Title of the next MI game

[Otis]

Does it HAVE to be Tales of Monkey Island season 2? Im ok with it if the next is TMI 2, but I would love to see for example some of these other alternatives that came in mind.

How about?

- Return to Monkey Island

- The End of Monkey Island

- Monkey Island 6: Return of LeChuck

- Monkey Island: Story of Voodoo Lady


Share your thoughts on this.

[GuruGuru214]

- The End of Monkey Island

What would give you such a terrifying idea?

[Otis]

What would give you such a terrifying idea?

That wasnt my idea :) I saw a thread on that subject so i just threw that in there. And even that title doesnt necessarily have to mean the end of the series nor the end of the island called Monkey Island :) Right?

[GuruGuru214]

That wasnt my idea :) I saw a thread on that subject so i just threw that in there. And even that title doesnt necessarily have to mean the end of the series nor the end of the island called Monkey Island :) Right?

Well, when you put it that way, Escape marked the end of anything that made Monkey Island worth visiting.

[Shainagirl]

Tales of Morgan Leflay

[Otis]

Well, when you put it that way, Escape marked the end of anything that made Monkey Island worth visiting.
This is such a great comment to answer to this.

And saying that the island is empty/overdone/whatever is pointless. It's Monkey Island. ANYTHING is possible.


But you still havent said what title would you prefer.

[GuruGuru214]

On the one hand, I see your point. On the other, the giant monkey head is gone. If the team that does the next game decides to include the island, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I also wouldn't encourage them to do so. But I digress.

I think the best name I've heard so far was "Legends of Monkey Island" or something like that. No ideas of my own, though.

[Fealiks]

I hope they do change the title personally. It depends on a lot of things, though.

The tradition of Monkey Island is to have very different games (including title) each instalment. Telltale's tradition is to have nearly identical games (apart from story and setting) each instalment.

In my opinion, one of the main deciding factors is the overall appearance of the game. If the next game looks very similar to the first, then it would seem okay to call it Tales of Monkey Island 2 (not "season" two, because they're chapters rather than episodes - maybe "volume" two?). If it looks very different, then it would seem more acceptable to change the name completely.

[Mataku]

"The Guybrush Chronicles". Because there's 'chronicles' everywhere nowadays.

[Lennie Melvin]

The Guybrush Saga XD

[Hassat Hunter]

Return of Jaques the monkey (oh, and Guybrush too). :p

[EllisonPav]

The Threepwood Supremacy

[Hassat Hunter]

The Monkey Revolutions

[Leak]

How about a cheap foreign knockoff titled "The Secret of Monkey Highland"? :D

(Scotland, Imma looking at you... ;))

[SM_Unlimited]

The Secret of the Three Headed Monkey

[Shainagirl]

A Tale of Two Monkeys (Centers around a voodoo curse that turns Guybrush and Elaine into chimps... ROFL)

[Datadog]

Monkey Island with a Vengeance

[Iryon]

The Carribean Connection

[Steverin0]

[QUOTE=Otis;251805]

- Return to Monkey Island

I think it will be that - or Back to Monkey Island: what da helllll is a gigawaaatt... (with Jamaican accent)

[TioAlli]

Return to Monkey Island, agreed.
maybe herman loses his memory again and go there :p

[Yandros]

Monkey Island 5: The Mystery of Monkey Island

Monkey Island 5: The Shroud of Monkey Island

Remember that everytime money island was found Guybrush wakes up somewhere else in the next episode. Maybe there is another secret to money island; Maybe money island never was found?

[Lena_P]

Tales of Monkey Island 2: Calypso Boogaloo

[Icedhope]

Legend Of Monkey Island.

[Toothless Gibbon]

I think that Season one will have a subtitle Tales of Monkey Island: The Pox of LeChuck.

So Season 2 wouldn't be called Season 2 but Tales of Monkey Island: Who Who The What Now? or whatever

Otherwise Tale of Monkey Island would have been more appropriate. (Singular)

[Lena_P]

But then it would have been A Tale of Monkey Island, and the acronym would have been aToMI.

[Otis]

Monkey Island 5: The Mystery of Monkey Island

Monkey Island 5: The Shroud of Monkey Island


Im sure u mean Monkey Island 6...

I think that Season one will have a subtitle Tales of Monkey Island: The Pox of LeChuck.

That would be a great name for the first season! But i think its too late to add that to the title now. Im almost certain it will stay as just "Tales of Monkey Island" though.

Anyway, it seems that vast majority seems to think that some other title would be better for the next game, than "Tales of Monkey Island 2", that also gives Telltale a lot to think about and i do hope that they come up with a different and cool title in the next game!

