Guybrush looks different

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  • edited June 2009
    I love the new look. MI2 would probably be my favorite cause the character image plays a lot on to my imagination. Though overall like the CMI3 game style best.

    But no one can say TMI6 Guybrush looks bad. I mean, c'mon! Look at him!

    HD Guybrush Threepwood Concept Art (1700x2400)
    HD Guybrush Threepwood Screenshot (1280x720)
  • edited June 2009
    @Guybrush Threepwood

    I couldn't agree with you more, I've actually made the case before that he doesn't look like the Curse version at all (which frankly creeps me out, but I won't go over that again), but instead he looks like Telltale's own rendition of the Guybrush Threepwood presented by the Lechuck's Revenge box art.

    Lechuck's Revenge box art (thanks, mixnmojo!).

    Now, look at Guybrush, he's visible left of Lechuck, he looks almost exactly the same as Telltale's version, except he's a little less cartoony looking. He's got the trademark bigger forehead/smaller hair balance that he had in the box art for the first two games (versus the smaller forehead/bigger hair), and you'll notice that on the box art of Lechuck's Revenge, he also has a goatee-ish beard, at least his face fur is most prominent on the chin. Even the hairstyles match.

    This is why I was instantly pleased by the direction that TTG took, it's not everyone's Guybrush, but this is the MI 2 Guybrush, in other words, my Guybrush. I'm actually glad that I'm not alone in thinking that he shouldn't have been like the Curse one, and he isn't (see the pictures above posted by someone else for reference).
  • edited June 2009
    personaly like HoppyDragon's version conect the moustace and the beard and remove earrings and wow there is a great Guybrush. Maybe a bit more distance between mouth and mustache so you could easier make funny expressions, for perfection. But the Guybrush we get is a nice compromice beween the different versions.
  • edited June 2009
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)
  • edited June 2009
    taumel wrote: »
    LeChuck looks kind of thin, i liked him the best looking this way:

    -> http://mojoart.mixnmojo.com/original-art/lechucks-revenge/cover-art/lechucks-revenge_box_front_1600x2017.jpg

    Hmmm whilst looking at the picture i guess this would be the best now looking Guybrush as well.
    That's the best box art in the series, one of my all time favourite box art pictures.

    That's the style I'd like to see a new 2D Monkey Island game in, should that ever be made.
  • edited June 2009
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)

    correction: Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder ;)
  • edited June 2009
    maybe its because i started out with MI2 where guybrush had a beard.
    Why did they remove it again in 3?
    After he got married i would understand it, but why shave of a perfectly healthy beard for no reason.
  • edited June 2009
    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    maybe its because i started out with MI2 where guybrush had a beard.
    Why did they remove it again in 3?
    After he got married i would understand it, but why shave of a perfectly healthy beard for no reason.

    Because no one ever decides to change their appearance...
  • edited June 2009
    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    maybe its because i started out with MI2 where guybrush had a beard.
    Why did they remove it again in 3?
    After he got married i would understand it, but why shave of a perfectly healthy beard for no reason.

    Speculation ties his bearlessness (and somewhat more youthful look) in CMI to the ending of MI2.

    I was a bit confused by the beginning of MI2 because his sprite clearly has a beard, but when he's telling the two other pirates that he's planning on embarking on a big challenge, they ask if he's trying to grow a mustache or a beard. It wasn't until the box art that it made sense, the sprite didn't convey the thinness and shabbiness of his beard attempt. One of the things I like about the new TMI Guybrush is that the goatee more directly conveys another botched beard-growing attempt.
  • edited June 2009
    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    maybe its because i started out with MI2 where guybrush had a beard.
    Why did they remove it again in 3?
    After he got married i would understand it, but why shave of a perfectly healthy beard for no reason.

    Perhaps he caught it in lift doors.
  • edited June 2009
    I like each version so far... each has worked for the game it was featured in.. I do not like the hair that LA has going on but I will get used to it... I think Telltale has got a pretty good continuation of his look....

    I wonder if people debate the changes Mario has gone through this wholeheartedly.
  • edited June 2009
    I like the look of this Guybrush reminds me a lot of the MI 2 one which was my favourite out of all of the different Guybrush's. There is a bit of the COMI one in the face.
  • edited June 2009
    I agree... I could be wrong but it does sort of look like they tried to blend all the versions into one.
  • edited June 2009
    This is why I was instantly pleased by the direction that TTG took, it's not everyone's Guybrush, but this is the MI 2 Guybrush, in other words, my Guybrush. I'm actually glad that I'm not alone in thinking that he shouldn't have been like the Curse one, and he isn't (see the pictures above posted by someone else for reference).

    Me too, pal. You're not alone :)
    But we surely go against the grain, 90% people like CMI's Guybrush more.
    I'll never understand WHY.
  • edited June 2009
    Me too, pal. You're not alone :)
    But we surely go against the grain, 90% people like CMI's Guybrush more.
    I'll never understand WHY.
    For me it's not necessarily Guybrush, but the game in its entire form. I wouldn't have minded if he was shorter and had a bit more flesh on the bones, so to speak.
  • edited June 2009
    that is exactly how I feel Wicked Mouse
  • edited June 2009
    ...and the hair...the hair...fix the hair...

    /OCD

    Sorry, the SoMI remake has worsened my condition. I swear, a few decades from now, Guybrush will be known as Bad Hairdo Guy if Tales of Monkey Island falls out of the popular view.

    ...guyhair...freakwood...

    /OCDMOAR
  • edited June 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I wonder if people debate the changes Mario has gone through this wholeheartedly.

    Mario's in-game appearance has varied a bit, but in terms of character design, he's virtually identical to the promotional art from the original Super Mario Bros. games.


    1988:

    Super-mario-bros-2-usa-characters.jpg

    1996:

    Mario64_-_Dire_Dire_Docks.png

    2007:

    SuperMarioGalaxy.jpg

    Same outfit, same shape, same face... Guybrush basically changes more between every new game, than Mario has over the course of his entire existence.

    :)
  • edited June 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I like each version so far... each has worked for the game it was featured in.. I do not like the hair that LA has going on but I will get used to it... I think Telltale has got a pretty good continuation of his look....

    I wonder if people debate the changes Mario has gone through this wholeheartedly.

    a better example would be Link from the Zelda games and yes, ppl do complain about his appearance from time and time.
  • edited June 2009
    I was joking the Mario comment was not supposed to be taken so literally.
  • edited June 2009
    I just commented on it because I felt Mario's total lack of change made an interesting contrast to Guybrush's near-constant change.
  • edited July 2009
    this is my 1st post, and I just have to say: hate the goatee ;-)
    hope someone codes a fan-patch to take it away :O
    kinda like the way he looks in Curse.Thats at least "my" Guybrush. My opinion :-) Cant please everybody
  • edited July 2009
    I think he looks great in this one.
  • edited July 2009
    Palu wrote: »
    this is my 1st post, and I just have to say: hate the goatee ;-)
    hope someone codes a fan-patch to take it away :O
    kinda like the way he looks in Curse.Thats at least "my" Guybrush. My opinion :-) Cant please everybody

    Well, while I also prefer the art style in Curse the most, and always find myself drawing swirly clouds in my drawings, the goatee was Telltale's way of pleasing those fans that are so in love with the Monkey Island 2 version of the character. :)
  • edited July 2009
    I really feel they did a great job finding a nice blend of all the previous versions of Guybrush
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