CFD!'s Rob Rich returns to the high seas with the second HD remake of Guybrush Threepwood's adventures:
"Let’s skip the expected pirate quotes and get right to the point: Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge is a remake of the sequel to one of LucasArts’ flagship adventure games, which was itself remade in HD not too long ago. Seeing as the sequel was largely considered to be the best in the series (personally, I think Curse of Monkey Island deserves that title), the only way the remake could ever be considered bad is if they royally screwed everything up. Spoiler alert: They didn’t."
You may have head of The 7 Deadly Sins in Christianity, but what about The 7 Deadly Sins of Game Design? Jason Capp is here to break it down.
Ya, find three items, kill three mini bosses, go to three dungeons. Things of three is a tired video game sweet spot number.
For me, it's collect-a-thons. They weren't fun in Donkey Kong or Banjo and Kazooie and they still aren't fun now. Why create these wonderfully oversized, detailed worlds if you are going to just supplement gameplay with ambiguous item fetch-quests.
There are exceptions, of course, But by and large, it just shows laziness on the part of the developer.
Good article, by the way!
Yeah. It is funny some of the design decisions made by developers. Another one that irks me is unskippable cutscenes, especially after you die after the cutscene and are forced to rewatch the unskippable cutscene AGAIN. I mean, who thinks that a great idea?! haha
how about not allowing cutscene skipping
that's flat out inexcusable in any game in the last 10 years
this comments are demanding a "The 4 Horsemen of The Apocalypse of Game Design Flaws" sequel
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.
Carlos writes "Adventure, secrets and all that precious booty! AYE AYE CAPTAIN! – and all without the sickness of the seven seas. That’s right as for two weeks Monkey Island 2: Special Edition is free for all Xbox Live Gold members."
I suggest anyone with an xbone or 360 get this game, along with broken sword 1 and 2 , monkey island are in the highest tier of point and click adventures. 100 percent recommend them to anyone the humour alone is worth it😊
edit: @ Chris, well I hope you enjoy it some find point and click adventures tedious because they aren't all action but I have always been a fan of them myself ever since text adventures which where basically the predecessors of them such as the Lord of the Rings text adventure games, dodgey geezers (not many people have played it unless from the UK and old like me ) , Balrog (classic text adventure made by a random guy for a competition) and the hobbit, all worth giving a go if you can handle playing a text adventure.
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Come on, Lucasarts, give us Curse of Monkey Island: Special Edition!
I just can't get into this series. I've tried but it just doesn't appeal to me :(
Someday, someday I will play this...
Still have the Special Edition of the first one on Steam... Still haven't played more than about 10 minutes into it.
Never played the game... should I buy this version or the original on Steam?