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New Monkey Island Rumoured, False
The British Gaming Blog dispels a rumour floating through the internets this week. The site Rumor Reporter is claiming knowledge of a new Monkey Island game in the works at LucasArts. Coincidentally, Steve Purcell (creator of the Sam and Max series) sends some concept art to the Monkey Island fansite The World of Monkey Island. As McBacon, at the BGB says, this is probably just interesting timing. "As much as we'd all love to believe a new Monkey Island is in the works (even after Escape from MI), and as great as the coincidence is, Steve doesn't even work at Lucas Arts anymore, so the dots just don't join up. Don't hold your breath for E3, but enjoy the concept art." Update: 06/13 19:12 GMT by Z : Added the crucial but missing words 'Sam and Max' to the article.
Boy, I can hear the collective groan from the millions of Monkey Island fans on /.
On second thought, it's awful quiet in here...
I wouldn't touch a MI game with a laser pointer if Ron Gilbert isn't designing it.
:)
Also, there's no such thing as MI3 or 4 (especially 4), I've removed them from my memory, and I'll deny them until Ron does a *real* MI3
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I am reporting that humans can breathe underwater without the aid of a breathing device...oh crap I'm wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning, FALSE!!!
do we have to keep calling it the "internets"...
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
do we have to keep calling it the "internets"...
Seriously. What's wrong with "the tubes"?
... about the inspiration for Pirates of the Caribbean
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
I would die to play any new Lucas Art adventure game. Especially a Grim Fandango 2 would be SO SWEEEEEEEEEEETTTT.. It's a pitty adventure games are not commercial enough.
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
So basically this entire article managed to get me excited for the less then a second it took me to read the first three words in the title and then into a painful depression. Thanks a lot Slashdot.
That makes sense. You haven't heard of it, so clearly no one else has. Right?
The greatest Adventure game series ever created.
Where the hell were you 15 years ago?
Hello Kitty Island Adventure has been confirmed to be in the developmental stages and should pose a fun alternative to World of Warcraft, especially to anyone named Butters.
Slowly take out your nerd license, put it on the ground and back away. Good, you are now free to continue your internet journey in MySpace. Just don't step over the white line here on this side, ok?
Fucking kids these days. When were you born, 1995?
Well to get technical, what the guy said -- IF nobody has heard of it, nobody will miss it -- does make sense :-) But the way you interpreted it, it doesn't. Most likely it was a misinterpretation :-P
Anyway at least you answered his "WTF is monkey island" question (mine too, haha).
I like basketball!!1!
Monkey Island 3 predicted that Monkey Island 4 would be in 3D, with the option in the Options Menu of activating the "super deluxe 3D mode". Escape From Monkey Island had a similar option which enabled online play.
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
after doing some heavy research, i found a release date confirming the new MI will hit stores 1 week before Duke Nukem Forever.
oh marmalade.
Ron Gilbert would be surprised to find out that Steve Purcell was the creator of the Monkey Island series.
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It was pretty obvious that the Monkey Island sequel would never be released. It does not take place in the Star Wars universe.
Lucas Arts only sells Star Wars games these days. That is all that their sales and marketing people know.
Sam and Max fans already know that. Time for the Monkey island fans to learn that lesson as well.
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
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I was thinking the same thing.
:(
To those who are not aware, Steve Purcell created Sam and Max, which is now under control of Tell Tale games after the contract expired with LucasArts. He did not create the Monkey island series, a series which is very missed, by the way.
I am Murray!!
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
Nope, not offtopic, you ignoramuses
Offtopic should be used sparingly ... all too often I see it used in a way that only reveals the moderator's ignorance of the topic. Rant, rave, etc. ....
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
Probably still an itch in his daddy's pants. :P Any geek and gamer credentials he might have had have also been stripped forthwith. To not know about Monkey Island (or pretend not to just to be a troll) is sacrilege in the Temple of the Gaming Geek Gods.
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
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In my experience, the fastest way to lose moderating privileges is to moderate fairly and intelligently.
C'mon Zonk, show some national pride, will ya? Or have you changed your name to Zounk?
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
it's SO obvious. i mean, it's rather "stolen" than "inspired by". remember the scene where guybrush (sorry, "will turner") is trying to steal a key from le chuck (sorry again, "mr. jonez")? the voodoo lady in the swamps? all these zombie pirates living under a curse? they even got a scene where a coffin is used as a boat.
but i'm in no way angry about that. at least they did preserve (in parts) the fine pirate humor that made monkey island so great. apart from that, depp as cpt. sparrow is just fun to watch.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
Poom-poorum-pum, poom-poom-poom.....
Nobody else gunning for a Murray game?
There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and nine other kinds of people.
How about you buy the great games made by the same people? You have the fantastic Psychonauts, a hilarious game with fantastic artwork, available cheaply everywhere in the world from Steam. You also have the new Sam and Max series for more adventure heavy games. Haven't played any of those episodes yet, but reportedly also fantastic.
Don't sit there and complain about lack of originality in today's games market. There are PC games out there just as good as the golden classics you remember, please buy them and give the makers an incentive to continue!
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
Sure, at the beginning of the first game Guybrush was rather lacking in piratical skills, but since then he has become a master of swordsmanship on both land and sea, has captained several ships, and has battled with countless pirates, cannibals, the undead and monkeys. If that's not solid pirate material, I don't know what is.
Keep up the quality work, Zonk... are the submissions really that bad, that this journalistically repulsive SHIT makes it to the front page of the site? Shameful.