Whats your take on ending message of MI:SE?

So guys whats your take on the ending message. To me it sounds theres more games to come about Monkey Island! And that the possibility is open for MI2 to be remade!
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  • edited July 2009
    Duh, what's it?

    Can anyone provide a video link?
  • edited July 2009
    »Guybrush will return«.
    Not sure, but I think this also appeared at the end of the original Monkey Island… because Ron planned three MI-games right from the start.
  • edited July 2009
    It's a James Bond related joke
  • edited July 2009
    Majus wrote: »
    »Guybrush will return«.
    Not sure, but I think this also appeared at the end of the original Monkey Island… because Ron planned three MI-games right from the start.

    yeah it was in the original game, i dont think we should read too much into this. But MI:SE is topping the bestsellers list on steam and if it stays that way for a bit, I'm sure we'll see more remakes :D
  • edited July 2009
    tmsmyth4 wrote: »
    yeah it was in the original game, i dont think we should read too much into this. But MI:SE is topping the bestsellers list on steam and if it stays that way for a bit, I'm sure we'll see more remakes :D
    Tales was also pulled back onto the Bestseller list after it simply dropped off it yesterday. I suppose at least a good number of Steam users wanted to buy both at the same time.
  • edited July 2009
    tmsmyth4 wrote: »
    yeah it was in the original game
    Really? I don't remember that. I should re-play the original MI before playing this special edition...
  • edited July 2009
    Really? I don't remember that. I should re-play the original MI before playing this special edition...

    I don't remember it either... I remember the "turn off your computer and go to sleep" message...
  • edited July 2009
    Given the amount being sold of SoMI, and the resources now in place for such projects for LA, it would be idiotic not to take advantage to skim the cream off.

    By the looks of it, without specific figures, LA is making a killing from a relatively small project. They'd probably drop only a few sales if they bumped an extra £5/$5 to the price, and they'll know this now with SoMILRSE.

    In fact, to be honest, the only reason I could think of for having a semi-new game at such a cheap price, apart from lack of actual CD etc. Is that they're looking to generate maximum sales and interest so they can invigorate the product for extra adventures. In which case, it's a dead cert. That Guybrush will return :)
  • TeaTea
    edited July 2009
    tmsmyth4 wrote: »
    yeah it was in the original game, i dont think we should read too much into this. But MI:SE is topping the bestsellers list on steam and if it stays that way for a bit, I'm sure we'll see more remakes :D

    So we know what to do - Do not buy the SE from Steam.

    One remake is bad enough.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited July 2009
    Chances are pretty high for a "LeChuck's revenge"-remake, I'd say, judging from sales of the first SE. However, if LEC doesn't ... sorry, "grow a pair" is the correct colloquialism, they are very likely to repeat the straight-overpaint-remake mistake they did with this first one.
  • edited July 2009
    TheJoe wrote: »
    So we know what to do - Do not buy the SE from Steam.

    One remake is bad enough.

    I really didnt remember seeing that msg in the old game. I remember something about the dog, turning off your cmputer, going out to play. Man i feel really stupid now! I kinda was seeing like something new.
  • edited July 2009
    It's not in the original game. After the credits the words "Turn your computer off and go to sleep" appears and flashes forever. Doesn't say "Guybrush Will Return." Unless it's in the disk version. I haven't tried beating the disk version and watching through the credit sequence.
  • edited July 2009
    Everlast wrote: »
    I really didnt remember seeing that msg in the old game. I remember something about the dog, turning off your cmputer, going out to play. Man i feel really stupid now! I kinda was seeing like something new.
    I'm pretty sure that's LeChuck's Revenge, isn't it? With the long list of things to do now that you've finished the game and should now go outside?
  • edited July 2009
    I'm pretty sure that's LeChuck's Revenge, isn't it? With the long list of things to do now that you've finished the game and should now go outside?

    At the end of MI1 it's shown just one suggestion, and it's "turn off your computer and go to sleep", while at the end of MI2 a long list of suggestions is cycled, such as "go write your name in the snow", "go walk the dog", etc.
  • edited July 2009
    It's not in the original game. After the credits the words "Turn your computer off and go to sleep" appears and flashes forever. Doesn't say "Guybrush Will Return." Unless it's in the disk version. I haven't tried beating the disk version and watching through the credit sequence.

