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FoolyCharged posted:I just noticed that the plaid on Stan's jacket is a fixed grid, so that when he moves the pattern on it changes. This has been the case in every single Monkey Island game. It started out as a graphical limitation, but it's something they've refused to give up. It's beautiful.
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FoolyCharged posted:I just noticed that the plaid on Stan's jacket is a fixed grid, so that when he moves the pattern on it changes. SirSamVimes posted:This has been the case in every single Monkey Island game. It started out as a graphical limitation, but it's something they've refused to give up. It's beautiful. Yeah, that was a trick they used in a lot of animations to do patterned clothes without having to actually redraw the pattern constantly but by the time the third game had rolled around the devs had decided that it was an integral part of Stan's design. It really does work well with his crazed arm waving too 
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The last video for chapter four has been recorded, I thought it was going to take two but a lot of "courses" were very short to complete. It'll be up tomorrow, I'll also be recording the first episode of chapter five for either Monday or Tuesday. I completely forgot how this chapter ended, it almost brought a tear to my eye.
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Aug 9, 2014 19:56
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I've been pleasantly surprised by the writing throughout this chapter. For all the general Monkey Island goofiness, it's been quite engaging.
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Tales Of Monkey Island - The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood 05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue0ZrI1jmh8 Guybrush manages to complete the rest of the courses and saves the day. Surely he must, chapter five will be one long party, right? RIGHT?!
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Shady Amish Terror posted:I've been pleasantly surprised by the writing throughout this chapter. For all the general Monkey Island goofiness, it's been quite engaging. Yeah it has gotten a lot better. One of the lines near the end of the chapter is a nice callback to the first episode I really wasn't expecting. But then there's stuff like the repeat of callbacks to the earlier games that sort of brings them all down just a bit.
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That is the most brilliant Lost Woods puzzle I have ever seen. However, if the court only deals with pirate on pirate crimes, why imprison voodoo lady. And it wasn't quite addressed here but hinted at but I'm going to call MlF not being dead. La singe was completely ineffectual at holding elaine back or dealing with guybrush in the first episode, I really can't imagine him being able to out-swordfight someone who was evenly matched with Elaine. Why she'd imply he did or other details I have no idea.
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Rita Repulsa posted:That is the most brilliant Lost Woods puzzle I have ever seen. Plus la Singe doesn't explicitly admit to killing her. I suspect what happened will have something to do with Guybrush's ultimate fate.
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Aug 10, 2014 21:58
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LeChuck probably killed her.
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LeChuck was in prison at the time though.
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Come on guys, it was clearly Guybrushes magnetic monkey friend seeking vengeance for being framed.
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Wow. That. That was a thing that just happened. Goddamn.
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Iretep posted:LeChuck was in prison at the time though. Seriously, Guybrush just spent several episodes breaking in and out of this prison, and LeChuck has been actively trying to do things Guybrush's way. Also, we're playing a Monkey Island game, and villain-of-the-week De Singe apparently knew nothing about it, so it defaults to LeChuck.
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I drew a thing a while ago, and I feel it's a perfect opportunity to share it.
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Just a note that went unmentioned, you pulled a lion's paw out of an injured thorn.
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Le Chuck really baited Guybrush into that line. That was actually quite cool.
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Also, when LeSange was thrown to his untidy demise, there was the very beginning of a Wilhelm scream.
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Air is lava! posted:Le Chuck really baited Guybrush into that line. That was actually quite cool. It's really well done. It simultaneously makes you laugh and feel like you've been kicked in the gut.
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Er... WHICH LINE?  (I'm looking at the imdb page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1538526/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu for your reference.) On that note, I'm guessing the fact that Guybrush had a hand chopped off without any repercussions earlier is explained by Pox... And the fact that after the removal of the Pox he didn't bleed out in agony...? What I'm getting at is, does his sudden reversal to vincibility have to do with anything else except "narrative" logic?
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Le Chuck: "Something something unholy matrimony." Guybrush: "Unholy what?" Le Chuck: "Unholy this!" Then he stabs him the same way Guybrush stabbed him when he said that in episode 1.
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Oh. That's certainly something Le Chuck would remember. Hurr.
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I liked the fingergun. Guybrush's severed hand is a cool dude.
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I love the name for episode 4. It's called 'The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood' and you spend the majority of the episode puzzling your way out of the trial to avoid Guybrush's execution. Then Guybrush gets stabbed anyway.
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Procrastinator posted:I love the name for episode 4. It's called 'The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood' and you spend the majority of the episode puzzling your way out of the trial to avoid Guybrush's execution. Then Guybrush gets stabbed anyway. The title is great misdirection as it implies that the execution was going to be by the townspeople's hands then BAM, LeChuck was your executioner the whole time.
