The BEST Monkey Island game

[nightfan]

I have played The Curse of Monkey Island and the demos of Escape from Monkey Island and the Secret of Monkey Island. I have watched parts of the non-playable demo of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. From what I've seen, I think that Secret is a classic, but my personal favorite is probably Curse. MI 2 looks a bit disappointing and Escape loses a bit of the MI charm because of the 3D models. Oh well, it's just my opinion.

[SamNMax]

You really should play all of them. They're worth any price (maybe not MI4). I vote The Secret.

[SakSquash]

I don't know why people hate on 4 so much. Sure, it wasn't as good as the others, but it still rocks. Anyway, I vote #3.

[remixor]

Monkey Island 2 for sure. I've made so many forum posts on the subject that there's no way I'm doing it again though.

[Tobbe]

Hmm...Tough call, but I think I choose MI2..

[AFGNCAAP]

I vote for... Oh no, wait, I had already voted (http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showthread.php?t=2094)! :D

[nordic_guy]

Maybe you should play them all before you vote.

I haven't played Secret of Monkey Island, but out of the three others, I had the most fun while playing CoMI and EFMI. It might have something to do with me playing MI2 after I played the other two, though.

[Kolzig]

My choice is MI1.

[Hammerite]

All of them.

[Elaine]

Monkey Island 2 IMHO
the story, the characters, the puzzles, the music, the game play, the everything. Don't get me wrong - I think all the MI were brilliant, but #2 just stays my fav.

[DustCropper]

Monkey Island 1.

[syntheticgerbil]

I think that Monkey Island is the best game. IMOHO IMOHOOOMIMO IMO

[Zack]

The Curse of Monkey Island is the first Monkey Island game I've ever played, and so it will always be the best to me. It's also a true adventure game classic in my own opinion.

I tried to play EMI, but the Monkey Kombat portion of the game was so frustrating I couldn't play the rest of the game.

I have played MI1 or MI2 yet. Hopefully, I will play them someday.

[zak]

Monkey Island 1 was my first real adventure game i loved it then and playd it through many times just when the logo comes up and music starts playing brings back memories but MI2 is very close but still dont beat the classic :D

[RLacey]

Monkey Island 2. No contest.

[Jake]

... 2 :)

[SamNMax]

Ah, come on. Where are all the MI2 ending haters? Get them in here. MI1 needs more support.

[samIamsad]

The lion, the wizard and the wardrobe. Oh, wait... :D

[AFGNCAAP]

Ah, come on. Where are all the MI2 ending haters?
I hate MI2 ending.











Because all the other game endings now seem so bad in comparison. :P

[Hawker Typhoon]

i really enjoyed CMI, though it lacked a proper ending.

i started playing EMI, but did not finish it. i don't like it at all. it had a rushed, thrown-together feeling to it.

the first two are great. i would have to pick MI2 as the overall favourite.

[fook_yu]

I really love the graphic of MI3, The curse of.. Though, I speak French and i'm not the best in english. Nor, I could only buy The Curse of Monkey Island in english. What I didn't know when I bought this game was that there were lot of dialogues (sword fight); maybe too much. So I have never finish The Curse of Monkey Island.

[Xman]

How did MI2 end? I can't recall. The whole game is Guybrush telling Elain a story while dangling from a line of rope clutching a treasure chest, isn't it?

I can't remember how it ends.

Anyway I think Curse of Monkey Island is probably my favourite. It was the first one I played and is certainly the best looking of the quartet. It brings back happy memories....ah nostalgia :)

The first two had a certain dark voodoo quality that was lost in the last two, but still COMI gets my vote as the best Monkey Island game.

[Jake]

MI2 ends with the "It was all in my imagination - or was it" thing. Guybrush encounters LeChuck in the underground tunnels beneath Blinky/Dinky/Inky Island, which connect to Melee Island, and builds a voodoo doll of LeChuck and tears the leg off it, then suddenly they "turn into kids" and encounter their parents who tell Guybrush they asked his brother Chuckie to go hunt him down for them because they thought he was lost/missing.

