want to go in as blind as possible.

 

I'll be back on when we are days from release 😁 see you all soon!