[trapplerton]

2. Tales of Monkey Island: "because we are too lazy to think about a new Title"
or "2.ToMI:bwatlttaanT" for short

[Toothless Gibbon]

Im sure u mean Monkey Island 6...


That would be a great name for the first season! But i think its too late to add that to the title now. Im almost certain it will stay as just "Tales of Monkey Island" though.

Didn't the Sam & Max seasons have their respective subtitles added after release or at least when S2 was released?

[Yandros]

Im sure u mean Monkey Island 6...

It was my impression that Tales isn't part of the story proper. It's more like a spin off like ultima underworld. But I could be wrong...

[jmm]

Oh, you are. Tales is official canon and part of the "main" story (if such thing really exists)

[Lena_P]

Word of God (or Jake) Tales IS Monkey Island 5. (http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=195881&postcount=63)

Want to kill this discussion before it derails yet another, innocent thread.

[jmm]

ToMI: The Pox of LeChuck
ToMI 2: The Hunt Begins*
or
ToMI 2: Pirate Hunting Season**


* Taken from Rise of the Triad (map 1)
** Shhhh! I'm hunting wabbitsPirates!

[FitzoliverJ]

"Tales of Monkey Island - Season 2".

"More Tales of Monkey Island".

"Further Tales of Monkey Island".

"Return to 'Tales of Monkey Island'".

"Tales 2 - Desinge's Revenge".

"Monkey Island 6 - Yeah, That'll Stop You Arguing!"

"Tales of Monkey Island: Fall of the Voodoo Lady".

"Stan & Max: Freelance Purveyors".

AJB

[Cyphox]

"Tales of Monkey Island 2 - Marital Crisis"

[Remolay]

I almost said the Curse of Monkey Island, than half a second later realized it's been done.

so my idea: The Battle of Monkey Island

[guitarsareboring]

"Monkey Island 6 - Yeah, That'll Stop You Arguing!"

teehee :D

[Icedhope]

OOoh I know how about Legends of Monkey Island..eh? Eh? Sounds cool to me.

[MI Maniac]

Tales Of Monkey Island: Voodoo Lady's Revenge

[GuruGuru214]

I really don't have any ideas, but I can say that I'm against the idea of re-using "Tales" in the title. There's so many other options possible under the "____ of Monkey Island" paradigm, to see a second game called "Tales" again would feel a bit stale to me. Random ideas off the top of my head: (The) Legend(s) of Monkey Island, Journey to Monkey Island, The Fortress of Monkey Island.

Hey, I didn't say they were good ideas, just that they were off the top of my head. Oh, I know! The Monkeys of Monkey Island!

Wait, no, that could lead back to Monkey Kombat a little too easily...

[serweet]

Quail of Monkey Island
or most probably Legends of Monkey Island.

[Falanca]

I really don't have any ideas, but I can say that I'm against the idea of re-using "Tales" in the title. There's so many other options possible under the "____ of Monkey Island" paradigm, to see a second game called "Tales" again would feel a bit stale to me. Random ideas off the top of my head: (The) Legend(s) of Monkey Island, Journey to Monkey Island, The Fortress of Monkey Island.


I say it should be Tales 2, if that game will turn out to use the same graphics and engine and all. After all, all games in the franchise differ greatly from each other.

[Cyphox]

i just was rememberd of this interview ron gilbert did on some tv-channel i forgot the name of.... was it the german "giga"? dont know....

he said, he wanna do the REAL monkey island 3.... he said some words like "Monkey island 3 - The Secret revealed or you'll get you money back"

kind of an "alternate universe" of mi.... cause it's in the past and blaaaaah (i'm drunk)

THAT would be f***ing GREAT!!!!

OH YEAAAAAAAH!!!!

[Secret Fawful]

Monkey Island - Morgan Haunts Hard (How bout a Morgan title baby!)

Monkey Island - LeChuck Rises Again

Monkey Island - Who Killed Horatio Marley?

Monkey Island - The Hunt For Guybrush Threepwood

[WinterSnowblind]

I like the Tales name, and wouldn't be too fussed if they simply called it Tales: Season 2, or some sort of subtitle. But all the games have had different names, so I really think they should continue the trend and call it 'The -something- of Monkey Island'.

Even if MI2 didn't really do this :)

[serializer]

This already happened in another thread. Can't be bothered to look it up ;)

I think the general consensus was, indeed, Return to Monkey Island. Which is, of course, the best possible title the next season could ever possibly had, and since I came up with it first, I claim my 2% royalties.