[Hawker Typhoon]

How did MI2 end? I can't recall. The whole game is Guybrush telling Elain a story while dangling from a line of rope clutching a treasure chest, isn't it?

I can't remember how it ends.
put concisely:
Guybrush falls down the pit, confronts LeChuck in the corridors, Guybrush gets the best of him, LeChuck says he's Guybrush's brother, then you see Guybrush as a little kid at a carnival. closes with LeChuck's sinister laugh, end credits. CMI opens with Guybrush having made his escape in a bumper car.

[Hawker Typhoon]

i'm too slow.

but i used the proper 'spoiler' format! :devil:

[Udvarnoky]

Totally Monkey Island 2. (Though I will add, as I always do, that EMI is underrated.)

[CrimsonBlue]

I don't understand how people can think the MI2 ending is so bad. It was obviously meant to create interest for the third game (although not the third game that we know today) - it was meant to be a cliff-hanger ending. The story was supposed to continue with the third game, but they took too long to make it and by that time, Ron Gilbert (the one behind the first two games, and more importantly the creator of the stories in those two) had left.

So, the only reason it is considered bad is because we never learnt what would happen next. CMI and EMI were sequels based on the Monkey Island universe and characters - while good, they weren't a "correct" continuation of the story.

In short, I like Monkey Island 2 the most - it's got the best puzzles, the best humour, the best music, the best graphics (yes, I liked the style better than CMI) and the second best story. The Secret of Monkey Island is not far behind however, but the genious part II of the second game really makes it stand out from the others. Partially non-linear puzzles (solve them in "any" order), a total freedom to travel between three very different islands and the size of the chapter is ingenious.

[DustCropper]

To be honest I found the endings of both MI2 and 3 to be very satisfying. A lot of people complain about MI3's ending, but
seeing Guybrush and Elaine getting married and setting sail towards the sunset
really did it for me.

Like I said in my earlier post, I think that Secret is the best game of the series. I thought that it had the best jokes and best-written dialogue of any of the other Monkey Island games.

My second favorite would probably be CMI. I guess I should mention that it was the first MI game I played. MI4 is my least favorite, though I think it was a pretty decent game in it's own right. Just not up to the same standards as the other 3. :)

[Jake]

i'm too slow.

but i used the proper 'spoiler' format! :devil:

Spoiler tags for a 15 year old game? :shifty: Probably appropriate. :)

[nightfan]

I just started playing the Secret of Monkey Island yesterday. I am already on Part Two: The Journey. So far, I am enjoying it immensely, and this may become my new favorite Monkey Island game. However, I don't get the purpose of the church in the village or the alley next to it (I know you meet the chief there when you first arrive, but that's it!).

[Jazhara7]

I just started playing the Secret of Monkey Island yesterday. I am already on Part Two: The Journey. So far, I am enjoying it immensely, and this may become my new favorite Monkey Island game. However, I don't get the purpose of the church in the village or the alley next to it (I know you meet the chief there when you first arrive, but that's it!).

Oh, you will learn it soon enough. (one of them maybe a *bit* later...if it can be called a purpose, in that case)


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[SamNMax]

MI2 ends with the "It was all in my imagination - or was it" thing. Guybrush encounters LeChuck in the underground tunnels beneath Blinky/Dinky/Inky Island, which connect to Melee Island, and builds a voodoo doll of LeChuck and tears the leg off it, then suddenly they "turn into kids" and encounter their parents who tell Guybrush they asked his brother Chuckie to go hunt him down for them because they thought he was lost/missing.

Guybrush falls down the pit, confronts LeChuck in the corridors, Guybrush gets the best of him, LeChuck says he's Guybrush's brother, then you see Guybrush as a little kid at a carnival. closes with LeChuck's sinister laugh, end credits. CMI opens with Guybrush having made his escape in a bumper car.

Both of you seem to be forgeting that After that carnival scene, a shot of Elaine pops up and she says "I wonder what's keeping Guybrush. I sure hope LeChuck hasn't casted some sort of SPELL on him

A lot of people seem to forget that.

