Which Have You Played? [Archive] - Telltale Games Forums

Black Drazon

06/01/2009, 11:29 am

I'm sure not everyone here's been around with Monkey Island since the Amiga days, so I'm wondering: which Monkey Island games have you played?

Personally, I've only played 3. I own four (I picked up 3, 4 and Grim Fandango at once), but I've never played it because of a few reviews that said there were too many in-jokes, so I was hoping to find copies of 1 and 2 that I never did! Well I suppose, in a few months, I'll be able to get 1, at least, but I really don't have an excuse any more. What about you?

Guy in a Box

06/01/2009, 11:33 am

Unfortunately, I've never played any of them, so I'm a newbie. Please don't make fun of me for that :)

lord darkstorm

06/01/2009, 11:34 am

All of them sadly. Escape from monkey island was a painful experience indeed.

I played monkey island back when there was text for inventory items instead of pictures. *feels old*

BlackMageJ

06/01/2009, 11:40 am

Guybrush Threepwood

06/01/2009, 11:42 am

All of them, and I loved every single one of them. Still my favourite franchise to this day.

lord darkstorm

06/01/2009, 11:44 am

All of them, and I loved every single one of them. Still my favourite franchise to this day.

You loved escape from monkey island? The story was okay(ish), but it took a decent control system from Grim Fandango, and managed to totally frell it up.

Sky

06/01/2009, 11:44 am

Played all of them but out of order (strangly enough, my old computer would play part 3 but was incompatable with 1 or 2) still one of my all time favorites ever created of all time and space and in my DNA and seeing how far I can take this and... well that is as far as I can go. Did I say I practiclly memorized all of the quips for the whole insult paragdim (in english only, Australian was too hard)

Iron Curtain

06/01/2009, 11:45 am

You loved escape from monkey island? The story was okay(ish), but it took a decent control system from Grim Fandango, and managed to totally frell it up.

He's entitled to his own opinion, you know. Not everybody has to have a negative opinion of MI4.

lord darkstorm

06/01/2009, 11:49 am

He's entitled to his own opinion, you know. Not everybody has to have a negative opinion of MI4.

Wow really? Where exactly did I badmouth his opinion, or say that it wasn't valid? I was simply going into the reasons *I* didn't like it. Sorry, I didn't know only specific people were entitled to their opinion. ¬.¬

Iron Curtain

06/01/2009, 11:51 am

Wow really? Where exactly did I badmouth his opinion, or say that it wasn't valid? I was simply going into the reasons *I* didn't like it. Sorry, I didn't know only specific people were entitled to their opinion. ¬.¬

Well nowhere, except when you were shocked that someone could actually love MI4.

Maybe I misinterpreted the meaning behind your post. If that is the case, I apologize. :(

lord darkstorm

06/01/2009, 11:56 am

Well nowhere, except when you were shocked that someone could actually love MI4.

Maybe I misinterpreted the meaning behind your post. If that is the case, I apologize. :(

Eh, no big deal. We're all grog-swilling pirates, and all. ^^

serweet

06/01/2009, 11:58 am

Played all of them, though was introduced tyo the series with CoMI, then went back to complete the rest.
Escape may have had terrible controlls, but it was a brilliant game nonetheless, I love how there are jokes running through the whole series; makes it a complete gem.

werpu

06/01/2009, 12:00 pm

All four, though I never finished Escape. Ye gods I hate the controls on that game... shame.

Of course, I've reinstalled it today on the back of the news... I will see it through before ToMI Episode 1 gets released.

Actually most people just like in Grim Fandango made the mistake to play the game with the keyboard /mouse, that did not work out in both games. I personally played monkey 4 with a dual analog gamepad and it worked out bearable, the game itself was so so, i stopped playing it after running into the 5th or so insult duel, they overdid some things.
It did not really feel as good as the first two parts, the same goes for the third part which was ok by itself but not really as good as part 1 and 2!

Gibbeynator

06/01/2009, 12:08 pm

I have TWO copies of Escape from Monkey Island, the PC version and the PS2 version...

MusicallyInspired

06/01/2009, 12:10 pm

All of them. I have yet to complete 3 (though I've seen the ending) and have yet to get beyond the first areas of 4. But I started from MI1 and played them chronologically. The good old days. I still have the 16-colour EGA disk version with the part in the woods where you could look at one of the stumps and it teases you by telling you there's a whole sequence of underground catacombs and to enter you need to insert disks 134, 734, and 312.

Leak

06/01/2009, 12:15 pm

Eh, no big deal. We're all grog-swilling pirates, and all. ^^
I'M NOT!

I'm just a cocktail-guzzling fraudster... :p

Icy

06/01/2009, 12:16 pm

serweet

06/01/2009, 12:24 pm

Zomantic

06/01/2009, 01:10 pm

Oh, the fond memories... And thinking we'll be there again, in just a month or so...

MusicallyInspired

06/01/2009, 01:12 pm

Never Mind.

Black Drazon

06/01/2009, 01:24 pm

Bagge

06/01/2009, 01:33 pm

Was it in MI3 or MI4 that you could actually look back into the woods? Haven't played the series for years now, but will get my brother to check the attick at home and mail it to me. Think I should be able to play through MI1 in my sleep.

That was in CMI:
http://www.scummbar.com/imageviewer/imageviewer.php?useimage=/games/trivia/full/3/8.gif

Also:
http://www.scummbar.com/imageviewer/imageviewer.php?useimage=/games/trivia/full/3/11.gif

MusicallyInspired

06/01/2009, 01:39 pm

Ah! Nice! Awesome way to throw a nice nod to an older joke :).

Valaire

06/01/2009, 02:32 pm

I personally loved all 4, My favourite was Curse of Monkey Island. The game was long enough and monkey island enough for any man, or maid. I cant believe Telltale is so awesome.

Molokov

06/01/2009, 03:08 pm

I've played the first 3 (but it's been a while) but never got very far in MI4 due to the control system which was so different to previous LucasArts games. Same goes for Grim Fandango. I've heard it's a great game, but I couldn't get the hang of the controls, plus it crashed on Windows XP and I hadn't saved the game for a while.... sigh.

(Running these games under Win98 on VMWare doesn't work as VMWare doesn't support DirectX 3D. The first three Monkey Island Games work great though!)

Bialar

06/01/2009, 03:14 pm

I've played them all, starting with the first one. I fell in love with the entire thing about five seconds after walking into the SCUMM Bar for the first time. LeChuck's Revenge is by far my favorite. As far as MI4, the only bit I truly hated was the Monkey Kombat nonsense. 4 definitely had some great moments, but using the Grim Engine on a game that had three previous 2D point-and-click chapters was a really, really poor choice.

gandalfill0

06/01/2009, 03:25 pm

Played and completed all four of them...

MK4 was painful because, although I cannnot hate it, its MK after all...., there was some things awfully wrong about it....

For me MK is mostly about the fluff and the dialogs. As long as Dave and Ron give me some funny lines for this new MK I'll be happy as hell. No need to push it.

Eduardo

06/01/2009, 03:49 pm

All four of them (along with the rest of Lucasarts' adventures).

First one I played was the 16 color version of The Secret of Monkey Island, with the text inventory and the stump joke.

Roadrunner-EX

06/01/2009, 04:56 pm

I've played all 4 several times over each. And I have a very controversial preference, it would seem. MI2 was my least favourite, with MI3 and MI4 tied for first (I really liked MI4s control scheme). But regardless, all of them probably double digit playthroughs.

Grandpa Bob

06/01/2009, 05:16 pm

wasn't there an april fools joke where the voice actor for guybrush recorded a fake MI5 blooper track? "The Return of Largo LeGrande" I wonder if Largo's gonna be in the Real MI5.

beatlefreak9

06/01/2009, 05:19 pm

I've played through all of them a few times, and I own the "big box" editions of 1 & 2. :D
I'm so glad that Telltale is doing the next in the series. My favorite game company + my favorite franchise = epic win!

anglerush

06/01/2009, 05:40 pm

I've only played cmi and emi. Loved both, but loved emi a bit more, because it was longer.

Wile_E

06/01/2009, 06:21 pm

I've played all of them! woohoo a new MI game!

eskimo

06/01/2009, 06:25 pm

Played them all.

Many times over for the first 2. A few times for the 3rd, and never finished the 4th. The horrid controls killed it for me.

Jenny

06/01/2009, 06:40 pm

That was in CMI:
http://www.scummbar.com/imageviewer/imageviewer.php?useimage=/games/trivia/full/3/8.gif

Also:
http://www.scummbar.com/imageviewer/imageviewer.php?useimage=/games/trivia/full/3/11.gif

Thanks for the links. I love those two parts in CMI. I got all excited when I found them the first time I played.

And yes, I have played all four titles. I played the SMI when it had text for inventory, instead of the pictures (still my favorite version). I think I was 5 years old at the time. And then I played LeChuck's Revenge right afterwards. I loved them so much I would replay them every year and try to forget the puzzles. Then I played CMI and EMI when they were released. CMI was great, but as many others feel as well, EMI took some real Guybrush loyalty for me to play and try and enjoy.

Since then, I have replayed SMI and CMI the most, and LeChuck's Revenge every so often. I love how I can get through SMI within a few hours now. And it took me months the first time.

Random Variable

06/01/2009, 06:42 pm

I had the CD-ROM version of The Secret Of Monkey Island, which was basically the VGA graphics verison of the game with CD audio.

I enjoyed LeChuck's Revenge more than SoMI. It's still may favorite adventure game ever.

And I played The Curse of Monkey Island about three years ago through ScummVM. I didn't like the plot, but Murray was awesome.

I've never played Escape.

LukeSW

06/01/2009, 06:42 pm

I've played all of the games and I enjoyed each of them with the exception of EMI.

My favourite game in the series is Monkey Island 2, followed by the original Monkey Island and, last but still fantastic, CMI. For me, with EMI something was lost - the "magic" (I don't mean this literally, of course - I mean the feeling of being immersed in a magical, voodoo-infested caribbean fantasy) and the warmth of the previous three games.

