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Old 02-07-2012, 04:51 PM   #12
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Modern Treasure Hunting epics.
Come on, do we really need more of those? It's such a 80s-90s thing, when regular folks didn't have the interwebs to leave their cities; the last Indiana did well at the box office because it rode the choo choo nostalgia train, big time.

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The thing is, Monkey Island may be full of tropes but the thing is, they did something so unique with it, it stands on its own.
Gaming-wise maybe, since most of the fun was reading Guybrush's dialog options and his descriptions of every minutiae. It's kinda like Watchmen: it loses way too much outside it's specific medium.
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