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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: idolminds on Wednesday, April 03, 2013, 10:50:39 AM
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End of an era. (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/03/disney-closes-game-publisher-lucasarts.aspx)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5079764/lucasarts.png)
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Here's hoping all the good people of Lucasarts find better jobs in better places.
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(http://nooooooooooooooo.com/vader.jpg)
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So no more Star Wars 1313 :(
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Meh. Did they do anything good in the last while? I honestly don't know.
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Not really. It sounds like they are closing internal development and will be farming the IPs out to others, which honestly is probably a good thing.
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Well, this news sucks...
When is Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion, and Day of the Tentacle getting a re-release on some digital store like Steam, GOG, Gamersgate, Origin, etc?
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I don't know why the internet is over reacting to this.
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Well, this news sucks...
When is Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion, and Day of the Tentacle getting a re-release on some digital store like Steam, GOG, Gamersgate, Origin, etc?
Probably a lot sooner now than it would have been.
I don't know why the internet is over reacting to this.
Nostalgia.
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And, y'know, it's the internet..
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It is sad, though. Lucasarts was one of THE premier PC developers when I first got my PC. Their adventure games set a gold standard.
I hate to see it end like it did, but maybe we'll finally get a proper reissue of Grim Fandango. My burned copy crashes, so I've never been able to play through it. And I'm certainly not keen on paying ebay prices.
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I don't know why the internet is over reacting to this.
1 - What K-man said
2 - Disney swallowed Lucas stuff, killed LucasArts a few months later. Disney, already reviled in some circles, is now the devil to some.
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Disney took them off of life-support after they had already been clinically dead for years. I did love Lucas Arts though. Sadly, this wasn't the Lucas Arts I loved. Perhaps only in name it was.
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EGMNow -> Jedi OutCast and Jedi Academy Source Code released by Raven. (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/jedi-outcast-and-jedi-academy-source-code-released/)
If you're looking for the actual Source Code, here you go:
Jedi Academy Source Code. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jediacademy/)
Jedi Outcast Source Code. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedioutcast/)
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Pug, I think we're basically getting to the age where a lot of things from our childhood have either been re-imagined or just aren't what they used to be. It seems like every other day we're losing something "pop culture" from our childhood, be it our favorite magazine, a reboot of a cartoon we loved, a game studio closing down.
It sucks, but what are you going to do? Nostalgia sure is a son of a bitch sometimes.
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Aside from the Jedi Knight series and the old school adventure games, I don't think I played many LucasArts games. A lot of it was hit and miss. They definitely have a decent library of classics, but I don't think anyone will actually miss them in the long run especially since none of their recent releases were any good.
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At least LucasArts sort of just disappeared before being killed off. This unlike my beloved Sierra On-Line which made and published many of my favorite PC games from my childhood and then became just a really shitty publisher for a long time before finally being euthanized.