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DanZero		2013-04-03 04:25:52 PM

Tom_Slick		2013-04-03 04:27:02 PM

The important question to ask is:

Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

Lando Lincoln		2013-04-03 04:40:33 PM

Well, that sucks. They made some truly great games in the past, but it's been a while since they made anything I wanted to play.

Tom_Slick: Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

God, I hope so.

Some 'Splainin' To Do		2013-04-03 04:43:06 PM

Wired points out that this frees up Disney to license things like Grim Fandango to other studios, which means it's more likely that we'll get reboots of classic LucasArts properties. I don't kow if I buy that, but it would be some kind of silver lining if it did.

Still, this sucks. I still remember playing the original Monkey Island when it came out. This is almost as sad as they day I learned that Infocom was, effectively, defunct.

Mike Chewbacca		2013-04-03 04:51:11 PM

"To the incredible and inspired artists at #Lucasarts who kept Star Wars relevant and alive for fans - You have my admiration and respect. It was an honor."
-Sam Witwer

tlchwi02		2013-04-03 04:51:38 PM

i loved lucasarts to death as a kid, but i think the last game they made that i enjoyed was republic commando. it might be time they folded and the license just get passed out. maybe they'll even farm out some of the older games to be re-done as IOs releases

Strolpol		2013-04-03 04:52:24 PM

Lando Lincoln: Well, that sucks. They made some truly great games in the past, but it's been a while since they made anything I wanted to play.

Tom_Slick: Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

God, I hope so.

SO MUCH THIS.

With modern online, it'd be the greatest thing ever.

Quantum Apostrophe		2013-04-03 04:53:43 PM

StinkyFiddlewinks		2013-04-03 04:55:01 PM

Strolpol: Lando Lincoln: Well, that sucks. They made some truly great games in the past, but it's been a while since they made anything I wanted to play.

Tom_Slick: Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

God, I hope so.

SO MUCH THIS.

With modern online, it'd be the greatest thing ever.

Thing is, it's damn hard to find a decent joystick these days. And no, I'm not farking flying a Tie Fighter with this damn console things.

Betep		2013-04-03 04:56:03 PM

Tom_Slick: The important question to ask is:

Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

And X-Wing. A friend had it and I never finished it.

Straight to doom		2013-04-03 04:57:34 PM

The time has come for Disney to start farming out the old properties from the early 2000's starting with MAKE KOTOR3, RC2, and a TIE Fighter super HD remaster!

ArkPanda		2013-04-03 04:57:54 PM

StinkyFiddlewinks: Strolpol: Lando Lincoln: Well, that sucks. They made some truly great games in the past, but it's been a while since they made anything I wanted to play.

Tom_Slick: Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

God, I hope so.

SO MUCH THIS.

With modern online, it'd be the greatest thing ever.

Thing is, it's damn hard to find a decent joystick these days. And no, I'm not farking flying a Tie Fighter with this damn console things.

I actually had a Thrustmaster 20 years ago when they were the bomb. I never did get every single button configured correctly.

Blues_X		2013-04-03 04:58:47 PM

That Star Wars kinect game did blow goats.

FooDog		2013-04-03 04:59:41 PM

Nooooooo!

Tom_Slick		2013-04-03 05:00:04 PM

uncleacid		2013-04-03 05:01:58 PM

Bring back Porkins.

Catlenfell		2013-04-03 05:01:58 PM

My headline was "Disney kills LucasArts, Maniac Mansion has slightly worse chance of being remade."

Nana's Vibrator		2013-04-03 05:03:08 PM

Quantum Apostrophe: [maniacmansion.jpg]

I was more of a Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazers guy. Guess we won't be getting our sequels after all.
/prayed for 25 years!

cgraves67		2013-04-03 05:03:34 PM

Hopefully Disney won't sit on the IPs and will use their clout to farm them out to competent firms to get continued/rebooted.

Phil Moskowitz		2013-04-03 05:05:20 PM

Feel the Electronic Arts flowing through you.. yes.. goood.

pacified		2013-04-03 05:05:33 PM

vote for new Xwing

Lost Thought 00		2013-04-03 05:11:14 PM

They were little more than Lucas's vanity project at this point. They haven't made a great game in years, and notably all the decent Star Wars games were produced by other people under license, so there really wasn't any reason for them to exist.

JPSimonetti		2013-04-03 05:14:54 PM

I played SW:TOR before it became FTP, and it always made me so depressed. I hung in there as long as I could, then felt guilty about cancelling my subscription. I wanted to support the game. It had so much potential. But, it just got destroyed from the top by people a whole lot more concerned about how much money they were making that week instead of how much money they could make in a year if they put more people to work on finishing the damn game.