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Gotta admit, I was legitimately mildly surprised by what really should have been the most obvious of 'sudden but inevitable betrayals'. LeChuck was never to be trusted (NOR the voodoo lady, for that matter, but, eh, needs of the plot), but he was fairly charming as a bumbling human git while it lasted.
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So I'm guessing the escaped pox hand is what ends up bringing guybrush back? Since we didn't see it get de-jujued?
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I was kinda hoping for the noble sacrifice plot-line (Guybrush/Elaine: "Oh no - la esponja cannot absorb all of the Vodoo pox! We need another vessel to store it in..." Le Chuck: "I volunteer as tribute!", etc.), but that was an interesting ending. I'm honestly surprised that Le Chuck did immediately reabsorb all that Vodoo power - he just seemed so happy to be human again! EDIT: Whilst looking up the spelling of 'esponja' I found that SpongeBob Squarepants is called 'Bob Esponja' in Spanish. This tickled me! NeoAnjou fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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NeoAnjou posted:I was kinda hoping for the noble sacrifice plot-line (Guybrush/Elaine: "Oh no - la esponja cannot absorb all of the Vodoo pox! We need another vessel to store it in..." Le Chuck: "I volunteer as tribute!", etc.), but that was an interesting ending. I'm honestly surprised that Le Chuck did immediately reabsorb all that Vodoo power - he just seemed so happy to be human again! I actually thought it was interesting that he did seem so happy and willing to play nice since in the first game's lore (and I think at least one exposition dump) they established that LeChuck was a pretty nasty piece of work when he was alive, and his experiments with voodoo that turned him into a fearsome Ghost Pirate only started after he had been rebuffed by Elaine, who would continue to do so for as long as he wasn't casting a voodoo mind control spell on her.
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They managed to throw enough curveballs and suspicion and such with LeChuck that you forgot to keep being suspicious of him. Well played.
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Goddamn first we lost Morgan and now Guybrush too. Although come to think of it I guess now we know who offed Morgan as well, or at least we can hazard a guess. Playing as Elaine should be interesting, it will be nice to actually have her be more involved again instead of just being more of a set piece. Well that was more what she did in earlier games but hey
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Aces High posted:Goddamn first we lost Morgan and now Guybrush too. Although come to think of it I guess now we know who offed Morgan as well, or at least we can hazard a guess. Although she was literally a set piece in 3, I think they did a pretty good job overall of showing that the reason Guybrush only rarely runs into Elane is because she's off having her own adventures in parallel. It's particularly true in 1 where she not only got herself free of LeChuck, she also replaced herself with two monkeys in a dress, somehow got her own bottle of root beer for the monkeys to use, and then even managed to get onto the roof of the church just so she could make a dramatic entrance.
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Man. I was thinking that I'd just skip watching this one for now in order to not be slammed with another massive cliffhanger. gently caress.
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I know I said I'd have an update earlier in the week, it's happening tomorrow. I forgot about a family reunion last Sunday which ended up with getting home far too late. I'll have another update up Sunday or Monday. There's still a fifth chapter, so there's still some hope that Guybrush can save the day... For now, here's the 5th "I wonder what happens in Tales of Monkey Island." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TLm_uzdCU
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Okay, so I'm pretty sure the Voodoo Lady had to tell LeChuck how to get all that out of the sponge. Or maybe it just was his so it all came back to him.
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Catching up on the videos (it's been a thoroughly lovely month) and just watched Murray's first scene. The sudden grin Guybrush gives is awesome.
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Tales Of Monkey Island - Rise of the Pirate God 01 http://youtu.be/BZgsuzwMvyk Guybrush meets a few old friends and makes a couple of new ones. I won't spoil anything as it's a new chapter but in this episode there's some grog, some sword fighting and a sock. Where the hell has Winslow got to?
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Glazius posted:Okay, so I'm pretty sure the Voodoo Lady had to tell LeChuck how to get all that out of the sponge. It's entirely possible he figured it out himself, he knows a lot about Voodoo in his own right.
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The two coins on the eyes thing was originally a Greek tradition, something to pay the ferryman Charon to take the soul across the river Styx. Also, it's a nice touch that dead Guybrush's skeleton is visible through his jacket, since that's how they presented ghosts back in the first game, too.
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Tales Of Monkey Island - Rise of the Pirate God 02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVK4xQKv-8 This episode is a little shorter than usual as I had to make several cuts. I managed to not only miss some, but I also made some in the wrong order then wrote them again where they should take place. But any way, I got there in the end and even managed to leave this episode with another shock at the end of it.
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That update felt pretty short, but it was the normal length. It's fairly interesting where we're at now.
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