LucasArts is history

[Sho Nuff]

God fucking damn it

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Lucasarts has been dead to me for years, and I still feel bad about this.

[maxy]

Star Wars: First Assault and Star Wars 1313--were cancelled

Disney

[bork]

Lucasarts has been dead to me for years, and I still feel bad about this.

 :'(

[Steve Contra]

 :'(

[Himu]

SELL THE ADVENTURE GAME IPS

[fistfulofmetal]

The fact that they couldnt find success with Star Wars video games shows how fucking awful the company was managed.

[bork]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.

[Joe Molotov]

SELL THE ADVENTURE GAME IPS

YES PLS

[Fragamemnon]

I remember being excited about 1313 when I saw the trailer and they were going into this big tower and I was all like 'omg star wars looter shooter rougelike with high production values"! Then later on it became clear it was another take on the  'escape from AAA dangerous places' and I was all  .

Sad to see Lucasarts go, even though Larry Holland's space combat sim games haven't dated all that well they did represent one of the formative pillars of my gaming tastes.

[Stoney Mason]

In a generation where online multiplayer shooters reached the widest possible audience ever, and the console cycle lasted the longer ever. Yet they still couldn't put out a battlefront game says everything that could ever be said about their management.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

In a generation where online multiplayer shooters reached the widest possible audience ever, and the console cycle lasted the longer ever. Yet they still couldn't put out a battlefront game says everything that could ever be said about their management.

Yeah, basically. How do you ignore that obvious goldmine?

[bork]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

[Stoney Mason]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.

[bork]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.

Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games?  Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?

[Stoney Mason]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.

Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games?  Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?

They were but I think Telltale was trying to move away from that stuff. And honestly after the first Sam & Max Telltale game, I think my nostalgia was sated.

I would love for them to do something with the Grim Fandango universe but they seem to have no clue.

[Great Rumbler]

Disney needs to auction off the adventure game IPs and those IPs need to be bought up by Double Fine [Kickstarter, if necessary].

[ManaByte]

That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.

1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/

With the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.

[ManaByte]

1313 is moving to a new developer and is becoming a young Boba Fett or young Han Solo game.

[Human Snorenado]

Good.  More deaths, please.

[Don Flamenco]

I guess you could say....the force wasn't with them 

[Don Flamenco]

I guess you could say....the force wasn't with them 

OMG THAT PUN   #DEAD      

[FoneBone]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.

Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games?  Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?

Steve Purcell owns Sam & Max, not LucasArts. He licensed the characters to Telltale after LucasArts' license expired.

That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.

1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/

With the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.

  "Hopes to finish" is a long way from "still coming out", and I don't exactly think the chances of it ever being released are good.

Publicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.

[ManaByte]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.

Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games?  Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?

Steve Purcell owns Sam & Max, not LucasArts. He licensed the characters to Telltale after LucasArts' license expired.

That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.

1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/

With the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.

  "Hopes to finish" is a long way from "still coming out", and I don't exactly think the chances of it ever being released are good.

Publicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.

Lucasfilm is doing focus group surveys for 1313 this week about changing the lead character. They wouldn't be paying the company doing those if the game is cancelled.

[etiolate]

I agree with both sentiments. I wish this hadn't happened, but at the same time, LucasArts hadn't really put out anything since Battlefront that has caught my eye.

[Momo]

SELL THE ADVENTURE GAME IPS

.

[Great Rumbler]

Sad to say, but it's probably been a decade since I actually cared about what LucasArts was working on, barring some of their outsourced stuff.

[Sho Nuff]

Fuck all that Star Wars shit, R.I.P. Monkey Island, LOOM, Grim Fandango, Sam & Max, Maniac Mansion, etc.

That stuff was buried long ago. It's not like they were doing anything with those properties outside of Sam & Max for awhile there.

Weren't they licensing Sam & Max and Monkey Island to TellTale Games?  Was the Back To The Future game a Lucas property too?

Steve Purcell owns Sam & Max, not LucasArts. He licensed the characters to Telltale after LucasArts' license expired.

That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.

1313 is still coming out. The XBLA/PSN FPS First Assault is cancelled. Kotaku is run by distinguished mentally-challenged chimps:

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/lucasarts-lays-off-staff-1200332457/

With the layoffs, LucasArts is no longer working on “Star Wars 1313,” but still hopes to finish the game with another developer. “Star Wars: First Assault” has also been canceled.

  "Hopes to finish" is a long way from "still coming out", and I don't exactly think the chances of it ever being released are good.

Publicly, Disney is saying their current games could be licensed out to a different publisher or developer, but according to our source, that's unlikely. Our source says Lucas has pursued the option for "one or both games," but nothing happened. "With the teams now basically being dispersed I think both games are effectively dead forever," our source said.

Lucasfilm is doing focus group surveys for 1313 this week about changing the lead character. They wouldn't be paying the company doing those if the game is cancelled.

