Tim and Dave wrote the majority of the dialogue. He came up with the main story, most puzzles and oversaw development. I'm not saying Ron barely wrote anything. Like I said, whenever Ron started gaining a presence on the internet really, 10, 15 years ago. That entire idea of 'the real Monkey 3' is something that came after the fact. ![]() It's entirely possible Ron thought up some more story later, but at the time they didn't have a design document or story ready and it wasn't meant to be a trilogy. The only reason Elaine's 'hopefully LeChuck didn't put some sort of SPELL over Guybrush.' was only there to make sure there was still room to make a sequel if they wanted to, but at that time they weren't planning to. The point that it's so weird is the joke. A couple of over-the-top twists, a bit of Empire Strikes Back in there. Dave Grossman already cleared it up that, yes, the cliffhanger was a joke more than anything. Ron somehow built this idea that there's more story after 2's cliffhanger, another game he never got to built (even though Lucasarts often gave him the option to come back to build 'his' game, he always willingly declined). I find it a bit disrespectful to his colleagues after a while. In the meantime, all you hear about Monkey Island these days is the story of how Ron Gilbert is getting the rights to Monkey Island back to make his sequel to replace the fake sequels, which isn't true.' I can sympathize with Chuck Jordan's criticism of Gilbert's attitude when he says "look, you were given the chance, you declined and said it was okay to do it, we did the best we could, and the last 10 years you've spend promising people that if you'll ever make a Monkey Island it'll be the real Monkey Island 3, even though you know you'll never own the full rights and you'll never have to prove you can make that game again. And he was originally invited to make it himself, he just chose not to. ''Canon" or not, there was still a lot of hard work on that game. ![]() Check out Chuck Jordan's Twitter and blog, he's talked about it better than I can. ![]() It's fine that Ron wants his own game in his own style, but Ron played up the idea of a real Monkey Island 3 he's never going to make over the last 10 years so much that there has definitely been a part of fandom that increasingly has grown to believe the actual, real, existing Monkey Island doesn't count as much. I'm not saying he talked negatively about it, I'm saying it bummed me out how the writers and designers of other games (namely Monkey Island 3) also started getting annoyed about Ron's constant insistence on the REAL Monkey Island 3.
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