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Posted March 22, 2018
Look over there! It's a three-headed…tentacle?

Celebrated classics The Curse of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion (-33%) return, DRM-free on GOG.com.
To celebrate, The Secret of Monkey Island: SE and Monkey Island 2: SE are 65% off until March 26, 2PM UTC. Get them together with Curse of Monkey Island for an additional 25% bundle discount.

The Curse of Monkey Island
Meet Guybrush Threepwood. He's stranded mid-ocean atop a bumper car, he's hungry, thirsty, and much, much taller than you remember him. Yet still as determined as ever to save Elaine from the clutches of his undead nemesis, the evil pirate LeChuck. After his wedding proposal goes terribly awry, he will join a barbershop quartet, curb the enthusiasm of a demonic skull bent on world domination, and quite possibly die while trying to lift The Curse of Monkey Island. All in a day's work.

Maniac Mansion
Oh no, Sandy got abducted by the eccentric, quite possibly deranged Dr. Fred! Surely this has nothing to do with the comet that landed outside his Maniac Mansion 20 years ago or the two sentient tentacles running around the premises, right? Just in case, though, Dave picks two friends (out of seven in total - Dave is a popular guy!) and ventures into Ron Gilbert's classic point & click adventure, which reshaped the whole genre and later inspired a little sequel called Day of the Tentacle.
Posted March 24, 2018
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elcook: As some of you already seen, there were some changes made to the discounts on Monkey Island games. Disney decided to get a deeper discount for those games on other platforms, and we were not aware of that. When we saw the difference in the offer, we acted fast to match the discounts on GOG.

So if you bought Monkey Island games on a lower discount, please reach out to our support team - they will help you out to arrange everything and get the games cheaper.

Sorry for all the trouble!
How about doing it the other way round, for once, by actually reaching out to the customers who paid more than they should have?
You can't expect them to stumble upon a single blue post within such a long release thread, or even to use the bug-ridden forum in the first place.
Posted March 24, 2018
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elcook: As some of you already seen, there were some changes made to the discounts on Monkey Island games. Disney decided to get a deeper discount for those games on other platforms, and we were not aware of that. When we saw the difference in the offer, we acted fast to match the discounts on GOG.

So if you bought Monkey Island games on a lower discount, please reach out to our support team - they will help you out to arrange everything and get the games cheaper.

Sorry for all the trouble!
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Lemon_Curry: How about doing it the other way round, for once, by actually reaching out to the customers who paid more than they should have?
You can't expect them to stumble upon a single blue post within such a long release thread, or even to use the bug-ridden forum in the first place.
I dont see any difference in price , i paid 4.49 for the Curse of Monkey Island because i already had the others, i bought the previous games long time ago.... so that won't be valid i guess.


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Posted March 24, 2018
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kbnrylaec: I bought COMI at $5.24(6.99), but it is now $4.50(6.99).
Why GOG punish us for buying it too early?
Not really a punishment, i think it depends how badly people want to have the game, at release or wait 1 to 1.5 years ( with a risk the game might be removed by the publisher)... usually i buy games i like at release but if i wait long enough the games will be 'older' and at sale for 50% off or more... but like i said, life is life and we have to decide if we buy at release or take a risk and wait for a huge sale.

Anyway, last week there have been some good old games again, but 2017 and 2016 were awfull for me : almost no games bought ( maybe 3 or so) because of lack of games i like... while in 2014 and 2015 i bought loads of games.
Posted March 25, 2018
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ShadowOwl: Picked this up right away, It's one of the first PC games I remember playing. :)

I find it a bit strange that there are no Linux installers though considering the game is using ScummVM to run...
Yes, just unpackaging the .exe and loading it up in SCUMMVM runs perfectly on Linux. It's a shame.
Posted March 25, 2018
COMI is a quality game, but personally I was really disappointed in Guybrush's new look and sound. They dialled up his nerdiness to 11 and I found it almost insufferable (I don't wanna play myself in a game! :P). In the first two games he seemed atleast abit more normal. It's hard to take a toothpick autist seriously when he talks about being a mighty pirate.
Posted March 25, 2018
Does Maniac Mansion play OK? It's been available on Steam for a while, but it has poor user reviews there because of technical issues--apparently the mouse curser doesn't work properly in that version.
Posted March 25, 2018
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Shanbar: COMI is a quality game, but personally I was really disappointed in Guybrush's new look and sound. They dialled up his nerdiness to 11 and I found it almost insufferable (I don't wanna play myself in a game! :P). In the first two games he seemed atleast abit more normal. It's hard to take a toothpick autist seriously when he talks about being a mighty pirate.
He was always a super doofus, I think people just get the joke more in CoMI because of the voice acting.
Posted March 25, 2018
So glad to see The Curse of Monkey Island on GOG! I guess this means there's never going to be a re-make like there was for the first two games in the series, but that's okay, I'm just thrilled to see the original version released on GOG!
Posted March 25, 2018
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BadDecissions: Does Maniac Mansion play OK? It's been available on Steam for a while, but it has poor user reviews there because of technical issues--apparently the mouse curser doesn't work properly in that version.
ScummVM support it perfectly over one decade.
GOG version use ScummVM so I can not see any problem.
Posted March 25, 2018
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Banjo_oz: Not only can the originals be extracted to be played using ScummVM, but one can run an easily-available tool that converts the remastered Monkey Islands into the originals but *with* full speech! Pretty awesome, IMO.
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StingingVelvet: That's really cool. I just assumed the SEs would have blocked ScummVM access. Does the "tool" you mention turn of subtitles? That would be epic. Also you can probably link to it, I can't see why GOG would care. I'll google around though. Thanks again.
Here's a link regarding that tool; there is no legal problem with it since it requires you own the full SE games anyway.

https://www.gog.com/forum/monkey_island_series/build_a_classic_talkie_edition_for_dos_and_scummvm/page1

I actually used it to make both a talkie version I play on ScummVM on my PC and an "oldschool" DOS talkie version that I run on my modded SNES Classic Mini via DOSBox (since I can't run ScummVM on that yet). Both work great! Only issue with the DOS version is you can't easily use CD music like you can with ScummVM if I recall.
Posted March 25, 2018
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BadDecissions: Does Maniac Mansion play OK? It's been available on Steam for a while, but it has poor user reviews there because of technical issues--apparently the mouse curser doesn't work properly in that version.
Apparently, it has been fixed:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/529890/announcements/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/sluttyputty/recommended/529890/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/pizzamanben/recommended/529890/
Posted March 25, 2018
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Banjo_oz: Here's a link regarding that tool; there is no legal problem with it since it requires you own the full SE games anyway.
Thank you sir. Playing the SE right now but in the future would love the original game with the voices.
Posted March 25, 2018
Curse is my favourite MI as well. Like many here, I also have the original CDs.
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