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[Doink]

Played MI2 first and the rest dont really come close

[Doubler]

I guess opinions differ vastly then.
Recently played the first three in sequence. Personally I thought MI2 was easily the least enjoyable of the bunch :wondering:
I liked MI3 best myself. Although that's in part due to the hilarious voicing. Remove that and I'm torn between 1 and 3.

[Tito]

I think the best one is the first. Fresh jokes, great ambient and sound for the time and all that. Then the second, which added more freedom of movement and yes, harder puzzles. About the third one, it didn't felt that good to me. It was like a dated remake of the previous ones, with too many cliché characters and self references to the saga.

[DeathDude]

I think the 1st game is a classic no doubt, the 2nd one was a bit different but still classic and the 3rd one brought it full circle, probably my favourite of the 4, but 1 is right up there too, the voice acting did it for me too, especially Guybrush, Murray and LeChuck, Elaine not so much, but they fixed that in #4.

[MinigunFiend]

Personally, self-references in games like Monkey Island do nothing but add to the humour - the particular instance that sticks in my mind is in MI3 (I think?) when you stick your head out of a hole and reappear in a scene from the original game. I laughed pretty hard at that.

[Mighty Midget]

Agree with Minigun here. With these self references it becomes sort of a meta-game which can be hilarious at times. One good example is that one mentioen above.

[Sebatianos]

Originally Posted by MinigunFiend

Personally, self-references in games like Monkey Island do nothing but add to the humour - the particular instance that sticks in my mind is in MI3 (I think?) when you stick your head out of a hole and reappear in a scene from the original game. I laughed pretty hard at that.

Well, in the case of Monky Island they acctually try to sort out the story. I mean, without LeChuck's Revenge (MI2) Monkey Island would be a great straight forward pirate adventure with a lot of humor. But that whole amusment part theme made everything so unnessesarily wierd it's a real shame that was allowed to happen (even though MI2 is still a great game). It took the series into a dead end street it's trying to escape from in a somewhat successful mannor, but so far it's still quite obvious they had no idea where and how to take the game from that point at the end of part two.

[donvercety]

Great game no doubt! I don't know about this organization ESA, but I think that these great games must be FREE do download... Thay are something like a part of the game culture a EVERGREEN if you like to put it this way. Even when the technology is so advanced these days I still enjoy to play some old classic games like this one becouse it is GREAT! :nuts:

[The Fifth Horseman]

I don't know about this organization ESA, but I think that these great games must be FREE do download...

Jeez, another one.
The fact that LucasArts has left ESA doesn't mean their games automatically become free.
Our past experience with that company dictates we are very careful when dealing with games they published, so rather than act the way we usually do, we'll have to politely ask them for their permission first. Which might take a while.