Return to Monkey Island

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Unfortunately Lucasfilm is still owned by Disney, so there's a chance it will be woke. Place your bets now on whether we'll get a lecture on privelege from the Voodoo Lady, a trooned out LeChuck (that could actually be funny if done right) or Elaine insisting on an open marriage.

Animation looks low-rent so far. Music sounds great though.
 
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Hmm.. as a big fan of Monkey Island fan... in the one hand it's Ron Gilbert.. but in the other.. It's Disney. So yeah, I try to keep my excitement at bay. I do wish it wouldn't look like a game made in flash. Call me old school, but I really like the slightly pixelated look of the original 2 parts. Part of the charm I guess.
 
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Red Hood said:
Unfortunately Lucasfilm is still owned by Disney, so there's a chance it will be woke. Place your beta now on whether we'll get a lecture on privelege from the Voodoo Lady, a trooper out LeChuck (that could actually be funny if done right) or Elaine insisting on an open marriage.

Animation looks low-rent so far. Music sounds great though.
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I just saw this and got super happy, and then you have to ruin it with your realism.

God I hope they keep it neutral. Just an interesting, child friendly pirate story with some laughs and clever puzzles. Can't be that hard, can it? :(
 
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Butter said:
I just saw this and got super happy, and then you have to ruin it with your realism.

God I hope they keep it neutral. Just an interesting, child friendly pirate story with some laughs and clever puzzles. Can't be that hard, can it? :(
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We kind of have to face the facts that a lot of the people that created stuff we like, whether games, movies, comics etc, are pretty woke/pozzed, whether as true believers or just trying not to get cancelled.

LucasArts was based near San Fran, so it's not so unexpected really.
 
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Wow, I think this is great news, I was very impressed with Ron Gilbert's Thimbleweed Park, the idea of him returning to Monkey island is a dream come true.

I see no reason to cynically assume this is going to be Woke to the level that will be truly detrimental to the game, I trust Ron considering how good Thimbleweed Park was.

A question on my mind though is continuity, is it going to ignore the Telltale games or anything after Lucasarts?
 
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Red Hood said:
We kind of have to face the facts that a lot of the people that created stuff we like, whether games, movies, comics etc, are pretty woke/pozzed, whether as true believers or just trying not to get cancelled.

LucasArts was based near San Fran, so it's not so unexpected really.
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Oh, I agree with you fully. You just thought of it before it dawned on me, and RUINED MY FUN. But you're right. Though as @Dom Cruise said, there's also a chance it will be a neutral, good game. I will just hope for the best, pirate it day one (if possible) and try it out, or otherwise just wait until it's out a few weeks to read trusted reviews and then decide if it's worth spending my money on.
 
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Butter said:
Oh, I agree with you fully. You just thought of it before it dawned on me, and RUINED MY FUN. But you're right. Though as @Dom Cruise said, there's also a chance it will be a neutral, good game. I will just hope for the best, pirate it day one (if possible) and try it out, or otherwise just wait until it's out a few weeks to read trusted reviews and then decide if it's worth spending my money on.
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Pirating a game about pirates? I can appreciate that.
 
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I dunno, I'm optimistic. DoubleFine made a remarkably bland adventure game recently that didn't seem to have any lecturing. Did Thimbleweed Park have anything? Setting seemed uninteresting so I never gave it a fair shake.

Presumably it's mostly the same team and hopefully Ron is old enough to care about making a lasting experience over scoring cocktail party woke points.

With the takes in this thread you'd think the Life is Strange developers just got the license.
 
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Imagine if it was instead titled Return to Monke Island.

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I dunno, I'm optimistic. DoubleFine made a remarkably bland adventure game recently that didn't seem to have any lecturing. Did Thimbleweed Park have anything? Setting seemed uninteresting so I never gave it a fair shake.
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Thimbleweed Park is great, if you like this type of game it's a must play.

Polarity said:
Presumably it's mostly the same team and hopefully Ron is old enough to care about making a lasting experience over scoring cocktail party woke points.

With the takes in this thread you'd think the Life is Strange developers just got the license.
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Yeah, people are way overreacting to assume it's going to be Woke.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Imagine if it was instead titled Return to Monke Island.


Thimbleweed Park is great, if you like this type of game it's a must play.


Yeah, people are way overreacting to assume it's going to be Woke.
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I just went through his Twitter a bit. Nothing insane, he's just an old adventure game boomer posting. This is gonna be great.

A bit unrelated (maybe?), but Mark Ferrari was the artist on Thimbleweed park and many Scumm games back in the day. He has a great talk where he goes into pixel art and some details on how he did the well known animated pixel art screensavers. Worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0

Hope he's involved.
 
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Did Thimbleweed Park have anything?
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No, not at all. It's just a fun game without any woke crap. So we can be optimistic...although I was a bit worried about this pronoun lady working on the game:
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But she ist only posting pictures of animals, nature & other normal stuff as far as I can see. At least she knows how to tweet like a sane person.
 
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