Comments on: Retro Reunion: The Curse Of Monkey Island

By: B15HOP

B15HOP — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:51:27 +0000

This game runs rings around most modern adventure games. This is a game that should be put in the hall of fame for all time greatest adventure game. Best yet, with Scummvm you can play it in linux with the original two disc set, interruption free! I love it!

By: Person

Person — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:53:24 +0000

I don’t get all the hubabaloo over MI2, 3 had better graphics and looks more fun.

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By: beard

beard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:25:01 +0000

great article, sweet ass game!

By: Kelix

Kelix — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:51:23 +0000

I love money island, grim fandango and dott, they are all amazing games, there should be more of them

By: Cytizen

Cytizen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:52:40 +0000

I’d love to see a retro review of rival company Sierra’s adventures. But please not King’s Quest. Space Quest was by far the best of the series.

There were many similarities between Roger Wilco and Guybrush Threepwood, so it should be quite interesting.

By: PokerCrow

PokerCrow — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:45:39 +0000

First time I hear that MI3 is “often regarded as the strongest of the 4″ and I beg to disagree. I’ll grant that it’s the one which has aged better because of its nice and fluid cartoony animation. The one I enjoyed the most was MI2 Le Chuck’s Revenge, but that’s personal preference. Objectively speaking I’d say the first 2 are more than often regarded as the strongest in the series.

By: Chris Carter

Chris Carter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:49:57 +0000

Retro Reunions are just pieces where we look at games that affected us personally, and share those moments with you. The prequels are better, yes, but C. Rossi felt a connection with MI3, which is fine.

We’ll be covering Monkey Island 1 in the far future, so stay tuned. No great classic game will go unturned!

By: klarax

klarax — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:42:58 +0000

One day I’ll play them, i only played number 4, which was awesome, so ppl saying the prvious games are better, then they got to be worth a go. Even if dos based

By: Cytizen

Cytizen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:26:47 +0000

Retro, yes. But you made an ill choice in putting MI 3 on the throne, here. The first one was far, far superior in its humor, the dialogue, the attention to detail (even if badly pixelated in its old bitmap style) and in its brilliance to pose logical puzzles. The third part was the first of the series that started to introduce silly puzzles where the solutions were just too dumb to fit into the witty humor of the previous MI titles.

The voice acting, while very entertaining, also very much disenchanted my own personal view of Guybrush Threepwood. For all these years I had my own idea of how he sounded like and how he pronounced his lame jokes. MI 3 ruined this for me. I never wanted to hear him speak. Other games like Half Life 2 or Bioshock don’t have their characters speak for the very same reason. You just don’t ruin a gamer’s personal idea and identification with the character by forcing a perhaps alienating personality on him.

I enjoyed MI3. And I even enjoyed MI4 to some degree. But the real MI will always be 1 and 2.

And by the way, Murray, as funny as he was, just can’t keep up with the Navigator’s Head.

By: C. Rossi

C. Rossi — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:03:09 +0000

Dude. The game came out 12 years ago. Around the same time as the N64. 10+ years = Retro.

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:48:49 +0000

Oh, WTF. How can you write a “retro” article about Monkey Island 3. How old are you, 16?!? Only the Tim Schafer games are real Monkey Islands.