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OCKi · 11/05/2009, 11:58 am

If we look at past games, the only MI game that had a real cliffhanger is MI2, which is still one of the most talked about topics in the MI history.

So.. Do you want ToMI to end with some sort of a cliffhanger?

Mermaid · 11/05/2009, 12:00 pm

I do, but I doubt there will be one this time. I feel the end of the Monkey Island saga is near...*sniff*

Eduardo · 11/05/2009, 12:01 pm

No, please no.

Maybe an ending setting up a new status quo, but no cliffhanger please.

floweroftheforest · 11/05/2009, 12:04 pm

I'd rather have an ending to this particular tale and look forward to further tales of monkey island.

Gryffalio · 11/05/2009, 12:20 pm

Yeah, anything that milked this current story would be bad for me. I don't want an end of the franchise, but I also don't want it to get to the point where because of oneupmanship throughout the series, we end up with an MI7 where Guybrush and LeChuck both have Japanese B-movie style superpowers.

Voodoomaster · 11/05/2009, 03:55 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eduardo

No, please no.

Maybe an ending setting up a new status quo, but no cliffhanger please.

Absolutely agree ! Ok with a new status quo, but please, let the story end !!!

Tirink · 11/05/2009, 04:28 pm

In a more sublime, mysterious manner, I suppose. I like leaving some things up to the imagination.

Rather Dashing · 11/05/2009, 04:49 pm

A cliffhanger isn't exactly what I'm looking for, but that would be fine. What I want is something really dramatic and unexpected.

Lup · 11/05/2009, 04:49 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eduardo

No, please no.

Maybe an ending setting up a new status quo, but no cliffhanger please.

/signed!

wouldn't survive a cliffhanger ... i hate cliffhangers horrible, horrible stuff ...-.-

Woodsyblue · 11/05/2009, 04:54 pm

The central narrative they've set up must be ended in the next episode. I mean does anyone really was a Matrix Reloaded/PotC

MC type "ending" where the filmmakers deliberately deny the audience closure in order to try and get them to see the next installment? It stretches out stories out far longer than they are designed to go and by the end everything just gets stupid. They need to close the narrative but maybe leave a few loose ends with character subplots or some such.

Also, I would be absolutely dumbfounded if this was the last we saw of Monkey Island. I really doubt the end is nigh!

Lup · 11/05/2009, 05:25 pm

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Originally Posted by Woodsyblue

Also, I would be absolutely dumbfounded if this was the last we saw of Monkey Island. I really doubt the end is nigh!

ToMI was, is and is going to be a sucess and the good thing about successful stuff is that you can continue doing it! :3

And Winslow is going to be there too! He just has to... I mean it's WINSLOW!!!

Shwoo · 11/05/2009, 08:42 pm

I don't want a cliff hanger, but I also don't mind if every loose end isn't tied up. So I didn't vote.

LuigiHann · 11/05/2009, 09:32 pm

They don't need to tie everything in a neat little bow and return to "normalcy," but I wouldn't want it to end with a "cliffhanger" specifically. They could get away with a "The End... or IS it?" moment, if they really wanted to, though.

OCKi · 11/05/2009, 11:25 pm

Yeah, I'm hoping for a MI2-like "open-for-interpretation" ending!

It definetely will keep the discussions and this brilliant community more alive over time.
And if they just end it with something in the lines of SoMI's and CMI's "..and they lived happily ever after"- endings, it will probably feel a little anticlimatic!

Fans need to be assured that MI is a never-ending story.
Even if they won't make another game, we need a sense that Guybrush still sails the seas going on new swashbuckling adventures deep in the Carribean!

TomPravetz · 11/09/2009, 03:08 pm

I want ToMI to end with all the characters to sing a piratey song together, like at the end of a play. All linked together, rocking back and forth. DO IT TTG!

*Irishmile* · 11/09/2009, 03:21 pm

and a group photo pose like in the end of return of the Jedi?

pir8 · 11/09/2009, 03:21 pm

Hm I'd really like to see some epic cliffhanger like the one concluding the first season of Twin Peaks.
The monkeys are not what they seem..

