Start making Monkey Island 5...

This aint healthy...

No, start making Monkey Island 3!
Monkey Island 5 shouldn't be, and the same for Monkey 4 and CMI.
I don't even consider them official sequels. MI is Ron's game, only he knows what MI3 should be like. And I think the entire Monkey Island series was planned as a trilogy, so... MAKE MI3!!!!!!!!

Agree 100%

Me too! Agree 1000%0!
Now I want to play again (another time...I did it thousand of times) monkey 1 2 3 and 4. I have to thanks Ron for The game, really magic. But yes, we can maybe save MI3, but MY4...3D...orrible. I just can say that I played it just one time!
I hope a MI5 will come out, but it should be 2D! I mean, don't give a damn about new technologies with iper-mega 3D cards. People who love Monkey Island, that are people who BUY Monkey Island, want it like the old school game! at least this is what I can got from the discussion on Internet...

never call CoMI MI3!!! it definetly is NOT!!! its a boring and unfunny game (imo)!!! its a cheap try to mimic/continue MI (imo)!!! FAILED!!!

pleez give us the real MI3 with the good old scumm, not even the fancy DotT style. (great for DotT but won't fit with MI).

or cooperate with the guys from ttg ;)

yes, its time o make 3a!
please

basically this translates to: Ron still lives with his parents and regulary visits naked communes.
That is a joke by the way, no need to get too excited

where can I get a translation of this crap?
It bugs me that I still can't read it.

for the translation go to here http://grumpygamer.com/contact. This guy will translate it for you.

But he better finish the next cartoon first.

Good work Ron. Keep it all coming... more input Stephanie, more input.. I mean Ron.

My Visual Babbel fish is having problems transalating this.

We who played Maniac Mansion salute you : )

Thank you for every good game you brought to this world hahaha.

I´m sure you received many e-mails telling you this, but well, It would be really great if you made another Maniac Mansion game.

By the way, the animations are really good, you are right about new games. I´d like to big game companies take a look to the crap they are selling, instead of pay so much attention to their bank accounts.

from Argentina,

Ezequiel '79

you are a genious. i know your games but when i come to this blog i was surprised. the recomendation of aristoteles for the story, the figth for better game journalist, the humour, the good articles, the defense of independent games, the latin presentation etc...

are you working in any game today?, its a shame waste all that talent.

I want to know the @#$% Monkey Island Secret..Why are you making us suffer like this!?...well blah blah blah you're a genious...and all that @# you already know...

Thx for making such great classics...really...
My respects.

From Argentina...

i k a r i

PD: Guybrush is really a...-well I'll let you finish- U_U

latin non amat!!!! ego non vult legit fatuus sceleste latin.

Oh shit defender, you gotta translate Ron's about thing there for me. Send me an email if you will. Go on, do. It's been bugging me for ages.

man your game is awesome, it ispired me to be what i am today, i don't know what kind of crapy job i would have if you never made monkey island. i owe you a big one !

anyway, just make us a big promise, Don't TAKE MONKEY ISLAND SECRET TO THE GRAVE :D

It's in my Will, that upon my death (of natural causes, so don't any of you get any ideas), that the secret will be revealed.

Er.... I always thought that the Secret of Monkey Island was just either a) There's a giant dead monkey in it (a nod to King Kong?) or b) that simply LeChuck and his crew were hiding there? or c) a cool name for a pirate adventure game where you get to visit Monkey Island...?

Is it REALLY something else?

I believe the secret of monkey island is a hidden place where you'll find a canister filled with chainsaw-gas.

Do you really wanna know though?  I don't necessarily doubt that its funny / clever / amazing, but the Secret of Monkey Island is the biggest, most significant mystery in computer games!

Its unlikely it could ever live up to the hype, and I for one reckon the mystery is oh so much more fun than knowing could ever be.  =)  

That doesn't mean I don't enjoy it when Ron drops a hint of course... ;)

You're a pirate?

Ron Gilbert est oculus omnia perspiciens...

Tum podex extulit carmen horridulum!

oh god...
it's... you... god...
i will shave my head, because you are my true god of genius...

btw, lucasgames est cunnu...

Those of you after a translation...

http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgrumpygamer.com%2Fabout&text=&from=ltt&to=eng

Wow.  That translation TOTALLY SUCKS.

A Ron Gilbert's Blog!

I won't ask about the Secret (I don't think it's anything special), but I would really want to know opinions and, if it can be, Ron Gilbert's own commments, about the ending of Monkey 2.  

I don't find it bad, but I know a lot of people think it's anticlimatic and simply nonending.

Is there any place to read about it? Care to comment?

