Fate hates Battlefront 3 and games popular in the 90's and early 2000's. Why do you think that almost every reboot of a 10+ year old franchise completely abandons the things that made the original popular in the first place?Slyaap said:
Disney Closes LucasArts
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Disney, if ever there was a shred of humanity in you or these twisted creatures of yours, it's dead now. You're at war with gaming itself. You are enemies of the internet... your Empire is doomed.
...Okay, okay, considering the state LucasArts has been in for the past decade or so, it's not as bad as all that. But I never wanted it to die. I wanted it to go back to being a game developer rather than a vampire dedicated to draining what little vital fluids remain in Star Wars's vegetative corpse because it'd forgotten how else to live. The Disney acquisition had me hopeful that it might finally see this day, if only because there was officially no more chance of that left under Lucas's management, but alas, it was not to be.
...Okay, okay, considering the state LucasArts has been in for the past decade or so, it's not as bad as all that. But I never wanted it to die. I wanted it to go back to being a game developer rather than a vampire dedicated to draining what little vital fluids remain in Star Wars's vegetative corpse because it'd forgotten how else to live. The Disney acquisition had me hopeful that it might finally see this day, if only because there was officially no more chance of that left under Lucas's management, but alas, it was not to be.
I could cry. Everything Disney has done with the star wars name since they bought it has only upset me. We should do a kickstarter to buy star wars from disney....
Man, there was a point early on when I only cared about Star Wars videogames - Jedi Outcast, Rogue Leader, Bounty Hunter, etc. Those really were the glory days (for me anyway, I wasn't around for the adventure game stuff), but alas.
Yeah but there was that stuff about a shooter called First Assault, and if that did well they'd go ahead with Battlefront 3 (I don't understand the logic there myself, I thought they should've just called it Battlefront 3 since the gameplay was the same) but that's scrapped along with 1313 apparently.MrPeanut said:
If I had to guess, they'll just farm those titles out... eventually. Disney is retaining all the rights to those titles so they could easily just get another developer to make it, one with a better recent track record.Slyaap said:
Before that happens though, I'm afraid to say I think the next games we'll see from these franchises will be cheap tie in games for the new star wars movies.
There goes another historic game studio. Tis a shame.
To be fair, I'm not gonna miss the current iteration of LucasArts much, seeing as how they haven't put out an in-house game that was good in ages. But I still must mourn their passing, because they gave us some real classics. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and of course, TIE Fighter. I wouldn't be a gamer if it wasn't for that masterpiece. It defined my childhood, and I owe them a lot for that.
And so, to the honorable creators of TIE Fighter, I bid you adieu. Thanks for the memories.
To be fair, I'm not gonna miss the current iteration of LucasArts much, seeing as how they haven't put out an in-house game that was good in ages. But I still must mourn their passing, because they gave us some real classics. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and of course, TIE Fighter. I wouldn't be a gamer if it wasn't for that masterpiece. It defined my childhood, and I owe them a lot for that.
And so, to the honorable creators of TIE Fighter, I bid you adieu. Thanks for the memories.
I'm feeling 50/50 on it. On the one hand Lucas Arts and I had so many fond memories together. They still had a few bits of talent to pop out as well (in my opinion) they just needed the right direction and I really feel bad for all of the displaced employees. At the same time I also know that developing in house is usually a risk. As a publisher you can have someone else develop games for your IPs and then when they suck you can blame the developer, just look at EA pushing all the blame on Maxis (or rather forcing Maxis to take it). So financially this might be the right move for them.
I will continue to withhold my judgement about this acquisition until I see some products of it.
I will continue to withhold my judgement about this acquisition until I see some products of it.
While this is true, it wouldn't be the first time that The Escapist put a thread post on hold to take the source and write up a news article about it. There's been multiple cases where a forum post won't be approved until a few minutes after they take the source and write an article.FamoFunk said:
OT: I... I can't believe we lost them... all the podracing, starship piloting, potentially great rated-M star wars game making goodness that was LucasArts [except for that Kinect thing, obviously].
(Edit): Part of me is glad that other studios can finally begin developing games in the StarWars universe, as this means pet projects won't get in the way of redeveloping sequels to old classics. I just hope Disney isn't trying to drag StarWars into the realm of "family-friendly" in order to simply sell more merchandise.
I know I'm in the extreme minority, but... this makes me really nervous about SWTOR now. They're days away from the first expansion, and Disney could easily just yank the license from them, especially with LucasArts gone now.
This has been my biggest fear with Disney getting the Star Wars franchise. Sure they seem to be alright with making movies, but their games are laughably bad most of the time. This could be the end of seeing ANY good Star Wars game for a very long time, unless they offer game licenses to devs that might do them justice. We'll see.
This has been my biggest fear with Disney getting the Star Wars franchise. Sure they seem to be alright with making movies, but their games are laughably bad most of the time. This could be the end of seeing ANY good Star Wars game for a very long time, unless they offer game licenses to devs that might do them justice. We'll see.
Disney went all "Old Yeller" on their ass.
Wow... I'm quite speechless about this. Granted LucasArts hasn't really made any great games in a long time, but I grew up on a lot of their games.
Wow... I'm quite speechless about this. Granted LucasArts hasn't really made any great games in a long time, but I grew up on a lot of their games.
Because LucasArts has been creatively dead since 2006? All the while losing money? Sounds like good reasons to me. Why keep a company that for the most part, puts out constant below average efforts.Brad Shepard said:
Actually, Abrams has always been more of a Star Wars fan instead of a Trekkie. One of the main complaints of the new Trek film from fans was that it played out more like a Star Wars film, so hopefully Abrams can be trusted in the director's chair.MarsAtlas said:
Anyway, this really stinks, no 1313, and now pretty much no chance of Battlefront 3.
I WOULD'VE BOUGHT AN HD BATTLEFRONT LUCASARTS, WHY DIDN'T YOU MAKE IT!!!?!?!?!?!?!?
I don't get why people are upset about this really. Totally Games made the amazing Star Wars flight sims, BioWare made KoToR, all this means is that games such as these would be published by Disney rather than LucasArts - if anything, because they've fired the idiots that wouldn't comission a TIE Fighter 2 or Battlefront 3, it makes those games more likely to finally be created!