[TomPravetz]

Tales of Monkey Island 2; Majus' Revenge

[serializer]

Here's the older thread:

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12930&page=2

I hit 'em with "Return" on comment #35. Presumably the idea is now out there in the ether and randomly popping up in all kinds of people's heads. Won't be long before somebody high up at TTG says "hey, I've just had this great title idea!"

[LowMoralFiber]

Monkey Island: Monkey Harder

[GuruGuru214]

Monkey Island 6: Monkey Boogaloo

[Hayden]

"Adventures Aboard the Screaming Narwhal".

EDIT: ...or "Adventures Abroad Aboard the Screaming Narwhal".

[trapplerton]

Monkey Island: The Ghost Pirate, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
a crossover with Simon the Sorcerer could be epic ^^

[Didero]

"The Rubber-chicken-with-a-pully-in-the-middle of Doom"

[justme8800]

Either have a different name altogether, or keep the Tales of Monkey Island: Arbitrary Subtitle format, but don't say Tales 2. Monkey Island 6 if anything, but I liked that Curse and Escape dropped obligatory numbering. No need to pick it up again.

[PecanBlue]

"More Tales of Monkey Island".

"Further Tales of Monkey Island".

"Return to 'Tales of Monkey Island'".

I like these.

[StarEye]

You know, the title Tales of Monkey Island doesn't really say anything about the plot, like the other games do. In the Secret of Monkey Island, you go on a journey to find Monkey Island and its secret (well, you manage one of the two). In MI2: LeChuck's Revenge, a big part of the plot lies on LeChuck wanting to get revenge. In Curse of Monkey Island, you give a cursed engagement ring to Elaine (well that turned out to be a golden moment). In Escape, well, you end up having to Escape from Monkey Island.

I Tales you end up.... er... uhm... hmmm. Yup. Something's not right here. So Telltale, did you choose that title because it sounded cool? Or was it perhaps because it was supposed to, you know, have more than one season and you thought it would be a good idea to collect all the episodic Monkey Island stories under one banner? ;)

[Hassat Hunter]

Most likely to have ToMI Season 1, season 2, season 3 etc.

I don't mind, each episode has a different sub-title after all...

[OzzieMonkey]

i just was rememberd of this interview ron gilbert did on some tv-channel i forgot the name of.... was it the german "giga"? dont know....

he said, he wanna do the REAL monkey island 3.... he said some words like "Monkey island 3 - The Secret revealed or you'll get you money back"

kind of an "alternate universe" of mi.... cause it's in the past and blaaaaah (i'm drunk)

THAT would be f***ing GREAT!!!!

OH YEAAAAAAAH!!!!

You mean THIS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfYuWgHfYRU

[ShaggE]

Sandwiches of Monkey Island: LeChuck's Culinary Revenge.

[Rembrandt Q. Einstein]

/puts on helmet and gets ready for beating

Not "Tales of Monkey Island 2", because I don't want Telltale to make it (not up to me though of course :p). They made a good game but I'm not crazy about the episodic thing. I want a "real" big adventure game that takes like 6 months to get through on the first play because it's so insanely hard and long (they can put in the wussy mode like MI2 and 3 have). I also want lovely, detailed, 2D graphics.

[Friar]

/puts on helmet and gets ready for beating

Not "Tales of Monkey Island 2", because I don't want Telltale to make it (not up to me though of course :p). They made a good game but I'm not crazy about the episodic thing. I want a "real" big adventure game that takes like 6 months to get through on the first play because it's so insanely hard and long (they can put in the wussy mode like MI2 and 3 have). I also want lovely, detailed, 2D graphics.

I like Episodic. It gives you the option to play them individually, or essentially together. If you wait until post release (or the DVD), you can play them together as one game. But i agree with you on the difficulty front. I would love to have difficulty settings (a la curse), with current difficulty being the basic.

[monkey_05_06]

I hit 'em with "Return" on comment #35. Presumably the idea is now out there in the ether and randomly popping up in all kinds of people's heads. Won't be long before somebody high up at TTG says "hey, I've just had this great title idea!"

Not to sound rude, but "Return to Monkey Island" is far from an original idea for the title. A quick Google search brought me over to the fanfiction page (http://lucasfic.mixnmojo.com/fanfica.htm#eh) of the LucasArts Fiction page hosted at Mixnmojo.com which credits the title as of Sept. 2002 (less than 2 full years after the release of Escape) to one "Brandon Ghislain".

Searching a little deeper would likely reveal some prior reference made earlier even than that.

Again, not trying to sound rude, but unless you're Brandon (and perhaps even if you are) then I think it's a bit obtuse to think that you personally have influenced everyone else to think this is a good idea for a new title...

However, it's certainly reasonable to say that there are those who would not have encountered it prior to your post and you may thereby have influenced some, but I highly doubt that it's a majority by any means.

