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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon I got the monkey island special edition it looks good and brings back a lot of memories from 1990. Well when you cross the two coolest things on planet earth, namely monkeys and pirates, the outcome can only be good. theres no ninjapiraterobotzombie in it tho so it loses points :roll:
gos to show that as far as point and click go's you don't need over the top production values, keep making them good and keep churning them out i say 1000 points... yikes... that works out at Ł45 for the five chapters based on the Ł17.99 price of a 2000 points card on Amazon... I thought that 3000 point cost Ł21? I really want to purchase Monkey Island but the cost for all 5 parts is scandalous. but Ł35 is less than a normal game... It is, Amazon must be ripping people off, because 1000 points is just Ł7, so 2000 should be no more than Ł14, not Ł18. I used to play The Secret of Monkey Island round at my friend's back in the day. He had the Amiga version and I remember it being really good.
This seems a little pricey for me right now though for all the chapters. Maybe one day though... Even though I fail to see how Ł35 for a game is scandalous, just download the PC version if you really feel that way. It's $35, so just over twenty quid. »
Amazon:
1000 - Ł14.99
2000 - Ł17.99
3000 - Ł29.99
Play:
Same, except 1000 is Ł11.99
Game:
Can only find 2000 for Ł19.99 »»
Well I think this teaches us that buying the points cards is expensive. The points cost Ł7 per 1000 points in the wii shop. Well maybe nintendo has up their prices for points over the last few weeks, i use a credit card to buy VC and wiiware titles, and the last one i bought (which wasn't that long ago) was 1000 points and it took exactly Ł7 off my credit card. So paying anything more is a rip-off. Last time I looked you could only use Visa or Mastercard to purchase points on there, and as I choose to stick with debit cards, that rules that option out.
Why Nintendo don't allow the use of debit cards is beyond me, especially when I discovered you can use them on PSN. I use my Visa debit card all the time to purchase points from the wii shop. I am pretty sure the maestro (mastercards debit card) also works fine. Just a heads up, WHSmith have been selling off wiipoints. In my local store(which is reasonably small) you can get 2000 for Ł9!!
Can't say this'll be the same the country over but may be worth a look even though smiths wouldn't be my first choice to shop for games!
:D You can get points much much cheaper if you buy em off your Wii. I don't think its pricey at all, quite a good buy in fact. If it were to come out in retail on one dvd, you would pay Ł35 for it. If you didn't like it, your left with either it collecting dust, some poor trade in price, or an ebay disaster waiting to happen. At least with buying this in chapters, if you don't like it, then you don't need to buy the rest.
I know this argument can come down to-'well thats what demos are for' and i agree, but demos also dont give enough longetivity to make an informed decision.
In anycase, if you like point and click affairs, then you could do a whole lot worse than anything with the monkey island stamp. It is thanks to this one series alone, that brought comedy, superb visuals and brilliant music in to the point and click genre and ultimately the series that catapulted point and clicks in to there own sub category of adventure games.
Without monkey island, I wonder if many other titles would have been born, simon the sorcerer for example borrowed many elements. Titles like broken sword, whilst dropping the comedy in favour of well narrated and serious storyline, might also have never seen light of day, without the popularity Monkey Island.
I do own the original Amiga Monkey Island 1 & 2 games, I will be picking up the enhanced version for either the 360 or ps3 (have decided which yet, though not on PSN at the moment), but certainly will be buying this on the wii, being a whole new series.
Superb stuff all round. I think I'm gonna wait and see if they ever give this a physical release. As that recent news item revealed, Telltale are having problems squeezing all the code into Nintendo's strict Wiiware limits. Plus the fact that one of their programmers regularly moans on their forums about how crappy he thinks Nintendo consoles are, doesn't really inspire much confidence that they're giving it their all. Shame. played and finished tlaes of over the weekend. The problems with it are no worse than they are on the sam and max series. Which affect both the wii and 360 versions of the game.
Personally ithink its down to poor customisation of thier engine on tell tales part.
Anyway. It doesn't hamper the game experience much at all, and is still IMO the best wiiware title released so far, hell its a new monkey island and thats enough for me.
Sadly no Stan the Salesman in this one though. | 
