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Originally Posted by Dragonrose
Well, he got the beard in MI2 because it shows him to be more mature. He is no longer a callow youth who wishes to be a pirate, he IS a pirate!
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I agree, Guybrush's beard was probably just simple character development on Ron Gilbert's part. As for MI2 -> MI3, well, Gilbert was no longer directly involved with the game design, and the new project leads (who held very different ideas to Gilbert on where to take the series) probably wanted to return to the goofy, post-adolescent Guybrush of the orignal game.
Personally I think this was a bad, unadventurous and ultimately uncreative decision, but that's just me. I liked the way Guybrush seemed to evolve as a character from the beginning of MI1 through to the end of MI2, and I think that the decision to re-characterize him in his original form took away alot of his carefully cultivated depth.