*Irishmile* · 11/09/2009, 03:27 pm

Imagine if Lucasarts sits on MI again though...... we wouldn't get the resolution for the cliffhanger for another decade? No thanks.... I would be 39 then...... :~C

Farlander · 11/09/2009, 03:45 pm

I don't want a cliffhanger.

Though MI2 was my favorite MI game (that is, before ToMI came on the scene), the open for interpretations wacky cliffhanger ending made more bad than good. Of course, if Gilbert would still be on the scene, it wouldn't have, but let's face it: CoMI opened the world of story inconsestincies and kinda stupid things (ahem, Carnival of the Damned) for Monkey Island series, continued in EfMI. Albeit with one noble purpose: explaining the MI2 ending (and not only) and trying to make things more interesting.

Yes, I know, if TellTales will make a sequel to ToMI, it's not like the developer team will change, and stuff... But it's better not to take the risk. Especially when we don't know for how long the Monkey Island franchise will be on stall again.

techie775 · 11/09/2009, 06:17 pm

I don't want a monkey island 2 ending again. One was enough. I wouldn't mind if they left a couple of minor issues up in the air for future games but don't want it to end with Guybrush or Elaine's lives still in immediate danger (ex: LeChuck about to blow up their ship while their on it). And who knows if we have to wait 6 1/2 years or forever for a conclusion if that happens.

View Poll Results: Do you want ToMI to end with a cliffhanger?
Yes! I hope it screams for a Telltale sequel!!	73	22.60%
Yes, but I hope it's more in the mysterious and sublime manner, like in MI2..	87	26.93%
No! Absolutely NOT! ToMI needs a proper ending with all loose ends tied up.	163	50.46%
Voters: 323. You may not vote on this poll

11/05/2009, 11:58 am	#1
OCKi Adventure-Game Oracle Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Norway Posts: 274	Do you want ToMI to end with a cliffhanger? If we look at past games, the only MI game that had a real cliffhanger is MI2, which is still one of the most talked about topics in the MI history. So.. Do you want ToMI to end with some sort of a cliffhanger? __________________ "Bwahahahahah... With my powerful demonic might, I shall rule the world, frightening little girls by chomping down on their lollypops! Bwahahahaahahaahhah... Oh, who am I kidding... I'm bored out of my skull..." - Murray, the invincible demonic talking skull.

11/05/2009, 12:20 pm	#5
Gryffalio The Orphanage Attacked ME Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: York Posts: 668	Yeah, anything that milked this current story would be bad for me. I don't want an end of the franchise, but I also don't want it to get to the point where because of oneupmanship throughout the series, we end up with an MI7 where Guybrush and LeChuck both have Japanese B-movie style superpowers. __________________ We'll drink beyond the boundaries of sense We'll drink 'til we start to see lovely pink elephants Inside our heads, inside our beds, inside the threads of our pyjama legs So don't shoot 'til you see the reds of our eyes And an army of elephants marching behind From the day I was born 'til the night I will die All my lovers will be pink and elephantine!

11/05/2009, 04:28 pm	#7
Tirink Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 49	In a more sublime, mysterious manner, I suppose. I like leaving some things up to the imagination. __________________ For those cold dark shipboard nights We've got boxers, briefs, and tights! Made from cotton, silk, or satin! In styles Anglo, Dutch, and Latin! When you sail don't take a chance Wearing nothing 'neath your pants! Trust Silver's Long Jooooohns~ (They breath!)

11/05/2009, 04:54 pm	#10
Woodsyblue First Child Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 1,363	The central narrative they've set up must be ended in the next episode. I mean does anyone really was a Matrix Reloaded/PotCMC type "ending" where the filmmakers deliberately deny the audience closure in order to try and get them to see the next installment? It stretches out stories out far longer than they are designed to go and by the end everything just gets stupid. They need to close the narrative but maybe leave a few loose ends with character subplots or some such. Also, I would be absolutely dumbfounded if this was the last we saw of Monkey Island. I really doubt the end is nigh! __________________ "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some massive internal hemorrhaging to attended to."

11/05/2009, 12:00 pm	#2
Mermaid Coaster Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 1,016	I do, but I doubt there will be one this time. I feel the end of the Monkey Island saga is near...sniff

11/05/2009, 12:01 pm	#3
Eduardo Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Argentina Posts: 583	No, please no. Maybe an ending setting up a new status quo, but no cliffhanger please.

