Like you even care

I feel sorry for Ron having hateful comments like this posted on his blog.

Just ask Ron what is Monkey Island, chances are that he forgot to stick the note with the answer so he'll be forced to guess

So?

You'll see...

If LucasArts ever allows you to make another MI that would be a best-seller, and no-one should download it from TPB (sigh... I kinda fuc??d that up, didn't I?)

And every year, on April Fools' Day, after checking what great things Google thought of, I check Grumpy Gamer, to see the post pointing out proudly that this year again, it is April Fool's Day free.
For a very brief moment, while the page is loading, I fear that it might have succumbed to peer pressure - but then I finally see the post I longed for, and this tells me that everything is alright, life's still great.

Hey Ron can I friend you on steam?

You and the fine people at Double Fine should purchase the Monkey Island license...  or failing that at least harass them regularly with pitches to develop a new entry in the series. I liked Telltale's addition to the saga but it seems about time it came home to gestate in the belly of its biological parent before being reborn.

You fill my soul with hope Ron.

God... mine too.

What a relief.. I waited the entire day for this post..
Can't belief I forgot time shift :D

Grumpy Gamer has been my first port of call every April 1st for years. Partly because I enjoy knowing that someone else hates it, and partly because I've always thought that that would be exactly when you'd announce that they'd let you make another MI game :). Also, did you ever post what happened on your playthrough of Monkey 2? Sure you said you'd played through them both but you only ever told us how the first one went!

I don't think we want to see what LucasArts would force you to put into another Monkey Island game. Multiplayer? Realistic 3D combat? Puzzles based on "real world" logic? Pass.

You forgot: regenerative health, achievements, matchmaking, kinect and move suport, stereoscopic 3D, bluray, cloud based game saving, game split in DLC's, weapon DLC's, costume DLC's, developed for console and then badly ported for PC one year later,...

did I forget to mention any other stupid thing that the videogames of these days must have to be released?

Well, maybe in reality you luv April fools and you've been pulling this prank over the last 7 years..! ;)

I think April 2 should be April Wise Ones' Day. I'm not sure what you should do, but it should be Wise. (Actual wise, not smart-ass wise.)

Hey, you April fooled me this christmas with that curious tweet about buying A Theory of Fun as a christmas gift. I just finished it and heck, what a bore! No Deathspank could ever rise out of those theories.

I prey for a new Monkey Island done by you with a budget like the one from Crysis 2. I'm sure it would be the greatest game in history of mankind. Maybe Guybrush could wear a nanosuite to make them produce your Monkey-Game. ;) Hope dies last. :)

What about creating a "whole new game" like "Pirates of the Tropic Islands: Curse of the Black Beard" or something. That would be some kind of innovative.
The main protagonist could be called ..... William Burner or Jack Narrow and the best inspiration would shurely come from real Piratesque Things as "On stranger Tides" or the one or other themeparkride.

I hope Lucas Arts will get interested in making the original Monkey Island 3 when your new project will garner some momentum in the press or sales.

Does anyone know if they are going to make another Maniac Mansion? I just can't believe they stopped at Day of the tentacle (maybe that's better)... but I think that story has some more juice in there.
Best.

It is incredible...
Lucas Arts have got some of the best franchise in the world and in the last 8-5 yeras they have practically accomplished nothing!!!

If I were LA president:
1) Call Ron and allow him to make another 3 Monkey Island games!!!!
2) Make a new great Star Wars RPG (not a MMO)
3) make an incredible Indiana Jones action adventure with puzzle, exploration, dialogue tree and action.
4) Make a new Xwing/wing commander  game (with great plot and characther interaction)
5) Make a new Battlefront
6) Create a great Star War kinet game

It is so difficult?!?!?!?

Yes.

What I'd love to see is a new adventure game (be it MI or something else) but done exactly as in the early 90's, like MI2 for example. Same version of scumm, vga colors, same resolution (I loved how they could make guybrush show an expression of being grossed out with just 6 or 7 pixels). Kinda in the same way that Megaman 9 was made on wiiware, made to be exactly like the games in those good old times...

