Very appropriate. The right insult at the right time is what makes the decisive impact on closing that deal or fixing that bug in 71% of all cases. This is a good pedagogical means to teach our youngsters the importance of not just wielding the power of wit, but to apply it right. Bravo :)
Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game
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#22Doesn't quite work for me. The answers aren't right - they never change. So whatever insult I have, I get the response for the dairy farmer & shish kebab one followed by ones like "I am rubber, you are glue". I don't see the right one to choose
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#23Here's a soundtrack for this game: https://soundcloud.com/martin-leblanc-eigtved/monkey-island-...
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#24Doesn't quite work for me. The answers aren't right - they never change. So whatever insult I have, I get the response for the dairy farmer & shish kebab one followed by ones like "I am rubber, you are glue". I don't see the right one to choose
You learn insults and retorts by fighting other pirates.
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#25This was what I spent most of my childhood playing on my Amiga! A few years back I got an emulator working and completed it again - it's such a difficult game!
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#26Very appropriate. The right insult at the right time is what makes the decisive impact on closing that deal or fixing that bug in 71% of all cases. This is a good pedagogical means to teach our youngsters the importance of not just wielding the power of wit, but to apply it right. Bravo :)
Someone got it completely wrong. Down-voting my previous comment is not the right insult and not a show of wit. I am disappoint.
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#27Oh, 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.
I did play Monkey Island. I was talking about the experience of playing this part in the original Monkey Island, no the OP.
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#28Oh, 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 matc…
Heh, now I'm going to learn Dutch thanks to some Minecraft server chat, where most of the players are from the Netherlands.
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#29Doesn't quite work for me. The answers aren't right - they never change. So whatever insult I have, I get the response for the dairy farmer & shish kebab one followed by ones like "I am rubber, you are glue". I don't see the right one to choose
In the beginning you don't know how to sword-fight. You will lose. Next time you have a few new insults that you will use and they will know the answer. Next time you will have the answer for that insult.
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#30Fun fact/veiled attempt to ask for money: Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossmann are creating a new adventure in the style of Maniac Mansion: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thimbleweedpark/thimble... (No affiliation, I'm a backer though.)
I remember Maniac Mansion, I played it as a kid. It was a) extremely scary and b) impossibly hard. Although I imagine that was because of my age mostly!
It came in a bundle with Monkey Island, Loom and Zak McKraken.
Zak McKraken and Maniac Mansion were the two I couldn't make any progress on!