{"id":209,"date":"2022-06-30T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ron-gilbert-will-no-longer-discuss-return-to-monkey-island\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:38:44","slug":"ron-gilbert-will-no-longer-discuss-return-to-monkey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ron-gilbert-will-no-longer-discuss-return-to-monkey-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Gilbert Will No Longer Discuss Return To Monkey Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct Mini, Return To Monkey Island <\/em>was finally seen in motion<\/span>. Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman’s return to the series, after over 30 years away, has given a lot of cause for interest among classic point-and-click adventure fans. And unfortunately, where go fans go assholes, people leaving shitty, insulting comments on his personal site, so much so that Gilbert has announced he’ll no longer be discussing the game online.<\/p>\n

Among fans, a word we should probably remember is an abbreviation of \u201cfanatics,\u201d there are always those who have a habit of ruining everything they touch. For most normal people, the announcement that Monkey Island<\/em> was returning, and that Gilbert and Grossman were running the project, was exciting and nerve-wracking news. A favorite ’90s series is coming back, made by the people who made it great, so let’s look forward to it, but also…what if it’s less great? That’s the standard response, followed up by waiting to find out.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there’s always a large contingent of others who feel a religious zeal to obliterate absolutely anything and anyone who they perceive to have committed even the most mild acts of blasphemy, and in the case of Return To Monkey Island<\/em>, that’s its artwork. Art, as it happens, I responded to with a headline saying it \u201cLooks Damned Pretty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Art appreciation is, of course, subjective, and there were a fair number of people in the comments sharing their dislike of the style. And fair-does, because it didn’t work for them. I’m assuming that these people didn’t then go off to leave screeds of abuse<\/a><\/span> front Gilbert’s personal site<\/span> (offline at the time of writing), but sadly that’s what so many others did. Enough that Gilbert has announced (as reported by VGC<\/em><\/span>) that such \u201cpersonal attacks\u201d mean he’s shutting down comments and that \u201cI won’t be posting anymore about the game. The joy of sharing has been driven from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What a miserable state of affairs, given that all anyone<\/em> Has seen of the game is a few seconds of in-game footage, detached from narrative, dialogue or even sound effects. <\/p>\n