[Rembrandt Q. Einstein]

I like Episodic. It gives you the option to play them individually, or essentially together. If you wait until post release (or the DVD), you can play them together as one game. But i agree with you on the difficulty front. I would love to have difficulty settings (a la curse), with current difficulty being the basic.

It's still not the same as one big game in which you can travel between many more locations and have a greater number of puzzles to work on at once. It makes the gameplay so much more "epic". Also TT doesn't do the lovely, detailed, 2D graphics. :D (Their graphics are good though, not putting them down.)

[Steverin0]

Legends of Monkey Island.

[Hayden]

Monkey Island: The Ghost Pirate, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
a crossover with Simon the Sorcerer could be epic ^^

Crossovers are never epic.

[prizna]

The Truth of Monkey Island

[kaptein_kaffe]

You know, the title Tales of Monkey Island doesn't really say anything about the plot, like the other games do. In the Secret of Monkey Island, you go on a journey to find Monkey Island and its secret (well, you manage one of the two). In MI2: LeChuck's Revenge, a big part of the plot lies on LeChuck wanting to get revenge. In Curse of Monkey Island, you give a cursed engagement ring to Elaine (well that turned out to be a golden moment). In Escape, well, you end up having to Escape from Monkey Island.

I Tales you end up.... er... uhm... hmmm. Yup. Something's not right here. So Telltale, did you choose that title because it sounded cool? Or was it perhaps because it was supposed to, you know, have more than one season and you thought it would be a good idea to collect all the episodic Monkey Island stories under one banner? ;)

What this man said. Personally I don't think anything mentioned in this thread is better then Tales of Monkey Island season 2. When you think of it, each episode is a small tale on it's own. A new title would have made sense if there was a reason for having it but we don't know where they're going to take the story from here.

Personally I'd really like to see a Stan game at some point in the series.

[Lup]

Tales of Monkey Island Online (!!!)
or
Tales of Morgan running around in a bikini all the time

[Uzrname]

I really like "Return to Monkey Island". First of all because it alludes to Planet of the Apes series where there was Escape from... just before Return to...

Second, I think they should make a plot related to Monkey Island because it was completely absent in Tales to the point of asking yourself why it is called "of Monkey Island". So there could be a part where Guybrush has to sail to Monkey Island once more in order to find something (or rescue someone), or maybe it would just be a cutscene, but they MUST make the Island appear in-game, and hence, the next title.

[Captain Mickey]

I don't know, I kinda like Tales of Monkey Island as a title, it just allows more room for more tales. LIke for the collector's box disc, I feel like it'd be call "Tales of Monkey Island: The Pox of Lechuck" or something like that, and the second season will be "Tales of Monkey Island: [insert plot here]" but that's just me.

[Uzrname]

Actually, I looked it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_%28franchise%29 and there was no "Return to Planet of the Apes". Dunno where I even took that from.

However you have there some pretty neat title suggestions: Conquest of Monkey Island, Battle for Monkey Island, etc.

[Uzrname]

I don't know, I kinda like Tales of Monkey Island as a title, it just allows more room for more tales. LIke for the collector's box disc, I feel like it'd be call "Tales of Monkey Island: The Pox of Lechuck" or something like that, and the second season will be "Tales of Monkey Island: [insert plot here]" but that's just me.
If that's true, then they should've just called it "Monkey Island 5: the Pox of LeChuck". Because imo this sounds like Narnia movie titles: The Chronicles of this: The that of that this that. Too long.

[GuruGuru214]

If that's true, then they should've just called it "Monkey Island 5: the Pox of LeChuck". Because imo this sounds like Narnia movie titles: The Chronicles of this: The that of that this that. Too long.

I hope you realize that the reason the movies were called that is because that's what the books were called.

Not that I care all that much. I never saw the movies, and I haven't read the books since I was a kid.

[Friar]

It's still not the same as one big game in which you can travel between many more locations and have a greater number of puzzles to work on at once. It makes the gameplay so much more "epic". Also TT doesn't do the lovely, detailed, 2D graphics. :D (Their graphics are good though, not putting them down.)

Theres not all that much difference in the number of locations for example, in chapter 5, i can count 10, whereas in Curse i can count 12 on plunder island (essentially a chapter). As for the greater number of puzzles, the puzzles in MI games were pretty much self contained in the individual chapters, like in tales. And there were times where you could do multiple puzzles at once (such as the 3 piratey news stories in ch1). Admitadly, not as many as in other MI games, but thats not a flaw in the episodic model, just the direction TTG went with the game.

But i agree that 2D graphics would be awesome, but it's not just TTG that are staying away from them these days. Most devs are.

