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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.
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!!!
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
... about the inspiration for Pirates of the Caribbean
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
Hey, I loved MI1 and MI2!!!
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Yeah, I prefer my adventure games to have tons of intrusive ads in them also.
http://xkcd.com/386/
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?
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.
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).
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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.
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Probably a red herring. Let's see if we can pick it up.
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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.
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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.
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The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
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.
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Today I spent all my mod points reversing completely insane moderating decisions, in just one topic. That's actually all I ever use my points for. Somebody has to do it.
Well, ads can be done creatively and non intrusive. Though I have no idea how that could be done in Monkey Island. Maybe as a gag a coke bottle somewhere as a plot device, given the rather whacky nature of the game (I just say rubber chicken), it could actually work.
And if that's the price to pay to play an adventure again...
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Is the groan at the uselessness of this "article?"
Let's re-summarize:
"There was a rumor that might excite you, but it's not true."
Wow, the level of content is staggering.
This comment is fully compliant with RFC 527.
MI4 was a big disappointment, though. It felt very much like a case of, "We did this in 3D because we could, and everyone else is doing 3D." Not that there's anything wrong with 3D Adventure Games -- Grim Fandango was absolutely amazing. But because of the writing, not because it was 3D. (And for the anal-retentive, yes, I know GF used 2D backgrounds.)
Like a lot of /.ers, I really miss LucasArts making adventure games. I loved their philosophy of mostly logical puzzles and not killing me every time I clicked on the wrong pixel. I was glad to see TellTale pick up Sam and Max, although I haven't had a chance to play it yet. But I really miss the glory days of Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and The Dig.
Redundancy is good And also good.
I'm not sure if Coke would agree with the concept of the lemonade-selling boy turning out to be a weapons merchant...
Spending all your modpoints reversing completely insane moderating decisions: Valid use of time.
Posting in the thread afterwards and reversing all that work: priceless.
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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.....
As someone alluded to in another post, something said without a source is probably not true. So since the site proclaiming there to not be another version coming out, does not have a source - therefore there must be a new version coming out. Maybe it is just the off the wall, kind of using several paragraphs to proclaim that what never was, will not happen, is enough for the collective groan.
Imagine a story such as:
In breaking news, Microsoft has just released Microsoft Linux. However, this rumor is false. Sorry to waste your time, folks.
Yeah. Groan.
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.
Needn't be the weapons merchant, but how about a DOTT sequel (or any other kind of time travel adventure) where the lemonade selling boy of the "past" part of the game is some student working at 7/11 in the "now" and the coke marketing person for the "future"? Don't think that could fly?
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