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PariahKing · 01/01/2010, 08:31 am

I think it's amazing Tales of Monkey Island even exists, personally.

Ashton · 01/01/2010, 08:56 am

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Originally Posted by Friar

Well, the truth is, there was a MI game in development after EFMI, and it's very possible it was meant to be the last. After all, the adventure genre was dieing, but alas the market turned sour too quickly.

Whether your friends brother was a programmer or not is a different matter (not entirely relevent). I had a friend who claimed his Dad worked for Rare. Turns out he was a postman...

Personally I think it's a good thing that the genre turned before the last MI game came out, otherwise Tales would never have been made.

a little research and I bet I know who the guy was insinuating... I wont say though because I'm not sure...

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Originally Posted by PariahKing

I think it's amazing Tales of Monkey Island even exists, personally.

QFT! As I said above it may be a good think LA canned the MI series when they did!

Rather Dashing · 01/01/2010, 12:30 pm

Something like that would be pretty awesome, but of course LucasArts wouldn't have the balls and/or the financial ineptitude to actually even consider doing it, especially years ago. If the Monkey Island franchise is a financial asset NOW, it surely was years ago when the series was closer to its period of prominence.

Friar · 01/01/2010, 02:07 pm

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Originally Posted by Ashton

Personally I think it's a good thing that the genre turned before the last MI game came out, otherwise Tales would never have been made.

a little research and I bet I know who the guy was insinuating... I wont say though because I'm not sure...

QFT! As I said above it may be a good think LA canned the MI series when they did!

True, and if the gap between EFMI and the cancelled MI5 had been that size, they would have ended up too similair. The characters would still be ugly, the controls would still feel stiff, and i doubt the puzzles would be the standard of tales.

jcerecke · 01/01/2010, 05:12 pm

Ron Gilbert had planned for a trilogy back in the day, and was going to reveal the secret of monkey island in the third game. Haven't heard anything about killing guybrush and destroying monkey island though.

Fealiks · 01/01/2010, 06:01 pm

That would have been quite good I guess, but the door to end the series has definitely closed now. It would have been much more valid to end it around MI4 time, but now we're moving on to completely different story arcs it changes the series from "a series that ends once the story's been told" to "a series that moves to a different story once the story's been told".

TomPravetz · 01/06/2010, 04:25 pm

I hope MI ends right before I die. So I'll never have to live without, and can play every game.

Mermaid · 01/07/2010, 02:43 pm

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Originally Posted by Tpravetz

I hope MI ends right before I die. So I'll never have to live without, and can play every game.

I totally like that idea.

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01/01/2010, 12:30 pm	#23
Rather Dashing Throw Baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,806	Something like that would be pretty awesome, but of course LucasArts wouldn't have the balls and/or the financial ineptitude to actually even consider doing it, especially years ago. If the Monkey Island franchise is a financial asset NOW, it surely was years ago when the series was closer to its period of prominence.

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jcerecke Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1	Ron Gilbert had planned for a trilogy back in the day, and was going to reveal the secret of monkey island in the third game. Haven't heard anything about killing guybrush and destroying monkey island though.