[morriss]

MI3 is the best, iyam.

[Kwiksnax]

Monkey Island 2, without question. I thought it was by far the funniest of the four, as well as the most 'grown up'.

[Shodan]

Curse, definitely. Hugely funny, but I also felt that Blood Island had a very lonely air about it.

I reckon MI2 was the best for puzzle-solving, but I never got into it the way I did with the other Monkey Islands.

[Brian]

My vote goes to Monkey Island 2. As LeChuck was truley at his best or should I say worst. Although I liked Guybrush more in the original.

[[toj.cc]Phantom]

I like all of the MI games!

[SamNMax]

I'm reluctant to say that MI1 is better than MI2 after re-reading the 20 Adventures of All-Time article, because of this:

...the ending to this game (MI2) is the single worst in the history of adventure games.

Oh, give me a break. Crystal Key, anyone?

I really liked that ending, too. I guess people don't have appriciation for cliffhangers or bad-guy-wins endings as I do.

[Matt M]

I personally prefer The Secret of Monkey Island out of the MI games :)

[SamNMax]

I'd like to add that it is very hard for a kid who has only been playing adventure games for eight years to say what the greatest adventure of all-time is, but there is nothing that can compare to the feeling I got while playing the Secret of Monkey Island. Two long years and all I could think about was saving Elaine and getting off Monkey Island. Bare in mind that this is 1997. With huge diversions such as 007: Goldeneye on the N64, a game that, without a doubt, would make a kid of age seven drop everything and pick up the controller. But that was how magical MI1 was. Who the hell wouldn't want to be Bond in one of the greatest shooters ever? That didn't interest me enough to take me away from trying to find the lost treasure of Melee Island. Bond was fine enough, but being Guybrush Threepwood, a character that, sadly, no other my age will ever hear of, was better than being in the shoes of any MI6 shmoe.

Thre isn't a game, adventure or otherwise, that will ever make me feel the way Monkey Island 1 did. This is my all-time favorite game, and without question, the greatest game ever created. Nothing has or ever will come close. The game would haunt my dreams and would cost my parents $4,000 by overheating our PC. Heh. It was all worth it, though.

Thanks for the memories, Ron.

[dave_minall]

mi2 by a mile. then mi1, then mi4 and finally mi3

[nightfan]

I just beat The Secret of Monkey Island. I liked it, but when finished the game, I felt a certain incompletion, like there could've been so much more (especially after completing Part 3; I wanted to explore more of Monkey Island!). The inventory was a real disappointment; not the system, but all the items left unused [the T-shirts, the money (after finishing Part One), the staple remover, the dance steps map, Stan's business card, etc.]. But I knew the ones that you could burn in the red hot fire in Part 2: The Journey were unimportant ones. :) And I STILL don't understand the purpose of the alleyway on Melee Island. I know it's where you meet Brinestoop when you first arrive, but besides that there's not much else. There's just that door you can't go through and a poster for the circus.

I like the game, but I think it could've been better. The humour was great, though.

So for now, I'm not going to change my vote for the best Monkey Island game.

I'm also starting MI2 today. Hope it's good!

[SamNMax]

Welcome to the world of red herrings, bud. And after MI2, you'll understand the alleyway.

[CrimsonBlue]

I just beat The Secret of Monkey Island. I liked it, but when finished the game, I felt a certain incompletion, like there could've been so much more (especially after completing Part 3; I wanted to explore more of Monkey Island!). The inventory was a real disappointment; not the system, but all the items left unused [the T-shirts, the money (after finishing Part One), the staple remover, the dance steps map, Stan's business card, etc.]. But I knew the ones that you could burn in the red hot fire in Part 2: The Journey were unimportant ones. :) And I STILL don't understand the purpose of the alleyway on Melee Island. I know it's where you meet Brinestoop when you first arrive, but besides that there's not much else. There's just that door you can't go through and a poster for the circus.

I like the game, but I think it could've been better. The humour was great, though.

