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Escape from Monkey Island…
I’m not the biggest LucasArts fan, to be honest, but I do enjoy MI..COMI is my favorite of the bunch. That said, I watched a playthrough of Escape from Monkey Island and…What the hell? What the heck happened? Why is it so ugly, and charmless? Why does the writing fall so flat, and Guybrush looks like a creepy drugged up doll? I know this was 2000 but character models in other PC games were much less ugly than that. What happened? Why did they drop the ball so hard?
It’s an enjoyable game, but fair enough if you don’t like it. Although, I wouldn’t necessarily form opinions based on youtube playthroughs. Half the fun is in playing it yourself. And, as I can’t imagine you watched the whole thing, Act 1 is easily the worst part of the game.
I can live with the outdated graphics and awful interface, but the game’s unfunniness (and the complete unlikeability of every single character) is what I can’t stomach. When you’re doing a parody of a parody, you’re doing something wrong.
How Sean Clark and Mike Stemmle went from the brilliant Hit the Road to that mess is a mystery to me.
Not a fan of the series personally. The puzzles and characters never really clicked for me. I’ve played them, but meh…
Think the worst puzzle in EFMI was the time travel rubbish for me.
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You’re all bonkers. Just because it’s the weakest of the four games does NOT make it a bad game. I love Escape from Monkey Island!
@ Dance Magic Dance: are you starting a thread for Simon 3D as well, so we can go for a trifecta of most underrated games? 
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Well, that’s what happens when you switch teams around on franchises, you will definitely get a whole different game. I haven’t played enough of it to fully form an opinion, but that’s cause it was such a letdown coming from CoMI that I couldn’t bring myself to go on. Just too huge of a step in a different direction. Plus, I loved Larry Ahern’s writing and this was nowhere near it (I’m not necessarily talking quality, just style I guess). I don’t even wanna start comparing visuals…
Seriously, I can understand if the humor didn’t click with you, or if you’re disappointed when comparing it to the previous one… and it is true they went overboard with anachronisms, but this game is LOADED with content - plenty of interesting characters (even the side characters, like the shop owners are more developed than some of the main characters in other games), touch of mystery with the plot, not-your-usual bad guy etc… It fell victim to a 3D craze, yes, but you forget about it after 5 minutes.
In many ways, it’s similar to Broken Sword 3 - good game on its own, but “bad” in eyes of critics when compared to the previous games.
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You’re all bonkers. Just because it’s the weakest of the four games does NOT make it a bad game.
I agree - It is the “worst” in the MI series, but it is still a fairly good game.
(And yes, I also enjoyed Simon 3D and KQVII)
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I think Escape is pretty good game as such. Weakest one in the series as such, but still enjoyable and has some good laughs in it. The biggest thing I don’t like is the Monkey Combat bit, not because it’s action scene, nor I find it difficult, but because as it is, I find it dull and as a parody it just is too long.
That said, I watched a playthrough of Escape from Monkey Island and…What the hell? What the heck happened? Why is it so ugly, and charmless?
I completely agree, it really is all that, and there isn’t much I can say about it without repeating myself. Suffice to say, few people were more upset by MI4’s visual direction than I. MI4 is one of many games that was very difficult for me to enjoy because I couldn’t stop thinking about how good it could’ve been if my eyes weren’t bleeding.
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I don’t remember most of it (except for Monkey Kombat) because I only played it once at release and didn’t like it much. But that 3D… It was normal at the time but so ugly…
@MDM did you happen to visit this thread http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/1100, i guess you would like it.
For “worst of the series” - are you counting the Telltale games? Because, surely they were worse than EfMI. EfMI was quite alright by my books, the TT version was very meh.
Personally I’m counting TT games as well, which I liked better than Escape.
I tried to play Escape from MI a few months ago and it wouldn’t work on my windows 7 computer. Does anyone know how to get it to work?
Escape from Monkey Island was probably my worst favorite game from Lucas Arts. I really found the humor in it flat compared to the older Monkey Island games, and the puzzles were unimaginative. Also Monkey Kombat is just sad.
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