ThunderPeel2001
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For anyone struggling to download all 12 individually, here's a little tip: Scroll down and select "PDF" from the menu on the right.
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Yes, I was stuck on MI2 for months (or it felt like months when I was 12). Wouldn’t do that these days.
You only need ScummVM to play all these games on a MacBook.
But you may as well continue with the Xbox titles. They’re all good!
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On 2/7/2021 at 6:14 AM, Jamps said:
I hate to double reply, but I just finished the game about 20 minutes ago. What an incredible game from beginning to end. I absolutely loved the ending — I imagine it was a major point of discussion. I feel like this is a game you can continue to analyze and never get to the bottom of it.
Thanks for not spoiling the return of my man Stan. Glad to see he was still out hustling.
I just gotta say that I am so happy that I decided to play these games. Consider me a fan!
Ha, that was quick! I'm guessing you used a guide? (Which is understandable given how frustrating some of the puzzles in MI2 are -- spit contest, monkey as a wrench, etc.)
If you're going to move onto Curse of Monkey Island next you'll have yourself a lovely time, as the puzzles are more rounded, the interface is more polished, it's just an all round great experience. Arguably LucasArts's best... or damned close to.
One tip: Unlike MI2, I would recommend playing the lower difficulty first and then moving on to "Mega Monkey" mode afterwards. Why? Simply because unlike MI2 you the lower difficulty is basically "normal" mode, not "easy" mode: You don't miss any story or locations, and there's a bunch of great puzzles that are worth playing through. It's basically a normal LucasArts adventure game with great puzzles (you shouldn't really need a guide, or least need one less).
Then when you complete it you get the additional bonus of playing it again with more difficult puzzles (presuming you enjoyed it the first time). Two games for the price of one!
Of course maybe you fancy exploring another world next: Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are all excellent choices (and I'd probably recommend them in that order, simply because they get more technically impressive as they continue).
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They all work really well. Their simplicity seems to add something, rather that detract. Lovely!
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Agh. I hope this really is a temporary message.
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YES, WELCOME NAIVE HUMAN!*
* This is a reference to a game you have yet to play, but that I think you'll enjoy.
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The person behind this is so talented. The graphics are spot on. I wish I could play it!
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I've heard there were lots of niggles with the PS2 version as well. I also picked it up and didn't notice anything hugely terrible. I don't know if they're more subtle (controls not being responsive, etc) or if they fixed things for the PS4 version. I'd also like to know the major differences.
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I bought and read On Stranger Tides... Not bad, but I was surprised how little there was that was recognisable. I think it was basically the world that inspired Ron (pirates + voodoo). Still worth a read though.
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Lovely job. A vast improvement! But it's still my least favourite LucasArts (or TellTale) soundtrack. I could just never get behind this one.
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Personally it's give me pixels or nothing. I don't like any filters on retro games. I think your eyes adjust to pixels after a while.
That said I do like the AI upscales of CMI's backgrounds. I'd love to see them added one day.
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This is super exciting! Thanks for doing this!
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Unobtainable wealth, the worst kind of wealth.
It also implies that Big Whoop was actually treasure... it's just Guybrush slightly missed the mark. Probably just a joke for the hint book though.
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Looking at that image is the first time I noticed that Bosco is actually in a cage... Doh. That explains the dialogue then.
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I have to say Skunkape did a great job with that Steam patch update. Hopefully being so calm and transparent will diffuse the situation for most people, plus it was interesting to read.
And making it clear that people will get the originals as free DLC should also make some happy, too.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1440440/view/2913231583179436796
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I had never heard of this until now. Thanks for the explanation Jason.
Edit: I just scrolled up and saw the first post. Somehow I had previously missed this entirely. Interesting!
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5 hours ago, Longcat said:
I understand the arguments perfectly well.
If that were true, you wouldn't have made that statement in the first place. Any serious article on "white privilege" would have addressed your claim immediately. So either you're not as familiar with the arguments as you claim, or you are, and you made a deliberately provocative statement, knowing exactly what the response would be. It can't really be both.
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41 minutes ago, ATMachine said:
I think some academic theory does deliberately ignore or downplay the existence of disenfranchised white people - e.g., some scholars contend that it's literally impossible to be racist against white people, for instance.
I agree with the majority of what you said, but not this sentence. Those two things are unrelated. Even if someone was contending that it's impossible for a white person to be meaningfully discriminated against in western culture, it's not the same as "forgetting" that disenfranchised white people, with little power, exist, which was the original argument.
Although there are plenty of white people have little power, they are still generally better placed than a person of colour with little power.
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29 minutes ago, Udvarnoky said:
While I believe she's done some directing as well, I think Brown's credits are primary as Voice Editor/Producer.
Her LinkedIn lists her primarily as a casting and performance director (also for TellTale, which I didn't realise) and you can see her directing the voice cast in the Broken Age documentary. I think she started as a sound editor, though.
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I also hated the voice acting in the SOMI SE. There were some obvious exceptions (the storekeeper, for example), but for the most part everyone seemed to be doing their best to do a "funny" voice. I literally had to stop playing because it drove me up the wall it was so bad. I don't know exactly what happened, or who was to blame.
Also I thought Khris Brown was the person responsible for the LucasArts voice-acting from Hit the Road onwards? Or maybe it was just Grim Fandango onwards (ie. Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Broken Age -- Schafer's titles). There was certainly a marked improvement from the abysmally voiced Fate of Atlantis, whoever it was. The first SE felt like a huge step backwards to me.
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5 hours ago, Longcat said:
Oh. Your post is still here. I thought you would have sobered up and removed it by now. Cute.
It was a serious question. Your argument that the people who study and teach these things have never considered something as obvious as the fact that there are disenfranchised white people implies that you've not really taken time to understand the other side. (Of course such a thing exists, and of course it hasn't been forgotten.)
Someone else here talked about how they were surrounded by people who didn't understand what the wider issue is and I wondered if you were the same.
What country are you from? How old are you? You talk about your culture, but it's very hard to put your comments into context.
I posted a video that touched upon the issue of "white privilege" and puts it in some context. You seem to have ignored it? That's a shame because it does a better job of explaining parts of it than I can.
Resorting to insults isn't going to get much of a rise out of me, I'm afraid.
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On 12/20/2020 at 12:38 PM, Longcat said:
I think privileged white people tend to forget that not all (in fact most) white people are not very privileged or powerful at all. The same relationship between privileged and common people exist in non-western cultures as well.
Are you making any effort to understand the arguments, or are you just living in a bubble of people who think like you?
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I think I'm in the tiny minority who preferred EMI Elaine...
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20 hours ago, Romão said:
How do fellow Europeans plan to buy this? Because with a 170$ price tag, plus 60$ for shipping, plus the pretty much unavoidable customs fees for such a bulky box, we're looking at a 300$ plus investment
I understand the $60 fee includes customs charges? Or so I saw someone say.
Curse of Monkey Island - Cut characters: Father and Son Pirate
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Posted · Edited by ThunderPeel2001
Given that they sketched the characters, I wonder if they were supposed to be interactive within the game. It would have been a nice callback when they reappeared over the credits... but it also made sense without having met them first, too. Although, that said, it's obviously supposed to be years later, so maybe they just cut the visual and left it as voiceover.
(Side note: And obviously the "frozen under the amusement park" is a reference to the urban legend that Walt Disney was frozen after this death.)