So for now, I'm not going to change my vote for the best Monkey Island game.

I'm also starting MI2 today. Hope it's good!

Both the staple remover and the dance steps map was used. The staple was used in a "cutscene" but the dance steps map was a map to the legendary lost treasure of melee island. Or did you get there by pure chance?

[SamNMax]

No, the dance steps were

the fuse to the the cannon that you shoot Guybrush out of to get to Monkey Island

[nightfan]

The staple remover was not needed anymore after Guybrush used it in the back room of the governor's mansion. When I tried to burn it in Part 2, Guybrush said something like "I think this is going to come in handy later." But it didn't!

And the dance steps map was not used for

the fuse for the cannon. The piece of rope found in the cargo hold was used for the fuse. The dance steps map really served no purpose in the game.

[Scoville]

No, the dance steps map really is to lead you to the treasure in part 1, as was said before. In the forest maze, you follow the dance steps and you end up at the treasure. How did people finish the game without knowing that?

[Shodan]

Speaking of useless objects, I seem to recall you could buy a fair few 'useless' things in the junk shop in MI2, like the rock 'n roll collector's plate. I know these served no purpose in advancing the story, but was there anywhere you could use them for kicks, maybe see if it'd get a witty line out of Guybrush? :D

[SamNMax]

the fuse for the cannon. The piece of rope found in the cargo hold was used for the fuse. The dance steps map really served no purpose in the game.

I know but

you lit the fuse by stting the dance steps on fire

[CrimsonBlue]

I know but

you lit the fuse by stting the dance steps on fire


you can also use the feather for that, I think. In case you didn't buy the map... which I think is kinda optional. It's very possible to find the treasure without the map, just by coincidence. I did that the first time. The second time I played the game, I understood what the dance steps meant. Back (first entrance in the back of the screen), Left (walk to the left of the screen), Right (go to the right of the screen).

[SamNMax]

Well, I know the route by heart, so I never even thought twice about the map.

[Udvarnoky]

The T-shirts or business cards can also be burned.

[SamNMax]

Even if there are a few excess items

1) You lose them all in the first act

2) That is absolutly no reason to consider that a con.

[Lucien21]

2,1,3,4 in that order

[SamNMax]

I kind of feel bad for Monkey Island 3 because it's an incredible game, among the best, but it's overshadowed by the powerhouses that are MI1 & 2.

[nightfan]

I got to the treasure of Melee Island by pure chance. I was just randomly clicking through the paths in the forest and I came upon the X. Interesting . . .

Stan's business cards can be burned, too. If you try to burn a business card and you have more than one, Guybrush will say "I think I'll burn them all." :)

I don't think MI3 is overshadowed by MI1 and MI2. I believe that MI3 is liked by many people, mostly because of its humour.

[unohoo]

Hey

Hmm loved the whole series, MI3 I enjoyed the most though. I think the most difficult was probably 2. Can't understand why people don't like the ending, I loved it :p I enjoyed MI4 just as I did the rest, I really don't know why people say the 3d took something away from the game... In what way ? I don't mind it at all :p

Cheers

[KriD]

I love all of them, but my favourite is probably #3.

[copycat]

It's nearly a tie between The Secret and Le Chuck's Revenge.
But I'll go with The Secret Of Monkey Island, my first adventure game, and the only reason for upgrading my Amiga 500 to 1 (!) MB RAM. :)

[Ninth]

The Secret of MI was the first game on my first computer. Ah, nostalgia...

[Avnon]

2, 3, 1, 4 (i hate 4)

[Diduz]

I think that MI1 is by far the best Monkey Island game. It was innovative and fresh.
Monkey 2 is awesome, it's got a terrific ending, but it's too difficult when you play it "complete" (playing it "lite" doesn't count here! ;) ).
Probably I am out of my mind, but I do like MI4 better than MI3. The 3D graphics reminded me more of MI1 & MI2. In addition, MI4 has a more developed story, whereas MI3 is just an elegant mix of funny gags.
All IMHO, of course.
Dom