11/05/2009, 12:04 pm	#4
floweroftheforest Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 150	I'd rather have an ending to this particular tale and look forward to further tales of monkey island.

11/05/2009, 04:49 pm	#8
Rather Dashing Throw Baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,883	A cliffhanger isn't exactly what I'm looking for, but that would be fine. What I want is something really dramatic and unexpected.

11/05/2009, 08:42 pm	#12
Shwoo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Canberra, Australia Posts: 1,486	I don't want a cliff hanger, but I also don't mind if every loose end isn't tied up. So I didn't vote. __________________ This is a link to the Sam & Max wiki. This is a link to a Sam & Max deviantART group.

11/05/2009, 09:32 pm	#13
LuigiHann Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,687	They don't need to tie everything in a neat little bow and return to "normalcy," but I wouldn't want it to end with a "cliffhanger" specifically. They could get away with a "The End... or IS it?" moment, if they really wanted to, though. __________________ "I think it's the idea that counts, not the actual method. As long as you set out to cause a horrible death through insects eating the person, you're good." - apenpaap

11/05/2009, 11:25 pm	#14
OCKi Adventure-Game Oracle Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Norway Posts: 274	Yeah, I'm hoping for a MI2-like "open-for-interpretation" ending! It definetely will keep the discussions and this brilliant community more alive over time. And if they just end it with something in the lines of SoMI's and CMI's "..and they lived happily ever after"- endings, it will probably feel a little anticlimatic! Fans need to be assured that MI is a never-ending story. Even if they won't make another game, we need a sense that Guybrush still sails the seas going on new swashbuckling adventures deep in the Carribean! __________________ "Bwahahahahah... With my powerful demonic might, I shall rule the world, frightening little girls by chomping down on their lollypops! Bwahahahaahahaahhah... Oh, who am I kidding... I'm bored out of my skull..." - Murray, the invincible demonic talking skull. Last edited by OCKi; 11/06/2009 at 05:12 am.

11/09/2009, 03:08 pm	#15
TomPravetz Misc. Organs/Limbs/Etc... Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Here and there Rank: God Posts: 2,369	I want ToMI to end with all the characters to sing a piratey song together, like at the end of a play. All linked together, rocking back and forth. DO IT TTG! __________________ Join the Suro revolution \|Win the war of Majasuroshia\| Fight the Oppressors

11/09/2009, 03:21 pm	#16
Irishmile The Skipping Dead Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: WI, its a paradise 3 months of the year Posts: 6,542	and a group photo pose like in the end of return of the Jedi?

11/09/2009, 03:21 pm	#17
pir8 three-headed code monkey Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Drei-Island Area Posts: 2	Hm I'd really like to see some epic cliffhanger like the one concluding the first season of Twin Peaks. The monkeys are not what they seem..

11/09/2009, 03:27 pm	#18
Irishmile The Skipping Dead Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: WI, its a paradise 3 months of the year Posts: 6,542	Imagine if Lucasarts sits on MI again though...... we wouldn't get the resolution for the cliffhanger for another decade? No thanks.... I would be 39 then...... :~C

11/09/2009, 03:45 pm	#19
Farlander Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,184	I don't want a cliffhanger. Though MI2 was my favorite MI game (that is, before ToMI came on the scene), the open for interpretations wacky cliffhanger ending made more bad than good. Of course, if Gilbert would still be on the scene, it wouldn't have, but let's face it: CoMI opened the world of story inconsestincies and kinda stupid things (ahem, Carnival of the Damned) for Monkey Island series, continued in EfMI. Albeit with one noble purpose: explaining the MI2 ending (and not only) and trying to make things more interesting. Yes, I know, if TellTales will make a sequel to ToMI, it's not like the developer team will change, and stuff... But it's better not to take the risk. Especially when we don't know for how long the Monkey Island franchise will be on stall again.

11/09/2009, 06:17 pm	#20
techie775 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 408	I don't want a monkey island 2 ending again. One was enough. I wouldn't mind if they left a couple of minor issues up in the air for future games but don't want it to end with Guybrush or Elaine's lives still in immediate danger (ex: LeChuck about to blow up their ship while their on it). And who knows if we have to wait 6 1/2 years or forever for a conclusion if that happens.

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