[Uzrname]

I hope you realize that the reason the movies were called that is because that's what the books were called.
I just brought this up as an example. Maybe long titles are awesome, but seeing as Monkey Island series tend(ed) to go with "... of/from Monkey Island", there is the whole idea. In that word. "The Pox over Monkey Island" would've been a top-up.

But i agree that 2D graphics would be awesome, but it's not just TTG that are staying away from them these days. Most devs are. Am I the only one to find LA's remake of Secret terrible? Backgrounds are (almost) nice, but the inconsistencies, oh the inconsistencies... Straight from Guybrush's legs to wrong color schemes.
If TTG releases a 2D quest, I just hope it wouldn't as come out ugly as this. Other than that: hand-painted CMI-style drawings and count me in for hardcore fandom.

[GuruGuru214]

I just brought this up as an example. Maybe long titles are awesome, but seeing as Monkey Island series tend(ed) to go with "... of/from Monkey Island", there is the whole idea. In that word. "The Pox over Monkey Island" would've been a top-up.

Oh, I agree with you on that point. I absolutely think that re-using "Tales" and adding a subtitle would be a horrible route to go for this series. It's worked for other things, but Monkey Island already has an established paradigm for its game titles and changing that would just feel awkward.

Am I the only one to find LA's remake of Secret terrible? Backgrounds are (almost) nice, but the inconsistencies, oh the inconsistencies... Straight from Guybrush's legs to wrong color schemes.
If TTG releases a 2D quest, I just hope it wouldn't as come out ugly as this. Other than that: hand-painted CMI-style drawings and count me in for hardcore fandom.

No, you're not the only one, but you're in the minority and I can't say I relate. I thought it was great, but everyone's entitled to their own opinions.

That said, I think it would be a mistake for Telltale to move into 2D territory.

[Uzrname]

That said, I think it would be a mistake for Telltale to move into 2D territory.
People want everything in 3D today. The result it gave on EMI 10 years ago was terrible. Sure, that was 10 years ago, since then TTG made a giant step into improvement when they designed their characters. And they do look great, I can't argue with that.

Though somewhere deep within, I'm still fond of those drawings CMI-style, by Steve Purcell or some other guy. They looked great no matter what graphics card you had and the best thing about them was their movie animation.

In short, if TTG releases a quest CMI-style, personally I'd be glad. If it's like Secret, then I'd prefer the game to be in 3D instead.

[Uzrname]

No, you're not the only one, but you're in the minority and I can't say I relate. I thought it was great, but everyone's entitled to their own opinions.
Guess I'm that "classics should stay classic" kinda guy =)

[GuruGuru214]

I suppose the way I feel about it is that Telltale has proven to be amazing at 3D episodic adventure games, and while I don't necessarily think that that's the only thing they would be good at, I also feel like people are getting ahead of themselves in thinking that a full-length 2D game would be done as well. If Telltale were to try it, I would absolutely have high hopes, but at the same time, I'm not sure I want them to try it. From what I understand, 2D animation is more difficult and expensive than 3D animation these days. Also, Telltale has a relatively small staff, which is why we only see one game at a time from them. I suppose what I'm saying is that with their smaller staff, the episodic format is a really good fit for Telltale, and until the company gets a bit bigger, I doubt we're likely to see anything other than 3D episodic adventure games from them.

Or maybe I'm just babbling.

[Leak]

Actually, I looked it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_%28franchise%29 and there was no "Return to Planet of the Apes". Dunno where I even took that from.
The German version of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" was called "Rückkehr zum Planet der Affen", i.e. "Return to the Planet of the Apes"... could that be it?

np: Barbara Morgenstern - Meine Aufgabe (BM)

[StarEye]

Actually, it seems to me that 2D is enjoying a minor comeback. Especially if they're drawn in a way that it looks retro. Look at Mega Man 9 and 10, drawn in 8-bit NES style graphics. And Braid, not sure how much of that is 2D, but it looks astonishing and is very popular. 2D-style gameplay itself is making a comeback, with more and more successfull downloadable games offered on PSN/XBLA and Wiiware. People don't just want 3D anymore, they want good gameplay. We've already gotten so far that almost nothing really amazes us anymore when it comes to graphics and sound. So it seems that people want smaller games as well, not just big spectacular epics.

Of course, 2D is more expensive to create since it takes longer and I believe TellTale needs to be as cost efficient as possible.

