LucasArts Run by "Psychopaths"
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No. NO. NO!!!edgecult said:
Why?! Why can't they just let it be made?!
We want it! I want it!!!
P.s. Go fuck yourselves new Lucasarts.
Not sure about them being psychopaths, but I doubt they have any sense on what makes a "good" game anymore. *SIGH*
Yes, Jim Ward was a complete ass. For me Lucasarts doesn't exist since Escape from Monkey Island. Then it existed a little while when they released the special editions.Dexter111 said:I'm going to have to take issue with that...Greg Tito said:
Jim Ward was decisively involved in cancelling Full Throttle: Payback/Hell on Wheels and Sam&Max: Freelance Police.
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...
After he was replaced all was lost though...
http://kotaku.com/5533053/lucasarts-president-executives-out-as-publisher-shakes-up-top-brass
It's so sad... A company that made the best PC games ever to end like this... Because after this news they're totally finished for me!
My hate will bore a hole into the nethersphere, releasing nightmares and daemons upon the Earth that will create a black citadel, and from within its deepest bowels, rows upon rows of equipment will be erected where developers will toil (happily) to create the perfect Battlefront 3. And when it is finished, it will be released to the public and sell millions while Lucasarts assholes watch, and then weep at the success they threw away.
With SW: Kinect being released, this is my only comment that needs to be made:
I would support a Kickstarter fund to get both Battlefront 3 and Tie Fighter/X-Wing (remakes or reboot) BUT I would not support the current LucasArts publishers running the show to even make close to as good a game as possible.
Mr. Lucas, if you would please step out from behind your stacks of money and out of your Scrooge McDuck vault in Skywalker Ranch, you could walk into LucasArts and SEE just what CRAP they're shoveling out when compared to earlier releases.
But then, Mr. Lucas you would have to look past your own blindness towards your own creation you just happen to decide "isn't good enough and needs more". Please for the love of God/FSM/Xenu, DO NOT EVER LET LUCASARTS MAKE ANOTHER INDIANA JONES GAME.
You and Spielburg screwed the pooch with KotLS, so much so that I still refuse to watch it and decided that it is NOT part of Indy's canon.
Take that to the bank...
It's gonna make me spaz like bobcats on booze,
A hyperactive juice that only I can produce
And fuel a giant drill bore straight into hell
Releasing ancient demons from their sleep-forever spell
So they can walk upon the earth and get re-situated
And hawk the LUCASARTS crap George has created.
I would support a Kickstarter fund to get both Battlefront 3 and Tie Fighter/X-Wing (remakes or reboot) BUT I would not support the current LucasArts publishers running the show to even make close to as good a game as possible.
Mr. Lucas, if you would please step out from behind your stacks of money and out of your Scrooge McDuck vault in Skywalker Ranch, you could walk into LucasArts and SEE just what CRAP they're shoveling out when compared to earlier releases.
But then, Mr. Lucas you would have to look past your own blindness towards your own creation you just happen to decide "isn't good enough and needs more". Please for the love of God/FSM/Xenu, DO NOT EVER LET LUCASARTS MAKE ANOTHER INDIANA JONES GAME.
You and Spielburg screwed the pooch with KotLS, so much so that I still refuse to watch it and decided that it is NOT part of Indy's canon.
Take that to the bank...
It's gonna make me spaz like bobcats on booze,
A hyperactive juice that only I can produce
And fuel a giant drill bore straight into hell
Releasing ancient demons from their sleep-forever spell
So they can walk upon the earth and get re-situated
And hawk the LUCASARTS crap George has created.
I want to agree with you, but I think you're wrong. It's going to much worse. Games like Starwars Kinect will become the norm as that is what non-gamers will buy, and there are a hell of a lot more non-gamers than gamers out there. The companies that exploit that demographic are going to make the most money, and gamers like us who love a good interactive experience are going to be left out in the cold.Ragsnstitches said:
So in that respect, you are kinda right. Those publishers will fall, but they only will fall from grace with the people that made them strong in the first place.
So Battlefront 3 is not coming? ... Ever? RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS! I would have pre-ordered that shit a year in advance! What a fine display of modern business we have here.
Well I was all for burning down the studio, but your idea works too.dessertmonkeyjk said:
captcha
get over it
Not amused captchas, not amused -_-
And thus my previous statements about Lucasarts having a crippling fear of money and success are half wrong. I need to go cry somewhere...
And i will start by saying "The bullshit is strong with this one".
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/27/this-is-what-happened-to-star-wars-battlefront-3/
Essentially everything in there is false.
The game was never canned after being completed, the game was never even near completion. I was working for the QA company that was testing the game and it was a fucking disaster. Nothing worked. LucasArts didn't can a completed game and a sequel to their most successful franchise up to that point, they took the project away from a vastly incompetent developer who had near the end of the project reduced the game to 3 class, and 5 or 6 maps with a 2 hour long campaign and was still mostly unplayable.
You can look at the videos in this thread: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/new-star-wars-battlefront-3-footage-shows-first-3-missions/542545/
This is as good as this game ever got and that's what this guy calls a "completed" game.
Lots of good tester lost a job that day and for a relatively small company that was a huge deal for us at the time.
I guess i've got no way to prove what i'm saying, you're just gonna have to trust a random stranger on the internet. But why would i get worked up for a 4 year old cancelled game anyway?
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/04/27/this-is-what-happened-to-star-wars-battlefront-3/
Essentially everything in there is false.
The game was never canned after being completed, the game was never even near completion. I was working for the QA company that was testing the game and it was a fucking disaster. Nothing worked. LucasArts didn't can a completed game and a sequel to their most successful franchise up to that point, they took the project away from a vastly incompetent developer who had near the end of the project reduced the game to 3 class, and 5 or 6 maps with a 2 hour long campaign and was still mostly unplayable.
You can look at the videos in this thread: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/new-star-wars-battlefront-3-footage-shows-first-3-missions/542545/
This is as good as this game ever got and that's what this guy calls a "completed" game.
Lots of good tester lost a job that day and for a relatively small company that was a huge deal for us at the time.
I guess i've got no way to prove what i'm saying, you're just gonna have to trust a random stranger on the internet. But why would i get worked up for a 4 year old cancelled game anyway?
There is no irony there. But it's nice to see you've entirely given up trying to argue--saves me the time of pointing out your every flaw in logic.boag said:
And by effect, they're probably also the reason why Timesplitters 4 isn't in development anymore [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/345587/timesplitters-4-is-not-in-development-crytek-confirms/]. It was announced in 2007, and not even a month ago, we find out that it's not happening after all.Irridium said:
Battlefront 2 sold more than three million copies on the PS2 alone. If Lucasarts' bottom line was really about money, then why in the hell would they destroy a development-in-progress? Using an unbelievably conservative sales estimate of eight million copies across three platforms at roughly $60 apiece, they would've gotten nearly half a billion dollars in sales revenues. Would they have spent even a quarter of that on this supposedly too expensive development?