Honestly, I never really liked the beginning of the movie Hook. It made me take the rest of the movie less seriously than I would have liked to.
Much as I love the ending of MI2, I would prefer the situation to be vice versa. Maybe (for example) LeChuck has cursed Guybrush, and at the beginning of RMI, Elaine is the playable character and has to expel this curse from him. Similar to The Empire Strikes Back, when Leia comes to rescue Han.
Let’s wait and see, how RMI begins. However, if it starts where MI 2 ends, I hope for a good concept, too. Not like the beginning of The Last Jedi, in which Luke just drops the Lightsaber after that putatively big cliffhanger at the ending of The Force Awakens.
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All I know is that I want Ron Gilbert to make the game he wants to make. Even if I don’t like certain creative choices, I will be happy to see an auteur’s vision.
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After all, I totally agree with you and I trust Ron in this regard.
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I meant Revenge of the Jedi, of course. 
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The announcement deserved a hit-and-run visit to this forum, just to say hello to all the nice people who, years ago, discussed with me whether MI3a could become eventually a reality.
Now we know that it will. I’m extremely excited to see what Ron has created for us. 
Cheers!
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Mr. LowLevel… we meet, at last. Welcome to 2022.
How come you disappeared in 2018, then came out with THIS:
…in august 2020?!?
(David Fox revealed that Ron Gilbert contacted him for RMI in august 2020).
You owe us an explanation… 
But take your time, you can reply in 2024. 
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Holy hell this is fantastic news! I’m going to read my way through this thread and come back.
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Glad to have you back my friend! I was wondering how you’d take the news So, on April 1, did you understand it wasn’t a joke? I was sure it wasn’t, but I thought it was a Monkey Island clone Ron was making
If there’d be aliens then Ron might be inserting, maybe, Metaphysics into the storyline. If that were true, then RoMI’s gonna be a whole lot interesting, story-wise.
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I can’t believe people print that modified version I made all those years ago (with the darkened background), let alone that Ron actually SIGNED one!
Haha. Hopefully we get some OFFICAL posters this time around and maybe someone can shout me one?
A lot of what Ron wanted to do was achieved with Thimbleweed Park. So it doesn’t surprise me that a lot of those goals are in the past (e.g. pixel art/retro).
Secondly part of point 3 “how we all remember Monkey Island” must include the beloved elements from the later sequels (including Murray). You may say that’s not authentic, but it works for properties like James Bond. This is why Murray is in it, and Guybrush will be voiced once again by fantastic Dominic Armato (in fact it’s part of point 12: “That doesn’t mean I won’t steal some good ideas or characters from other games. I’m not above that.”).
Ultimately though Lucasfilm/Disney are the ones calling the shots who have the last say - but I don’t think that will necessarily matter, and I’ll explain why. It’s likely very important to Disney that it’s not disrespectful to the previous instalments including EMI, and they probably want it to be a pilot for reviving Lucasfilm Games IPs.
Disney put themselves into a precarious position by overpaying for Lucasfilm all to quire the rights to Star Wars, but then they destroyed the cinematic Star Wars series. They would have made more money, and created a better cinematic series if they just did a remake of the Original Trilogy as modern action-blockbusters rather than going down the route they went.
To state the problem directly: a large part of the fanbase LOVED The Force Awakens; but there was nothing there. It was a hollow shell of a movie with no genuine plot aimed at people who enjoy the Marvel Cinematic Universe type movies (I don’t & that isn’t/wasn’t what Star Wars was). It was formulaic garbage. They should have just used George Lucas’ ideas and where necessary improved upon them - at least he started with decent stories to tell.
They’re not going to make the same mistake with Lucasfilm games IP. So having Ron at the helm is much more about starting with the right process from the very start, rather than being about “the fans will love another MI, get the intern to write a script and get started right away!” So that’s why I’m confident this game will be great - Ron would have been given some boundaries that are important to Disney (e.g. must be family-friendly, must not trash any LFG IP, etc) but this will still be Ron’s game - his story, his wit, his puzzles. It’ll be great!
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Thank you for welcoming me into this unexpected branch of reality.
Just to show you how detached I am from my own memory, I completely forgot about that 2020 post of mine.
I do remember, now, that I wrote it as a tongue-in-cheek comment about something that I didn’t think could actually happen. It seems that the everlasting hope of the childish part of me was right and that my rational and cynical adult side was wrong. That’s nice to see and a good lesson to learn.
Please, be aware that I’m writing this reply in 2024. Any contrary perception of it must be attributed to the distortion of spacetime caused by the 31 years long backward jump.
By the way, “Return to Monkey Island” is really great. I loved the in-jokes, especially the one about the infamous MI2 monkey wrench puzzle.
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Thanks for having spifferated a little bit of future for us!
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Try to understand me…
First, RMI announcement.
Then this, twice in one day:
And now, @LowLevel rises up from the ashes.
The end of the world is near, I know.
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Nice to see you!
I did not. In the last years I have been pretty detached from anything related to Terrible Toybox and Ron Gilbert and I don’t think I had enough information or hints to suspect that they were working on MI3a.
I was pretty sure that Ron was working on something but for some reason my mind just rejected the idea that it was MI3a. Maybe that “I will not do it unless I get the rights” played a strong role in my reasoning.
I also either didn’t remember or ever read the 2013 tweet mentioned at the top of this thread. Had I remembered it, the April 1st statement might have rung a warning bell.
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At least Ron ist free enough on this that ha could choose his entire team as it seems.
Maybe because it’s that team that made what we all love till today.
For sure it has been for the dissected skunk lying on the table, in your first photo.
I’ve never been much into taxidermy, but I understand the fascination for it.
Yes, I also hope that the visual style will be similar enough, so that any posters or cardboard boxes of RMI will look suitable, next to those of MI 1 & 2. Seeing the visual style in the teaser trailer or the cover art from CMI, EMI and TMI, I’m not very sure.
Also, I doubt that Steve Purcell, who (to my knowledge) had drawn the MI covers in the early 90s, is going to draw the RMI cover picture, too. 