Focus group surveys are set up weeks/months in advance. I'm sure the results of those focus tests are going to be sent to email addresses that don't exist anymore.

[Steve Contra]

He's not listening, Sho Nuff.  You're talking to nobody.

[The Sceneman]

I remember being excited about 1313 when I saw the trailer and they were going into this big tower and I was all like 'omg star wars looter shooter rougelike with high production values"! Then later on it became clear it was another take on the  'escape from AAA dangerous places' and I was all  .

Sad to see Lucasarts go, even though Larry Holland's space combat sim games haven't dated all that well they did represent one of the formative pillars of my gaming tastes.

goddamn, thats probably the best analogy I've heard in regards to the current state of blockbuster games.

[FoneBone]

He's not listening, Sho Nuff.  You're talking to nobody.

Ain't that the truth.

[pilonv1]

Two years?!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Two years?!

I'm surprised that little

get ready for 4-year dev cycles

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and 4-day firing cycles

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[Rufus]

Can someone name an instance were organizations (doesn't matter what kind) have learned from past mistakes when it wasn't too late already? I need some positive perspective.

[Trent Dole]

My reaction to the thread title was 'yeah that's not surprising'. Kind of weird to see 1515 die since that was one of the first 'next-gen' games shown. Not that I'd have bothered to play it or anything.

[Huff]

Never going to get battlefront 3  :'(

[Eel O'Brian]

Yeah, they dropped the ball on that like, what, 3 different times over the span of this gen?

[chronovore]

That's too bad. 1313 looked kinda good.

It was all vaporware though. All of it.

If someone else is working on it, they are starting from scratch, on a bed of previous false starts.

:damn

Thank you for getting me into FPS, you wonderful bastards

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http://kotaku.com/lucasarts-closure-convinces-developers-to-release-awes-468994505

Good news for the mod community!


 

AND FURTHERMORE: I can't believe we HAD a lightsaber fighting emoticon for years, and now it's gone, lost to this Coli happy horseshit emoticon crapfest.

[Joe Molotov]

I would kickstart a 2D Monkey Island game in the style of CMI so hard, Monkey Island 1 would get funded.

[cool breeze]

still history, but EA got the license to make Star Wars games.  Visceral, DICE, and Bioware are planning Star Wars games.

BURBANK & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines.

Under the agreement, EA will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres, while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.

“This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come,” said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. “Collaborating with one of the world’s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.”

“Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,” said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. “Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

[ManaByte]

Oh fuck, this means they won't be shutting down TOR. God damnit.

[ManaByte]

Since BioWare is probably doing KOTOR, what number will it be?

After all they said TOR is KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Bet this results in a new Battlefront finally.

[ManaByte]

Bet this results in a new Battlefront finally.

DICE given Battlefield 3
Visceral finishing Boba Fett: 1313
BioWare doing KOTOR 11

[Stoney Mason]

Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'd kill for a new Star Wars flight sim, but it's EA. Who am I kidding.

[ManaByte]

Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.

Battlefront 3 was finished, and it basically looked like Battlefield.

This will be the THIRD time Battlefront 3 will be made:

Rebellion's was about 60% done when Lucasarts took it from them and gave it to Free Radical.

Free Radical's was finished. It just needed time in QA.

Then Lucasarts did First Assault, which was basically a Battlefield 1943 version of Battlefront 3.

[Stoney Mason]

Honestly I'd rather they just dump whatever they've done and start anew with DICE but whatever.

[cool breeze]

Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.

yeah, EA will do better than the Lucasarts of 2005-2013, but that's not saying much.

And while Bioware and DICE's games are sort of obvious, it would be nice if Visceral made a new Jedi Knight-style game.  Dead Space already has dismemberment and force powers.

[Rahxephon91]

I just hope Dice's Battle whatever cuts out some of the stupid ideas from Battlefront like having the "hero" characters. I also wouldn't mind it just being a FPS.

[FoneBone]

Fine with this. They'll do more with the license than LucasArts was. And DICE doing Battlefront would be kick-ass.

Battlefront 3 was finished, and it basically looked like Battlefield.

This will be the THIRD time Battlefront 3 will be made:

Rebellion's was about 60% done when Lucasarts took it from them and gave it to Free Radical.

Free Radical's was finished. It just needed time in QA.

Then Lucasarts did First Assault, which was basically a Battlefield 1943 version of Battlefront 3.

Free Radical's claims re: Battlefront 3 don't past the smell test.  It was finished, and LucasArts never announced it?  Were they just going to sneak it onto shelves?

[radioheadrule83]

God damn it... another generation of disappointing Star Wars videogames guaranteed. Did EA ever do anything good or memorable with LOTR or Bond? The answer is no. They came close with Bond at least, but fuck me, EAs guaranteed exclusive involvement is simply terrible news.

I thought The Force Unleashed was shitty, but outside of Battlefield, I fully expect new depths of shittyness to be plumbed here.