Return to Monkey Island, by Ron Gilbert

He had it comin’! Childhood ruining pest of a man.

At least it sounds good, even if it does look like arse.

I stopped minding the graphics the moment that divine music kicked in.

Hang on a min: I think the hay fever’s getting to my eyes a bit…

Just watched the trailer. I can see what you mean about the art style. I actually think the backgrounds look excellent, but I'm not sold on the characters yet; it's the animation as much as it is the look of them, tbh. It's not really my cup of tea.

Having said that, I've never liked the look of the games post-LeChuck's Revenge. I always thought they went too far with the cartoony style, perhaps because I thought the first two games would have looked photoreal if technology had allowed, but then in part 3 they went totally the other way and made a Disney movie. I've never been able to get over that and it's one of the reasons I can't love any of the games apart from the first two.

So with this one, at least it's intentionally stylised. I'd rather it looked like this than Curse/Escape/Special Editions, and I'd rather they did something other than a pixel art recreation of the look of the first two. So I'm gonna go along with it, and I bet after five minutes I'm totally sold, because at the end of the day I just want to play a Ron Gilbert Monkey Island game.

Yeah, I like the art style but the animations look a bit ropey. It's like everything is stuttering.

I like the art, it's quite expressive. Guybrush is more in keeping with the first 2 rather than the lanky version used in Curse. Although to be honest, Ron could draw stick men with his own shit, scan it and I'd still buy the game!

The trailer doesn't give much away but I notice in the recap at the start there's a scene from Tales with Morgan, so I assume we'll have a time skip once we're done in the carnival.

I'll definitely pick this up day 1 and probably not have time to play it for a year!

You had to watch the weird Kings Quest and Cruise For Corpse walks for endless hours recently so you will be ok I think!

It'll be the last Monkey Island because Phattso abused Ron, so he won't make another.

It looks like Ron closed down his blog and other websites from what I can gather looking at Reddit. He's no longer going to share any details because the joy has been driven from him because of the constant abuse.

What a sad world we live in, I'd assume most Monkey fans are 40+ and to behave like that boggles the mind, some people seem to live in a constant state of pure hatred and anger. I guess this means no more Monkey ever again as this will surely leave a sour taste in Ron and teams mouth.

He should just come up with a pixel shader that scans a frame and converts it into chunky pixels so it looks like the originals. He can call it fuckwit mode and have it off by default. Problem solved.

I dislike the art so much I'll be skipping it, as that's Ron's choice fine but it's not for me.

I will still have the memories of swapping disks on my Amiga on the first one to look back on.

I was very glad I had a hard drive when the second game came out.

I’ve seen some of the abuse and it’s idiotic. Some banging on about hoping it’s not some liberal woke game, others are just abusive.

Don’t like how some games you want like then that’s fine but telling the guy to scrap it and that he should be ashamed of himself instead of just being disappointed and moving on is one the terrible things about the internet.

That headline makes it sound like Ron Gilbert went to Monkey Island, but is reluctant to talk about it?

Thought it looked pretty good. Yes, it looks different, but it is still distinctively Monkey Island. I'm sure you could instantly tell what it is from a random scene. Also thought in motion it looked even better.

(Caveat, I only saw the trailer on my phone, so maybe the animation doesn't look as good on a bigger screen)

If people don't like it, then fine, but anyone that is causing an industry veteran to feel the need to hide themselves away can fuck right off.