Steam Weekend Deal: The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition 50% off at £3.49

ac1d1ty · 18 Sep 2009 at 00:42

meh, i tried it out at one point. didnt captivate me like the others in the series did

modo77 · 18 Sep 2009 at 02:02

Mark A said:
I'm interested but Ive never played any of these games before, do you need to have to understand the story etc?

This is the first in the series

dr4g0nf1y · 18 Sep 2009 at 02:07

Looks naff.

I've played better from games I've installed from packs of cereal :confused:

Strife212 · 18 Sep 2009 at 02:08

dr4g0nf1y said:
Looks naff.

I've played better from games I've installed from packs of cereal

It is 19 years old after all. It's dialogue based anyway. "Looks naff" also implies you haven't played it so how do you know the cereal games are better?

modo77 · 18 Sep 2009 at 02:15

Strife212 said:
It is 19 years old after all. It's dialogue based anyway. "Looks naff" also implies you haven't played it so how do you know the cereal games are better?

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that was almost exactly what i was about to say

uv · 18 Sep 2009 at 07:59

dr4g0nf1y said:
Looks naff

I could name 50 games that look "naff" but are great games.

Sleepery · 18 Sep 2009 at 08:18

This is what you actually mean

dr4g0nf1y said:
I'd like to loose what little respect I've gained on these forums please, because I obviously don't deserve it!

dr4g0nf1y · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:24

well actually I viewed a youtube video because it was getting astonishing reviews from you so called hardcorers, but you should have known that if you can read my mind

Mailman86 · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:49

Bought this anyway even if I never get round to playing it. I've wasted much more money on things I've never played or used before so why stop that now!

jas72 · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:51

[timko];14908131 said:
£3.49 http://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/

At this price until around lunchtime Mon 21st!

NOOO just bought it 4 days ago for 8euro

/cries

It's a great game but i don't like the pop ups for the choice of menu

njj1046 · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:52

Ahh, one of the first games I ever played on a PC.

For £3.49 it's a bargain piece of nostalgia :cool:

Simi · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:00

Isn't this the crappy 'HD' remake that looks like a bad childrens cartoon?
I played the original way back when, but this remake does look crap and I can't see it being as good an experience as the original, even with the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.
I'll be keeping my £3.49 this week

xyphic · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:08

Simi said:
Isn't this the crappy 'HD' remake that looks like a bad childrens cartoon?
I played the original way back when, but this remake does look crap and I can't see it being as good an experience as the original, even with the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.
I'll be keeping my £3.49 this week

You can switch it into 'rose-tinted-glasses-of-nostalgia' mode (AKA classic mode) during the game if the graphics offend you. You do lose the speech if you do that though.

BTW this isn't so much of a remake, as a re-skin. The new graphics simply replace the old ones frame-for-frame. The underlying engine is exactly the same, so it's the same game just with new graphics, new score and a speech track (and worse user interface, but that's by the by). At £3.49 it's still an absolute bargain.

ic1male · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:23

Simi said:
Isn't this the crappy 'HD' remake that looks like a bad childrens cartoon?

I think you are getting confused with Tales of Monkey Island. That looks like a cartoon.

FlukeRogi · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:25

On a related note (don't think this has been mentioned, but..), Telltale are giving away a free Monkey Island Tales episode tomorrow.

britboy4321 · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:40

Like a true alchoholic, I have started rating prices in 'pints I could buy with the money'.

I'll have more fun playing this than drinking 1.5 pints down t'pub -- therefore I'll get it.

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m4cc45 · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:40

Agreed at 3.49 it is a bargain. When njj1046 said it was one of the first games he played on the PC, well... I was playing it on the Amiga before that - just goes to show how long ago it was.

It's an absolutely stunning game - but it's about playing and enjoying the storyline. Rather than trying to get the new FPS with next gen graphics.

M.

linktoinsanity · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:44

Bought it a couple of weeks ago. If I could see the future I would have waited for this offer. It's a good deal and I'd recommend going for it.

britboy4321 · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:45

FlukeRogi said:
On a related note (don't think this has been mentioned, but..), Telltale are giving away a free Monkey Island Tales episode tomorrow.

Is there any 'smallprint' I don't realise with this free offer? As in -- am I going to have to give them my credit card number 'just for their records', then install their own 'download manager' that then embedds itself in my register and refuses to ever be uninstalled , that also opens up every time I start Windows and starts serving me ads, then I notice an extra search-bar appearing on my internet explorer, and start madly start recieving advert emails? Then my credit card suddenly gets deducted £9.99 because I didn't opt-out of the auto-chargeable (not free) patches they release whenever they fancy?

not that it's ever happened before -- honest guv!

So -- is this deal as simple as it sounds?

Gimpymoo · 18 Sep 2009 at 12:51

FlukeRogi said:
On a related note (don't think this has been mentioned, but..), Telltale are giving away a free Monkey Island Tales episode tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads up, I have some friends who would love to try this offer.

britboy4321 said:
So -- is this deal as simple as it sounds?

Stop being so cynical, not everyone in this world is out to con you.