LucasArts Run by "Psychopaths"
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I must have spaced out there for the last 20 years. When I think of Lucas Arts I have fond memories of excellent Star Wars flight sims and adventure games. But yeah, there really hasn't been anything Lucas Arts related catching my interest in the last 10 years or so. I used to buy Lucas Arts games without thinking about it, because I knew they would be awesome.
Unfortunately that company seems to have gone down the drain and degenerated into a cheap movie-merchandising machine. The last two games I got were X-Wing Alliance and Star Wars Rebellion, both over 10 years old.
Since then, Bethesda has replaced that sweet spot in my gamer heart. A company that is truly passionate and commited to making games.
Unfortunately that company seems to have gone down the drain and degenerated into a cheap movie-merchandising machine. The last two games I got were X-Wing Alliance and Star Wars Rebellion, both over 10 years old.
Since then, Bethesda has replaced that sweet spot in my gamer heart. A company that is truly passionate and commited to making games.
I'm still waiting on Monkey Island 3's Steam rerelease! And I could badmouth him for the TellTale Monkey Island games, good grief whoever wrote the script for those shouldn't be allowed to hold a pen if you can't even make the Monkey Island cast feel in-character. I couldn't even finish the first scene of Tales of Monkey Island because everything and everyone felt off.Dexter111 said:In his very short months with LucasArts, Rodriguez actually made a deal with TellTale Games to make the Monkey Island Episodes and he also greenlighted the Money Island 1+2: Special Editions and brought Loom, The Dig and Indiana Jones to Steam (he also greenlighted Lucidity - hey you can't get all of them right). In fact he brought a lot of the LucasArts Lineup to Steam during that time (April 2008 - May 2010): http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released&sort_order=ASC&term=lucasarts
Don't you DARE badmouth him...
(And thus, to this day I am fairly sure that everyone who calls Telltale a wonderful adventure game developer never actually played the classics)
I don't think that's a condition exclusive to LucusArts, I think it's a pandemic that has infected the whole industry.
LucasArts have been the weirdest fucking publisher about for a while now. This doesn't surprise me. I mean, EA and Activision are pretty shitty, but I don't know if I'd consider them outright 'weird'; there's at least a line of internal reasoning that's quite easy to follow when looking at their crap decisions.
I never thought I'd say this, but I don't think even EA would stoop this low. When they kill a developer they at least get as many games out of them as they can first. They'd never slowly bleed a popular developer to death while they were in the middle of making a game that would have almost certainly been profitable.Bolt-206 said:
EA are dicks, but LucasArts are dicks that don't event work properly.
All that's needed now is for THX to fumble and produce a movie that sounds like it's being played down fifty feet of garden hose and Lucas' legacy officially curls itself around a Glock.
So LucasArts pretty much killed one of my favourite developers ever?
Never buying a fucking product from them ever again.
Never buying a fucking product from them ever again.
I cant agree more, this is very true, One company does it, the next sees they can save money and does it too, and so on and so forth... makes me sick.canadamus_prime said:
Here's the thing though, everything you cite seems to match up perfectly with the article. The new Monkey Island games from Telltale are FAR cheaper than Battlefront 3 would be to develop, and re-releasing old games on Steam again is extremely cost effective without them putting out any sort of cash. Does that make them bad decisions, no certainly not, but it does kind of reinforce the image that the article paints, this guy was just trying to make as much money with as little risk as he possibly could.Dexter111 said:In his very short months with LucasArts, Rodriguez actually made a deal with TellTale Games to make the Monkey Island Episodes and he also greenlighted the Money Island 1+2: Special Editions and brought Loom, The Dig and Indiana Jones to Steam (he also greenlighted Lucidity - hey you can't get all of them rightGreg Tito said:
... it's things like this that make me wonder how we get good games at all ever...
This thing with lucasarts, and apparently EA and Activision as well is just depressing. Sadly as many have said its business as usual in the gaming industry.
and to a larger extent it's a worring trend in business. It led to the housing bubble, it led to the financial collapse, it's destroying the EU, and i keep looking at it saying, "what the fuck is wrong with you people?"
All thse investors and executives trying to perserve their bottom line by sacrifiving their bottom line! Or more accurately rich people trying to stay rich in the short term by screwing everyone in the long term. but why should they care? they have their golden parachutes, more money than i can expect to make in my lifetime, and the ability to not care about anyone else.
All thse investors and executives trying to perserve their bottom line by sacrifiving their bottom line! Or more accurately rich people trying to stay rich in the short term by screwing everyone in the long term. but why should they care? they have their golden parachutes, more money than i can expect to make in my lifetime, and the ability to not care about anyone else.
This thing with lucasarts, and apparently EA and Activision as well is just depressing. Sadly as many have said its business as usual in the gaming industry.
Oh and we could change it. hell yeah we could change it. we won't, but we could. yeah we could put gamestop out of business, along with EA, Activision, and lucasarts. We could fix DRM and change this crap. it's as easy as voting with your wallet, and to a larger extent actually voting for our government officials and their economic plans. it's as easy as missing that next AAA release.
Oh i'm saying there won't be pain, a few beloved franchises will have to die. What has happened with free radical will have to be repeated a couple of times. people will lose their jobs and suffer some hardship. but historically, what kind of social upheavel for the better has come without hardship? stagnation and damnation is easy. progress for the better is hard.
Oh i'm saying there won't be pain, a few beloved franchises will have to die. What has happened with free radical will have to be repeated a couple of times. people will lose their jobs and suffer some hardship. but historically, what kind of social upheavel for the better has come without hardship? stagnation and damnation is easy. progress for the better is hard.
Yeah, and the 2 biggest offenders are EA and Activision. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was Patient Zero. The really sad part is both of them used to produce really good stuff, so did LucasArts.Brad Shepard said:
Well, EA started the whole "Project 10 dollar" thing, locking parts of the retail game because people did not buy it new, yea... Prototype 2 locks the challenges and even the avatar awards for those who did not buy new.canadamus_prime said:
I had been getting the feeling LucasArts was being stupid lately, but not to this extent. I have put in at least 300 hours into Battlefront 2, and always had a shred of hope for a 3rd, even though I knew it had been cancelled or at least "put on hold" a few years ago. Guess that dream has died.