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  1. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Just rebought it on GoG for 5 dollars because I heard it worked better than the steam one. Well that was a fucking lie. Tried RPCS3 with the PS3 version, and got some weird stuff like the rain not working, and these new scenes seem like shit. So finally decided to finally beat the mother...

  2. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    This discussion reminds me of why Gabriel Knight 1 is one of my all time favorite adventure games. No dead ends, great puzzles, dialog trees, and death is still a danger, but not an ever-present one and thus only in scenes where it makes sense.

  3. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    So is it OK to admit that Ron Gilbert is a one trick pony at this point? He kind of reminds me of the type of storyteller Niel Druckmann is, one who thinks that twists and shock value are the same as good storytelling when the reality is that twists and surprises are the byproducts of it.

  4. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Is Thimbleweed Park worth playing? I heard it ends kinda crappy, but wondering if the journey at least is ok.

  5. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Wasn't Disco Elysium like super commie propaganda? Gotta be crazy if his new game in a widely loved series can't beat out devs who hate capitalism.

  6. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    The hell is Algeria style?

  7. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Yeah, Carla is just like every one else, but more pretentious about it. She's not even that great a swordfighter, as every pirate has to beat her.

  8. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Which is why different things have different meanings depending on context. Carla was based on a Lucasfilm employee they were friends with. Elaine was based on sometime too, IIRC. The Voodoo pirestess is a trope. I don't disagree with what you are saying completely but the thing is that this is...

  9. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    It was a big hit over time. But it spread via word of mouth, pack ins with CD-Roms, and several of the Lucasfilm Archive collections. That is how I first played it. Sierra was more popular in the US, but Lucasfilm became critical darlings and seemed to get more and more popular as Sierra had...

  10. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Just keep Ron away from it. Kinda want to play Thimbleweed Park but now this game has me scared to try it after I heard the endings sucked. As for the silly world with modern things. I always thought, even if it was in some kid's head that ever definitively showing that would be a mistake...

  11. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    She loves the art? Bleh, it's awful. Also saying the puzzles were good blows my mind, they were ok, at best. Very little creativity on them at all. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Game is worse than most of its prequels in every single way and people act like it's the second coming. But if...

  12. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    But it's so meta. It's deep man... it makes you THINK!!! Like no one has ever thought about a game before! It's totally not a tired rehash of the last game in what was the most obvious way. Not having a climax is COOOL!!!!! It can be about whatever you want. And because I left it so vague the...

  13. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Meta endings tend to think they are far smarter than they actually are. It's pompous bullshit unless the writer did one HELL of a job. The game pretends its about something deep, but not even the story it is telling has a shred of depth. If Gilbert really wanted this game to excel he needed to...

  14. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    But CMI's general idea was better quite honestly, the whole IT WAS ALL A DREAM idea sucks, always has, and always will especially if you have to go out and say it. Though I do think that the game was fine with the hints at the concept in MI1 and MI2, honestly my biggest issue with RMI is that...

  15. Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Enjoy. I was for the most part ok with it but the issues kept building the further I got into the game. I do think the art style was a mistake, but I can live with it for the most part. The game would have been an average rated adventure game released in the 1990s, but we live in a different time.

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