THIS! NOW! I WILL PAY!!

Ron, it's me - you, from the future. Monkey Island 3 on the ipad. No distributor. Use the app store and they will buy it.

Why do people think I get to decide to make another Monkey Island. If I did, I'd have made it long ago.  Go bug Lucas.

What is his blog?

Wow, people are still gonna be bugging me about Monkey Island 20 years from now?  I guess I should just go ahead and make Monkey Island 3 at LucasArts here in 1992.  By the way, what's an ipad?

Why should we bug Lucas? If Telltale created TOMI why you cant create MI3?

Because TellTale have money growing out their asses.

Ron, why lucas doesn't allow you do it?!?!
Is it possible that LF Management is so blind?!?!

Can we start a petition here on Grumpy Gamers!!!!
What do you think about it?
I mean a REAL petition!!!

Forget MI3...
I consider MI3 (Ron version) just like the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy:
somenthing that everyone dream & desire, something that really exists somewhere (at least on paper or in form of idea), something that could be really done, but it is something that for infinite reasons will never really happend.

The true MI3 is just a mith.
We will never solve the mistery of the secret of monkey island.
And Ron joke we will live forever in the history of the videogame medium.

Thank you Ron!

Um, I am rubber and you are glue?  I am no match for your keen wit. But to answer your question:

Yes, because it will still be regarded as one of the greatest adventure game series ever made and you'll have made MI 3 by that time.  Actually as not to upset anyone who thinks the other monkey games have anything to do with 1 and 2, you end up calling it 2.5.

Your old article on what it would take to make an adventure game inspired me.   If Telltale can get its hands on the property i know you can  Heck, let us make use of your new pirate flags and go commandeer their operation for an episode or three.

Oh, and an ipad is something steve jobs invented after he mixed a rubber chicken into a pot of captain crunch and awoke hours later to the credits of a next generation episode. Well, maybe it had to do more with the old blotter paper that weird recipe was written on...

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Why are people still hung up on another MI game? The first ones were good, that's a given - but - as Ron stated, if he could he would have made a new one by now. I can understand the want for more MI (Sadly I'm still hoping for a Shenmue 3) as they were good fun. But I just don't see another MI happening. Instead I would rather have Ron keep making new and original adventure games.

Sure, he can do that too.  But I know he wants to finish his story and right now I'm lost in a mystery world carnival walking around with my dead parents and Ron is the only person who can show me the way out.

just use your imagination...

Thanks for the advice, Elmo!

Ron do you realise is been more than a month you upgrade something here? I check the site everysingle day. Are you getting a pleasure by keeping people in mystery!! :D Come on give us some news.. anything... what the heck are you working on right now we know nothing...

I'm working on my new game at Double Fine. I can't say anything about it because it's so awesome it would break the Internet if I did.

Best answer ever!
That's why you're great in your job: Plumbing.

You are must be finishing cleaning big T office)))

So breaking the PSN was the first alpha test on the playstation 3?

So you are working on the new MI and you cannot say it because the internet will break of course!!! :P

What do you think about Kinect Ron? Isnt it a holy grail for adventure games?

Other than for party games, I don't like controllers that force you to dance around your living room.  I like to curl up on the couch to play my games.

Just think about what can give Kinect for game industry, and adventure games? You should turn on your imagination and you will see what it can give.

With Kinect you can just say (not boring pointnclick menu) insult right in to face of dirty pirate in a middle of sword fight, you can sit curl up on the couch  and (just for example from Mi  gameplay) simply open a door by your own hand, and then by moving one hand grab some grog, like if you did it in real life. Tihs all can work without any menu or interface for example look for game named Penumbra and you will understand.

You should turn on your brain and understand what Ron intended to say:

He doesn't give a fuck about moving your hands just like in real life.
The whole point is to curl up in your couch with Coke, chips, and simply push buttons with one hand and scratch your crotch with the other one.
That's what I call 'to have fun'.

And yes: I do practice sports when I'm not playing.

And you will never complite any game like MI by simply pushing buttons. this is not a Rockband. You will fell a sleep with this sort of gameplay and you will get fun by sleeping.

