Arrr Mateys! Telltale be givin’ away Tales o’ Monkey Island

Brian Ambrozy 17 Sep, 2009 at 4:19pm ET Article published in Gaming

In honor of one of Icrontic’s favorite holidays, Telltale games will be giving away the complete first episode of Tales of Monkey Island for free on September 19th (International Talk Like a Pirate Day). From 12:01 am GMT, (that’s 7:01 pm Sept 18 EST), you’ll be able to download the entire first episode for free from http://playlikeapirate.com.

I suppose they’re getting you primed and ready to buy Episodes 2 and 3. We recently reviewed Episodes 1 and 2, and Episode 3 “Lair of the Leviathan” is coming out on the 29th.

Head on over an’ score yer free booty, and don’t say Cap’n Prime never did nothin’ fer ye, ye scurvy dog.

Comments

17 Sep 2009 ~ 7:52pm Winfrey Yarr! Booty!
17 Sep 2009 ~ 8:45pm Thrax This is a triumph.
18 Sep 2009 ~ 1:22am UPSLynx Who said pirates never win?

Can't wait to download this.
19 Sep 2009 ~ 11:39pm Cliff_Forster I be priatin da botty now, ARRRRRR!!
20 Sep 2009 ~ 12:02am Cliff_Forster And I am quickly reminded why nobody plays point and click adventure games anymore.
20 Sep 2009 ~ 7:17am SPIKE09

Cliff_Forster wrote:

And I am quickly reminded why nobody plays point and click adventure games anymore.

QFT what a waste of time
20 Sep 2009 ~ 10:16am GnomeWizardd ^^^^^ so true, I despised it in the first 15 min
20 Sep 2009 ~ 11:02am Cliff_Forster

SPIKE09 wrote:

QFT what a waste of time

I'll give it another shot. I used to freaking love this genre, if you were to ask me what one of my favorite games all time are I would say Maniac Mansion which was a point and click style game. When it first came out, I enjoyed Myst the first time though. I thought the nostalgia factor for Monkey Island would drag me back in, but its just too casual, too easy for me now. Plus technically the 3D camera is god awful. Some things just work better in two simple dimensions.

I still thank them for providing a taste for free though. It's cool of them to do that for the audience even if some of us are not going to go back to it. I'm a little bummed, but gaming has evolved too much for me to really want to go back and play this kind of point and click game. I'm afraid the genre died for a reason.
20 Sep 2009 ~ 11:22am fatcat free is free, and I got my copy
21 Sep 2009 ~ 6:49pm CB

Cliff_Forster wrote:

I'll give it another shot. I used to freaking love this genre, if you were to ask me what one of my favorite games all time are I would say Maniac Mansion which was a point and click style game. When it first came out, I enjoyed Myst the first time though. I thought the nostalgia factor for Monkey Island would drag me back in, but its just too casual, too easy for me now. Plus technically the 3D camera is god awful. Some things just work better in two simple dimensions.

I still thank them for providing a taste for free though. It's cool of them to do that for the audience even if some of us are not going to go back to it. I'm a little bummed, but gaming has evolved too much for me to really want to go back and play this kind of point and click game. I'm afraid the genre died for a reason.

The genre is far from dead. It's one of the most prevalent genres, and has been for years. However, most of them are low-budget (like this one), or even indi-level, while the big budgets go to FPSs and RTSs, so we don't hear much about them, but trust me: Point-and-click adventures still have an audience.