JacquesSparkyTail Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 2 hours ago, BaronGrackle said: Secret: Mêlée, Hook, and Monkey That turned out to be a much breezier conversation. For the sake of padding it out a little here’s my full rankings. secret - 3 curse - 4 escape 5 revenge - 5 (6 if you include the fortress) tales - 8? There’s a lot at any rate now maybe i’ll be wrong and people will correct me. That should get us through another 6 pages. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronGrackle Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Revenge is only 1 because they aren't actually islands they are all connected whoooaaaaahhhh... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niemandswasser Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 hour ago, JacquesSparkyTail said: That turned out to be a much breezier conversation. For the sake of padding it out a little here’s my full rankings. secret - 3 curse - 4 escape 5 revenge - 5 (6 if you include the fortress) tales - 8? There’s a lot at any rate now maybe i’ll be wrong and people will correct me. That should get us through another 6 pages. What's the fifth in Revenge? Scabb, Booty, Phatt, Dinky, and...? For the moment are we accepting CMI's take that the carnival was actually on Monkey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staple Remover Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 So are there more windows or doors in the Monkey Island games? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandra IDV Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 46 minutes ago, Niemandswasser said: What's the fifth in Revenge? Scabb, Booty, Phatt, Dinky, and...? For the moment are we accepting CMI's take that the carnival was actually on Monkey? I guess you exit the elevator on Mêlée for a single screen... if we want to count that (I do) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scummbuddy Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 I thought the fifth might be wherever Big Whoop Amusement Park is, but we're about to find out that was all a dream and Guybrush never left beneath Dinky Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronGrackle Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Scabb Island Booty Island Phatt Island Dinky Island Mr. Rogers' Island Mêlée Island That's 6 islands, not counting LeChuck's Fortress or the later games' assertion that Monkey Island was the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vainamoinen Posted September 13, 2022 Author Share Posted September 13, 2022 13 hours ago, Scummbuddy said: Which Monkey Island has the smallest number of islands? Huge can of worms. Depending on your definition of "island", Tales could win by a landslide. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-makes-an-island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 What about locations (ie. screens)? They used to apparently measure game size by locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 Monkey Island 1 is out. It has an infinite number of roadside locations on Melee Island, it's just they all start to look the same. 1 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacquesSparkyTail Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Here’s a question. Which monkey travelled to the most islands? Did jojo 1 really end up in that wedding dress on melee? You could carry jojo 2 around three islands in revenge but is that canon? Jojo jr travels to melee but there’s a quick pit stop at the ultimate insult amplification tower. Is this a seperate island? It looks like it but its not really clear. This started out as me trying to think of the dumbest question possible but now i sort of have to know. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 4 hours ago, JacquesSparkyTail said: This started out as me trying to think of the dumbest question possible but now i sort of have to know. Haha oh no, the curse of this thread continues! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronGrackle Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 4 hours ago, JacquesSparkyTail said: You could carry jojo 2 around three islands in revenge but is that canon? Jojo jr travels to melee but there’s a quick pit stop at the ultimate insult amplification tower. Is this a seperate island? It looks like it but its not really clear. The winner will be the final monkeys that LeChuck and Elaine dropped off in Tales. They went to all those other islands to drop off other monkeys first. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gins Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 On 9/13/2022 at 12:24 AM, JacquesSparkyTail said: That turned out to be a much breezier conversation. For the sake of padding it out a little here’s my full rankings. secret - 3 curse - 4 escape 5 revenge - 5 (6 if you include the fortress) tales - 8? There’s a lot at any rate now maybe i’ll be wrong and people will correct me. That should get us through another 6 pages. I count 6 for Escape: Mêlée, Hook, Jambalaya, Knuttin Atoll, Monkey and Lucre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacquesSparkyTail Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 5 hours ago, Gins said: I count 6 for Escape: Mêlée, Hook, Jambalaya, Knuttin Atoll, Monkey and Lucre Hook! Of course. Counted it for secret. Forgot it for escape. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrik Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 If we’re counting Hook Isle, then what about… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KestrelPi Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) I would say there are only two sensible rules here: 1) named islands only - so Hook Isle counts, Knuttin Atoll counts, but not that Booty one. 2) Visitable islands only - any location that is separated by water from the other locations, and so is reachable only by boat/bridge or similar, which would include the booty mansion (or would it? It's sort of a land-bridge right?) but still knock out the little islands that have nothing on them and you can't go to. Edited October 4, 2022 by KestrelPi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally B. Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, KestrelPi said: or would it? It's sort of a land-bridge right? Maybe it gets swallowed by the water with the tides and it's only traversable in certain times of the year, like Mont Saint-Michel, in that case it should count as an island Edited October 4, 2022 by Wally B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrik Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 I’m not sure tides exist in the Monkey Island universe. Shall we examine arguments for and against? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 I think the top right one on Booty Island was named something like the island of parrots? @Marius please help me out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 I have a theory! 30 minutes ago, Jake said: I think the top right one on Booty Island was named something like the island of parrots? @Marius please help me out It's the The Mysterious Island of Cleptomaniac Parrots! Part of good old Crooked Island. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Marius said: It's the The Mysterious Island of Cleptomaniac Parrots! Part of good old Crooked Island. They were replaced by one kleptomaniac seagull in a treehouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gins Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Thrik said: I’m not sure tides exist in the Monkey Island universe. Shall we examine arguments for and against? Do you mean actual tides or are we talking about the concept of tides being known within the Monkey Island universe? Perhaps there is a book on Phatt mentioning them 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 The water ripples and there’s a moon, so there are Could of course be from a wave machine and all the passing mechanical gondolas and bumper cars. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vainamoinen Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) Wait, this thread still going? You guys are pathetic in the best possible sense. Just so that this is clear, no counting monkeys in Return until GOG gets the game. As to counting islands ... folks ... why doesn't anybody listen to me? On 9/13/2022 at 11:05 AM, Vainamoinen said: Huge can of worms. Depending on your definition of "island", Tales could win by a landslide. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-makes-an-island "In 2008, Royle writes, a nissologist—one who studies islands—named Christian Depraetere “selected a threshold of 0.1 sq km… and calculated that there are 86,732 islands at or above this size on earth.” When he reduced this threshold to .01 square kilometers, the number jumped up to around 450,000. When he brought it down still more, it rocketed to nearly 7 billion, “although there is some doubt as to the validity of his formula at this scale,” writes Royle." If we use quantifiable measurements to determine what an island is and what is just a speck of dirt in the ocean, there's yet another problem, which is that we don't know how big these islands on the screen really are. Unless of course we measure our islands in Guybrushs. Edited October 4, 2022 by Vainamoinen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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