Kinect is great instrument help you to interact with ingame enviroment. Using Kinect in adventure games is next step of evolution for them, like GUI and PnC for text adventures. This is solution for problem of their popularity.

Using Kinect for sport or dancing games is simpliest and stupid way to microsft get money, like mouse was for windows. Games like doom, or Mi and Myst show how it can be used in great games and help to create new genres.

Don't be daft, nobody ever played Doom with a mouse!

Ron , forget the motion aspect of Kinect...
What about the "Voice Comands" of Kinect?
I really see huge potential in these features!!!

Hey Ron, are you looking forward to any of the games being released this year?

SPOILERS FOR PIRATES 4

Ok you've been warned if you want Spoilers sorry you are getting some. Ron some questions regarding the link of "Strangers Tide" to MI universe as I have not read the book but saw the latest Pirates movie which is also based on the book and I saw amazing similarities between the MI Universe and this specific movie. First of all we have a voodoo doll! I really thought a dream coming through the MI in a movie and then I snapped out of it. Blackbeard uses a voodoo doll to "persuade" Jack and there is a very very specific scene where you really feel you see the art cover of MI2 and I think is a straight copy!! Even the theme for Blackbeard bares an excellent tingling resemblance to LeChucks theme. Penelope Crus is the personification of Elaine Marley in flesh and bones. Especially after wearing a violet dress type during a dance sequence! I couldn't help thinking OMG MI over and over again in a good sense. The search for the fountain of youth was very interesting and the island was something close to MI. So I guess the secret of MI is the youth passage which makes everyone children again!!??? I hope that is not it!! Anyway it is a GREAT movie and much better than the others and I would recommend people seeing it especially if you are MI fans and want to see some very striking similarities.

Eh. It was kind of disappointing. The love story between Philip and Syrena was boring and confusing and even more annoying than anything Will and Elizabeth did. The film didn't have Pintel and Ragetti, just some guy called Scrum who couldn't pull off the same comic partnership thing because there was only one of him. Blackbeard and Barbossa were pretty much played straight, unfortunately. It's true that we only really go to see the film because of Johnny Depp anyway, but it helps to have some good secondary characters as well.

As for the similarities between POTC 4 and MI... about as extensive as the similarities between Mario Bros. and any major film about plumbing.

The cult of sequels bugs me quite a bit. So many people just keep repeating "make MI3! MI3!" The postmoderny and surreal ending of MI2 is my favourite ending of any game, and to me it will always be the last word. New ideas are better than endless sequels.

LeChuck's endless return as the baddie is not my cup of grog. Then we have the "special edition" re-make of the originals, where Steve Purcell's evocative, impressionistic artwork is plastered over with a drab non-style. Enough with all the sequels and "re-makes". Long live originality.

I too love the ending to MI2, but I think Ron has a specific story in mind for MI3 that completes the story, it's not just a sequel-for-the-sake-of-sequel. That's what everyone wants - to find out how the story ends, and what the real secret of Monkey Island is.

To be honest, it doesn't matter to me anyway - even if MI3 is commissioned and Ron Gilbert designs it, it's never going to be in the style of the original games anyway. It's going to be all 3D and voice-acted and stuff, and that kind of detracts from the humour of the game for me. My favourite film is The General, which I think really benefits from being silent and monochrome.

There's a reason retro games will always be popular, and it isn't just nostalgia.

Ron, you'll be at E3 next week?

Hi Mr. Gilbert, il'l make the long story short, mostly because my english sucks: just came from work, smoked some stuff, and remembered how much i loved MI1 and MI2, also the futile search i did to find out the infamous secret.

I would really appreciate if you just email me with the answer to the question "Which is the secret of Monkey Island?", i promise i won't reveal it to anyone.

Thanks a lot, if you're in Argentina you can come to my place and drink some "mates" with "facturas", you won't regret it.

And you really believe that out of the millions who requested this answer you will be the one to get it from him!?

The secret of MI is a secret of MI is a secret of MI

Secret of Monkey Island is there is no Secret of Monkey Island.