4cr writes: "I grew up with Guybrush Threepwood. No exaggeration there. While other kids obsessed over names like Sonic and Mario, I went wild over Sam and Max, over Bernard, Manny, and LeChuck. The name LucasArts didn't just bring up the prerequisite pictures of Star Wars and Indiana Jones in my mind, it brought up the entire genre of the adventure game. Anyone could defeat Bowser with enough determination, but an adventure game made me think. I had to actually stop and consider every situation and every tool, something anathema to the neck-breaking pace of games like Sonic the Hedgehog."
Cultured Vultures: We’ve taken into account every monkey, every eye patch and every undead pirate, so without further ado, here are the Monkey Island games across the franchise’s history ranked from worst to best.
The Humble Tales of Love & Adventure Game Bundle just launched today. It features Indivisible, Blacksad: Under the Skin, and Telltale Batman Shadows Edition, Tales of Monkey Island, and more. As usual, you pay what you want. A percentage goes to support charity.
HPP's I Coleman takes a good hard look at the Monkey Island series, and why the third, fourth, and fifth games in particular are so unfairly maligned.