Ed Grubermann		2013-04-03 05:16:18 PM

buttery_shame_cave		2013-04-03 05:18:21 PM

the fun part is, all those old lucasarts games were open-licensed years ago, guys.

except for grim fandango, i think.

look up the 'scummVM' project sometime. enjoy!

frostus		2013-04-03 05:18:51 PM

I always had a soft spot for Outlaws. I still pop the disc in and run through it every once in a while.

the dizzle		2013-04-03 05:18:58 PM

Who can I yell at? I want to yell at someone. Someone who deserves to be yelled at for doing this.

ThisSideofSteinway		2013-04-03 05:20:27 PM

Ed Grubermann: [25.media.tumblr.com image 539x742]

Is this the legacy of too much for too few that I see?

palan		2013-04-03 05:21:27 PM

Catlenfell: My headline was "Disney kills LucasArts, Maniac Mansion has slightly worse chance of being remade."

I tried for Sam & Max hit the unemployment line.

RoxtarRyan		2013-04-03 05:22:31 PM

So they pulled a Bain, huh? This happens in nearly every industry. Company gets eaten by a larger company, larger company poops out employees, larger company keeps the IP nutrients.

/It's the circle of liiiiiiiiife....

illannoyin		2013-04-03 05:24:26 PM

Someone please use the Jedi mind trick or the dark side of the force or whatever the fark it takes to get the next Monkey Island and Full Throttle sequels made!

/If only someone would hear my cries
//Another Leisure suit Larry also please

LesserEvil		2013-04-03 05:27:28 PM

Geez, they were morons anyway.

All they had to do was remake this:

img2u.info

Updated with new graphics, improve the gameplay, and offer a season pass for the first 4 or 5 major DLCs (with new missions and spacecraft), and they'd have people lined up to buy it.

Instead, they kept releasing stuff like "The Force Unleashed" - which while decent, was not what fans were really clamoring for.

I'd easily spend the $59.99 price on a new X-Wing series, and another $29.99 on a season pass.... offer it through Steam, and don't get too ticky-tack with crap DLC releases (I don't expect to pay a buck for individual spacecraft or some fancy flame paint job for my Tie Interceptor, but I might spend a couple of bucks to get a complete selection of Pirate Franken-fighters or a selection of lesser-known Incom fighters).

If they had done this before Galaxies was created, they could have even tied it in.... and been far more successful with that product, as well.

Instead, LucasArts blew off what their fanbase pleaded and begged for for the past 2 decades and delivered mostly mediocrity.

Lord Darth Porkins		2013-04-03 05:28:25 PM

uncleacid: Bring back Porkins.

I returned, but for the dark side...

BattleFrenchie28		2013-04-03 05:28:32 PM

palan: Catlenfell: My headline was "Disney kills LucasArts, Maniac Mansion has slightly worse chance of being remade."

I tried for Sam & Max hit the unemployment line.

Sam and Max are employed at Telltale though

Mikey1969		2013-04-03 05:28:33 PM

"After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games,"

Yeah, because they NEVER had any "quality" games before, did they? What a joke, but not unexpected at all. I had hopes that Disney wouldn't fark this up, but they weren't really high hopes or anything.

corronchilejano		2013-04-03 05:33:04 PM

I went with "LucasArts now more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

Fallout Boy		2013-04-03 05:34:32 PM

Grow up, neckbeards. let the next generation enjoy their Star Wars.

Allen262		2013-04-03 05:36:34 PM

Phil Moskowitz: Feel the Electronic Arts flowing through you.. yes.. goood.

Aaaannd we're done.

Satanic_Hamster		2013-04-03 05:39:42 PM

Tom_Slick: The important question to ask is:

Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

Space Flight sims are dead, sadly.

I'd kill for a new Wing Commander game.

I'd MURDER KILL for Bethesda to get their hands on the Space Quest line.

And I'd RAPE MURDER KILL for Bioware to get free from EA, get hold of the Planescape: Torment ownership, and put out a sequel.

tlchwi02		2013-04-03 05:41:38 PM

Mikey1969: Yeah, because they NEVER had any "quality" games before, did they? What a joke, but not unexpected at all. I had hopes that Disney wouldn't fark this up, but they weren't really high hopes or anything

they did, but the last one they made was in 2006 (republic commando, which ended up somewhat mixes as i recall, even though i enjoyed it) and before that you're going all the way back to what, the early 1990's? Not counting games they just published and didn't develop (since thats the same thing disney is intending on doing going forward) you have to go way back to see them really stirking it big as a developer

TheShavingofOccam123		2013-04-03 05:43:03 PM

Never, ever trust a Jew-hating, ski-jump nosed, balding guy. Never.

