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I probably would have loved this game series. I couldn't play very long because I found the constant ™ after words intrusive and definitely an impediment to im

I probably would have loved this game series. I couldn't play very long because I found the constant ™ after words intrusive and definitely an impediment to immersion. I can't be the only one.

tommek4077 5y ago
You f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ talk like a dairy Farmer! ™
chucky 5y ago
It's a joke that probably made a lot more sense in the 90s. Back then people would use ™ everywhere, in logos, whenever certain brands were mentioned, etc. In my opinion it fits the general humor of the game perfectly, but I can definitely see how it would could be annoying.
- hereforphone 5y ago
  Wow, that was a joke? Did everyone but me just 'get' that, or was it a meme at the time (discussed regularly in forums) and I just wasn't in on it? But still annoying.
  - egypturnash 5y ago
    I was nineteen when the game came out and I got that joke. It's an important part of selling the broader joke that the world of Monkey Island is probably more of a pirate-themed amusement park, owned by a faceless corporation, than it is an actual world.
    - hereforphone 5y ago
      Interesting, thanks.
  - pcthrowaway 5y ago
    Just to weight in here, I completely got that also. I probably would have played somewhere in the mid-90s, when I was ~11-13. As far as I knew, forums didn't even exist at the time (Of course, there probably were forums, and of course mailing lists and usenet were around before that, but I didn't know about them). It really just fit the humour style of the game, not taking itself too seriously. To be honest, it was far from the funniest joke in the game.
sgt 5y ago
You are the Only One™.
adolfojp 5y ago
It was definitely a joke and it was in line with the humor of the game. The game broke the fourth wall all the time. One of the characters told you to buy the game Loom. The troll on the bridge was George Lucas with a troll mask on. They had a ton of anachronistic elements like soda vending machines in the age of piracy. At the end of the game Guybrush reveals that he learned to never pay more than 20 bucks for a video game.

I probably would have loved this game series. I couldn't play very long because I found the constant ™ after words intrusive and definitely an impediment to immersion. I can't be the only one.

tommek4077 5y ago

You f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ talk like a dairy Farmer! ™

chucky 5y ago

It's a joke that probably made a lot more sense in the 90s. Back then people would use ™ everywhere, in logos, whenever certain brands were mentioned, etc. In my opinion it fits the general humor of the game perfectly, but I can definitely see how it would could be annoying.

hereforphone 5y ago
Wow, that was a joke? Did everyone but me just 'get' that, or was it a meme at the time (discussed regularly in forums) and I just wasn't in on it? But still annoying.
- egypturnash 5y ago
  I was nineteen when the game came out and I got that joke. It's an important part of selling the broader joke that the world of Monkey Island is probably more of a pirate-themed amusement park, owned by a faceless corporation, than it is an actual world.
  - hereforphone 5y ago
    Interesting, thanks.
- pcthrowaway 5y ago
  Just to weight in here, I completely got that also. I probably would have played somewhere in the mid-90s, when I was ~11-13. As far as I knew, forums didn't even exist at the time (Of course, there probably were forums, and of course mailing lists and usenet were around before that, but I didn't know about them). It really just fit the humour style of the game, not taking itself too seriously. To be honest, it was far from the funniest joke in the game.

sgt 5y ago

You are the Only One™.

adolfojp 5y ago

It was definitely a joke and it was in line with the humor of the game. The game broke the fourth wall all the time. One of the characters told you to buy the game Loom. The troll on the bridge was George Lucas with a troll mask on. They had a ton of anachronistic elements like soda vending machines in the age of piracy. At the end of the game Guybrush reveals that he learned to never pay more than 20 bucks for a video game.