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>>looks at the calendar>> Oh %$#@!, it's not April 1st anymore... This can't be happening. :( I was hoping the title was sensational and that they're just mo

by smtddr 14y ago

>>looks at the calendar>> Oh %$#@!, it's not April 1st anymore... This can't be happening. :( I was hoping the title was sensational and that they're just moving the staff to a Disney corp building. But the article is confirming the worse case. How can this be?! I'm not a starwars fan, but I'm pretty sure that whole thing is still making money on t-shirts & mugs & stuff.... right?!

loganfrederick 14y ago
LucasArts, AFAIK, is just the videogame studio division of LucasFilm. I'm sure the merchandise is still making plenty of money.
- illuminate 14y ago
  LucasArts was the only part of his products that many people care about anymore!
jechen 14y ago
This marks the first time I've felt genuinely saddened by the shutdown of a game studio. LucasArts made some of the best games I played as a kid, it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. :(
- untog 14y ago
  Eh. I was more disappointed when Westwood bit the dust. In all honesty, LucasArts was long, long past it's golden era. Though I'm currently playing through Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on my way to and from work, on my phone, via SCUMM. I'll always be grateful for that.
  - Lewisham 14y ago
    It's funny/tragic just how much better the Fate of Atlantis' story was than Indiana Jones 4. They could have just made that into a movie and it would have been amazing.
- spangborn 14y ago
  I miss the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, especially the awesome X-Wing vs TIE Fighter game. I would have loved to see a modern remake of those games.
  - throwaway1979 14y ago
    The space fighter genre seems to be lost. I did some research a few years ago trying to understand what happened. Not enough market demand was the answer. The same goes for Mech games and flight sims. We live in a cold world some days :(
    - ArtB 14y ago
      There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.
      - deleted 14y ago
        [deleted]
      - gknoy 14y ago
        Hawken. It's fun. :) Low complexity, but seems to reward skill.
    - SoftwareMaven 14y ago
      I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game. "Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..." I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.
      - damncabbage 14y ago
        I pulled my old joystick out I'd kept for the last ten years, only to realise my PC doesn't have a serial port. Warning! (I've no idea how long I haven't had a serial port. Which makes it worse.)
- doktrin 14y ago
  >> it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. Agreed, but it's worth keeping in mind that "recent years" in this case means over a decade. LucasArts pumped out hordes of sub-par games, quickly shoe-horning various game paradigms into the star wars universe. As much as I feel nostalgic towards the hey-day of old, the article is spot on in pointing out that all their recent greats (KOTOR, etc.) were developed externally. If I were in Disney's shoes, I might have made much the same call, alas. Either that or take a gamble on a radical re-vitalization campaign, which is dicey in today's game market.
- Macsenour 14y ago
  I understand your feelings. But keep in mind that the PEOPLE who made those games are LONG GONE. The NAME of the company is still there, and I understand why you're attached to it as I am too, but the people who made those special games have been gone for years. As hard as it is, don't attach those great memories to the COMPANY, but rather the people who had the vision to make them. If you need to remove your attachment, play the Kinect version of Star Wars. And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you. Now you know the price of those 6am flights you booked.
  - laureny 14y ago
    > And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you. Er... no. That's superstition. It's simply not real.
    - redblacktree 14y ago
      I wonder how you can speak with such authority, when the very nature of life remains a mystery.
      - jlgreco 14y ago
        It doesn't. We have many libraries filled with material on life. He can state with authority that karma does not exist just as he can state with authority that unicorns do not exist: Very easily. There is no evidence of such an effect, and no evidence for anything that could transmit or cause the effect. It is as imaginary as anything could be said to be.
        crgt 14y ago
        Absence of evidence != evidence of absence. Perhaps worth rethinking your assumptions? All of the libraries in the world can't prove we're not brains in vats collectively hallucinating everything or an ancestor simulation running on supercomputers in deep space. Pehaps your breakfast today was imaginary? I could make just as strong a case for that as you can for the "imaginary" nature of karma.

by smtddr 14y ago

loganfrederick 14y ago

LucasArts, AFAIK, is just the videogame studio division of LucasFilm. I'm sure the merchandise is still making plenty of money.

illuminate 14y ago
LucasArts was the only part of his products that many people care about anymore!

jechen 14y ago

This marks the first time I've felt genuinely saddened by the shutdown of a game studio. LucasArts made some of the best games I played as a kid, it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. :(

untog 14y ago
Eh. I was more disappointed when Westwood bit the dust. In all honesty, LucasArts was long, long past it's golden era. Though I'm currently playing through Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on my way to and from work, on my phone, via SCUMM. I'll always be grateful for that.
- Lewisham 14y ago
  It's funny/tragic just how much better the Fate of Atlantis' story was than Indiana Jones 4. They could have just made that into a movie and it would have been amazing.
spangborn 14y ago
I miss the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, especially the awesome X-Wing vs TIE Fighter game. I would have loved to see a modern remake of those games.
- throwaway1979 14y ago
  The space fighter genre seems to be lost. I did some research a few years ago trying to understand what happened. Not enough market demand was the answer. The same goes for Mech games and flight sims. We live in a cold world some days :(
  - ArtB 14y ago
    There is MechWarrior online in a freemium open beta and another mecha but more FPSy game in development I can't recall right now.
    - deleted 14y ago
      [deleted]
    - gknoy 14y ago
      Hawken. It's fun. :) Low complexity, but seems to reward skill.
  - SoftwareMaven 14y ago
    I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game. "Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..." I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.
    - damncabbage 14y ago
      I pulled my old joystick out I'd kept for the last ten years, only to realise my PC doesn't have a serial port. Warning! (I've no idea how long I haven't had a serial port. Which makes it worse.)
doktrin 14y ago
>> it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. Agreed, but it's worth keeping in mind that "recent years" in this case means over a decade. LucasArts pumped out hordes of sub-par games, quickly shoe-horning various game paradigms into the star wars universe. As much as I feel nostalgic towards the hey-day of old, the article is spot on in pointing out that all their recent greats (KOTOR, etc.) were developed externally. If I were in Disney's shoes, I might have made much the same call, alas. Either that or take a gamble on a radical re-vitalization campaign, which is dicey in today's game market.
Macsenour 14y ago
I understand your feelings. But keep in mind that the PEOPLE who made those games are LONG GONE. The NAME of the company is still there, and I understand why you're attached to it as I am too, but the people who made those special games have been gone for years. As hard as it is, don't attach those great memories to the COMPANY, but rather the people who had the vision to make them. If you need to remove your attachment, play the Kinect version of Star Wars. And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you. Now you know the price of those 6am flights you booked.
- laureny 14y ago
  > And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you. Er... no. That's superstition. It's simply not real.
  - redblacktree 14y ago
    I wonder how you can speak with such authority, when the very nature of life remains a mystery.
    - jlgreco 14y ago
      It doesn't. We have many libraries filled with material on life. He can state with authority that karma does not exist just as he can state with authority that unicorns do not exist: Very easily. There is no evidence of such an effect, and no evidence for anything that could transmit or cause the effect. It is as imaginary as anything could be said to be.
      - crgt 14y ago
        Absence of evidence != evidence of absence. Perhaps worth rethinking your assumptions? All of the libraries in the world can't prove we're not brains in vats collectively hallucinating everything or an ancestor simulation running on supercomputers in deep space. Pehaps your breakfast today was imaginary? I could make just as strong a case for that as you can for the "imaginary" nature of karma.