    I have only played the disc version and I remember the guybrush will return message from that. I may be completely wrong, might have to do a run through just to check. Just finishing off my speed-run through MISE for the achievements so might leave that until tomorrow coz i really shouldnt complete the game 3times in 2 days!
  • edited July 2009
    tmsmyth4 wrote: »
    I have only played the disc version and I remember the guybrush will return message from that. I may be completely wrong, might have to do a run through just to check. Just finishing off my speed-run through MISE for the achievements so might leave that until tomorrow coz i really shouldnt complete the game 3times in 2 days!
    Or you could do the auto-win cheat to skip to the credits. I have the DOS CD version, and I didn't see "Guybrush will Return" on that.
  • edited July 2009
    Having played both the first two games in the last month I can assure you, Secret has "turn off your computer and go to sleep" while the SE has "guybrush threepwood will return" (and I note no mention of Cobb or the Seagull appearing curtosy of Loom. For shame!)
    Lechucks revenge has a long list of things starting with "now go do something more productive like... " it includes "Have a yelling contest with your neighbours dog" "alphabetise your sock drawer" etc etc.

    What I made of the se line? Immediately I thought of TOMI, though it could possibly mean they're thinking of reskinning Lechuck's revenge as well.
  • edited July 2009
    Or you could do the auto-win cheat to skip to the credits. I have the DOS CD version, and I didn't see "Guybrush will Return" on that.

    yea my bad, no idea why i thought that.

    wow thats actually quite exciting, what it could mean we'll have to wait and see. would love a mi2 remake just for the voices.
  • edited July 2009
    Having played both the first two games in the last month I can assure you, Secret has "turn off your computer and go to sleep" while the SE has "guybrush threepwood will return" (and I note no mention of Cobb or the Seagull appearing curtosy of Loom. For shame!)
    Lechucks revenge has a long list of things starting with "now go do something more productive like... " it includes "Have a yelling contest with your neighbours dog" "alphabetise your sock drawer" etc etc.

    What I made of the se line? Immediately I thought of TOMI, though it could possibly mean they're thinking of reskinning Lechuck's revenge as well.

    Well now my hopes are up again. Probably we can expect a 2nd special edition with Lechuck's Revenge. I would really really like it!
  • edited July 2009
    Chances are pretty high for a "LeChuck's revenge"-remake, I'd say, judging from sales of the first SE. However, if LEC doesn't ... sorry, "grow a pair" is the correct colloquialism, they are very likely to repeat the straight-overpaint-remake mistake they did with this first one.

    I don't consider it to be a mistake. It was a "special edition" not a full remake. It meant the animation suffered in places, but it kept it very true to the original, and being able to switch back and forth on the fly was brilliant, that wouldn't work with a total remake.

    The art style is debatable, but personally I quite liked it, and I look forward to seeing LeChuck's Revenge being done in a similar way.
  • edited July 2009
    It was a "special edition" not a full remake.

    I'm so glad you said this. I keep hearing people referring to MI:SE as a 'remake' and it really isn't. A remake would have been something much closer to the drawing that Bill Tiller made, showing what the Scumm Bar might have looked like, had a remake happened.

    There's a reason this title is called 'Special Edition' because it's a tarted up version of the original Monkey Island (rather like Maniac Mansion becoming Maniac Mansion Deluxe).

    By the way, I don't think I've posted on this forum before (despite being a Tell-Tale fan since the days of Bone), so.. hello all! :)
  • edited July 2009
    I don't consider it to be a mistake. It was a "special edition" not a full remake. It meant the animation suffered in places, but it kept it very true to the original, and being able to switch back and forth on the fly was brilliant, that wouldn't work with a total remake.

    The art style is debatable, but personally I quite liked it, and I look forward to seeing LeChuck's Revenge being done in a similar way.

    i too liked most of the art style... but the new style of lechuck and hair of guybrush could be better... lechucks looks more like a glowing human with floating hair than the evil ghostpirate he is supposed to be
  • edited July 2009
    At this point I think MI2:SE is not a if, but when.
  • edited July 2009
    PariahKing wrote: »
    At this point I think MI2:SE is not a if, but when.

