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DON'T MAKE A SEQUEL!!!!!!!!


OMG what are you guys on?! this is THE greatest adventure game in history and it should stay that way. a sequel would ruin it just like it ruined the monkey island franchise:
monkey island 1: awsome
monkey island 2: average
monkey island 3: sucked
monkey island 4: sucked

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I agree, they should just leave this one game be, and never make a sequel to it, which could possibly ruin the games name. And I thought MI3 wasn't all that bad of a game, I mean yeah, the first two were awesome, but the third one wasn't all that bad... I enjoyed it.

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The Curse of Monkey Island is the best game in the group.

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Both monkey island 3 and monkey island 4 sucked

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The Curse of Monkey Island was the best of the series.

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How can you call monkey island 2 average?

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More like
monkey island 1: awsome
monkey island 2: awsome
monkey island 3: good
monkey island 4: average

But i agree that they should never do a sequel, it would never be near as good as this game without Tim Schafer.

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if everyone agrees the second monkey island was good then why not make a second grim fandango sure it could suck but if it doesn't we have another great game to play

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Monkey Island 1 and 2 were great games, but saying that they are best is nothing but posturing to look sophisticated and discerning like so many do with movies, books, TV, etc... Personally I think The Curse of Monkey Island had the best gameplay interface, the best graphical style, and the best story of them all. Escape from Monkey Island was entertaining but ultimately it suffered most from its port to a 3D graphical style and new interface.

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Monkey Island ! is the only game in which you actually set foot in Monkey Island, or mention it, for that matter. The other games are just the neverending story of guybrush threepwood and the endless resurrections of lechuck

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Monkey Island ! is the only game in which you actually set foot in Monkey Island, or mention it, for that matter. The other games are just the neverending story of guybrush threepwood and the endless resurrections of lechuck


I think thats kinda the joke isnt it?

Also you step foot on monkey island in Escape From Monkey Island

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Ok, LeChuck DOESN'T DIE, we get it! stop making games with the same story!

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Curse of Monkey Island, IIRC, had you go back to Monkey Island as does Escape from Monkey Island. I never played Monkey Island 2 so I don't know if you went to Monkey Island in that game.

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Because Monkey Island was the creation of Master Mind Ron Gilbert, as well a Monkey Island 1 and part of the never completed Monkey Island Trilogy.

The released Monkey Island 3 was still good (even better than average), but it was not the real continuation/ending of the series and Ron Gilbert was not involved in it's making and wasn't even working at Lucasarts anymore.

The same thing would happen to a GF sequel. This was a Tim Schafer creation. It would not be the same without him.

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Are you guys all mental? Lucasarts closed up their adventure game department years ago. They're never making any more. Not of Grim Fandango. Not of Monkey Island. Not of Full Throttle. Nothing. Nada. Zip. This is a dead parrot.

If I heard that there actually /was/ going to be a sequel to /any/ of those games, I'd be dancing on my chair right now. But why have a thread saying don't make a sequel when no one's going to make a sequel?

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while there is not going to be a sequel, there is discussion of a movie in collaboration with tim burton.

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that would be pretty damn awesome...

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I can live with the fact that you think CMI sucked, even when in managed to pair voices to old characters that I thought were PERFECT even though I had already made an emotional atatchment to the characters. It had major flaws, and it's not a "true" Monkey Island game because Ron Gilbert wasn't part of it, so dissing it is forgivable.

What gets me pissed it that you would call MI2 average. It was at least twice as good as the first. Only iffy part was the ending.

EMI did suck, though. No arguments there.

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You guys are a bunch of weirdos, all of them were awesome. If you go around with standards that high you might as well just keep away from everything because you're just going to get disappointed.

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Both MI 1 and 2 were excellent IMO.

CMI was a bit out of line with Ron Gilberts intentions, and the ending felt somewhat rushed. But apart from that, CMI had the best gameplay and atmosphere in the whole series, so it definently didn't suck.

MI4 was basically just a big mistake. Some parts were good, but overall it was a pretty dumbified monkey island with lots of problems.

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Grim Fandango is basically the PERFECT video game, and theres absolutely no way to make a good sequel to it. Besides, what would be the plot? Manny is already in the ninth underworld, there's no point in bringing him back!

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What about the Maniac Mansion sequel? That was the best of all the adventure games LucasArts churned out.

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The first Maniac Mansion wasn't that good in the first place. Plus, it was possible that the characters came back. In this case, both Manny and Merce are in the 9th underworld and everyone else in the land of the dead has been sprouted. Bringing Manny back would be a stupid plot device.

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire...

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