So, here we are, playing and reviewing Monkey Island again, after a brief internal debate of our own about re-hashing old content and the value of re-reviewing an update of a game we’ve already covered (short answer: it’s fine). Making conversation with local law enforcement. (For at least some of the many, many games that I acquire with the intention of covering them for the site ‘one day’, that day does eventually come). Until now, when it turned out that I wanted to play the game again, and dipped into the GOG library to confirm that I had indeed bought it some time ago with such an occasion in mind. As the Special Edition was (and remains, at the time of writing) the only commercially available version of The Secret of Monkey Island, we (by which I mean I) blithely added a note about it to the bottom of this site’s review of the original a couple of years after it was released and thought little more of it. Remastered versions of some LucasArts adventures have started to appear via Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions over the past five years or so, although this pre-dates all of them and is pitched specifically as an updated ‘Special Edition’ which goes beyond a mere sharpening of the same basic game, introducing all-new graphics, and adding voice acting where there previously was none. On the other hand, I prefer the VGA re-release of The Secret of Monkey Island to the EGA original, so perhaps I don’t really know what I’m talking about. The update then becomes of its time and at a later stage the prevailing opinion may be that it either requires a further update of its own, or that the original was perfectly fine as it was and has in fact aged more gracefully than the newer version. And while it’s not an issue about which I can become particularly exercised, for what it’s worth, I think I’m mainly of the school of thought that games are of their time, and any notion of providing a ‘modern’ update is inherently flawed. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Spoiler: you do have to go into the kitchen.Īrguments about the merits, or otherwise, of remakes, remasters and the like are fairly well-worn. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit. The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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