Title of the next MI game

[Uzrname]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

Originally Posted by Leak

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 =)

Originally Posted by StarEye

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]

Originally Posted by Uzrname

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]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

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. It was up to like #5 though so they had a good run at it.

[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]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

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

Ok, whatever. Consoles in general.

[Ortwin]

Originally Posted by Lena_P

Tales of Monkey Island 2: Calypso Boogaloo

This.

[prizna]

Tales of Monkey Island: Voodoo Vengence

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by prizna

Tales of Monkey Island: Voodoo Vengence

Hey, nice!

[Hassat Hunter]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

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]

Originally Posted by haydenwce27

Hey, nice!

thankyou

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by haydenwce27

Crossovers are never epic.

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

[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Hassat Hunter

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]

Originally Posted by Hassat Hunter

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..." =)