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Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game

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#11

Fun fact time: The dialogue for all the insults and responses in MI1 was written by Orson Scott Card!

Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)

I don't know anything more than that he was involved with writing the insults in MI1 and had some involvement in several other LucasArts games including the Dig, which I never played.

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Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences.

Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what was answer to what.

Oh, how much fun one miss playing adventure games not speaking english.*

*(TWPFWP - Third World People, First World Problems).

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post #14

Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences. Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what w…

Likewise - I learned a lot of my English from classic adventure games.

For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real thing.

So you'd end up in a situation where you're trying to beat a bootleg Legend of Kyrandia translated to Russian by looking up walkthroughs in English and somehow trying to match up both without knowing either language very well.

Those were the days.

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post #14

Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences. Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what w…

You can change the language in the upper right corner. Here's the link for PT http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=pt

And yes, as you've never played Monkey Island: You indeed have to learn the right answers by fighting multiple battles until you're 'trained' enough.

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#17

Fun fact time: The dialogue for all the insults and responses in MI1 was written by Orson Scott Card!

Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)

Here you go: http://www.gamefront.com/gaming-todays-exclusive-interview-w...

(found through Wikipedia)

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#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)

I don't know anything more than that he was involved with writing the insults in MI1 and had some involvement in several other LucasArts games including the Dig, which I never played.

Ah The Dig. Such a nice premise, but a very disapointing execution.
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