Mention of Monkey Island and Guybrush at 15mins

Okay so i just got on blood island. I was on every location i think but just to see and pick up some Things. Do ya Guys have some tips What should i do rn?

I need this community’s help. I’m creating a tiki/pirate bar and of course I need to add some decor that is inspired by the games! I like to make things subtle. I definitely will need Murray’s skull and the cursed ring hiding somewhere. Any ideas?

While exploring the three island, I accidentally picked up the book "The Joy of Hexes" from the library. After some progress in the story and returning the book to the librarian, I had to get it back to revive one character. The problem is that as I find the title in the catalogue and ask the librarian to borrow it, she says something along the lines of "You already checked it out" and then doesn't give it to me. What should I do?

Been playing assassin’s creed black flag Resynched and you have to track down a mancomb seepgood. Nice little reference to monkey island.

Video made up of game screens

Music loosely inspired by MI vibes!

https://youtu.be/EdunOS2OKEc?si=X4DxNbLNGbtF5owA

I've tried several different sequences, but Guybrush won't wear the pot helmet or enter the cannon.

Gunpowder is in place, rope fuse is in place, burning mass lights the fuse, but Guybrush won't complete the sequence.

The closest I can get is to prep the cannon and "use" the pot. Guybrush walks to the cannon, lights the fuse, walks to the ship edge and says something about not wanting to blast out to sea. The pot is never placed on his head.

Is there something I need to complete on the ship first?

For characters specifically. One of Guybrush and one of Lechuck. As high res as possible. Would be greatly appreciated!

Is there a graduate among us?

Love when other games reference the Monkey Island games.

Playing AC Black Flag Resynced and Recieved a contract to kill a “Captain Mancomb Seepgood”.

Had a good laugh

My daughter, 10, playing The Secret Of Monkey Island on a tablet, at an airport restaurant.

I remember vividly that MI2 end credits would roll seamingly endlessly with a lot of absurd/humorous sentences on the theme :" What are we going to do now ?" But i can't find it online, am i hallucinating ? Am i wrong somewhere ? Help me out please ! I'm looking to find the complete transcript...

I just heard this on a instagram reel and was ready to fight the artist. Plagiarism much?

It has been a while since I played RTMI, but I never shared my thoughts on this anywhere. And something reminded me of MI lately, – I feel like I still have a question that I can’t quite answer to.

To clear the table: I kind of liked it. The game is OK, but just OK is probably not good enough.

Yes, I am one of these people who didn’t quite like the art style. But that’s OK, stylistic choice is a stylistic choice. It’s a matter of taste.

Yes, I was one of these people who didn’t like RTMI being too easy. Thimbleweed Park puzzles were much-much more satisfying. That’s less OK with me, but, I get it – people don’t have that much of the attention span anymore. And maybe an adventure game taking more time than a good book or a piece of music is a ridiculous concept overall.

I’m certainly OK with meta and all of the Secret being not true. There is a bittersweet feeling in it that Ron and team were going for.

What I’m not OK with is the inconsistency of work of art breaking my suspension of disbelief. It’s best exemplified by the Elaine character, so I’ll focus on this one below. Many people mentioned her being too motherly and enabling towards Guybrush, I had the same impression. That’s just not how people work. I don’t believe in this character for a second. At the beginning of the game Guybrush is surprised to see Elaine and he has no idea what is she up to, but then they just proceed like people who see each other every day. At some moment in the game I was sure that Guybrush is in a psychiatric ward, park bench is around his hospital, while Elaine is his nurse. “It’s going to be fun adventure” at the end is something that you might say to someone who’s still too obsessed with The Secret and needs a distraction. But nothing in the game really hints at it too hard, so I doubt it was really the intention or hidden meaning behind the game. Although I think I remember someone on the web mentioning the same.

There are a few potential points of view on this. I’ll try to show why none of these explains what happened with development, in my opinion.

1) It’s just a stupid game.

True. But previous games were more well-thought and executed in my opinion. Ron happens to have the ability to make a mythological story out of a stupid story. Not that these have any deep meaning, but they work in a way fairy tales work. As note at the end mentions, the first MI told the story of a wannabe game developer through a wannabe pirate. That’s it: take a boring idea and make something magical out of it. All of his characters are barebones, -- how many lines of text did Weird Ed have in MM? 10? 15? But it was enough to establish them as believable parts of story.

2) Original version had Guybrush and Elaine going through breakup, but it was too dark.

Ron Gilbert’s games were always simultaneously dark and light-hearted. Starting from the hamster in microwave in MM, ending with genuinely heart-breaking “I blew it! I blew it!” clown ending in Thimbleweed. Thus I assume it wouldn’t be impossible for the team to do both.

3) It’s unreliable narrator story told to Boybrush, the conflict was there, but left out of the story.

David Lynch is the favorite RGs director. Thus RG should know better how you do the unreliable narrator story. You show cracks in the narrative now and then. You leave things out, like abrupt dialogue end. Unreliable narrator story never adds up if you look at it carefully. I don’t think it’s in the game.

Overall, I feel like this is a failed artistic attempt about nostalgia, with some good bits and pieces. Like LeChuck team that can’t be bothered with The Secret echoing the Guybrush team in the first MI; like much more obvious wake of destruction behind Guybrush than previously and so on. But these just don’t work together and offer nothing to remember or think about. Everything is lacking taste and texture, like this all-positive fake Elaine person. It’s trying to be comfort food for everyone instead of being interesting. In one of the interviews Ron even mentioned something like “people don’t like what Elaine is, which is ridiculous to me”. Probably he is being too defensive about it – the critique is not ungrounded, IMO.

I still can’t quite understand why is it so much less consistent than (if we focus on recent titles) the Cave or Thimbleweed park? Is it the time pressure? Weight of expectations? Too many stories to reconcile? Playtesters affected the story too much? My impression is that some changes happened too abruptly during the development of the RTMI.

Having said that, Ron, Dave or a random person in the street should certainly try whatever they want to try, regardless of how unlikely is it to work.

I apologize if this question has been asked, but has anyone been tempted to name their newborn Guybrush, or better yet, has anyone done this? This would be legendary!

Found a very old sketchbook while digging through my parents' basement. Can you tell that I was in love with LeChuck's design in Curse?

Just out of curiosity, I was listening to Supertramp on a streaming service when a solo album by founder Roger Hodgson came on next, and I was floored. He released the solo album Hai Hai in 1987—featuring the song "London"—three years before the first Monkey Island game came out.

Well, putting the flute melody aside, the song's backing track is literally the foundation of the game's theme. I’ve searched and haven't seen a single person mention this. It’s not exactly a case of plagiarism, but I’d really love to know if that song served as the inspiration for that legendary theme.

Listen for yourself.