Telltale's best game yet...but
Well ive played through all 5 chapters of Monkey Island and i have to say its by far Telltales best game yet. Excellent characters, puzzles and story throughout...
...but i still hate the controls. Even on chapter 5 i still found myself trying to click around the screen to get Guybrush to move. Im a big gamer and very much used to WASD controls, but for adventure games like this it just didn't work and didn't fit into my brain. The amount of times guybrush was there running on the spot next to a bit of scenery whilst i tried to manuvere him to the right place is absurd.
I understand the need to have the game work on a gamepad, but by not having point n click the experience becomes so much worse. I want to sit back with the cat on my lap and play and adventure, not be hunched forward over the keyboard.
Im not going to be overly dramatic as i will still be purchasing telltales games, i just hope they dont put force this control method in all of the ones in the future. Sam n Max 2010, i await thee with trepidation...
...but i still hate the controls. Even on chapter 5 i still found myself trying to click around the screen to get Guybrush to move. Im a big gamer and very much used to WASD controls, but for adventure games like this it just didn't work and didn't fit into my brain. The amount of times guybrush was there running on the spot next to a bit of scenery whilst i tried to manuvere him to the right place is absurd.
I understand the need to have the game work on a gamepad, but by not having point n click the experience becomes so much worse. I want to sit back with the cat on my lap and play and adventure, not be hunched forward over the keyboard.
Im not going to be overly dramatic as i will still be purchasing telltales games, i just hope they dont put force this control method in all of the ones in the future. Sam n Max 2010, i await thee with trepidation...
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Yeah, stealing the name, even though the characters, the story, and the events and the style of the game is still Monkey Island, they totally just took the name and riding on it
As for Monkey Island, what IS on Monkey Island anyway? Cannibals are Gone, Herman is Gone, LeChuck is Gone, Hell is Gone, and the Monkey Head is now Gone. What is left and why do people want to see it again?
Yet is was fine when Ron Gilbert did it with Monkey Island 2:LeChucks Revenge?
How exactly are they stealing the name when the game features many of the earlier games characters along with their respective voice actors? Not to mention many of the same people who worked on the early games in the franchise.
Your logic is quite strange.
It's definitely a controversial position, though I'll continue to mostly respect it while they continue to provide cinematic benefit from it.
Because it was completely unnecessary?
I can't say this is a problem that's impossible to overcome...
No. He meant they were using the title of a well loved series and slapping on something that bore no relation to the earlier games. Yet everything about Telltales games is clearly Monkey Island, and if actually not featuring the island in the game makes this a rip off, then Ron Gilbert ripped off his own game years ago when he developed a sequel.
You're overthinking it. Also even if it's the case, "Ron Gilbert did it first!" is not that much of an awesome comeback. Rob Gilbert himself did it to point out the relevancy between the two games. Also for the sales. This is carried later on.
One can ask the question if the second game and the rest should have the name Monkey Island because, simply, they have no Monkey Island. It's not like irrelevancy between the titles is unacceptable.
I still believe "Stealing" is a misused word there. He even said "it's LIKE stealing", not "it's totally stealing!!!".
The click 'n' drag control isn't the end of the world, but i'm uber lazy and without a gun in my hand or a football at my feet it felt weird to be controlling Guybrush's movements so intimately. That's just me though.
It doesn't help that I, like many these days, am playing on a laptop with a touchpad. I hate touchpads for games because they're so much more faff than a normal mouse. Then again, I very rarely have a laptop on a desk where I can use a proper mouse.
Telltale were good to include keyboard controls to move Guybrush around though. If I couldn't use my faithful cursor keys then getting around the game would have taken a very long time!! I can imagine myself relying on clicking the hotspots to move him around the screen XD