[Uzrname]

I suppose the way I feel about it is that Telltale has proven to be amazing at 3D episodic adventure games, and while I don't necessarily think that that's the only thing they would be good at, I also feel like people are getting ahead of themselves in thinking that a full-length 2D game would be done as well. If Telltale were to try it, I would absolutely have high hopes, but at the same time, I'm not sure I want them to try it. From what I understand, 2D animation is more difficult and expensive than 3D animation these days. Also, Telltale has a relatively small staff, which is why we only see one game at a time from them. I suppose what I'm saying is that with their smaller staff, the episodic format is a really good fit for Telltale, and until the company gets a bit bigger, I doubt we're likely to see anything other than 3D episodic adventure games from them.

Or maybe I'm just babbling.

Well, maybe I shouldn't have said "TTG". I see your point there, you are right about 3D episodes.

But there used to be a whole bunch of MI fan games around, even like 3 years ago. I remember there was this really nice done one called "Picaroon", or something like that. The guys who were designing it did a great job on practically restoring the whole drawing and animation style from Curse, and they had a demo available that you could play also (if you google "Monkey Island fan games" I'm sure you'll bump into it, unless their webside is gone). They even made a plot where Guybrush is swallowed by a whale - tell me if that reminds you of something... lol

I guess you're right about 3D games, and I have nothing against them. But if you make it two-dimensional, pencil drawing and cartoon animation style would probably be the best thing to go with.

The German version of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" was called "Rückkehr zum Planet der Affen", i.e. "Return to the Planet of the Apes"... could that be it?

np: Barbara Morgenstern - Meine Aufgabe (BM)
I think you know this better than me =)

Actually, it seems to me that 2D is enjoying a minor comeback. [...] People don't just want 3D anymore, they want good gameplay.The way I see it, the remake of SMI was a move toward Wii owners. Megaman games, I never played them, but maybe it's the same tendency. I say it so because I've never been a big fan of console games (primarly because I never owned one), and maybe it is the thing to do today, but I was left disappointed when 10 years ago the same tendency practically killed LA's desire to make quests in the pursuit of those PS/Nintendo fans.

This looks like a shift in development mentality because the way you say it makes it sound like it's the gamers that count, they don't make games and give them to their discretion anymore, but rather listen to what the gamers want and release the result of their whining lol It sounds a lot like car industry, but please let's not go there we're already off topic.

[Hayden]

Monkey Island Origins: [insert character name here].

[GuruGuru214]

The way I see it, the remake of SMI was a move toward Wii owners.

Uh...what? SoMI: Special Edition was only released on PC and the Xbox Live Arcade.

[Chyron8472]

The Legend of Monkey Island

The Quest for Monkey Island

The Magic of Monkey Island

The Fate of Monkey Island

The Destiny of Monkey Island

The Return to Monkey Island

The Plague of Monkey Island

The Masters of Monkey Island

The Voodoo of Monkey Island

The Path to Monkey Island

The Threat from Monkey Island

The Caverns of Monkey Island

The Pirates of Monkey Island

The Power of Monkey Island

The Danger from Monkey Island


...

Tales of Monkey Island 2: Return of the REAL Monkey Head

The Comfy Sofa of Monkey Island

Chicken Soup for the Monkey Island

The Grog Machine of Monkey Island

The Pharmacy of Monkey Island

The Hairy Chest of Monkey Island

The Missing Beard of Monkey Island

The Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis of Monkey Island

[GuruGuru214]

You forgot "The Monkeys of Monkey Island".

[monkey_05_06]

The Fate of Monkey Island

I would die laughing if they made this considering the Fate of Monkey Island was one of the last MI fan-projects that got C+D'd by LucasArts. :D It was up to like #5 though so they had a good run at it. :cool:

[Hayden]

Monkey Island: The Skeletal Horde

Now that LeChuck's gone, maybe his skeleton army can be the main antagonists. Why not? Hey, it could be a three game series, maybe:

Monkey Island: Rise of the Skeletal Horde
Monkey Island: Rule of the Skeletal Horde
Monkey Island: Fall of the Skeletal Horde

Or maybe it could just be a three episode season (but each episode twice as long as the Tales episodes, and 3 month gaps in between episodes).

[Uzrname]

Uh...what? SoMI: Special Edition was only released on PC and the Xbox Live Arcade.
Ok, whatever. Consoles in general.

[Ortwin]

Tales of Monkey Island 2: Calypso Boogaloo

This.

[prizna]

Tales of Monkey Island: Voodoo Vengence

[Hayden]

Tales of Monkey Island: Voodoo Vengence

Hey, nice!

[Hassat Hunter]

Oh, I agree with you on that point. I absolutely think that re-using "Tales" and adding a subtitle would be a horrible route to go for this series. It's worked for other things, but Monkey Island already has an established paradigm for its game titles and changing that would just feel awkward.
You mean like:

Monkey Island: LeChuck's Revenge

???

