http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749
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Disney has laid off the staff of LucasArts and cancelled all current projects.
Bummer...I enjoyed many a game from them :(
It's sad from a 'games from the past' point of view, but Lucasarts hasn't really done much in the last...what...15 years?
Quote from: Arctic Blast on April 03, 2013, 01:55:20 PM
It's sad from a 'games from the past' point of view, but Lucasarts hasn't really done much in the last...what...15 years?
Probably not quite that long -- KOTOR was a notable success -- but otherwise I concur with your statement.
It's sad news, but they've not put out anything truly decent in years.
Let's remember what they did put out though. The following is a list of my absolute favorites from LucasArts:
- Star Wars Rebellion (Supremacy for those on the other side of the Warp Pond)
- Star Wars X-Wing
- Star Wars Tie Fighter
- Star Wars Empires at War and Forces of Corruption
- Super Star Wars (SNES)
- Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
- Super Star Wars Return of The Jedi (SNES)
Remember how awesomely awesome this was when it first came out?
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamefabrique.com%2Fstorage%2Fscreenshots%2Fsnes%2Fsuper-star-wars-05.png&hash=75c32461bb2b8ff872bbc60f219bc58fd186569d)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Still the greatest zombie/monster game ever.
Unfortunate news. I had some found memories of Star Wars X-Wing
Quote from: W8taminute on April 03, 2013, 02:12:10 PM
Let's remember what they did put out though. The following is a list of my absolute favorites from LucasArts:
- Star Wars Rebellion (Supremacy for those on the other side of the Warp Pond)
- Star Wars X-Wing
- Star Wars Tie Fighter
- Star Wars Empires at War and Forces of Corruption
- Super Star Wars (SNES)
- Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
- Super Star Wars Return of The Jedi (SNES)
Here are some of my favorites:
Battlehawks 1942
Loom
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of BritainI lost a lot of hours to BH 1942 and Their Finest Hour :)
Here's a link to a list of all their games by platform: http://www.lucasarts.com/games/platform.html
-X Wing, TIE fighter
- Maniac Mansion & Day of the Tentacle,
- Monkey Island series
- Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis
- Full Throttle (this was a great and overlooked game)
- Dark Forces, Jedi Knight
I'd put all of these on my Windows XP VM asap.
Truly some of the most rewarding series I've ever owned.
Sad, but not surprising. LucasArts had been on the decline for some time. They did some fantastic games over the years though.
I am stunned. I wasn't even aware that Disney had acquired LucasArts in October 2012 until I saw this thread and started reading up on it.
R.I.P. another one of the great publishers of PC games (http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/lucasarts/) (Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Sam & Max, etc., etc.). :(
It's interesting to see how LucasArts evolved from not doing any Star Wars games in the early days, to doing almost exclusively Star Wars at the end. It's easy now to forget that they did some great flight and naval sims.
Quote from: steve58 on April 03, 2013, 02:35:15 PM
Quote from: W8taminute on April 03, 2013, 02:12:10 PM
Let's remember what they did put out though. The following is a list of my absolute favorites from LucasArts:
- Star Wars Rebellion (Supremacy for those on the other side of the Warp Pond)
- Star Wars X-Wing
- Star Wars Tie Fighter
- Star Wars Empires at War and Forces of Corruption
- Super Star Wars (SNES)
- Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
- Super Star Wars Return of The Jedi (SNES)
Here are some of my favorites:
Battlehawks 1942
Loom
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
I lost a lot of hours to BH 1942 and Their Finest Hour :)
Here's a link to a list of all their games by platform: http://www.lucasarts.com/games/platform.html
OMG how could I have forgotten about SWOTL and Their Finest Hour? I lost a lot of time playing those games. I remember the sense of loss whenever one of your named pilots was shot down. Great games!
Strike Fleet! Harpoon before Harpoon existed.
The Sam and Max series managed to flourish after escaping from Lucas Arts. Could happen with other ex-Lucas Arts properties via Kickstarter.
I LOVED Sam and Max, along with Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Man, all those friggen little floppies!!
At least the LucasArts brand remains.
They did some cool stuff. Hopefully Disney will figure out how to resurrect that gaming legacy and bring us some goodness.
GRIM FANDANGO -- would like to RIP LucasArts... :'(
I was in awe when I played Maniac Mansion on Commodore 64 for the first time!
Later, it was Shadows of the Empire, which brought a new and refreshing angle to the Star Wars universe (SotE was an interesting project, not only the game but also a soundtrack, a novel, and tons of merchandise were released and SotE was meant to be a canonical side-story to the Star Wars movies, or "a movie without being a movie").
We had endless hours of fun with the legendary "Star Wars Episode I Racer", one of the fastest racing games I had played so far - on some levels, you couldn't even blink without crashing into a wall, and we still remember this game fondly.
One of my all-time favorites was the (undervalued) tactics shooter "Star Wars Republic Commando". I devoured all Republic Commando books afterwards and still love the Mandalorian soundtrack today, the game simply has one of the greatest music scores of all time.
I really hope that closing the studios and switching to a license model will offer other good studios the opportunity to continue or reanimate some of the good old LA games. I would love to see Republic Commando II (the open ending suggested a part II), or a new Knights of the Old Republic game (not the stupid MMO stuff but the good old "get the Sith or the Jedi ending" RPG concept), and - most of all - I hope chances for Battlefront III are rising again! Battlefront III on a next-gen console would be awesome 8)
always hoped there would be a remake of the old x-wing series :(
Id rather see a Tie Fighter remake. IIRC there are some graphic update mods out there for the whole series.