VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

heyguido · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:19 am Post subject: Another one bites the dust...

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:34 am Post subject:

That's a sad one to see.

Ben Amos · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:48 am Post subject:

In fairness, you can likely count "good" SW games on one hand. The ones that make the cut that were programmed and developed by LucasArts? Even fewer. Most would agree that the first Knights of the Old Republic, and both Battlefront games were the best until The Old Republic came along. Thing is - Those were done by BioWare (Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, etc) & Pandemic (Mercenaries 1 & 2).

It's a sad day, to be sure, but the quality of the forthcoming games has everything to do with the developers and less to do with the publishers.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:54 am Post subject:

Agree with Ben. nostalgia aside, Lucasarts hadn't produced anything worth mentioning in 10 years.
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heyguido · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:44 am Post subject:

Truth.
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Ben Amos · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:11 am Post subject:

And, I would be shocked, SHOCKED, if someone didn't snatch up the rights to 1313 forthwith.

Grand Theft Alderaan? Yes, please.
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cyclometh · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:40 am Post subject:

LucasArts made a lot more than just Star Wars. Monkey Island, anyone?

They were moving much more to a licensing model in recent years, which I didn't think was a good idea. But some great titles came out under their name- Lego Star Wars, anyone? But they were just the publisher, not the developer, for most of them.

And yeah, sad that 1313 isn't going to see the light of day.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:42 am Post subject:

As an INTERNAL developer, they had done nothing in the last 10 years. Monkey Island was, what, 20 years ago, at least? Can't ride those coattails forever. And they failed to do ANYTHING with their other successful IPs like Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.

Their best titles were done by other developers: Bioware did Knights of the Old Republic and Traveller's Tales did the Lego Star Wars.

LucasArts, frankly, became irrelevant as a dev house.
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:45 am Post subject:

I'm a pretty big fan of the lego game series. Lego StarWars rocked!

Yonie · CM Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 906

In terms of legacy, Lucasarts had it. In terms of relevance, Lucasarts lost it. Telltale is holding on to Monkey Island for now. Hopefully they can do something worthwhile with it.