LucasArts Run by "Psychopaths"

[orangeapples]

And yet somehow they greenlit StarWars Kinect...

 

[wgar]

So... Lucasarts played a big hand in the demise of the developers of Timesplitters? And the death of Battlefront 3?

All my hate... they get all my fucking hate.

Activision and EA to a lesser extent as well. Mainly because it's just par for the goddamn course with them.

Timesplitters is still being released though.

This is why executives should actually KNOW their product and not just business, this problem crops up all the time and leads to monsters.

 

[Fursnake]

This is surely not the kind of thing Lucasarts wants us to hear hehe.

 

[lansid]

The first statement seemed to be wrong...

"Back in the heyday of the 1990s, LucasArts was one of the good guys. Titles like X-Wing, Jedi Knight and Monkey Island were pillars of PC gaming, but then something happened. Star Wars Battlefront, an FPS .... with a completely screwed multiplayer system that rivaled dyslexic blind BASIC coding was released in 2004 and was sadly an extremely successful game for LucasArts and the 2005 Battlefront 2 was equally shitty..."

Fixed.

Anything with the name "Lucas" destroys its IP like a puppy in a pool full of piranha sealed in a acrylic bubble full of carbon monoxide catapulted into the sun.

If LucasArts does not make one, more, game... consider it a mercy killing. No one remembers what the f'ing horse looked like, or even it's name it's been kicked and beaten for so long... and people are surprised that all they're concerned about is MONEY? Really? Did you hear they're releasing Star Wars Episodes 4,5,6,1,2,3... but MIRRORED to give a completely different experience!

 

[TaintedSaint]

Everyone keeps say oh, Battlefront, It was a Battlefield rip off with a star wars skin.
What we really need is a Jedi Knight 3 OR another X wing and Tie fighter

 

[spectrenihlus]

I guess producers are universally stupid. I hope kickstarter kills them eventually.

 

[Roboto]

Wow, just wow. Battlefront 3 was game I anticipated for ages but lost hope a few years ago due to all the development hell going on. Now I'm hearing that LucasArts deliberately put it into development hell because they didn't want they game to get finished. I honestly hope this shit isn't true, but after seeing the likes of EA and Activision... *le sigh* and to think that I still have Battlefront 2 and have been thinking about picking up the original sometime. <

EDIT:

I suddenly Despise LucasArts as much as EA...

They couldn't have even the smallest amount of faith that Battlefront 3 would more than make up for it's costs? 'cause it would have.

Basically what this guy said. Though I still try to live up to my policy of "never hate" and am one of those bronies who actually believes in the whole "love and tolerance" motto (before I even got into MLP *hipster shades*), shit like this does push me a bit.

This does explain though why LucasArts stopped being even remotely relevant years ago, so I guess there's a small silver lining in this after all. I'm still very upset buy this, however.

EA shut down the studio that made BFII. 2 days after acquiring them.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

If only we could make a giant LucasArts guy with a sad face and put it on the studio's front lot... a little too drastic perhaps?

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Hear that? It's the flavor of the month train pulling up, ready to take half this thread to the "We hate LucasArts" stop. Lots of return passengers from the EA stop, I see.

I love how this site works.

 

[TheVioletBandit]

Isn't anyone going to give us the whole, "it's okay because their a business, and the goal of a business is to make as much money as possible speech?"

 

[edgecult]

Timesplitters is still being released though.

Just on the timsplitters note...

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/345587/timesplitters-4-is-not-in-development-crytek-confirms/

Sorry my friend.. I wanted it too..

 

[Daveman]

All I read was

Darrell Rodriguez is the guy who killed Free Radical and prevented Timesplitters 4.

I rarely think hate mail is a good idea, but in this case I think maybe slip a cheeky bomb in there with it.

 

[Zetatrain]

Please people, don't act surprised at this. We've already been told that this is how publishers act on a regular basis by Brian Fargo. There is only one way to fight this bullshit. You know which way I'm talking about.

I completely agree

Let me guess, "Blow it up! Blow it all up!"

God I'm getting old

Anyway, normally I'd say no they're just a bunch of idiots or in the famous words of Yahtzee, "A bunch of Chimpanzee's with down-syndrome." Though if what is said is true then this is all pretty damning. Yet, I can't say I'm surprised

 

[Antonio Torrente]

Like Lucas himself, LucasArts is already for me a Fallen Creator. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/FallenCreator]

So another good developer bites the dust.

 

[boag]

Hear that? It's the flavor of the month train pulling up, ready to take half this thread to the "We hate LucasArts" stop. Lots of return passengers from the EA stop, I see.

I love how this site works.

o hai again, doing the broad sweeping generalizations thing again I see, good luck with that, im sure the big Corporation will thank you for White Knighting them.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Hear that? It's the flavor of the month train pulling up, ready to take half this thread to the "We hate LucasArts" stop. Lots of return passengers from the EA stop, I see.

I love how this site works.

o hai again, doing the broad sweeping generalizations thing again I see, good luck with that, im sure the big Corporation will thank you for White Knighting them.

I couldn't care less about "the big corporations." You don't have to like something to point out how stupid people are for blindly hating it.

 

[Strazdas]

No no no. Poor and retarded people are psychopaths. Rich and retarded people are called Eccentrics.

 

[Denizen]

The plans for Battlefront 3 were radical, pardon the pun, and the development cost a lot of money. Somewhere along the line, LucasArts decided they couldn't afford to make the game former studio head Jim Ward wanted to make. But they couldn't just cancel the game because of the contract in place, so instead they just tortured Doak and Free Radical until their spirits broke.

That part made me freeze for a minute before I read the rest.

Before this I always thought it was Haze that killed free radical but now i see that game as a desperate attempt to stay afloat while lucasarts choked them to death.

Finally the truth has come out. This is a personal revelation for me. I loved the games free radical made, especially timesplitters. I'm going to have to call a few friends, they must know too. Just wow

 

[Antari]

This is nothing new, its just the continuation of business as usual. They just aren't bothering to hide it anymore because they don't need to. There's nothing you can do to stop them, so bend over and take the DRM where the sun don't shine.

Games used to be about fun. Call it nostalgia, but it was an actually different feel in the games industry. Today its all about money, as long as the game distracts them enough to pry them from their money then its good to go. Who cares if its boring, short, unplayable. Its all about the money.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Waw... And here I was thinking that Free Radical bit the dust because Haze was such an atrocity.

Well, screw that Rodriguez guy than.

Though it it does make me wonder. A Battlefront game with the fluidity of TimeSplitters in a Star Wars setting? Sounds like something awesome.