[prizna]

Hey, nice!

thankyou

[tredlow]

Crossovers are never epic.

Ash from Evil Dead joining the Power Rangers would be epic.

[GuruGuru214]

You mean like:

Monkey Island: LeChuck's Revenge

???

Okay, that one doesn't count. Everyone knows that the second game in a series is allowed to break the title paradigm. Like Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, when every other game in the series is The Legend of Zelda: [Insert Title Here]. So we can have Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and still have every other game named "(The) ____ of Monkey Island".

...What are you looking at me like that for? No, I'm not making this up as I go along!

[StarEye]

What's important though, since Monkey Island 2 is the only NUMBERED Monkey Island game. Of course, you should perhaps count SOMI as well, since it's the first and the first games are never really given a number as it's supposedly obvious. So we can pretend CMI isn't actually MI3, as that would most likely be called Monkey Island 3: something something of something secret. Why? Because that's how most games were named back then. They usually didn't solely rely on subtitles those days. Castlevania II, III, Super Castlevania IV. Zelda is an exception... apart from Zelda II. But that game was also drastically different, so I guess they decided on going back to the original name and just add a subtitle. Had Zelda II been more accepted and better recieved, maybe they had become Zelda III, IV, V, VI, VII, just like the Final Fantasy series.

[RappScallion]

Every new Monkey Island adventure had its own name.
Of course Monkey Island appeared in all of them, but I'd rather have a new name than 'ToMI II' :-)
Keeps up the expectations and doesn't look like MI is a mass production ^^

[Hassat Hunter]

MI2 didn't have a number either. You must have looked too much at that comparison site between retail and demo ;).

[StarEye]

MI2 didn't have a number either. You must have looked too much at that comparison site between retail and demo ;).

Actually, you are dead wrong on that one. It did have a number. Unless you've never had an actual original copy of the game and only used illegal downloads?

[Uzrname]

You guys are weird, creating some paradigm on how the games should and should not be titled according to their sequence. I say, really, let them sort it out, nobody will change LA's titles now on, they are classics. And as per TTG, if they really plan to stick with "Tales of Monkey Island: bla-bla-bla", then maybe it's even better. Because instead of releasing separate sequences, they would actually point out at the fact that it's all part of their single creation.

That is, only if the DVD gets released under "TMI: the Pox of LeChuck" title. Otherwise I'd opt for "Return to..." =)

[Hayden]

Actually, you are dead wrong on that one. It did have a number. Unless you've never had an actual original copy of the game and only used illegal downloads?

He's right, you know.

http://darkstories.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/monkeyisland2.jpg

The big "2" in the monkey's hand is probably the most prominent thing on the cover.

[Hassat Hunter]

Yeah, just saw it on Wikipedia (before flipping the page). I never saw the boxart, just ingame, and that didn't have a 2 anywhere.

Unless you've never had an actual original copy of the game and only used illegal downloads?
I am pretty sure I didn't game yet when MI2 was released... too young.
If I was already talking, I doubt it was any english :p.

[GuruGuru214]

I was only joking about the "second game gets to break the paradigm" thing. Imagine my surprise when I get on today and see that I sparked a debate.

[Uzrname]

Damn, I almost knew you were trolling me with that! lol

[techie775]

Monkey Fantasy (like Final Fantasy) and turn the game into an RPG. I bet alot of people will love that. Go around as Guybrush build up stats, have Elaine, Meathook and Carla join your party and Eventually fight Lechuck and his undead legion.

[MacGyver12345]

monkey island 6: The Grog of monkey island

[Remolay]

Monkey Island 6: The Truth of the Voodoo Lady

[Chyron8472]

Monkey Fantasy (like Final Fantasy) and turn the game into an RPG. I bet alot of people will love that. Go around as Guybrush build up stats, have Elaine, Meathook and Carla join your party and Eventually fight Lechuck and his undead legion.

I don't think that would work for the Monkey Island franchise... no more than an FPS where you destroy ghost pirates with root beer and zombie pirates with voodoo cutlasses.

[Uzrname]

I think he was just kidding.
Of course you can't turn MI into an RPG.
That would be hellishly funny to see thou: a FFXII mod to replace all chars with those of MI =)
...and have them have moves like "Insult", "Face off", "Drink grog" and "Pox swear".

[Giant Tope]

-Guybrush used PK Insult Ω!
-Enemy Grog-Swillin Pirate became dazed
-Guybrush attacks!
-SMAAAASH!
-Guybrush wins!

[Uzrname]

Don't forget EXP gain.
Class change: Guybrush became MIGHTY PIRATE!!

