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Not another Monkey Island game (unfortunately). This is from 2013. After that Ron crowdfunded and built Thimbleweed Park (www.thimbleweedpark.com), an old school adventure game using some (not all) of these ideas. I played it and it is just as great as the best old ones.

From time to time Ron complains that Disney wouldn't sell him the rights to Monkey Island. The only reason I believe he doesn't build one more.

Edit: he kept the verbs in Thimbleweed Park and compromised a little in the tutorial (there is an easy mode).

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eh...I bought and played Thimbleweed. It's cute. The artwork is really pretty. The characters are funny. The music is fun and I do enjoy the soundtrack.

The story .. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone. You should play it if you're a fan of old sucmmVM/sierra games. They poke fun at the whole genre. It's pretty cute and I was really into it at first. But it devolves into a weird meta/introspective thing and I felt the writing to a bit lazy.

Telltale has really helped bridge the adventure game into the modern era. I feel like Thimbleweed was a step back.

A much needed step back!

Telltale has morphed into "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories. Very well executed, but they feel less like games to me than something like Thimbleweed Park.

I feel the best example of an 'adventure game of the modern era' is Broken Age (by Tim Schafer with Doublefine). It's a very modern take on the whole genre, and not a 'choose your own adventure' type of thing

I really loved the first half of Broken Age and felt let down by the second. The puzzles were the perfect difficulty in the first, the artwork was amazing, the characters captivating.

The second half didn't have very many new locations, the puzzles turned insanely hard and the story made no sense at all with super weird and nonsensical reveals. It's sad because the art, music and production value were way up there. Still glad I bought it.

thanks - I loved these games as a kid - havent been following Ron in a long time - but will now have my next weekend's entertainment lined up!

I must say, MI didn't age well.

The humor was pretty awesome back then, but now it just feels awkward all the time :/

I thinkk it is more that you aged, rather than the game. It's great puerile teen-age humor about bodily fluids, zombies, pirates wrapped in a picaresque coming of age story -- the perfect mix for a nerdy teenager, not so much for a cynical middle-aged seen-it-all...

Could be, but I know a bunch of old games that are still fun today. A Link to the Past, Fallout, Super Mario World, Tetris, Bomberman...

Your first comment was about the humor of MI being awkward now. Outside of Fallout, none of the games you listed have much writing in them, let alone humor. They are all still great* because they have such tight gameplay.

* Love Fallout, but it's probably the hardest game to go back to out of the list you gave.

Agree, Fallout is too slow for today's standards, the same way old movies are slow

Having recently forced my partner to play through both MI1 and MI2, I must disagree. We played the fan-created hack which is the original SCUMM version but with the full voice from the remastered version hacked on top, and it's super great. We laughed. A lot.

Why the hack? I think you can switch to the old graphics in the remastered version. Or does that switch voices too?

Yes, you can't have the voices with the old graphics in MI1 Special Edition so you need the hack. Unfortunate oversight since I think many people would like to enjoy it that way. I believe they made it possible in the MI2 remaster but never changed this for the first one.

It does switch voices. But also we were playing on a platform not supported by the remastered version, so we needed to use ScummVM anyway.

I didn't even know this existed! Link? Or even just a good search term??

http://www.gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/

How appropriate! You fight like a cow!

My perception of the humor is still colored from when I beat the game as a child, so I guess that's something to keep in mind when I say that I still thought the whole thing was wonderful when I played through the special edition a couple of months ago.

I played through it for the first time with the remake. Not always laugh out loud funny, but some bits were so witty and creative I loved it (the sword fighting bit was great).

Thimbleweed Parks' website claims there's an Android version. Is that the case?

Not yet. From the home page:

> Avaliable now on Windows, Mac, Xbox One, and Linux. iOS, Android, and other platforms will follow soon after.

I was really, really happy, though, that Linux is supported. The gaming situation on Linux has improved a lot over the years, but the number of available titles is still far behind Windows.

Oh, tsk. I read that carelessly as one list and missed that period after "linux."

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