Thank you.

This is about as strange as it comes.

On a lighter note, LucasArts seems to be giving up on adventure games to turn out yet another series of shitty Star Wars Games (exception: Kotor). I really hope their Indiana Jones game is good...

Ron Gilbert, the gaming industry needs you!

Monkey Island > everything

I "learned" latin in school but i have forgotten everything. :D
Good side btw. :P
hf

Dieser Text ist nervig. Sicher nicht selbst übersetzt, oder?

Alea iacta est. Ora et labora, non scholea sed vitae discimus....

10 annos sufficus sunt!

hello from the bulgarian fans!

Les heureux hasards du butinage ! Tomber sur le site du créateur de Monkey Island...

Monkey Island Taught me how to speak English. I owe you much.

How I wish I could have had a job like yours !

Fr.

Same here, we were taught english at school, but it was very very basic. MI was a big help!!

funny comics

Thanks for the games! Back in the day, i was in heaven, me as a kid, MI and no worries, work, etc!

From Russia with love.

Amen to that :(

Mr Gilbert, thanks a lot for so many funny hours playing your games.

Just a question: is this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112760/) a coincidence or is it related to you in some way? I can't see your name in the writing credits.

I think I've found the Secret of Monkey Island and is YOU: you work as a game designer during the day and as "The Masked Scriptwriter" when the sun goes down. Don't worry, I'll keep secret your secret identity.

Greetings from Spain.

hi ron gilbert!
my name is fabian and i'm from germany. you created a monkey-island community worldwide. go on with the series - go on!

es lebe ron gilbert und seine unvergleichbaren adventures!

fabewalker

Ron Gilbert, you ARE one of my three Gods.

I sing to thee:
     Make Monkey Island 5, with all your pride, so we can see Guybrush one last time.
     We miss, we love him, we want him back.B
     But most all we miss the humor that other games lack.  

                              Kiki-- I feel like a vegetarian cannibal

I think this whole page might be a typical example of "Lorem ipsum".
Which means that it is nonsense latin.
(http://lorem-ipsum.info/)

Jaap

Just to be random... One day as a kid I sat and read the Monkey Island credits at the start of the game and totally freaked out because one of the programmers had the same name as me (Aaron Giles).

Strange that Monkey Island would be my favourite game too. Thanks Ron :)

monkey islands VII the mirror.

thank you very much by your work.

Yeah, like all the others: Please give us Monkey Island 5 or Monkey Island 3 (depending on, wether you count they crappy nr.3 and 4...) Its amazing, i just finished playing Monkey Island 1 the first time after 1992 or something and it still is way better than all the actual splatter/slaughter/super3d-games! So please please give us some more Monkey! Do the Monkey for me! SIMON

PS: Just wanted to tell you the mythtv thing is the geekest thing ever!

Has any of you seen the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 trailer?

Hmmm... So the bad guy lead is called "the Monkey"... He reminds me of someone... You know a guy who's brother's name was Guybrush...

I suppose it's okay since the special effects are made by ILM... But...

Hi to everybod, I'm from Argentina. With some friends we recolected some topics of forums and comments arround the world and we got this that the true secret of monkey island, I want that Ron confirm the teory.

MONKEY ISLAND 1: (the secret of Monkey Island)

Guybrush, his brother Chukie(LeChuck) and his parents went a day from sun to the park of diversions Big Whoop. Guybrush like any other common and current boy of 8 years this fasined by the park and its attractions, so fasination has is ended up losing of his family. This does not matter to him to the small Guybrush that is let take by his imagination giving rise to a chain reaction of fantasiosos dones...

All we know that the much of this small one is the pirates; Its first attraction: Mêlée Island. Incredible Wow thinks. When entering it is crossed a person who sends it for the SCUMMBAR when she tells him that she wants to become a pirate!

While we can really see some of the tracks of which Guybrush this still in a park:
- there is a spending machine in the STAN business
- a rower Is able to overcome to sword masters (tipic of a park)
- a treasure in another one of the tests Obtains to another rower when unearthing.

Possibly Guybrush becomes a pirate in its imagination. But their parents in the long run realize that the this lost one and commands to their Chuckie brother in search of. Guybrush is noticed of this and the deep thing of his imagination the frightful LeChuck pirate transforms to his brother into his enemy whom he loves to exile it of his beauty fantasy to take given back it to the reality.

Many things happend (Guybrush knows Elaine, kidnap it to Elaine, Guybrush travels to Monkey Island, etc. everything within the park and in the imagination of Guybrush.