[monkey_05_06]

For some reason Guybrush Power Mêlée (http://voodoofgisland.altervista.org/minig.html) came instantly to mind... :rolleyes:

Anybody remember that one? It seems buggy but still fun. :) I can get up to Rottingham...he gets me every time...:(

[prizna]

I said it before but I want

Tales of Monkey Island: Voodoo vengeance

[Chyron8472]

Monkey Island 6: Pickles and Pop-Tarts, Ahoy!

The Cannibal Vegan Taxidermist of Monkey Island

Tales of The Secret of Monkey Island: Search for EGA Disk 22

Loom of Monkey Island: Revenge of Bobbin Threadbare

[GuruGuru214]

Bobbin Threadbare? Who's that? That sounds like a guy who didn't get any sequels.

[Giant Tope]

Bobbin Threadbare? Who's that? That sounds like a guy who didn't get any sequels.

I'm sad now. :[

[monkey_05_06]

Guru...you hurt me just now..

Giant Tope, I feel your pain.

[Uzrname]

Ahem... So EVERYBODY knows about Loom, right, monkey? =)

[GuruGuru214]

Oh, jeez, it was a reference to Curse, people!

Guybrush: Please don't kill me.
LeChuck: Why shouldn't I?
Guybrush: If you kill me, there'll be no more Monkey Island sequels. No sequels means no work for you. You'll become just another has-been that nobody's heard of.
LeChuck: That could never happen to ME! I'm LeChuck!
Guybrush: Do you know the name 'Bobbin Threadbare'?
LeChuck: No.
Guybrush: Exactly.

On a side note...

If you kill me, there'll be no more Monkey Island sequels.

He must be proven wrong! He must!

[Giant Tope]

I know I know, but it still make me sad. ]:

[GuruGuru214]

Ahem... So EVERYBODY knows about Loom, right? =)

I know that Loom is a LucasArts adventure game and the main character is Bobbin Threadbare, and that's it.

[Giant Tope]

I'd like to think that Loom's the first episodic adventure game. Except the final two episodes were never made.

[Uzrname]

I know that Loom is a LucasArts adventure game and the main character is Bobbin Threadbare, and that's it.

I wasn't actually referring to your remark, I was referring to my earlier discussion with monkey about Loom's popularity.

Now the joke's ruined... Cobb won...

I'd like to think that Loom's the first episodic adventure game. Except the final two episodes were never made.
Don't worry. TTG will get that part covered =)

[techie775]

Ahem... So EVERYBODY knows about Loom, right, monkey? =)

no but I know of BOOM! The game with no interface, no conflicts, no puzzles, no other characters and no chance of dying; as does "Loom".


I loved that box in SQ4.

[Rusland]

Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Monkey :guybrush:
:p

[greenttentacle]

The Secret of the Three Headed Monkey

Hey i'd play that! :D

[harlequ1n]

The Real Secret of Monkey Island: Mancob Seepgood is your father!

[Chyron8472]

The Legend of Monkey Island

The Quest for Monkey Island

The Magic of Monkey Island

The Fate of Monkey Island

The Destiny of Monkey Island

The Return to Monkey Island

The Plague of Monkey Island

The Masters of Monkey Island

The Voodoo of Monkey Island

The Path to Monkey Island

The Threat from Monkey Island

The Caverns of Monkey Island

The Pirates of Monkey Island

The Power of Monkey Island

The Danger from Monkey Island

I still stand by these (seriously.)

...

Also you could call it:
Monkey Island 6: The Might of LeChuck's Big Evil Hat.

or, since someone mentioned a RPG -style Monkey Island, why not make "The Restoration of Monkey Island" and have a SimCity/RollercoasterTycoon-style game wherein some natural disaster lays waste to Monkey Island, destroying everything so you can rebuild it from scratch, minus the stupid robot.

[Hayden]

The Plague of Monkey Island


Oh my, please not another disease. The pox was an excellent idea, but I really don't want another one to spread across the Caribbean.

[Hayden]

Monkey Island: Journey Beyond the Edge of the Horizon

[GuruGuru214]

Also you could call it:
Monkey Island 6: The Might of LeChuck's Big Evil Hat.

or, since someone mentioned a RPG -style Monkey Island, why not make "The Restoration of Monkey Island" and have a SimCity/RollercoasterTycoon-style game wherein some natural disaster lays waste to Monkey Island, destroying everything so you can rebuild it from scratch, minus the stupid robot.

Get out.

[Chyron8472]

ha. That was a joke, you know, lol :D

[GuruGuru214]

Not funny. That idea's too horrible to even think about. Get out.






I'm kidding. You guys know I'm not that mean, right?

...Right?

[Albo Abourt]

Perhapsinthischapterwewillsee Monkey Island :guybrush: