Old monkey island games before tales?
 

Hi everyone, i tried to search if this had already been asked, but this forums search gives me a headache >< so i browsed a bit and didnt see anything, anyway..

This is probably pretty obvious, but about how important is it to play the older monkey island games before playing tales?

I recently tried the tales demo and I really liked it and was thinking of buying it, but then i realized i should probably play the others first, so i just wanted to know if it was all that important, are they best played in order or do they each stand alone as their game/story?

Secret of MI and MI2 look fairly easy to get if so, but curse and escape look kind of expensive to get >< would skipping those two matter too much?

Well... in a nutshell:

It helps to play the previous games just to get the gist of Monkey Island and some of the inside jokes that's thrown around in Tales, but you could probably play without playing the previous games. I recommend that you play the other games anyways just because they're fun and it's Monkey Island. Luckily there are the two special editions already out if you want to play the previous games.

Kinda what i figured, and i do want to play the old ones, its mostly just curse and escape that are a bit out of reach for me at the moment.

You could try Amazon or Ebay... I heard odd stories of people finding Escape and Curse there.

ooh, thank you, that worked. I had checked amazon before but the listing i found had them really expensive even for used ones, but i just checked again and there are other listings that are more in my price range :D

That's good to hear. :D

Yes, but the original 2 games are different than the second 2. Don't judge the entire series by the first two games. I enjoy all the games, my brother HATES 1 and 2 and didn't want to play the rest of the series but loved Tales and MI 3.


He hasn't played the fourth game yet.

You will have the opportunity to see how characters develop over time and how the story can take very odd and awesome turns. It really is an unpredictable series.
Have fun! :D

Oh, and I recommend trying the special editions for 1 and 2. It will help you get used quicker with the characters and overall tone. :)

Special Editions are probably the way to go, unless you're a purist like me and desire to search original copies just for fun. I've played the original versions, I sought the out, but I don't have to play them specifically...

Play Escape first, it's the best one

I got a ps2 memory card just to replay escape cos I missed it so much :D true story.

The only think I found annoying about Escape from Monkey Island, was the Monkey Combat. Apart from that, I loved it.

I think Curse's swordfighting is as annoying as Monkey Combat. Except the Monkey Combat ending was brilliant. By the way coolsome, where you here when Tales was released? I don't remember anyone not trying to kill me because of my love for Escape.

I was but I love Escape so I wouldn't have flamed you. Although I did not like Monkey Kombat and thats one of the things I don't like about the game but apart from that I rly enjoy playing it.

Really? In Monkey Combat, you have to take notes in order to proceed. In Curse's swordfighting, you just pick the insult that makes sense in context.

Yeah, but you gotta go back and upgrade the cannons everytime you win a battle. And there's the totally boring boat fight before every swordfight. And Monkey Combat actually has a meaning, you even beat the final boss with that. (kinda)

You can always cheat on the boat fight:P

You can use the cheat for the boat fights, or you can just use the wimpy cannons to beat everyone. I did that on my first run through, not realising I could buy new cannons or use a cheat, lol.

Yeah, I didn't like the boat fights either, and didn't realize that I could upgrade my cannons until I only had Rottingham left... The actual sword fighting was awesome, though.