MONKEY ISLAND 2: (the revenge of LeChuck)

Good, finally Guybrush win to the pirate lechuck (it gave a shock him to his brother) then that it wants to continue with his imagined history. Listening on the legend of the treasure of Big Whoop, the possible prize max! it thinks then that for will convert about the pirate but known the Caribbean
it must find this treasure. Guybrush finds east treasure in the Dinky island -- a coffer of treasure buried by four employees of the park who gave to tracks (since surely they did with all the boys of the park) the treasure him contains a E-ticket. the possessors of E-tickets can enter parks (ej: Disney) then of the closed schedule of. This it is a true treasure for Guybrush! serious a dream the power to save to its world of fantasia then of the closed schedule of since its brother can not to bother it. Maybe his brother listen about the price and begin to search too.

But hardly Guybrush finds the treasure, LeChuck appears given back. Guybrush miraculously overcomes it, but it is not the end, LeChuck takes advantage of I tie that they have and victim is made to overcome it emotionally, catching it in the end.

An employee of the park sees them in tunels of maintenance and he outside takes with his parents aim to them of the game.

You ask yourself then as island is the monkey secret?

very simple:
Fantasia, imagination. The mind of a boy


Sorry for the English :( I talk Spanish only

Hey Ron!

Thanks a lot for your phantastic work on MM, MI ... !!
Those times were great times! Unforgetable!

Mornin' Ron

I am sitting in a pub with a pint of Grolch lager in front of me and have been wearing a stupid grin on my face for the last hour.  

Because, I am playing Monkey Island on my PDA.  (Thank you ScuumVR)

The only downside is I had to buy reading glasses as I was squinting and peering too much at the screen and needed them to find the ultra tiny items like "string."  

If the steam model had been adopted back in Lucasarts day, I may not be experiencing your wonderfull game now.

Thanks Ron.  Again.

Some of the wordplay in MI2 reminded me of this old one:

A woman walked into a bar and asked the Barman for a double entendre -so he gave her one...

Ok. Here I'm. It?s 2:32 AM, and finally I got to play the god damned MI4. Jesus. Ron.... I need permission to say a bunch of horrible things in your site. They really made me angry. $#!@% PLEASE let me put it in words. The game sucks SO BAD, that I?d rather play Solitaire the rest of my life.

It has bugs everywhere, errors, story telling problems, more more more....

To the company that we all know who it is. STOP RUINING MY CHILDHOOD GAMES (some insults here).

Ok... I?m really angry. Sorry.

This is like when the made Batman III, IV ... THEY SUCKED because they took away the people who made it work, in this case Tim Burton, more.

Last comments: We were talking with a friend of mine last week that one of the issues that we think took away the magic it?s the quality of the graphics. Think about this, when the graphics on Pc´s were lousy, you just HAD TO IMAGINE, the rest that was not defined. Now they do everything for you. With 3D there is no imagination; there is just what they want it to be. Leaving what ur personification of Guybrush in the trash.

Ok.. too much. Keep it Up Ron, give us another big game, and maybe we can afford the car you wanted so much : )

Regards,

Ezequiel

Tum Te Tum .... I´m going to the fridge to get some Cheese : )

I lost my hamster! If give it to me, I´ll fund your project :P

All these people being gratefull ... me included... this is a great presentation card for you. isn´t it ...

Are u currently developing anything?

halo all ! i eyad ok ! i need help ! if 2one here men israil ! etkasheer l2lee! 3la al rqam 0525953810 ok ! all byee

I don't want to see another stupid, 3d(!), Monkey Island game.

Pls do something :(

Thanks for the great games!

I'm another guy from Argentina. Ho Ho Ho! (Cool comics/animations, too!)

Rock on!

Just so nobody has any doubt, that's not real Latin.

(This is my tenth year studying Latin, in grad school right now).

But hey, who cares? The games were great.

Thank you for making the best adventure games in the world! I still play MI from time to time ;)

// a fan from Iceland

Thankyou indeed for your work on MI 1&2. I just played through MI1 yesterday after introducing a girl to it. You want to know that she liked it and laughed at all the jokes. And no, I didn't play it through for her - I left her to do that on her own. I just helped a bit at the beginning...
The "girl" is a 35 yo. Maybe the next hit for girls/women are classic graphic adventures like MI :) They are so "social" games - no physics and 3d. You need to pull the right strings to get things going - and girls know how. Sorry for long post.

Dear Ron,

As I read a few minutes before, you would like to buy the rights and develope the real third part of Monkey Island. Now, my question: What do you think would that costs? Another little question: Why did you leave Lucas Arts? Did you have to go? Why doesn't you try to develope a new game with a great story? You write in a few topics that the game industry only forces the technology and forgets innovations in the story. Why don't you try to make it better? Sorry, Ron, but in my opinion you shouldn't only critizes the game industry, you should try to make it better. I know that you are a great designer. Use your skills in a new, good game!

