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Adventure Game Scene of the Day — Tuesday 19 June 2012
Take Pirates of the Caribbean out of Monkey Island, Angel Heart out of Gabriel Knight, Jules Verne out of Myst - and you are barely left with anything 
Take Pirates of the Caribbean out of Monkey Island
It’s “take Monkey Island out of Pirates of the Caribbean” actually.
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Pirates of Caribbean movies are pretty shameless Monkey Island ripoffs but I still like them - not love them, but like them.
Monkey Island is pretty heavily influenced by Treasure Island though, like any humorous pirate adventure is.
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Well, the Pirates of the Caribbean RIDE was a big influence on Monkey Island, or so I hear. But so was On Stranger Tides, a great novel by Tim Powers, involving voodoo, Blackbeard and whatnot. Even so, Monkey Island is derivative to some extent, but I mean really, should we love it any less?
Oh, and then it kinda came full circle with the movies adapting On Stranger Tides.
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I was talking about the park ride that inspired both the games and the movies, but you can substitute it for Robert Louis Stevenson anytime That wasn’t the point.
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