Swedishman Posted September 21, 2003 Posted September 21, 2003 there is only thing that I dont understand, why does Guybrush hate porcelain so much?, I´ve played all MI games, but I can´t get the answer. Can anyone tell me? Have I missed it somwhere or is there no answer? Thanx....
Remi Posted September 21, 2003 Posted September 21, 2003 Read this. Answer doesn't make sense? Look at the article again and look for mysterious spaces. ;-*
Swedishman Posted September 22, 2003 Author Posted September 22, 2003 Emm, I dont get it.., I dont remember Guybrush beeing hit in the head with a vase....., emmm... anyone else?
Remi Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 "It is just a joke. It means nothing. I find it strange that a throw away line like that gets so much attention. It is just a joke. Why would anyone be afraid of porcelain?" - Bill Tiller
Joshi Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Remi, seriously, did you expect anyone to find that without you telling them? Unless they wanted to copy it from the site and highlighted too much. It's funny though, well, I say funny, it's entertaining really, well, I say entertaining, it's interesting really, well, I say interesting, it's boring really, well, I say boring, it's actually the most useless piece of drivel ever to climb its way out of the primordial soup and leave me wanting to be tied to a lamp post and beaten repeatedly with the head of a hippo just to drum it out of my head so I can forget about it and have a bashed in skull closely resembling the facial features or a norweigen snow moose. Thanks though. I actually think that the reason people think so much of it is because the emi people take a perfectly good one liner and turn it into something stupid and on going in the final game. Otherwise, it would just be a good one liner, like chicken fried steak.
Swedishman Posted September 23, 2003 Author Posted September 23, 2003 Wow..., thats kind of dissapointing.., dont u guys think? Well atleast for us who played CMI and EMI before MI1 and 2.....
Anomonous Guy Posted September 28, 2003 Posted September 28, 2003 has no one played the fan game MI:2?
Swedishman Posted September 29, 2003 Author Posted September 29, 2003 no...., I havent..., what is it?... and where can I get it??
Anomonous Guy Posted September 29, 2003 Posted September 29, 2003 I cant remember where to get it, sorry... It is a better than average fangame, it is basically the MI2 story told with extras and really different from the original version... Erm, if u search on google for MI:2 fan game or something it shud come up
Swedishman Posted September 29, 2003 Author Posted September 29, 2003 okay...., thanx..... I´ll check it out....
Anomonous Guy Posted September 29, 2003 Posted September 29, 2003 There are a fair few fangames, but most get shut down by LEC before they r finished unfortunately... But this one is the best Monkey island fan game i have played
RicardoLuigi... Posted October 1, 2003 Posted October 1, 2003 yeah, i think the whole stupid thing is....stupid. it got really old after a while...just like...milk...if you leave it out too long it'll get all stale and all that. yeah. i don't know what i'm talking about. all i do know is that i think the porcelain joke got dumb after a while and made no sense to begin with.
Akril Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 You know, I think it's rather odd that people complain about the porcelain joke being "exploited" in EMI, when, after snooping around a little in the CMI recource files, I found that it manifests itself at least seven times in four different places in the third game (which I will list if I am asked), whereas EMI only mentions it three times in the same number of places... Akril
Remi Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 Originally posted by Akril You know, I think it's rather odd that people complain about the porcelain joke being "exploited" in EMI, when, after snooping around a little in the CMI recource files, I found that it manifests itself at least seven times in four different places in the third game (which I will list if I am asked), whereas EMI only mentions it three times in the same number of places... Akril Where was it again? The Sea Cucumber The Goodsoup Hotel Two more locations... Been a while since I played CMI.
RicardoLuigi... Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 The Sea Cucumber The Goodsoup Hotel there's also a reference on the boat when you're in the room with the monkey. oh, oops. that's the sea cucumber. i don't even remember the goodsoup hotel and the other alleged five that akril claims to have found i don't even know about. i think there might've been one in lechuck's ship in the hull and i faintly remember another one somewhere around puerto pollo....nah. i don't remember. but i'm pretty sure there was something in lechuck's ship at the beginning.