Thank You For Monkey Island Saga, they was the best of my adolescense, and of course the best game of the world, did you think in continue making scumm games? I think that lots of fans are waiting for it. Thanks

Monkey Island 1 & 2 are the best,  I still play them both and re live the fun.  Another monkey game would make the world a better place :) .  Thanks Ron.

Ron, thanks for creating the greatest protagonist ever!

And Stan!

Also, I wanted to see if you knew about this:

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/profile/video.php?user=Dasilva90&page=3&q=&q=

Dun dun dun (if you don't see it, scroll down... and some other parts are on the previous page).

I think it actually gets some of the game's feel, and at the very least at the end I was a bit sad it was over.

Oh, and just because I have to say it, a.) what are you working on now, and b.) why is it not Monkey 3?

MI 1-3 rocks, even tho the third one isn't ron's, it still fits, and the voices makes everything so spicey :)
Still, ron - you rock!

I really hope a publisher will finally listen to you, and if I had won the lottery i'd happily donate some of it =) Then again, I don't play the lottery cus I think it's a waste of money ;)

http://www.gobelins.fr/galerie/animation/gen2006-3.htm
Funny animated pirate short movie

I'll be honest...
I never knew about this site neighter who was Ron Gilbert, yet I grew playing all sort graphical adventure games. Among them, the first one I've played it has always been my favourite one... it was "The Secret of Monkey Island". Recently I've decided to start collection Adventure games and suddenly the name Ron Gilbert became familiar!
So here I give my sincere congratulations to the genious mind behind the greatest games that ever existed! RON GILBERT, YOU'RE THE BEST!
I'm really ancious for the next Ron Gilbert game! :)

And know that I'm a collector, I must start my quest for buying the Monkey Island 1 and 2 games... since they're out of "print" for some years now. :\

P.S. - Sorry for my English, since it isn't my "homeland" language.
P.S.S. - We want a new sequel of Monkey Island! ;_; pretty pleaseeeee

Thx Ron for the Monkey Island games! I play them again and again on my Nintendo DS with ScummVM! Monkey II is really fun!
Monkey 4 was the last bullshit! So please take back the rights from LucasArts!

Ron I must say thanks for the Monkey Island series.

You must find a way to do an MI5 or MI3a as it is called. Telling us the secret in your will wont be enough!!

We need a proper story!!

How much would it cost to get you to do it (and to get the rights!)????

Just leaving a message; whatever you do now, and from the first couple of minutes looks of it, you did a great job on the Monkey Island games. I know I can do better, if you give me a few years! Perhaps if I re-placed a few notes..

I'd like to say: Happy living, I'd never thought I'd be leaving a message some day to the actual Creator of Monkey Island, back then when I didn't think of internet connections. Now it seems that the games are just not worth playing. Violence has to be put to good use! Lazy programming is just one thing, we need to look a little bit better into the possibilities aspect of things. Things we could do, with a little effort. Well, make it a lot of effort. Now it's just harvesting cash.

People want Monkey Island. Well, we also want the Amiga experience. But the Amiga served it's purpose I think, and perhaps we're better of facing the state that the games are in today. It shows that it lacks some vital 'you name it' ingrediënts.

But really, kudo's and appreciations of your work, it's really appreciated. It inspires me to become an internet doctor, and make lots of cash.

Perhaps I'd leave you with something valuable.. and, I'm dutch, so I can create a story! Well, in Dutch that is. Perhaps. Mozart, who is also dutch, said: "Play the notes, you'll hear something, if you play the notes." But enough of that, don't let the scientists tell you it's all in the brain, because YOU'RE the man.

I wanted (at this date) to search the internet for 'Ron Gilbert', and found your picture. Well, it's not bad, really. The picture and the fact that we don't have to log in tells it's own tale.

All the best and best wishes, whatever you do.

OK, better delete this, now where is that delete button? So you don't have to

What can I say?

Kudo's Ron, well done is what I can say

Al Lowe,
Roberta Williams, Ron,

you told us to speak proper english: e.g.: fasten rope larry.
thx for that.

Stare into a Hieronymous bosch with strobe light sunglasses and you can pretty much travel time.

Hellosga - this is just a testing, don't worry about it

Hellowhw - this is just a testing, don't worry about it

Ron. You really rock!

Please listen to our prayers! We NEED MI3!!!

played monkey2 a few mins ago..
mm mi --
legendary..

tnx !
asp