    Yeah, especially with the amount of money they are making. It's so weird, it's like LucasArts was like "Man, we're losing money...wait a minute! We're sitting on a gold mine right here!"
  • edited July 2009
    Seriously who would've believed me if I said 3 months ago that the Steam top seller list would lead off with a The Secret of Monkey Island remake outselling L4D, ARMA 2, Counter Strike Source and Tales of Monkey Island which was formerly dueling with Street Fighter 4 for control over the number one sales spot.
  • edited July 2009
    plrichard wrote: »
    It's so weird, it's like LucasArts was like "Man, we're losing money...wait a minute! We're sitting on a gold mine right here!"
    That's nowhere near as weird as LucasArts not listening to about a billion people giving them that exact advice over the last 10 years or so!
  • edited July 2009
    Davies wrote: »
    That's nowhere near as weird as LucasArts not listening to about a billion people giving them that exact advice over the last 10 years or so!

    That's not weird. It's LucasArts.
  • edited July 2009
    plrichard wrote: »
    That's not weird. It's LucasArts.
    Oh yeah... I'm always getting the words 'weird' and 'Anti-Christ' mixed up, D'oh! :D
  • edited July 2009
    Yes, but a long time ago far far away it was LucasArts/LucasFilms Games with a capital L... Then, it was just LucasArts doing Star Wars Games, Star Wars Games and Star Wars Games... And now, it's between these two situations... Much better than the previous one...
  • edited July 2009
    I think it shows the effect of LucasArts' new president.
  • edited July 2009
    I think it shows the effect of LucasArts' new president.
    Exactly.
  • edited July 2009
    Jim Ward was an ass (and by "ass" I don't mean "donkey"). Good thing he left.
  • edited July 2009
    TheJoe wrote: »
    So we know what to do - Do not buy the SE from Steam.

    One remake is bad enough.

    Dude. your annoying. no one cares what haters think.
    People are going to buy this AMAZING game no matter what you say.
  • edited July 2009
    GozzoMan wrote: »
    I don't remember it either... I remember the "turn off your computer and go to sleep" message...
    Same with me. I got the "turn your computer off" line, never "Guybrush will return". (It's been only two weeks since I played the first two MI games, so it can't be my memory...;) )Maybe there were two versions of the old game? My inventory in SoMI also never showed pictures but only words.
    I think - or hope at least - the message at the end means there will be a LCR SE, too.
  • edited July 2009
    Mad Mary wrote: »
    Same with me. I got the "turn your computer off" line, never "Guybrush will return". (It's been only two weeks since I played the first two MI games, so it can't be my memory...;) )Maybe there were two versions of the old game? My inventory in SoMI also never showed pictures but only words.
    I think - or hope at least - the message at the end means there will be a LCR SE, too.

    The enhanced CD-ROM version of SMI had the same interface as MI2, with nine verbs and picture-based inventory. All versions of SMI - besides SMI:SE, of course - ends with the "turn off your computer and go to sleep" message, though.
  • edited July 2009
    Yeah, I'd kill for an SE of MI2..And then Loom. I'd love to see a remake with everything they had wanted to create in the original game..(From what I've heard alot was cut from the original idea of the game.) Loom: Extended Version. :)
  • edited July 2009
    If/When they spruce up CMI I want them to leave the art alone!! maybe modify the sprites a bit so they flow better on a modern HDTV..

    But even by todays standards I think that games art style beats probably about 80% of todays games market. Easily!

    I am hoping for "Special Editions" of all the classics.

    And Telltale are going to be doing some very interesting stuff. That goes without saying :)
  • edited July 2009
    Novotnus wrote: »
    Jim Ward was an ass (and by "ass" I don't mean "donkey"). Good thing he left.

    Well the interviews you can find on the net speak a lot for themselves. This guy came from EA and he only knew as business model to milk franchises which EA successfully did at that time.

    He went for a low risk strategy, the problem with this is, that if you do that this wears thin after a few years, Star Wars held longer than I expected especially if you turn out games in mass production milking it over and over again.
  • edited July 2009
    Definately (I hope!) a remake of MI2! First thing I did when I fininshed MI:SE was google "guybrush threepwood will return" :) There's no way that was in the original, I would have noticed in my 10+ play-throughs!
  • edited July 2009
    Im probably one of the few people who is against this whole SE thing.

    I feel so alone.

    -Do you really need a special edition of LeChuck Revenge and all the calssics?
    -Dont you love them just the way they are in all their vintage and pixelated glory?
    -Wouldnt it be much better to encourage LucasArts to make new adventures instead of doing new "Special Editions"?
    -Are you happy when hollywood makes remake after remake of classic movies?
    -Would you be thrilled if George Lucas decides to make a "Special Edition" of Raiders Of The Lost Ark with improved special effects?
    -Would you encourage him to make the same with the rest of the movies?
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