Monkey Island

...there's soooo much internet kerfluffle about the MI timeline especially post-LeChuck's revenge. And 3 WAS great!

But it sounds like he IS keeping part 3 as canon (not so much 4 and 5), Gilbert tweeted it somewhere. Also they did manage to get back the voice actor for Guybrush so he obviously doesn't totally hate that entry

pixel art or gtfo

nah only joking, i've played the hd versions of the first two and they're still great. Looking forward to this though.

man i played the HD version of 2 last year and at one point i thought i'd go for the full nostalgia experience and switch to the OG 640x480 version and the images were almost indecipherable to my 2022 eyes. in my memory those games seemed so detailed lush, but it really gave me a fuller understanding of how much work my 12y/o imagination was doing to fill in all those images.

Some interesting behind the scenes stuff here, courtesy of the Video Game History Foundation:

https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/

Really amazing work they did for that!

I never finished Thimbleweed Park -- it's great but I didn't have enough time, and then Breath of the Wild turned up.

This is cool though, will dweebily purchase on the day of release I'm sure

I've never played 3 - I remember being disappointed as a kid and quitting after a couple hours

3 has graphics that still look great to me today. The new game is using some of the same voice actors.

I never finished the telltale series. I installed it again last month and... no, just no. Tired jokes and so slow and ugly.

Yeah. Even on Thimbleweed, which doesn't quite hit the mark, Gilbert's a singular writer, especially with gags. He's sort of classically "corny but without being actually corny" and that's hard to imitate precisely.

Yeah, 4 was.. eh. I kept meaning to get around to 5, maybe I'll grind it out in time for this new one to come out.

I loved 3, though. I mean, the sea shanty part alone made it worth it. And the voice of Scrooge McDuck!

I got Return to Monkey Island for Christmas and have just finished it. Strangely sad!

i just finished it a couple days ago as well, very solid entry

I liked the theme tune bit and was quite proud of getting that. The second-last puzzle in the last part had me grumbling for quite a while!

i quite enjoyed return to monkey island but the very ending didn't work for me - seemed like they needed to expand that part a bit to make the point they were trying to make bc it felt sudden and confusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMwWG1lyJI

i should look up more marimba music. such a fun instrument.

That whole album is gold btw. That's more of an instrumental interlude track but there's loads of marimba all over it