EMI felt soulless. This was, I think, due to the combination of thematic inconsistencies with the previous games, an imbalance between modern/pop-culture references and the setting (yes, all of the MI games have featured a similar mix. but with EMI, the balance was skewed too far towards modernity/pop-culture, or perhaps I should say that they were not integrated quite as well into the "historical" setting as they were in previous games) and the bland, joyless background art.

Everything was simply too clean, clinical, and cynical; nothing felt "warm" or organic; there was no sense of age or weight to the environments. In contrast, when I first played CMI it felt like I had "returned home" to the world established in the first two games.

But enough of the negativity! Tales of Monkey Island looks great. Going on the trailer, the game "feels" like a much improved EMI. I've pre-ordered the series and I'm eager to return to the caribbean to get involved in more crazy voodoo shenanigans. July can't come soon enough!

Sven Viking

06/01/2009, 06:44 pm

Played all four (yes, first two on Amiga 500), but never finished Monkey Island 4 due to annoying controls and, as LukeSW points out, lack of Monkey Island 'feeling'.

thanatos56

06/01/2009, 08:52 pm

I got started with Curse, and loved every moment of it. I've played all of them, but, like most people, I didn't really like Escape. I didn't mind the controls, it's just that the game lost all of the monkey island feeling and it looked absolutely hideous, especially when compared to the beautiful graphics in Curse.

monkey_05_06

06/01/2009, 09:30 pm

I started out with the CD version of SoMI™ (with the enhanced verb bar) in approximately 1993 or 1994. The next game I played was EFMI™ the year it came out, then CMI™ the next year when I found it at Walmart, and finally LCR™ when in about 2005 or so my parents finally purchased the MI Madness CD for me. :D So a bit out of order sure, but I loved all the games.

For those who have played, there's a rather obvious and blatantly ignored plothole between LCR™ and CMI™, but for years I've actually been developing a fan-story which ties them together quite nicely using only the mechanics introduced within the games. I might have to dust that thing off and get to cracking at it again. :)

Jenny

06/01/2009, 09:43 pm

I would love to find out the aftermath that Ron Gilbert had originally thought up for it. Just for curiousity's sake, I would love to know how he had intended to explain/solve that ending.

Bagge

06/02/2009, 01:36 am

LeChuck's Revenge is easily my favourite Monkey Island game, with MI1 on a comfortable second place. CMI was great up until the point when you leave Blood Island. After that it feels rushed and out of place. And the less said about EMI, the better.

der_ketzer

06/02/2009, 01:40 am

I played all of them uncountable times. Except for EMI. I really could not start it again to replay it with that controls.

Masquerade

06/02/2009, 01:58 am

Played all of them upon numerous occasions. I have only played Escape twice though. I really could not get over the dismal visuals.

FesterShinetop

06/02/2009, 06:33 am

Played them all. First two on Amiga (MI2 was on 11 disks!!! And you had to swap them all the time... :eek:) Last two on PC.

Great to see the Monkey Island series come back again. Big thanks to Telltale for that!!! :cool:

maximmortal

06/02/2009, 06:43 am

I too have played them all, back when they were on a million floppy discs.

My favourite is still the The Secret of Monkey Island. It's my all time favourite game actually.

Guy.brush

06/02/2009, 06:43 am

All of them sadly. Escape from monkey island was a painful experience indeed.

I played monkey island back when there was text for inventory items instead of pictures. *feels old*

I too enjoyed the first monkey island game when there was text for inventory items. I'm 26 and I have no idea how old the game was when my cousin told me to play it. I should call her and tell her about this.

I made it to the monkey kombat in Escape and had to quit for a few years, but I recently played Escape again but with a controller hooked up to my computer and it was a very enjoyable experience. If you didn't like the keyboard set up, you should try it with a gamepad.

Guybrush_Threepwood

06/02/2009, 06:45 am

Every game played, in the right order! :D

maximmortal

06/02/2009, 06:45 am

Escape was ok, but incredibly buggy, I found.

moomoocow

06/02/2009, 06:47 am

Played all of them and still do once a year (except for MI4 which I only played through once).

Curse Of Monkey Island is my favorite, the first two games are brilliant too though.

Eduardo

06/02/2009, 06:53 am

Think it is time for a MI game marathon. Just finished reinstalling the four games. :)

maximmortal

06/02/2009, 06:58 am

Think it is time for a MI game marathon. Just finished reinstalling the four games. :)
Good call.

backslash

06/02/2009, 07:13 am

I've only played the last 2, out of them I preferred The Curse of Monkey Island for its undeniable charm. Couldn't play the first 2 by the time I got interested in it as the graphics looked incredibly dated and I can't stand awful sound quality

The remake for the first game was extremely good news! As was the Telltale bonus

little-monkey

06/02/2009, 07:31 am

I have played all four of them, didn't play the first 2 on the Amiga though, I got the dos version... MI1 is what started my obsession with adventure games :p

Leak

06/02/2009, 09:33 am

Think it is time for a MI game marathon. Just finished reinstalling the four games. :)
Don't forget to install ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) as well, as I'm not quite sure how well the DOS versions are going to run otherwise... :)

np: Tosca - Rosa (No Hassle (Disc 2))