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The Other Secret of Monkey Island
- roschdal 17y agoMonkey Island: greatest game ever.
- andygeers 17y agoThere's something really inspiring about creating something quite as enduring as Monkey Island, that still has people talking about it all these years later.
- metamemetics 17y agoas far as Schafer games go, it was much better than Psychonauts and a true classic but not as good as Grim Fandango.
- artagnon 17y agoThe Monkey Island theme song gives me an adrenaline rush.
- syl 17y agoInteresting theory, but I thought the secret was "Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."
- tarkin2 17y agoThat has to be the most satisfying theory yet. The "it's just a theme park" theory robs MI of its wonderful story-telling.
- chuhnk 17y agoThey need to bring out a movie. But I only think they'd do it justice if done in CGI rather than acted out with real people.
- ja2ke 17y agoI love that this game series is still spawning theories like this, 20 years later.
- danteembermage 17y agoIn the first game, swashbuckling was handled by using insults to demoralize the pirates until you were victorious. You "leveled up" in sword fighting by learning witty comments. Then, at the final duel, all of the punchlines become useful for different insults. Source of this fascinating gem of video-game writing: Orson Scott Card.
- teamonkey 17y agoUgh. I wish I hadn't learned that he was behind them.
- jacobolus 17y agoOrson Scott Card is a complex and fascinating person and writer, who writes nuanced and sympathetic characters (Athiests, Catholics, independent women, housewives, nuns, children, Aliens, etc.) with not-clichéd interrelationships. I find knee-jerk reactions like yours here pretty odd.
- ranza 17y agooh wow! my head was just blown
- tocomment 17y agoIs there anywhere I can play Monkey island right now? Online perhaps or download to Linux? I've never played it and would love to see what the fuss is about.
- teamonkey 17y agoSteam, Xbox Live Arcade or iPhone.
- stevejohnson 17y agoScummVM will let you play a lot of old games in that style. You will have to "acquire" the data files for it. http://www.scummvm.org/ http://www.scummvm.org/