2.bp.blogspot.com

/every time they touch their nose, a buck-toothed Asian breaks his thick gwasses
/Disney does "franchise destroying" better than anybody
/CBS did do the Star Wars Holiday Special though
/I tossed in Nixon because...well, just look at him

the dizzle		2013-04-03 05:47:35 PM

Satanic_Hamster: Tom_Slick: The important question to ask is:

Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

Space Flight sims are dead, sadly.

I'd kill for a new Wing Commander game.

I'd MURDER KILL for Bethesda to get their hands on the Space Quest line.

And I'd RAPE MURDER KILL for Bioware to get free from EA, get hold of the Planescape: Torment ownership, and put out a sequel.

Chris Roberts is making a new flight sim
http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/

BStorm		2013-04-03 05:50:10 PM

Seriously, at this point it was more of a mercy killing than anything else.. whoever was making the big decisions at LucasArts for the last 10 years seemed to have 'fail in the most spectacular way possible' as one of their life goals.

phimuskapsi		2013-04-03 05:51:08 PM

I always hoped they'd come back with a fantastic new take on the SCUMM/GrimE games.

Just started revisiting Grim Fandango a couple weeks ago. Damn I'm going to miss this company.

img.gawkerassets.com

MooseMuffin		2013-04-03 05:55:26 PM

LesserEvil: Instead, they kept releasing stuff like "The Force Unleashed" - which while decent, was not what fans were really clamoring for.

TFU was fine in concept, the game just sucked.

Tyrone Slothrop		2013-04-03 05:57:02 PM

I submitted this with a grimmer headline.

Tyrone Slothrop		2013-04-03 06:00:30 PM

Satanic_Hamster: Tom_Slick: The important question to ask is:

Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

Space Flight sims are dead, sadly.

I'd kill for a new Wing Commander game.

I'd MURDER KILL for Bethesda to get their hands on the Space Quest line.

And I'd RAPE MURDER KILL for Bioware to get free from EA, get hold of the Planescape: Torment ownership, and put out a sequel.

No need to rape murder kill, just contribute a few bucks to the kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera

SomeoneDumb		2013-04-03 06:01:53 PM

Satanic_Hamster: Tom_Slick: The important question to ask is:

Will this mean we can have a new updated version of TIE Fighter?

Space Flight sims are dead, sadly.

I'd kill for a new Wing Commander game.

I'd MURDER KILL for Bethesda to get their hands on the Space Quest line.

And I'd RAPE MURDER KILL for Bioware to get free from EA, get hold of the Planescape: Torment ownership, and put out a sequel.

Until today I never would have thought I had much in common with a rodent.

phimuskapsi		2013-04-03 06:05:18 PM

BStorm: Seriously, at this point it was more of a mercy killing than anything else.. whoever was making the big decisions at LucasArts for the last 10 years seemed to have 'fail in the most spectacular way possible' as one of their life goals.

Yeah Force Unleashed sucked, but the Lego Star Wars games were a total blast. In 2004 the company went from 450 employees to 190. They then basically stuck to Star Wars games. Battlefront, Lego Star Wars were basically the only good ones of that genre, then they made Mercenaries which was a LOT of fun.

2008 rolls around and Jim Ward leaves and suddenly the IP is in the sh*tter. Had a lot of commercial failures and then Disney got them in the Lucasfilm buyout.

What's good is that all of them were laid off, so the opportunity for them to reform and finish their non-Star Wars games under development, could arise.

Mikey1969		2013-04-03 06:05:45 PM

tlchwi02: Mikey1969: Yeah, because they NEVER had any "quality" games before, did they? What a joke, but not unexpected at all. I had hopes that Disney wouldn't fark this up, but they weren't really high hopes or anything

they did, but the last one they made was in 2006 (republic commando, which ended up somewhat mixes as i recall, even though i enjoyed it) and before that you're going all the way back to what, the early 1990's? Not counting games they just published and didn't develop (since thats the same thing disney is intending on doing going forward) you have to go way back to see them really stirking it big as a developer

They published all kinds of games into the 2000's. Even into 2012

Here's a list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LucasArts_games

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