Talk:The Curse of Monkey Island
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[edit] In Memory of Bret Barret
Does anyone know why the game is dedicated to Bret Barret? All I know he was one of the programmers for the first two games. Did he pass away at some point? It would be helpful if the guy at least had his own page at Wikipedia. (Hannu Mäkinen)
- If it's dedicated to his memory, I think it's safe to say that he's dead. 81.111.32.123 16:13, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
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- He died in a motorcycle accident a year or so before the game was made. Lando242 00:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Beat It"
I've removed the following from the Trivia section:
- If while Guybrush (You) is tarred and feathered and you walk into the Barbery Coast, the barbers will shout phrases saying to get out. One of the phrases yelled by Van Helgen was "Beat It", possibly making a reference to Eddie Van Halen's guitar performance in Michael Jackson's song, "Beat It".
Unless this has actually been alluded to by one of the writers or something, it's a huge stretch. "Beat it" is a common phrase and is what one would expect the pirates to have said anyway, and just because someone with a similar name happens to have played the guitar part in a Michael Jackson song with that title doesn't make it a reference. It's pure speculation at best, and downright absurdity at worst. I see that this is duplicated on Edward Van Helgen -- I'm leaving that one there because it's slightly more relevant on that page, and it is kind of interesting. But it doesn't need to be here.
--Chrismith 00:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Novelization
Removed reference to an apparent novelization until someone gives source indicating it exists.--TheHande 19:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Incorrect "downtime" between Monkey Island 2 and 3?
Near the end of the game in the Carnival of the Damned, you win a prize by prooving that Guybrush is 20 years old. In Monkey Island 2 when you get the Library card, one of the options when asked for your age is "Nintee- Er... Twenty-One" implying that he was 19 years old. So there couldn't have been a 5 year gap. 143.239.130.8 10:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- The whole 5 year-thing is a reference is an out of game thing referring to the time gap between the two games (in real life). This has been mentioned on Guybrush's own page, but I still can't tell where in the game does it actually state that there was a five year gap in the game. I'm gonna take it up on the GB page. -TheHande 13:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
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- After getting no replies I've corrected this issue, both here and on Guybrush's page. -TheHande 09:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trivia
The trivia section is incorrect - Monkey Island is not based on the Pirates of the Caribbean. It's based on the book On Strange Waters'". Ron Gilbert has said this a number of times.
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- (Please sign your posts on talk pages.) It is actually based on "On Stranger Tides". And it is also based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, Ron Gilbert has also stated this numerous times. See, e.g. here--Wormsie 11:36, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Verb coin
I removed the line about the verb coin interface: Full Throttle was the first SCUMM game to use the verb coin interface. 81.58.34.171 11:55, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
