Lagomorph01

I think we should just stick to the weather in this thread.

I am so with you on this. I’ll be checking back with Mojo after my time with ReMI in my zombie bunker! (At least on the Monkey Island threads, I’ll discuss The Dig with anyone anytime!)

With numbers like 3 to 5 and even 14/15, it seems like the only TRUE Monkey Island games are Curse and Escape!

What if… the monkeys in the MI2 intro are actually a whole bunch of monkeys?! Every time they go off screen another pair emerges! 🤯

Mind… has… been… blown! (Still think it’s MI2 though.)

I only remember 1 (one) monkey in MI2.

I hate it when that happens. It’s almost unavoidable. Some people think it’s okay to spoil things without warning when they’re from older movies/shows/games. I think some people deserve to have their house toilet papered.

Thank you for this thread! I’ve been biting my pillows to shreds trying to get my ReMI kick, because I don’t want to go into the spoilery Return to Monkey Island thread.

I love the little detail that if you get beaten by the first Rottwheeler 42 times in Full Throttle, Ben won’t wake up after the bike crash and you get to play the rest of the game as Maureen.

I'm a switch gamer, baby! I spend each and every working day on my computer, so gaming is mostly a sofa deal for me. I played Thimbleweed Park on Switch too and it was a blast (played it mostly on handheld mode, because of the touch screen controls). If When it releases physically I'll be getting the PC version though, because I own every other Monkey Island game on PC. Edit: Just pre-ordered it, that horse armour is MINE!!

I loooove that Rusty Anchor! 😍

Getting the Metal Detector from Carla would qualify as a dialogue puzzle! It’s also pretty hilarious!

I'm not too keen on the dithering used in the Melee during the day video, looks a bit to Sierra-esque for my taste. Other than that it's feels strange, but still familiar to see Guybrush walk through those places during the day. I'm glad you can only do so at night in the game though, it makes the introduction to pirating more mysterious.

Yeah, drop the funeral march and change the arrangement and it actually works better than the VGA CD version.

It's actually really weird walking into the shipyard and getting greeted by the funeral march on organ!

I've gone with the VGA CD version, because honestly it's the only version I ever played. (And the only version I own!) Because of the different opinions on this forum, I'm tempted to try the EGA version for my next playthrough, but until then VGA CD all the way! (It warms my heart that no-one has chosen the Special Edition for their favourite version yet.)

This is all kinds of wonderful!

Oh, man! All of a sudden I want Curse to start in LeChuck's ship with the old verb interface, with your first puzzle being the acquiring of the verb-coin, and the interface changing from that point on! That would've been a fun meta puzzle for fans of SMI and MI2. (Don't think it would land well with newcomers though.)

Oh, my god! I never knew Stan's theme wasn't in the non CD versions of SMI!!! That's a hell of a change if I ever saw (or heard) one! I never cared much for Stan's theme in the CD version, but, looking at the scenes without music, I do kinda miss it in the EGA/Floppy VGA version. (Or is that somewhat of an unpopular opinion?)

My vote goes to Gruff. The strong, silent type... and just look at his cute goatee!

No, I never cared much for the 90's Star Wars games. I did play the Dark Forces demo a couple of times though. That was pretty fun. I do like the fact that they steered away from the Skywalker family, something Disney still hasn't really dared to do.

I don’t like Star Wars either. Part 4, 5 and 6 are films from my youth, so I’ll gladly watch those with my kid when he gets old enough, and I can honestly say that I think Empire is a good movie. But everything that has been done with it since (to me) was just crap. I never liked the prequels, but I can honestly say that I prefer them to the horrendous sequels that Disney produced. At least George Lucas had a vision of where he wanted to take his franchise. Disney is just milking the cow dry, and the way they handled the sequels to such a beloved franchise is just outrageous! (Especially when you consider they literally promised George Lucas they’d produce his sequels when he sold them said cow, which they never did.) So in closure, even though I like 4, 5 and 6, and can even say one of them is a good movie, I can now say I like only a very small part of what Star Wars is, and that part is only getting smaller as more VOD crap is being produced. Thanks for this!

I loved it, but not as much as Psychonauts 1. Part 1 just seems to flow more naturally, maybe because the classic themes of the summercamp and insane asylum are more easily defined for these kinds of levels. All and all they did some really interesting things with part 2, like the combining and corrupting of inner worlds, and it's definitely a worthy sequel in which a lot of love was poured. I particularly loved the Feast of the Senses (for the style) and Bob's Bottles (for the storytelling).

Jake's probably got boxes full of those stashed in the attic somewhere. 😉

I get what you're saying, and I think it's a VERY healthy way of looking at it! I've just been psyched about this from the beginning, so I'm pretty sure I've stopped following the news at the right time. Before the trailer I was pining for more information. Now, I feel like I have enough to keep me curious for the next couple of months. Because of social media, I feel entertainment industries have a tendency to overfeed their audience with information to stay relevant between all the other releases. That's why I choose to control the amount of information I'm getting. For example, I've heard they showed off one of the chapter screens, and I'm really glad I didn't see it yet! I want to save those for when I play the game! (So please keep all spoilers in the RtMI thread.)