Akril Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 All right, then. List of porcelain items and/or non-tangible references (SPOILERS): Sea Cucumber: 1. Vase that you find the map in 2. Pitcher to the left of the large pot you arrive in the cabin in Puerto Pollo (2 seperate places): 3. If you get rid of Kenny BEFORE getting into the cabin on the Sea Cucumber, Guybrush will pick up the pitcher that Kenny leaves behind without comment...BUT if you get rid of him AFTER getting into the cabin AND looking and/or touching (I'm not certain) both items listed above, Guybrush will say "Thank goodness it's not a...porcelain...pitcher." when he picks the pitcher up. 4. If you use the scissors on the flower rather than the undergrowth, Guybrush won't hack his way through the bushes and make his way towards Danjer Cove, and you are free to wander about town, offering the flower to anything and everyone you wish. If you offer it to Van Helgen, he will say, "No thanks. I'm not in the mood to drive the porcelain bus." And Guybrush will react in his "usual" way. Goodsoup Hotel: 5. Vase on a table on the ground floor 6. Another vase near the door to the second floor 7. Carafe in the haunted guest room, second floor And that's all I've uncovered so far... Akril
Remi Posted October 2, 2003 Posted October 2, 2003 Heh, the flower part I've never tried before. I'll make sure to check it out next time I play it.
DIUM Posted October 3, 2003 Posted October 3, 2003 Just wondering; how many times has this particular question been brought up? Anyway... Now that the joke has been made, you might as well just accept it as part of Guybrush's character. Yes, I am talking to all of you who find it annoying. I find it a little amusing...
Anomonous Guy Posted October 3, 2003 Posted October 3, 2003 I think its a nice little quirk of his personality Another secret of monkey island as it were
Bushmeister Posted October 3, 2003 Posted October 3, 2003 More of a new development team in-joke for the latter two games. A little funny but not much.
Glottis512 Posted October 12, 2003 Posted October 12, 2003 Ah, porcelain. Supplier of cheap gifts, Prime component of some of the worst vases on the planet. Scourge of the universe. Do not under estimate the dark power that is...PORCELAIN! FORGED BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF!
Akril Posted October 28, 2003 Posted October 28, 2003 Well, I might as well make a little contribution to this discussion (as well as pushing the thing back to the top before someone else starts yet ANOTHER post asking "what's this porcelain thingy about?"): In one of the scenes in Space Quest 6 (Sierra), you can look at what appear to be some futuristic display panels, and when you do, the game's protagonist (Roger Wilco) remarks (somewhat laughingly, not sounding shaken at all), "Yikes. Those liquid crystal displays. I still have nightmares about them." Of course, when compared to Guybrush, Roger's character is a little flat, but in the previous 5 adventures, he has undoubtedly encountered thousands of LCDs (which are certainly numerous in his futuristic sci-fi world), and he never makes a comment about them apparently frightening him (most likely as a child), so this was probably something that the designers of SQ6 just thought of sticking in the game as just another little humorous tidbit. (However, this is the only time that this joke occurs. Consequently there have been no "Why is Roger afraid of liquid crystal displays?" discussions on the SQ boards.) Akril
Jedi-Monkey Posted November 1, 2003 Posted November 1, 2003 Whatever happened to make Guybrush afraid of porcelain happened at the Big Whoop carnival between LCR and CMI. I know that because you can buy a porcelain rock and roll plate on Booty Island and Guybrush has no problem with it. You can get M:I2 on http://www.fangames.co.uk Just dont tell Lucasarts.
Glottis512 Posted November 2, 2003 Posted November 2, 2003 Actually, I seem to remember that although you can buy the porcelain, when you look at it, Guybrush says something like "Eww,Porcelain......."
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