spaceflounder Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 If you were in control of Monkey Island 5, what would the story be? Mine would go a bit like-- The Ruins of Monkey Island Part 1. After Elaine and Guybrush go off to sea together, Elaine is bitten by a golden skull and finds herself turning into a zombie. Part 2. Guybrush discovers (via Voodoo Lady) that the effects can be reversed, if he finds a secret elixer once in possesion of LeChuck. Along the way, he runs afoul of Largo LaGrande. Part 3. Elaine and Guybrush arrive at Monkey Island, and search the ruins of LeChuck's old fortress in an effort to find the elixier. Largo follows them there and revives LeChuck. Part 4. Elaine drinks the elixier and returns to normal. Guybrush and Elaine must now defeat LeChuck and Largo if they want to get off the island alive. Just an idea. Probably needs to be fleshed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Originally posted by spaceflounder Part 3. Elaine and Guybrush arrive at Monkey Island, and search the ruins of LeChuck's old fortress in an effort to find the elixier. Largo follows them there and revives LeChuck. Wasn't LeChuck's Fortress in some unknown part of the sea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 I had always thought that LeChuck had some stronghold on Monkey Island, like was mentioned in CMI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 In Mi1, he lives in his ship underground on a river of lava. In Mi2, he has a fortress somewhere out to see where no one knows where it is. In Mi3, he's back underground again in the amusement park and in Mi4, he takes up shop masquerading as some bloke who want's to be governor and make things all too political for a Monkey Island game. No actualy fortress on Monkey Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 17, 2004 Author Share Posted July 17, 2004 ...sigh... I don't suppose it really matters, does it? But I guess you're right. Why can't stupid Lucasarts sell the stupid rights to stupid Gilbert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 Because stupid Gilbert wouldn't know what to do with them. Sorry, but I think its wrong to think of him as a god when it was a calaboration betwen him, the wonderful Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman and the rest of the crew that came up with the two games, Gilbert may have ah the idea in the first place, but it was all of them that fleshed it out into the game you see before you. Plus the rights to Monkey Island still make LucasArts money, through sales of the previous games, selling the rights would be selling any future profits, and LucasArts are all about profit these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 17, 2004 Author Share Posted July 17, 2004 Suppose LucasArts consigns the license to Gilbert's company? He's got his own team and his own engine. Gilbert gets a publisher, and everybody's happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 18, 2004 Author Share Posted July 18, 2004 Let's revise, shall we? The Ruins of Monkey Island Part 1. After Elaine and Guybrush go off to sea together, Elaine is bitten by a golden skull and finds herself turning into a zombie. Part 2. Guybrush discovers (via Voodoo Lady) that the effects can be reversed, if he finds a secret elixer once in possesion of LeChuck. Along the way, he runs afoul of Largo LaGrande. Part 3. Elaine and Guybrush arrive at Monkey Island, and search the ruins of LeChuck's old CARNIVAL (not fortress) in an effort to find the elixier. Largo follows them there and revives LeChuck. Part 4. Elaine drinks the elixier and returns to normal. Guybrush and Elaine must now defeat LeChuck and Largo if they want to get off the island alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinkie Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 In EMI Murray talks about how when LeChuck busted out of the ice he destroyed all traces of the carnival out of madness and embarrassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 19, 2004 Author Share Posted July 19, 2004 boy, i forgot about EMI. (Forgive me, it's not my favorite game, not by a long shot.) hmmm, that's gonna take a bit of reworking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 20, 2004 Author Share Posted July 20, 2004 The Ruins of Monkey Island Part 1. After Elaine and Guybrush go off to sea together, Elaine is bitten by a golden skull and finds herself turning into a zombie. Part 2. Guybrush discovers (via Voodoo Lady) that the effects can be reversed, but only by passing through the gates of Big Whoop can she be made human again. Along the way, he runs afoul of Largo LaGrande. Part 3. Elaine and Guybrush arrive at Monkey Island, in an effort to find Big Whoop. Largo follows them there and revives LeChuck. Part 4. Elaine enters Big Whoop and returns to normal. Guybrush and Elaine must now defeat LeChuck and Largo if they want to get off the island alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinkie Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Make sure she has to pass through backwards to reverse the zombie pirate effects that come from going through the normal way. Or something weird like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 20, 2004 Author Share Posted July 20, 2004 I don't understand why LucasArts is so paranoid about fangame projects! This sort of thing wouldn't be too hard to do--use AGS to build it, set the style to be a game made in the early 90's (ala Monkey II). Would I really deprive any profit from LucasArts by making a simple little fangame set in the Monkey Island universe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waemer Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Would I really deprive any profit from LucasArts by making a simple little fangame set in the Monkey Island universe? [/b] YES IT WOULD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 20, 2004 Author Share Posted July 20, 2004 how so? would people stop buying lucasarts products because of my stupid fangame? wow! this is the best fangame in the world! i'll stop buying everything else altogther!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 It's not that, it' just that they're a little techy about copyrights and such, despite such fangames being distributed free. Come up with a game which is surprisingly like a monkey island game, but change the names around. LA would of course know, but be powerless to do anything about it. A lot of nicer gameing companies allow fangames and some even encourage them, but LA are a bit stiff about fangames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceflounder Posted July 22, 2004 Author Share Posted July 22, 2004 stupid stupid stupid LA is just stupid. Did Zork fangames ever hurt Activision? See if I ever buy another Star Wars game again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Bender Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 Monkey 5 should be about , well i dont know but Id like to see a lot more insult swordfighting a return of Largo Legrande, Revisitations (is that a word?) of islands from the first 2 like Scabb, Booty Phatt and most certainly monkey! Also BRING BACK BILL TILLErR! they should try to involve Ron Gilbert by concinving him to work on MOnkey 5. skip the 3d and bring back the elements that made the game A SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE OF PIRATEY PROPORTIONS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Bender Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 note I havent really been following the discussion or looking at it at all, i just wanted to share my views:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 note there is a little sweet edit button for adding additional stuff. [edit] see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Bender Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 excuse me Rayjjones but ive only been on this site for 2 days. have you thought about the fact that perhaps i never noticed? anyway thanks for the advice:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Originally posted by Cap'n Bender excuse me Rayjjones but ive only been on this site for 2 days. have you thought about the fact that perhaps i never noticed? That's probably exactly what he thought, which is why he said that, he was being nice (something you'll rarely see from rayjones, so be thankful) and giving you advice. Also welcome to this wonderful world of Monkey Island and our community. Don't forget to pick up a sombrero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Jones Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Your plot seems okay Spaceflounder, but there is a small problem with it. You posted earlier about not liking EMI very much, so you may not remember this either: at the end of EMI, Ozzy Mandril zaps LeChuck with the ultimate insult. So if LeChuck lost his ego, why would he still fight Guybrush and Elaine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Perhaps Lechuck gets the sense knocked back into him when he lands after blasting off at the end of EMI. The whole pulling out the ice thing was worse than that so i see no reason why they can't use as stupid an excuse as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toenail1 Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 he needs to defeat guybrush to regain his ego without his ego, lechuck would be a sissy like guybrush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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