Which is the best Monkey Island game so far?

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by PecanBlue

Pity votes are lame, just vote for your real favorite! :|

LeChuck's Revenge 4ever.

I usually would just vote for my favourite, but there's been so many of these threads that I just feel like voting for something else. I also wanted to prevent anyone from posting "haha! I see Escape only has one vote " or something like that.

[MusicallyInspired]

This isn't a poll for which is your favourite. This is a poll for which is the best. You can have a favourite and still not consider it the best. Like me.

[Rather Dashing]

HAHA, look, Escape only has two votes!

[Kroms]

Originally Posted by StarEye

Of course, but you didn't really answer my question either .

I played Curse in 1998, Escape in 2000, Secret in 2006, Monkey 2 in 2006 and Tales as the chapters were released.

Originally Posted by MusicallyInspired

This isn't a poll for which is your favourite. This is a poll for which is the best. You can have a favourite and still not consider it the best. Like me.

The poll asks one question, the thread title another.

[MusicallyInspired]

Ah. I don't read poll titles. Just the thread titles.

[PariahKing]

Reading poll titles is like reading asterisked accompanying statements on nutritional food labels. It's a minor miracle you're even bothering to glance at all.

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

HAHA, look, Escape only has two votes!

Dammit, I knew that would happen!

Ah, but you are wrong my friend. It appears that Escape actually has 3 votes. A trinity of voters, a trifecta of well-earned votes, a hat-trick of 'yays', an amount of votes exactly equal to the number that which so many consider to be 'the magic number'. This truly is a victory for Escape from Monkey Island; a triumph; a great success; an epic win; a noble achievement that will be remembered for the ages! Stop me if I've gone too far.

[Chyron8472]

HAHA, look, Escape only has three votes!

[Hayden]

...touche.

[Avistew]

The problem now, haydence, is that it's easier for the anti-EMI crowd (I dislike EMI but I don't consider myself anti-it, I mean if people love it good for them) to say "but these are all pity votes, EMI doesn't even have a single real vote", even though it's possible that only one of the three was a pity vote.

On a slightly related subject, I think polls that work this way are... biased, let's say. That is, we can tell which episode is preferred by the most people, but that's it. Imagine EMI was the second preferred game for everyone (I know it's not the case, bear with me) it would get 0 votes. Zero. When everyone thinks it's good enough to be in second place it gets last place. That system is seriously flawed.
I guess you'd need to be able to rate all the games in order for it to really be representative. And no need to lie out of pity this way (which is mean to your real favourite anyways).

[Hayden]

Thankyou for shortening my username to 'haydence', despite it bearing a close resemblance to 'haydunce' I actually like it better that way - I don't feel guilty about some poor person having to type out my entire confusing username.

[Avistew]

I didn't even notice I had forgotten the w... Thought I had just removed the numbers...
Next time I'll just call you Hay :P

[stoney1981]

Wow, now that´s an easy choice right there. Le Chuck´s Revenge, for me, is the best Monkey Island game ever created so far, and here is why:

- Well aging, to some extend realistic 2D gfx (Imagine the Tunnel Scene)
- A pirate story with an omnipresent dark undertone (Best Story in an MI Game so far)
- Great Musical Intermissions (Think about the Bone Song)
- A great overall score throughout the game
- High Quality German Translation

This game basically had it all. I hope Lucas does this classic justice, and gives new players a good, fresh port of this gem to enjoy. You can bet i´ll buy this again for my iPhone and PC, if only to support it. I´m curious to hear the voice over too.

[Steverin0]

Lechuck's revenge
Curse
secret
Tales
Escape.

[Steverin0]

Originally Posted by Wolfstar27

Hands down its Monkey Island 2 Lechucks revenge, its the first one in the series i played and still my favourite to date,the humour and puzzles, the art, its completely brilliant, however i do like Tales alot, the fifth chapter was my favourite

Indeed.. well said. Ah back in those days, puzzles. Curse had great puzzles too. Tales.. eh not so much. Still fun though. But not really an adventure game in the real sense. Objects and puzzles secondary? Hmm..

[cornholio1980]

Definitely LeChuck's Revenge. For me, it's not just the best MI-game, but the best Adventure-Game ever. As much as I enjoyed and still enjoy TT's offerings, when it comes to puzzles, they pale in comparison to those good old classics. (sorry)

[Kauff]

Well, since you asked, I will reply! Only the game written by REAL monkeys can be the best Monkey Island game! We should actually be asking ourselves, who is the REAL monkey mastermind behind all this?

I think it's Jake, but don't tell him that I said so. Masterminds are unpredictable... shhh.

[stoney1981]

It´s Ron.

[WinterSnowblind]

I really enjoyed Tales. Possibly more than any of the others, but it could equally be because it was the most recent one I've played..

So I went with the one I enjoyed most back in the day, which was Curse.

[Accountsden]

Definitely one of the best adventure games I've ever played! "Monkey Island 2"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzs8_PilN54